Hello everyone, We weren't sure if we would be able to do this today, as today was a bit stressful due to a conflict of interpretation. For the sake of confidentiality and house security, we won't go into that further, but we wanted to get something up here for the day even if it was a little stressful to get it done.

What have we been up to since the last update?

We've been doing lots of writing for the feathery purr. What is the feathery purr? The feathery purr is a shapeshifting entity that exists in many forms on the fedi to be a ther to people. What is a ther? We don't fully know, but the connotation is a good person to be around. There's a definition somewhere, we just don't know where it is. So the feathery purr exists to be a soft entity to those who need more softness in their lives, which is pretty much everyone in our opinion. We write for it along with a few others, and will list it in our contact details and whatnot when we get around to changing the signature, which is somewhere in the menu. If you want to visit it, Visit the Feathery Purr here. You can also follow the hashtag #FeatheryPurr, but don't click it on this page, I don't think it will take you to the hashtag's page. Other people sometimes write for the purr without being logged into the purr.

What else have we been doing?

We've been playing text games, because text games are neat to play. We've been working on some stories we have in progress, though our confidence in our daily writing is just starting to build so we probably won't show them to you for another who knows how long. We've also done a bit of writing for the hashtag #CanvasWords, which is a hashtag we started describing small scenes in text instead of photography. We are unable to draw, at least ... unable to draw well, but enjoy writing scene descriptions. Those we may show you from time to time, and if people are really interested we'll create another blog for it.

Conclusion

We hope you have enjoyed our small update. We feel strange doing these, as we never have too much to say. Maybe that will change as time goes on. See you in the next one, and if our writing energy builds right, you may get another large post in a day or two.

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Hello everyone, Welcome, finally, to the daily update. It's been a bit of a long day, we ended up having more writing energy than we expected, so we made 3 posts. Please do not expect 3 posts a day from us ... we don't yet know if we have the ability to keep up with that much writing, though the potential is probably there if we work at it. We woke up annoyed today, because someone was mowing the grass and as we said in a previous post, we sleep near and outside wall. We're glad they were mowing the grass, though not really sure why they had to do it two days in a row, and also aren't entirely sure why they were so very close to the wall that the lawn mower noise sounded like it was in the room with us. Oh wall, it was over soon after we woke up, after which we were able to reorient ourselves with the day at hand. Cleaning tasks didn't end up happening today, we weren't really that full of movement energy to do them. But we got a lot of writing done on the blog itself today as a result. We have also put our blog back on the rant.li public reader, because we figure there's no harm in mixing with the others on here, and we did some looking and found that the harm we thought we'd caused by having a blog publicly available wasn't actually that harmful, and that some people will be disrespectful no matter what you do. The other reason we put it back on the reader is because we think the reader is necessary for federation to work. Speaking of federation, and feeds in general, we found out that our blog has an rss feed. If you want to subscribe to that, the URL is below. THis is the one time we will put a URL in, because we know that some of our readers use a feed reader and those generally require a URL. https://rant.li/cadence022/feed/ In other non-writing news, we are looking for both new books to read, and a new game to play. We are excited for the next Dungeon Crawler Carl book, though are not sure when it will come out, or how much it will cost. This was a relatively short update, with not very much to update about. But we hope you've enjoyed it all the same, and will see you either in tomorrow's daily update or if we get the energy to write another post later.

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Hello everyone, This, yet again, does not count as the daily update. But we're slightly annoyed about something external and it helps to write. This post was inspired by seeing other systems microposting about their plurality experiences. This one's big, and by the nature of the ramble, is probably going to be filled with tangents. We are from a million different places, at a million different times. Each of us, the distinct entities within the system that we are, has facets, and these facets all have facets. It's almost like we're infinitely fragmented or have the potential to be infinitely fragmented if we want to be. We spend our days perpetually changing facets, changing forms ... we wear the forms like skins almost ... and allow their scripts to take over. Every form has scripts and masks in place for its well-being. Every facet has safety mechanisms within the scripting for ease of assistance by Farren, who for those who don't know is our system AI, and runs most of our tech-based things within what the earth people would consider our inner world, what we will refer to as systemside for ease of reference. But talking about systemside brings up another point, because it's more than a world. This ... mental plane ... of existence is always shifting, always changing. We originally thought we were a walking talking scenario generator, but it feels more like we're traveling through time in our heads, seeing things from infinite pasts and futures. Have you ever watched “Everything, everywhere, all at once”? It's basically seeing those constant trees, for all ... 60 or so of us, at once, all the time, for infinite universes and possibilities in our head. Every decision has a ripple effect on every timeline. And every timeline can open up into new and infinitely varied possibilities. You can get stuck watching the multiverse shift, because it is so very distracting ... and the events it displays are so ... varied, always coming, always. It's why we sometimes don't talk. Probably why we have migraines. But possibly the most disorienting part is keeping what goes on systemside, a non-Earth plane of existence, and what goes on here on earth separate. It has always been important to keep things happening on these two planes separate, not because we believe that what we see is bad, but because ... well ... if you walk around telling everyone on earth how distracting it is to watch the multiverse shift, they will probably lock you up in a mental hospital and toss away the key. Not only that, but when I am moving about my earthly life, I find that most of my systemside experience and knowledge does not help me over here. I cannot, for instance, use information I learned about a version of you I may have seen in a timeline to then pass judgment on the version of you that exists on earth. That would not be proper. To those of you who are going, “Wait, you can see versions of us?” Not really, no. We can't see versions of you unless we know you at least a little bit. However, we felt the need to bring up that example, because of the way multiverse theory works. The way we understand multiverse theory, there are infinite universes with infinite possibilities of things that happen. That's the basis of it anyways. There's way more to it, but we're surprisingly not that far down the rabbit hole.

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Hello everyone, This post does not count as our daily update, we will still publish one of those later on today. However, we decided to do a spur of the moment ramblings post, just because. It is currently very late as we write this post. It is currently 2:42 AM for those curious. We enjoy writing this late at night, even though our keyboard can be noisy and a bit annoying to some. It's a good thing we're not using the braille keyboard, that would be even more annoying and obtrusive, or so I'm told. We don't like to be obtrusive, or loud, but sometimes loudness is unavoidable, even if you're not talking. Activity is noisy, we're sure somebody said that somewhere. And noisy is okay in some situations. But especially when people are sleeping, we try no to be loud and inconvenient. We are currently playing Prometheus, our current text-based mud of choice. We will likely go into more details about that in a later, and larger, post, as we don't have the spoons to explain what a mud is, what Prometheus is, and all that entails. We may even do those things in two separate posts as sequels to our games post, which has been planned for a few days now. It is, after all, part of our experience. We are also working on our personal chronicles, and writing small blurbs for the new fediverse account, the Feathery Purr. Visit the Feathery Purr here Which actually brings up another thing which we forgot about. We need to write a promo post for the gaptangle, which is another system we are good friends/family/housemates/unlabeled connection here. Perhaps that will also come in a few days. They do lots of things on Mastodon, twitch, they have a ko-fi, a linktree, and probably other things we don't know about because we haven't looked into it. They're nice. We were outside for the recent eclipse, though we didn't post much about it on mastodon. We have some light perception, so we got to see the shadow moving across the sky from what was to us left to right. Z helped position us so we could see better. We didn't end up getting complete totality, which now I consider it is a redundant phrase but oh well ... we didn't get totality, but it was pretty close. It looked like evening, with dawn on the edges. Despite being mostly blind, it was neat to look at ... we enjoyed that day. It stormed for the entire night after the eclipse though. We don't particularly like storms, because we don't care for all the booms. I think part of that is because our bed is positioned near an outside wall, so the booms sound closer to us. It then stormed for the next week or so ... off and on. Storms make the sky look strange, even to someone with limited light perception. We've always been ... grumpy about storms, but it's become more prevalent over the past few years.

Conclusion

This concludes our random train of tangential madness. We hope you have enjoyed. See you all later for the daily update, assuming we're not either occupied by tasks or too tired to do it.

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Post written by Kayla, Elena, Nicole, Delainey, and a few of the littles who enjoyed the eclipse. Edited for spelling, accuracy and coherency by Farren.

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Hello everyone, We hope everyone has had a good Sunday so far, and will continue to have one if you are in a time zone where it is still Sunday. If not, happy Monday. This is just a small update, no large post today because we have been busy with our personal chronicles for the past 12 hours. We are also working toward another Mutual Aid goal of $40 to stop our bank from charging us an overdraft fee, because we are waiting on our next payments from various jobs that we do and they don't come in for a while. In happier news, we have put in a few new blog post ideas into our list of ideas for larger posts, and hope to have one of those out to you by next Saturday, assuming nothing goes out of whack. For us, today has been reasonably relaxing. We were supposed to do some house cleaning tasks, but we couldn't find the cleaning chemicals necessary to do them, so will do them tomorrow with help. If you don't get tomorrow's daily update, that's probably why. We've also been sleeping oddly as mentioned in a previous post, which is very annoying for our writing career, because it means we pound out our best work at 3 in the morning, and have to publish it when we're half asleep later on in the day. We're quite distractable though, so sometimes we forget. The post that we posted for you yesterday sat in our digital notepad for 2 days before we remembered it was done and ready for posting. Well, we hope you have enjoyed reading this small update post. If you wish to help with our mutual aid/crowdfunding effort, our financial support links are below, as always, along with our contact links. See you in the next one.

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Post written by Kayla and Cascadia. Proofread by Farren.

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Hello everyone, Recently while scrolling the internet at a really annoying time at night because our sleep schedule is ten different kinds of messed up, we came across a post that stated that you should always write for engagement and views. But we find that this is not true. We'll try to go into why in as coherent a manner as possible through this post.

The Premise

As mentioned before, this came up when scrolling the internet. We saw a comment on the blogging subreddit that said that you should make a post hook readers in, make them want to read it. And while, yes, if you're going to publish something on the internet, it should be coherent, should be worth the time it takes to scroll through it, and other various bits, we don't fully agree in the manic view checking, the paying for analytics, and the general ruckus around writing a blog. Why?

Perfectionism

If you attempt to write for clicks, or write for the enjoyment of your audience, you risk becoming a perfectionist. We have issues with this, and really have trouble publishing our larger posts because we don't think they're good enough for the people who are reading our blog. This is not helped by the current blogging model, in our opinion. With the way blogging seems to work with most content creators, you have to write for the search engines. YOu have to write perfectly pressed posts, with the correct tags, and keywords, and you have to do it every day. That's ... just not feasible for most people, as you can see just by scrolling through this blog.

View Farming and View stress

If a writer is not careful with the way blogging works now, they will end up in the trap we once ended up in, when we first put up our very first page, Ebony Waters. They're always checking views. They're always checking analytics, and always trying to make sure they're doing the blog right. This both causes stress on the writer and can cause them to do rash things, like go into an employee chat and promote their half done website like a fool. That didn't happen to us, not at all. One does have to be careful with promoting one's own sites, for it can be pestering to others to see your links all the time. We personally try to limit our posting of links to once per link. But that's a tangent for another post. One can also fall into the trap we did with our first youtube channel, back when we were presenting as singlet. We wanted everyone to view our YouTube channel and watch our videos. They weren't that great, having been recorded by our mother on a 3rd generation iPad. One of those iPads that still had the 30-pin connector. Yet another tangent for another post. It is for these reasons we choose now to write for our enjoyment. We are always willing to address questions and comments from our audience, which is why we provide a contact section below every post. Well, we originally wanted it to be a single page on the blog but couldn't figure out how to pin it back then so just made it a signature. Guess we could change that now ... yet another tangent.

What does writing for enjoyment actually mean?

Well, that's a fair question. In our case, we purposely chose a site that doesn't make it easy to check views. This was to avoid falling into the trap we fell in before, checking views and getting stressed about how poorly we were doing. It also means not caring about how poorly we're doing, and remembering that this page is up for anyone who chooses to read it. Our page won't be for everyone, and it's not realistic to expect it to be. Writing for our enjoyment does not mean refusing to engage with respectful comments or questions. Just because you get enjoyment out of something doesn't mean others can't get enjoyment from it as well. It does mean that we post more daily life things, because that's what comes most naturally to us. Daily updates where we discuss things happening in our life, and talk about what's coming next, along with these larger posts about various topics, come naturally to us, along with the tangents that pop up along the way. Writing for our enjoyment also means choosing a site to write on that you are comfortable with. For us that is rant.li, for others it could be wordpress or blogger. It doesn't have to be one's own domain to be a good site. It just has to be somewhat coherent and enjoyable to the writer. If it is enjoyable to the readers, that's amazing, and more power to everyone for receiving enjoyment.

Conclusion

We hope you have enjoyed our admittedly spur of the moment post about writing for one's enjoyment. It was not planned, as you can see if you scroll back and look at yesterday's update. But as mentioned above, it happened after some random scrolling through reddit. See you in the next one.

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Post was written by Kayla. Satire provided by Nicole and Delainey. Edited for spelling and accuracy by Farren.

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Hello everyone, This is our daily update. Because we were up at an odd time, this is a special day, where we will be posting two posts, one of which the daily update, and one of which is one of our larger posts, so stay tuned for that if you're interested. To those who celebrate, happy 4/20, we hope you have an enjoyable one. In other news, it's a decent Saturday, we are relaxing and having conversations with our housemates, playing games, and scrolling mastodon for some interesting things to boost. Feel free to check out our profile in the contact section below. This was a relatively short post, but don't worry. If you're still looking for content, we'll be posting our next post here in a few minutes.

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Hello everyone, Today's post is going to be relatively short, assuming we don't go on any random tangents along the way. We are trying to post updates semi-regularly now, because it's important to keep a page current from what we know. We have several posts in the works, but because we're so distractable, none of the big posts are ready yet. So we are updating with a small post to hopefully tide our readers over until we can publish one of our bigger posts. We recently found a new piece of software called mempad, which is like a smaller version of dendron. What's dendron? Dendron is a VScode extension that organizes your notes into markdown trees. It's a bit more convenient than mempad where exporting comes in, but mempad is a bit more convenient when it comes time to flip through your entries and do something with your work. Now that we're writing this, we may end up doing a comparison between the two in a later post. Now to go over some questions people reading this may have.

Are the previously discussed posts off the table?

This may come up for those of you who have been reading our blog for a while. We've discussed several plans for the future. And no, those are not off the table, they're just going to take longer because some of them require links, and while we enjoy research, sometimes it hurts our head.

What is actually planned?

Over the next ... however long it takes us to write our larger posts, of which there are now 8 planned, we will be putting out updates as often as we are able. Because of the smaller nature of these updates, this could be anything from once every day to once every week, or even once a month. We will, however, try not to leave any two-month gaps in our blog in the future, because nobody wants to read a blog that's always empty. On the table, we have: – the comparison of mempad and dendron as discussed earlier – All the things we're attempting to learn, which will be a list of things we're attempting to learn, like markdown, and html, and how to use various programs on our computer. – Our favorite games, which will go over games we like to play now and will briefly go into games we used to play in our childhood. – Our favorite music, which will do the same thing as the games post, and will contain either spotify or YouTube links to all the songs, or as many as we can find. – Piano days, a walk down memory lane, which will be a discussion post of our history with the piano and how we began playing the piano. – Plurality post, system mates with differing belief systems, which will be an account of our several system mates with various belief systems that are not conforming to the rest of our beliefs. – Tech of the Ages, tech of our childhood, which will go over some of the tech we were exposed to as a child. – Various pieces of software we use in our daily life, which ... the name pretty much states the obvious, we will be discussing software in this one. – Why we do not use book review sites, which has been planned for a while but hasn't happened yet. – Why we don't use the mackbook for everything, which was prompted by a tangent we went on in an update from last year. We will keep the list up to date each day, with any newly included ideas, and the instant we get one done to the state we want it, we'll post it up here. Some of them will end up pinned in the bar at the top, because they fit with the theme of that bar, with our introductions and other basic information posts, mainly our favorites posts.

Conclusion

This has been a quick update post, to keep the blog alive and to let everyone know what's coming assuming we can keep our nonsense in order. If anyone has any questions, feel free to contact us via any of the contact methods listed below, and if you wish to support us, we will always appreciate it. Thank you for reading.

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Hello everyone. We recently published a post about our favorite books. We're very surprised our rant.li kept the post until we came back to it, and really didn't intend to be gone for so long. It has been about 2 months, and all our goals went out the window near the end of February.

What happened to the goals?

In late February to early March, we began to have an issue where we zone out and can't engage with the world for up to 15 minutes at a time. It's difficult to explain, but maybe we'll go into it later. Point being, that these episodes cause excessive fatigue, and pounding migraines, which, for obvious reasons, make it very difficult to do things like writing, and streaming. However, we've decided that if we want to get anything done, we have to do something every day. Even if we have a headache, we have to sit up and do something. Which is why we're doing this post at 1 in the morning. Apparently we have really strange sleep wake times.

What Happens Now?

From now on, this blog is likely going to be a daily life blog. You may get a post with some links in it from now on, but most of this will be our daily life experiences, when we feel well enough to post them. We will also take suggestions via any of the contact methods listed below, if you have a topic you want us to discuss. We may not be doing as much on our twitch, but if we can establish a writing routine for more than a few weeks, we may be getting into recording more solo podcast updates. Even if it's just us, it's good to keep the podcast going. We will continue to cross-update to our ko-fi so our followers there will be able to view our posts easily.

In Other News

In other news, we've decided that if we post music links here they will be YouTube links so everyone can access and listen to them easier. If you want or need a link to a different platform, we would be willing to post those on the blog as well.

What's Next?

As we mentioned before, we probably won't be doing Plans for the Future from now on because of how much our medical condition fluctuates. Instead, we will be posting posts when we can, and then updating our ko-fi with links to those posts. It will be a lifestyle blog, with possible auto-biographical posts discussing our favorite things as a child, and going on tangents. We will however be finishing the plans we made back in February. Which means, that the next two posts will be our favorite music and our reasons behind not using book review platforms like goodreads. This has been a quick update, done at 1 in the morning because our sleep schedule is crappy.

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Post written by Kayla. Edited for accuracy and spelling by Farren.

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Hello everyone, Today's been a bit rough, so our scheduled post about our favorite books did not end up happening today. That has been moved tomorrow.

What Happened?

Today, we were extra tired for no apparent reason, and had a very bad headache. Due to this, and also due to the weirdness with our sleep wake cycle, we didn't wake until 16:45 this afternoon and therefore didn't officially start on writing related engagements until 20:00, giving us 3 hours 15 minutes to do various beginning of day routines. Sometimes that time period fluctuates, but as per the goals I listed a few days ago, I wanted to have us go ahead and post something real quick up here.

Plans for the Future

Assuming no more issues, tomorrow will be our post on our favorite books. Day after that will be a post about why we don't use standard book reading platforms to discuss these books, and the day after that will be a post about our favorite music, we'll go artist, genre, albums, playlists, etc. That post in particular will have a whole crap ton of spotify links, which anyone can access with a free account, but spotify has a large amount of ads on their free plan now. One day we'll Songshift all our things to YouTube, where everyone can see it, but that will be a long way away.

Updates outside the Blog

In the world outside of blogging, we have been making a few forays into various activities over the course of the past few months. We have our podcast, which our Ko-Fi followers will remember being promoted back in October. We are hoping to spend a month updating our goals for that podcast, but that may be a long time coming dependent upon how March the Month of Streaming Goals goes. Though we add something new each month, we have to keep up with the previous months' work as well. Just because we stream doesn't mean we can stop writing. Just because we podcast more doesn't mean we can stop keeping up with the streaming and writing work. For those who believe this structure sounds almost corporate in nature, or too similar to those blogs who are aiming for money, we want to assure you that our work is not for that purpose. Our structure goals are in place to assist us in regaining our ability to be consistent, as we used to have it before we got sick in 2016. While we may post mutual aid posts on here from time to time, it is not the primary priority of any of our pages. While we're on the topic, we want to let anyone reading know that while we display a space for people to support us at the end of each post, it is not intended to pressure anyone into doing so. This is simply a spot where our support venues are listed, for ease of connection should anyone decide that they wish to assist us.

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With that out of the way, we hope you have enjoyed our tiny little update post. If we get a second wind, which is possible on weird days, you may get a middle of the night post about some random nonsense. Post written by Kayla. Edited for spelling and accuracy by Farren.

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