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What a mish-mash this post is about to be.

Do you guys make sure you respond to every comment you get on your fics, on AO3? I logged in for the first time in awhile, went to my dash, and noticed the number on my inbox. I literally never check my inbox and notifs are spotty, but there's lots of comments people have left on my fics that I hadn't addressed, some from like a year ago. I feel bad for not acknowledging peoples' compliments, so I went through and answered some, but not all.

I caught wind of a new product I will absolutely be on the hunt for, starting NOW: red velvet Reese's. Hooooooooo is that relevant to my interests. I'm going to buy ten. No, twenty.

I've been listening to Spotify a lot lately, which might seem like a weirdly random and mundane thing to talk about, but for some reason I just usually don't and then I'm really disappointed in my lackluster Spotify Wrapped at the end of the year haha. I want to feed it lots of yummy plays so I can get some interesting stats, man! Anyone got some music recs? Genre doesn't matter.

Day 600873666 of trying to find a work from home job I can actually do, that doesn't require me to be an expert in coding or data analysis. Fail fail fail. I won't be able to do massage (legally) anymore when I move to Wisconsin, since my license is only for California. I could do something else, of course, but honestly I feel like with snow and ice everywhere for several months out of the year and lots of rain for even more than that, a work from home job really would be a huge boon to this Southern Californian transplant. I'll keep trying. Barring that, the local healthcare system has a pretty rad program within one of its local facilities where they will pay you to learn on the job rather than doing a traditional course, and I'm pretty interested in it. I had thought of maybe being a pharmacy tech once upon a time but if I took a course here in California it'd take me like a year and cost me thousands. Could be a wonderful new adventure, and a good career shift.

I have to be real, this TikTok fiasco is sort of grating on my nerves. I don't use the app and never have, but a lot of friends of mine became absolutely consumed to the point that one of them has had to start seeing a therapist for honest to god addiction to it. Because of this and the rampant false information and bad advice being spread by TikTok influencers that has even managed to impact me at my job a time or two, it's put a bad taste in my mouth. As far as I'm concerned it's good riddance, except 1) I know a lot of people actually depend on it for a variety of reasons, and so I feel bad for people who would lose their emotional support app and/or source of income, and 2) I would bet my next paycheck that it will be back within a week anyway, which seems pretty obvious to me.

I remember saying, very optimistically, that I wanted to better keep record of what I'm reading and watching on a weekly basis and, whoops, January's almost over.

Finished season 2 of Squid Game and have been watching What If...? and finishing up Star Wars: Skeleton Crew. Only good things to say all around.

Currently reading I'll Be Gone In The Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search For The Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamera.

IS2G it never ends.

Just a long string of inconveniences.

First I get home from vacation and I get really sick, then the fiasco with food getting left in my baking hot car for a week, then the rear driver's side window breaking, then my laptop almost exploding, and now my tire pressure sensor is on and one of my front tires looks very low like I definitely punctured it or in some other way developed a serious leak.

I've got to get my car to the tire center tomorrow, which is about 15 minutes away. Just gotta get there without anything bad happening, and they will assess/fix my tire for free (they do that, if you originally bought your tires from them). I'm really hoping I don't need new tires because yo I cannot afford that right now but also I've had these ones on there for a really really long time so honestly? It's probably time.

In other news, I'm about halfway through a new movie called Trap. Since it's an M. Night Shyamalan movie I know there will be a twist here someplace that will determine whether or not I end up liking it as a whole, but it's definitely keeping me riveted so far!

In other other news, at the store I found, of all things, S'mores flavored instant ramen and I could not resist buying one to try. I opened it and found tiny marshmallows inside, and chocolate powder. It's literally ramen noodles in chocolate water and mini marshmallows and I expected it to be nasty but y'all it's not. I'm so bewildered. I actually want to pick up a couple more???

28. What characters have you roleplayed as? asked by Danny from Discord

Ahh, lots. A whole parade of OCs over the course of my RP career, for starters.

Jubilee from X-Men was one of my first canons, before I even knew what the word 'canon' meant. Schuldich from Weiss Kreuz. Rachel from Animorphs. Dean Winchester from Supernatural, Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, and Jim Moriarty from BBC Sherlock. Jack O'Neil and Daniel Jackson from Stargate: SG-1. Donna Noble from Doctor Who. Remus Lupin from Harry Potter. Derek Hale from Teen Wolf. Erik Lehnsherr/Magneto from, again, X-Men, though this time from the reboot/prequel movies. Illya Kuryakin and Gaby Teller from The Man From Uncle. Leonard McCoy from AOS Trek, of course, and recently I've also tried my hand vaguely at Jim Kirk and Gaila.

There are more, it's just that it's 2am and I can't remember them all at the moment.

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It's hot again, and I'm not impressed. Tomorrow is supposed to be the last truly hot day before it cools back down again, and hopefully this time it stays down.

I went and saw Don't Worry Darling today, and while I was worried that the best part about it might be the hilarious behind-the-scenes discourse, I actually ended up liking it quite a bit! Florence Pugh really carried the hell out of that movie.

Afterward, I stopped at Trader Joe's and found a Black Tea & Boba ice cream, which is chef's kiss. Tastes like someone made me some black milk tea with boba and then stuck it in the freezer. Delicious.

I am in another slump. I have a ton of fics to work on. I have a bunch of RPs awaiting replies. But I simply cannot write at the moment, for whatever reason. Maybe the heat? Maybe I'm getting another case of the sads and am really needing my therapy appointment this week. Whatever the case, all I can bring myself to do is binge episodes of this pizza cooking competition I discovered called Best In Dough.

Hope you're all well!