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2633 words in Drops of Gold tonight. I'm feeling like things might be going a little too smoothly for MC and might need some shaking up in edits. Events: Max comes looking for The Shrouded Legend, Nina's client-given urban legend monkier, at Doug's diner.

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Sunny @sunnycogs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I recently dyed a hat very neon pink (it's brighter in person). Now I need more pins. I usually get my pins from antique stores but haven't been able to get out as much lately. I don't want mass produced ones. If you make pins (or clean up & sell antique ones) could you drop a link and/or photos?

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Sunny @sunnycogs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

They should make a medicine that actually makes headaches go away.

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Sunny @sunnycogs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Y'all I was dying my hair and forgot I had writing group. I ended up leaving it for 2 hours longer than my usual 3. I'm about to be bald as a watermelon or you'll be able to see the neon pink glow of my hair from space.

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Sunny @sunnycogs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Dyeing learning curve: Left: should have removed the leather label before high temp dyeing. Right: might have overused the bleach a little maybe😅

A blue undyed patch on the waistline of bright pink jeans

Absolutely shredded real pants. Like they lost a fight with a tiger shredded.

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Sunny @sunnycogs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

2443 words in Drops of Gold tonight. Events: Mandy & Midas learn Nina is mapping the city. Nina's meeting with a client turns out to be a riverside encantado kegger with a single semi sober Tinorkk giving her info. When Agent Sanchez comes near Nina distracts her with a bucket of fish from above

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Sunny @sunnycogs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Only 429 words in Drops of Gold tonight because I overdid it today and am going to bed. I'm just blathering at this point, I don't need the editing trouble. Events: Nina worries about Klaus's drop off & learns it went fine and is given a half off an appetizer coupon for her troubles.

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Sunny @sunnycogs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Since society can't get it's crap together - make it safe for my disabled, chronic pain having, immune compromised self to get a massage, all able bodied people need to chip in and fund me a hot tub. A fraction of a penny you won't miss from everyone & I get a hot tub because money is imaginary.

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Sunny @sunnycogs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Today was forbidden soup day. I still have teal to go and some of the purple needs another dip (and hopefully only the purple). Then it will be time to see if I can make a dragon costume almost entirely out of worm out denim.

A very large pot full of green dye and cloth, glowing neon green under a black light

A very large dye pot full of pink dye, cloth, and a pair of shoes

A very large pot full or purple she and cloth

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Sunny @sunnycogs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

2094 words in Drops of Gold tonight. Starting to side eye the word count vs outline progress already.👀 Events: Nina makes & enacts a plan to get a fugitive Tinorkk to a safe place, consisting of putting an ooze in a delivery box and wheeling him across town.

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Sunny @sunnycogs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's one a.m., I'm kinda hungry, and I have 2 loaves of fresh banana bread in the kitchen and I really wanna eat one Abu from Aladdin style.

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Aladdin's Abu: Hungry and Mad

Alt: Aladdin's Abu enthusiastically chomps on half a loaf of bread

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Sunny @sunnycogs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Today instead of doing anything creative or garden-y I made food. I now have a huge quiche, 2 loaves of banana bread, and leftover pasta made with leftover roast chicken. Also a tub of chicken salad from the weekend. Which means it's time for full on nonsense for the rest of the week.🥳

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Sunny @sunnycogs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My eyes are dilated and I had a conversation with the optometrist nurse about the state of the government with conclusions that are unwise to put on the internet. Wild day so far. I cannot really see this post at all.

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Sunny @sunnycogs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Only 737 words in Drops of Gold tonight because it was a late day and an early night, because, surprise, another doctor's appointment tomorrow. Events: Nina works out some logistics with Klaus, who she came home to find hiding under her bed.

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Sunny @sunnycogs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

1929 words in Drops of Gold tonight. Also took some notes on cryptid books. Events: Nina calls on Kick, the owner of Munch It Brunch It, hoping to find a job for Klaus once the Agency hunt dies down and somehow doesn't get robbed while almost sleepwalking a Tinorkk Town street.

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Sunny @sunnycogs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Yes, hello? I'd like to see if my spine is still under warranty? Yes, well, it seems to have bent into a non euclidian shape. No, no, in the Lovecraftian sense, not the mathematical... okay, yeah. Was voided the day I was born, huh? Well that's unfortunate, but understandable. Thanks for your time.

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Sunny @sunnycogs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I have 2 flats of lettuce & pansies, a(nother) fig tree because we all get to pick a few things to be unhinged about, a thornless boysenberry, some native flowers, several flower pots, 2 big plastic tubs, probably not enough potting soil, and a relatively cool weekend. Wish me energy & health.

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Sunny @sunnycogs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

2328 words tonight, slowed slightly by me realizing I hadn't kept up with my timeline in a few chapters. Events: with the help of some friends, Nina gets to a secure computer & uses the backdoor she built into the Agency's system to confirm Klaus's story.

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Sunny @sunnycogs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

2705 words in Drops of Gold tonight. I'd like to keep writing but I hear sleep is important. Events: Nina finds a temporary place for Klaus to stay, and wakes to a Word induced headache and flies to privacy to Speak a vague and useless prophecy, the average type of prophecy.

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Sunny @sunnycogs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

2915 words in Drops of Gold LAST night but I forgot to post about it because it was super late. Events: Nina and Klaus flee Agents in increasingly improbable and humorous ways.

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Sunny @sunnycogs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Forbidden soup. I can never find good quality clothes I can afford and like. But what I can do is find some ill fitting, good quality, ugly clothes at a thrift shop and dye them bright pink before I modify them. I am going to be *bright*.

A very bit bowl of denim clothes dyed fushia

A comically large pot full of 2 thick knitted sweaters being dyed fushia

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Sunny @sunnycogs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Whoever left their Thing clonking around in my attic please come get it. I do not have time or energy to deal with a Thing, and it sounds like it's throwing a square dance or rearranging the Halloween decorations up there.

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Sunny @sunnycogs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

1722 words in Drops of Gold tonight. Events: Nina meets secondary MC, Klaus the ooze as a client, only to be interrupted by the Agents hunting him as a murderer. Klaus is a FUN character & I'm excited he's finally on the page. Oozes are agender, but he chooses to be a big, chubby, dad joke guy.

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Sunny @sunnycogs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

1466 words in Drops of Gold tonight. The covid booster has me moving slow, & I had writing group homework. Events: Doug talks to Nina about burning out trying to help. Nina thinks there are only so many problems she can actually help with in one city, right? (Spoiler: she is not right.)

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Sunny @sunnycogs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Got the Novavax booster yesterday and I've spent all today lounging around exhausted and taking notes from cryptid books for Drops of Gold. Soon I will have an abridged encyclopedia of suitable cryptids AND a degree of protection against covid! Wahaha-zzzz😴

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Sunny @sunnycogs.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

941 words in Drops of Gold tonight, as weekends are late TV nights with my dad. Events: Back at Doug's diner we look at what's changed and what hasn't, and settle the reader back into the story before Things start occurring.

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Sunny @sunnycogs.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I'm finally feeling decent today! Went and got my Novavax, which weirdly sometimes gives me a boost against the chronic illnesses too, I've had supper going in slow cookers all day and is now in the oven, pruned the blackberries, picked the garden produce, & started weeding. Moving around is fun!

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Sunny @sunnycogs.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I'd like to send a letter to middle school me rereading the 3 cryptid books in the school library again to tell me that adult me just bought a bunch of cryptid books so I can more easily write my cryptid fantasy series. I feel like middle school me would appreciate I'm keeping it weird.

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Sunny @sunnycogs.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

1056 words in Drops of Gold tonight. Wrote some last night but didn't log it because it got so late. Events: chapter 1 is laying out that Nina has been taking clients & growing in reputation between books. It's weird, sometimes dangerous routine, but routine, and she is becoming Known.

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Sunny @sunnycogs.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Me when people try to talk to me about how to mask autism better.

4 panel black and white comic

1:a person says "everyone has inner demons"

2: same person says "and we must fight them!"

3: a girl in a fancy hat stars a does the ghostly black being she's having a teaparty with

4: the girl and being look T each othert the camera. As s

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Sunny @sunnycogs.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

644 words in book 3 of Drops of Gold tonight. The start of a new book is always slow, and I'm going to be early despite napping most of the day because something is trying to do me in. Possibly my own immune system? Hard to tell. Events: Exposition! at the picnic

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Sunny @sunnycogs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Despite my health once again trying a hard reboot to see if it fixes me (it does not) I have reached the end of the first draft of book two of Drops of Gold. That bugger is going to need some edits, but the worst first draft is down.

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Sunny @sunnycogs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I left the house at 2 for a dentist appointment at 3 to fix the filling they messed up a few weeks ago and didn't get home until 8. When I finally settled in on the couch I nap attacked (heart rate dropped too low to stay conscious due to POTS) and I am very 😵‍💫🫪🫠 I am not designed to leave the house.

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Sunny @sunnycogs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Shout out to the 2 out of 6 people in this extremely echoey dentist waiting room listening to their phones on speaker. And by shout out I mean shout at.

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Sunny @sunnycogs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

3467 in Drops of Gold tonight. I was trying to make it to the end but must stop for it is Late. Events: heavily calculated betrayal & a chase scene! Also, gangsters assist in blowing up a tracker because destroying Agency property is fun for all ages! Actual footage of winged MC high tailing it.👇🏼

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Bird Runs, Explosion Follows

Alt: A green and yellow budgie (small pet parrot) runs across a table towards the camera, an action movie style explosion going off in the background

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Sunny @sunnycogs.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

2369 words in Drops of Gold tonight. I both had to do a little research and forgot time existed, so a decent amount. Events: Nina meets the book's final problem and I try to figure out how to write a character setting up a sneaky plan without giving the climax away what it is to the reader.😅

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Sunny @sunnycogs.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Ah, my cavity fillings from 3 weeks ago are still hurting and getting worse and causing migraines because it looks like, at least in one case, the filling fell out and I have a big bloody hole leading into my tooth. I hate dentists.

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Sunny @sunnycogs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

There's nothing quite like getting a little POTS air hunger and taking a deep breath only for it to be mostly dog fart. I think I'm just gonna go to bed. That's enough for the day.

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Sunny @sunnycogs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Today and part of yesterday I crocheted and unraveled a sweater sleeve 3 times and am on my 4th try. Just can't get that decrease not to look ridiculous. It doesn't help that I'm doing it as a spiral with 4 strands so unraveling gets weird. But 4th time's the charm, right?😅

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Sunny @sunnycogs.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Why the fork am I getting advertisements for weight loss drugs on Pinterest?? *realizes I searched plus sized punk outfits for inspiration earlier this week* Capitalism needs to die it is evil.

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Sunny @sunnycogs.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It looks like the problem was once again the POTS meds. No med, no nap attack. 1348 words in Drops of Gold tonight. Events: Nina sees Chita and Calista off as the harpies sets sail for a rookery. On the way home Nina notices SOMETHING is wrong on the street and turns back to find (spoilers).

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Sunny @sunnycogs.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Noooo, nap attacked for 3 hours. I was really hoping the new POTS med would help but I think it's trying to kill me. Jerking awake every few seconds for 3 hours as my brain realizes it doesn't have enough oxygen & panics over & over just to conk out again because not enough brain blood sucks a lot!

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Sunny @sunnycogs.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Does anyone have or use 3D printing pens? I know 3D printers are super popular with this crowd, but they are Expensive. I'm thinking about one for armatures & functional parts for bigger projects. I know the pieces can't be as refined as printed items. But would they work for paper mache armatures?

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Sunny @sunnycogs.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I nap attacked for 2 hours. Unpleasant. I can't leave the house anymore without fairly intense health repercussions. I'm glad I went & I had fun, but there's pretty much always consequences. I have caught 2 on the heart monitor, though. Maybe that'll help. Don't really understand their mechanics.

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Sunny @sunnycogs.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

What's it like inside your head? (But with thunder and lightning because there are way too many migraines up in here.)

Mariner of Lower Decks points at a conspiracy theory wall connected with red string

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Sunny @sunnycogs.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I have acquired pink dye, florescent paint, shiny things, a Styrofoam head, & the traditional Left-The-House Migraine. Though they should invent a place I can do without migraines, I now have lots of fun supplies for Halloween costumes. I have supplies for so many projects, I just need the energy.

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Sunny @sunnycogs.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

After a day and a half, a bunch of smelly chemicals including a truly horrendous am ount of bleach, I got a bunch of worn out and non fitting clothes white. Which means: 1) I can dye them loud colors for Halloween costumes for cheap 2) I am about to do really silly things with my every day clothes

A bleach white denim vest. Please imagine this image still somehow smelling of bleach

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Sunny @sunnycogs.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I'm planning a neon pink punk dragon for Halloween, with a pink denim vest & pants I can wear other times. I finally found some old clothes that bleach properly. My dad gave me his old jeans. I was going to make a paper mache helm but now I have a LOT of denim & denim Mohawk helm would be Funny.

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Sunny @sunnycogs.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I'm trying to bleach some clothes white and it's doing absolutely nothing. The bleach is fresh. The clothes are cotton. I'm applying heat. I know I won't get anything 100 percent white, I plan to redye. But nothing is occuring. I just. Do not know what's happening.

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Sunny @sunnycogs.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

No writing until the migraines frickin behave.

Screaming cartoon frog in a purple top hat under a scroll that says "migraine" in front of a blue states background.

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