I'm a slayer, ask me how.

Wow - prior to my last post/link to my website, the last time I had posted to Dreamwidth was May 2021? I can't believe it. I used to live here.

I definitely got caught up in the other social media out there. It's hard to deny the quick photo posts and tiktok videos make for easy engagement, especially when you find a niche group - mine was board game nerds. It's such a small, tight knit group on those sites that it was easy to slip in and become part of the conversation. And, of course, Discord and the real time chat. Twitter was fun...now it's just a hot mess that I peek in on.

And I have been spending a lot of time either playing board games online or on the table. I have a premium account on Board Game Arena and I average about 100 games a month, playing them asynchronously and in real time (I'm playing a real-time game of Castles of Burgundy right now, typing in between turns).

But why did I leave? I think I know why which was...guilt. I was having a hard time keeping up with posts on here. My job has become more time consuming - I was a branch manager at a small library in May 2021 and about two months later, I became the branch manager of the big library I used to work in before that promotion in 2019. And my inbox kept filling up with all of your entries and I could not find the time to read them and then I felt posting knowing that I had not read your entries, but here I was posting my own, asking you to read and respond even though I had not made that time for you.

Anyway, am I back? Maybe? I'm going to make an effort to at least post links here to my other sites and posts. But apologies in advance if I go quiet again. If you're wondering what game I'm playing or book I'm reading, I'm orangerful all over the internet haha. I'm even having fun on TikTok!

I hope you are all well and that 2023 is off to a decent start! I feel like January was a false start so let's just move forward into February!

I finally typed up a post on my Wordpress blog about my experience playing Alice is Missing, an amazing tabletop RPG.

And I just checked my twitter and not only did the CREATOR OF THE GAME like and retweet my post, but the official publisher of the game also just posted it to their twitter.

I feel internet famous. **BREATHS IN** aw yeah, endorphins are hitting the fangirl part of my brain just right.

Anyway, if you want to read it, you can find it here.



And if you would be interested in playing, let me know or hang out in the Hunters Discord. Lots of people looking for groups. I do have the Roll20 app so I can host a game.

It is an emotional roller coaster.

My LJ was created in 2001 so it is a few years shy of 20, but still going strong. I honestly don't know what my life would be like without LJ. I made so many friends through different fandoms, learned basic HTML and Photoshop, and it has always been there for me as a place to ramble. For a site that is dead, there seems to be a lot of activity! I've said it many times, but I think LJ is one of the best social media platforms — the posts, the threaded comments, the communities. It has always felt easier to find like-minded people here than any other service.

I have too many blogs.

I've started posting my "annotated" playlist from 2018 to my Wordpress blog in an effort to have something to post each week.

And then I remembered it was Tuesday so I queued up a post for the What We're Reading Wednesday blog hop.

I might cross-post some things here but if you want to follow my Wordpress blog (all the cool kids are doing it!) you can find it here -- www.orangerful.com

And now instead of going to bed at a decent hour, I've stayed up way longer than I meant to. OH WELL! #bloggerproblems