Alright alright, good morning! Buckle up because I have a lot of ground to cover in this one. First off, good job on making it through another week folks. To persist is to resist!
I'm actually gonna give this a table of contents cuz I dont want to forget anything and I have Things™ on my Mind™ [ also easier to skip chunks you're not interested in ]:
Some words about the state of things [ vaguely political, hopefully not a bummer though ]
Good morning and congrats on getting through another week!
So, my productivity last week wasn't great. I did get some stuff done, but it was a lot less than I hoped for.
And it's kinda my fault too, so I apologize for that. I think I was focusing on the news too much. Spending too much time on reddit and stuff. The next couple days after I did that art stream, I just shut down. Reading the news in the morning made my hands so sweaty they started to prune. I needed to wash up befo...
Well, we made it through another week folks! The horrors persist but so do we.
I am astonishingly still sick. My lungs/breathing system just refuse to clear 😂 But on the bright side, I have been well enough this week to work normal hours and exercise again, which has helped my mental health a lot.
I was able to do a normal amount of writing last week:
I'm afraid I have to report another pretty weak work week. I unfortunately am still sick 😩
I started being able to sleep again on Tuesday, and since I hadnt slept for 3-4 days I basically spent the next 36 hours sleeping or fighting sleep. Wednesday was the first day I could walk around and do stuff, but I needed to catch up on chores, cleaning, and cooking really bad so all my energy went to that. On Thursday I thought I was well enough to write again, but I kept feeling 'floaty' an...
Hey sorry for the mid-week ping but I've been having a little bit of a nightmare of a time over at Etsy so I wanted to get a message out to hopefully slow down some of the repeated daily questions I keep getting asked over there [ Etsy allows us to have a shop announcement but they put it at the bottom of the page 🙃 ] I already have a message up on my website but it seems not too many people check that, so I am desperately posting to the only other place I can post 😂
Hello guys! I'm very sorry but I barely got anything done. I'm very sick ^^;
I opened the store on Sunday and spent Monday processing orders and opening the enamel pins [ the factory sends them to me as 2 in each bubble envelope for some reason so I need to open all those ]
This took like 4 hours and I was so worried the whole time because I only remembered to do it when a customer asked me when I'd be restocking the fox logo pins- I had 2 boxes with 6 bags each of pins and the fo...
Before I get started I'm just gonna say that I am aware of The Horrors, and they are causing me great anxiety, but I feel like my job here is to provide a bit of rest, away from all that. That's why I'll just be talking about game work. So lets take a little break together.
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I actually got a lot of writing done last week, I think. I pushed through the rest of the section that was blocking me and wrote the rema...
Hello again folks! I'm glad to start a new year with you guys!
I got a bit of writing done last week, not a ton, but some.
So that bottom chunk looks all fucked up because honestly the actual script barely resembles the plan there any more 😂🙈 I mentioned earlier that I cut some content from that chunk for being identical to the previous night. However, since then, I've added a...
Welp, we made it through xmas, team! I have already, embarrassingly, eaten all the candy I was gifted.
Unfortunately I really don't have much to show this week 😬 I didn't get any writing done at all. I did try, def sat at my desk for work hours for a couple days, but I just didn't get anywhere. I did some brainstorming instead to figure out what I'm gonna do for the next bit of the script [ I think some stuff needs to be chopped out from night 2 for being carbon copies of content in...
Hello! Good morning! It is a wretched -30C pre wind chill out here, and I didn't get a very good sleep [ even though Willow let me sleep in an hour like a little angel ] so I apologize in advance if this update is a little raggedy 🙏
I would like to start with a quick post-mortem honouring of the creaky semi-broken chair that held up my ass for TPOF and YKMET:Strade, a hand-me-down that was manufactured in 2015.
I did struggle a bit this week, but I got about as much done. It's cold as hell out here and the darkness has been rough. Yesterday it felt like I got 6 hours of the darkest cloudiest daytime possible LMAO I got my SAD lamp working overtime 😂
I got a fair amount of writing done but I worry that it's bad and it sucks and is actually cringe. Is it the eternal cold and darkness talking? Maybe! There's no way to tell for now.
I am a funny little husk because it is very dry and very dark here. I don't think I've seen the sun in 2 weeks [ it's just been cloudy every day, plus the days get real short up this far north in winter ]
But! I'm still doing alright. I'm using my seasonal affective disorder lamp and getting outside when I can. I got a fair bit of writing done again, probably similar to last week. The script is still pushing me towards madness but 🤷♀️ ...
Good morning and happy Saturday folks! Congrats to all of the US citizens for surviving another Thanksgiving!
I'm happy to report that I got a lot more writing done this week, and I seem to have mostly gotten over my writer's block.
I know that added blob doesn't look like a lot but there was actually quite a bit of content to add in there. Lots of technical stuff [ I'll explain in ...
My week wasn't terribly productive, but at least it was a little better than last week. I had a headache through the whole thing 😂 [ I get week-long headaches sometimes, having anxiety attacks basically guarantees one after unfortunately ]
I did do a tiny amount of writing, but honestly it's not enough to even justify posting the chart. I wrote out the 'waking up' scene for day 2, which involved 3 versions because MC can be in differ...
Hello again! I just wanted to make a quick update for people in case anyone was worrying about my UPS guy situation:
Everything is sorted and fixed now! I feel much MUCH better!
I called UPS on Monday and not only did I get through quickly, but the guy took me very seriously and listened to my concerns. He sent me an email about the situation and told his supervisor, and he also assured me that the guy will not be delivering to my home any more.
Okay so this is gonna be a different kind of update because I did a bunch of stuff last week that wasn't writing the script ^^;
I received and stored 3 shipments of merch stuff, so now I have everything I ordered [ except for one box. explained at the end of the post ]. Unfortunately I still can't sell anything because my store is closed and the postal situation hasn't improved at all [ I usually close my store in december anyway because I don't like christmas hysteria tbh ] But I do at...
Okay this is probably going to be a long one! And maybe a vaguely incoherent one because I am a little bit sick [ not real-sick I think, it's probably from getting my flu/covid combo shots a couple days ago ]
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I need to start with an apology. I've decided to cancel a translation experiment I had going on. I had 3 volunteers working on translations, and they did a lot of work, but I've chosen to cancel the project. I know that people want translations and peopl...
Good morning! I gotta warn you guys right off the bat, this post might be a little sloppy- I only got around 3 hours of sleep last night cuz I got a little drunk last night for Halloween and that makes me not sleep 😂
Halloween went great though, I had an absolute record number of trick-or-treaters! I usually get around 60 and last night I got 97! Crazy! Luckily I had some loose toys and candy left over when I ran out of bags. I think it was a combo of the weather being very warm [ fo...
Hello again folks, and well done getting to another Saturday!
It was a bit of a rough week for me and I didn't get as much done as I would have liked, but that's kind of par for the course when it comes to me and scripting.
I lost a bunch of time/energy to internet and vet appointments 😩 But at least now I'm switched from copper to fibre and Willow's getting checked thoroughly for anything that might be causing her frequent barfing [ I've already gotten it slowed down a lot wit...
The weekend is here! Let us enjoy the comforting embrace of the spooky season as a small respite from the ever present tempest of horrors!
I did have a pretty slow start this week, but I've done this enough times to know that this was absolutely gonna happen. I always struggle to start writing, every single script I've done.
No matter how many games I make, it's still daunting to start. Looking at the mountain of the task, and carrying the weight of people's expectations. It's all...
The weekend is here! Welcome back! I have been Up To Things
Okay so let's start with the non-game stuff first:
Canada Post is still on strike but is switching to a rotating strike. That basically boils down to mean that the mail system will be working again, but slowly and kind of unpredictably. This is good because anyone who was unlucky and had their package stopped by the strike should see it move and work its way to them now.
Canada Post is still on strike, the news is still a neverending carousel of horrors, but for now, right here, it's Saturday and it's time for some project updates.
I had a very productive week! I managed to get a lot more script bones hashed out, to the point where I'd say that the planning document is 'basically finished'. There's still some decisions up in the air and there will of course surely be deviations from this plan once I begi...
I did get some good planning done, but to be honest, it wasn't as much as I would have liked. This phase is the most openly creative in the entire process, and will lay the foundation for everything else after. I spend a lot of time rejecting ideas for being mediocre, so building the plot is going kinda slow. It's always hard to strike the balance between accepting work to move forward and finding something that will really satisfy me.
Hello again people! It's been another relatively hectic week over here!
I was mainly focused on getting started with basic planning, but I had to switch up in the middle of the week when my first restock order arrived [ 16 boxes of stuff ]. I needed a day basically just to move the boxes around, get the contents organized [ they were kinda packed with random characters all over the place so I had to empty and refill.. sigh ] and get them stored properly in my merch room.
The weekend is here! I actually had a very busy week, so may I offer you a long update in these trying times?
Minor news items:
Store/Tariff situation is still radio silence. I haven't received any of my restock packages yet anyway though, so for now it remains 'not a big deal'.
I have been sent a photo from the plushie guys, and they estimate that I might be getting them in 45 days-ish.
Hello again, the weekend is here and I am present in some capacity or another!
I think I'll start with the bad news. The bad news is that I still have not made a planning video yet. I intended to, but as soon as I got serious about it I started having a panic attack type thing and just kinda freaked out about starting again. I don't have an excuse for that obviously, but I am sorry. I know that people are hungry for content, but I just haven't been up to the task. Whether that be starti...
I finally got to actually relax with virtually no work last week. It's been really nice.
My store has gone very quiet without American customers, which is generally a bad thing but right now specifically for me, it does kinda line up nicely for giving me a break 😂 I still get a few orders here and there from other countries but it's really cut the workload down.
From what I've heard, 25 countries have stopped shipping to the US entirely....
Hello again folks! Very sorry for missing the Saturday update yesterday! I was invited to visit with some extended family early in the morning and forgot all about it [ if my routine is disrupted apparently I forget how to do everything ] and by the time I realized, I was inebriated ^^; So I apologize for that!
I had a bit of a busy week between making all the restock orders, worrying about the new tariff situation with the states, and doing a bunch of social stuff [ visting friends for...
It's been a bit of a complicated week over here. I've been trying to work on the keychain designs but I've barely been able to touch them. My repetitive strain injury [ RSI ] is pretty bad and hasn't healed yet. The annoying thing with RSIs is that they take FOREVER to heal and they're so easy to aggravate and make worse.
I have multiple wrist braces because I've had RSIs before [ although never from shipping packages, the ones in the past were all from drawing ] and...
[ The strange red on metal items won't be the final look, that'...