Charlotte Finn @SkunkyLass@awoo.space

First video game in a series: you're like that person in a movie and you're gathering the four crystals and gonna fight the Dark Beast!

Twelfth video game in a series: each of the four crystals represents one of the personality traits of God, who the Dark Beast killed in the prequel game, and the destiny of the Dark Beast is to destroy the universe via heat death unless you fulfill your destiny to kill them by causing the universe to explode via big crunch instead, causing a second big bang

I feel like a raw exposed nerve right now and I'd just about give anything to go out to a movie or go anywhere but these same four walls for the 300th day in a row.

Everyone in my group: (shows up for my game)
Everyone in my group: (plays my game)
Everyone in my group: We love your game
My brain: Mmmm. Do they though

I am rewatching 2019's film adaptation of Little Women and transported away all over again. God, the pacing. The tightness of the editing. The choice of color palettes to denote what era each scene is in. The way a traumatic scene just ends like a traumatic memory does. Gerwig is a director I will buy a ticket for sight unseen.

♫♪ Driiiink Ovaltine (ba na na) ♪♫

I know that I'm pretty and healthy no matter what weight I am, but that aside, I really do have a level I want to get under and somehow I'm that much closer. Wow.

I didn't weigh in for seven months because I felt like I had put on 20 pounds during COVID, but today I stepped on the scale again.

And somehow I've lost ten pounds.

I'm worried what this will mean for my writing. I need to get back on that horse. But right now, it's like... the drawbacks of an audience feel like they outweigh the benefits.

Not using Masto as much as I want because I'm in a weird place where I just don't want to really share how I feel about things to a general public.

It's decentralized social media, but: it's still social media, and what I value now is some measure of silence. Of holding a thought and just not letting folks know about it.

Note to self, Future Me: if you see a rad tip someone shares about CLIP Studio, bookmark it even if you don't think you'll need it. Signed, Present Me who realized a use for a tip I saw randomly RT'd three days ago

Began to suspect, near the end, that the movie had some unexamined issues with women

Wow, that wasn't good

After decades of watching their fighters blow up in a single hit, the developers of the R-9 have decided to consider making a spaceship that is not 40% forward facing blue glass cockpit

I have upgraded the broadband for the first time in 16 years and HOLY SHIT

Wow, that was a potent sleeping pill I took. It finally wore off.

I'm well rested and now behind on work. 😕

I wondered aloud why sea shanties were making a comeback in a period of prolonged isolation and then realized I'd answered my own question.

Me: "Ugh. How am I gonna search for nomenclature in this data set and condense dozens of different terms down into a few broad categories without killing myself with nested IFERROR statements?"

Soaring John Williams music: plays

WHOOSH

Me: "GASP! It's Power Query! Here in my hour of need!"

I have shown the Wally Wood 22 Panels That Always Work to two people who both initially thought it was an actual story, so that speaks to how well the panels work at making talky scenes flow well.

My hair is ALMOST long enough to reliably tie back into a ponytail but there's a couple stray locks that are SO ANNOYING ugh.

It turns out that the secret ingredient to enjoying gaming online was simple party games from the You Don't Know Jack people and a few friends who also write in the semi-pro space!