sometime life just happens, and sometimes it is good that happens for once
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I relate to so much of this.
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This looks sick! I love how much thought you put into this, down to the little details. Might give this game a shot idk lol. I skimmed through the words and didnāt realize until later on that this isnāt minecraft. Great to have another option.
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I can very much resonate with a lot of things you expressed here as well as in some of your previous posts. I too, was assigned female at birth and have struggled a lot with gender fluidity and self-expression throughout my childhood ā feeling an affinity towards masculine-associated stereotypes, yet occasionally appreciating and being proud of my current gender, and all the things associated with it. The latter times certainly helped in making myself more accepting of my status quo and worrying less about these kinds of issues and instead directing my energy towards solving other pressing problems elsewhere in my life.
Perhaps this canāt apply to you, but either way I wish you all the best in pursuing happiness and establishing your identity 
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Made two short blog posts: one about the 20th anniversary of the Indian Ocean tsunami, and one about my Christmas season in 2024.
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Followed up on this with at look at the writing I did this year.
https://lars-christian.com/posts/2024-12-26-reflections-on-2024-writing/
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Made a blog post with a summary of things I liked this year + some projects Iām working on for next year:
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This was a good read! Matches a lot of my conceptions fairly well :)) I can say, as far as the kid-gloves thing goes, that I probably was least safe and secure in two areas of the internet as a kid/teen: Those made for kids/teens, and the gore sites/forums I insisted on visiting. I was a morbid kidā¦ Though, honorable mention to overly policed, seemingly amazing parts of the internet for making me feel ashamed of thoughts a hormonal brain naturally produces, actuallyā¦ that did a number
soā¦ me, i guess? Itās interesting to consider! I love talking about how we talk lol
Now this seems like something I should look into, thank you for bringing it somewhere I happened to see it! As much as I like/love minecraft options are always good!
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Hereās my fashion post. :)
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A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin was a great read. It had a simple but engaging plot with fantastic world-building and beautiful prose. Highly recommend! Here are my notes.
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We need more kindness in this stupid world: Kindness in a transactional world ā Manu
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a blog post after my own heart! 
loved it, manu!
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Yeah Earthsea is fantastic, Le Guin actually lets her characters fail and do bad things and they feel so alive because of it. I particularly love the scene where Ged fails to save the dying young boy, it feels totally real and painful even though magicās involved and the characters literally go to the afterlife
The next two books are even better imo.
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The Weekly Wrap Up has been posted! Read some books, saw a really great film, cool links as usual and a visit with the ortho to discuss my hip.
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Short and simple.
Even though my CMS broke, Iām glad I put all my templates together completely from scratch, because going in and manually editing the static archive to post this note has been pretty frictionless.
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Published two short things today:
The Power of Paper, about paper notebooks and how much I like them.
And a Blog post, which is dumb and self indulgent but its Christmas so why not. CW for one mention of death in the Blog post.
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I wrote this a few days ago. Been working on some fiction and did a half-assed character study.
https://new.starbreaker.org/grimoire/entries/letting-christabel-crowley-speak-for-herself/index.html
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I hope this isnāt a horse thatās been beaten to death too hard, but I feel like the people who were previously beating the horse didnāt know how to hold the bat properly.
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I love this post on paper! I am also a person who writes down everything because if I donāt I will immediately forgetā¦ I will say that Iāve done a lot of reading on different ways to express yourself and although I canāt give you all of the scientific background on it, your brain does process differently between writing by hand, typing, speech to text or recording, etc. so any feeling that you have about writing by hand being different or more meaningful is probably true :)
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This was quite an enjoyable read! Iāve tried many tools and apps for journalling and note-taking, and I keep coming back to a simple physical notebook.
Youāve certainly listed a few good points on why that is; I resonate a lot with the free-form nature of paper. Even with a stylus and digital notebooks, I still tend to get distracted by the plethora of choices and configuration, such as notebook cover, pen ink style, ink color. In paper, I limit my choices by sticking to the same pen. I can then focus on the content instead.
Another reason we might prefer paper notebooks is probably owing to the difference between typing and writing itself; which Iāve previously written about. Someone also told me once in response that they use a mechanical typewriter to get the best of both worlds ā typing slowly, you canāt fix mistakes, and the mechanical feedback.
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