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Post by galactic-pirates on Jul 23, 2024 1:38:34 GMT -5
*hugs* times of transition/flux in life are rough. Take care of yourself. Any progress is good. I'm rooting for you! *waves pom-poms*
re: WoW /cough I caved. On principle I didn't really want to support the 3 day early access thing, but I have mained Prot Paladin since Cata and I have frustrations with it. It's comfortable but I have been 'phoning it in' with raids for ages. Anyway, I wanted to just see how Warrior felt in TWW before making such a HUGE choice. So I ran a couple of follower dungeons (people scare me) and went in a delve. Prot Warrior felt similar to live and so I decided to go for it and switch. Of course this was before the tank nerfs... but apparently Prot Pally is unplayable now so /shrug could be just as well anyway.
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Post by belorehalla on Aug 7, 2024 2:57:20 GMT -5
*hugs* times of transition/flux in life are rough. Take care of yourself. Any progress is good. I'm rooting for you! *waves pom-poms* re: WoW /cough I caved. On principle I didn't really want to support the 3 day early access thing, but I have mained Prot Paladin since Cata and I have frustrations with it. It's comfortable but I have been 'phoning it in' with raids for ages. Anyway, I wanted to just see how Warrior felt in TWW before making such a HUGE choice. So I ran a couple of follower dungeons (people scare me) and went in a delve. Prot Warrior felt similar to live and so I decided to go for it and switch. Of course this was before the tank nerfs... but apparently Prot Pally is unplayable now so /shrug could be just as well anyway. You're always soooo so nice in your comments, I really appreciate it. :_) You're so sweet. I feel so bad for tank mains, especially when the details of the changes and the reasons for them seem kind of ridiculous to me. I mean, if you're not really hard to kill and you have to rely on heals just to survive gameplay in general, doesn't that remove the fun from being a tank? I'm mainly DPS but I like healing too, and I can tell you that the new changes interfere with why being a healer is fun. So. Here's to hoping they fix it when everyone inevitably gets angry about it, lol. (They came to a decent compromise with the DKs when they nerfed them real bad way back when. So surely this will just be a temporary issue to be irritated with for a few months after TWW's official release until Blizzard realizes this is not a popular change to make. I hope.) I hope you've been having fun with the beta, though!
I worked for the first few days of this month, which turned out to be incredibly exhausting. Fortunately, though, I should be mostly done with early morning shifts, so hopefully I'll have more energy... But for the most part, I could barely do anything other than rest while not at work. I think it's partially because I've found that, with the schedule of my medication, early morning starts have really unfortunate effects on my heart. That's been the biggest problem I've had through July in getting anything done, the early mornings. Hopefully I'll have more energy and more motivation through August, considering I'll have more time on my hands—though I might also be getting moved up to full time, but I'm not really counting on that to happen.
I also really badly underestimated how well I'd be able to handle a reread of Black Lagoon. I remember it being a deeply formative piece of media for me back in middle school but couldn't recall why. I recall now, though, and it's pretty bad! There was just something to that type of character who never got to know love, belonging, or peace growing up and therefore can't help but lash out at anyone who seems too soft or too kind that resonated a little too much back then. And even after I've dealt with those behaviors, reading about the type of character who feels alienated just by knowing not everyone has experienced lifelong trauma still resonates a little too much now! But I think, at 24, it's one of those things that can make me a better person.
And speaking of things that can make me a better person, I got around to reading The Sun and the Star recently, the most recent Camp Half-Blood Chronicles novel. I knew it was going to be incredibly good but I don't think I was prepared for what it did to me, lol. It kind of fundamentally changed me as a person. I am well and truly not the person I was before I read it, I don't think. It kind of reframed the entire concept of healing and recovering from mental illness and trauma for me in a really positive way. The whole point is that there's no such thing as a broken person, so no one needs fixing. About how some people don't get to just be a person before they're traumatized and develop mental illness, and if your whole self has been informed largely or entirely by trauma, it's a matter of recovering from unhealthy habits and behaviors rather than trying to build some "healthy" self from a foundation you never got to have. I sincerely think I'm better for having read this book.
As a final note, I think I will keep myself content without any specific writing expectations beyond a word count. I'm having a lot of fun with fanfic while I'm figuring out where I want to go with my original works. I've been reading more fanfic than I usually do as well, which has also been really fun. I think it's been good for me, actually, which probably sounds a little insane but it's true. I've been gaming my whole life, and during my formative years, video game spaces were pretty hostile; the super racist, transphobic, misogynistic kind of hostile. The true "gamer girls aren't real and using slurs is constantly is good" days. Kind of traumatizing for me back then! It left me really scared of the idea of writing fanfic for the games I'd been playing back during those years (WoW, Dragon Age, Fallout, and Bioshock mainly) despite really wanting to. This extra focus on just fanfic for the moment has really helped, which is exciting! Every so often I freak out and need to take a step back, because I really can't make you understand how violent and awful the average gamer space was toward minorities if you weren't there and I'd been a literal child when I was exposed to it all—but it's getting a lot easier. And I think that's fun. I'm reclaiming some little thing I didn't realize I lost in the first place. Not to be dramatic, but, you know.
July progress:
- Wrote 20,048 words.
- Read The Moon is Down.
- Read Burning Bright.
- Read Of Mice and Men.
- Read The Sun and the Star.
- Read vol1-2 of Black Lagoon.
- Wrote two single-part fanfics.
- Posted single-part fanfic.
August goals:
- Write 15,000 words.
- Write ch19 of Into the Depths.
- Post ch12-13 of Into the Depths.
- Read Cannery Row.
- Read War Crimes.
- Read Before the Storm.
- Read vol3-5 of Black Lagoon.
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Post by Kandybar on Aug 7, 2024 16:42:38 GMT -5
Oh, I remember really enjoying Cannery Row. I hope you like it too!
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Post by belorehalla on Aug 8, 2024 0:33:08 GMT -5
Oh, I remember really enjoying Cannery Row. I hope you like it too! I always love to see other people who enjoy Steinbeck's works! He's my favorite author of all time and I've been revisiting a lot of his writing this year. I've already read Cannery Row before and it's one of my favorite works by Steinbeck, it's definitely one of his most popular ones for a reason. (Also, you might also like The Pastures of Heaven if you enjoyed Cannery Row!)
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Post by Kandybar on Aug 9, 2024 16:45:55 GMT -5
Ooo! I'll have to give that one a look!
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Post by galactic-pirates on Aug 11, 2024 5:54:53 GMT -5
Wow that book does sound incredible. I'll have to look it up! Well done for everything you did in July especially while working and being tired. Glad you might be getting some energy back but take care, don't push yourself unreasonably. Your goals being chill sounds great and I hope August works out for you!!! *cheers*
Re: WoW because we seem to be having a conversation about it lol. The whole 'tank nerf' thing and it's impact seems to depend on who is speaking. It's either fine and not as dramatic as people feared, or it's truly awful and there will be no tanks/healers left. I think it sounds like maybe average players will find it much harder, but more skilled groups will just breeze on through like normal. So my understanding is it's raising the skill barrier. As I don't consider myself that great a player I'm a little nervous but time will tell. I do wonder if maybe blizz has pushed the season back an extra week because they need every second for tuning. It does feel like they could have done with more time generally but again time will tell.
What are you thinking of levelling up first in TWW?
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