Pastelbat @pastelbat@awoo.space

Gone back to Digimon Cybersleuth after taking a long break from it. It's a good kinda.. Chilling out kinda RPG. There's plenty of stuff you can grind but no feeling of it being a necessary step for plot/etc progression.

It's.. Really good? Like, the plot has a lot of wtf, but with plenty of sincere moments, and it's mechanically dense without being overwhelmingly so.

The designs are stiiiiiill very 90s, but that's kinda Digimon's thing, so.. Not a big enough deal to be offputting to me.

Going out reminded me how much I don't go out anymore.. But there's not really anything in Nottingham that interests me enough for all the stress and fatigue to be worth it (mostly, but not exclusively, from travel).

Online community is my preferred type. Outdoors is kinda.. There's nice bits, but the bits with humans in consist of: Shops, roads to shops, and noisy + crowded places where ppl host group events.

Currently listening to The Craft Sequence by Max Gladstone. They're very good (though frequently very dark), and was interesting to find the author had written one of the articles about the Terra Ignota books I'm reading through on and off atm (https://adapalmer.com/publication/seven-surrenders/terra-ignota-crooked-timber-seminar/)

(If you're on a tight budget and need one, do what I used to: Get an old top you don't need, a friend you trust, and a lotta duct tape. You can make a cast of yr torso that way pretty easily, it's usually called a duct tape dummy, there's tonnes of tutorials online)

It is weird that I have been doing tailoring/sewing/dressmaking for over a decade

And only now am I thinking of buying a dressform (Torso-Onna-Stick).

Part of that's budget, part of it's previous living spaces, clutter stuff, etc. But I should really uh, own one, considering.

Carer is confident in making a curry (that won't be sensorybad) with the ingredients I've got in the apartment

For like, 6 portions or so? Which is yes, good, crisis averted

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn7UNU9r51I "Utterly Done With This" Vorta Iggy Pop from Star Trek is also good (DS9 Spoilers)

Heck if we go see what like, the corner shop has in terms of curry paste

😬 Probably sensory-gross in greasiness (I struggle with like, oily-texture stuff a lot) but like

Probably better than care person trying to do a curry sauce from scratch.

Pour enough hot sauce in and it'll drown out most things, heh

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjDLc-8tW2I)

"Now I Wanna Be Your Dog" should have at least 2 verses about getting headpettings and running round in excited circles b/c your partner picked up the door keys

LB: tiny herbivore

I've finished the "huge armada, complex paintjob" set of minis (a PHR fleet for Dropfleet Commander) I've been working on for literally-years, and it's.. A weird feeling.

Still gotta varnish some parts, still got the modular bits that need painting (I magnetize everything because I'm a nerd), but like.. It's finished, tbh. I think the Kickstarter box arrived like, 2-3 years ago, and it's been a steady "on and off, but regular" painting project since, with other painting scattered in-between.

I have a rlly scary assessment tomorrow, and I'm simultaneously trying to be 'prepared enough' and 'not over-prepare (out of anxiety/hyperfocus) & burn myself out'

However it goes, it will not be the end of the world, and I have gathered what resources and info I can reasonably gather.

Really though I've been working on-and-off on a fantasy setting and thinking a lot about how this kind of stuff interacts with object distinctions and cultural systems of categorisation

How bonding with an item implies one party brings a system of categorization that defines the boundaries of the item..

Like, a sword doesn't inherently have sword-essence any more than separate [blade, hilt, bindings, crossguard, pommel] essences. A bag of pebbles or a woven garment could have one essence or many, depending on PoV.

So either you have a sort of Platonic Essence system where Objects innately have Object-ness, or it's in some way imbued by surrounding cultural context, either that of the object or the person who ensouls/awakens it.

If its personality and essence are shaped by that, that then raises further questions. Does the local culture's idea of what stone is like affect a carved stone sculpture, or does the carving change its object-essence and remove that kinda class inheritence? Would the sculpture have a personality like 'sculptures', 'stone', the thing it depicts, or some combination thereof?

This is the kind of thing I was up at 3am thinking about, hi

I might actually read Moorcock's Elric stuff if someone told me he gives his angstbound soulsword pettings and little snacks now and again.