January 2025 Overview

[selenicseas]

Due to a poorly-timed episode of autoimmune fatigue and then a cold following a few days later, I didn’t get as much done as I would have liked in January. I drew a new avatar and finished a few other sketches, one which can be seen on my website’s Art Log. I worked on the outline of Selegesine’s Shadow, which is unfortunately nowhere near complete. I wrote a couple of blog posts and a review for the Sailor Moon Cosmos movies. I also read a couple of short stories and most of The Mercy of Gods.

After saving local copies of the important stuff, I scrubbed my Gmail account of literally thousands of emails. I’d say about 99% of those emails were of zero importance whatsoever. I don’t know why I ever decided to keep them in the first place.

I backed a Kickstarter for PixelFed and Loops. There’s still time to back it; it ends on March 8. While I don’t see myself using either of those sites/apps, I’m always willing to support social platforms that aren’t owned by billionaires.

I obtained a couple of nonfiction books (Bullshit Jobs, The Struggle Against the State, and The Conquest of Bread) through Amazon. I wouldn’t normally buy books – or anything, really – through Amazon, but I was unfortunately given a gift card for Christmas. Now that I’ve used it up, it’s back to buying books from local bookstores.