TeaFC 🏳️‍⚧️

A fresh loaf of banana bread. The bread is still in a glass loaf pan on top of a stove top. The crust is a dark brown with some lighter colors showing through the cracked top of the bread.

It's a banana bread type of day 😋

TeaFC_ - Twitch Re-learning All Secrets | Finally back after surgery!

Did not manage to stream last weekend, but guess what. Now I am :) www.twitch.tv/teafc_

Now that I'm feeling better, DOOM re-learning has been going super well actually. Potentially aiming to stream some learning/runs a bit tomorrow? We'll see though

tanks are you ready 🐏

Day 2. Fermentation is extremely active. Very happy so far, good to see the yeast are thriving in there

A carboy of freshly fermenting mead. The yeast has added a light layer of foam on top, and the color gets gradually darker as it descends. The carboy is sitting on a granite countertop and a red stand mixer can be seen behind the meas

Fermentation day. The hydrometer reading for this batch puts it at a max abv of 20%. The yeast I'm using only has a max of 18% so it likely won't get there but this might be my strongest yet

Bringing the mead to agdq probably

Some mason jars of a caramelized honey. The jars are nearly full of an extremely dark amber liquid with an inch or more of a brown foam on top.

The end result of a very long process. Four mason jars full of some of the tastiest shit I've ever made good damn. Letting it cool tonight and then starting the fermentation tomorrow!

A pot of very slowly cooking honey. The pictures do not give this justice on how it smells. The pot is slightly full of a foamy, dark amber liquid bubbling every so often

Been about a year since my last batch of mead, so time for a new one. Working on caramelizing some honey for a bochet 👀

Jk, still negative but fuck I feel so much worse yesterday/today. I'm thinking this is just a cold since it's basically only in my sinuses but god it has laid me out

Feeling a lil better today. Still no positives for COVID and whatever this is definitely seems pretty mild. I'll take it, generic con crud is better than the alternative

Wuh-oh. Starting to feel pretty icky. All COVID tests I've taken so far have been negative post-SGDQ, so either I'm the best at getting false negatives or there was something else going around too.

There's been one game consistently on my mind since SGDQ and I'm starting to think it might be what I try and really get back into. I've messed around with the new things in the first level so far, and I think I'm getting the hang of things.

Doom 2016 - All Secrets coming soon :)

Finally getting around to playing ULTRAKILL. I was avoiding playing the game during early access because I knew it would be like plugging a dopamine machine directly into my brain.

Oh god I was right, this game fucking rules

I have so much to process after this event. Really going to be a lot of soil searching over the next week or two to make sense of my feelings after this event

No sleep tonight. We had to go directly from the finale to the airport, so to anyone I didn't get to see or say bye to, I'll definitely be there in the winter ready for more.

@fdh.one and I filmed near performance art promos for Nubby, mainly for social media

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camera credit: @derekmk.bsky.social

GDQblues starting even before the marathons over. Sad girl hours rn

It me. My messy, brown hair is long on one side, and growing back out on the close side. I have my gdq badge on and new vault symbol earrings from borderlands on my ears

Some people decided it would be funny to buy me borderlands earrings... Thanks @porkchop44.bsky.social and @zzrules21.bsky.social, love y'all too...

Not sure which games, or what time I'll have to do this, but I'm giving it a shot. Expect big things from me, and I mean it this time. ❤️

This event might really be the first chance I've ever gotten to be myself. Truly myself. And I want to explore that. I *want* to speedrun again. I *want* to get closer to the countless friends I've made over the years. This truly does mean the world to me and I want to give it a shot as the real me.

Every second I've spent in the speedrunning space up until this point has been a second I've spent as a shadow of who I actually am. School, transition, etc. these are all things I've done to learn more about myself and continue exploring life in my own way.

That inspiration I've felt every prior GDQ was always something super short lived over the last few years. In many ways that's been its own feedback loop of adding to the demotivation after it hit. But, I've been doing nothing but growing the last 5 years and learning more and more of who I am

With the {insert drama here} there hasn't really been a home base for me at this event specifically, which in many ways has been refreshing, but I'm also deeply feeling how far away from the community I've drifted and I've been processing that feeling all event.

This event has been my home for a decade now. I've done multiple runs, volunteered, you name it here. Obviously though, since 2020 I've taken some steps back from speedrunning which was honestly so needed for so many reasons. Yet every time I make it to an event I always get so inspired to come back

I've had a ton of thoughts in my head during SGDQ, going to get them out in a bit of a longer thread. I'm enjoying this event but there are just some unique things at this event that are living rent free in my head.

Fit check from last night at Silly Block!
Been really enjoying this event :3

A picture of a treadmill screen. It shows I was able to run a mile after a .10 mile warm up.

First full mile post-op. Kept at a low 9 min pace, meaning I'm only around a minute and a half off my previous pb. We take them gains

Me in a blue dress. The dress is sky blue with lemons all over and a small bow on the front.

Day 2 fit check. Wouldn't be a GDQ without an early event hangover right?