my hyacinth is looking lovely this year and actually split into two. I didn’t know it could do that.

I’m worried about my lavender but I do see a tiny bit of new growth on it. currently it looks dormant still, and I’m concerned it died. wasn’t sure if I should remove the pine needles around it or keep them there, the rain I don’t think is helping but we’re getting more sunny days.

tulips are starting to open up too! my mom planted a ton of them last year, and I’m looking forward to the rose bush we planted last year growing more. she also bought blueberry plants, two of them, two different variants. Costco apparently had them, hahaha.

hoping to get more hyacinths I think. they’re really pretty, even though I don’t think they last for super long? my mom wants a flower hanging basket for mother’s day, mentioned that she wanted one that might attract hummingbirds, but I don’t think ones of those exists?

I’ll keep that in mind about jailbreaking! I think you’re talking about KOReader? I think it’s pretty good software, though I’m going to try to the Kobo’s regular one before I install that one. with a Kobo, you don’t have to jailbreak anything, they just let you do it, hahaha. they also let you sideload books, fonts, and screensavers, and I’m looking forward to customizing it.

oh wow! I only have 10tb (it’s actually two 10tb in a RAID 1 configuration) but I don’t watch too much, I’m really picky about my movies and anime. and I mostly get my things the same way, though I’ve started to buy my books from different places and removing the DRM so I can store it on my server. I really want authors to get paid, as someone who aspired to be one for a long time. and I want them to know people are interested in their books so that they keep writing.

I actually have three servers. I have a Raspberry Pi 4 (not running much besides Adguard Home and a dashboard, but I like having it), a Synology NAS, and then an Intel NUC that runs everything and I just use the NAS for storage. I’ve really enjoyed learning about selfhosting even though I didn’t start off knowing much about it, and I’m a slow learner.

I hope you and your kid are enjoying that Minecraft server! I would’ve loved that as a kid.

I want to thank people who were talking about Blue Prince because I was able to recommend it to a friend who loves puzzles. she’s enjoying it a lot.

I’ve been doing stuff in both Honkai: Star Rail and Zenless Zone Zero, but on the non-gacha front, I’ve started Disco Elysium. I haven’t gotten very far but I’m really enjoying it even if not knowing how bad I’m messing up makes me a bit anxious. I picked Inland Empire as my main skill(?) too.

otherwise, I’m planning on playing more Fields of Mistria, now that they’ve updated again. I love that game with a passion, and I can’t wait to see what more they add to it. I thought Stardew Valley was as good as it got, and while Fields of Mistria doesn’t have multiplayer (and that’s okay!) it ticks so many boxes for me, like for example, the shoujo laughs from Juniper spark so much joy. I don’t enjoy the mines in SDV, but in FoM, I definitely do!

thank you for the well wishes!

I have a Scribe (the older one) that I got at a discount, but I’m scared to jailbreak it, especially with people getting theirs bricked because amazon is trying to revert the jailbreaking. I’m gonna save it in case I need it for a Kindle specific book, because that’s unfortunately a thing.

I actually use the linux server for a lot of things! everything from Jellyfin to I actually have a Calibre Web Automated setup that I’m going to integrate with my Kobo reader for syncing my books. I’m not a backend coder (I dabble in CSS for fun, though) so nothing going on there, but I have a private journal, a Mealie instance for my recipes, etc. it’s been fun learning, even if the blog setup took me 5 hours, hahaha.

what do you like to read?

currently using Vivaldi and I love it, but eyeing a switch over to Floorp (fork of Firefox) when uBlock is officially done for in chrome browsers. I’ll still need Vivaldi for some things, but I can’t live with ads.

hey I used to love lifting weights when I was younger! I’m not entirely sure I was doing it right, but I can relate to it being more fun. I hope you keep following that joy, and the raves! I’ve never been to one, but I don’t usually go out, hahaha.

really fatigued. I hate it, but there’s really not too much I can do about the causes.

my partner offered to get me a Kobo Libra Color when it gets closer to my birthday. it’s not this month or anything, but I’m genuinely excited. I have an old Kindle but frankly I don’t like being tied to Amazon and would prefer to put my own books on the Kobo anyway. plus, the pop of colors, as small of a thing as it is, brings me joy. of course, everything I want to read are books a lot of people cringe at, but no one has to know!

I’ve almost finished writing letters to my friends, I just have one more left, and that one I get to deliver in person, so I don’t have to send it through the mail. I’m going with the friend to a drag show brunch on easter, and it’s my first thing like that, so I’m pretty excited for that too.

trying to find my escapes where I can, so I’ve been throwing myself into learning linux server stuff too as much as I can. I’ve started documenting stuff in a Forgejo repo so that my bad memory can’t wreck things.

welcome!! I’m recently trying to get more active again.

I think it’s okay to put down art for a minute and breathe. you got this.

sneaks in here.

things have been mostly down, not up. it’s been a long time since I’ve been here but I meant to come back sooner, it’s just that everything being really draining has left me pulling knives instead of spoons for everything.

partner got on meds for their ADHD recently so big win there, but we’re still figuring out everything that will help them. it’s at least a good step! I’ve gotten back into self-hosting, after coasting on what I had on my server for a while. planning to try out some new services, hopefully installing something for books so I can throw a bunch on my server and not worry about losing access to them. also maybe a new dashboard, though I kind of like the one I have.

coping with the world is hard right now, more than usual. but Susan Crawford won the race on the supreme court, and I’m happy about that at least.

been playing a lot of video games too. mostly hoyoverse games but Fields of Mistria and Disco Elysium (I just started it) are also calling to me.

I hope everyone has a bright spot in their week!

Oh boy my favorite game series!

Admittedly the ones I’ve played the most are 3, 4 and 5, although I’ve tried 2 a couple times a while back. I wouldn’t mind doing it again, I just don’t remember why I kept bouncing off of it.

3 is my favorite, and admittedly I played it at a younger age than I probably should have, as a teenager. I couldn’t bring myself to finish it after getting the ending spoiled to me online, but I always had a fondness for the game and I preordered Reload as soon as I could. I will finish it this time. Mitsuru my love.

4 is my second favorite. Kanji and Naoto in particular really always stood out to me and I used to go by Kanji online for a long time. I made a character who spun into an oc with just traits inspired by him too, who is one of my favorites to write.

5 is fine but my least favorite of the bunch, even though I know a lot of people who only like that one. I felt the pacing was poor and the escalation of the severity of what the adults did wasn’t really going in order. I also didn’t feel any real attachment to the characters, in sharp contrast to the other two games I’ve played.

It still irks me every time a teacher and student romance comes up, or the times the games have been phobic. I wish we had the option to maybe pick between a masc/fem/androgynous looking protag and slap our own pronouns on them and romance who we wanted out of the options regardless of those selections, but I know that’s not ever the game Persona is gonna be. I’m happy they included content warnings at least in Reload.