Weekly Roundup: Week 8

[opensummer]

What I’m doing: Getting back into running and thinking about renewing my Zombie’s Run subscription. I’d like to re-listen to the lot and it’ll be a lot easier if I was subscribed to it.
What I’m reading: The Queen of Attolia. A bunch of people have rec the series to me over the last year or so and I finally laid hands a copy.
What I’m listening to: Homecoming by Josh Ritter the third or fourth verse where the music changes and the rhyme scheme shifts just soothes out something scratchy in my head. It’s lovely.
What I’m watching: The Technique Critque playlist by wired. It’s mostly a lowkey salty dialect coach being lowkey salty about actors doing accents which is delightful. There’s also a lowkey salty surgeon episode and a lowkey salty hacker episode.
What I’m writing:

• A ficlet about Brooklyn 99, a macguffin, a hipster dispute for the fandomweekly comm.
• The leverage/aos crossover

Mental Health Check: 5/10, mood held, but my function is still not great. I’ve had a couple hours of hyperfocus I’ve abused to get stuff done but the rest of the time I’ve been running around in a fog, doing nothing.
Final Notes:I will not be content until you’re all crying over Kitbull. ‘Cause I’m still crying over it and Opportunity. 

"Kitbull | Pixar SparkShorts" (Watch on YouTube)

Comments

[kurgaya]

What's Zombie Run? I used to do a little bit of running (kinda hated it, mind you) before my back problem, and I used Couch to 5k? And honestly, I tell people that if I can do Couch to 5k, basically anyone can xD I remember the first time it tells you to run for 20 mins straight and I was like "nah man that's crazy" but then I fucking did it. Blew my mind.

Love your icon btw!!

[opensummer]

Zombies, Run! is a fitness app (i know, i know but it's really wonderful!) It's a storytelling/game app where you run missions as a runner, which is a job title, for a community that's struggling to survive in a zombie apocalypse. The mission plays in segments between music and if you enable gps it can track your run, distance and pace. The storytelling is fantastic and everybody I know who uses it has a crush on Sam Yao, including me and I don't do crushes on fictional characters.

It's very inclusive of queer characters and the very first episode has a line of that says something about if you can go above a slow shamble, you can run. Which is something I firmly believe. It's got a training program included in the app, and seven(?) seasons of content.

You can play it for free but there's a time lock between episodes I think it's three days so if you're running regularly it can be frustrating to wait for them. It's like 3 bucks a month or $25 for a year and I definitely recommend it.

I'm one of those lucky people who gets a really good runners high so I run regularly and have since high school. I try to race 3 or 4 times a year. I refuse to run when it's cold out though and I can't run when I'm diving so I always have a month or so in February or March where I have to get back in shape and it suuuuuucks.

Thank you! I made it!

[kurgaya]

Ooh sounds cool! I do have a question though about the Zombie app. Is it possible to like "die"? :P

[opensummer]

it is not possible to die! there’s a feature you can disable where the app will insert a period usually 30 secs or a minute where you have to speed up to get away from unexpected zombies but if you get caught you only lose supplies. but i tend to keep it turned off cause it makes me anxious.

it’s good if you’re going for a tempo run.