You might notice I'm not streaming right now lol My bank account overdrew this morning auto paying a minor bill so friends are taking me to deposit bottles and deposit bottle deposits to my bank. 🫣 I also have an offer for a free smart watch that I'm gonna see about picking up so I can start showing my heart rate on stream again because I know that was fun for all of you before and encouraged some people to interact with stream in certain ways more. I want to bring that joy back for people haha 

My payment for my storage unit bounced last night because as it would turn out - my credit card is over its limit from bills during GOTEL month unfortunately It going up another $60 a month starting this week is killlling me lol So I am really locking in on what I can revamp, things to change/try, stuff I know people want to see, potential sponsors, etc. and will otherwise be spending a lot more time looking into DoorDashing via my bicycle as soon as I get the rest of the maintanence on it done 

As well as some paid projects for groups I'm part of that I have been working on for a REALLY long time and look like they are finally coming to fruition! 🤞🏻Which won't help these bills but will help in the long run Also, I am hopeful some part time work that a friend has discussed with me will finally be available later this Summer so keeping my fingies crossed while also prepping a yard sale to downsize stuff

My merch has a promo for all of pride that auto-applies free shipping and there are discounts on access to this blog that has over 60 scheduled posts over the course of now to August (not counting the posts I'm putting back up after fixing some broken links - those go back up on Saturday of this week), and there are discounts of all sorts here on my website if you're a Twitch sub (bigger discounts depending on tier you are)

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My commissions for services are open on Ko-Fi as mentioned in my other post, of course, which are things from voice work to video editing for Twitch streamers, to tarot readings - all the stuff my website's provider doesn't allow because they aren't 1 time tangible items.

And Friday Afternoon's Summer blends just came back into rotation so if you want all sorts of fun blends that haven't been available for 9-ish months~ (Code: FIERYASHES to save yourself 10%)

https://www.fridaytea.com/?sca_ref=9951495.vJq7hhNORr

Not to be too much of a shill lol. Sorry! I'm not asking for straight up tips/donations especially after a month of charity efforts, but if you want to support one of your favorite queer creators during Pride Month: that wooooould be pretty cool of you and there's lots of ways to do that ⁠🥰〡how-to-support and there's new community-goals listed in the Discord have some other stuff that I thought would make things fun for everyone should they be met

Lastly, my spouse's work schedule looks like it is somewhat drastically changing and so I think I'm going to align my schedule changes I'm planning on trying for the rest of the Summer with when their schedule would be switching as well but in the mean time I'm doing a lot of research on my analytics and all that good stuff. We love data driven choices! ♥

As I change things up and reflect, if any of you have content you'd like to see days/times you'd love content available, games you'd like played or activities you'd like to engage with, Discord events you'd love to see, a silly merch idea - anything - please feel free to always drop them in suggestion-box in discord or in comments

I'm gonna stream for a couple hours this evening once I'm back from errands and I'll be streaming during the day tomorrow too - both a little Like A Dragon Gaiden and an official Summer Games Fest Co-Stream before going to a recording session in the evening

Sorry about everything 🫣 More fun things soon and hopefully a schedule people will really like ♥

Hey everyone!

This is what is happening with "Yakuza Fridays".

It all started with our BGCA fundraiser for the holiday season 2023, the community unlocked me trying the Yakuza franchise and community goals since then unlocked me playing the rest of the main franchise of them. Now I'm hooked!

I am playing through the Yakuza/Like a Dragon franchise main games from 0 through current releases. Only on Fridays (except 1 exception so far when we only had a couple hours left of Yakuza 5 last year so I beat it on one of my Saturday streams.) I don't stream every Friday no matter what because life has gotten in the way. During this time frame I've traveled, gotten married, had 5 deaths that mattered to me happen, taken time off to help family, moved myself and dealt with loved ones' estates, traveled for several conventions, and more. Some of that has taken me away for several Fridays over the time since we started Yakuza Fridays haha.

I don't own all of the Yakuza titles yet - the first half I played on Game Pass before they were removed last year (which caused its own lapse in Yakuza Fridays while I got that sorted out haha) so I can't revisit those, and I don't own titles like Pirate Yakuza In Hawaii, Judgment + Lost Judgment, etc. yet so we're not gonna worry about those until we get there.

How I've been playing so far:

• Yakuza 0
  - My first Yakuza/Like A Dragon title! Started January 5th (2024) and beaten in March
• Yakuza Kiwami
  - Started March and beaten in April 
• Yakuza Kiwami 2
  - Started May and beaten in September
• Yakuza 3 Remastered
  - Started September and beaten in November
• Yakuza 4 Remastered
  - Started in November and beaten on January 3rd (2025)
• Yakuza 5 Remastered
  - Started January 12th and beaten July 19th
• Yakuza 6: The Song of Life
  - Started on July 25th and beat it on October 3rd.
• Yakuza: Like A Dragon
  - Started on October 10th and beaten on April 17th 2026

Next will be:

• Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name
  - Because it is concurrent to Yakuza: Like A Dragon

Then we'll move on to:

• Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth
• Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii
  - Hopefully 🤞🏻 
  - It's supposed to take place following the events of Infinite Wealth so we're not in a rush to get there until we get through TMWEHN and Infinite Wealth anyway.

I'm considering doing depending on availability when we get done with everything above:

• Judgement
• Lost Judgement
• The other side content that has been made. I'd even love to try the Streets of Kamurocho freeware if I can get my hands on it somewhere still.

Thanks for coming along for this ride!

For anybody looking for my deep dive timelime and lore notes, that I have to fill out a bunch more: This lives here!

- Fiery ♥

Hey all,

I can't believe it's been almost 2 years since I first made this Uservoice so I'm glad that it wasn't closed so it is still able to be voted for and commented on. I still think that this idea would revolutionize how Twitch works for a LOT of streamers.

There are SO many arguments for multiple or stacking categories.

For stacking categories - things like:

"Retro" -> "EarthBound"
"Games + Demos" -> "Wax Heads Demo"
"Makers + Crafting" -> "Knitting"
"Co-working & Studying" - > "Spirit City: Lofi Sessions"
"Special Events" -> "Award Show" or "Birthday" or "Charity Fundraiser" would all be really cool stackable categories that could be reasonable to create to these ends.
"Resident Evil" -> "Resident Evil 4 Remake"
"Pokémon" -> "Hey You, Pikachu!"
"Pokémon" -> "Pokopia"
"Elder Scrolls" -> "Skyrim"
OR "The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim" as a main category (a category that has 2.5m followers) and being able to pick "The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Special Edition  (a release that cleaned up some graphics and loading screens which is has its own category that has only 180k followers)"
"Tabletop RPGs" -> "Dungeons & Dragons"
- and then request there are some other stackable categories made that would be their own uservoice notes. It wouldn't need to be every single game but I'd probably make a uservoice suggesting "Mythos RPGs", "Powered By The Apocalypse Games", "Indie RPGs", "Horror RPGs", or and some other broad buckets that are really common.

For multiple categories:

"Special Events" + "Words on Stream"
"Special Events" + "King of the Castle"

"Makers + Crafting"  + "Placid Plastic Duck Simulator"
"Science & Technology" + "Talk Shows + Podcasts"
"Tabletop RPGs" + "Talk Shows + Podcasts"
"Spirit City: Lofi Sessions" + "Words on Stream" or "Placid Plastic Duck Simulator"

So many people technically qualify for multiple categories at once. But also, it'd be SO much better of not just a streamer experience but a viewer experience if you're looking for "Tales" series games being played in general and you could go to a broad series category and see "Tales of Symphonia" streams in the same place as "Tales of Eternia". Being able to see every Resident Evil rather than checking every single sub category, but also being able to see which one they are playing while checking the broader big category. Like "Oh, I checked all big Resident Evil category and I'm seeing a couple RE2, an RE2Remake, an RE0... oh! Cool, someone is playing Code Veronica right now! Nice!" ya know?
"Looking in Retro... oh man, someone is finally streaming my favorite game from when I was a kid - Tiny Toons: Buster Busts Loose!" rather than sifting through every thumb nail of retro in case they are in Retro to reach more people rather than being in a category only a very small number of people follow or ever check.

Plus, so many people will do things like doing a major thing like art or Foods & Beverages or some kind of special event... but also play little chat integrated games at the same time. I think both are equally valid and the people looking for either should be able to find the streams that are doing both.

Thanks to everyone who has voted on this already and shared this already. I appreciate it a bunch. If you are reading this and have a Twitch log in - you don't need to be a streamer to vote on Twitch Uservoice entries, so you can vote for this too still if you'd like and share it wherever you'd like to.

https://twitch.uservoice.com/forums/310210-discover/suggestions/48431573-multiple-stacking-categories

I love all the seasons in their own ways and Spring is such a lovely time of year. I think it is really interesting and quite the shame that April flowers bloomed in February in my area. But I am glad to have all the lovely flowers around regardless. The plants that are here are doing their best in the changing meanings of seasons. 💜

I wonder how we best support pollinators and their ecosystems if the blossoms they depend on in specific months are gone a weeks or months early. It is something I have definitely been looking into.

Ecosystem research coming soon.

Hey there!

That's it. After a month, there's a post for every day of the month about women that inspire me from my past and present - hopefully long into the future. Some are down to be re-edited a bit because I don't love how they are missing some things I wanted to say as well as some formating issues that broke them when moving them here from where I had been writing them so they'll be back up again ASAP.

The series had no order or ranking, rhyme or reason to who went on which day other than starting with 2 of the first ladies to ever inspire me and a femme friend on their birthday to celebrate them specifically. Everyone else was written and just assigned a day.

1. Grammy (my maternal grandmother who raised me)
2. Laura (my favorite cousin)
3. Babe (TheBabeWithThe)
4. Erica (EricaPlz)
5. Suzie (another childhood friend, one of my other very first friends ever)
   
   1. Amber (a childhood friend, one of my very first friends ever in my life)
6. Briar/Thistle/WildThistle (not a 'woman' but this sometimes femme always them is one of my dearest friends in the whole world and like a sibling, and so I posted this on their birthday)
7. Emi (Emidivergent)
8. Moo (Moohoodles)
9. Coco (CocoConfession)
10. Ellie (3lleBelle)
11. Dee (8BitDee)
12. MarcyLaycelle
13. Misfit_Playland
14. Ash (AshSaidHi)
15. Ash (MsAshRocks)
16. Amber (Analog_Amber)
17. Nurse/Shelby (NurseHuckleberry)
18. Zeph (ParamixZeph)
19. VeekayTV
20. OtterLady
21. Grandpa (aka RascallyGrampy formerly TheRealRascallyGrandpa)
    
22. Ally (AllyReggie)
23. Lorb/Lerb/Lauren (Th4tGamerChick)
24. Morgan
25. Knimbley
26. Moira (jemapelleMOIRA)
27. Bee Sarmiento (BusyBeeSarms of Breadwork Games)
28. Leina'ala (LA from PAX)
29. Kasima
30. Steffi Graves (AmongstGraves)
31. Adeli3
32. BONUS POST BECAUSE I WANTED TO LIST SO MANY OTHER FEMMES BUT I COULDN'T SO I HAVE SOME STUFF TO SAY ABOUT THE OLD WAYS CAST

Thanks to all the wonderful femmes for being in my life past and present I get to draw inspiration from.