An update!

[flamebyrd]

It's been exactly 4 months so I suppose I should post to say I'm still around! I just don't have a lot of free time right now.

Website
My website was down for a couple of days, so I'm sorry if that affected anyone! I have pondered switching to a static HTML site generator instead of what I'm currently using, which would avoid this happening again, but see above re: free time. (If I do, I will write a tutorial for how to do it, specifically to make your own fanfic archive so you can upload a work and it automatically adds it to whatever index pages you want and then upload it anywhere that supports plain static HTML... let me know if that's of interest to anyone.)

A couple of people have emailed me with bug reports and feature requests recently, so there have been some changes:

AO3 Statistics CSV Bookmarklet: Should now work properly with Unicode characters (e.g. Chinese, Japanese) and quotation marks in titles

AO3 Works List CSV Bookmarklet: Now includes the work's recipient (if available). I also reordered the columns so apologies if that's messed everything up for you.

Games
Theory of Magic (AKA Arcanum). A couple of years ago my brother linked me to this idle/clicker game where you work a wizard up through the ranks. I suddenly remembered it the other day, figured a game where you mostly just let it sit there and do its thing was perfect for my life right now, and have been playing for almost a week at this point. Documentation is very light so it's a "discover it as you go along" sort of thing - there's a new wiki with very little information, an old wiki with lots of info that's only available on web.archive.org, a Reddit that is mostly inactive (but at least not private) and a Discord I haven't joined. But I'm having fun!

Beastieball: This is a Kickstarter for a new game by the people behind Chicory and Wandersong, both of which I loved! It seems to be a Pokemon-like Volleyball RPG. It's fully funded but they are still working on stretch goals so check it out if that sounds fun to you!

Twitter
I finally quit Twitter - Tweetdeck going away was the final straw. Still figuring out how best to fill the idle-scrolling/refreshing void in my life. Maybe I need to pick up a game?

Reading
I picked up a copy of Witch King by Martha Wells but I haven't had the chance to read it yet. I recently reread Death of the Necromancer (which is getting an updated rerelease soon) and the Fall of Ile-Rien, which I still enjoyed. I also picked up the Murderbot audiobooks in a Humble Bundle (which has already ended, sorry) so I'm looking forward to listening to those someday.

Food
I got an Instant Pot after a deep anxiety spiral about trying to reduce the amount of cooking with gas I do. I've never used a pressure cooker OR a slow cooker before! If you are a multi-cooker user and have favourite (vegetarian) recipes, please send them my way!

Comments

[alias_sqbr]

*waves*

[fred_mouse]

That static site generator with adding things to an index does rather sound like something I'm trying to get my head wrapped around, although I'm kind of thinking book reviews rather than fic.

[fred_mouse]

Pressure cooker is great for beans. Doing them in the pressure cooker and then adding them to something to be stew in the slow cooker might seem silly, but it is important for beans to be brought to the boil for enough time to do things to proteins. This is especially important for red kidney beans, which need 10 minutes at a full boil. From memory, I've done chickpeas in the slow cooker after soaking them for 24 hours. What I don't remember is if that was any good.

I've some cookbooks that I should look through for suitable recipes. If I remember, I'll blog them.

[cesy]

My favourite slow casserole recipe is basically veggie mince (Quorn or soy), tinned chopped tomatoes, onion, carrot, celery, haricot beans, sweetcorn, peas, mixed herbs, sweet peppers if you feel like it, mushrooms, any other veg I'm in the mood for, chuck it all in and let it simmer for a couple of hours.

Goes well with potatoes, pasta or rice, can be frozen in batches.

[cesy]

Ooh, Arcanum is great, kind of like the Kittens game. Have you figured out how to log in and sync across computers or do you just back up manually?

[arduinna]

(If I do, I will write a tutorial for how to do it, specifically to make your own fanfic archive so you can upload a work and it automatically adds it to whatever index pages you want and then upload it anywhere that supports plain static HTML... let me know if that's of interest to anyone.)

I would love to see that, if you wind up doing it!

[bluedreaming]

Your bookmarklets are such a lifesaver (especially the stats page one) a million thank yous! (I've been meaning to email that the dreamwidth html buttons have stopped working for me but I'm still not convinced that it's not something I've inadvertently done)

specifically to make your own fanfic archive so you can upload a work and it automatically adds it to whatever index pages you want and then upload it anywhere that supports plain static HTML

This would be brilliant and I know a lot of people would be interested! (might be cool to share on fancoded if that's of interest)

The Murderbot audiobooks are absolutely delightful; I also picked up Witch King (audiobook) but haven't started yet.

[lannamichaels]

(If I do, I will write a tutorial for how to do it, specifically to make your own fanfic archive so you can upload a work and it automatically adds it to whatever index pages you want and then upload it anywhere that supports plain static HTML... let me know if that's of interest to anyone.)

Oooh, this is definitely of interest to me!