My personal blog posts. 2023-04-05T05:25:20Z https://blog.reya.zone/blog/ Reya C. webmistress.reya@reya.zone 2023-04-05T05:25:20Z https://blog.reya.zone/blog/2023/04/05/postmortem-may-2022-emotional-outage/ <p>(Never-finished) Evaluating the contributing factors both positive and negative, direct and indirect, that culminated in a depressive episode in late May 2022.</p> 2023-04-05T05:20:31Z https://blog.reya.zone/blog/2023/04/05/dreamin/ <p>(Unfinished NYE post) It's time for a New Year's summation sequence! Let's see what - and who - 2021 had to bring...</p> 2023-01-01T02:10:01Z https://blog.reya.zone/blog/2022/12/31/happy-2023/ <p>Thoughts on this year and friendship and romance and progress.</p> 2022-03-01T04:17:44Z https://blog.reya.zone/blog/2022/02/28/reading-2022-4-the-ancient-magus-bride-vol-1-by-kore-yamazaki/ <p>Another manga, this time volume 1 of The Ancient Magus' Bride at Ssubby's recommendation!</p> 2022-02-19T19:54:45Z https://blog.reya.zone/blog/2022/02/19/reading-2022-3-how-do-we-relationship-vol-1-by-tamifull/ <p>The first non-kink book of the year, and also the first manga of the year! A cute (but drama-heavy) lesbian romance!</p> 2022-02-06T16:36:06Z https://blog.reya.zone/blog/2022/02/06/reading-2022-2-popular-girls-by-miss-kaneda/ <p>That's right, keeping it going! This one's another size kink book, probably a steppy one if I know Miss Kaneda. Let's get into it!</p> 2022-02-06T05:14:44Z https://blog.reya.zone/blog/2022/02/06/reading-2022-1-skeleton-town-by-taedis/ <p>Book #1 for 2022. Let's see if I can keep this up, shall we? This one's a size fetish book.</p> 2020-12-21T14:39:17Z https://blog.reya.zone/blog/2020/12/21/let-me-soothe-my-wounds/ <p>TW: suicide, abuse, stalking mentions<br> It's time to take a break.</p> 2020-09-03T04:56:24Z https://blog.reya.zone/blog/2020/09/03/to-be-loved-to-be-loved/ <p>What more could you ask for? (I still love About a Girl by The Academy Is...)</p> 2020-08-06T06:01:46Z https://blog.reya.zone/blog/2020/08/06/no-free-lunched/ <p>Reflections on submission(/dominance) and its relationship with codependency.</p> 2020-07-13T22:52:02Z https://blog.reya.zone/blog/2020/07/13/triple-goddess-tarot-major-arcana-intuitively/ <p>My first impression of the Major Arcana of the Triple Goddess Tarot.</p> 2020-04-18T18:19:12Z https://blog.reya.zone/blog/2020/04/18/concentrate/ <p>Thoughts about focusing on tasks, and escaping the magnetic pull of distraction by keeping track of the thoughts that would otherwise be left behind.</p> 2020-03-30T02:00:00Z https://blog.reya.zone/blog/2020/03/29/daily-hellotalk-blog-day-3/ <p>My third regular Japanese blog on HelloTalk. Talking about contests on Leetcode and similar things.</p> 2020-03-29T04:15:00Z https://blog.reya.zone/blog/2020/03/29/daily-hellotalk-blog-day-2/ <p>My second regular Japanese blog on HelloTalk. Talking about how to learn Japanese and what to do about Flashcards.</p> 2020-03-28T01:00:00Z https://blog.reya.zone/blog/2020/03/27/daily-hellotalk-blog-day-1/ <p>My first regular Japanese blog on HelloTalk. Talking about interviewing and resume stuff.</p> 2020-01-02T19:49:27Z https://blog.reya.zone/blog/2020/01/03/tokyo-day-2-january-1-2020-new-years-day/ <p>New Year's Day and some sightseeing in Tokyo!</p> 2019-12-31T14:55:47Z https://blog.reya.zone/blog/2019/12/31/tokyo-day-1-december-31-2019-new-years-eve/ <p>My first full day in Tokyo - and the end of a decade.</p> 2019-12-31T09:58:01Z https://blog.reya.zone/blog/2019/12/31/tokyo-days-0-december-28-30-2019/ <p>A summary of the days leading up to my first night in Tokyo for my research expedition!</p> 2019-12-31T06:47:55Z https://blog.reya.zone/blog/2019/12/31/on-my-father/ <p>A summary of my relationship with my father, to give background to those who haven't been part of this nightmarish scenario all along. CW: emotional abuse, narcissism.</p> 2019-12-10T23:01:53Z https://blog.reya.zone/blog/2019/12/10/reflections-on-family/ <p>The letter to my family, which is as much a letter to myself to understand what I'm doing and why I'm doing it as it is one to my family to inform them of what's going on and to state my boundaries.</p> 2019-12-06T05:35:55Z https://blog.reya.zone/GenderFAQ/ <p>Frequently asked questions as given to family and friends who knew little of trans matters and wanted to know more about Mari's gender transition.</p> 2019-12-05T16:59:51Z https://blog.reya.zone/blog/2019/12/05/advanced-jobs/ <p>On empowering the Parts of Me, and in so doing, letting them merge into one, unified, True Me.</p> 2019-11-27T03:27:00Z https://blog.reya.zone/blog/2019/11/26/maidabases/ <p>A summary of the problem I faced with Anki, in vore-and-maids format.</p> 2019-11-12T05:35:07Z https://blog.reya.zone/blog/2019/11/12/bad-brain-time-survival-guide/ <p>How my brain glitches in bad situations, and how I'm working around it.</p> 2019-11-11T16:43:51Z https://blog.reya.zone/blog/2019/11/11/on-choosing-the-form-of-ones-dopamine-lever/ <p>Let's get personal. And let's make it weird.<br> Talking about considering SRS, and feelings on different kinds of genitals, among other things.</p> 2019-10-08T19:35:13Z https://blog.reya.zone/blog/2019/10/08/co-op-partners/ <p>Complaining about being single... player mode.</p> 2019-07-18T13:52:45Z https://blog.reya.zone/blog/2019/07/18/56eb44gv5pel5pys6kqe44gm44os44oz44or44ki44od44ox44gx44g44gx44gf77yb/ <p>(&quot;My Japanese has leveled up!&quot;)</p> <p>Thoughts on language learning through the lens of Metroidvanias with RPG elements.</p> 2019-07-01T15:32:02Z https://blog.reya.zone/blog/2019/07/01/reflections-on-self-disgust/ <p>(cw: discussion of self-directed transphobia)<br> A follow-up to the Affection post from earlier this year. It's long!!</p> 2019-04-03T23:26:54Z https://blog.reya.zone/blog/2019/04/03/android-girl-adventures-overly-urp-timized/ <p>How a funky JVM optimization resulted in our Android girl belching a bunch instead of telling us what was going on, and failing her self-test accordingly.</p> 2019-01-10T15:53:26Z https://blog.reya.zone/blog/2019/01/10/affection/ <p>Exploring my relationship to affection and love.</p> 2019-01-06T15:46:32Z https://blog.reya.zone/blog/2019/01/06/thoughts-on-reyas/ <p>Thinking about how my moods tend to cycle, and why.</p> 2018-12-31T20:27:29Z https://blog.reya.zone/blog/2018/12/31/cause-if-youre-next-to-me-thats-all-i-really-need/ <p>My end-of-year celebration post for 2018.</p> 2018-12-31T06:56:24Z https://blog.reya.zone/blog/2018/12/31/the-first-post-on-my-new-blog/ <p>A post encapsulating my excitement about having a new blog!</p>