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Blaugust 2021 Recap
I’m a bit at a loss of what to write today for the final post of Blaugust… so I figured I’d do a list of all the posts I’ve written this month with a sentence or two. Because why not? The Posts Day 1: [General] Welcome to Blaugust 2021 – Some advice to get you started on Blaugust. Day 2: [General] Back to Streaming This Week! – Spoiler alert: No streams have happened yet because… *gestures* Day 3: [Reading] TBR Stack August 2021 – A look at what I want to read for the month of August. Day 4: [FFXIV] Corpse Groom – Tam-Tara (Hard) was absolutely mind-blowing! Day 5:…
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Why Am I Rushing?
Okay, so… about yesterday’s post? Well, I decided that today I wanted to zerg my way through Weaver to unlock glamour stuff. But by the end of the day I had spent the million gil I picked up through quests and healer roulette queues just getting to level 40 weaver. And I had to stop and think again. Why am I trying to rush crafting? The thing I enjoy the most in MMOs? Why am I trying to zerg my way through it? Does it fall back to the same reasons as yesterday? In both WoW and WildStar I would spend hours so that I was self-sufficient with my crafting…
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So Much I Want to Do, So Little Time
There’s so much I want to do in FFXIV. I want to catch up to Endwalker, but I also really want to level gatherers, and level professions, and level Astrologian, and… I really just want to do all the things. Explore everywhere I have unlocked. Do FATEs just because. Fill out all the different types of logs there are. But then I also feel like I have to rush to get to Endwalker. But then I have to think about how I’ve never been playing at current level in FFXIV, so why am I rushing myself now? Maybe I’m feeling pressure seeing so many folks I know at or close…
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Spoons, Please
This is pretty much a short filler post, to be honest. Work and life have been busy, and I am just beyond drained and unable to find the time and motivation to do the things I actually want to be doing (like blogging, streaming, creating all types of content). I’m not sure how often others run into these issues. Especially those that fall more towards neuro-normative. But after a long day at work, I do not have the physical and/or mental capacity to do much. And it was even worse when I had to go into the office and spend all that time in the car. Lately I’ve been wondering…
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Would You Rather: Game Edition
I’ve hit the point where I’m finally struggling in Blaugust posts. So I’m taking out another evergreen post, though this one I picked up this Blaugust—Would You Rather: Game Edition. This originally started over with Mr. Peril, then found its way over to Krikket, and I personally yoinked it from Thyanel. I’m sure it’s been all over at this point, though! (I’m still catching up on all the wonderful posts folks have made, so I’m behind on actually seeing where else it’s been… yet!) Like Krikket and Thyanel, I’m adding “for a year” to these so they’re less… long-term and possibly anxiety inducing at the thought of one-or-the-other. Regardless of…
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Tip-toeing Into Glamours
Glamours have always felt confusing and overwhelming to me, but my bags were filling up fast and I wanted to go through and clean them out. But I didn’t want to just get rid of stuff willy-nilly. Knowing if I wanted something for Glamour was important to me… so I sort of delved into it. I had to search for advice to understanding the Armoire and Glamour Dresser but I finally found information on how to put things into them. I dislike that the Armoire doesn’t hold much, though. Not all of my classes/jobs have been leveled up much because I’ve been zerging through the MSQ to try and get…
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Social Media as Promotion
I’ve wanted to blog about this for a while, even before both Solarayo and Aywren posted about it earlier this month. I’m only now getting to it, however, because it’s taken me some time to mull over my thoughts. I’ve been trying to follow some social media posting/promotion and engagement advice provided by Amberly to grow my NSFW business, and have also been trying to apply it to my SFW content creation. However, after a few months of doing it for both accounts, it’s just… overwhelming, and not fun in the least. I know that I should do more of it for my adult content, but I also don’t have…
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Book Review: The Raven
Raven Wood spends her days at Florence’s Uffizi Gallery restoring fine works of Renaissance art. But an innocent walk home after an evening with friends changes her life forever. When she intervenes in the senseless beating of a homeless man, his attackers turn on her, dragging her into an alley. Raven is only semi-conscious when their assault is interrupted by a cacophony of growls followed by her attacker’s screams. Mercifully, she blacks out, but not before catching a glimpse of a shadowy figure who whispers to her… Cassita vulneratus. When Raven awakes, she is inexplicably changed. She returns to the Uffizi, but no one recognizes her and more disturbingly, she…
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Blaugust: Staying Motivated Week
This week’s Blaugust prompt is Staying Motivated! You are getting close to the final stretch. The idea here is to share some of your secrets on how you have stayed motivated while blogging on a regular basis. You might share some tips or ideas you have for making topics happen when you are feeling uninspired. If you are fresh to the initiative you could talk about some of the ways you have managed to keep yourself engaged this year. First, my biggest callout would be to use the content calendar plugin! It has helped a lot with creating ideas and readjusting based on ideas I get from the blogs I…
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Website Issues Stink
Ugh, website issues, y’all. I am over them. I switched from one host to another not too long ago, and I have been having nothing but issues with the host I switched to. I’m contemplating switching hosts after next year if things don’t improve. This time it was just so many issues with SSL certificates of all things. But for the moment looks like things are sorted. Crossing my fingers it stays that way. Image by Dok Sev from Pixabay This is post 21/31 for Blaugust You can find out more and sign up over at Belghast’s post!
