Ivy 🌿🦆

A family of four splitgill mushrooms grow from the side of a fallen branch, upturned to see their radiating double-gills All photos by me

Here are some nice mushrooms

Officially 28 and it's cold as hell. 😅 Dare I plead with the world to give me 100° temps?

My goals for 2025:
• Learn more 日本
• Read more books
• Write on my own book
• Enjoy writing contests
• Get back into mapmaking
• Do more d&d

What's everyone else's?

- My mother gave me a pair of tie-dyed shoes which, super comfy, have become my main shoe as of late.
- I'll probably buy myself more books before the end of the week, to be honest.

- People have sent me books or gift cards for books. There's so many new books on my kindle app. SO. MANY. One friend sent me two physical books based in history <3 and another friend sent me a $75 gift card for books. (I sent her a gift card too).

In case anyone's wondering, my Yule/Christmas has been:
- Buying my father an Xbox game expansion card so he can play games with us again. So far, he's played Indiana Jones (to be fair the entire household is playing Indiana Jones).

Indiana Jones has been such a fun, puzzling experience. My entire family is playing this single person game separately and offering tips and we're ALL refusing to use guides so everything is 500% harder lol

I'm scared for when I get to the end of act 2 now 😭😂

It's SO fun but the puzzles are a little hard lol

I've started reading Outlander and I really dislike Frank.

I hope that John Epler is okay. I'm not sure why people are being so hateful towards him, and I don't really care. It's never okay to go out of your way to hurt someone else, especially over a game or game lore. Devs are people too, and you should treat them how you'd want to be treated.

My feed is a mix of books, stories and the darkest omen of them all: politics.

Why did it have to snow

こんにちわ。I've picked up 日本語 yet again. Taking a break was good for me though! #japanese #languages

The majority of the feedback on my short story entry was to expand and write more. 😊

Text from a warriors book (about a society of cats that live wild in a forest) “"ShadowClan has the favor of Star Clan," Tigerstar swept on, ignoring the interruption. "We are blessed because we survived the sickness, and I have received the blessing of our warrior ancestors most of all because it was my task to restore the Clan and make it great again."”

YOU GUYS 😳

The Vu'se Remember got honorable mention at Writing Battle!

I didn't make it to finals, but I did get honorable mentions!

My new motto. 😂

I like sending my friends worldbuilding snippets without context. They're like "what is this" and I'm like "...lore".

Chex is in the oven!

I'd appreciate warmth, NC. Please be warm.

Did anyone else know seahorses apparently have adorable mating habits that I might be pulling for my novel idea...?

I love when the ADHD turns me back onto a topic. Starting back on my #Japanese lessons. #langsky Accepting recommendations!

I feel like videogames actually do provide a pretty accurate representation of real life right now because a lot of videogames are like “THE WORLD IS ENDING” and then you just collect herbs and pretend nothing is wrong

I ask myself this 900 times a day.

Does anyone have any recs on where I should build out my conlang for my novel? I want to be able to reference it easily, but I also want to create something functional and usable.

I'm reading: "Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism" among other books this week. I highly recommend! It's been interesting thus far, and does not focus only on cults (hence the titling).

Ooh. I did see you've got some cola! What are the ingredients? I'm thinking we'll go for more natural flavorings.

I ordered some SodaStream syrup and tried cola first! I think this weekend, I'll give Drinkmates syrup a try too. What would you recommend?

It has been a journey!

First time I didn't put the infuser on all the way (and got scared!), second time I was afraid to carbonate all the way.

THIRD TIME THOUGH? Perfection.