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I thought I felt better this morning so I went back to work (good timing too because our boss returned from his three month recovery + rehab), only for my colleagues to send me home in the afternoon when my cough got worse again and then the doctor told me I have bronchitis. Uuugh. We have so many deadlines coming up too.
I infected DD again, of course, but she's not doing as badly yet and hopefully won't. Unfortunately we haven't done a great job at not talking to each other when we're sitting at the same table (which is most of the time we're both home), much less not make each other laugh.

I'm glad the British queen's funeral is over, because as much as my dark-humor-loving self enjoyed herself in the past few days, sadly the jokes got older much faster then the feelings of "what the actual fuck" when reading about things like playground being closed or even operations being cancelled "in her honor" - what, is this ancient times and they want to send more people with her into the afterlife?

Yuletide nominations are open. I'm mostly sure of two fandoms I want to request (and thus have to nominate) this year, but have very little idea of the third, and the clock is ticking. Hm.

Other things that happened in the last few weeks: more Minecraft. Since the last update: building and exploring )
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I wanted to make another post but most things on my brain currently - well, the ones I want to talk about - are in some way Minecraft-related, either playing myself or watching other people play it. Well, Minecraft and pending-exam-anxiety, but I took the next week off for studying so I should be fine, fingers crossed. Minecraft is helpful for anxiety, but I'll need to be very disciplined so it doesn't distract me too much. Fortunately I can usually never play longer than an hour at a time before I need a break, idk why.

DD tried out a Minecraft demo and loved it :D (Quote DD: "I feel like "loved it" doesn't fully encompass my emotional reaction.") I'm very happy and proud of my success rate at getting her into things, it's fantastic. (DD: "You're an evil enabler and I hate you." Me: "I'm so good at this." DD: "You know what's the worst thing, you're getting better at it." This might be a good place to mention that we are also currently watching SMP Earth together, and while she's not watching herself, she admitted to enjoying the exposure to MCC and DSMP through me.)
She's on her second world (she got frustrated because there was so much ocean in the first one), and she's already built herself a house with a farm and she has a ton of resources because she's exploring so many caves. DD has been playing different versions of Civ and the Sims for over two decades, and in the past year I got her into playing Hades and Phoenotopia, and yet yesterday she told me that playing Minecraft is the first thing that makes her feel like a "gamer," which tbh I find hilarious.
Maybe we'll play together on a multiplayer world eventually :)

Teams were announced for the next MCC and I'm very excited about it already. I'm still watching older MCCs, I'm up to MCC 9, but my pace has slowed down a lot because the more players I'm familiar with the more different perspectives I want to watch.

I've also been watching more DSMP, some old ones and some more recent ones. Yesterday was the big end of Las Nevadas and it was fun. Spoilers )
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There were a couple of quotes I saw often together with art in memory of Technoblade, so I looked them up and found out they were from the poem one sees after killing the dragon in Minecraft. I started reading the poem but it's so beautiful that I stopped because just in case I ever played Minecraft I wanted to have the experience of reading it in full for the first time then.

…less than a week later I started playing Minecraft. What a surprise. I named my world Aurantia, after the hidden area of harpies and trolls in Phoenotopia: Awakening, and I left all the normal difficulty settings, which I'm worried I'll regret but it's okay so far. I've been making regular notes and it just randomly occurred to me that I might as well post them, idk.

Adventures in Aurantia )

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