Susan Sto-helit. Because in this world, after everyone panics,

I am not enjoying The Noises. too much power tools. I keep expecting something to come through the walls or the floor or, for all I can tell, the ceiling. And nobody tells us stuff like how long this will be going on. boo.


I am enjoying fanfic, though mostly only putside of work hours due to The Noises.

Rec:

The End of This Day's Business (62990 words) by Eleta_Preloc
Chapters: 13/13
Fandom: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Julian Bashir/Elim Garak, Elim Garak/Kelas Parmak, Elim Garak/Cardassia, Julian Bashir & Elim Garak & Kelas Parmak
Characters: Elim Garak, Julian Bashir, Kelas Parmak, Keiko O'Brien, Miles O'Brien, Original Human Character(s), Cardassian Character(s) (Star Trek), Arati Mhevet, Natima Lang
Additional Tags: Post-Canon Cardassia (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), Cardassian Culture (Star Trek), Cardassian Politics (Star Trek)
Summary:

Well, it's all right even when push comes to shove
Well, it's all right if you got someone to love
Well, it's all right, everything'll work out fine
Well, it's all right, we're going to the end of the line

It’s almost the last day on the job for Castellan Elim Garak. One or two loose threads to tie up and then he can retire home to his books and his garden and his doctors. Surely everything will work out fine?

What might have happened after The Crimson Shadow and Enigma Tales.

Today there are people doing power tool things in the hallway and I am Not Enjoying It.

But necessary Monday tasks got done so all I have to so is stay i the corner furthest from the Noise until they go home.
*xfingers*




I watched a few Legends of Tomorrow episodes this morning but today it was feeling sort of well chewed. I don't usually feel that way about rewatching things but I am kind of feeling that way about Several things at the moment. Think I need a new project, and maybe to watch some of the things off the stack I've never seen yet.

... also to actually go where there are people and interact with humans again at some point. Trickier than rewatching stuff at three in the morning.


Maybe if I start writing and see where it goes...

Current state of google searching:

AI summary did as requested and compared weight of pathfinder handy haversack and weight of fjallraven backpacks, saying many were lighter and some were heavier, but I still had to go to the fjallraven website and go through each backpack individually before I found the one that weighs the same.

Also the AI has a different answer for how many grams in 5lb than the regular google.

I have seen this thing screw up the maths in so so many ways. So many.

Asking it for two things is ambitious, but I thought it might link to both pages if I asked for two at once. Instead it linked neither and mixed DnD setting wikis and reddit discussions with reviews pages, when the literal rules for this seperate system are on the web and the product listings likewise. And it did so confidently and fluently while telling me the thing I had asked it for did not exist.

... I still don't actually need a real life handy haversack, but the answer was Keb 52 W. Which is about the right size in l too, and available in red.

I started replaying Wrath of the Righteous again. I had two saves that weren't really working out on difficulty grounds and I could remember nothing I'd decided about those characters so I deleted them and started again. And then, right after the bit with Lariel, I deleted that and went fast doing the exact same thing but at the difficulty I'd meant to choose when I named the character Hardy. So I am only up to the first door inside the Shield Maze but on Hard so it's slightly progress.

I decided to romance Sosiel this time and then realised if you decide to play a black man and then choose between character portraits with no context there is a one in three chance of looking exactly like his brother. Which seems awkward.
Though this thread
https://www.reddit.com/r/Pathfinder_Kingmaker/comments/14bngye/for_new_players_who_want_to_avoid_stealing_the/
says the game just changes the character portraits to someone else instead. Which I would not have guessed.

I chose the guy with the bow from Kingmaker, a game I really wish worked on xbox but I haven't replayed because of all the crashing. He is a cleric of Erastil and already I am remembering I never quite know what to do with clerics. But it is nice having a bunch of healing already.

... I only had to restart the fight with the earth elementals three times, but that's fiiiiiine, no problem...

I hope they make another Pathfinder game. I have a few things I haven't done in this one but most of what is left are either things it will let you do but I don't want to (Be Evil) or things it won't let you do because narrative arcs and tragedy etc (Redeem Everyone). It's a good satisfying game on multiple replays but I think I could benefit from playing a different game at some point.

... I tried a few where the movement made me motion sick though, and it's really frustrating trying to narrow down what's least likely to do that, so then I just play the good one again.



Although lately I have been mostly chewing on other 'verses. John Constantine in Wrath of the Righteous would lose his memories, lose his guilt and his Deals, his whole context. I was thinking that doesn't work but now I ponder it I can imagine him unfortunately well in an Azata to Devil mode. Trying out Freedom but taking a Deal instead? Story.

... I would like to give him a nicer Story, but, it gets tricky.



I read Magicians fic yesterday, despite not watching Magicians. It was fix it fic of a What If Q Lived variety, but it got there by killing him a lot a lot. Time Loop fic as depression, depression as time loop. Strong stuff.

Made me have a ponder about days being exactly the same until you do something about that.

I do not have any actual Plans to that effect yet, but, I am pondering the limitations of replay.

Kind of a start.


I have no idea when sleep oclock is today since all times are pretty sleepy without actual sleep ensuing.

Also I need to do more laundry but keep on not putting it on because my sleep is backwards and I know I can hear the neighbours machines.


All the stories where you solve problems by hitting them are simpler and more definitive, but mostly only useful for catharsis.

I should play a genre where it's all diplomacy and making friends instead.