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Jun. 13th, 2025 09:06 pmI haven't been able to write as much as I want this last half month. :( The first ten days was a bit biting my nails related to my work life, but that's more or less worked out for now. The rest of the time not consumed by that, there just been something happening most days-- 'tis the season that is June as everyone is either graduating, marrying, or moving. I've managed to at least keep this weekend open so I can at least try to not have my time full.
Video game wise: I caved and bought Balatro, and it's a new favorite rouge-like and time killer. I was at least smart and only got it on the switch. If I I followed my friend's bad suggestion and get it on my phone, there's no way I'd be able to actually function lmao
Reading wise: I picked up a few books from a thrift shop to spoil myself, and one of them that I picked up was The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie. It's a very fun and weird book that plays fast and loose with magical realism. One moment we have man mysteriously falling ill from a curse (but turns out he was drugged with extra strong laudnum) and the next, an emperor dreams a girl to life so hard, she's becomes real. While most of the main characters are men so far, Rushdie goes out of his way to give us some POV characters from women--namely the emperor's wives being frustrated that the "perfect dream woman" is just pieces of them patched together, the perfect dream woman having her own thoughts and wants, and--the most surprising given this book was from 2008--a sex worker being apologetically a sex worker. Even the narrator more or less spells out "sex work is real work and shouldn't be looked down on." I just think that's neat! I'm about a hundred pages into it, but have yet to officially meet the titular enchantress, though I have thoughts.
Other things I've picked up are a couple of second hand D&D books, namely the Descent into Avernus and a source book for the Sword Coast. I've poked my nose into Descent, and boy, my brain is having some fun with a lot of what-ifs, especially with how BG3 is suggests it goes.
Video game wise: I caved and bought Balatro, and it's a new favorite rouge-like and time killer. I was at least smart and only got it on the switch. If I I followed my friend's bad suggestion and get it on my phone, there's no way I'd be able to actually function lmao
Reading wise: I picked up a few books from a thrift shop to spoil myself, and one of them that I picked up was The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie. It's a very fun and weird book that plays fast and loose with magical realism. One moment we have man mysteriously falling ill from a curse (but turns out he was drugged with extra strong laudnum) and the next, an emperor dreams a girl to life so hard, she's becomes real. While most of the main characters are men so far, Rushdie goes out of his way to give us some POV characters from women--namely the emperor's wives being frustrated that the "perfect dream woman" is just pieces of them patched together, the perfect dream woman having her own thoughts and wants, and--the most surprising given this book was from 2008--a sex worker being apologetically a sex worker. Even the narrator more or less spells out "sex work is real work and shouldn't be looked down on." I just think that's neat! I'm about a hundred pages into it, but have yet to officially meet the titular enchantress, though I have thoughts.
Other things I've picked up are a couple of second hand D&D books, namely the Descent into Avernus and a source book for the Sword Coast. I've poked my nose into Descent, and boy, my brain is having some fun with a lot of what-ifs, especially with how BG3 is suggests it goes.
