Insomnia, Nightmares and General Madness

Been a while, hasn’t it? No surprise there. Trying to pretend any of this matters, let alone managing to focus my thoughts for long enough to type something meaningful has become nigh impossibl...

https://kaineandrews.wordpress.com/2024/01/30/goodbye/

I did one of those Ancestry DNA tests a while ago. Finally started getting some hits on relatives that aren’t sixth cousins and such. Some of them were even promising leads; 1st cousins, no sha...

https://kaineandrews.wordpress.com/2021/01/29/relations/

I think games have gotten too complicated, too layered and full of spectacle and obscure systems. I’ve come to this conclusion after having spent a deal of time with Dragon Quest XI, specifical...

https://kaineandrews.wordpress.com/2021/01/28/retro-style-games/

I am a moody creature. Comes with the assorted flavors of mental illness I suffer from. One minute I can be exhausted and depressed, the next full of righteous fury, moving on to a brief period o...

https://kaineandrews.wordpress.com/2021/01/27/moods/

I tried. I made it a month, and though I didn’t do a writing prompt every day in that month, I did still manage to cough up thirty of them in thirty days. That’s something to be respected. I ...

https://kaineandrews.wordpress.com/2021/01/26/tossing-in-towels/

I used to describe myself as a gamer. Every new release had me hyped up, excited, ready to tear into it. I say “used to” because for the last six months or so that hasn’t been true at all. ...

https://kaineandrews.wordpress.com/2021/01/25/gaming-anhedonia/

My family tree is a bloody mess. Between adoptions, marriages and one whole half of it being made up of giant question marks, I doubt I’ll ever know where I came from. There’s those lovely DN...

https://kaineandrews.wordpress.com/2021/01/24/ancestors/

What the Dragon wants, it gets. When it hungers, it feeds; when it tires, it sleeps; when it lusts, it satiates that lust; when it needs hands to grasp the things it cannot reach, it breeds them....

https://kaineandrews.wordpress.com/2021/01/23/writing-prompt-dragon/

You’d think I’d learn. Maybe I will, eventually. But I keep cheaping out on the tools of my trade, and it always turns around and bites me. Some of you may have seen pics of the Incredible De...

https://kaineandrews.wordpress.com/2021/01/22/tools-2/

The box has lain quiet in the deepest parts of the Atlantic Ocean almost since the dawn of time. It seems simple enough, at first glance. A metallic rectangle, six feet by two feet, with little t...

https://kaineandrews.wordpress.com/2021/01/22/writing-prompt-box/