the alchemyst @hafnia@wandering.shop

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will admit that saying "I'm not bent on destroying the planet" feels odd in light of the 20 KILOWATT LASER I apparently am now responsible for setup of.

I keep seeing a lot of apologies for not being interesting or funny or positive, and I just wanna say:

You are a person, not a brand. You do not need to be consistently anything but yourself. If you need to take a break, that's OK. We're all people, we'll understand.

I EARNED MY FUCKING DOCTORATE under this name! I'm not changin' it.

gettin' married to the partner next year.

plannin' to change my name legally. just my first name.

literally everyone I've told: "oh, when you change your last name after getting married, you might be able to change your first name too, without having to appear before a judge!"

...um...

first of all: no, it's like the first thing they tell you in this state when you ask about name changes.

second: why the fuck do you think I'm changing my last name????

ahhhhhhhhhhh there is finally an Official Recording of the Robin Pecknold cover of Silver Dagger! :D

https://open.spotify.com/track/5COtvgd7dOLF2qn1PfZx0n?si=NUn0ePXASHCuRHYt2mzxyw

also fucking Spirit Guardians yassssssssss

anyway, my AC is now 20 thanks to some armor improvements (better shield, mostly). I've been able to figure out how best to help out the party. I'm not a heavy hitter (we have a barbarian and a druid that are doing a lot of the damage, with a decent rogue scout helping out), but I'm the one that does all the buffs and stuff, so...woo.

We finished the Lost Mines! My cleric is now level 5. I'm officially useful, yay! Not that I wasn't before, but thanks to Life Domain I now have Revivify, so I can bring party members back from the dead if needed. (Expensive, but possibly necessary.)

I told everyone the spell components, and the team's rogue tracked me down in town a bit later and handed me three diamonds that were labeled with each of the other members of the party's names.

'mazing.

Out to dinner with a friend and the partner and it's somewhere you can draw on the table :O

Went to the liquor store for the first time in months bc we're finally out of whiskey. Bought a bottle and found out that they were having a raffle...weird little thing where you gave them your receipt, they gave you a ticket, and matched it to a prize.

I told the partner to enter, because his luck is better than mine, so he did.

He won the fucking grand prize, so now we have a grill. :O