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Battleship is over (well, it's technically still in the anon period, but the game part is over) and I've been meaning to post this wrap-up to my journal for a while but I guess I was a little burned out from it all. Which is nice in a way, because I'm burnt out following a flurry of productivity. I hadn't written, podded, or made art in ages, so it was a happy burn out, and I've ignited again since ^^

I was on Team Strawberry - we came second! I had a really fun time this year. The first half of the event was where I went the most ham, hitting work cap for board one, then boss wordcount cap for boss one. Then I unfortunately got hit with a bunch of withdrawal symptoms after tapering off some medication, where I could only function for a few hours a day. It suuuuuucked. I had to take a week off work, and I might have overdone it by using the small amount of energy I had in the mornings to make things rather than do the adult thing and rest.

I'm almost completely recovered now, and have caught up with commenting on my awesome gifts. If you'd like to come and look around the event's shiny collection (of 3,500 works!!) you can find it here.

( What I Made )
( 2025 Goals Update )
( My Gifts! )
Now I've gotten over my burnout, I'll hopefully be posting on here more again (I have so many drafts started!) If you took part in Battleship this year I'd love to hear about your experience too.

I watch a lot of PokeTube, so I thought I'd share some of the videos and channels I've enjoyed watching lately in case they bring you joy!

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Adef makes amazing Pokemon + Math + Science videos. His stuff is really fun to watch, even if you're not very STEM minded. I love his "Mathmatically Proving" series, in which he thinks too seriously about the physics of Pokemon moves and abilities. Here's my favourite of those!

( The rest are under here... )

Teams have been announced for this year's battleshipex - I'm on Team Strawberry! 🍓🍓🍓

I’ve been chatting with peaked about our goals for this year's event, and I decided to go ahead and write a bucket list. I find that posting stuff here on my journal helps me make it happen, so here are my top ten wishes for this year’s event.

1. Make at least 10 Pokémon works
I’m splitting this one up into writing at least five things, making at least three pieces of art, and recording at least two podfics. I think I’ll struggle most with the writing one, but I do love a challenge.

2. Make a 10k podfic for a boss
It was last year’s Battleship that jocundasykes finally convinced me to try punch and roll editing with my podfic. It was only through this that I realised I can record much longer stories much more easily, as the editing won’t be a nightmare! In fact, for last year's Battleship I recorded 10.5 hours of podfic, whereas in all prior Battleships combined I recorded 6 hours total. Wild!

3. Create works that contain all three of my claimed tags
My claimed tags were bisexual character, sutures, and condom use. I’m excited to see where they’ll appear on the boards!

4. Write 10k (in total)
I’ve barely written a thing so far this year, so this is quite the lofty goal for me.

5. Pick up a new canon and create something for it
I’ve loved doing this in previous Battleships for treatless people. It’s so fun, and I have my fair share of 5-minute fandoms so I know how much joy a gift for them can bring :)

6. Make something for at least 10 of my pre-Battleship prompt claims
I have made 20 claims as of posting this bucket list, so that’s half of them. I’m confident.

7. Reach work cap for at least one round
I reached work cap in one round last year, so it’ll be fun to repeat that if possible.

8. Write something that a podficcer on my team podfics
I’d be honoured and excited! There are already offers in our collab channel for podfics of written works for double-tapping the board squares, so I'll be sure to take people up on them ^^

9. Make new friends
🤞🤞🤞

10. Write fic for a canon I know but have never written for before
Battleship always gets me out of my comfort zone, so I’m really hoping this will happen. I recently played the Date Everything game... perhaps that will be the one, but we'll see!

As I'm currently working on a Magnemite TCG master set, I often stumble across interesting official merch for this little guy. Some of it is hilarious, some of it is so cool, and some of it so rare and obscure it gets immediately added to my pipe dream wishlist. I thought I'd share some of the merch I've found recently that fits into these categories! I've included some facts and musings about the merch too, so it's not just pics.

Hopefully, this will all end up on my Neocities site one day, once I've collected more wierd and wonderful Magnemite merch!

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Dear Podficcer,

If you're thinking of podficcing something for me, thank you so much. I’m going to love it! I hope you have a fun time with summerpodficswap 2025 :-)