Oop it's been a while. Time to chat.
Creative goals and my progress!
This month's goals
- Finish putting the media I own in the Jellyfin server.
- The plan is to do this Sunday so I don't have to stop halfway through or leave all my devices on overnight. I cannot sleep when the usb I keep my media on is plugged in and flashing.
- Continue work on Kratu conlang
- Finish implementing the minigame in project.
- Technically done. I'd like to design some specific 'levels' but the key mechanic is technically functioning as intended, it just needs some polish and balancing.
- Implement Questline minigame is made for.
- Made some art for the questline. So. There's that.
- Bugfixing + Playtesting for project
- I need to do this after the questline is done.
- Continue writing VN. Maybe finish writing, if I'm optimistic.
- Continue yes. Finishing was too optimistic.
- Implement Minigames in VN, Art for VN
- Two seperate points, technically. But I have the same progress on both: none. My goal is to write the narrative first and I was optimistic to think I could finish that this month.
Other things I'm not doing:
- Playing lies of P
- Reading the book I planned to read for March-April. I think I need to pick a different book. Perhaps I will try Great Gatsby tonight, it's very short and I found it at a local oxfam bookshop.
- Working on Sweet Alyssum - not actually true I have some sketches of Lucille that I'm happy with finally. But yeah I've moved attention to the Smaller VN so I finish a game in better time.
- Writing set in my conworld. Again, technically I do this. The VN is set in the conworld so technically counts. I'm also generally coming across a problem of there aren't many characters, places or defined time periods in my world yet so I don't have many story ideas as a result. I have hints of ideas based on what I have defined, but when what I'm writing pushes too close to a fuzzy edge (ie. a scene where characters are discussing a very important historical war which... I don't have a year for) I write around the missing pieces rather than filling the space. My hope was that the stories I would write would force me to define those things, but here we are. The worldbuilding will have to be done first.
- The Buffy side character thing. To do this I watch the episode in double speed to find characters. I then watch the parts with the character at 0.1x speed to get decent screenshots which I then resize. All in all an episode takes longer than watching it normally.
Things I'm doing now I guess:
- I made a new website - this one's for a minecraft smp I ran in 2024-2025 and am considering a season 2 for. Here's the link to the website! It's still under construction, but the important points are covered. It would really help me out if you'd complete the poll on the season 2 page. (The second link on the homepage)
- I've been in a few of Fools_Foli's twitch streams of late. As a random voice. You should subscribe to her channel she is very cool. 💛
- So I'm considering rewriting this website using eleventy. 11ty. Whatever it's called. Static site generator. I currently do all this by hand. Which is why my entire site is the way it is. A lot of what I want to do that would be a nightmare, I would be able to do with 11ty.
New goals for the rest of April:
- Start reading a book.
- Finish the questline for that one project.
- Maybe write some more of the VN. We shall see.
- Start going to bed at 11pm rather than midnight.
- Do my duolingo before lunch every day.
Parking
Anyway, here's the chatter you're absolutely not here for!
A few days ago I decided to go to an indoor market. I was going to have lunch there and try to pick up a jar of local honey (I recently used the last of what I had). Parking around there is limited, but not completely awful I don't think? I've never tried to park round there. Maybe it's always terrible. Unfortunately it was limited further by a much larger event happening nearby.
As an aside - What is it with pedestrians at events and walking like a millimetre from the moving cars right where they're moving to and expecting them to stop dead. It's particularly at events. I mean I did stop dead but I have p plates on my car for a reason, and I was becoming increasingly overwhelmed by the events transpiring. We are lucky I did not collide with anyone.
On my third loop of the street, someone with a much larger car than me who had been parked drives off right as I get to them. I finally relax. It's over. I can park and go look around.
And as I'm reversing into their now vacated spot, another car behind me drives forward into it.
This is when I gave up.
I did not go to the market: I went home and cried.
And yet my trials continued that day.
It had been sunny all day, so I decided I still wanted to go out and do something nice. Once I had recovered from my ordeal, I had a new plan.
There's a nice restaurant near my house. So I walked there. Fuck driving. And I had a wonderful meal. Tofu curry, rice, a fried egg.
As I was eating, the hailstorm began. In my bag, I have notebooks, I am wearing a light jacket. I do not want my hair to get wet and stain my nice jacket with the blue dye that was still running.
On the bright side I, thankfully, had my umbrella. Happy ending, I did not ruin my sketchbook, and I made it home for the second time that day unharmed, a bit giggly, and with dry hair.
Then the hailstorm ended.