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Obsidian licks rocks

@i-lick.rocks

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He/they, twenties, neurodivergent. I like writing, singing, rats, fandom (esp. Love Live & Persona), geology, Orna, etc. I post lots of stream-of-consciousness nonsense! Intolerance not tolerated. Chronically homesick for WA. Header by DeathChaos on YT

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Obsidian licks rocks @i-lick.rocks · 04/10/2026

Basically half of the plot

The poster for the anime adaptation of "The Too-Perfect Saint: Tossed Aside by My Fiancé and Sold to Another Kingdom". The title has been replaced with the words, "WHAT if I were such a huge siscon that I SAVED my country from POLITICAL RUIN"

Obsidian licks rocks @i-lick.rocks · 03/10/2026

I READ THIS AND INITIALLY THOUGHT IT SAID "POTASSIUM SULFIDE" INSTEAD OF "POSSUM STUFFIE" WHAT'S WRONG WITH ME

Two pictures of an orange tabby cat. One of them shows him simply looking at the camera, the other shows him flinching with closed eyes as a stuffed opossum hits him in the face. The caption says, "I was trying to get some good pics of Benny being playful, but just ended up accidentally pelting him in the face with his favorite possum stuffie :( "

Obsidian licks rocks @i-lick.rocks · 09/09/2026

"man I totally recognize this song, why do I recognize this—" (opens phone) "oh."

Screenshot of Spotify, 14 seconds into a Hatsune Miku cover of the song Bad Apple!!

Obsidian licks rocks @i-lick.rocks · 04/09/2026

Books currently on my couch side table, for various reasons:

A stack of books. From top to bottom, they are:
On Tyranny, by Timothy Snyder
Peterson Field Guides: Rocks and Minerals, by Frederick H. Pough
Warriors volume 1: Into The Wild, by Erin Hunter
Guide to the Geology & Natural History of the Blue Ridge Mountains, by Edgar W. Spencer
Fireflies, Glow-worms, and Lightning Bugs, by Lynn Frierson Faust
Unmasking Autism, by Devon Price, PhD

Obsidian licks rocks @i-lick.rocks · 04/09/2026

Huh tm As a born and raised PNWer idk how I feel about talking like a Californian. Granted I think a decent amount of how I talk is also influenced by the internet. Linguistic entropy in the modern era y'know

A screenshot of a results page for a quiz that determines where in the United States the user's dialect/accent is from.
The header above the heatmap says "Your dialect map" and has a subtitle that says "Redder areas talk more like you; bluer areas least." The detail text reads, "You talk most like someone from Nevada - about 53% of your answers match a typical resident."
Below a red and blue heatmap of the United States indicating dialect similarity is a list of cities whose regional dialects most and least resemble my answers.
"Cities most & least like you
Interpolated from the nearest survey responses.
MOST SIMILAR
1. San Francisco, CA (53%)
2. Los Angeles, CA (53%)
3. Albuquerque, NM (53%)
LEAST SIMILAR
1. New Orleans, LA (45%)
3. Atlanta, GA (48%)
2. Houston, TX (46%)"

Obsidian licks rocks @i-lick.rocks · 01/09/2026

I'm gonna lose my SHIT my department director speaks a non-trivial amount (idk exactly how much) of French and HE JUST RESPONDED TO MY BRIEF EMAIL IN FRENCH I'M CRYING

Screenshot of an email with the sender's name and picture censored. It reads, "c'est ci bon!"

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Obsidian licks rocks @i-lick.rocks · 01/09/2026

My son

Photo of a black cat with yellow-green eyes looking directly at the camera.

Obsidian licks rocks @i-lick.rocks · 28/08/2026

YEAHHHHH Honestly I'll probably miss the exp and orn bonuses but I can also always switch back when I go grinding

Screenshot of the weapon selection screen in the mobile game Orna. My currently equipped weapon is the Ornate Venin. My freshly upgraded weapon is the Masterforged Arisen Stone Dagger. The dagger has 111 more attack points, 15 more magic, 10 more defense, 10 more resistance, 132 more dexterity, 3% more ward, and 4% higher critical chance than the Venin spear. However, the dagger's HP and mana bonuses are lower, and it lacks the 31% experience point bonus and 29% orn bonus that the Venin has.

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Obsidian licks rocks @i-lick.rocks · 28/08/2026

YAHOO

Screenshot from the mobile game Orna that shows the Masterforge upgrade screen. It takes 591 Broken Statue pieces to masterforge the Ornate Arisen Stone Dagger, and I have 619. Quoting directly from the screenshot, "masterforging grants a piece of equipment its maximum potential for a great price, but locks is from further upgrades."

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Obsidian licks rocks @i-lick.rocks · 23/08/2026

He did the "I see no god up here except me" thing. And honestly that really fits his personality

Photo of a black cat sitting on a fencepost at dusk. The cat is looking at something out of frame.

Obsidian licks rocks @i-lick.rocks · 22/08/2026

Stawbeys

A handful of fresh-picked strawberries.

Obsidian licks rocks @i-lick.rocks · 22/08/2026

My discord status: IS THERE ANYONE I CAN TALK TO ABOUT MY EXTREMELY NICHE FANFIC A friend messages me:

Discord chat where both names are censored. Purple is my friend and teal is me.
Purple says, "does that imply you're writing another fanfic 👀"
I respond, "Purple. You misunderstand. I am constantly writing fanfic."

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Obsidian licks rocks @i-lick.rocks · 16/07/2026

Nothing quite like warm berries straight off the bush 🤤

A photograph of a hand full of 8 blueberries. Greenery, including a small bush covered in sheer white nylon mesh, is visible in a garden patch in the background.

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Obsidian licks rocks @i-lick.rocks · 02/07/2026

Lmaooo RIP semantic clarity

A screenshot from the top of a Wikipedia page that reads, "For other uses, see List of minerals named Tasmanite."
The phrase "List of minerals named Tasmanite" is blue, linking to another page.

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Obsidian licks rocks @i-lick.rocks · 30/06/2026

Very tasty reward for my hours mowing in the heat

A canned drink. The can is bright blue and the text on it is mostly white. It reads:
"The Finnish
LONG DRINK
Legend of 1952
TRADITIONAL CITRUS
5.5% ALC/VOL
GIN WITH NATURAL GRAPEFRUIT AND JUNIPER BERRY FLAVORS & CARBONATION"

Obsidian licks rocks @i-lick.rocks · 29/06/2026

UGH it's SO satisfying to dismiss this alarm on my days off. (I set it for every day Just In Case because my schedule used to be really erratic so I may or may not have worked any given day of the week. Even though my schedule is consistent now I just never changed the alarm lol)

A popup notification of an alarm called "get ready for work" for 1:35 PM.

Obsidian licks rocks @i-lick.rocks · 28/06/2026

Yoikes! That's a lot of material ough it'll take a hot second to get all that

Screenshot from the mobile game Orna that shows the Masterforge upgrade screen. It will take 591 Broken Statue pieces to masterforge the Ornate Arisen Stone Dagger.

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Obsidian licks rocks @i-lick.rocks · 27/06/2026

They're here

Three rectangular bumper stickers.
The first sticker has an image of the globe with the supercontinent Pangea on it and says "PUT PANGEA BACK TOGETHER!"
The second sticker has a photo of several copper cables and says "I EAT COPPER CABLES OUT OF DATA CENTERS". Along the bottom it says "NATURE'S LICORICE TM · GOD'S TWIZZLERS".
The third sticker says "BIRDS AREN'T REAL" and has two birds on it, both with a big red "cancel" symbol and a short slogan on them. The one on the left is a bluebird with the text "GOVERNMENT SPY", and the one on the right is a seagull with the text "DO YOUR RESEARCH".

Obsidian licks rocks @i-lick.rocks · 24/06/2026

Aaaand this is why.

Screenshot of the equipment upgrade screen in the mobile game Orna. Two weapons are being upgraded. Both are being upgraded to level 9, but the upgrade times are drastically different. The one on the left, a high-level pair of daggers called the Ornate Arisen Stone Dagger, will take 48 hours to upgrade. The one on the left, a very low-level bow called the Greatbow, will only take one hour to upgrade.

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Obsidian licks rocks @i-lick.rocks · 24/06/2026

Galar: masterforge something Me: okay The equipment to be masterforged:

Screenshot of a weapon description in the mobile game Orna. The weapon, a bow, is simply called "greatbow." The description reads, "large bow often carried by rangers of the wood." It is a very basic low-level weapon and is essentially useless at my level, even when fully upgraded and masterforged. However, it will be very cheap to masterforge, which is why I'm using it to complete this story quest.

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Obsidian licks rocks @i-lick.rocks · 22/06/2026

Just been repeatedly upgrading these, gonna demonforge them when they get to lv10. I just want a weapon that actually matches my class. #Orna

A screenshot of a weapon currently being upgraded in the mobile game Orna. The weapon is called "Ornate Arisen Stone Dagger," and the description reads "A dagger, once a fixture upon a noble statue. It has a small chance of petrifying an opponent."

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Obsidian licks rocks @i-lick.rocks · 17/06/2026

A meme depicting a PayPal transaction that says "from: DEADNAME to: DEADNAME". There are two yellow emoji faces with closed eyes drawn on in black. Between them is a drawing of two arms, with one passing a dollar bill to the other one.

Obsidian licks rocks @i-lick.rocks · 16/06/2026

GRAHHH HERE THEY ARE IN ALL THEIR SMOOTH ROUND GLORY

A collection of rocks that have been largely smoothed and rounded by ocean waves

Obsidian licks rocks @i-lick.rocks · 15/06/2026

I gotta change the DVD...... But it would mean disturbing him...... Choices 😫

A black cat sleeping on my lap.

Obsidian licks rocks @i-lick.rocks · 07/06/2026

WAIT WHAT WHY DID IT SHRINK

A screenshot from the mobile game Orna. Three large monsters are scattered across the screen. In front of them is the same large tower as in the picture in the quoted post, except the top floors of the tower are gone!

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Obsidian licks rocks @i-lick.rocks · 07/06/2026

I had this stuck in my head all through my shift and I kept singing it under my breath and one of my coworkers looked at me like are you okay??

Twitter user @YourDarlingSon posted "I'm so stressed that sunlight hurts. I am gods mistake". Then they quote tweeted it and said "Sing this to the tune of "Old MacDonald"".

Obsidian licks rocks @i-lick.rocks · 07/06/2026

H u h since when was there a tower of olympia RIGHT next to my origin town

A screenshot from the mobile game Orna. A tightly packed cluster of buildings is partially obscured by a single large tower.

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Obsidian licks rocks @i-lick.rocks · 07/06/2026

TIER 9 IN SIGHT, ONE MORE LEVEL

The level-up screen of the mobile game Orna. It says "you have reached level 199" and lists the upgraded player stats.

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Obsidian licks rocks @i-lick.rocks · 05/06/2026

...however, as a result of leveling, I now have 1.3 billion exp to go until the next level. A little at a time. Patience, Obsidian, patience.

1,355,047,729

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Obsidian licks rocks @i-lick.rocks · 01/06/2026

This is a cat checkpoint. Relinquish the most recent cat picture on your phone.

Photograph of a black cat curled up on my chest as I lie in bed.

Obsidian licks rocks @i-lick.rocks · 17/05/2026

Here's one of them for now

Photograph of a round, smooth, speckled light-grey rock.

Obsidian licks rocks @i-lick.rocks · 16/05/2026

Oh I totally forgor it's Raturday. Happy Raturday! Here's an old Macaroni pic.

A mottled grey rat peeking out of the sleeve of my sweatshirt.

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Obsidian licks rocks @i-lick.rocks · 13/05/2026

HE SPEAKS

A black cat meowing loudly at the camera. His mouth is wide open, showing a pink tongue and white teeth, and his green-yellow eyes are squinted.

Obsidian licks rocks @i-lick.rocks · 13/05/2026

FRUIT STICKER HEAD

A black cat staring wide-eyed up at the camera with a partially rolled-up fruit sticker stuck to the top of his head

Obsidian licks rocks @i-lick.rocks · 10/05/2026

11 hour shift

Screenshot from my work clock management app showing that on Saturday May 9th I was clocked in for 10.93 hours

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Obsidian licks rocks @i-lick.rocks · 05/05/2026

THE STRAWBERRY STAND IS OPEN FOR THE SEASON!!

A photo of a jar of strawberry preserves and a white bucket of strawberries on the hood of a car

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Obsidian licks rocks @i-lick.rocks · 03/05/2026

Snacking like a 10-year-old

A plate with a sliced apple and two Tillamook cheese squares

Obsidian licks rocks @i-lick.rocks · 30/04/2026

F&B department director had a minor crashout about the espresso machine

A printed piece of paper taped to an espresso machine. The paper says, "TEAM, we have now lost our 3rd espresso basket. Don't dump the spent espresso in the trash as we keep on dumping/losing the basket. 86 espressos and my will to live in a fueled/jacked up environment"

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Obsidian licks rocks @i-lick.rocks · 26/04/2026

My YouTube watch history rn

A long screenshot of my YouTube watch history. It shows 10 videos, 9 of which are lawn-related.

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Obsidian licks rocks @i-lick.rocks · 22/04/2026

He's such a bizarre little lad I'm so fond of him

A sleepy black cat getting head scritches

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Obsidian licks rocks @i-lick.rocks · 09/04/2026

THE LEVEL OF COPING HERE IS ASTOUNDING

a screenshot of text that reads "lawn mowing provides an education opportunity to teach children a hard work ethic and financial responsibility"

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Obsidian licks rocks @i-lick.rocks · 09/04/2026

hahahahahahahaha

a screenshot of text that reads "crime is associated with unmown lawns"

Obsidian licks rocks @i-lick.rocks · 30/03/2026

I love this because it looks like she's shoving him forward lmao

Artwork of the male and female Persona 3 protagonists. The female protagonist has her arms stretched out in front of her in a way that almost makes it look like she's pushing the male protagonist from behind.

Obsidian licks rocks @i-lick.rocks · 30/03/2026

WOOOOOOOOO now i have (checks status) 951,235,464 exp to go until level 194

Screenshot from the mobile game Orna. It shows that I have leveled up. The text reads,
"You have reached... LEVEL 193
HP 7293
Attack 2136
Defense 1491
Resistance 1409
Dexterity 463
Foresight 416"

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Obsidian licks rocks @i-lick.rocks · 30/03/2026

Getting closer

Screenshot from the mobile game Orna that is cropped to my player character. The circular experience bar around the character is almost complete.

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Obsidian licks rocks @i-lick.rocks · 27/03/2026

GROSS

A weather report that shows the weather as being 79°F and sunny

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Obsidian licks rocks @i-lick.rocks · 25/02/2026

Why is it always television murder weather at work lately

Photograph of a flagstone patio with large wooden pillars supporting a roof overhead. There is a bench on the patio. A large tree looms in the fog that obscures the background.

Obsidian licks rocks @i-lick.rocks · 18/02/2026

Me: man I haven't checked the word count of that Arisato twins fic in a while, I wonder what it's gotten up to The word count:

Screenshot of a document word count showing 29,977 words

Obsidian licks rocks @i-lick.rocks · 18/02/2026

YouTube comment summary AI strikes again

Screenshot of the YouTube app. The video playing is from the creator Lindsay Nikole and is titled "some freak ass worms". In the comment box, instead of a preview of a comment, there is an AI summary of one of the major topics of the video's comments. It says "topic: freaky worm enthusiasts unite".

Obsidian licks rocks @i-lick.rocks · 15/02/2026

(volume increases)

Photo of a grassy hill with somewhat thicker fog