Sometimes I do something and my brain hyperfixates on how maybe I did something wrong despite my good intentions and I’m going to be punished and I go into near full-on panic mode about it.
Sometimes brains suck.
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Scientist and storyteller: Atmospheric Science Ph.D., software developer, and scfi/fantasy writer. I’m a weather and geosciences nerd, who loves books, comics, and RPGs. Expect me to talk about all of it. Smith College alumna. Ace demigirl. (she/they)
Sometimes I do something and my brain hyperfixates on how maybe I did something wrong despite my good intentions and I’m going to be punished and I go into near full-on panic mode about it.
Sometimes brains suck.
That’s right. For some reason my brain always wants Shaolin to be a form of karate.
16.11.2025 03:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Finished playing Tales of Symphonia! I loved it! 💕
I ended up having Kratos in my final party, so I may go back and replay at least the later parts of it to see how things change if I made different choices.
(And I did beat the Skeleton boss all 3 times, @liminalitycarb.live !)
Urgh.
15.11.2025 19:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Pneumonia is no joke. Neither is bronchitis (which I had repeatedly as a kid). They suck. Looking out for your health is important.
15.11.2025 19:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Oh no!!! (Usually that is a sure sign that I am sick.)
15.11.2025 00:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Gets a little more awkward when they are no longer kitten-sized, but still nice.
14.11.2025 21:31 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Currently writing code to display information about marine wave/wind forecasts. In a little while, going out to eat with my husband to celebrate his birthday.
14.11.2025 21:28 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Have you ever had a peanut butter cup old enough for the filling to completely dehydrate to a fine powder? Still good.
14.11.2025 18:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Very roughly: fire=karate, water=tai chi, earth=kung fu, air=baguazhang
14.11.2025 12:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0🤣🤣🤣
14.11.2025 01:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I mean that just meant that you look young, right? RIGHT? 🤦♀️
14.11.2025 00:15 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0If you had a shark in your house there would be even bigger questions.
13.11.2025 12:39 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Happy Birthday!!
12.11.2025 17:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0First snow of the season here last night, so no aurora for me. Sadness. (Just a dusting and it’s gone now)
12.11.2025 14:52 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This is how it *should* work.
10.11.2025 15:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Melissa is a wonderful writer and human being, and I very much encourage folks to work with her!
10.11.2025 15:37 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Here’s hoping it’s the least of possible evils, then!
10.11.2025 15:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Do you have a code reader? Getting one has been a sanity saver for us.
10.11.2025 15:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0That sucks. Sending virtual hugs. And virtual tissues. Not that those help.
10.11.2025 15:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Actually having purchased and attempted using a machete on my garden…meh? (They cut, but at least the Fiskars one out-of-the-package was not as useful as I’d hoped.)
09.11.2025 20:03 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0So Steel = exasperateon?
09.11.2025 20:00 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0A white woman wearing headphones has a black cat behind her shoulder, squeezed between her back and the wall
I have a writing buddy today.
09.11.2025 16:56 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0Faithful to the spirit if not the letter? (I haven’t seen it but want to - assuming this the del Toro version)
07.11.2025 16:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0That’s awful :(
07.11.2025 14:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I don’t understand the purpose of a sex marker on IDs - or descriptions of hair/eye color, (or even weight, for that matter). I get it’s for a physical description, but . . .there is a *photo* right there!
07.11.2025 02:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Sat down to write tonight. Got distracted, and spent the last half hour (?) scrolling through DnD memes. I would blame it on the fact I got vaccinated today and I’m more tired than I think, but no, this is just me. (I miss playing RPGs.)
07.11.2025 02:14 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Tonight, a handful of fic edits done. Nothing major, but baby steps are still progress!
06.11.2025 04:11 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Or the previous owners of the house, maybe. They’re not hostile, they just always run away.
05.11.2025 14:39 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0They do. My efforts to befriend my local ones thus far have failed.
05.11.2025 14:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0