Maybe now new things will happen slower!

[spindizzy]

HELLO INTERNET, it has been a while since I wrote a proper post. I've been trying to write an update since mid-May, but to quote the poets: new things keep happening!

• I've officially broken up from work for the summer, and don't have to go back until September! I survived a whole academic year of working during the pandemic! ... It was really fucking weird, and I'm not sure I'd like to repeat that experience. Best news though: I don't have to get up for work at fucking 5:45am anymore, so I might actually have enough energy to do things!


• Lex and I are in the process of buying a house. I know I already posted about this but I'm still confused that this is happening.


• Finally got my act together and reposted (most) of my earliest fic from FFNet to AO3 for archival purposes. Teen!Susan was having fun and doing her best, and I'm gonna try to respect that instead of cringing myself inside out.


• I figured out how to install Firefox browser extensions on my phone! Which means that I can install userscripts, which means that I can use the Kudosed and Seen History AO3 script on my phone! Now I can harvest the dopamine straight from my phone by ticking off fic! I feel like a genius.
  
  There is definitely a way of doing it that doesn't involve installing a beta version of firefox in developer mode and applying like eight different sets of instructions, but I didn't find it, so here we are!


• hardlyaverage has started running his Pathfinder game again! I AM HYPE!
  
  • This is the game where I'm a high-octane disaster lesbian who keeps fisting gods, splend is a disaster pan drummer living the high int/low wis dream, captainraz is a very confused agender aroace fishperson who is the only sensible person in the party, and envexenveritas is a tiny gnome cleric whose alignment on the scale of "disaster" to "sensible" changes depending on exactly how much tech there is for them to be a disaster about.
  
  
  • Q: Is this the game where you tried to play an allosexual and actually just flirted extravagantly with every woman who ever tried to kill you?
    A: I'VE SEEN MEDIA, I KNOW THAT THIS IS HOW ALLOS WORK.
  
  
  • Reason 453 not to run games for me: hardlyaverage asked for an elaboration on one specific part of my character's backstory, and got back 800 words of "Thirsty sword lesbian has never had a decent coping strategy in her life and isn't about to start now."
    
    • It included a section on how it was historically socially acceptable to be horny for St Sebastian, because I am a serious roleplayer who takes things seriously.


• One of the ADHD books I've read had a little slogan that I remember as "Before adding one thing, subtract two," to remind you not to pick up new things without making space for them. And I've found a way of doing this that works for me! I've got a list in my notebook now of things that I've gotten rid of/finished, and I can trade in ("trade in") two finished things on this list for one shiny new thing. It's helping! It's giving me motivation to actually get rid of things, and helps to put the brakes on when I'm considering buying new ones, because do I have a slot for it?
  
  I know myself, and I know that this system is going to last EXACTLY as long as it takes me to go "Oh, well I'll buy this thing and figure out the trade-in later!" but I've not done it yet! STAY STRONG, ME.
  
  On the plus side, the list DOES look like someone's comp titles mad libs. I don't know what would have Skip Beat and Black Wolves as comparisons, but I'm enjoying the image.


• I'm keeping my plans for the summer very loose until I've caught up on all the sleep I've missed, but I'm hoping that I'll be around more often! I have a buttload of video games to play, and there's a new episode of Kingdom coming out next month, so maybe I can hang out and be excited about things!