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Yes, I fell down the Stardew Valley rabbit hole again. One of my kids AND my partner expressed an interest in starting multiplayer farms and I have been helpless to resist the siren song of my favorite game ever experienced in a whole new format - one where I get to play the expert guide! It was a foregone conclusion, I'm afraid. And then reviving my excitement for SDV got me finally checking out the new Baldur's Village mod on my own, which - I already knew Astarion was just the sort of scrungly blorbo I'm weakest for, but requiring a high-performance desktop computer prevented me from meeting him... until he was accessible as a sassy little pixel sprite. The mod is delightful, 99% polished, all the NPCs seem very strongly realized even to someone who hasn't played Baldur's Gate 3 (it's set after the conclusion of that game and right off the bat everyone is very palpably haggard and exhausted following The Events), and apparently the fan developers are planning to work in a romance arc for the huge bear elf druid Halsin next O_O

Anyway, this has somewhat slowed down my progress on book 5 XD

I am still at it though! This second year since publishing Low Dawn has been about learning to go with the flow, and trust my drive to regenerate during fallow periods. This isn't a fandom hyperfixation; it's my own world and my own characters, and their ability to rev me back up is different from the worlds and characters of others.

Also, my book 1-3 omnibus got selected for another Kobo sale! It'll be on for $3.99 from today until the 27th, at Kobo and every other bookstore platform served by Draft2Digital. Get it here!