bismuth209

fannish thought: I'm excited for the new Doctor Who season

what i'm creating: I started playing Fox Curio's Floating Bookshop today, a solo journaling rpg. If you don't know what that is, it's kiiinda like games like dnd, but you play a character alone, and write down what they go through and do based on prompts, cards pulled and dice rolled. It's kinda guided writing. In this one I'm playing a young capybara called Rye who is about to embark on a river with a floating bookshop to sell books and hopefully, discover more about themself. The world of this game is the most elaborate I've seen so far in this type of game, and I'm so excited to discover it and fill in the gaps.
I think my story will have themes related to family, but I'm not quite yet at the playing stage. I'm considering sharing my playing/writing here, let you all join in on the story of Rye. Would that be something people are interested in? please tell me !

i accomplished this! i had fun hanging out with a friend today :)

something i want: to continue playing the floating bookshop game :) but i want to print something to do that and my dad's asleep in the room that has our printer (to be fair, that is his bedroom)

and now, the weather: and heave the capstan round, pitch that flaming anchor up for we are outward bound, we're all from the railroad to [unintelligible] and the old bloke's picking on the banjo

the actual weather: SO sunny!! LOVELY weather

Decided to come back here after the initial fixation fizzled out. Had a bit where i felt it'd be useless to return after not being here for a while, but that's of course silly. Gonna use this format i thought up last time to get back into it :z)

fannish thought: I am LOVING the new companion in Doctor Who. I can't believe I need to wait until may to see her again. She has a lot of vibes similar to Clara, who definitely used to be my favourite companion.

what i'm creating: I started crocheting a new shawl! A lot of crochet shawls are triangles that have you start at the middle of a long base. I have seen a couple patterns that were like, instead of a 180° angle they had a larger angle at that point. And i liked this, but i didn't like any of the specific patterns of this concept i saw. I also realised that if I wasn't making something VERY lacy, i'd need more yarn to get to a good sized shawl. I have 1 finished crochet shawl.

picture of the crochet shawl

This was done with an 800m long cake yarn, and i like the size of it and i loved doing the pattern (it's the fragrant shawl on ravelry, free). Right after I made this shawl in, I think early 2022, I was excited to do more and I decided to buy more yarn cakes, and I even started a shawl with a 1000m cake. Two days ago I frogged the 230m I had crocheted (took like half an hour). I decided to finally make one of those shawls with a reflex angle (an angle between 180 and 360 degrees), and it'd be best to do it with the 1000m cake, because this will take more yarn. I'm using the same pattern as my first shawl, but altered. If anyone is curious about how I did that, feel free to leave a comment.

it looks like this now

i accomplished this! I did some homework! made flashcards. Colourcoded per topic :)

something i want: I want to do all of my hobbies at once

and now, the weather: ...clawing at the air / now it's curtains for me / and i'll spend eternity / doing joyless cartwheels. in the void

the actual weather: rather windy!

In the interest of having an easy time with posting, i've made a little format to help me know what to post and such. Feel free to use this format or a modified form! feel free to ask for clarification on any of the categories! feel free to comment anything at all!!

fannish thought: i think a nice fic could be made using the changing of seasons as a motif or symbol. Something about change, about decay necessary for growth.

what i'm creating: Some fingerless gloves! Made the first one in about a day, and of course am more than a day into the second one and maybe an 8th of the way through. That's how it goes

i accomplished this! I received my grades from my most recent exam week this week, an 8.2 and a 7. The 8.2 for a subject called maatschappijwetenschappen , which i think is sort of a social sciences sort of thing in english. The grades are 1-10, and 5.5 is passing, 6 is alright, 7 is pretty good, 8 is definitely good, 9 is woah (adding because cultural contexts with regards to grades is sometimes very diffrent. i've spoken to americans who are unhappy with a 70% score, that's basically failing to them at their school, which is very different here).
My 7 was for Dutch, and i'm actually happier with it than i am with my 8.2, because it was spelling and grammar , i have dyslexia and i was very worried i would not get the 70% correct needed for a passing grade. I got way more!!

something i want: I want to make my dnd folder all nice. I got some new stuff for it recently and i really want to make it all nice and updated and good. But that involves wrestling the printer among other things, and that is... difficult.

and now, the weather: autumn's here, and what was green is gold and withered / autumn's here, the summer's at an end / i thought somehow it didn't last forever / i thought i held forever in my hand

the actual weather: rainy!

my most recent image:

this image i saved to show to other yarn crafters to convince them to get on dreamwidth