So, things have been.
Ahem.
Yes, I know that's not proper grammar. Or rather, it's very weird grammar. (Technically, it's not totally wrong? Things have indeed existed, which is basically what that means? But's not phraseology that people would normally use. Nor is the word "phraseology," but that's beside the point. Actually, I'm not positive it's even a word, but this one character uses it in The Music Man, so...anyway. Irrelevant.)
My life has lately felt even weirder and more stagnant than ever. Partially because I more than ever feel the need to hide in my house from the world, but it's definitely not just that.
I had to buy a new computer because of the end of support for Windows 10. And, as I believe I posted before, I absolutely HATE Windows 11. To the extent that I've been putting off even turning on this computer so much so that one of my utility bills will be paid a day late and it took me a week to look at the results of the MRI I had done. Also that this computer's battery emptied itself in the time between when I last turned it on and when I turned it on this morning. (Though it also seems to have turned itself on at some point without my permission to download updates, which 100% should not be possible, but as soon as I plugged it back in and turned it on, it started installing updates. I looked over all its settings as soon as it finally turned on (after it was done updating the stupid thing turned itself off again!) and didn't see anything authorizing it to turn on at random intervals to check for and download updates, but it apparently did so anyway. (I think I'll put it on airplane mode before I turn it off, which will hopefully prevent it from doing that again. Might not stop it from turning on and exhausting its battery, but it should prevent it from downloading anything when it's supposed to be off.))
So, because of my new aversion to going online due to it requiring this overpriced hunk of junk (I didn't realize that the computer was named the Latin word for "conquered" because I was being targeted to be conquered by Microsoft!), I've been doing my writing on my old computer in airplane mode, because unsupported OS don't matter if the Internet can't touch ya! 🤣 (Ugh, those Windows 11 emojis are so ugly! Why would they even make the emojis worse for the new OS? Why would they even change them in the first place, for that matter!?) Which means, of course, that getting any of what I've written onto the internet to, say, quote a passage in my blog, is suddenly somewhat tricky. Unnecessarily tricky, in fact, considering that one of the changes to the way Blogger adds pictures to a post means that I can't add them on my phone anymore. Also there's the fact that for some reason this computer has decided that I should not be allowed to access my own pictures on Blogger, nor even to upload new ones! Thankfully, it turns out I can still add pictures by dragging and dropping (for the moment!) so I can still add pictures, but it's even more awkward than ever before.
Anyway.
What I've been writing lately has been (surprise, surprise!) another Mo Dao Zu Shi fanfic. Though I did at least get a little writing done on the rewrite of The Tablet of Destinies, but...ugh, it's such a mess. It's actually really hard to rewrite it just because the current draft is such garbage. It's much easier to just focus on writing pointless fanfic.
I want to talk about this current fic now, blathering meaninglessly, as usual, but I think I'll put in a blocker line so the whole post won't go on the front page of the blog.
