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I streamed tonight because I didn’t want to but I needed to finish the last lap of the novella. Last scene and as expected I’m procrastinating like hell. This is so expected of me! But now at least I got the pipes laid down today, though I still need to…

Things are being shaken up, in ways I can’t talk about yet, and it’s terrifying the shit out of me. The greatest thing recently is that it is summer in Dublin and if you only ever see Dublin in this light, there’s really no leaving this place. I’ve been in…

Let me tell you all about how I installed Instagram to promote my novel during the Philippine Book Festival 2025 and how I quickly descended back into scrolling hell like it was yesterday. Sneaky motherfucker! Well, that was the long and short of it. I still need to schedule maybe…

It’s Wednesday and I haven’t written for 5 days because I’m terrified of how to start the second scene of the novella I’m overhauling. But yeah, through some self-trickery and grit I managed to squeeze some blood from a stone, 287 words in 30 minutes, in the only writing session…

We’ll just write about it. Mondays are historically stressful, and I feel like my body has some hardwired resistance at having to be on for work, or for anything outside its own desires. Today’s big R resistance was so large, both for writing and working, that I let my period…

I woke up later than desired today, but I’m still reeling from the monthly blood bath so I say it doesn’t count. I made myself a sandwich I’ve been timing to make in the shortest amount of time. I’ve been fixated on it for two weeks now. [Skip to the…

My scrolling addiction has made reading for pleasure like getting a puppy to sit still for a photo. I’ve been calling it a scrolling addiction now, because even if I have tools to lock myself out of Instagram or YouTube now I still mesmerize myself doing the mindless scroll in…

I have an anime category on here apparently but haven’t really gotten around to talking about the stuff I’ve loved so far. Surely at some point I can look back at all the anime I’ve watched and loved but for now let me scream about the art in the DANDADAN anime. Look, this hasn’t wrapped […]

Figured the mic issue out after the stream. Ang hirap pala kapag hindi regular nagsi-stream, laging start from scratch! Turns out I’ve been using the webcam mic all along, and the beep is perhaps my mic’s attempt to announce its presence in the world. I hear you, mic, some of us try to be useful […]

I got all the achievements in Baldur’s Gate 3, some not so honourably (thanks, No Party Limit mod), but I needed to push it to the max to get a semblance of completion so I can say I’m more or less done with it. I’ll write about the experience at some point, these are busy […]