Hello! This is my first blog entry on my new website! Happy pride month and Black music month!

I hope to make semi-regular blog posts with general life updates, links to things that interest me, stuff I’m looking forward to, etc. I would love to do this weekly, but that might be difficult to keep up with. We’ll see!

• This website doesn’t feel quite ready to share yet. There’s a lot I’d like to add in the future—an art archive, OC pages—and I’d like to style the website more, but I wanted to start small. I can be a perfectionist, and this site will be in a WIP state forever, so I can’t let that hold me back.
• This week started off rough but ended well. I avoid talking about my job online because, all things considered, my job is fine; I am employed, I have disposable income, and life could be a lot worse, so I just don’t think work is something worth complaining about in my online life. BUT, at the same time, my job can be dogshit most of the time (because I’m over-tasked and my boss’s boss has unrealistic expectations) and it’s been especially dogshit for the last month. It’s a relief to be done with what I was working on.
• My gf and I’s cat went to the vet this past Thursday to get some teeth extracted. :’( He has a recurring problem with tooth resorption that the vet thinks is genetic. He only has one bottom canine now!! ;-; I mourn his little fangs.
• He’s recovering well from his procedure! He was still high off his pain meds on Friday and spent most of the day lying down and staring out the window. On Saturday, he was back to his usual self and had a lot of energy!
• I’m going to see Backrooms today!! I saw I Love Boosters last week and really enjoyed that. Lots of amazing movies coming out right now!
• I switched from Windows 10 to CachyOS last weekend, so I’ve been using it for about a week now. Aside from some minor issues I’ve run into, it’s been great! I might make a separate post about it at some point.

Links

Something I’d like to do in these life log posts is share links to things from my RSS feed. I recently got back into using an RSS reader (which I’ll probably make a post about) and it’s rekindled my love for online magazines and blogging. In the future, and depending on how often I posted, I probably will not link so many. I have a backlog at the moment. ^^’

• Excited to see something new from the Scavenger’s Reign studio.
• ANIMATED WARRIOR CATS ADAPTATION!! Little me is screaming, this is the stuff of her dreams.
• I enjoyed More Artists Could Stand To Be Normal About Their Black Music Influences—great article about what it looks like to appreciate or appropriate your influences.
• Check out this Famicase exhibition
• It was posted like 2 years ago so I’m late to the party, but I discovered the EVE Online Down the Rabbit Hole episode. I’m speechless.
• I haven’t played it yet, but all of the Subnautica 2 news was interesting. I liked this article about how people really want weapons in the game, and audience expectations around exploration and conquest in games.
• The Insidious World of Lolcows
• Did you know that one in four cars sold in 2025 was electric? Electric cars are also becoming more affordable globally—except in the US. Sigh.
• The Strange Melancholy of Slaying Monsters
• You may have noticed I have some interest in game journalism. If you also have an interest in it: I stumbled upon this article by Steven Santana where he links to a MASSIVE games writing archive that he started, containing hundreds of articles. It’s a treasure trove, I highly recommend browsing.
• And finally, The Perfect Toyhouse—an article from Inner Spiral about how the Animal Crossing experience has evolved over time, and lost the friction that made it fun. Kind of similar to this article about how challenging it is to make NPC villages feel like a real society.