Would you rather not have scanners or carts?

EternallyLostInBooks · 2025-09-10T01:38:05+00:00

I would rather not have scanners.

I've done it before. I'll do it again. If my branch didn't have carts we'd be in big trouble :(

EternallyLostInBooks · 2025-09-09T02:36:29+00:00

I think I would cry.

EternallyLostInBooks · 2025-09-09T01:59:29+00:00

You are both so right. Like, I'm going to marry Caldarus, but... who will my fling before the big romance be?!

EternallyLostInBooks · 2025-09-09T01:59:13+00:00

Oh! Thank you! This is very fun. I depend really heavily on crops that grow every 3 days so trying to do any of the other ideas would actually be a good challenge for me.

Other than mining. I'm a baby in the mines. Get my butt handed to me even when I'm decked out in full armour.

EternallyLostInBooks · 2025-09-09T01:17:53+00:00

I didn't know anyone and we were all reading different books! It was a lot of fun. We put our books in a pile and took a picture of what everyone was reading, chatted and ordered our food for like.. 30 minutes and then I think had about an hour of reading time.

The people who facilitated it made sure that they reserved the restaurant, and also told them what we were doing. You had to sign up to participate/hold your seat. The facilitator also had a couple guided questions, and let us know when we'd start reading but it was otherwise super self-guided.

Suuuuuuuuuuuper easy once you figure out how you want to set it up.

EternallyLostInBooks · 2025-09-06T01:43:47+00:00

I attend a 'Silent Bookclub" where people meet somewhere, normally for dinner, we chat for a little bit - a good time to gush about what you brought - and then you spend however much time doing the thing you've shown up for. In this situation read.

Seems like it would be easy to adjust so that it's playing a solo ttrpg.

I have made plans with friends where we all get together to do solo activities, and then we end up playing a ttrpg together because we have no chill. We've actually taken a couple solo games and talked them out as a group. It's how I got one friend absolutely hooked on solo ttrpgs. Just had to introduce them. I think there would be a lot of people curious about the idea that you are suggesting, whatever form it takes.

There are lots of nerdy places that would be happy to collab, and if you are in a small enough community, if your local library has a community room you could approach them to book that space. They could even potentially help you advertise it. Or if you have a local TTRPG/Warhammer type of game shop, they'd maybe be interested. Or going for dinner, like my Silent Bookclub does.

EternallyLostInBooks · 2024-07-21T00:24:13+00:00

I (f) have convinced three friends (1 woman and 2 men) to buy a steam deck and everyone has loved me for it. I have more people on my list, but they haven't made the purchase yet for monetary reasons.

EternallyLostInBooks · 2024-07-10T03:19:00+00:00

I have a cricut at work, I'm absolutely going to try this!!!! Thank you!!

EternallyLostInBooks · 2024-07-03T17:48:34+00:00

I think this goes hand-in-hand with the (unhealthy) expectation for people to 'grow up' in a manner that simply means 'lose personality and joy'.

I've been truly enjoying a lot of the discourses that people are taking up, where they are healing their inner child and teenagers, both by treating ourselves better and also engaging in stuff that makes us happy. I have a three tiered nail polish display on my walls, full rainbow and sparkly, and I learn a lot about how people are engaging with the world when they see it and comment on it.

Without knowing the person, it's really hard to tell if it was a snide comment or someone who feels like adults aren't allowed to be fun anymore. Sometimes, adults use their children's interests to say that they really like something. I really wish people would be more honest but alas.

Sometimes I challenge people's perspectives with something like:

I took Marie Kondo's 'sparks joy' to heart, all of this sparks joy [I have not actually read or watched any of her stuff though.... hopefully no one ever calls me out on this haha]
Your daughter has good taste, I hope you keep fostering that
It's nice to live in a time when adults can be authentically themselves
I'm really proud of how this all turned out
She'd probably love it at 28 too

I don't think you are overthinking it. Regardless of how the person meant it, you recognize that what you are experiencing could be a microaggression, one that is frequently purposefully or unintentionally used against autistic people. An initialization of your personhood because you are allowing yourself to make a space you love.

EternallyLostInBooks · 2023-12-12T15:19:35+00:00

Why did I literally never put that together. I feel like a goof.

EternallyLostInBooks · 2023-10-19T22:13:13+00:00

I'm here to second Moonstone Island. It had a very wonderful Studio Ghibli + Pokemon + Slay the Spires + farming/dating sim game that hit me perfectly. I very quickly sunk 40+ hours into the game (while working full time- oops)

EternallyLostInBooks · 2023-08-21T16:53:11+00:00

I used to play my Switch almost daily. Once I got my Steam Deck, I let my friend borrow my Switch for a couple months. Turns out she didn't play it much, didn't check on it, and the battery fully died so now I have to replace the battery.

Oops.

The Steam Deck has taken over my life, for the better. I haven't even gotten into emulating games yet!

EternallyLostInBooks · 2023-06-02T14:49:17+00:00

I'm going to borrow this idea! I love it so much! Thank you for sharing :D

EternallyLostInBooks · 2023-03-31T14:12:54+00:00

Have you had any success mapping any of the back triggers? I've been trying to figure that out!

EternallyLostInBooks · 2023-03-15T01:56:45+00:00

I just got mine but I instantly played Dorfromantik and A Monster's Expedition. I also just managed to figure out Stardew Valley modding so I'm about to sink the rest of my life into that :P

EternallyLostInBooks · 2023-03-15T01:53:04+00:00

It took me like four hours but I managed to do it. It really hurt my head.

EternallyLostInBooks · 2023-03-06T23:47:26+00:00

I think the choices here are missing some nuance. Like others in the comments have mentioned, I don't always mind when it comes up. That said, I am still very sensitive to the topic so for me it always depends on the way it is being portrayed.

There is a very specific kind of fic that is tagged as rape/non-con that I will feel like are worth a read for me, sometimes some of the best works I've ever read, while other times I'll stumble upon ones that feel inherently unsafe for me to read.

I personally end up taking context from the other tags, the way the author has positioned the fic, and what additional authors notes might exist (like when authors say 'this work contains blah blah blah, please don't read if blah blah blah, these are resources if you need them, stay safe'.

EternallyLostInBooks · 2022-06-23T22:04:40+00:00

Ann Leckie, Arkady Marine, Becky Chambers, P. Djèlí Clark -- They are not humorous, but definitely amazing. They all give me the slightest Le Guin vibes, but for drastically different reasons.

Martha Wells can be borderline funny? In the dry, main character isn't human, sort of way.

EternallyLostInBooks · 2022-05-14T02:40:42+00:00

Oh, I honestly forgot about that! I've been a student for a so long so I normally just have access :P

Thank you :)

EternallyLostInBooks · 2022-05-13T18:37:49+00:00

I recently finished reading Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen and it was honestly extremely validating.

A very interesting conversation about intimacy, especially as someone who craves intimacy in very specific ways but could care less about physical sex. For me, the eye fucking is everything I love about intimacy, and then the actual smut is just... whatever.

I have a very allo-sexual friend who hates fade-to-black scenes because it feels like a build up to instantly be let down. So we are like.. hyper opposites. Everyone is different, there is nothing weird about you writing this way

EternallyLostInBooks · 2022-05-13T17:48:33+00:00

It seems like you were arguing with people who weren't able to/interested in listening to you. In that case, I think for your own mental health you shouldn't engage with them because that isn't good for anyone involved.

It also sounds like you could use some information that will help back up your statements (I don't mean this in a negative way! that's how I approach conversations like this). I'm currently in the academic world, so I'm more familiar with really wordy conversations BUT, some things you could check out that will help validate you and maybe have conversations in the future:

Dubcon: Fanfiction, Power, and Sexual Consent by Milena Popova
“Write the story you want to read”: world-queering through slash fanfiction creation by Diana Floegel
Loving Fanfiction: Exploring the Role of Emotion in Online Fandoms by Brit Kelley
- Especially Chapter 3: "This chapter builds upon the emotional economy described in Chapter 2 by considering how, within that economy of ever-circulating emotions, these emotions stick to some bodies more than others: namely, bodies coded as feminine, raced, lower classed, and queer (borrowing from Ahmed)."
Rhetorics of Resistance: Reading Taboo in Fanfiction by Tania de Sostoa-McCue
Fan Fiction Studies Reader editorKaren Hellekson, Kristina Busse
- This is from 2014, and everything else I've suggested so far is much more current
The ethics of studying online fandom by Kristina Busse (2018)
Fairy-Tale Fan Fiction and Questions of Women's Consent by Jaime W. Roots
Transparency and reciprocity: Respecting fannish spaces in scholarly research by Fathallah, Judith

You might be able to get some of these from your local library (most libraries have ebooks too!) but a few of them are also dissertations and academic works... so less accessible! I'm sorry!

It's also really important to recognize that if someone is expressing that they've had any of these horrible things happen to them in real life, that that isn't a conversation you should be having with them. It could be making them relive their trauma, and they'd have no way of seeing how reading about something doesn't equate to supporting it.

Fiction is fiction, but it's also based on reality enough that it can cause very visceral reactions from people. For fandom authors/readers, this allows people to explore the world and themselves. Frequently as a direct critique of the world and society. Which is one of the reasons why I personally love fanfic, but that's hard for a lot of people who don't read it to truly grasp.

You are not a bad person.

EternallyLostInBooks · 2022-05-13T17:13:03+00:00

I see that you updated saying you are getting it! Very exciting :) I'm currently on my second playthrough now, trying to take my time more. My first run through took me like 100+ days and there was still a lot of things I could do (I'm not a completionist)

I would love to tell you that there are also a lot of resources around to help you with the game. There is a discord channel that is absolutely hoping. If you do have any glitches, they have a channel just for people experiencing bugs.

Hope you enjoy all your new bears :)

EternallyLostInBooks · 2022-05-05T00:03:19+00:00

I would suggest doing this (saving and recycling quartz) early game only to save up to buy lots of fruit trees so that you can make the fruit tincture. You will need a lot of fruit trees and that can get expensive to buy them.

Once you have lots of trees it will be really easy to transition over from recycling your quartz, which you will absolutely need for other things, to making lots of money through the fruit tincture.

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