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I actually posted a fair bit over the last week. I was trying to distract myself from lingering health related worries, I think. But that means there was no stuff to round up on Monday. However:
I haven’t done much reading with my eyes lately, which I think is probably because my prescription really needs updating. I didn’t know how much hanging around I was expected to do in the hospital today and I knew I’d miss my name being called in various waiting rooms if I took my headphones for an audiobook so I decided to try to actually read and maybe turn the font size up if I had to.
I forgot that I’d grabbed a load of kobo books on Plus months and months ago, back when I hadn’t given up on eye-reading yet, so looking through the library was interesting! I was confused for a while because why on earth was the majority various kinds of horror, when I, a self proclaimed Baby, in theory am the person reading this content.
Eventually I remembered that It was because I decided to play an eldritch horror/dark academia journalling game and realised that I write romance and am very shaky on how to make things feel… eerie. It was homework! Giving me nightmares was supposed to be a positive outcome! Wahey!
I had made a start on The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White and I remember it containing some viscerally disgusting body horror which was the point of the recommendation given to me via a series of Pinterest Aesthetic posts (the best way to get book recommendations, obviously). I also started the audiobook of Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher and enjoyed the chapters establishing the setting and characters and then when scary doors in walls and dead bodies and the general sense of Approaching Peril began, decided I would not listen to it when it was dark. It was getting dark quite early at the time so that put paid to it.
I will get back to those because I want to get back to my game with the proper frame of mind. I wrote 13k words to set up the characters and the revelation of their powers and the invitation to the mysterious and unsettling Blackfoot Acdemy… And that was that.
I haven’t done much reading with my eyes lately, which I think is probably because my prescription really needs updating. I didn’t know how much hanging around I was expected to do in the hospital today and I knew I’d miss my name being called in various waiting rooms if I took my headphones for an audiobook so I decided to try to actually read and maybe turn the font size up if I had to.
I forgot that I’d grabbed a load of kobo books on Plus months and months ago, back when I hadn’t given up on eye-reading yet, so looking through the library was interesting! I was confused for a while because why on earth was the majority various kinds of horror, when I, a self proclaimed Baby, in theory am the person reading this content.
Eventually I remembered that It was because I decided to play an eldritch horror/dark academia journalling game and realised that I write romance and am very shaky on how to make things feel… eerie. It was homework! Giving me nightmares was supposed to be a positive outcome! Wahey!
I had made a start on The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White and I remember it containing some viscerally disgusting body horror which was the point of the recommendation given to me via a series of Pinterest Aesthetic posts (the best way to get book recommendations, obviously). I also started the audiobook of Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher and enjoyed the chapters establishing the setting and characters and then when scary doors in walls and dead bodies and the general sense of Approaching Peril began, decided I would not listen to it when it was dark. It was getting dark quite early at the time so that put paid to it.
I will get back to those because I want to get back to my game with the proper frame of mind. I wrote 13k words to set up the characters and the revelation of their powers and the invitation to the mysterious and unsettling Blackfoot Acdemy… And that was that.
