On the Critical Role front, a friend has sent me some very specific spoilers about last night's episode as well as timestamps to avoid, so I'm going to try to watch it again this weekend but this time going in prepared. When I watch this time, I'm going to very carefully fast-forward through some scenes to try to avoid being set off again like I was when I was watching it live. Because gods only know the last thing I need is another accidental panic attack.

We'll see how it goes?

I've gotta admit, one of the biggest things that annoys me about Critical Role is their refusal to add content warnings of any type even now that they're prerecording. It made sense when they were properly airing live prior to 2020, because that just wasn't possible, but now? It would help a lot of people to at least have an option to know in advance that an episode was going to include common triggers. They gave warnings for the Divergence miniseries, so it's definitely possible for them to do. They just don't do it most of the time.

Let's see...

I finally managed to get my Yuletide sign-up done earlier this afternoon. It took a lot longer than I was expecting, but I got it in a few hours before the deadline so that I still had time to go back and make a few small edits before they closed. So that's a relief at least. I'm having a few regrets about not trimming down my list of offers a bit more than I did, but that happens every year, so it's not exactly something new.

The Dragon Age Reverse Bang's deadline is Sunday, so my artist and I are both hurrying to get everything finished. My brain's a bit mush right now despite me napping after work, because A. I slept like crap and B. I think that I might be coming down with something, so I think that I'm going to go to bed in a bit so that I can plan on getting up early and curling up with my laptop to spend tomorrow writing until I get this ever-growing monster of a fic done.

Okay, yeah, I think that I may no longer be watching Critical Role.

( Rambling under the cut. )

ETA: In retrospect, I was definitely having a mild panic attack for a while there, so I've apparently found a fun new trigger. A friend is sending me some very specific spoilers and timestamps about last night's episode, so I'm going to try it again when I can go in prepared. It's not as bad as it initially seemed, but the way it was handled was definitely... not great.

I swear that it feels like time's speeding by the last few days, to the point where I haven't been able to get anything done. It's because I've been having to nap in the afternoons to make up for my lack of sleep at night, so it's not like I don't know why I feel like I have no spare time, but still.

D&D starts in about ten minutes, so that's going to take up the right of my night. Tomorrow, I have to finish up my Yuletide letter and sign-up whether my brain likes it or not. It's taking forever because I'm requesting multiple new fandoms this year, so I'm having to write those sections of the letter from scratch, but I'm running out of time so I've gotta get it finished.

Then I desperately need to finish my fic for the Dragon Age Reverse Bang by Saturday at the latest. It's due on Sunday, and both my artist and I are scrambling to finish up. The fic's one of those ones that decided to keep growing and growing on me, as isn't uncommon with that fandom, which hasn't exactly helped.

Come on, brain. Cooperate for just a few days. Please?

Those of you who've been around for ages probably remember when I worked at what I not-so-lovingly called the Restaurant of FAIL when I first moved to Maryland. There was a beer & wine store nearby that doubled as a small bar that I spent a lot of time at back then, and even once I moved further north I still tried to go there from time-to-time until I, you know, stopped having a car. Even now, whenever I happened to be down in the area for a doctor's appointment or whatever, I'd try to stop by since it's within walking distance of the metro.

Anyway, I just saw that they made a post on Facebook on Thursday saying that they're permanently closing tomorrow. Three days' notice. That's it. Considering that very much is not something the Gilly's that I knew would do, I quickly did some googling to figure out what on earth was going on. And, well, I found this Reddit post from back in February. Which explains a lot.

From what I can tell, without any warning they fired the entire management team (some of whom had been there for 10-15 years) for nepotism purposes, which pissed off a lot of the staff and caused many of them to quit. Then a big chunk of the long-time customers stopped visiting after that as well, because the staff is what kept people coming more than anything. And, uh, it doesn't seem to have ended well for them.

My financial situation is even more precarious than usual thanks to some news I got this week, so I'm desperately trying to raise money yet again. I'm going to try to make it to my storage unit this weekend, so I might have several virtual garage sale posts going up, but for the time being this is the only one as I'm running out of things that I have in the hotel with me to try to sell.

Would anyone be interested in any of the following Nintendo Switch games?

Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! (example on Amazon)
Spyro Reignited Trilogy (example on Amazon)
TemTem (example on Amazon)

For payment, I have CashApp ($Settiai), PayPal, Venmo, or Zelle (nancy.lynn.foster@gmail.com).

If you're interested but know someone who might be, please point them my way.

Daughter of Luck (2467 words) by Settiai
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Characters: Original Half-Elf Character(s) (Dungeons & Dragons), Original Human Character(s) (Dungeons & Dragons)
Additional Tags: Background Poly, Dungeons & Dragons Character Backstory, Family, Illegitimacy, Loss, Mother-Daughter Relationship, One Shot
Series: Part 1 of Aurendor
Summary: Siân Valinta might be what half the city called her, a good half of them mockingly, but Siân Breyer was who she was and who she always would be.