There’s a really fun thread on the Dungeon Crawler Carl subreddit about creating a bingo card leading up to book 8’s release next week, I loved it so much I made a simple site to generate DCC bingo cards with ideas from the thread plus some of my own: https://dccbingo.lovable.app
Note: some spaces are references that only make sense if you’ve read book 7. They’re mostly just fun tropes that show up repeatedly throughout the series, aka there are no spoilers for book 8.
Yesterday my goodest boy Baxter started walking in tight circles in an obsessive way seemingly out of nowhere, so we went to the ER vet. Long story short, he either had a stroke or he has a brain tumor that crossed a tipping point in his forebrain.
Today is better - not back to normal, but at least nowhere near as bad.
He’s only 9.5 years old and I’m not ready for this to be the beginning of the end. Even though he’s doing better today, I’m soooo on edge, and it’s just heartbreaking.
Reading things on social media is really annoying these days.
Here’s why:
The hardest part of wintering: looking like you failed.
Being okay with the wrong kind of silence around your name for years, passing on small wins that would re-establish your position, and betting that what you're working on is worth more than what you're giving up...