Travel stress does something to my brain that makes it susceptible to ear worms for 24 hours before take off. This time it’s beez in the trap, beez beez in the trap.

Went to my yearly checkup, got a clean bill of health, promptly tripped and ate shit on the concrete outside my doctor’s office.

You’re all wonderful l and I swear this isn’t a subskweet about any of you, but sometimes I feel so unseen by certain people close to me that it makes my heart hurt.

I think even the most steadfast Terfling loyalists are done pretending the Cormoran Strike novels are worth reading. They’re just dreadful.

My moon cat boy showing off his new glam in Limsa Lominsa. #FFXIV

PODCAST POWER.

Hey if you’re feeling down come join us in five minutes. We’ll yell at gay crocodiles and I’ll sing some Protomen.

Looks like I picked the wrong year to cut back on smoking weed.

Super cool day to be a comparatively tiny resource-rich country that this man has expressed interest in owning again and again. :D

Hey kids, the reason you’ll never make serious money doing art is because most of the people with the money to actually PAY for art refuse to move beyond a kindergartner’s appreciation for the craft.

bruh

Fuck yeah let’s get this year START-EEEEED!!!!! 🎉🎉 [Quietly attends subsequent appointments for an ultrasound and COVID/flu shots]

[Drinks drain cleaner] “MAAAAARVELOUS!” #octopathtraveler0

ayo I started a song-by-song review of Act III that I swear I'll finish by the time I fuck off to Magfest. And then I'll update the review after Magfest, because [REASONS]. New year, same fixations. #Protomen

Something I’m proud of: I went through “From Pixels to Prose: What Video Games Taught Me About Story Writing” (my upcoming book, remember? :D) with the help of @retrogamebooks.com and *really* gave it a thorough scrub, editing-wise. I’m old and arrogant but I will never be complacent, dammit!

HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM TORONTO AKA THE CENTRE OF THE UNIVERSE AND THEREFORE THE ONLY NEW YEAR THAT MATTERS!!!!

Facebook's #FFXIV community stays winning.

"These edibles ain't shit" I said ten minutes before losing control at the Smiling Friends' babysitting scene. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfU4...

Hello! I see I have a lot of new followers! Golly, that's exciting. I know it's a little indulgent, but why not get to know me through my favourite personal shitposts of 2025? So, I'm from Toronto, which is kind of like this: bsky.app/profile/nadi...

sometimes an idea won't leave your head

This is a real Debbie Downer take, but I think I lack any excitement for the next wave of MCU because I kind of don’t care about superheroes’ pre-teen kids, especially the precocious “I wuv yoo daddy” 5- to- 12-year-olds. Call me when the “I HATE YOU DAD” teen tantrums start doing property damage.

I made a typo when I wrote “Sweet Baby Ray’s” on the shopping list. I started to change it and said “wait, why?”

Still time to grab "Quartet" 20% off on the Winter Sale! #QuartetRPG #indiedev

I shrieked a tiny bit when this gem popped up. “I was a failed playwright, forced to travel with a circus just to survive! So I—" Me: “Let me guess. He sold his soul to the Devil—oh shit, hahahahah” Octopath Traveler remains the king of modern turn-based RPGs, cowards!

I call this time of year “the grundle.”

Me on my way to have a chat with the higher-ups who demand writers slip “Clair Obscur” into every headline because these people have dog shit where their hearts and brains should be:

hello I’m Mr Frog and I approve of this message. actually no I don’t. Fuck you. (Wait come back! I can’t help myself! I have a problem! The doctors weighed me and everything. I have a piece of paper.)

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If you have a basement in Toronto, great news, it's about to become an inground pool!

Made in Abyss seems like it's exactly my kind of shit, but seeing horrific things happen to characters who look like "Precious Moments" china figurines is really weird.

Anyone who thinks Canada and the US are basically the same country should be subjected to the fucking nightmare that is trying to deposit a personal US cheque into a Canadian account.

A few years ago I wrote this arrangement of “The Measure of His Reach” from Stormblood as a way of exploring its post-colonial themes to through an Indian lens. Not a lot of FFXIV music out there that is not pure cover or closely hewn; hope this inspires arrangers to explore a bit more.

I would rather experience ten more instances of getting my first period in the middle of gym class than go through perimenopause ever again. Holy macaroni. But my time might be up! Calling it in March just to be sure. ⏱️🏃‍♀️

I remember the Toronto Star’s review of this movie was basically “Uh, this is really good actually and it’s weird it was sent out to die on Boxing Day in a handful of shoebox theatres.” WB gonna WB.

“THIS CANNOT BE THE OOOONLY WAY—"

I almost always play a male character in RPGs and such. It just always feels right; playing as a woman bores me. I’m a woman 24/7, dammit! And then I realized “oh shit, I think I’m genderqueer.”

Some day I’m gonna interview Takahashi again and oh boy am I gonna have new questions.

“MMMErrRrrrRY ChRistMaaAAsSS, HAAAHAHAHAH!!!!” Remember the reason for the season: our Lords and Saviours Mega Man X and Zero were crucified by Bit for our sins. mangadex.org/chapter/c05e...

I fear The Grinch has become to Millennials what A Christmas Story is to Boomers.

MORTIS. ✝️💀

If you’re a fan of my boy Kai Shirr and his “brothel turned family fun land” project, I am a fan of *you.*

I haven’t decorated our wee tree, nor have I finished Christmas shopping or preparing my gifts. The husband got walloped badly by flu and/or COVID, and that’s on top of a whole-ass Hanukkah massacre that muted the celebrations over here. I’m just feeling the gloomies.

Jesus. What a loss. We’re always so close to our own end all the time.

“SAN DEMIS HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL RULES”

Me earlier this week: “I should start watching Smiling Friends.” Me now, to the cat: “Hello, Toothless. I was wondering if you’d like to shmoke some weed while we fill our bellies with diet shoda and play Final Fantashy XIV for the PlayShtation 5.”

I put my dudes on a shelf. Picking up sculpting is one of the best things I did this year. 👍

search your camera roll for “hell”

It is a perfect summer evening: the moon rising in the orchard, the wind in the grass. And as he stares into the sky, there are twice as many stars as usual. 🐄

I remember a post from someone who brought a teacher to a mostly-male D&D session. She gave out compliments and cheered the players on in a way the men in the group really ate up. Funny how “hug your kids more so they don’t become emotionally starved weirdoes” might be world-saving advice.