Hello everyone, It's been literally forever since we wrote last, and we're very sorry for that. We weren't able to be consistent because July was rather busy. We were spending a lot of time with our guest. Then we got sick in August, and have basically been recovering ever since. Then near the end of the month someone accidentally left the dishwasher open. Our dishwasher is weird and pretty much touches the floor when it's open so I went tumbling and hit pretty much everything on the way down. I think I pulled a muscle. Or five. But I'll heal eventually. It just takes longer now. In other news, our birthday is coming up this month. Probably won't do anything special for it, but if something ends up happening we'll possibly put a post up on here talking about it. In other news, we've gotten more into our previous volunteer job. For those who follow us on mastodon, you may have seen us talking with some people about 7 cups. It's a neat little website that helps people with their mental health. I don't necessarily like how structured their automated path system is, but the main reason I go on there is because I volunteer as a listener. The listener service is offered free to anyone. You request a chat and someone who knows your language and is usually comfortable with your topic of conversation will take the request. There are a fair few listeners on there, so sometimes there's nothing to do. But other times, the queue gets longer and we can get caught up in the feeling of helping people. If anyone is curious we may put up a post discussing that in more detail. In slightly different other news, we started playing a weirdly inaccessible MMORPG called Torn. We don't recommend anyone try it ... it's a bit of a time waster combined with pain in the ass navigation combined with chat boxes which just appear in your face for no actual reason and unlabeled buttons. If you hit the wrong button you'll close the chats and they'll be gone forever. so yeah. Not recommended. I think that's all we've got for now, though we may put up some posts that will drop later if we have enough writing energy. Seems we may be in a writing mood tonight so it may happen.

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It is currently 21:43 as I write tis. We are doing another iPad post, and we’re trying it a different way. This tie the iPad is sitting differently, and the keyboard is more stable. I’m hopint that this decreases the amount of typoes we have in each of our iPad blog posts. Not much to say this time. We had a power outage earlier, which to everyone’s surprise I slept right through. I don’t normally sleep with the power out because it gets hotter the more time one spends without power. But apparently we were tired, so the only time we woke up was when z brought us food. We ended up having Chinese food, it was .. interesting. I wanted one dish and was told the one I got would be the one I wanted but this restaurant apparently makes it differently and there’s a lot of liquid. I think it’s a broth of some kind, but in any case, it’s quite good, but a little bit messy. Besides that, nothing else has happened. I may head out and attept to spend some time with people in the rest of the house, though I suspect that they’re either sleeping or watching youtube, which is ok. Since this was a relatively small post, we won’t do a credits for this one, but we hope you enjoyed. Maybe more will come over the next few days, it is … a bit easier to write from this device if we can get things formatted and laying our correctly. This keyboard is small, so if I rest it on my lap while sitting on the bed it’s not as stable as if I close the iPad, put the iPad on my lap and then put the keyboard on top of the closed iPad. We would have a different keyboard case or a cover on the thing, but this is our only iPad case, so we make due with what we have.

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It is currently 01:01. Which, actually, translates to 1:01 AM for those who don’t use 24-hour time. I am trying something new, because I’ve been getting more and more annoyed by the wireless keyboard connected to the computer being an annoyance and refusing to type from time to time. Tonight, I am sriting on the iPad, so I apologize in advance for any typoes. As mentioned, I am currently writing at 1:01 AM, which is annoying because I just woke up less than 2 hours ago. Our sleep schedule has been off for weeks now, which we are starting to find insufferably annoying. When we’re up everyone else is asleep. When we’re asleep everyone else is up. I may like solitude, but occasionally voices other than those of my computer and iPad would be nice … but the positive part is that nobody is actively trying not to spend time with us, so if we get our sleep schedule sorted maybe things will change. Problem is, we haven’t been able to get our sleep schedule sorted. It’s summer and we’re primarily nocturnal in summer, always have been. For some reason it’s easier to stay up during the day in winter or autumn … but warm dans are just complete nightmares. Apparently the body doesn’t like heat anymore … I used to be able to spend hours outside. If I tried to do that today I’d never hear the end of it from the body. And probably whichever neighbor picked me up off the street and put me in a hospital. Which, is why I don’t go outside much unless we’re going out and I have to. We don’t get our much … mybe once a month or so. That’s also sad, but could definitely be worse. On a future related note, if we think the iPad isn’t too annoying, we will continue to write with it, meaning that our readers may get more short posts. We use our magic keyboard … well not ours, we dobn’t know where ours is, but one of our lovely housemates is letting us use theirs, so we can keep up on the blog on mobile without giving ourselfes a touch typing headache. Yes, touch typing headaches are a thing. Before we had a keyboard, we used to type out all our messages with touch typing and always had a migraine because of it. It was quite annoying. One of the disadvantages of us typing on the iPad is that we may tangent more. Because, I think, of the way we were raised, mobile devices don’t feel as formal, more open when you’re writing. Mother would always tell us that we shouldn’t be using our mobile devices unless we were traveling. There was, apparently, no need for it. And heaven forbid we use our iPhone, that we paid for, within our home. Heaven forbid we call someone on our cell phone when we were at home. “Use the landline.” She’d always say. We never liked the landline. We’re partially deaf, as I think we’ve mentioned in our previous post, and if we have headphones in we can hear the other person more clearly than if we use a landline. Mother hated it. I didn’t actually get a usable phone until I was 17. My first phone was one of those slide phones, and it had a little screen reader type deal on it. The screen reader would … sometimes. Read text messages. But not all tge time. There were just some times people would send us messages, the phone would ring to tell us we had a text, but we couldn’t get it to read said text no matter what we did to it. So back then we used it to call only. Until Mother put parental controls on the thing. Oh my god we hate those. Got stranded at a school dance until 2 in the morning once because we couldn’t call out to let her know that we were ready to be picked up. After about 25 flaming arguments, she took them off. Mainly because she knew I’d just use my computer. We were a rebellious child … we’d jse social media when she told us not to. Use messaging services despite her saying there was no need for it. We once figured out how to use google talk to message our father. He had an android phone though so I think at the time that was just his messages app. He was shocked, but willingly talked to me over there a lot more freely than when we had our nightly phone calls. He was a nicer person before his … new wife came into the picture. I can’t help but feel that if he was still with either nobody or the younger woman he used to be with when we were 15, we would have more of a connection. I actually wanted to message him when those two were together … Now I dread messaging him at all. The new wife will probably manipulate the situation, she’s done so before. Ugh, did I just write all that with the intention to post it on a public blog? Apparently I did … go me. Told you that you’d get more tangents on the iPad. Feel free to contact us and tell us. Do you like this writing style better or the other posts better?

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Hello everyone, It's 20:51, or 8:51 pm for those who do not use 24-hour time. We are sitting on our bed listening to the house around us. It's getting dark outside, and we've started to be able to hear the night creatures outside the window. Someone is playing music on the big speakers in the living room. We enjoy music, it's a break in the silence, so long as it doesn't go too loud without warning. It's been about a week since out last post, but we're in somewhat of a mood to write tonight, so here we are. Things have been going relatively well for us. We've been trying to participate in the house around us ... participating is fun most of the time. Our brain keeps making random tunes ... we probably won't record them but we find it fun to hum them aloud if nobody's paying too close attention. There's always music on nowadays ... so sometimes the tunes mash themselves up in our brain and out comes a new tune. Not much else to say ... this was a relatively short update. We may be digging about in our archives of blog post ideas to find something new to post about. As we said, we're in the mood to write but really could use some of our old ideas to help us along. See you in the next one.

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Hello everyone, It's been quite a while since we wrote last ... and we apologize for that. We do try to be consistent, but lots of crazy and chaotic things happen ... life isn't necessarily meant to always have a structure. If you're always trying to make structures out of everything, then eventually you will have no time to relax. During the month of April, when we wrote a lot more, we found that we kept getting stressed out. So we'll try a new way of consistency. There may not always be daily updates, but we will try to do at least one a week, which gives us more time to not stress about the deadline. We've found that if we're stressed about a writing deadline, the page suddenly turns into a black hole ... a blank page with no inspiration. Recently, things have been relatively stable for us, one of the housemates was able to get a new computer, which they really needed because theirs was becoming hazardous to use. As we figure out how to life more and more, we've found more time to play our video games, which we quite enjoy. Our top ones currently are Forza Motorsport 7, Mortal Kombat 1, and Diablo 4. We're still struggling with Diablo, but that is to be expected with open-world games who are trying to work out more accessibility options. We'd have to say our favorite is Forza, it's quite enjoyable to play, to upgrade the cars, to race the career mode races ... free play is also quite enjoyable. On that note, we should probably do a stream sometime in the near future ... though we may switch to youtube because theoretically the videos would remain around longer, allowing more people to watch if they missed the streams themselves. On twitch, the videos only remain for 14 days unless you pay a subscription of some variety, and even then they'd only stay for 60 days. We've also found time to read our favorite series, Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman, once again, because it's just that good. Sound Booth Theater, the people who record the audio versions of the DCC series, have also made what they're calling an audio immersion tunnel. The tunnel thing is a reference to the book series, we won't post spoilers. He is currently working on book 7, and let me just say, that though it's a bit ... fucked up, it's positively awesome as well. If you want to get a preview of the chapters for book 7, along with some other fun stuff, check out Matt Dinniman's Patreon where he posts updates. If you use reddit, there is also a dungeon crawler Carl subreddit, full of all kinds of theories, fan discussions ... it's basically a Crawl Con in forum form and with less killing people. What is Crawl Con? Read the already released books on sound booth theater. Check out Book 1 here. Jeff Hays is truly an excellent narrator. Now that we've accidentally ... sort of ... tangented off into a promo paragraph, (sorry about that but we really love the books), let's see what else there is to talk about. I think the highlight of this month was the 4-day power outage. I still don't know how, but one of our housemates somehow managed to post on mastodon semiregularly throughout the entire thing. We personally weren't worried about social media at the time ... we didn't have enough energy ... but then I guess everyone has their own way of coping, and if that's theirs, who am I to judge? On a much brighter note, we recently cleaned the house within an inch of its life, and then Z made spaghetti, which was wonderful. I think we've mentioned Z before ... if not on here, definitely on Fedi. We also have a guest with us. For the sake of confidentiality, we will not say who or give a gender, but this person is wonderful to hang around, nice to talk to ... and seems to know a fair bit about a fair few things. So far, despite our odd associations with new people for ... reasons, the visit is going well. I think that's all we have to write about ... if we end up having something to say soonish we'll write it here. The blog gives us more characters to work with, so we may switch to predominantly posting here just for the sake of being able to say more. Because words make sentences and sentences sometimes make neat paragraphs. Not sure where that last bit came from but there you go.

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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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