Month: March 2025

Games I’m Excited About From the Nintendo Direct

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Jumping straight in with the blogging thing, I thought I’d talk about some of the games in the Nintendo Direct that caught my eye.

I haven’t really been playing my Switch recently due to having abandoned any game that isn’t Infinity Nikki. But I miss handheld gaming and I’m not ready to invest in a Steam deck so I think it’s worth seeing what Nintendo has in store for us. Especially with the Switch 2 right around the corner.

Most of the time, directs do not appeal to me because I play very few games lol. If it’s not Animal Crossing or the odd Pokémon game, Nintendo does not hold much for me. That being said as a child, I grew up exclusively on Nintendo and my DS was my best friend so maybe I need to give them more credit.

So here are the few games which caught my attention in the latest direct:

Because I am in the cosy gaming space, I have seen a lot of people on my timelines BEGGING for this game. I want to say I’m not one of them. But I am looking forward to it.

I had Tomodachi Life for DS and I thought it was fun and cute at the time. I even had a Tumblr blog dedicated to my Miis and everything.

That being said the downfall of the game is it got very repetitive very quickly. Which makes sense, given that the game could only be programmed to have a finite number of scenarios which your Miis went through etc. So I stopped playing once I thought I’d seen everything.

I worry the same thing will happen with this game. It’ll get repetitive too soon and it won’t be worth the cost. I think the concept might do well as a mobile game with constant updates but I guess we will see. I don’t think I want to get too committed to buying it until we have more information.

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Thursday 27th March 2025

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Yesterday when getting out of the shower I randomly got hit with nostalgia of 2012 Tumblr vibes. I have a really strong memory of sitting in my room at like 2am and starting my Tumblr blog.

It reminded me of when I used to blog a lot and just write whatever I felt like writing. Usually it was just about my day. Sometimes I wish I could go back to that time.

Now, with my blog I am either really in the mood to post or never in the mood to post and I wish I could just get back to just posting whatever, whenever.

It’s weird because I’ve started a few posts in the past and been really set on finishing them but as soon as I’ve stopped writing it for the day I never pick it up again or want to post it. I suppose it’s just another form of writer’s block but the worst kind. Like why can’t I pick up these posts again that I once felt so passionate about?

I think sometimes it’s a timing thing. For example, I started writing a post about my trip to Marrakech but I never finished it and so much time has passed since the trip so I feel like it doesn’t matter or isn’t relevant anymore. Which doesn’t make sense when this is a personal blog and I don’t have a deadline or anything.

Other times it’s that I felt really strong about something at the time and now I just don’t. Which is fine, I can’t say I still feel passionate about all the things I’ve ever posted on my blog. But still I wish I had at least finished the thought to put it out in the world.

So that kind of leaves me where I am now trying to figure out what to do. Ideally I want to be out of this slump and get back to just blogging. I’ll admit I’ll probably not recapture the magic I once had with it. But I’d like to get back to posting again.

And I mean things that aren’t just reposts of YouTube videos. I want to be making more content like this. Things where I just talk about life. And I suppose nothing has really been stopping me except me lol.

So now I think I’ll challenge myself to get back to my “roots” for blogging. Just posting random thoughts and feelings about the day and things I’m doing. But also trying to put more paragraphs in it, because as it is I am still technically micro-blogging on a regular basis on Bluesky/Twitter. But I’ve always liked having a place for my long-form thoughts.

As always I’ll not put too much pressure on myself but I think it was good for me to have this reflective chat with myself via blogging. Not sure how long this mood will last considering I’m 90% sure it’s hormonal but we’ll see.

At the very least I’d like to continue on and eventually post some of the drafts I’ve started here and not finished. No matter how much time has passed after the fact. Sometimes the thoughts are still relevant.

Anyway, that’s all for now. Not sure how helpful this was for others but I found this blog post very therapeutic to make. These are just thoughts I’ve had for a while about my blog and it feels good to share them. So maybe someone can relate.

I Started a Reading Journal!

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After watching a few videos about people starting reading journals, I decided to treat myself and start one of my own. I say treat myself because there was no way I was going to be doing this without stickers. I am not an artist so drawing is going to be kept to a minimum but I still want my journal to look cute so that’s why I’ve decided to use stickers.

I made a video documenting setting up my journal and it turned out really cute! I am really excited to start filling out my journal. I just need to figure out how I want my monthly layouts to look.

I am also hoping I can keep on top of this and it doesn’t end up being something I am constantly catching up on like my sticker planning. But since I don’t read many books per month so it should be fine. But yeah I just thought it would be a bit of fun and something different for the year.

I will probably share more content related to my reading journal soon as I think it’s fun. Probably more videos or even short form content – I recently made two reels! – so definitely look forward to that. Worst case there will just be some pictures on my blog but that’ll still be good. 

If you want to follow me on my reading journey I track my reading digitally on Goodreads and Storygraph as well so please feel free to follow me there! Otherwise stay tuned for a flipthrough of my reading journal at the end of the year.