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Esme Rylan

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This heart of mine's a glorified abscess. She/her

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Esme Rylan @esmerylan.northsky.social · 22h
Final hide discount unlocked! That's 6 levels gained today, I think it's time for another break (did this in 3 sessions of varying length).
Brighter Shores screenshot:

LEVEL UP!
Congratulations.
You are a milestone 9 level 44 Merchant.
Now you can buy discounted Perfect Halebeast Hides.

PERFECT HALEBEAST
HIDE STALL DISCOUNT

Normal price: 20 silver 200 copper
Discount price: 3 silver 500 copper
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Esme Rylan @esmerylan.northsky.social · 17/10/2026
Final Merchant passive unlocked! Not that I ever do passive activities for Merchant, why would I? 😝
Brighter Shores screenshot:

New Passive Activity Available

Perfect Tough Leather offcuts

If you start a passive activity just before you logout, it will carry on earning you XP and items even after you logout.

Continue...
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Esme Rylan @esmerylan.northsky.social · 17/10/2026
We're in the home stretch now: M9L37 is the last active unlock and XP reward increase for Merchant, from here on out it's just grinding these bounties until M10.
Brighter Shores screenshot:

LEVEL UP! 
Congratulations.
You are a milestone 9 level 37 Merchant.

Now you can trade Perfect Bricks.
Now you can trade Blue Dazzling Pearls.

PERFECT
BRICKS
2 silver 90 copper
Perfectly uniform bricks.
Future use: Builder
Building Materials Bank

BLUE DAZZLING PEARL
GUILD CONTRACTS
2 silver 730 copper
Does this come from a blue oyster?
For use with bounties from the merchants guild.
For Guild Contracts
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Esme Rylan @esmerylan.northsky.social · 16/10/2026
Having trouble posting this on the LastFM subreddit, let's see if it works here.
5x5 chart of my most-listened albums from the past week.

Top row: Remi Wolf; Andras Schiff; Keith Jarrett (Spirits); Keith Jarrett (The European Tour 2026); Paul Simon
Second row: Carly Rae Jepsen; Miles Davis, Ayumi Tanaka, Thomas Morgan, and Thomas Strønen; Cameron Winter; Yes
Third row: Pet Shop Boys; Enrico Rava & Fred Hersch; Rosalia; Dave Holland; Keith Jarrett (Invocatoons/The Moth and the Flame)
Fourth row: Susan Tomes; Jon Batiste (Beethoven Blues); Avalon Emerson; Chihiro Yamanaka; Fleetwood Mac
Fifth row: Jon Batiste (Black Mozart); Magdalena Bay; Philip Glass; Henry Threadgill, Vijay Iyer, and Dafnis Prieto; Jean-Michel Jarre
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Esme Rylan @esmerylan.northsky.social · 11/10/2026
Fascinated by this guy in Bubblegum Crash for the PC Engine (as seen in @randomstranger.bsky.social's video on the game) who appears to have nostrils on the top of his nose, I know that's not what those lines are but it just looks so fucking weird to me.
A character in Bubblegum Crash for the PC Engine whose nose is rounded in such a way that makes the two little accent lines on its bridge resemble nostrils on a pig's snout, at least when viewed from a certain distance and angle with my terrible eyesight.
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Esme Rylan @esmerylan.northsky.social · 09/10/2026
I think you're confused, YouTube, I'm very clearly NOT the target market for this. 🫤
Ad from my YouTube home page showing a silver-haired anime girl wearing a black bra and panties with a pink-collared white jacket pulled down to expose her left shoulder; she's sitting in a pink armchair in front of a desk with a computer monitor showing three more anime girls. There's also a keyboard, a mouse on a mousepad, and three cans of an unidentified drink behind the mousepad. Yet another anime girl appears in a square app-icon-style frame to the left, above the words:

She Never Logs Off
Your 24/7 Digital Desk Companion
Always Waiting Always a Little Needy for You

AI Game Companion
HakkoAI revolutionizes your gaming experience
Sponsored- Hakko AI
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Esme Rylan @esmerylan.northsky.social · 09/10/2026
Now I just have to figure out where I left off in this book... 🤔
Paperback copy of Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell, sitting on a café table at B&N. It shows a black-and-white UFO partly obscured by bright colored lines and shapes (light blue, purple, orange, pink, yellow) reminiscent of 1960s pop art designs.
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Esme Rylan @esmerylan.northsky.social · 09/10/2026
Only aired for 12 episodes, and this is the entire plot summary on Wikipedia:
Wikipedia page for Tandoori Nights:

Plot summary

Jimmy Sharma is the own of Jewel in the Crown, a Tandoori restaurant in Ealing, west London. His rival is The Far Pavilions, the restaurant across the street.
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Esme Rylan @esmerylan.northsky.social · 09/10/2026
The Elvis Costello box set gave the 5x5 chart generators trouble this week, thanks to Apple Music's split album credits for the different band configurations. Songstitch plugged the art for Trust in for one of them so I'm going with Tapmusic instead, it just left that one with no cover art.
5x5 chart of my most-listened albums of the past week, MASSIVELY fucked up by split artist credits for Elvis Costello's My Aim Is True 40th anniversary box set.

Top row: Andras Schiff; Elvis Costello; Victoria Monet; Elvis Costello & Clover; James Carter, Cyrus Chestnut, Ali Jackson, & Reginald "Swingdoom" Veal (all the chart generators AND Apple Music cut off poor Reginald's name, I had to Google the album credits)
Second row: Elvis Costello & The Attractions; Gabriel Durliat; Madonna; Dave Holland; Suzanne Vega (Songs In Red And Gray)
Third row: Carsten Dahl Experience; Quadeca; Kacey Musgraves; Marilyn Crispell & Anders Jormin; Per och Olof
Fourth row: Adéla; Avalon Emerson; Johnny Marr; Miranda Lambert; Suzanne Vega (Lover, Beloved: Songs from An Evening With Carson McCullers)
Fifth row: Ayumi Tanaka, Thomas Morgan, & Thomas Strønen; Robbie Basho; Elvis Costello & Flip City; Swans; Henry Threadgill, Vijay Iyer, & Dafnis Prieto
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Esme Rylan @esmerylan.northsky.social · 07/10/2026
Only 50 more levels to go to max Merchant!
Brighter Shores screenshot:

LEVEL UP!
Congratulations.
You are a milestone 9 Merchant

New unlocks:
GAIN XP FASTER
Active XP boost: +700%
Passive XP boost: +1970%

PERFECT
TILES
1 silver 940 copper
Beautiful tiles with an intricate pattern.
Future use: Builder
Building Materials Bank

ANTIQUE BOOK
GUILD CONTRACTS
2 silver 530 copper
Its pages are a bit yellow, but then it is over 100 years old
For use with Bounties from the merchants guild
For Guild Contracts

WINE
PANTRY CONTRACT
Negotiate a contract with the Fortunehold farmers to keep your pantry stocked with wine.

PERFECT WHITE COW
HIDE STALL DISCOUNT
Normal price: 15 silver 400 copper
Discount price: 3 silver 290 copper

CABBAGE STALL
STALL ASSISTANT
Everyone needs a cabbage in their life, and you're going to sell it to them.
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Esme Rylan @esmerylan.northsky.social · 02/10/2026
THIS GUY THIS FUCKIN' GUY
Creepy clown decoration at work, standing across from the nurses' station by a water fountain. He plays voice clips whenever someone walks past. He's right down the hall from our office. I hate him.
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Esme Rylan @esmerylan.northsky.social · 02/10/2026
Haven't been able to fall asleep yet so here's the weekly 5x5 too. 😝
5x5 chart of my most-listened albums for the past week.

Top row: Andras Schiff; Kit Armstrong; Suki Waterhouse; Carly Rae Jepsen; Stanislav Bunin
Second row: Kacey Musgraves; Nessa Barrett; Fleetwood Mac (Tusk); Ian Noe; Iron & Wine
Third row: Tinashe; Tove Lo; Leon Bridges; Rhiannon Giddens; Ayumi Tanaka, Thomas Morgan, and Thomas Strønen
Fourth row: Himari and Chelsea Wang; M83; Orquestra Akokán; Espen Eriksen Trio; Iveta Apkalina
Fifth row: Wendy's; Taylor Swift; Himari, Berlin Philharmonic, and Sebastian Weigle (actually the same album as in row 4, just split credits); Remi Wolf; Roger Eno
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Esme Rylan @esmerylan.northsky.social · 02/10/2026
Didn't think to make a monthly 5x5 until just now, and since this is Oct. 1 that means it's probably not 100% accurate but I don't think it matters that much. 😝
5x5 chart of my most listened albums for the past month.

Top row: Andras Schiff (Brahms: Klavierstücke); Alice Sara Ott; Carly Rae Jepsen; Ariana Grande; Kit Armstrong
Second row: Ayumi Tanaka, Thomas Morgan, and Thomas Strønen; Fleetwood Mac (Tusk); Olivia Rodrigo; Kacey Musgraves; Sigh
Third row: Deuter; Chelsea Wolfe; Suki Waterhouse; Rob Sheppard, Rita Marcotulli, and Michel Benita; Arab Strap
Fourth row: case/lang/viers; Arthur Russell; Henry Threadgill, Vijay Iyer, and Dafnis Prieto; Max Richter, Louisa Fuller, and Max Ruisi; Rebecca Black
Fifth row: Nessa Barrett; Gaspard Thomas; Stanislav Bunin; Suzanne Vega (99.9 F); Henry Threadgill
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Esme Rylan @esmerylan.northsky.social · 02/10/2026
Looked at eBay, it was released on DVD in 2002, and the prices... 😲
eBay listings for the 2002 DVD release of the 1993 English-language dub of My Neighbor Totoro. The first copy is listed at $74.99; the second is $107.11.
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Esme Rylan @esmerylan.northsky.social · 02/10/2026
Surpassed my best pre-leaderboard-wipe result in Shipwreck, though I also didn't come anywhere close to the top players in the lobby. 😅
Brighter Shores screenshot: results from tonight's Shipwreck event (9 PM Eastern time), showing I got 6th place with a score of 68,118. I also got 1,006,853 Fisher XP, enough to get me to M4L23, and 58 salvage titles (the event's currency, used to buy upgrades and cosmetics).
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Esme Rylan @esmerylan.northsky.social · 26/09/2026
The hell is this notification from Samsung's app store?
Pop-up notification from Samsung's app store:

$1 OFF in Action Taimanin
Coupon automatically expires at checkout. Ends 9/27.

To the right of the text is a small square with a picture of a blonde blue-eyed anime girl.
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Esme Rylan @esmerylan.northsky.social · 24/09/2026
Sometimes, I get really weird junk emails.
Email that was in my junk folder:

Tractor Supply

WE'RE GIVING YOU AN EXCLUSIVE
OPPORTUNITY TO RECEIVE
A BRAND NEW

YETI OUTDOOR BUNDLE
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Esme Rylan @esmerylan.northsky.social · 22/09/2026
So it turns out the Shipwreck world event in Brighter Shores has a glaring flaw that makes it very easily cheesed: fish keep spawning over and over again in the same spots!
Results from the 9 PM (EDT) Shipwreck event where I came in first with 66,410 total points. 64,775 of those were from fishing.
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Esme Rylan @esmerylan.northsky.social · 20/09/2026
Milestone reached, ox fed, time for a break. 😝
Brighter Shores screenshot:

LEVEL UP!
Congratulations.
You are a milestone 4 Chef.

GAIN XP FASTER
Active XP boost: +200%
Passive XP boost: +270%

EXPERT
CHEF CAPE
3 gold 160 silver
Cape which can only be worn by a milestone 4 Chef.

Cape Shop
Capes Bank

LEMON
PUFFER SASHIMI
10 silver 630 copper
Fish with a hint of citrus.

Heals 19.6K health
Head Chef
Cooked Meals Bank

SMOOTH
DAB STEW
70 silver
Lumpier than advertised.

Heals 129K health
Head Chef
Cooked Meals Bank

CRISPCRUNCH APPLE
TIMBER BANK CART UPGRADE
Crispcrunch apples have a satisfyingly crispy crunch that really gets an ox moving. 

Can be chopped and then fed to the ox in Timberwell Green to move the timber bank cart closer to Carpenter's Workshop.
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Esme Rylan @esmerylan.northsky.social · 20/09/2026
I just noticed my sister made a typo when she texted me about lunch (the actual name of the store is Enson Market). 😝
Text from my sister today about lunch that says "What you gonna get Enron ?". I don't know if she mistyped it- the store's called Enson Market- or if autocorrect mangled it.
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Esme Rylan @esmerylan.northsky.social · 19/09/2026
A Hairbeast from Brighter Shores.
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Esme Rylan @esmerylan.northsky.social · 19/09/2026
"I'll just play a little tonight", I said to myself earlier, and then four hours later I reached M4 Botanist. 😝
Brighter Shores screenshot:

LEVEL UP!
Congratulations.
You are a milestone 4 Botanist. 

New unlocks:

GAIN XP FASTER
Active XP boost: +200%
Passive XP boost: +270%

EXPERT
BOTANIST CAPE
3 gold 160 silver
Cape which can only be worn by a milestone 4 Botanist.

Cape Shop
Capes Bank

ZIGZAG
CLOVER
Has its ups and downs.

For Luck Potion.

GLOW
SHIMMERBEAN
6 silver 800 copper
Filled with glowing Arborae magic.

For Wealth Potion.
Potion Reagents
Potion Reagents Bank

SHIMMERING
WILLOW WATER
Produce willow water by soaking willow branches in this trough.
The willow water can then be added to your watering can to help plants grow faster.

WAVY STALKED
CHAMELEON PLANT
It comes and goes.

FEMUR SHARD MELEE WEAPONS
BONEWRIGHT TALISMAN
The calming effect of pastel globeplants when crafting weapons cannot be overstated.

Can be crafted at the Botanist station and then hung on the wall of the Boneworks.

Doubles the probability of crafting an uncommon or rare Femur Shard Melee Weapon.
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Esme Rylan @esmerylan.northsky.social · 18/09/2026
Just reached Botanist M3L46, meaning I unlocked the M3 tier of apples, meaning it's that time again. 😝
Feeding milestone 3 apples to the ox in Brighter Shores so he'll move the timber cart just a little bit closer to the carpentry workshop.
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Esme Rylan @esmerylan.northsky.social · 14/09/2026
GANKED BY SQUIRRELS
Screenshot from Final Fantasy Resonance. The party has been attacked by two squirrels. After the shit we've already seen (seriously, the second boss was a hell of a fight), this is nothing.
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Esme Rylan @esmerylan.northsky.social · 12/09/2026
I'm home now, but I took a picture. My sister did not want to be shown in the picture. 😝
Lunch at the Szechuan restaurant. My plate, up front, is the Hunan beef; behind it is the calamari appetizer we shared and the Chinese broccoli (my sister always calls it "broccolini" and the servers never know what she's asking for). My sister's jacket is visible but I did manage to frame the image so as not to show her face.
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Esme Rylan @esmerylan.northsky.social · 08/09/2026
One-third of the way there! Well, one-fourth once Stonemaw Hill finally launches. 😝
Brighter Shores screenshot showing that I've reached a total level of 3000. The rest of the breakdown:

Combat: M5L30
49% to next knowledge point
Forager: M4L28
Fisher: M4L44
Chef: M3L33
Alchemist: M3L21
Botanist: M3L30
Woodcutter: M4L27
Carpenter: M3L43
Miner: M2L19
Bonewright: M2L03
Blacksmith: M2
Stonemason: M2
Detective: M3L47
Leatherworker: M6L12
Merchant: M8L11
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Esme Rylan @esmerylan.northsky.social · 06/09/2026
Endless easy never changes. 😆
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Esme Rylan @esmerylan.northsky.social · 06/09/2026
Forgot to post this yesterday. I... might have a problem. 😅
Screenshot of the page for Brighter Shores in my Steam library. To the right of the green "Play" button it says:

LAST PLAYED
Today

PLAY TIME
1,002.6 hours
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Esme Rylan @esmerylan.northsky.social · 30/08/2026
Well, looks like no one's getting any snacks out of the vending machine today!
A sign on the vending machine at work that says "Do not use- machine is not accepting money at this time".
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Esme Rylan @esmerylan.northsky.social · 30/08/2026
Running into an odd problem with UZDoom 5.0: every TITLEPIC displays in green rather than the normal color palette. In-game graphics are normal. Anyone have an idea what's causing this?
Screenshot of the Doom II TITLEPIC with main menu overlaid because it popped up when I hit the Command key on my Mac while taking the screenshot. Everything is green.
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Esme Rylan @esmerylan.northsky.social · 29/08/2026
Audrey in Twin Peaks: The Return. Her small role in the series felt disconnected from everything else and was baffling even by Lynch's standards. It felt like Lynch and Frost never really figured out how to incorporate her into this drastically different series but knew she had to be there.
Sherilyn Fenn as Audrey Horne in Twin Peaks: The Return.
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Esme Rylan @esmerylan.northsky.social · 28/08/2026
Last week's listening. For some reason it turned out to be a very piano-heavy week.
5x5 chart of my most-listened albums from the past week.

Top row: Ayumi Tanaka, Thomas Morgan, and Thomas Strønen; Linda May Han Oh; Chelsea Wolfe; Henry Threadgill, Vijay Iyer, and Dafnis Prieto; Alice Sara Ott
Second row: Jon Batiste (Monk Meditations); Jon Batiste (Black Mozart); Irene Schweizer; Orquestra Akokán; George Winston (Ballads and Blues 1972)
Third row: George Winston (Summer); Nine Inch Nails; Fleetwood Mac; George Winston (Gulf Coast Blues and Impressions 2); Jon Batiste (Beethoven Blues)
Fourth row: Laura Veirs; Ralph Alessi; Bic Runga; George Winston (Gulf Coast Blues and Impressions 1); Pink Floyd
Fifth row: Robyn Hitchcock; Aldous Harding; Jon Batiste (Monk Movements); Lil Uzi Vert; Vera Blue (no, not Vera Sola!)
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Esme Rylan @esmerylan.northsky.social · 25/08/2026
Plasma rifle acquired, not enough to fully deal with the map's first Caco swarm, this is where you really miss the SSG.
Aftermath of the second fight in Reldressal Crater, where I had to push through a ton of hitscanners and Imps to grab the plasma rifle and deal with the Caco swarm that came in from behind me when I hit the switch that opened this room. Health is now 16%, armor 29%, 316 bullets, 31 shells, 1 rocket (still no rocket launcher), 120 cells. I've used every medkit in this room. We're now up to 145 kills out of 6130!
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Esme Rylan @esmerylan.northsky.social · 25/08/2026
Downloaded a Doom 1 slaughtermap with 6K enemies, things are going well. 😝
Screenshot from Reldresal Crater by muumi, a Doom 1 slaughtermap with 6130 enemies on UV. This is after the first fight. I have 59% health and 48% armor, 232 bullets, and 34 shells (also 1 rocket and 20 cells because I picked up a backpack, I don't have a rocket launcher or plasma rifle yet). The bodies of multiple zombiemen, Imps, and Pinkies litter the ground in front of me. I've only killed 66 enemies.
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Esme Rylan @esmerylan.northsky.social · 24/08/2026
Actually I think it's the timber cart, which is separate from the lumber bank (which was already inside the workshop). Anyway, here's how the character manning the cart explains how storage banks work.
Marden explains how the interconnected banks in Hopeforest and Mine of Mantuban work: "Your items will be safe. The wardrobes create a magic sub-dimension linked to your biometric signature."
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Esme Rylan @esmerylan.northsky.social · 24/08/2026
Combat update got delayed a couple weeks, so today's Brigher Shores update adds feeding chopped-up apples to an ox to get it to move a lumber cart. 😝
Brighter Shores screenshot: my character is feeding apple slices to Octavius the ox to get him to move the cart a little closer to the carpentry workshop.
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Esme Rylan @esmerylan.northsky.social · 23/08/2026
Have I mentioned this game is made by a British man? Well, you'd figure it out from the name of the patient for this alchemist bounty.
The Critical Care Ward in Hopeport in Brighter Shores: there are hospital beds along all of the walls, and in one of them we find the patient I'm about to cure with a potion for an alchemist bounty. His name is Biscuits Kenneth.
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Esme Rylan @esmerylan.northsky.social · 23/08/2026
Back at it, and we've got two max-level players in here this morning, I'm assuming they're stocking up on whatever potions they'll need when Stonemaw Hill finally launches (whenever that is).
Birghter Shores screenshot: I'm in the Apothecary making luck potions, and there are two players at the current max level of 9000 also in here making potions.
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Esme Rylan @esmerylan.northsky.social · 23/08/2026
Anyway: reached overall level 2800 in Brighter Shores last night, actually got a little past that with doing alchemy bounties but I took the screenshot right at the big round number. 😝
Brighter Shores screenshot showing my current levels in the Professions tab on the right:

Total Level
2800

Combat
M5L9

4% to next Knowledge point

Hopeport
Forager
M4L15

Fisher
M3L33

Chef
M3L24

Alchemist
M3L1

Hopeforest
Botany
M3L7

Woodcutter
M4L15

Carpenter
M3L43

Mine of Mantuban
Miner
M2L19

Bonewright
M2L3

Blacksmith
M1L44

Stonemason
M2

Crenopolis
Detective
M2L37

Leatherworker
M6L10

Merchant
M7L40
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Esme Rylan @esmerylan.northsky.social · 22/08/2026
Spent almost 2 hours last night trying to get an oak tree enchantment potion reagent to drop from these fucking goblins. Log on this morning, it drops in less than 5 minutes. 🙃
Brighter Shores screenshot: I've highlighted the Bumbleweed Enchantment Potion Reagent in my inventory. It only drops from the goblins in Goblin Camp in Hopeforest. These goblins are now almost a full milestone below my level because of my combat pack choices so it wasn't even that productive an XP grind.
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Esme Rylan @esmerylan.northsky.social · 22/08/2026
Best image I've found is not from the game but created by an artist on DeviantArt (@vertell.bsky.social).
3D render of Sabaoth, the demonically transformed version of Master Sergeant Thomas Kelly, from Doom 3, created by Vertell. Kelly's zombified upper body has been grafted onto a tank base; his right arm is entirely mechanical and he has a BFG mounted above his left arm.
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Esme Rylan @esmerylan.northsky.social · 21/08/2026
The parking lot at work is being repaved and right now they're doing the road around from the entrance... so we have to go in thus weird-ass back way.
An impromptu driveway into the back of the facility's parking lot. It's just tracks through a grassy field marked by orange cones at either end.
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Esme Rylan @esmerylan.northsky.social · 20/08/2026
The puns have already started with the first map name!
Automap screen for MAP01 of This Is Startan. The map name is "The Startan Point".
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Esme Rylan @esmerylan.northsky.social · 18/08/2026
Shit, looks like Brighter Shores is having login issues. 🫤
Screenshot of the Brighter Shores signin page. At the top it says "support code=LOGIN_AUTH_START_FAILURE_STEAM_CLIENT_LOGIN_REQUEST_TIMEOUT" and below that "Unable to login. Please try again later".
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Esme Rylan @esmerylan.northsky.social · 18/08/2026
Heh, the "you might also like" section for Vol. 3 is full of albums I've liked since they were originally released! 😝
The "You Might Also Like" section from my Apple Music page for Suzanne Vega's Close Up Vol. 3, showing five album covers from left to right:

Aerial (2018 Remaster)
Kate Bush

Peace (Bonus Tracks) [2025 Remaster]
Eurythmics

Whatever
Aimee Mann

Faith and Courage
Sinéad O'Connor

The Sweet Keeper
Tanita Tikaram
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Esme Rylan @esmerylan.northsky.social · 18/08/2026
Also the extra track situation is a mess. Here's the listing from the Wikipedia page for Vol. 2; the streaming version contains only ONE of these songs ("Song Of Sand").
SuzanneVega.com bonus tracks
14. Song of Sand
15. "Room off the Street"
16. Wooden Horse (Casper Hauser's Song)"
17. "Priscilla"
18. "Frank and Ava"
19. "Luka (en Espanol)"

iTunes and Amazon.com bonus tracks
14. "Song of Sand"
15. "Priscilla"
16. "Wooden Horse (Casper Hauser's Song)"
17. "Luka (en Espanol)"
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Esme Rylan @esmerylan.northsky.social · 16/08/2026
Also I probably shouldn't have gotten this monstrosity on a day when I'm not planning to go to Planet Fitness or even leave the house again, that's on me.
The Hardee's Super Sausage Brioche breakfast sandwich, consisting of two sausage patties, cheese, and egg on an allegedly brioche bun. This picture comes from the Carl's Jr. website (Hardee's is basically the East Coast Carl's Jr.) and does not accurately represent the actual, highly unbalanced distribution of ingredients in the actual sandwich I just ate.
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Esme Rylan @esmerylan.northsky.social · 16/08/2026
Here's a screenshot of the one I got this morning, written as though it's addressed to someone with a Zoho account. Again: I have NEVER EVEN HEARD of this company before.
Hi Customer,

You have been invited by the admin of the Looking for instant interest? Check this out [redacted shortened URL that undoubtedly leads to a phishing site] to join their Zoho invoice organization. Click below to either accept or reject the invitation

View invitation
This invitation will expire in 25 days.

If you have any trouble in accepting the invitation or if you think that you've received this email by mistake, please contact support@zohoaccounts.com.

Regards, 
The Zoho Team
www.zoho.com

Zoho Corporation, 4141 Hacienda Drive Pleasanton, CA 94588, USA. Toll free: +1-888-900-9646. Fax: +1-925-924-9600
This email is generated from Zoho Accounts. If you think this is SPAM, please report to abuse@zohocorp.com for immediate action.
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Esme Rylan @esmerylan.northsky.social · 15/08/2026
So this is what I wound up reading, at least the first 50 pages or so before I met my sister for lunch.
Cover of Alan Light's Don't Stop: Why We (Still) Love Fleetwood Mac's Rumours. There's a picture of the band in 1977 colored with a pale orange tint. From left to right: John McVie, Christine McVie, Stevie Nicks, Mick Fleetwood, Lindsey Buckingham.
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Esme Rylan @esmerylan.northsky.social · 15/08/2026
My sister this morning, encouraging me to get out of the house on my day off:
Email from my sister:

Office > room > office > room ! GTFO of rooms
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