SC'25 Reading Challenge

Another Summer Camp came and went, and unfortunately I didn't manage to reach my goal of Copper this year either. That's fine, though.   I've come to terms with the fact that summer time is the time that real life seems to want to bite me in the rear. And I simply can't get myself to write half-assed articles just to fill the quota. Even with the knowledge that I could fill them out more after the event. I don't know. I sort of enjoy the somewhat lengthy and diligent process I go through to piece my articles together, and I'm finding myself not really satisfied when I have to rush something out that ends up feeling half-finished.   Sometimes prompts during Summer Camp just sparks something and I just vomit words out on the paper — Ha’asja Muursamul and Grand Halls of the Enlightened sort of wrote themselves — but most of the time I have to invest the same amount of effort I usually do, but within a very constrained time frame.   It didn't help that I found this year's prompts to be unusually difficult for me — though if that's a problem with the prompts themselves or a problem with me being in the wrong headspace... Probably it's a combination of both.  

The Next Half-Year

Goals have never been clearer, but whether I can reach them or not in what feels like a timely manner is another question. It's been a... tumultuous year and it's not looking like it'll get any better. I'm a little buffeted by everything happening in real life, and the near future feels very uncertain. It's been hard to concentrate on writing. On the other hand, I've been drawing a lot instead. Maybe my brain needs that side of creativity more right now.   As it looks right now, Rosepetal will remain a slow growth. I simply don't have the focus and energy. I'll probably be posting an update on my profile soon-ish with more details.  

Article Picks

In the same spirit as my Summer Camp submissions effort, I haven't really managed to invest a whole lot of energy in the community sadly. But here's a couple of reads I'd recommend.