Moon's Blog

"Okay I want sustainable woodworking and logging to be kind of a core feature of this ethnic group's trade and relative self-sufficiency, so I'm gonna do some research on logging. What's that word for when you float logs down a river? I should probably put them near a river. Hell yeah geographical feature. That is a thing I can add to a map. I'm so good at worldbuilding. Oh you have to cure lumber before it can be usable--that makes sense, that's why it doesn't rot. Okay gonna watch this video on curing wood. Huh this video's kinda boring and a little too modern in terms of my worldbuilding. Oh! I had that really neat old-timey book on woodworking I stole from my dad! I'm gonna get it!

Huh New Jersey had cedar swamps?

New Jersey cleared out its cedar swamps so bad that by the 1800's they were literally mining hunks of dead cedar out of the swamp like how Irish people in peat bogs would haul perfectly-preserved centuries-old logs out of the peat and use them for firewood?

They cleared out the trees that bad?

Google New Jersey Cedar Swamps

Google New Jersey Cedar Swamps Restoration

Google Atlantic White Cedar

Google Who is Saving the Cedar Swamps

Oh shit my notes doc that's right I was going to write.

Google Cranberry Bog Rewilding

Google Cedar Swamps Restoration (again)

paranoia

control freakism

sense of self-worth so low that it loops back around into being totally dismissive of everyone else

a warm-hearted kind center beneath 200 protective walls of bitterness that doesn't actually make the bitterness better in any way at all even a little bit

bisexuality

crushing feelings of responsibility

zero understanding of own bodily autonomy that bleeds out and affects how they treat others

a lil petty vindictive sadism they maybe don't wanna look at too hard or acknowledge

full self-awareness of all their most negative traits without working to fix those traits at all

internalized misogyny

a mysterious undefinable hunger that cannot / should not / must not ever be sated

buy a pack of chapsticks and put one in the pocket of all of your coats and jackets because you always forget to bring one and chapped lips is sensory hell

leave important things where you can see them. if they go in a box or a drawer you will forget they exist

put any appointments or deadlines in your phone calendar As Soon As you get them. set a reminder for a week before, a day before, an hour before, as many as you need as often as you need them.

when that little voice in your head says "i dont need to write that down, ill remember it" that is the devil talking!!! write it down anyway!!

plan for down time. have a few hours at the end of every day to just do fun stuff like engage in your hyperfixations. even if you didnt get all of your work done that day, have the rest anyway. you probably spent the whole day beating yourself up for not doing what you Should be doing, so you still need the break.

if you never eat vegetables because its too much effort to chop and cook them, get the frozen or canned shit. it doesnt go off for ages and you just have to microwave it. theres no point buying fresh vegetables if they just keep going off and being left to rot in the bottom of your fridge

if you struggle to decide what to have for dinner every day, take the decision out of it. choose a set of meals and eat those on rotation until you get sick of them, then choose some new ones and do it again.