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What did I say? Once a week? 😳 Well that didn't happen. Anyway. Why didn't I post? I was busy. No, seriously. I'm in the middle of moving, I started a podcast with an old college classmate, took a break to watch Mickey 17 (excellent film btw), started a short story, and thats on top of the usual life stuff. So, yeah. This little project fell by the wayside. No worries though I didn't forget about it. I also don't have too much to say this time around. I just mostly wanted to explain my extended absence to all my loyal readers. If I even have any loyal readers.
Anyway, the new place I'm moving to is great. I'm in it now actually. Internet here has some issues so I've been using my phone as a hotspot so thats working alright. My bedroom is a HELL of a lot bigger. Which is a very good thing. My room at the prior apartment felt like a glorified closet. I spent enough of my life living in a metaphorical closet to not be satisified living in a literal one. Also, my fancy VR headset doesn't have much use in a closet. To make full use of it you really need some space. The management seems better too. The leasing process was very smooth and professionally handled (if a bit quick).
The podcast seems to have gone well. It's pretty rough, but it turned out way better than I felt it did from the recording, and we're only going to get better from here. It's been a few years since I've heard my voice and... It wasn't as bad as I was worried it would be, but it was still a bit of a shock hearing what I really sound like. Part of it is a transfem insecurity with my voice, but theres a kind of froggy(?) quality to my voice I'm not a fan of. Idk that sounds inaccurate. It's a tough thing to suss out for me.
I don't really want to share my thoughts on Mickey 17 until after the podcast, but I can talk about the short story I started drafting. You see I love Dungeons and Dragons, I especially love creating characters. So naturally I have more characters than chances to play. A pair of these: Red Stiletto (a Human battlemaster fighter) and Kit-Kat (a Tabaxi college of lore bard) I felt inspired to write. So I wrote a dialogue between them. Dialogues need context so I came up with some context for why they were both there, and why they would interact. Now Kit-Kat is a history nut (college of lore) so I included a bit of lore for him to spout, and it was kinda working for me. So now I've got this thumbnail sketch of a small corner of a broader world, and a small story in that world, and... well now I want to finish it. I'll probably post it here if I'm happy with it so I won't go into detail here, but I've got got an adorable idea for an ending that explores the wholesome if somewhat complicated relationship between Kit-Kat and his mate/husband Silent Claw (Silus). I'm excited to share it with you all.
Anyway that's it for now. I've had a very long day moving furniture, and trying and failing to get a washer and dryer up and running. I hope ya'll have had a more restful [period of time] than I've had. Till next time!