Yesterday was a concert the acclaimed Shu Cheen Yu and Lotus Wind Choir for the Australia China Friendship Society (Victoria) which, in my role as president of the ACFS, I was co-producer. Held at St John's Anglican Church in Toorak, with its rather delicious Gothic revival architecture and superb acoustics, the concert was very successful. There were around 150 people in attendance, including representatives from the Consulate, Australia's former ambassador to China, and many Chinese community leaders. Shu Cheen Yu herself is really a star, trained in both Peking and Western operatic traditions; she has one of the most astounding voices I've ever heard, and she is such an impressive organiser and leader.

The concert itself was an equal balance between various European and Chinese traditional songs. I was especially taken by the passionate performance of the Neapolitan classic, "Santa Lucia!", and the sheer power and majesty of "Legend of the Dragon". It must be gently said that the concert was a bit of a financial success for the society, with several thousand dollars raised. As an entirely volunteer organisation that receives no outside grants, events like this are required for our survival. The generosity and support of members of Victoria's Chinese community toward the ACFS have not gone unnoticed, and nor has the exceptional support I was provided by members of the ACFS committee.

This is the first time I've produced a concert and, I must say, it is something that is not unlike other forms of event management. In the relatively recent past, I have organised conventions e.g., "Cyberpunk 2020: Year of the Stainless Steel Rat", "RuneQuest-Glorantha Con DownUnder IV" and "RuneQuest-Glorantha Con DownUnder III" (for the latter, I received the inaugural Greg Stafford Memorial Prize). With common characteristics, event management is essentially a subset of project management, which means that it is a unique activity that involves multiple people and is time-dependent. It involves having a governance structure, organising a team, reporting, timetabling, being very aware of dependencies and, as the production-project manager, being very sensitive to tolerances and being prepared to pick up the pieces very quickly when things go wrong. More than a decade ago, I actually did a graduate degree in project management, along with PRINCE2 certification. If you're ever involved in organising events, my notes on this subject might be helpful.

I got up at 9:00 and had breakfast and coffee, showered and dressed, and went to my Al-anon meeting.

The weather is beautiful though that will change over the next few days. Oh well.

The meeting was very good. Then we went to the diner, I got a ride with S as usual. I had my usual bacon, egg, and cheese on a toasted English muffin. Nothing to drink though today.

After we finished, I took the bus into Flushing rather than coming back home, and met mashfanficchick and we went to the food court of one of the Chinese markets. Ze had lunch, and I had a tea drink. Then we went to the market and ze shopped while I tagged along and looked at stuff, and thought maybe I'd come back another day and buy some things.

Then we split up and I came home. It was too late for the Starsky and Hutch chat, so I puttered with the computer, trying to get it's serial number (I eventually did).

At 7:00 I started trying to Team the FWiB. I had so much trouble that eventually I said to Teams me on my phone, while I worked on getting it up on the computer. So we did that. I did get the computer up and we got on that, but the connection was awful.

The books I ordered for Middle Brother's birthday were supposedly delivered today. They were not here. Either they lied about the delivery or they were stolen. I am very annoyed abuot that.

I should say something about the bombing of Iran. It's sickening. And as the FWiB pointed out, look now for more terrorist attacks in America in retribution. And can this administration keep us safe from them? I doubt it.

So that was the day.

Gratitude List:

1. The FWiB.

2. My meetings and the people there.

3. mashfanficchick

4. Nice weather.

5. I did manage to get the serial number.

6. The computer seems to be working OK at the moment.

Name: C.K. or Chester

Age: 36, nearly 37, growing old mandatory, growing up optional

I mostly post about: Culture Club/Boy George & Jon Moss (my hyperfixation of 22 years and counting), Linkin Park, wrestling (classic SMW/WWF, Jim Cornette, and my deeply cursed WWE 2K25 Universe), my OCs who are realer to me than most people, witchcraft/spirit work/folk healing/moon rituals/grief magic, retro gaming, emotional overshares that read like journal entries from a possessed poet, fanfiction that makes people unwell at 2am, chaos, and the occasional Reddit food rabbit hole

My hobbies are: Writing fic that's 70% emotional breakdown, 20% worldbuilding, and 10% people getting railed in a meaningful way, hexing cults with sigils and sass, collecting music like a religion, drawing OCs, being a haunted glitter goblin with eyeliner and vengeance, building 48-year fanfiction universes with fully documented timelines and named children, going to work like a normal person and coming home a completely different entity

My fandoms are: Culture Club (I'm writing a massive AU called Colour By Numbers spanning 1978-2026, and a supernatural [not the show] fic called The Rhythm of the Hollow), Linkin Park (Bennoda forever), wrestling (SMW/WWF/WCW but mainly the universes in my head)

I'm looking for people who: are too weird for Reddit, too raw for Instagram, too smart for Twitter/X, overshare about their OCs like a religion, cry over character development, understand that Jon Moss deserved better, write long posts, and don't find it weird that I've named all the children in my fictional universe including the surprise baby

My posting schedule: Erratic. Sometimes a lot. Sometimes I vanish for three weeks and return with an entire AU timeline and a new OC

Dealbreakers: Racism, ableism, transphobia, homophobia, antisemitism, being a dick, Scientology apologists, anyone who thinks Mike Shinoda is evil because of an Instagram reel, "isn't wrestling fake?", "you still like Linkin Park?"

Before adding me: I'm a trans man (he/him, they/them). Autistic and ADHD. I write mpreg unapologetically. I am a Zionist and tired of explaining what that actually means. Pro-AI. I smoke weed. I am extremely defensive of Jon Moss and will write essays about it. My AO3 is CampCornette69 and yes that's a wrestling reference

I was up til 3:00 am last night trying to update my journal on this crappy computer. Then when I finally got to bed, I played solitaire to try and calm down, for far too long.

So today I slept until 2:00. I got up, had breakfast and coffee, and tried to go online. It was frustrating.

I got one at 4:00, just in time to shower and dress to go to my meeting.

I tried something different today, taking the 61instead of the 25. Not a great idea, it doesn't stop where I thought it did, and I had to walk back to the 50 stop. But I just made a 50, so that's OK.

Anyway I had my usual pizza first, and then went to my meeting, which was small but good.

L drove me to the bus stop, but the bus was almost 15 minutes late. I fonally got it and got to the 25 stop, had to wait 10 minutes for the 25 but finally got home.

Tried to Team the FWiB. The computer would not cooperate. Finally we connected, and talked for about half an hour. Then we got off and I started trying to do my journal again. Not working well.

Gratitude List:

1. The FWiB.

2. I was able to sleep late today.

3. Pizza.

4. My meetings and the people there.

5. The bus finally came.

6. Bed soon.

Have you heard the good news about French Final Fantasy X?

In late 2024 a trailer dropped for a game called Clair Obscur. We see a twisted Eiffel Tower, broken, with fragments still hanging impossibly in the air. We learn about the Paintess, who paints a new number on the Monolith every year and everyone older than that, turns into dust and flowers and blows away on the wind. I first saw the release date trailer back in January, and I watched it multiple times until the phrase "The Paintress Must Fall" would randomly play through my head. I bought it at full price, a week after release, something I never do with games anymore.

And then I didn't start playing until November because I was playing Vintage Story back in April. Oops.

When the game rewards happened and Clair Obscur swept them, I posted a meme with a screenshot from the game. "Game Awards? More like Festival de l'Expedition." That's around when I picked it up again after a couple weeks of playing Noita and getting mostly nowhere. And now, having beaten the game (but not all of the postgame, I'll admit), I can say that Clair Obscur--despite a couple major flaws--absolutely deserves all of the awards that it got and is one of the finest games I've played in years, so when you read the rant that occurs below just remember that it comes out of love and out of a wish that the game was even better than it was.

Also, there will be a ton of plot spoilers here. I'm going to put a warning down below before the part where I really get into it, but if you haven't watched the trailers and want to play the game totally blind, maybe come back and read this later.


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I got up at 10:00 this morning and had breakfast and coffee, and then showered and dressed.

Then I crossed my fingers and went down to the laundromat, hoping my laundry would be done. It was, so I paid and brought it home.

I put it in my room, put the cart away in the kitchen and then left to go over to meet mashfanficchick.

We met at Cobblestones and had lunch there. I had their Philly Cheesesteak sandwich which was delicious, and I really splurged and got a green mimosa for a drink.

After lunch we looked over zer lease papers, and ze signed them, and then we went back to zer place.

I heard from Funko, they are refunding my money because they are out of the Stephen Colbert Pops. So, in frustration I went to Ebay and found it there. I was pretty sure I'd be able to. There was a markup of course but it wasn't too bad. So I ordered one, because dammit, now I really really want that Pop!

We hung out for awhile after that. Theo called and ze talked to him. At 7:00 I Teamed the FWiB from my phone.

At 8:00 we watched 911, it was a pretty good episode. At 8:30 I called Middle Brother. He went to dinner for one of the residents birthday and had a good time. Then we watched 911:Nashville which was so-so.

We had some snacks for dinner, and then we watched this week's episode of Will Trent on Hulu, which was very good.

After that I Ubered home, and fed the pets, and started here. The computer has been awful, I had to restart it twice so far.

Gratitude List:

1. The FWiB.

2. Clean laundry which was done on time.

3. Yummy lunch.

4. Good TV.

5. Going to get the Stephen Colbert Pop one way or the other.

6. Middle Brother having fun.

Once more I failed to get up at 10:00. I finally made it out of bed by 12:00. I had breakfast and coffee, and then showered and dressed,

I took the ag of laundry that I got together yesterday down to the laundromat, I am happy to report that although there is still a lot of snow, the street and sidewalks were clear.

Dropped off the laundry and came back home. Worked on the story I've been wrking on, largely editing what I already had, but did some writing and am now around 3,330 words.

Last night in bed I went to PetSmart on my phone. I've always gotten pet products online from either Amazon or Petco. But someone had said PetSmart was better than Petco, so I decided to try it out in my eternal search for a pump to empty out the turtle tank. And I found something that I hope will work! I ordered it right then, paid for it by Paypal so I didn't even have to get my credit card out of my purse.

And got overnight delivery, to be delivered by DoorDash between 3:00 and 6:00. So I was waiting for that while I wrote. It came around 5:00, and I looked it over, looks like just what I want.

Didn't have time to try it out today, and won't tomorrow, but on Friday I will. Hopefully I'll be able to drain the tank and fill it up again.

mashfanficchick called and we made plans for tomorrow.

So that's the news of the day. Then at 7:00 I Teamed the FWiB. The Teams worked well, so I was hopeful that the Discord would work for my game, but there were problems with it. I had to switch out to my phone at two points. But I was able to take part in most of the game, and had a good time.

After the game finished, I fed the pets and had my dinner, then started here.


Gratitude List:

1. The FWiB.

2. Got my laundry down.

3. No problem with uncleared sidewalks.

4. Got a pump that looks like it'll work.

5. My gaming group.

6. My phone.

I actually got up with the alarm today at 10:00, and made it out of bed pretty quickly. I had breakfast and coffee, and started to write again.

The story is going pretty well. It's now 2,850 words, and has more to go. I'll work on it tomorrow too.

Once again, that's pretty much all I did today. mashfanficchick called me to tell me ze has zer plane tickets for zer next Ohio trip, and we talked a bit, that's all.

Oh one thing I did was get a bag of laundry together to take down tomorrow.

Anyway, at 7:00 I Teamed the FWiB, the Team worked well so I had hopes for my Al-anon meeting Zoom working. But it was only semi-working, it kept blanking out audio. Fortunately there was only me and M there.

After the meeting I had dinner, and went to the bedroom to lay down.

Facebook reminds me that today would have been Aunt Helen's 97th birthday. I miss her, a lot.

Gratitude List:

1. The FWiB.

2. The writing is going well.

3. My meetings and the people there.

4. Memories of Aunt Helen.

5. mashfanficchick

6. The Teams worked well and the Zoom was at least usable.

This time it's a Mediterranean restaurant called Oasis Fresh, where I got a vegetarian platter. Basmati rice with dolmas on top, side salad, hummus, and pita. Simple and very good. The rice was much better than that place I got the boiled unflavored rice from (Assyrian...something) with no hummus. I added it to the "good" restaurant list and I'll remember it for the future, though I'm just bringing my lunch tomorrow.

Visited Laila in the hospital yesterday. sashagee told me before I got there that Laila was energetic and chatty earlier in the day, but by the time I got there she was listless and half-asleep. I waited around for an hour but she never got any more energy, but this morning right when I was finishing my breakfast, I got a FaceTime and Laila excitedly showed me Ariel and told me about the wires coming out of her head, so she had more energy at least earlier today. We'll see if she has more energy when I go see her after work today--I saw some pictures that Poppa and Nana took when they visited and she was more subdued then. We'll see.

I've been slowly reading a book that's much more interesting than my slow pace would indicate, called The Son and Heir. The book starts with the author finding an SS uniform hat in their attic and then expands to the story of his family--Dutch in Latvia and owners of a business empire, the clashes between his father and his grandfather over heritage (his grandfather was very proud of being Dutch and his father wanted nothing to do with the Netherlands), the way his father ran away to enlist in the German army to fight the Russians... I'm halfway through the book and the author is three years old, but his father has already divorced his mother, been put on trial for being an SS members and gotten off after only ten months in jail, avoided being sent to South America, and married another (already-married) woman. The book is only half-over. Now that the setup is all over I wonder when we're going to get the author's reaction to all of this?

Computer is still working. It's been over a month now without a single crash and the only thing I changed is plugging some things into the USB ports. Maybe it really was a faulty USB connector. Well, it saved me $2000, so I won't complain. Of course, now sashagee is asking for a gaming laptop so she can play Stardew Valley with mods, and Clair Obscur with the "disgustingly easy" parry mod. I've been looking around but I have no idea what a "mid-range" gaming laptop should look like so it's slow going. I'll gladly take any suggestions if anyone has any.

Woke up with the alarm at 10:00, then dozed on and off til 12:00. Finally got up, and had breakfast and coffee.

Then I started writing on the story I started yesterday. I made significant progress, up to over 1500 words now.

And that was really all I did today. I contacted Funko again about my Stephen Colbert Pop, they essentially said be patient.

At 5:00 I stopped writing and went to the bedroom til 6:30. Then I came out and started trying to get Teams working to Team the FWiB. We both had issues, but eventually we got though and talked til a bit after 830, when we were interrupted by his brother calling him.

I had dinner then, and went back to the bedroom. I called mashfanficchick and we talked about various things including Middle Brother's birthday. I had texted RK last night about him taking us out for that, he says he doesn't know yet and will have to see. If he can't, not sure what I'll do but probably a combination of the LIRR and Uber, which will be expensive, but necessary.

Anyway, I fed the pets, and now here I am, and that was the day.

Gratitude List:

1. The FWiB.

2. Story coming along.

3. Friends.

4. Warm apartment.

5. Came through the blizzard without problems.

6. Heard back from Funko.

Sidestepping the whole debate about what to call it[1], we went to the Lunar New Year parade and celebration on Argyle Street yesterday:


We left later than I wanted to--we didn't get out of the house until 11:45 a.m. and didn't get down to Argyle until 12:15 p.m. We put in our name at Immm Rice, but when it was only twenty-five minutes or so to the parade we decided that even if we did get in we wouldn't be able to eat in time, so we tried stopping in at a bakery for some buns. The first one we went to had a cash-only sign that had been hidden by the long line, so we had to duck our and search the rest of the street. sashagee spotted one on the way back run by an old Vietnamese man and got a couple buns for Laila and herself, and they ate them while we settled onto the side of the street to wait.

I wasn't expecting too many people to show up since it was -5°C with a biting wind, but the streets were still lined when the parade stepped off at 1:05 p.m. Laila had been complaining and wanting to go home for quite a while, but once the parade started all that fell away. She watched the lion dancers and the dragon puppets, watched the floats going on, and was very excited when one of the parade-walkers gave her a lollipop! She didn't complain once as we stood out in the cold, but we left a couple floats early so we could get into a restaurant. And a good thing too--we walked in, were immediately seated, and within ten minutes or so there was a giant line waiting for a seat. We ate--with a brief detour while Laila and I walked around outside because she was getting rowdy--and by the time we were done basically all the festivities had ended, so we just went home.

Next weekend is the parade in Chinatown, but we won't be able to go.

[1]: A few years ago there was a push to call it Lunar New Year instead of Chinese New Year, since more cultures than just China celebrate it. Of course now the problem is that e.g. the Islamic and Jewish calendars also have lunar new years since both calendars begin months on the new moon, so "Lunar New Year" is ambiguous.

The Kid called me last night at 12:50-something just to check on me, how I was prepared for the coming blizzard. Why did she call that late? "You don't work". *sigh* We had a nice talk though.

Woke up with the alarm at 10:00, dozed off and on til 11:30, finally got out of bed. Had breakfast and coffee, and went to the Starsky and Hutch Creative Work session.

I actually did some writing in something that I know more-or-less where it's going and therefore can actually finish. The Zoom worked perfectly, btw.

Anyway, we chatted til a little after 6:00. At 7:00 I Teamed the FWiB and that worked perfectly too, except that every now and then the video and audio would freeze up for a few seconds and he'd have to repeat something he said.

At 8:30 I called Middle Brother. He's fine, nothing new. We're starting to talk about his birthday.

The FWiB and I talked a few more minutes after I got off the phone with Middle Brother, then we got off and I had dinner.

After dinner I went to the bedroom and called mashfanficchick and we had talked for awhile. Then I got online on my phone and ordered two books for Middle Brother's birthday from Thriftbooks, one on New York City and one on weather, which is what he asked for, as well as Niagara Falls. He also want a cd named Low Riders, but there's to many things with that name. I'll have to try and get more info from him.

The snow was falling pretty hard the last time I looked, and the city has implemented a ban on driving except for emergencies.

That's pretty much all.

Gratitude List:

1. The FWiB.

2. I don't have to go out in the blizzard.

3. The Starsky and Hutch fandom.

4. Middle Brother is fine.

5. Thrift Books.

6. New story in the works,

Just a little though. It was the Flushing Lunar New Year Parade today, and I knew that would make getting to my meeting harder, so I got up 15 minutes early.

I had breakfast and coffee, showered and dressed, and went to look for where my 28 bus wuol be rerouted to. I went to the regular stop, even when it was obvious it wasn't there, in the hopes there would be a sign saying where it was. Ha!

No sign, but a police officer directing traffic who knew, so I was able to find it. I got the bus to my meeting and got there just on time.

The meeting was very good. Afterward as usual I went to the diner, driven by S. Today was a soup day, I just felt like a bowl of cream of turkey soup. I also got an order of onion rings, which I should not have done, but they were very good. And a cup of tea.

Then I took the bus home as usual. The 12 also was rerouted for the parade, but my stop was only a little bit moved. I got home and tried to get to the Starsky and Hutch chat.

I got in with the Zoom, but then I made the mistake of clicking on something in the chat, and it froze up. I had to restart the computer finally to get back in, and I used my phone for awhile while I was working on the computer. But after that it worked OK.

We ended a bit after 6:00 and at 7:00 I tried to team the FWiB.once again there were technical difficulties caused apparently by the app, as both of our computers had problems with it. He [honed and we talked while he worked on his computer. Eventually he Teamed on his iPad instead. Then, when we were saying goodbye, the teams just crashed for both of us.

After that i had dinner, and went to the bedroom to play solitaire.

The Kid FINALLY texted me to say she was alive, just busy. *sigh*

I fed the pets, and now am here.

Gratitude List:

1. The FWiB.

2. My meetings and the people there.

3. My pets.

4. Sunny weather before the blizzard expected this weekend.

5. Soup.

6. The Starsky and Hutch fandom.

Last night I was a guest at the Chinese New Year concert at Hamer Hall, an event organised by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra with the Chinese consulate. The concert was a good mix of modern and classical, East and West. Mindy Meng Wang's performance on the guzheng for The Butterfly Lovers was especially notable, and Li Biao's enthusiasm as conductor could not go unnoticed. The main part of the programme, Beethoven's 7th Symphony, is far from my favourite, but I do really like the dreamlike dirge of the second movement. There were also meet-and-greet functions before and after the concert, where one had the opportunity to meet various guests, organisers, and performers, along with vox-pop interviews from CCTV. It is certainly the season for such things, with, of course, the ACFS hosting our own concert next week.

As a sort of musical juxtaposition, earlier this week I wrote a review on Rocknerd for the most recent album, "Crocodile Promises" by The March Violets. Once a post-punk band from the early 80s, their company could also include groups like The Chameleons, The Comsat Angels, The Sisters of Mercy, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, etc. However, more recently, they have moved to a more alt-rock sound, which isn't wrong (bands should develop their sound), but it is different. The album positively thunders along and is a deeply emotional collection of songs, of which "Bite the Hand" really stood out to me. On a related note (pun not intended), I have been delving quite deeply in recent days into the older albums by The Comsat Angels with their often spartan instrumentation and bitter and bleak lyrical content.

It is has all rather suited my current mood. Music is a universal language of mood, both in the uplifting and sombre sense. The latter affects me every day; I seriously don't understand how people remain indifferent to the immediate conflicts (e.g., Gaza) or to longer-term downward trends (e.g., the climate). February 18, for what it's worth, was Bramble Cay Melomys Day, a on-going memorial and campaign for the first mammal species driven to extinction by climate change. Yes, I can enjoy music, culture, artistry, and beauty, whilst simultaneously being driven by such events. As a certain J. Cash once wrote, "I'd love to wear a rainbow every day, And tell the world that everything's okay. But I'll try to carry off a little darkness on my back. 'Til things are brighter, I'm the man in black".

Which may have been because I slept til 2:00 pm, if you recall. But anyway, I slept badly in the night, woke up several times. was awake for a long time and as a result of all of this am now rather tired.

But mashfanficchick and I both got up around 1:00ish and puttered around, then had cereal for brunch somewhat after 2:00.

Then we watched another episode of MacGyver, which continues to be silly but fun. When that was over I went and showered and dressed, and by the time I finished it was almost 5:00 and time for me to go to the Bronx for my Al-anon meeting.

I took the subway to Flushing and the 50 bus from there and got to the Bronx by 6:15, so I had time to get my traditional pizza for dinner.

The meeting was small, just me and L, and we cancelled the second meeting so I got to the bus just before 8:00.

Got home before 9:00, and Teamed the FWiB. I had an awful lot of trouble getting Teams to log in on the computer, so we used the phone until I did and then we switched to that, and it worked OK.

That's about all, we talked til a bit after 10:00, and then I started catching up on the internet.

One thing I did was check my Funko order status. It now says the package was lost. Nothing about sending a new one. I will contact them tomorrow.

I also called the Kid, she didn't pick up of course so I texted. Hopefully she'll either call or text back.

I made Facebook contact with Liz M, the very old friend I sent a Christmas card to! She accepted my friend request, haven't heard anything from her yet though.

Gratitude List:

1. The FWiB.

2. Fun TV.

3. Found Liz M without even looking, she just popped up on my "you may know" thing.

4. My meetings and the people there.

5. Got back home and everything was OK.

6. Bed soon.

Was woken up early by the sound of the work they were doing on the building front entrance, but after they finished, went back to sleep for quite a few hours. Woke up again around 2:00.

Had breakfast, well, brunch really, with mashfanficchick. We had gluten free sourdough bread with cream cheese and lox. Very delicious.

mashfanficchick, having had melatonin the night before, which affected zer very strongly, went back to bed, but I stayed up and puttered on my phone and played solitaire and basically killed time til 7:00 when I Teamed the FWiB on my phone. Teams was working correctly today so that's good.

We talked til almost 8:30, when we got off, and I called Middle Brother, who is fine, but hasn't done anything of note recently.

Then mashfanficchick got up and we had some snacks, and watched this week's episode of Will Trent. That was highly enjoyable.

Then, after some thinking about what we should do next, mashfanficchick suggested we should watch something classic that I had never watched when it was on, that we had discussed some days ago... MacGyver. The original, from 1985, show.

So we watched the pilot episode on Tubi, and although it was sort of silly it was also fun. We had dinner after that, and discussed if we would watch more. I said sure.

So after dinner we watched the second episode on Tubi, which was even sillier than the first, but still a lot of fun.

And then ze decided to go to bed, and I'm borrowing the laptop to do this.

Gratitude List:

1. The FWiB.

2. Middle Brother is well.

3. Good TV.

4. TV that is more fun than good.

5. M&Ms, which I've been nibbling on.

6. Days away from home to relax.

Got up this morning at 11:00 and had breakfast and coffee. Then I showered and dressed, and went into Flushing to get my three prescriptions filled. Nothing of particular interest happened on the trip, the rain had stopped and it was grey and damp.

I got back and put in a Shipt order. I got an Easter basket and some candy, and Easter grass for the basket for Middle Brother. Easter isn't until April though so I'll hold off on anything else til later.

I looked at HP's page but decided not to do anything at the moment. Yes I know I need to investigate the computer warranty but not yet.

mashfanficchick called me and told me about a situation with her building that lead us to the conclusion that it would be sensible for me to go over to zer place tonight after my D&D game and spend two nights until Friday rather than going over Thursday. So that's what we arranged.

At 7:00 I Teamed the FWiB and we had very serious technical issues, but, amazingly, caused by the Teams app, rather than my computer. We know this because the problems were on both our computers, and persisted even when I switched to my phone. Bah humbug. We never had these issues with Skype, why'd they have to go and eliminate it?

Anyway, at 8:00 I went to my D&D game, and, also amazingly, Discord worked fine, though I did keep my camera off so as to not put any more stress on it. We fought orcs and goblins, and got accused of passing counterfeit gold pieces.

Then I fed the pets and gave Oreo a day extra, and then Ubered here. We had dinner, and hung out for awhile and then I borrowed this laptop and started here.

Gratitude List:

1. The FWiB.

2. Got my meds.

3. Shipt.

4. My gaming group.

5. The computer worked for the game.

6. Visit with a friend.

Name:Morgan :) 

Age: 23 

I mostly post about: The media I consume and my opinions on it, daily life occurences and complaints, thoughts about the internet and modern life 

My hobbies are: Playing videogames, watching movies and tv shows, drawing digitally, roleplaying in discord, coding 

My fandoms are: Game of thrones books, whatever actor I might be obssesed with ATM (currently daniel ings and david dastmalchian), dcu, doctor who, death stranding, fallout new vegas, cyberpunk 2077, kingdom come deliverance 

I'm looking to meet people who: are interested in interacting in eachothers posts even in small ways, like liking. creating and building an active community. people who read entire journal entries and anyone with interests similar to mine, also lgbt and neurodivergent people.

My posting schedule tends to be:It's sporadic, although I try to hit a daily pace

When I add people, my dealbreakers are: I have no deal breakers... for now? I just have fun with it

Before adding me, you should know: I'm a huuuuge leftist. I don't want right wing people interacting with me, ever. Also I complain alot, I swear like a sailor... if you're sensitive to swearing don't add me. Yay 

Name: Em

Age: Mid-20s

I mostly post about: Lately, I've mostly used Dreamwidth for life updates related to my quest to get a teaching certification in my area. I also use it for fandom exchanges and general writing community.

My hobbies are: Writing is the big one. I write poetry and original short fiction. In fandom spaces, I tend to write a lot of short form erotica.

My fandoms are: Many and varied. Some of the favorites at the moment are BBC Merlin, October Daye, the Young Justice cartoon, and Wooden Overcoats.

I'm looking to meet people who: I like sharing this space with a wide variety of people. Some of my favorite members of my circle post recipes, media reviews, or meaty fandom meta, but other favorites are just sharing links to interesting news articles or talking about life.

My posting schedule tends to be: It's been sporadic in the past, but I've been trying to get in the habit of posting a few times a week. It's been grounding.

When I add people, my dealbreakers are: Don't be a Trump supporter, anti-LGBTQ, or a climate change denier.

Before adding me, you should know: I'm polyamorous and live in a tight-knit community that includes many platonic and romantic life partners. Sometimes I post about US politics, but that's going to be fairly rare. I am quite left-wing, because my government's right-wing social policies negatively impact my community and my family. If you show up on my reading page and ask a question in your post, I'll probably answer it in the comments.

Name: You can call me Lina!

Age:35

I mostly post about: Journal entries about writing, social medias/the internet and anything creative, witchcraft, what I'm reading/what I've read, etc. Anything that I'm wanting to write about really.

My hobbies are: Reading, writing, making arts and crafts, drawing, anything that tickles my creative brain. And also watching junk TV because I contain multitude.

My fandoms are Mo Dao Zu Shi and Scum Villain (anything MXTX but I haven't finished Heaven Officials Blessings yet). I've also dipped my toes in Stardew Valley and Bridgerton as a fandom, although I haven't written anything for those yet. I'm Deadfandomswriter on AO3 if you wanna take a look.

I'm looking to meet people who: Are open minded and care about building a sense of community through active participation in their spaces. Are creative and love to see magic in their every day lives (I consider birdwatching to be its own kind of magic for the sense of wonder it brings, for example).

My posting schedule tends to be: So far a couple times a week, but I don't really schedule those.

When I add people, my dealbreakers are:Bigots, small minded people

Before adding me, you should know: Other than everything else above, I'm queer, and that probably will colour what I write about more than once in a while. I also do not speak to my family anymore (although my family-in-law have welcomed me warmly), and that also can come up, so if it's something that is uncomfortable for you, you might want to avoid my blog. Oh! And my first language is French!