🍂 aderyn 🪶

Too good tbh

Only allowing fans access to an album as an album behind a paywall of… wait… buying hair dye??? Is a supremely Hayley Williams thing to do

absolute joy

A round stoneware pie dish with a golden cherries clafoutis baked in it full of big round dark red cherries

It’s another Clafoutis! This time we baked one together 😋 @strongbadam.bsky.social

My brain is Nightreign rotted

Yeah distilling her entire philosophy down to that always rubbed me the wrong way in life is strange! She didn’t really write much which to me says she wanted to present her art at face value and let people get what they would from it - good and bad.

At the very least she humanized people like us

No I find anything else detracts from the yummy custard and cherries! Some people add like whipped cream or crème fraiche but I just like it as is 😋

Two small le cruset dishes with pretty looking clafoutis with big round red cherries

I will still bake my clafoutis dammit

The cruel thing about summer is it being both clafoutis season and it being 30C indoors

drawing of a unicorn stood upright in sports clothes with pink to blue gradient hair

mascot for the 2026 commonwealth games in glasgow is a bisexual unicorn with a traffic cone for a horn

Anyway, I can say I completed Nightreign while having covid for the 5th time I guess 😂

If nothing else that’s a marker that Covid is getting less severe because no way I could have done that 2 infections ago…

It’s about as bad as the flu for me now, which is STILL BAD so

And all the SYSTEMS you know what it’s just so good what they achieved on the backbone of Elden Ring no matter the criticism some are levying at them.

And, let’s be real From really don’t have the strongest UX approaches but for all the lack of obvious UX what is there is in the systems themselves

I got salty a couple times that I was forced into really challenging solo fights to get the story and special outfits but you know what? It works!!

I ended up having SO much fun learning to play in ways I’ve always struggled with (super heavy/slow weapons, slow rolls, squishy mage, parrying)

Probably one of the coolest things aside from all the rogue like elements of the runs is the way the story is delivered so that if you want all the story you have to engage with / master each class (Nightfarer). It’s such a cool way to use rewards to encourage mastery outside of your comfort zone

Elden Ring Nightreign is so much my jam in every way.

I platinummed it last weekend and I just completed all the lore/story quests (remembrances) for every character. I’ve been on teams that have beaten every boss including the everdark sovereign upgrades (except one 🥲) and it’s just SO good!!

I think Odin might have it again tbh 😭 he’s been sick the past few days too ):

I have covid for the 5th time…….

Just fuck this shit. Every day there’s people logging onto social media, Reddit etc. going “nasty summer cold/flu this year!” and then just walking around without testing

I’m supposed to have surgery in October… I can’t afford to get long covid again 😞

ADHD is making a post you say you’re going to delete and then remembering you did that 18 days later

A black tactical outfitted cybertruck with branding for mysavepoint.com with QR codes and taglines protect your likeness with AI and monetize and control your likeness with AI

lmaooooooo

Sword cutting through darkness with trans flag colored flames. Text: "Our joy is a sword"

Doing a thing for a Pride thing

and it's not like trans youth are without agency or strength

everywhere, I see young trans people building new ideas of who they are, resisting cis-normativity, fighting for their own rights

the least we can do as adults is match their resolve and courage

we need to fight for trans youth on every front

through the courts and legislation, by supplying hormones directly, by dispelling the idea of "passing", by showing the rich and valued lives of those who transitioned post-puberty, by celebrating transness

we need to help them survive no matter what

Right after I took that last photo I dropped my book and bent the cover… glad I have a nice hard back version at home lmao

A Washington State Department of Transport engine pulled up at a station platform

Amtrak Cascades engine

An Amtrak Cascades train car in the station. It’s silver and blue and there’s a cloudy sky above with someone climbing aboard

Legs in grey skinny jeans sat in a train car seat with a hand holding a Haruki Murakami book and a zojirushi travel mug

On the Amtrak Cascades for the first time in years and I’m SO EXCITED for some good old fashioned comfy train reading time

Thanks Jason!

Testosterone is so powerful…

out here offering to move a 20kg bag of rice for an older lady and before I have time to think about if I’ve made a huge mistake I’m lifting it and done moving it for her like it’s literally nothing

Anyway there’s a lot to be excited about too… I’ll probably have the energy and time to play exactly 3 of these games over the next 2 years 😅

I personally think there’s not much wrong with taking direct inspiration and making a new mashup to create some brand new fun but… at least be self aware and not crap on other people’s work while on a world stage? So cringe.

Splitgate 2 which I’m sure you’re aware is basically a mashup of several of the most popular first person games so the whole thing was deeply ironic in a very oblivious way. The way he said it was probably one of the most toxic things I’ve personally witnessed on a gaming event stage from a dev

Powerful