![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
(no subject)
May. 7th, 2022 06:41 pmThings:
- I am having so much fun on tumblr with Dracula Daily, oh my god. So many people who want to talk about Dracula or make jokes about Dracula! So many people reading and reacting to the book for the first time! I'm so happy about it.
- I have started weaving on my inkle loom! It took me an hour to warp the thing ( and it looks super cool once it's set up ), and then I spent a further hour weaving. My weaving is a bit wobbly and uneven as yet, but it's very satisfying to do.
- Basically, I'm using this loom as a way to figure out if I enjoy weaving in general, before investing in a loom that would allow me to be more versatile in what I weave. Bands are fun, but I will eventually run out of uses for them. But looms are expensive, so I'm going to weave bands until I figure out if I really like weaving or not, and then go from there.
- My brain abruptly decided that I was allowed to listen to actualplay podcasts again, after almost a six months of not being able to tolerate them*, so I have been relistening to Rusty Quill Gaming while weaving today. (Because I can't concentrate on both learning a new skill and a new story at the same time, so I needed something I've heard before.) I had forgotten just how immensely listenable that show is for me. With some shows, I can only listen to an episode or two in a row before I need a break, but I can do RQG for hours at a time.
*Sometimes, my brain does a thing where certain kinds of media are abruptly and for no discernible reason Not Allowed. I'll start reading or watching or listening to the forbidden thing and won't be able to concentrate on it at all, or it will feel oddly uncomfortable to experience, the way a bad texture is. Reading books (but not fanfic, comics, or random nonsense on the internet) usually isn't allowed in the summer, for example. Sometimes specific kinds of music are not allowed. Sometimes I am allowed podcasts but not audiobooks, or only some podcasts. Up until this past week, I have basically only been allowed mildly humerous nonfiction podcasts, which has meant a lot of Sawbones and GGP. It's somewhat frustrating.
- I am having so much fun on tumblr with Dracula Daily, oh my god. So many people who want to talk about Dracula or make jokes about Dracula! So many people reading and reacting to the book for the first time! I'm so happy about it.
- I have started weaving on my inkle loom! It took me an hour to warp the thing ( and it looks super cool once it's set up ), and then I spent a further hour weaving. My weaving is a bit wobbly and uneven as yet, but it's very satisfying to do.
- Basically, I'm using this loom as a way to figure out if I enjoy weaving in general, before investing in a loom that would allow me to be more versatile in what I weave. Bands are fun, but I will eventually run out of uses for them. But looms are expensive, so I'm going to weave bands until I figure out if I really like weaving or not, and then go from there.
- My brain abruptly decided that I was allowed to listen to actualplay podcasts again, after almost a six months of not being able to tolerate them*, so I have been relistening to Rusty Quill Gaming while weaving today. (Because I can't concentrate on both learning a new skill and a new story at the same time, so I needed something I've heard before.) I had forgotten just how immensely listenable that show is for me. With some shows, I can only listen to an episode or two in a row before I need a break, but I can do RQG for hours at a time.
*Sometimes, my brain does a thing where certain kinds of media are abruptly and for no discernible reason Not Allowed. I'll start reading or watching or listening to the forbidden thing and won't be able to concentrate on it at all, or it will feel oddly uncomfortable to experience, the way a bad texture is. Reading books (but not fanfic, comics, or random nonsense on the internet) usually isn't allowed in the summer, for example. Sometimes specific kinds of music are not allowed. Sometimes I am allowed podcasts but not audiobooks, or only some podcasts. Up until this past week, I have basically only been allowed mildly humerous nonfiction podcasts, which has meant a lot of Sawbones and GGP. It's somewhat frustrating.
