For better or worse, I’m having to take a weekend off. Not my best idea with a report due at uni soon, but I’ve hit a mental breaking point. And, for better or worse, attempting Jevil over and over again this afternoon has kept me distracted and occupied. I’ll get him tomorrow, maybe.

"Your body is a temple" or smth like that #fe3h #fireemblem #byleth #sothis

Some cross stitch progress from the last few weeks! Nice to make a little progress on the LttP dark world map from time to time! #CrossStitch

With my current all consuming interest in exploring video games as a medium for telling narratives that only video games can tell, and my need for something I can jump in and out of while tired in the evenings, I’ve decided it’s finally time for me to try Deltarune.

Had a woman cry on me at work today. From a different department, quite literally did not know her name until like 30 seconds after she’d clung to me and wept. I wish, deeply, deeply wish, people showed each other more kindness. Just an in person check in, a hey, how’re you doing?

I’ll be the first to admit I haven’t played much of stardew’s 1.6 update, but what do you mean you can put mushrooms in preserves jars????? I knew about the dehydrator, but even my mum, who’s gotten perfection multiple times, had no idea!!!

Think Octopath 0 is going to have to wait until next holiday at Easter now. I’m so tired of just being in work, uni, low energy hobby (cross stitch) mode, but I’m also so genuinely exhausted from just surviving everything on a micro to global level. I’m tired. I’m so tired. But such it is.

[ #paranormasight ] 🐢🐢🐢🐢

what do you think they're showing him 🤔 #FireEmblem #FrederickFriday

God, it’s been such a nightmare work week I forgot about Pokémon day. I’m glad Missle Ghost Trick is now a Pokemon. Good for him

MAN #pokemon30

I’ve started putting bird videos on for the cats from time to time. Lola is absolutely enthralled. Her programme is on.

Master of Power banner complete! I might not have a lot of time to play, but I can at least stitch while watching my uni tutorials! #CrossStitch #OctopathTraveler

My favourite thing about Paranormasight is its ability to write surprisingly rich, relatable female characters who pride themselves on being housewives alongside men that can’t be called himbos because they are intelligent/astute, but boy, do they want to be himbos real bad.

Rehoming the elderly chickens today. They’re 5 & 6 years old, so they probably don’t have long left, so it’s nice to know they’ll go live their last few seasons on a literal free range farm. Will miss them, the 4 am wake ups in the summer less so.

Paranormasight mermaid curse complete! Very good, stronger mystery than the first and I really really enjoyed the core motive. However, as someone who worked out the obtuse true ending of 1 without a guide, and knew what I needed to do for this true ending, actually getting it was really stupid.

I wish eshop games released before 2pm. That’s a long time to wait for Paranormasight, my sudden and all consuming new obsession.

Finally put my cross stitch patches on my fleece!! I’ve now realised just how much space there is left to cover… I’ll keep stitching patches to fill it all! #CrossStitch

So I’ve been rereading Travel On, the big OT fanfic I wrote 6 - 8 years ago, to remind myself what is fact from personal fiction while playing through 0, and I’ve just noticed that it’s picked up 3 new favourites since the start of the year??? Where and why???

I’ll post pictures in better light tomorrow, but I’ve finally put my cross stitch patches onto my fleece!!

you should write because you love your story so much that it's all you can think about, and you should also get so pissed off at a video game that it makes you write a novel

AAAAHHHHH!! I have finally, finally finished the assessment from hell!!!! Easily the worst assessment I’ve ever submitted, but oh well. It’s done. It’s in on time. And now I can enjoy 2.5 days of rest, off from work and uni, until I have to think about it again on Friday…

Illustration print for Sam Slade, voice of Stia from #octopathtraveler0!! We're rebuilding Wishvale with this one✨

Week of work time! Need to finish an assessment, which I’m hoping will take until Tuesday at the latest, then with I can hopefully, finally get back into Octopath 0! Or maybe I’ll pick up mermaid’s curse on Thursday and lose the back half of the week to that…

#olberusweek Day 3 - Domestic Picking daisies 🌼

Russell is coming along well now! #CrossStitchWIP

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I will also get back to Octopath soon. I promise. I literally just met Lavina before stepping away to play Paranormasight, so with her and Bargello on screen together, I once again experience bisexual panic.

I finished Paranormasight! Very glad to have taken that little detour, a fascinating mystery game clearly made by a dedicated team who love the genre. It was something I’ve always been on the look out for: a modern mystery game inspired by the DS/2000s era classics. I have! Many thoughts!:

It’s been a long time since I played a mystery game that really took advantage of its hardware/ the fact that it’s a game. It was so common in the DS era and then just disappeared. Paranormasight definitely feels like a love letter to DS era mysteries, I’m very much enjoying it.

kiss from a rose #claurenz #fe3h

On the one hand, I feel like I’ve finally hit a critical point with OT0 where I’m clicking with the story/characters and really want to see where it’s going. On the other hand, Paranormasight is £4, 12 hours long, and I want to be scared shitless by something other than my upcoming uni assignment…

Some more Russell progress! Starting to get the feel for these colours now!

Man, how did paranormasight miss me the first time? Definitely my cup of tea, I guess I was just turned off by the horror. Now that I know I can handle and enjoy it, I might have to give it another look.

I’d expected OT0 to inspire me to stitch (although only one boss sprite has really piqued my interest yet). I’d even somewhat expected it to make me want to write fanfic again (though I doubt I will, certainly not yet). What I hadn’t expected was for it to reopen my can of CyTheri brain worms.

雪だるま作ろ！

OT0 Master of All storyline complete!! Honestly, so glad that’s done. I didn’t really care for the story, but the characters were great and I loved the music choices in the big boss battle. Glad to move on though. Especially having caught spoiler glimpses of what’s to come and liking what I see…

God this week at work has been absolutely shit. I’m so glad it’s over and also deeply wish I could spend the entire weekend in bed. Unfortunately, uni awaits…

Some new patches for my fleece! Fun to compare these two new ones (left) to my first cross stitch chart ever, made over 12 years ago (right). So many years of loving ghost trick. #CrossStitch #GhostTrick

Took a bit, but I finally finished up my second embroidery project! #FFXIV #FinalFantasyXIV #CrystalTower #Shadowbringers

I’m so exhausted by the absurdity of waking up and doing my laundry, my grocery shopping, four to five hours of uni, all while people are dying in the streets just for trying to live, to have a little compassion and empathy for others.

Started work on Russell during the evenings this week. Since his palette is used for all of Cyrus’ bosses and will be helpful for several others, I want to make sure it’s right. So far, not sure… #CrossStitch

Kindlers of the flame storylines complete! I truly, truly loved that. It has broken and healed parts of me in equal measure.

Work is a complete nightmare at the moment and I’m so wiped at the end. It sucks, because I really want to jump into ot0 properly but I’m too shattered on week days and busy with uni on the weekends. Hopefully something lets up soon

Convinced my mum to play 999 because I know she’d love the themes and pseudoscience. What I failed to consider is she’s a huge himbo fan, and clocked sigma on the nonary games download page immediately.

Coo coo

Recently finished this betta fish cross stitch that I’ve been working on off-and-on for the last 11-ish months! 😁🩵 I looove how many different colors I got to use for this project, 25 total!! 🌈🐟🪡 The stitching is approx. 7.5” x 7.5”, with many hours of work put into it. 🩵