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I recently discovered the Murder Drones web series. One group of fans made a 20-minute storyboard episode which is pretty impressive. https://youtu.be/VKzv_3q_b8E?si=fZnCMcIioD6NBQlu
          It is a lot younger fandom than Hermitcraft, but it is cool to see how much energy there is already.

I have regained a level of interest in Hermitcraft videos that I haven't had since S7. It feels odd. Hopefully it inspires work on "Snowstorm."

Argh! I have Wolfwalkers brainrot after seeing a James Baxter animation video. It is so easy to get sidetracked on fruitless tangents now that I have enough free time.

Sorry for no updates to Snowstorm! I've been too busy with school. But feel free to check out A Hectic Hike, which I posted in my Random Works work. It is a short story with a similar premise that I wrote early in the pandemic.

Here is a cool music video by Canadian urbanist YouTuber Uytae Lee. https://youtu.be/kxcVrsOx56k?si=0w2CCzFde3QPRzh_
          He started making educational videos for Planifax in college and more recently has posted videos on his channel, About Here, and for the CBC.

"Education" by Ralph Waldo Emerson has some very persuasive rhetoric. 10/10 read

The sermon about safeguards against sin was particularly moving today! One of my safeguards is excluding explicit works when I am on Ao3. How do you avoid sin in your life?

"The Candymakers" is very inspiring. It has four main characters, a number I think I can handle. It also has central themes of guilt and redemption. I'm gonna start pre-writing "Snowstorm"; the fourth time is the charm!

Grace is free. Grace is costly. But grace is not cheap. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German theologian who ministered against formidable odds and bore witness to his faith at considerable cost, coined the term cheap grace. Coined during the tumultuous days of the Nazi era, in the face of a passive church that spoke of redemption but knew little of its meaning and its impact on daily life, cheap grace denotes not only corporate indifference to the demands of discipleship but also personal blindness and deafness to the call of Jesus to follow Him. "Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession, absolution without personal confession. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace with out Jesus Christ, living and incarnate." 
          (ministrymagazine.org)

Fun fact: Continuing to charge a rechargeable battery after it reaches 100% charge shortens its lifespan.