Today’s deck is the Green Witch Tarot.
It’s good! I did have to look up what the hell an Athame was, though. Turns out it’s a specific double-sided ritual sword which really fits the theme.
Today’s reading talks about it being the time to take advantage of prosperity and drive to push ahead and do what I’ve wanted to do.
It’s probably nudging me to get back into working on the next photobook.
I often ask my family how my pets are doing and aside from the usual outbreak of fleas (and the inevitable “the fleas keep biting your dad because he refuses to move away the cats when they climb onto him”) they’ve thankfully remained healthy and lazy.
They still are, but my dog is in that time of the year where she thinks she’s pregnant.
So for context: Our current dog is Mila, which is short for “Milagro” or “Miracle”. She got her name because my sister took pity on her after seeing her near my mom’s hair stylist and she was in an awful state, she had a wound festering with maggots, could barely walk… she got her name because the fact she’s alive is nothing short of a miracle.
Mila is the archetypal stray dog, loyal to a fault, overprotective, and still eats like someone or something is gonna take her food away.
As a sidenote, Mila was paired up with Negra, who died a few years ago, and Negra in turn was paired up with Niña so it’s one of the few periods where the house has only had a single dog for this long in… a long while.
Anyway, Mila has always had a few screws loose. Case in point: She gets periods where she thinks she’s pregnant. Now, this isn’t weird, Niña and Negra had those periods too, but they usually just ate a bit less and got a bit moody and under the weather. One such time Mila outright started lactating which was wild.
There’s really no deeper meaning behind me telling this. I grew up always surrounded by animals, and not having a pet ever since moving to Japan is one of those parts of me that only shows through via the sudden glow up people behold when I get to pet one of the local cats or the dumb smile I get when I see someone walking a dog.
I’ve thought about getting a pet, but at first the issue was a matter of “I can barely take care of myself, how will I take care of someone else” and nowadays it’s more like “I tend to be out of the house for like a week per month, who’s gonna feed the creature while I’m gone?”.
Same reason why my plans of starting a garden in my balcony haven’t gone anywhere.
One day I’ll know someone that lives close enough and I’m close enough I can bother with that, but today is not that day.
For anyone wondering about the title, a couple of months ago I decided to start tracking gamedev progress (whenever it actually happens) here and I’m guessing because I mention N1RV Ann-A someone posted it on the Steam Forums?
I don’t know the exact thread (I only see the steamcommunity pingback) and I sure as fucking hell am not gonna check that cesspit or 4chan expats to see where it came from. It’s just kinda amusing to think about someone clicking the link to that post and then either staying because they get lost in my ramblings or get annoyed at the sight of almost 400 posts of pure rambling.
I wanna believe the former, but knowing those types it’s probably the latter, they just want excuses to be angry and choose Fucking Videogames as the reason.
Yeah my opinion of the Steam Forums (or any platform like it like subreddits) isn’t the highest in case you couldn’t tell.
There wasn’t much else to my day, some sorting here, some Coal LLC there…
…wait, no, there is one thing.
After Japanese lesson I stopped by Maruzen & Junkudo, a huge book store in Umeda and near the entrace there was…
I have oh so many questions…