skara's rock hideout

it really was a hiatus

2023-09-25T17:02:08Z

So I had this entry in drafts with a bunch of thoughts on what to call that brief two- or three-week break when you're not officially on hiatus but still want something to call it that's not a break (a break is like, a week, or a couple days, you see). And then I went on an actual hiatus and never posted that, so it's dead now 😔

And I guess I'm back? With no links, no real narrative about what happened while I was gone...

I was playing Baldur's Gate 3 (like everyone else lol), at least for a while. I went on a road trip (drove back early 🙃). I started testing contacts (!!!) and went from putting them in or taking them out being an Ordeal to about 15 mins of fiddling, touching my eyeball and loudly reassuring myself that I Got This.

(I cannot imagine using contacts in an apocalypse. You need a mirror, clean hands that you might clean again after errors, and a quiet, calm environment where you can focus on fiddling with them. You also need the lenses themselves, which, good luck on finding new, right-for-you dailies or weeklies and lens cleaner in deteriorating social order)

The only other thing of note on my mind is how much text editing on mobile still sucks. I've developed strategies and similar stuff to address my pain points but it still sucks...

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linkroll #1

2023-08-12T21:14:37Z

Ahhhhh the excitement of starting a new... I can't call it a project because it's not? But man I love links. I love linking things. I love opining about links. Most likely going to try to collate these and push em out once a week. I'll keep it going for a month first and then see whether I wanna do anything fancy like themes or whatever. BUT. UNTIL THEN. BEHOLD MY LINKS 🔗🔗🔗

it's a lil techy this time

The enshittification of "enshittification" --- this is one thought-provoking exploration of the concept of 'enshittification' as it applies to social media companies. Super opinionated but still has me thinking about the expectations users have for services they don't (or can't) pay for.
Dear Alt-Twitter Designers: It's about the network! --- only got around to reading this recently, but still enjoy the jaded commentary on how people keep stumbling in the same spot wrt starting new social media sites.
Fantasy Meets Reality --- I love that this blog post has a bunch of interesting examples of design colliding with reality in uncomfortable ways and also manages to demonstrate said problem due to its poor design for reading on small screens. Big text does not always mean readable text, friends.

Linkroll link archive.

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actually back I guess -_-

2023-08-10T20:11:32Z

I had a profound but vague post brewing in my drafts, but it's soured now. Have to say it's really strange how quickly that can happen, that desync between how you were feeling N days ago and how you feel now.

I was going to note that nothing here is set in stone, but that's not true. I'm going to be chill and going to try to post regularly about whatever catches my fancy. There may be rants, links, handwaving about/around the stuff I'm learning. There most certainly will be recs, most likely cnovels and webnovels since I am currently still way too excited about exploring those pitted spaces. We'll see, though <3

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maybe back? who knows

2023-07-29T03:12:49Z

I uploaded a new icon again and now I guess I'm here?

Anyway since I'm maybe possibly back to being active here, I guess I can safely declare this as the start of a lovely new experiment! I've always wondered what it'd be like to be, say, partially exposed from beneath my self-imposed rock.

Here goes nothing 🙃

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icons!!!

2021-03-17T02:44:06Z

Yeah I made a bunch, for all the non-existent posting I'm going to do here.

They're under this cut:

( iconzzz )

IDEK why I've returned. I had a wordpress blog I also abandoned ages ago. Maybe this time will be the magic time for me 🤔

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A small hiatus

2019-01-19T18:55:25Z

So this week and possibly the next one is going to be slow on updates. I will be putting up the last chapter of Slice of Death because it just needs a little editing and nothing else, but that's just that story.

For the ANBU Weasel fic, I think I've figured out my way past what was blocking me on writing. Next update will probably be tail end of next week.

For the threesome/voyeurism fic, I keep changing my mind on what to do with the last two chapters. So many delightfully filthy ideas, so little time and space to cram them all in... Not sure when I'll have the next chapter of this ready, I hope it'll be next week, but the week after that is more likely.

And as for the actual hiatus, I'm kind of antsy wrt what my next big project is going to be. I'm probably going to take a month long break from posting fic under this pseud after I've finished off my current crop of WIPs.

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Bounteous updates

2019-01-11T17:31:11Z

ANBU Weasel sequel update: check!

F/F chikan courtesy fail_fandomanon kinkmeme: check!

(Edit: Why must my mail client insert weird spaces and screw up my beautiful markdown T-T)

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Behind...

2019-01-08T20:06:14Z

Just realized I've got three different fics I'm supposed to be updating on AO3 these days, only one of which is actually in 'finished, but needs edits' status. It's fun to be posting this much! But also kind of stressful. Eons ago, when my old id walked the interwebs, I mostly focused on updating one long fic/wip at a time, so I'm seriously not used to the scattergun approach I have right now.

Anyway, my vague plan is to update anything I have in-progress roughly once a week until it's finished, the end. One-shots will go up whenever they go up (yes I just wrote another one. Damn you, fail_fandomanon kink meme prompts). Today, I'm going to do the edit for Unconventional training's next chapter, and try to get that up either today or tomorrow, since it's been a while for that fic. Then I'm going to take a hard look at the ANBU Weasel sequel's next few chapters and try and get one out too. Wish me luck...

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Post-Christmas Post

2018-12-26T19:43:07Z

It seems fitting my first 'real' post here is a fic update post. So it turns out that all along I've been merrily posting underage to fail_fandomanon when they don't allow it, so today I'm hurrying to stick all of the previous parts of that WIP up on AO3. It feels weird to bother, but it'd also feel weird not to bother, so...

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a lady under a rock

2018-11-23T10:32:00Z

I post fiction on AO3. I am a fandom old with vicious tastes and an addiction to happy fictional endings.

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