#i've got several options

[fictionadventurer]

Potential February Reads

East by Edith Pattou

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

The Beggar Prince by Kate Stradling

The Thrifty Guide to Ancient Rome: A Handbook for Time Travelers by Jonathan Stokes

Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

The Frindle Files by Andrew Clement

A fantasy romance

[the-judicial-assistants-notebook]

not enough discussion about the gavins' complicated relationship with feminine-coded/beauty products, i don't think.

[marlynnofmany]

I just heard another writer trying to figure out which self-publishing route to take, and all I'll say is that I'm glad I found Draft2Digital. (More accurately, I'm grateful to my more knowledgeable writer friends who told me about it a couple years ago.) I don't even use the free services as much now that I've learned to do fancy formatting etc on my own, but it sure is nice that the option is there.

TL;DR: you upload a manuscript, they make it presentable and available everywhere from Amazon to your local bookstore, and they charge you zero dollars, only taking a cut of the profits they helped you make. A small cut.

They are run by Writer People who want to help other Writer People succeed, and it shows.

[redo-rewind-if]

Got an interesting report this time around. You see, I'm considering splitting what was originally going to be chapter 3 into 2 separate chapters instead.

What does that mean for you, the readers? Well, if I do split it up into 2 chapters, I might be able to get the next update out much sooner, since, the new end point would be after the Club Pyre path which I'm currently finishing up! Then, it'd just be a couple more weeks of editing, coding, and bug testing before release!

No promises though, I still haven't made my mind up on it yet. Just something to think about.

Next Update (Chapter 3 & 4? Maybe?):

Intro Scene (if not on music fest route): 100%

Music Fest Routes (Solo, V, and Amara): 100%

Club Pyre Path: 70%

August Part 2 Electric Boogaloo: 0% (not started)

Avoid Death (Eventually?): 0% (not started)

Work Time! (End of Chapter): 0% (short outline, not started)

One interesting point, that some of you may have already noticed, is that the progress for the Club Pyre path has mysteriously decreased.

That would be because, I may or may not have expanded on it and added more routes and options. Oops. So, even though more writing's been done, the overall progress of that part has gone down due to the expanded outline. Rip to me I guess. 😔

[bitchdafuqyousay]

a piece of media will present two complex, multi-faceted male characters with well thought out n well portrayed personalities with their own struggles n ways of seeing/interacting with their world n a multi-leveled way of interacting with one another that leads to multiple faces of their relationship n the fans will be like cool but this one is slightly taller with skin that's half a shade darker so we're gonna portray him as a hyper masculine, barbarically aggressive, practically abusive, uber-dominant top n the other is .1924738th of an inch shorter n has a barely noticable lighter complexion so we're gonna make him a ridiculously short, feminized, unbelievably submissive, teary eyed childlike man unable to establish boundaries who just rolls over n accepts everything done to him n gets regularly violated by the other man :)) yes we will throw fits n accuse you of being a bigot if you point out how Fucked Up this is

[neosatsuma]

I beat BG3 game but I will say. it does kinda feel like there's no winning BG3 game

[nobodybetterlookatme]

Okay time for me to 🥰 in the tags real quick lmao

[snickerdoodlles]

there's a lot of things people blame for why fandoms feel like ghost towns these days, but no one's really talked about the way discord's contributing to it

[blujayonthewing]

so in juniper's campaign we've just found ourselves in a high-stakes situation that I as a player do frankly find stressful and am anxious about, but hey hi also the DM was like 'okay here are the exact mechanics of how this is going to work because I don't want to surprise you with serious repercussions, also here are all the options you will have to try to do something about the situation-- [affected player] what do you think? honest feedback, I don't want it to feel unfair, I want to be clear that I am not just trying to kill your character, and if it ends up being badly balanced we can revisit it down the road' and oh my god I could COLLAPSE and WEEP with gratitude

[dinosaurcharcuterie]

The good news is, the cramps and urge to kill are slightly less severe than before. So far, the self harm urge is not yet there.

The bad news is, it took me three times as long to realize that "stomping around the office wanting to put the particularly dimwitted bowl of soggy weetabix in a human costume that somehow got hired to lead our department into the industrial shredder so the evidence would be too small to lead back to me because he sent one of his usual out of touch emails" is not my natural state of being.

So unless this slows down my cycle over the next few months, I think the second try at pmd meds still aren't working. And because Germany's entire medical system is shaped by decades of Christian leadership, there's not many legal options left.

[paladincecil]

After like a month of going back and forth I've finally settled on a new mattress \o/

I'm not going for a top line one but after some research I've settled on this one from Rem Fit. It's not actually that expensive. They're doing that bullshit where they jack up the price then give you a code to reduce it to the sale price so it looks like the discount is larger -_-

[thethingything]

I need to call our dentist today because we're back to pretty much unmanageable levels of pain, but also our gums are swollen and that side of our face is hot to the touch and our mouth keeps tasting really bad so clearly there's something very wrong

[binnie]

venting real quick

[picory]

playing hyrule warriors: age of calamity on yuzu on my laptop at 6 FPS. a perfectly normal way to play that was intended by the creators i'm sure

[witchern]

whenever i'm in between jobs, my dad insists on doing a book club type thing with me to keep me occupied, so every week we'll read a couple chapters of the same book and chat about it on the phone. ANYWAY all this to say that we're trying to pick the next book and he sent me some of his options and like any self-respecting suburban dad they are ALL biographies and ww2 books lmao

[bfwonho]

How are you permenantly disabled by burnout? If you're experiencing symptoms of burnout without the actual burnout, that's probably depression

autistic burnout can make you regress in your ability to function and last years or ive seen some people say it can be forever depending on severity. i doubt it's forever for me but i've definitely regressed and as long as i have to keep up with my responsibilities i'll stay this way or get worse