meow!

also realizing I don't know when the last time I showered is. That at least can be fixed

I needed to put that out there. if what you see is "Elia fell in love with Ash and now she's anxious all the time", I need you to see the missing step.

I hope you'll stand up for us if it's needed.

we're live!

twitch.tv/arborelia

The episode might start late. I am doing my best in this messed-up world. But there _will_ be Silver Ball Century tonight, at 8pm EST or later.

it was a 5-strike tournament, I had 4 strikes after 6 rounds, and clearly all I needed to do to turn things around was to have back-to-back wins on Tron, Bad Cats, Eight Ball Deluxe, and Black Knight. Which is what I did

international pinball bullshit aside, my local league is wonderful and there are lots of good players in it. I have never _placed_ in an open tournament before. My best placement before this was 4th in a small Sunday tournament a year ago

the reason I was surprised by the letter thing is that it made him sound like a complete dipshit. he doesn't usually do that. he's said a bunch of wrong things about linguistics and human evolution but he'd sound so smart saying them that people scrambled to figure out what he "really meant"

It is beyond disheartening, discouraging, and dismaying to see the leadership behind the world's largest pinball score-keeping organization do *nothing* to stand up to transphobic attacks occurring at their events, while also shifting all blame onto trans women victims and calling the matter settled