[Sofia's Life Diary] 5/28/2023

Comeback week!

After going down for two weeks as a "recently recovered patient" (aka: I had COVID), it was so nice to finally get to chat and stream with everyone again 💙

Paper doll credit: https://picrew.me/share?cd=AkiIZmRDX1

I hadn't made a thumbnail in forever, so opening up Photoshop again felt weirdly unfamiliar 🥹

The thumbnail was drawn by Lanbao-sensei, and I was so happy some of you recognized the artist right away and knew I was back~

The PC upgrade fundraiser is officially live too!

I was SO SO SO worried nobody would actually show up to fund it.

Kind of like doujinshi print-run surveys, you know?

Where a hundred people say they want to buy a copy, and then you only sell ten, and they're all bought by your friends and family... 🥹

I never expected we'd hit almost half the goal on day one. Thank you all so much for your love and support!

Once I get my new computer, I won't have to worry about Photoshop randomly crashing halfway through a thumbnail anymore!

Right now every time I open Photoshop I get so anxious I save after literally every single action, because I'm terrified a crash will wipe out all my progress QAQ

Thank you so much to Liv for encouraging me to try running a fundraiser in the first place. If it weren't for her, scaredy-cat me never would have found the courage to take that step ＞＜

It's been way too long since I played a real game, so naturally, the second I came back I dove straight into a horror game at midnight!

(Ever since my debut, gaming time is basically only stream time for me QQ)

I was hoping to properly enjoy the terror and thrill of a late-night horror game session (?)

...except right at the start, while fumbling with the settings, I accidentally turned on Easy Mode (the "you can't die to ghosts" safety mode).

What was supposed to be the demo's climactic, heart-pounding chase scene turned into me casually body-checking a female ghost like it was nothing 😱😱😱

Also, as someone who has zero clue how to actually use Photoshop and just brute-forces everything, I discovered how to make glowing eyes!

You just duplicate the layer, turn it pure black, adjust the opacity, layer it over the original, and erase the eye area with the eraser tool!

Oh my gosh, I'm amazing!?

This was my first time being a "recently recovered patient," and I spent basically the entire illness just lying flat in bed.

By the end, my throat and stomach both hurt so much from coughing that I could only eat jelly and pudding.

I ate way less during that whole stretch than even during my most intense diet as a teenager.

(Basically an incredibly painful, involuntary fasting method QQ)

Being sick sucked, but hey, maybe I lost some weight out of it!?

So I secretly stepped on the scale, hoping for good news...

165 KG

...that's LITERALLY no change at all!! 😭😭😭😭😭

But let's look on the bright side — maybe I gained weight from eating too much Taiwanese food on my trip, and being sick just brought me right back down to baseline!

Time to grab a beef bowl to cope 😤