poet @poetfox@scalie.club

#introductions
Hi! I'm poet! I'm an old (at heart if not reality) writer transwoman who runs a library and teaches writing classes and then uses all her skills to write very good queer stories involving 1) dragons, 2) moms, or 3) older butches, often all three at the same time!

For the past forever, I've been writing Dragon Moms, a serial story about queer moms having adventures and family problems! http://www.dragonmoms.com

You can find my other stories and novels here: http://www.poetfox.com

They updated the Bandori app and changed all their group shots.
I'm real into Hello Happy World's new outfit. Gosh, I love them all so much.
Also, Ako and Rinko hugging in the Roselia group pic is fantastic.

I'm now out of books at work.
This hasn't happened since I started working here, but since I'm going to be gone so long, I stopped putting in ILL requests for them.

It's honestly kind of a weird feeling.

Important Work Goals For Today:

1. Finish Reading This Book I Need To Return Today
2. Finish Short Story I've Been Plinking At All Week

Going to do a lot of work, clearly.

In any case, I've got to the point where I can beat Round 1 tournament matches pretty consistently. I've figured out good uses for Zone Shots, which helps a lot. But I still lose on the second round usually... gotta keep practicing.

I love how much of a mental game Aces is. I mean, tennis at a high level is always that, but this game brings it out so much. I can tell when I start doing bad in a long match it's because I'm mentally fatigued, and I should take a little break before diving back in. It's a great feeling of being a match of wits.

Every bit of my body is like YOU NEED TO PREORDER LITTLE DRAGONS CAFE IT WAS A GAME MADE FOR YOU but the Harvest Moon dude is making it and he has burned me so many times with "gay people are a joke" bullshit to the point I no longer buy Harvest Moon... so I guess I better wait until I know if this game is devoid of that first.

In today's Dragon Moms Epilogue, Myrmidon has some surprises prepared. http://dragon-moms.tumblr.com/post/175337918634/epilogue-6-merry

(New to the story? Start here: http://dragon-moms.tumblr.com/tagged/dragonmoms/chrono )

I feel like I'm some kind of criminal because I've brought this book I borrowed from another library to the library I work at to read.

Truly, I am a rebel. The law cannot stop me.

I wonder how much of that is me having played previous Tennis video games and how much of that is good design in this game, though.

I keep thinking about why I'm still into it when I'm clearly not doing well online. I said I was always learning before, and that's true, but I think it's true because I know tennis games and so I can see what I should have done. In other types of video games, I can lose and have no idea what I could do better. Here, when I lose a rally, I immediately can read how I was outplayed and how I should have countered.
I feel like I can learn, so I keep learning.

My tournament win percentage is down to like 13% but I'm still having a lot of fun.

It's so good. Very good tennis.

I GOT MY CARD

MY NEW LIBRARY RULES

LIBRARIES ARE THE BEST

The world is bad but I'm going to get a dang library card. I am unstoppable. And books and libraries are good. 🔖

Got my first online KO against a Waluigi player named "Gamer."

A victory for the ages.

I really feel like the board game store should put giant dents in exactly the games I want so I can buy them for cheap. Dear warehouse people: please damage the exact games I want, thank you.

What I love about a good match in Mario Tennis is, though I will probably lose, I will go "Well, that first game went really well," or "I really took them to the limit in the Deuce at the end!"
There's always something to learn from, but always something to feel like I succeeded at. And the game does a good job of showing you what you did well after the match.

I'm honestly kind of sad that Rosalina is a Tricky character though. I was very excited in Mario Kart that she was a lady who was a heavy. So I was hoping she would be Powerful, as that's what I play. But oh well, can't get everything you want, and her being Tricky makes sense to me.

And it's not like I'm going to complain about having to use Bowser, Bowser rules.

Add Mario Tennis to the list of games I thought I was good at but the moment I start playing online I learn that no, I am not that good at.

That said, I'm having a blast, even with my horrible 25% Tournament Win Rating. I love Mario Tennis so much. It's so good.