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Dealing with Depression, Part 1
CW: Depression, anxiety, life trauma (though no specific details), implied suicide (briefly) Some More Blapril Advice Something that struck me, as I was about to sit down to write this post, is that it may come off as an apology for being gone, which I don’t want it to be. I want it to be more of a… recounting of what I’ve been going through to (1) get it off my chest, (2) provide assistance to those that may be in a similar situation, and (3) give me some content for the day. But it made me think of a final tidbit of advice, especially for those picking up serious…
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Real Talk for Blapril
Past Advice It’s that time in Blapril where we work through prep week. Prep week is essentially where those of us who’ve been around and think we have things to share about blogging as a whole, do so. I’ve written three posts in the past (during Blaugust) with advice on blogging, and the event itself. Impostor Syndrome and Your Blog – Ignore the first half of the blog post, and scroll down to the second half! I discuss what Impostor Syndrome is, why it’s probably more common with seasoned bloggers than you think, and ways to tackle it if you notice it bubbling up to the surface. Some Last Advice…
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Back with Blapril
It’s that time of year, again! Blaugust! I mean… Blapril! I’ve been on a… hiatus of sorts, I suppose. It’s something I’ll get into in another more detailed post (I don’t want to churn out too many posts before Blapril starts), but suffice to say, I’m feeling well enough to start carving out some more time for myself and getting back to blogging. I had intended to come back about now, to begin with, but it just happens that the ever-amazing Belghast has moved up his Blaugust blogging event to help get the blogging community feeling better amongst all the COVID gloom that’s overshadowed everyone’s life at the moment. It’s…
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IntPiPoMo 2019 Results
IntPiPoMo 2019 First, I want to give a big thank you to everyone who participated this year! It was a rough month personally, and seeing everyone’s posts made things a little bit brighter. (Alphabetical by blog name.) Mr. Peril – Contains Moderate Peril The Royal Family – Dating Sims on the Holodeck Cal – Galactic Antics Chestnut – Gamer Girl Confessions Shintar – Going Commando Magi – Indiecator Bhagpuss – Inventory Full Mailvaltar – Mailvaltar: MMOs and Other Stuff Paeroka – Nerdy Bookahs Stargrace – Nomadic Gamers, eh! Telwyn – GamingSF Tyler Edwards – Superior Realities Atheren – The Last Chapter Gaming Blog Arislyn – The Tanking Mage Welshtroll –…
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My Little Indrik
IntPiPoMo Update IntPiPoMo is almost at an end, but I wanted to give a quick shout out to those that signed up to participate this year. I’ve been lurking on posts, and it’s been fun to see how everyone interprets their participation in IntPiPoMo. It’s been a light in a pretty dark month to read everyone’s posts. (Blogs are listed in alphabetical order.) Mr. Peril – Contains Moderate Peril The Royal Family – Dating Sims on the Holodeck Cal – Galactic Antics Chestnut – Gamer Girl Confessions Shintar – Going Commando Magi – Indiecator Bhagpuss – Inventory Full Mailvaltar – Mailvaltar: MMOs and Other Stuff Paeroka – Nerdy Bookahs Stargrace…
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November ’19 Gaming Goals
September/October Recap September and October ended up being a bit of a… rough few months this year, much like it was last year. So I haven’t done much gaming for a plethora of reasons, including but not limited to depression, emergency pet health, and my own physical health. As such, I didn’t particularly meet many of my September goals between the two months. Hit CP 150 on Warden (ESO) – As of the end of October, I’m at 190 CP. Which is probably much slower going than many other folks I know, but I’m surprised I’ve gotten this far with as casually as I’ve been playing. Ding level 50 on…
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Time for IntPiPoMo 2019!
What is IntPiPoMo? IntPiPoMo, or International Picture Posting Month is the image equivalent of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). NaNoWriMo focuses on writing 50,000 words over the course of the month of November. So, if a picture is a thousand words, that means that IntPiPoMo requires fifty pictures. Makes perfect sense. These can be anything from screenshots from any game, to photographs you take in real life and want to share on your blog, to some artwork you’ve recently completed. Seriously, they can be anything—character selfies, shots of combat, sharing your game UI, showing off all those pretty new scenery shots with the new graphics card you got… you get…
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Blaugust 2019 Postmortem
Blaugust is over, which always brings me bittersweet feelings. August 2019 was a much better month for me than August 2018 was, which I am grateful for. As difficult as it became to write 31 posts, I somehow managed it. Though that’s thanks to finally checking off a to-do list item and moving all of my old articles from QueueTimes and MMO Games to my blog. Last year’s insights after Blaugust concluded: Blogging every day is a valiant goal, but is not something I can manage full-time. On the days I journaled in my bujo (bullet journal), I was less likely to post a blog post. I have good intentions…
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September ’19 Gaming Goals
This post is (31/31) of the Blaugust 2019 event! You can find out more about Blaugust over at Belghast’s blog. I (Chestnut) created a Twitter list of all participants. UltrViolet created an OPML file of all the bloggers to import into your feed reader. August Recap Setting up goals as a more focused month-based list rather than, “here’s what I wanna do soon!” has definintely made a difference in how I use my playtime, or how I decide not to game at all. And I think it helped a lot with the way work has been, and looks to be continuing for the remainder of 2019. Complete Vvardenfell Master Angler…
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Long Term FFXIV Goals, Updated
This post is (30/31) of the Blaugust 2019 event! You can find out more about Blaugust over at Belghast’s blog. I (Chestnut) created a Twitter list of all participants. UltrViolet created an OPML file of all the bloggers to import into your feed reader. I originally put together a list in 2015 of what I wanted to pursue in FFXIV, but the game has changed so much (no more cross-classing, new jobs) that I wanted to do an update to streamline the list for what I hope to get done in the next six months. That, and plan out what I wanted to do as I dive back into the…
