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♥ Because of the weather, my manager asked if I wanted to work from home over the next few days. The weather isn't that bad near me, but I'm tempted to just to avoid the cold of the commute and the skating rink of our driveway. The only trouble is, I forgot to bring the charging cable for my laptop home, so I'd have to take it in shifts with the person I live with. I don't need to work from home, so it's just the question of which faff I want to live with.

♥ I've played a few demos on Steam that I've enjoyed recently: Loddlenaut, Valley Peaks, and Wildfrost. Loddlenaut, I've had my eye on for a while, but the other two were new to me. I liked Valley Peaks (and its accessibility features) but I think it'd be easier with an actual mouse, not a trackpad. Wildfrost was fun, and reminded me of Slay the Spire, but I'm having trouble gauging if it's difficult because I'm bad at it, or because they've made it really difficult.

I've ended up just picking up Slay the Spire again, and I'm really enjoying it! Now that's a game where I know my failures are my own mistake (or, rarely, bad luck). I've played 14 hours of it and I haven't beaten it yet, but I'll keep throwing myself at it!

♥ I've started getting into icon-making! Because I needed another creative hobby. 😅 I'm still trying to decide if I want to shell out money for more icon slots, when I don't know if I'll use many icons, but... the thought is tempting. At least I can make myself the Guild Wars 2 icons I was really lusting after (as well as filling my own

icontalking wishlist request for some icons of Wang Lingjiao, which I've been working on).

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lol I'm also playing Slay The Spire right now. I really need to start focusing on defense cards more, because it is MURDER out there.

So happy you're trying out icon making! If nothing else, it's so great to be able to make something for That One Scene/Character that you really want.

I'm still trying to figure out the right balance of defense and offense. I should probably look up Slay the Spire strategies or builds, but my brain is convinced it would be cheating for me to do that, so I'm just muddling through myself.

Definitely! I've made a few for the character I really wanted icons of, just messing around so far. I think it reminds me of gif-making in that respect, which I got into a few months ago. Initially it was just for making pretty edits of my MMO characters, but then I realised I could make a gif of One Scene I'd searched through a show's entire edit tag up to the episode air date to try and find, without any luck.

Icon making is a lot of fun! I used to do that all the time on Livejournal, though I never was super great like some other people. And I never got the hang of making cool gif icons! XD Since I’ve taken up DW again, I felt the urgent need to make icons again, especially to show my new fannish interests.

I’ve wanted to try animated icons again, re-do the one I made and try some more stuff, when I finally have the time.

I haven't delved into trying to make gif icons yet. I know the theory of how to do it, I think, from making gifs in general, but it's intimidating, and I haven't found a good enough concept yet. I'm enjoying making them, though - both for minor characters and for fandoms that I haven't found icons for myself.

Good luck with getting the time to do some more icon-making yourself!