Don't give up, skeleton!

thank you so much for the tag, @arsenic-lobster!

★ Last song: I was listening to my Lucian playlist, so it was Pressure by Billy Joel

now here you are with your faith/ and your peter pan advice/ you have no scars on your face/ and you cannot handle pressure

★ Currently watching: Very VERY slowly making my way through Game of Thrones with my husband. (We're only four episodes in after several months. We're tired.) What's actually on the TV at the moment I'm typing this is Disneynature's Penguins for what seems like the thirtieth time. I am well versed in the trials and tribulations of Steve the Adelie penguin, AMA!

★ Currently playing (adding this one if anyone wants to answer it!): On the final case of Best Served Cold, my bartender murder mystery visual novel. Still a very enjoyable experience!

★ Current obsession: Cheese? I really love cheese. (My Suzerain fixation remains, mostly. It's complicated!)

★ Currently reading: Just started a book that I got for my birthday, The Genius of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman, a look at bird intelligence. (shocking subject matter for me to be reading about I KNOW) Not very far into it yet, but seems to be a fun pop science read!

★ Currently working on: ...kind of just trying to get through each day right now. Things are...a lot. I do have hopes of getting back to writing at some point.

★ Last duckduckgo search: darline graham nordone

★ Last song: I am quite into Marina at the minute, and the last one I played was Hermit the Frog.

★ Currently watching: The only thing I am actively watching is the new season of Rick and Morty? I did start IWTV the other day, but the quality of the site I was getting it from was terrible, so if anyone can suggest somewhere decent to watch it that would be appreciated!

★ Currently playing: I just finished a game of Monopoly with my son? He thrashed me because he is merciless.

★ Current obsession: Kidney fic, which is why the answers to all the other questions are pretty sparse; all my free time is going on that behemoth.

★ Currently reading: Nothing - see above 😂

★ Currently working on: ...Kidney fic, pretty exclusively. Specifically the Comfort part of the Hurt/Comfort. I just added this to the working tag list:

★ Last web search: The York City FC score, to get an idea of what kind of mood Mr Z was going to return home in after watching them play.

★ Last song: let's see shall we... Ash To Ash (Reprise), from Starkids Cinderella's Castle! For blorbo reasons.

★ Currently watching: right this exact moment I'm watching a YouTuber play Twilight Princess lol but actually ongoing I'm watching Doctor Who with my siblings, it's their first time watching it

★ Currently playing: how often can I answer Skyrim to these sorts of things before people think I'm lying? It's Skyrim I'm playing Skyrim again

★ Current obsession: Discworld :)

★ Currently reading: rereading His Dark Materials again!!

★ Currently working on: multiple fanfics ┐⁠(⁠ ⁠∵⁠ ⁠)⁠┌ doing a bunch of different stuff at once and finishing none of them. Also I'm building a castle in minecraft with my friend.

★ Last web search: UK school year ages, my sister was talking about some of her friends friends and I had absolutely no idea how old they were and all she had was their school year lmao

★ Last song: Radiacs - She's My Witch. A bit of a classic tune with gothic vibes. The melody line is like a stim for my brain.

★ Currently watching: I'm in a hotel and I've been watching a bunch of news channels in German, English, Ukrainian and French, just for fun and to see what topics they cover for their audiences. Spoiler, everyone's talking about different things.

Also, waiting for La Rochelle football, England vs France.

★ Currently playing: Moonlight Peaks! A cute farming sim with a supernatural twist because you're a Dracula offspring in a village full of creatures of the night. Enjoying it a lot.

I also got The Life and Suffering of Sir Bante, a text-based rpg... for free. On Steam. A sequel comes out soon and I've been eyeing this for quite some time!

★ Current obsession: Discworld and/or VetVimes.

★ Currently reading: I'm organising my fanfiction in bookmarks and re-reading things from the pile there, kinda by accident

★ Currently working on: nothing in particular. I added some words to my WIPS, but I don't think it meaningful. Don't mind, though. I preferred to relax in a different way.

★ Last web search: how to get back to my hotel, I forgot its name when I went sightseeing. 😂 But I had no issue navigating back.

★ Last song: Drekafljóð, by Eivør

★ Currently watching: technically I am still in the process of watching Critical Role campaign 2 and Rawhide, but actually I haven't watched a single episode of either in a month (not counting the live show in Berlin). :')

★ Currently playing: Gothic 2 gold edition, with a few mods to improve graphics.

(thank you for reminding me that I still need to play The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante! I guess this will be next.)

★ Current obsession: Still obsessed with Mantimer/FAFDM. Re-obsessed with Gothic.

★ Currently reading: Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking, by Samin Nosrat. I consider myself something of an advanced cook and I'm enjoying this a lot. Great explanation of how different flavors are created and interact. My only complaint is that the book clearly assumes that the reader cooks a lot of meat, e. g. by advising against using iodised salt *at all* because of the taste and arguing that people take in sufficient amounts of iodine through meat alone, which is unhelpful when you prefer tofu over steak.

★ Currently working on: I am still stuck on my multi-chapter Mantimer fic. And on the other Mantimer fic. Started writing some Gothic fic after finishing the remake and now I have multiple WIPs for that fandom as well. :')

★ Last web search: looking up weapons/jewellery I plan to use in my current playthrough of Gothic 2.

The Good the Bad and the Ugly (1966)

The Lady of Shalott

Artist: John William Waterhouse (English, 1849–1917)

Date: 1888

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Tate Britain, London, United Kingdom

‘The Lady of Shalott

And down the river’s dim expanse Like some bold seer in a trance, Seeing all his own mischance – With glassy countenance Did she look to Camelot. And at the closing of the day She loosed the chain, and down she lay; The broad stream bore her far away, The Lady of Shalott.