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I’m so severely behind on getting ESO posts done that I’m giving myself another round of amnesty, and am going to get some posts up that are just high-level summaries of stuff that interested me across spans of play.

So here’s a post to summarize stuff with Gyllerah from April through June of 2024.

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I am very pleased to announce here that I’ve joined the team for Tuxborn, the Skyrim modpack, as a contributor! This is the result of my presence on the Tuxborn Discord channels and the assistance I’ve been giving other players there.

My contributions to the Tuxborn team will be focused on tracking useful information for other players to help them in their playthroughs, such as what followers are available in the modpack, what player homes, what armor and weapons, and such. And also, how to launch various important quests such as Legacy of the Dragonborn, Wyrmstooth, and others.

I will be contributing material on Tuxborn’s wiki, now live on its Github here:

https://github.com/Omni-guides/Tuxborn/wiki

I’m also assisting the Tuxborn devs with playtesting, since I own an OLED Steam Deck. Tuxborn is specifically intended to be performance-friendly to Steam Decks in particular, although it is definitely not limited to that device, and can be enjoyed on PCs and other handhelds as well, such as the ROG Ally.

Because of this, I’ll be giving Tuxborn a bit more visibility on this site moving forward! Look for a new page focused on Tuxborn to go live here very soon.

And, sneak preview: Tuxborn’s official final release version is very, very close to going live. So I’ll be announcing here as well when it does!

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cupcake_goth

- Tuesday involved me getting up earlier than usual because I had to go to the office for an in-person working session on the thing I presented last week. We got a lot done and have a plan, yay. I also learned a non-work thing: I am WAY more sensitive to garlic than I thought, especially if it's uncooked. I felt inflammation coming on as I was heading back home in the evening, and woke up on Wednesday feeling AWFUL. When do I get the good side effects of being a vampire? When?

- I am, as usual, doing a lot of window shopping. This pink hat with black bats and moons calls to me, of course, but then I decided I could DIY something even more suited to me. Thanks to AliExpress, I have a pink hat with an even wider brim and a bunch of black lace bat appliques. This coming weekend will involve painting the hat with a darker pink alcohol dye, then attaching the appliques. And maybe wide ribbons (attached to the inside of the crown) so I can tie it on if I want.

- I'm also coveting this sterling silver choker with a giant quartz centerpiece, but it's out of my price range. But it's so pretty!

- I'm thinking of taking a day off from work and persuading the Stroppy One we should go to the zoo. The things that are giving me pause are 1) the Stroppy One is about to start deadline work, and 2) the local zoo is very hilly, and will be challenging for me. (There's a part of me that thinks making the trek to Seattle to go to Woodland Park may be a better idea, especially since I could go visit my beloved red pandas. Our local zoo doesn't have red pandas.)

- All in all, things are meh around here, but I'm trying to find things that make me happy. I hope you peeps are also finding things that bring you joy.

tei

Hello... looking around... tidying up the place for visitors... apparently tumblr staff is down to ~25 people after this and is already starting to have bad outages, so you know

I am mainly on fedi these days but do need a place for longposting... also comms comms are so good...

kronette

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cupcake_goth

- The work presentation that I was working on last week that caused me so much anxiety and stress ended up going really well, and my team has approval to move forward with a dream project. Tomorrow is a big in-office working session about the project with some other stakeholders and my writer who will be driving this, which means I need to trek into Seattle. I'm not thrilled about that part, but there are some people I'm especially looking forward to catching up with.

- Because of all of this last week, I ended up having a two and a half day seesawing panic attack, which I'm still recovering from. I couldn't do my usual way of recovering from such a thing, sleeping for an extended period, because I had social obligations. WHICH WERE AWESOME, but I'm still feeling the aftereffects of last week. In other words, I want to go be a sloth on the couch and then sleep in.

- I saw my big brother this weekend and got a tarot reading. Nothing like having the powers that be drop anvils on my head that I need to stop listening to the Brain Raccoons. Thanks. Yes, I constantly need the reminder, but DAMN.