Windblown early access

I never thought I'd decide to play any game early access. I'm gonna wait out Hades 2 for full release. However, one day I opened up Steam and there just happened to be a livestream of Windblown and I'm like here, take my money....

It's so much fun! It'll be interesting to see how the game changes over the next year! I am loving the different font sizes of cray yelling haha.

Now I'm finally on Cataclysmic difficulty! And I got what's apparently the rarest skin in the game so far, Project 2501!

Inversion Flow

It's been a long time since I've drawn! Trying a completely different technique and this went places; at first her face was too ashen and she reminded me of a vampire. I warmed up the skin a bit but mainly this was just an experiment of making some gold highlights pop.

Gotta get more ideas for drawing!!!

Brahms' Splendour

Wooow! This has been my favourite concert so far this year! I remember when I first heard Brahms' violin concerto, I was like, it's nice. But then the more I listened to it the more it grew on me and got stuck in my head quite often too.

And my goodness, seeing it performed in real life is nothing like hearing a recording on trashy computer speakers! There is so much more definition when the entire orchestra is in front of you! And so many things I didn't know - I am actually so bad at explaining this but in the third movement, I didn't realise there was a bit where the first violins actually don't play a few notes that I thought they did! They alternated with another section but I was totally clueless haha.

The other thing about having listened to it only when doing other things was that I had no idea there was a cadenza and I was like, where is this? Am I supposed to know what this part is?

I really need to keep listening and studying so that I actually understand what's going on!

Finally! A Zero Japan Teapot!!

I finally found a Zero Japan teapot at the shops and decided to buy it! What a lovely pink colour and I love the way the spout pours! Although I've noticed that the angle at which I need to pour is a lot less steep than my current teapot; I am currently spilling tea through the top rather than just getting all the liquid out from the spout, so I have to refine my technique!

And some random cooking adventures, mango and blueberry pancakes, as well as some pippis I found at the seafood shop so I yolo'd my own version of XO pippis. I think I overcooked the pippis a tad and I added too much salt but it was still good! Though I managed to get a few rocks and grit in the pippis themselves still, so I might leave it to the experts in restaurants!

Mahler 8

Another concert! I'm really enjoying all this culture stuff!

This time it was Mahler 8, and I had no idea it'd have so many vocals; I'm so ignorant! It turned out to be absolutely fantastic though, the choirs (yes, there was more than one!) were amazing, and the soloist singers just had the most amazing projection!

It was also epic in that there were two harps, why would any symphony require two harps lol.

I think I'll definitely keep an eye out for more riveting performances next year, I still have some to go for the rest of this year!