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Feb. 26th, 2021 09:23 pmyeah, i dropped off the face of the planet there
so some catching up:
may: finally seeing partnerbeast in person again. outdoor dining opening up. daily work on the Twine game, as well as a comic + fanfic retelling the beginning of *Disco Elysium*. tending deeply to my fan server. worrying some folks wouldn't make it, mentally. some attempts at a pathfinder game with the florida crew. Roguelike Celebration work, figuring out who we want to invite to speak. a lot of sitting on my fire escape. harriet's birthday, documentation for a project of hers. hotel census project at work. the bundesliga is the first european league to come back, which means for a brief week even my very American coworkers know Bayern exists.
june: the protests, of course. walking to astoria park wearing sunglasses and partnerbeast's info written on my inner calf. relatedly, the start of 'heartchat', a polycule group chat. partnerbeast and me in front of city hall with not enough city workers. worrying i'd lose my job due to budget cuts. releasing the Twine game. watching people leave the server due to discomfort with how DE intersects with cop narratives. (it's complicated.) roguelike work was all about the CFP at this point and speaker outreach.
july: my birthday, the Most Kawa of Servers. some people don't show up. others do. lots of gifts. help partnerbeast build some bookshelves. colossus of new york. roguelike work: speaker outreach, some mud development. starting watching The Untamed with a polycule I'm on friendly terms with.
august: i think this is roughly when i get switched to a different boss, who is...honestly not as great at being a boss. oh well. ramping up mud dev for roguelike celebration, a minimum viable preview event. harriet visits. lots of feeligns there. stereo weekend. get into blaseball. second chapter of my big kink-focused DE fic, after months of not making progress with it.
september: celebration and blaseball, blaseball and celebration. a whirlwind of spreadsheets on both sides. the pathfinder game is winding down. polyamory is hard, but we're making it. 20020. work is deeply, deeply confusing.
october: roguelike celebration, a huge and wild success. blaseball's finale for the moment, and my invitation to the SIBR council. a halloween party that ends up going awry (somehow i don't get sick. somehow that is a miracle, even with precautions taken by most people involved.) partnerbeast as the protagonist to my kim kitsuragi. learning backgammon.
november: the election. thanksgiving with the beasts. "that's nietzche!" blaseball "coffee cup", the creation of my 'child' bob e. cagayan. don't remember much else???
december: another harriet visit, shorter. all quarantined, because the rules had changed in those last few months. my first real christmas tree at the Arena, and so so so many cards sent. tons of origami ornaments. partnerbeast visits near the end. horrible stuff happens to my apartment.
january: decide not to drink until valentine's day. the failed coup. fixing the apartment stuff. a weird opportunity comes my way. harriet was supposed to visit in february but we end up cancelling, between my apartment stuff and her moving across the province for Reasons. another time at the beasts' in new jersey getting fed almost too much.
february: valentines, harriet's and my one year anniversary. making excuses for separate city adventures, piles of really good gifts. my first covid pod shift, helping people get vaccinated, my own first dose. plus a shift specifically for homeless services. so much fucking snow. candide. the war nerd's translation of the iliad.
that leads us to this point.
march has upcoming my second covid vaccine, the return of Disco Elysium and of blaseball, and a big experiment partnerbeast and i are doing. i have more of those pod shifts in april. it's possible the vaccine will mean i can travel in ways i couldn't before.
so some catching up:
may: finally seeing partnerbeast in person again. outdoor dining opening up. daily work on the Twine game, as well as a comic + fanfic retelling the beginning of *Disco Elysium*. tending deeply to my fan server. worrying some folks wouldn't make it, mentally. some attempts at a pathfinder game with the florida crew. Roguelike Celebration work, figuring out who we want to invite to speak. a lot of sitting on my fire escape. harriet's birthday, documentation for a project of hers. hotel census project at work. the bundesliga is the first european league to come back, which means for a brief week even my very American coworkers know Bayern exists.
june: the protests, of course. walking to astoria park wearing sunglasses and partnerbeast's info written on my inner calf. relatedly, the start of 'heartchat', a polycule group chat. partnerbeast and me in front of city hall with not enough city workers. worrying i'd lose my job due to budget cuts. releasing the Twine game. watching people leave the server due to discomfort with how DE intersects with cop narratives. (it's complicated.) roguelike work was all about the CFP at this point and speaker outreach.
july: my birthday, the Most Kawa of Servers. some people don't show up. others do. lots of gifts. help partnerbeast build some bookshelves. colossus of new york. roguelike work: speaker outreach, some mud development. starting watching The Untamed with a polycule I'm on friendly terms with.
august: i think this is roughly when i get switched to a different boss, who is...honestly not as great at being a boss. oh well. ramping up mud dev for roguelike celebration, a minimum viable preview event. harriet visits. lots of feeligns there. stereo weekend. get into blaseball. second chapter of my big kink-focused DE fic, after months of not making progress with it.
september: celebration and blaseball, blaseball and celebration. a whirlwind of spreadsheets on both sides. the pathfinder game is winding down. polyamory is hard, but we're making it. 20020. work is deeply, deeply confusing.
october: roguelike celebration, a huge and wild success. blaseball's finale for the moment, and my invitation to the SIBR council. a halloween party that ends up going awry (somehow i don't get sick. somehow that is a miracle, even with precautions taken by most people involved.) partnerbeast as the protagonist to my kim kitsuragi. learning backgammon.
november: the election. thanksgiving with the beasts. "that's nietzche!" blaseball "coffee cup", the creation of my 'child' bob e. cagayan. don't remember much else???
december: another harriet visit, shorter. all quarantined, because the rules had changed in those last few months. my first real christmas tree at the Arena, and so so so many cards sent. tons of origami ornaments. partnerbeast visits near the end. horrible stuff happens to my apartment.
january: decide not to drink until valentine's day. the failed coup. fixing the apartment stuff. a weird opportunity comes my way. harriet was supposed to visit in february but we end up cancelling, between my apartment stuff and her moving across the province for Reasons. another time at the beasts' in new jersey getting fed almost too much.
february: valentines, harriet's and my one year anniversary. making excuses for separate city adventures, piles of really good gifts. my first covid pod shift, helping people get vaccinated, my own first dose. plus a shift specifically for homeless services. so much fucking snow. candide. the war nerd's translation of the iliad.
that leads us to this point.
march has upcoming my second covid vaccine, the return of Disco Elysium and of blaseball, and a big experiment partnerbeast and i are doing. i have more of those pod shifts in april. it's possible the vaccine will mean i can travel in ways i couldn't before.