I was primarily a Nintendo girly growing up, having been introduced to their games via the Game Boy Advance and Gamecube. Later on I played the Xbox 360 as well, with Kameo: Elements of Power and Viva Piñata being games that I particularly enjoyed from that console. The first indie game I played as a child was World of Goo on the PC, and boy, it's art style and themes definitely left an impression on my younger self! When I was a young teenager I stumbled across a video by Markiplier of him playing an indie game called Don't Starve, which leads to...
My favorite Nintendo games are Pokémon White, Kirby Air Ride, and Miitopia. Pokémon White was my introductory game to the larger Pokémon franchise as a whole. I like Miitopia because of its silly humor and how it doesn't take itself too seriously. Being able to add my own characters to it is great fun too!
My favorite PC games include Don't Starve, Don't Starve Together, The Sims 3, Subnautica, and Minecraft. When I played Don't Starve for the first time back in late 2013/early 2014, something about it's gameplay, art style, and humor just "clicked" with me, and I was hooked! I still fondly remember my first time ever playing it. I'd managed to survive to around day 11 on my very first attempt and felt so smart when seeing a red mushroom, thinking, "It's bad to eat random mushrooms IRL, so it must be bad here too." I later learned that I was right, as red mushrooms deal twenty damage when eaten. That first experience is what inspired my Steam username, actually!
I'm rather shy when it comes to multiplayer and making friends on Steam. I'm uncomfortable with using voice chat (like Discord) and would rather keep things to text in-game only. When adding people (like potentially you, reader!) to my friend list, I tend to treat it more like a list of friendly acquaintances. I'm just cautious when it comes to interacting with new, unknown people online. If I potentially ignore any messages you send me or I unfriend you, it's nothing personal, I promise! I just get stressed and overwhelmed easily when interacting with others on Steam in a non-video game context. My primary multiplayer game of choice is Don't Starve Together, where I prefer to take on a supportive playstyle and help out newer players. I try my best to be kind, funny, and helpful when playing with others.

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My writing journey was completely unplanned, and every day I'm pleasantly surprised that it's still going!
• Late 2022
My older sibling begins an independent creative project. They invite me to contribute ideas and work on it with them. We have lots of fun tossing ideas back and forth with each other.
• Early 2023
I work on creating a fictional world map for the project, doing lots of research and becoming surprisingly invested in it. I spent an estimated 20+ hours or so on it. During the entire map-making process, I listened to the song Gone Away by CG5 on repeat.
Some emotional stuff happens in my life. The project abruptly ends.
• The rest of 2023
I am miserable. I attend some college classes and do well in them. I spend the rest of the year emotionally recovering from the emotional stuff.
• Early 2024
I'm doing better mentally, yay! I attend some more college classes, including a keyboarding one. I learn to touch type, rather than hunting and pecking. This radically improves my typing ability and speed.
• Mid 2024
After a Don't Starve Together play session, I write a flash fiction loosely inspired by the character Willow.
• Late 2024
I decide to try out this new ChatGPT thing that I've been avoiding. Using it encourages me to take an idea I've been imagining before falling asleep every night more seriously, and I start enthusiastically working on an outline for a Don't Starve Together fanfic. The outline balloons out of proportion and I get intimidated by its scope, abandoning the project.
• Early February, 2025
I decide to record some of my Don't Starve Hamlet gameplay and try making a highly edited, fast-paced video out of it. I learn many things, editing about half of the footage. Importantly, for one scene I download two stock photos of people and edit the head of the character Wilson over their heads.
• Mid February, 2025
I edit Wilson's head over seven more stock photos. I decide to have some silly fun and share them with ChatGPT, having it put the nine "characters" into a battle royal scenario against each other. I become surprisingly invested in the nine "characters" and use ChatGPT to put them in all sorts of wacky scenarios, unknowingly laying the foundation for my story.
• Late February, 2025
The nine characters are becoming something more than just silly edited stock photos. I'm getting invested in them and their story. I experience my first ever hyperfixation. I go absolutely feral over the characters, struggling to maintain healthy eating and sleeping habits.
• Mid April, 2025
I stop using ChatGPT to generate scenes of my characters, and instead use it as a motivational cheerleader as I begin writing ideas and scenes completely on my own. I've regained my sanity and manage to improve my eating and sleeping habits.
• Late July, 2025
I decide to go over all of my notes, scenes, ideas, and written chapters to get a word count. The total number of words that I've written by this point is over 50,000. What?! That's more than double what I initiallly guessed, and all 50,000+ words are ones that I've written myself.
So... yeah! Apparently I'm a hobbyist writer now! I had no idea that things would come this far. I basically kept thinking throughout the entire process since mid February, "Well, I'll keep going until I run out of steam, not take things too seriously," and the steam just didn't stop? Crazy. Why share this journey on a Steam profile, of all places? Well, I wanted to share my experience and show that you don't need some big grand plan to start writing, I guess. Plus, writing has become my second primary hobby alongside gaming, so it deserves a spot on my Steam profile.
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