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I'm feeling a bit better this week, albeit mostly by virtue of distracting myself from the metaphorical (and literal) crushing pressure in the back of my skull. Trying to ignore my problems since I have no realistic method of dealing with them kinda reminds me of the old CaT. You know, before I gave up on ignoring them and was pretty much entirely consumed by them.

One of my childhood pets died a few days ago. Not the first pet I've had die, but it's still not easy by any means.

On a less depressing note, Build never fails to make me feel better every week by being a ridiculously well-written show with really fantastic cinematography. If you only watch one Kamen Rider series in your lifetime, it should probably be Build (assuming it doesn't crash and burn at the end like Ex-Aid did but let's try not to think about that).

You may have read about this on Discord already, but I'm cancelling the ReVise/Renovation entirely. See, I was at my weekly therapy appointment on Thursday and my therapist and I had a conversation that basically went like this: I mean obviously it didn't go exactly like that but that's what I got out of it
 * Me: "Alright so I've got this writing project I've been dealing with for the past few years that I currently hate and keeps me from working on other shit I might want to do but I already put too much work into it to let it go what do I do"
 * Therapist: "Dude if it ain't doing shit for you you need to let it go"
 * Me: "But I put way too much effort into this thing already man if I let it go it'll just have been one huge waste of time"
 * Therapist: "Dude part of being human is wasting huge chunks of your time all you can do is stop fussing over it and take what you learned from the experience to avoid that same kind of shit in the future. Going on with something like this just because of the time-sink fallacy is unhealthy"
 * Me: "Wait so you're saying obsessing over something that's actively been making my life worse because I can't handle not living up to my own bullshit perfectionist vision of taking on a project for the sake of trying to keep up a false sense of fake self-esteem is a...bad thing???
 * Therapist: "Yes you literal autist Jesus Christ"

Brainstorm Fest ends tonight, so if there's anything else you still want to do for it, you should probably hurry that up.

Oh and Aaron released the final episode of his current series. Go read it or something.

(That's the closest we're getting to Featured Article for a while lmao)

Alright here's some common internet etiquette that some people don't quite seem to understand: if someone posts something, do not immediately post something of your own over it without at least acknowledging their post. Ideally speaking you would wait long enough to give people a chance to comment on the original person's thing (like at least five-ten minutes depending on the community), but if you absolutely have to post something right away, at least let the person you're posting over know you're not intentionally ignoring them and trying to divert attention away from their thing. I'd be lying if I said this hasn't annoyed me on a personal level a good few times, but since it happened to Aaron in the Discord earlier and he got annoyed about it, I have a chance to talk about this without sounding like I'm complaining about a problem exclusive to me.

Discord Request: Worldbuilding
 * The Rules of Quick and Dirty Worldbuilding
 * 7 Deadly Sins of Worldbuilding
 * The Ultimate Guide To World-Building: How To Write Fantasy, Sci-Fi And Real-Life Worlds



Art Corner

Rollback Redraw

By ChromastoneandTabby

I decided to make a redraw for Rollback  since he's featured on the front page this month.

We got a new set of Alien Worlds shorts giving us some of that gucci worldbuilding. Upgrade and Shock Rock are suspiciously absent from the lineup, but they might show up in future shorts.

Well, that's it for today, folks. I hope you enjoyed the seventy-third issue of The CaT Gazette! Feedback and support are appreciated!