#dekkii talks

[dekkiidan]

mannn, I'm not sure if it's because I've been so busy lately, but I'm feeling a little disconnected from a lot of things at the moment; I keep second guessing myself re: chatting in fandom spaces, especially when it comes to things like geology and my own characters

I haven't felt this way before, I've never really been one to seek external validation for things as I've always been happy creating for myself, but - I think that due to my busy work I haven't been able to engage as much as I have previously - I miss chatting about characters and theories, alongside alternate universes and interactions etc.

I think, essentially, I miss y'all and being able to chat and interact as much as I was able to previously

[dekkiidan]

yippee! another rotation around the sun, and I was greeted by a huge thunderstorm this morning over the Jurassic Coast - what a perfect way to greet 33 years!

[dekkiidan]

One of my colleagues recently gifted me the most wonderful present a geologist could ask for - a new rock hammer! Got a little bit emotional about this, not going to lie.

[dekkiidan]

hey by the way, I feel like I don't say it enough as I'm not quite as active as I once was, but I love y'all Outer Wilds fandom; thanks for being such a wonderful, caring and creative community mwah mwah

[dekkiidan]

today I built two sheds, hand caught six turkeys, moved in eight new birds, removed four of those new birds to rehouse them, hauled logs near half as tall as me to reinforce an enclosure and then sat down to have a cup of tea only to find out one of my colleagues had left the turkey paddock open and all fourteen turkeys needed herding across the farm and back into their enclosure

[dekkiidan]

I had to log on to my old FB (😒) account the other day to deactivate it, and the last post I made (2+ years ago) was that I'd finished Outer Wilds and that it had given me Big Feelings

so to anyone who went on my old profile page it just looks like I finished Outer Wilds, had an emotional breakdown and then Disappeared Forever

which I quite enjoy

[dekkiidan]

me out on a fossil walk with a school group

child: what's this?

me: oh, that's chert! lots of it on the beach, wrong colour and shape though so try and look for what we discussed earlier in our fossil talk!

another child: what's this?

me: more chert!

another child: what's this?

me: chert, again - remember what we discussed about the colour and shape of foss-

another child: what's this?

me:

[dekkiidan]

The stars aligned for me to meet up with the wonderful @rakkigaru today to do some Eocene fossil hunting! It was amazing to not only meet up with such a wonderful pal and artist, but also because we found SO many cool fossils, including these fossil shark teeth! 🦈

Thank you Rakki for hanging out and being such a good listener when I was yapping about fossils and rocks, hehe!