Today’s deck is the Neopets Tarot.
“Faerie Edition”, is there a non-faerie one? Dunno. Got this one because someone I know got it and I was curious.
I never played too much Neopets. I gave it a try once but I didn’t have internet at home and I wasn’t able to go to internet cafes until I was in like 8th grade at which point I spent my time there reading manga while I waited for ROMs and other manga to download.
I didn’t even visit forums or 4chan until I was almost in college. Not to mention that I didn’t really share any interests with any kids in my class so I didn’t even have that “bonding over thing and playing a game together” experience necessarily. My only contacts with the community-building side of the internet pre-college were MSN and Facebook, and those were just extensions of real life anyways. Which made it all the more surreal to me when I’d hear a classmate talk about how he had friends in Argentina he played Neopets with.
Today’s reading is comically simple. A hard working knight, rest, and a new cycle. “Work hard play hard”.
Before waking up I felt such a need to write here about all the weird dreams I had but they feel so distant now. Whatever emotions stirred by all the random synapses firing vanishing away. That itself is honestly as wild a feeling to me as the dreams themselves.
The main thing today was an appointment at the dentist at 3, so I killed time working but also splurging a bit on clothes. It’s been a long while since I’ve refreshed my wardrobe outside of managing the eternal rotation of Uniqlo shirts.
At the dentist they took pics of my mouth to keep track of progress and they pointed out a couple of small cavities (the kind where they’re not a problem but might become one) haven’t improved since May, but I also pointed out that they also haven’t gotten any WORSE.
Then they put the comparison with when I first went in 2020 and HOOOOO BOY there’s so much change. It even looks like my gums shrank/receded just because they were THAT inflammated before.
Afterwards, I had this idea today of going to take pics to one specific spot I had in mind with a specific doll. I took a more roundabout route and my mind was blown when I saw Orange Street. It was blown because “Orange Street” was one of those things that I couldn’t remember if it was a dream or real but in the extremely stressful period that now feels like a dream.
The fact that it was so close to many spots I frequent made me feel extra silly.
The spot I went to is Namba Hatch, a concert hall type place with huge stairs on one of the edges of Dotonbori. They apparently started some construction that started from last year???? Man, I haven’t visited this spot for longer than I thought. But also the construction is going to happen until 2031.
Realistically, 2031 is right there, I’m going to blink, become 38, forget how things were before there was a construction at all and just go “ohshit, what’s this”. But it’s still wild to even hear plans that long in advance. Life tends to be so chaotic that even planning a dentist appointment 3 months ahead feels weird.
Here’s hoping I can make it to 38 honestly.
Musings about entropy aside, I came here specifically to take these pics with Sol. Here specifically and her specifically because the second set of pics I ever took with her was here in 2022.
Camerawork and posing aside, you can definitely tell the evolution in her character. As N succintly put “from demure emo to diva”.
Went right back home afterwards to work so nothing new there… nothing I can talk about for now, at least.