I noticed I’m on course for me logging 1,000 unique drinks on Untappd by the end of the year. It’ll have “only” taken me well over seven years if I make it, haha

P i p p i n

Pippin had a bit of a strange look this morning, which tickled me

It’s been a weird few weeks with a lot of reflection and thinking about the past. We saw a video last week that had footage of a 1990’s video game store (I think the games department of a Virgin Megastore?) and there was a Tails plush on the till… (1/2)

I played a few games of Overwatch yesterday after not playing it for well over a month. I didn’t enjoy it. I actually felt a bit frustrated and above all else… bored. It was a weird feeling (and one I wasn’t expecting) but also… kind of nice? Maybe now I can focus more on single player games again

In other “nostalgia posts I want to make whilst I’m not feeling numb” I also finished the Exhumed remake a few days ago and thought it was excellent. Overall I felt like it has held up really well (much better than a lot of shooters from the era) in a lot of ways and enjoyed my time with it a lot

I recently rediscovered 凛として時雨 (Ling Tosite Sigure) and it’s been nice listening to their discography again. I probably haven’t heard them in a decade, if not longer, so seeing what they’ve been up to (and revisiting older releases) has been a pretty enjoyable experience

Liquid Glass is a pretty pointless change. This amount of transparency and floating design elements felt dated years ago, nevermind in 2025. I’m glad Apple has dropped this update now when I’m feeling numb, otherwise I’d probably be having a full on meltdown over it, heh

For fun, I made this for a Fat Bear Week poster contest that said I had through the 9th to upload it... but failed to say that uploads got cut off at 6:00 pm... so... I missed the deadline by three hours. So I'm posting it here! Happy early Fat Bear Week!

Thank you to everyone who reached out either on here or on Telegram. I’ll reply to people individually when I can actually think straight and aren’t feeling quite as overwhelmed with /everything/ but I just wanted to say that I’ve read every message and really, really appreciate every one of you

So, it happened… my dad died a couple of weeks ago. Me & Haydo couldn’t shake the feeling that it was probably going to happen at some point over the next year, considering how often he’d been in hospital, but it has still (expectedly) hit me extremely hard and the void left is huge

Showing off those bear shaped goods! 🐻🐾🐾 We'll be taking bids on this lass until Monday! Join our telegram channel if you're interested for more info! t.me/MidnightMkrs #furry #fursuit #fursuit4sale #fursuitmaker

More bears! The realistic kind again. I’ve been enjoying figuring out shading in solid blocks, like the two on the bottom right. I draw a quick line first to mark the edge of the shadow and then fill it in (it's surprising how much better it looks with that line). #Doodles 🧵 10/?

I’ve started the remake of Exhumed (aka Powerslave) after finding myself thinking about getting it for the Sega Saturn as a tween. I mean… we’re getting closer to September and lots of thinking about the past seems to happen for me around now every year so…? *shrugs* I guess I’ll embrace it

Massive thread of doodles incoming! I’ll be posting one set a day—I have so many, and I wanna keep them neatly organized. These were all done for the signed Noss Saga hardcovers. First up, of course, BEARS 🐻 #Doodles 🧵 1/?

It’s the year of 1998 and you’ve successfully fished one mark out of your piggy bank. Tough decisions are to be made.

I blasted through the first Coffee Talk game today and enjoyed it quite a bit for what it is. I’m probably gonna go straight into the second one and play them back to back as they’re chill, laid back and exactly what I wanna play right now

I’m tempted to get the Heretic/Hexen remaster but I’m not sure if I handle another 90s FPS so soon after finishing Rise of the Triad, heh. I do have extremely fond memories of them both but it could end up taking me months to work through!

Oh no, I accidentally bears. #Doodles

I finished the Robocop expansion this afternoon. I’m not really sure how I feel about it overall as in a lot of ways it’s much tighter than the base game but at the same time it just feels like more of the same? I enjoyed myself quite a bit either way

Why do so many things in life feel so difficult? (and often needlessly so?) I feel really tired from it all but can only keep plodding along and pushing forward and keep telling myself it’ll all work out in the end

I dream of going back to the late 90s/early 00s incarnation of the Internet. It felt genuinely exciting to use and was a meaningful improvement to my life. Now? It just feels like an ordeal that’s only going to become even more frustrating and intrusive to use

No cheating. Post the last pic of your pet Pippin bored out of her mind whilst we were watching The Shawshank Redemption

I’ve been listening to a lot of Inspiral Carpets again recently. I’ve come to the conclusion that Revenge of the Goldfish is actually my favourite album, not Life. It’s a shame it (#17) and the singles from it didn’t chart any higher… it’s really good!

The staff network at work has been “updated and upgraded” and now it barely works and veeeeeery slowly loads in every picture on any site/app you’re using. What a fantastic thing that makes work even more joyless

I’ve been chipping away at the Rise of the Triad remake for a while now and finally finished it this morning. I loved it back in the late nineties but man… while it’s been a nice trip down memory lane it has also felt like an endurance test at times, haha

Oh no, the Wolverhampton Summer CAMRA beer festival mascot is pretty cute (advertising I’m actually interested in for once, wtf)

What a sweet looking face (shame she has the potential to be a knob seconds later, haha)

It’s cheesy but I love @haydo.bsky.social so much and honestly don’t know what I’d do without them

So that’s another stock count done at work. I hate them (and that I’m really efficient at them) but at least I have a whole year to kid myself that I won’t be there for the next one now

“Excellent” Why do I feel so tired then *flops*

I know I keep posting about the dog a lot recently but Haydo took this photo where we look we’re about to drop the hardest album of 2025 and I kind of love it

Happy Borkday @moofy.dog :D 🎂

Love these two more than life itself, even if one is extremely antisocial and pees on the carpet (and the other one is a Dachshund 😂 jk..) ❤️

Rat x2

Wishing @moofy.dog a big Happy Birthday 🥳 (Reusing old art as not shared it on bsky before and we blew the birthday budget on a temu order, sorry not sorry) 🎉🎉 🎨 @dourbledoodles.bsky.social

I found out last night that my dad has had a heart attack (his second, his first was almost 15 years ago) and it’s rapidly becoming apparent I probably can’t just keep turning inward and going numb whenever something traumatic happens (but damn will I still try)

It has been a long weekend for Pippin

It’s just me and the doggo whilst Haydo is away on a work trip… and although she’s a lot calmer than last time she’s still glued to me and a little grumpy about it just being the two of us, haha

Why is everything so difficult at the moment

I’m wearing jeans for the first time in weeks (it’s been warm enough for shorts for ages) and it just feels wrong

I've been quiet about this since we brought her home, as despite her chill approach to beer gardens, we're struggling a bit with separation anxiety.. but it’s #NationalRescueDogDay so everyone meet Pippin, our rescue sausage! 🐾 Feat. many pics of her on @horoburr.bsky.social 's lap at various pubs

All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies #art ✧ #watershipdown ✧ #transrights ✧ #rabbit

If you see this I IMPLORE you to post a picture from whatever device you’re using without explanation

I’ve felt the odd pang of “I wish we were going for a day” but generally I’m honestly pretty relieved we’re not doing Confuzzled this year. Life has been hard for quite a while on and off and I just don’t think I could cope with going at the moment…

It’s always great and heartening to see one of these stickers out in wild. Shrewsbury, The Parade

I feel like my dad is (very slowly) getting worse when it comes to his health and that something bad happening is just around the corner. I guess all we can do is see?

I heard two different owls hooting whilst in bed last night and this made me very happy… maybe we live in some kind of owl hotspot, haha

I really don’t think Stadium is going to be my kind of thing. It feels even more streaky/snowball-y than the main game mode(s) and that’s going to ruin any fun I carve out for myself messing around with making “broken” builds. I guess we’ll see but first impressions are very eh for me, sadly

The Oliver & Company soundtrack has made it onto the wall of framed album art for @haydo.bsky.social 👌