Shrunken Shrine, in the sense of it being my ongoing online presence, has been going on for a year now. There’s no special significance to me having chosen Halloween, besides liking it as a time of year.
This first anniversary was a nice little motivator to get my first YouTube video in roughly 15 years out the door. It is amateurish. I put a lot of effort into it, I learned a lot, and will continue to learn more. If you have the patience to sit through these little thoughts on some media, I’d like to know if you like the anthology format or if you think these would work better as short standalone videos. I like them together like this – sort of a grab bag of films, websites, poems, paintings, games and writings that may never be unified in a loose context like this ever again.
So, how was this year? A good start. The Roguelike Deck-builder History has been a little inconsistent in terms of regularity, but honestly, there’s only so much of a genre you can take before you want to dip into something else. The key point is, it’s still ongoing and has lasted longer than a lot of other things I’ve given up on, and I think it’s pretty unique.
The year has suggested that I’m a lot less addicted to social media than I thought I was. I can’t even be bothered to open Twitter in the downtime I get that I usually associate with its usage anymore, and I was never much of an Instagram person in the first place, so that’s just relegated to interesting drinks as and when I come across them. Tumblr, pffffffuhgeddabahdit.
With the completion of the video and the accumulation of posts on the blog, a sense of creative fulfilment has slowly begun to re-enter my life. If you’re reading this, there’s an extremely high chance I know you personally, and you had some hand in helping me get all this done. I can’t thank you enough for your love, patience, support and knowledge. I can’t explain how important this is to me, because it has been a long fight with myself and my circumstances to do even this much, but I’m feeling optimistic and looking forward to what else may be here by this time next year. A lot of Slay the Spire knock-offs, I’m guessing!
Shrunken Shrine 