Semimonthly Media Log
Sep. 2nd, 2025 09:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
raptureofthemoonThis is something I was doing in my journal/bullet journal this year and figured I'd continue it on the blog. Whether I'll keep this semi-monthly or go more to a monthly or bimonthly basis will remain to be seen.
Reading
I'm in the middle of Joanne Harris's Chocolat. I actually started it in mid-July but then gave myself a bout of eyestrain while playing PEAK.
So, I had to take off a couple of weeks while I recovered, got a much overdue eye exam and then spent time getting used to new eyeglasses. (I'm onto progressives now, though it's a very mild prescription. The distance vision is for my astigmatism — which is now in both eyes...yay... — and the zoom-focus at the bottom for reading isn't that zoomy. Though it's still taking some getting used to.)
Anyway...Chocolat. I'm loving the writing style. Descriptive without being overly verbose. There's something autumnal about it. Sweet incense, soft rain, colorful leaves skittering down an empty street.
Watching
A few weeks ago, friends introduced me to The Amazing Digital Circus. I don't...entirely have thoughts about it beyond: it was interesting and weird and I can probably parse deeper meaning from it.
I need to rewatch it on my own to fully digest it.
Playing
I've been playing more PEAK than anything, largely solo and largely successfully. This game is rather ridiculously addictive. But that seems to be a theme for games that have a fairly simple and straightforward goal.
Since it is September and I can already anticipate the weather shifting...I'll probably be starting up another run in Skyrim. Potentially using my archmage character who's the focus of my Pushing Boundaries series. (In short, I'm hoping starting up another run will get me writing on this piece again.) Skyrim has been my core autumnal game since it was released (too many years ago to think about...).
Stardew Valley is still in rotation I started playing this game in the fall of 2023 and it's been a staple ever since. It's actually what inspired me to plant my own blackberry bush, which, as of this writing, has 8 - count them, 8 - blackberries starting to ripen. (Well, six, now. I ate three of them yesterday. They were very tiny...but very juicy, so that gives me hope. I'm altering my approach in the spring by planting some additional brambles - another blackberry and a couple of blueberries - and flowers to attract pollinators. My tiny little dream is to be able to make preserves from my own plants.)
And coming in third on my current playlist is Tiny Bookshop. A cozy bookselling game that makes me want to buy a trailer and run away to the coast.
Reading
I'm in the middle of Joanne Harris's Chocolat. I actually started it in mid-July but then gave myself a bout of eyestrain while playing PEAK.
So, I had to take off a couple of weeks while I recovered, got a much overdue eye exam and then spent time getting used to new eyeglasses. (I'm onto progressives now, though it's a very mild prescription. The distance vision is for my astigmatism — which is now in both eyes...yay... — and the zoom-focus at the bottom for reading isn't that zoomy. Though it's still taking some getting used to.)
Anyway...Chocolat. I'm loving the writing style. Descriptive without being overly verbose. There's something autumnal about it. Sweet incense, soft rain, colorful leaves skittering down an empty street.
Watching
A few weeks ago, friends introduced me to The Amazing Digital Circus. I don't...entirely have thoughts about it beyond: it was interesting and weird and I can probably parse deeper meaning from it.
I need to rewatch it on my own to fully digest it.
Playing
I've been playing more PEAK than anything, largely solo and largely successfully. This game is rather ridiculously addictive. But that seems to be a theme for games that have a fairly simple and straightforward goal.
Since it is September and I can already anticipate the weather shifting...I'll probably be starting up another run in Skyrim. Potentially using my archmage character who's the focus of my Pushing Boundaries series. (In short, I'm hoping starting up another run will get me writing on this piece again.) Skyrim has been my core autumnal game since it was released (too many years ago to think about...).
Stardew Valley is still in rotation I started playing this game in the fall of 2023 and it's been a staple ever since. It's actually what inspired me to plant my own blackberry bush, which, as of this writing, has 8 - count them, 8 - blackberries starting to ripen. (Well, six, now. I ate three of them yesterday. They were very tiny...but very juicy, so that gives me hope. I'm altering my approach in the spring by planting some additional brambles - another blackberry and a couple of blueberries - and flowers to attract pollinators. My tiny little dream is to be able to make preserves from my own plants.)
And coming in third on my current playlist is Tiny Bookshop. A cozy bookselling game that makes me want to buy a trailer and run away to the coast.
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