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  <title>The Packbats' Weblog</title>
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    <name>packbat</name>
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  <updated>2021-09-10T13:34:50Z</updated>
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    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-03:244784:324303</id>
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    <title>Twenty years ago today</title>
    <published>2021-09-10T13:29:49Z</published>
    <updated>2021-09-10T13:34:50Z</updated>
    <category term="link time: substantial"/>
    <category term="september 11"/>
    <category term="read time: a minute"/>
    <category term="politics"/>
    <category term="thoughts"/>
    <category term="united states"/>
    <category term="packbat favorite posts"/>
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    <category term="civil rights"/>
    <category term="life"/>
    <dw:mood>contemplative</dw:mood>
    <dw:security>public</dw:security>
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    <content type="html">&lt;span class="cut-wrapper"&gt;&lt;span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class="cut-open"&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-text"&gt;&lt;a href="https://packbat.dreamwidth.org/324303.html#cutid1"&gt;This is a post about the US's 9/11, obviously. Content warning for police and military violence.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-close"&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=packbat&amp;ditemid=324303" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-03:244784:299113</id>
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    <title>A very personal reaction to replaying Dear Esther</title>
    <published>2019-07-16T22:01:31Z</published>
    <updated>2020-09-13T20:04:07Z</updated>
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    <category term="music"/>
    <category term="mental health"/>
    <category term="video games"/>
    <category term="read time: several minutes"/>
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    <dw:music>How To Destroy Angels - Too late, all gone</dw:music>
    <dw:mood>contemplative</dw:mood>
    <dw:security>public</dw:security>
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    <content type="html">&lt;span class="cut-wrapper"&gt;&lt;span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class="cut-open"&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-text"&gt;&lt;a href="https://packbat.dreamwidth.org/299113.html#cutid1"&gt;Content warnings for depression &amp; related heavy subjects, the band How To Destroy Angels, and Dear Esther spoilers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-close"&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;[edited to add link to the second HTDA track 2019-08-17]&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=packbat&amp;ditemid=299113" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-03:244784:298203</id>
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    <title>Teavlogs 2 &amp; 3: "Complimenting Myself" and "Does any1 care?"</title>
    <published>2019-04-23T19:23:25Z</published>
    <updated>2019-04-23T19:25:43Z</updated>
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    <category term="about packbat"/>
    <category term="mental health"/>
    <category term="creative process"/>
    <category term="videos"/>
    <category term="notes to self"/>
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    <category term="vlogs"/>
    <category term="capitalism"/>
    <category term="link time: several minutes"/>
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    <dw:music>Andrew Huang - Lake Louise</dw:music>
    <dw:mood>pleased</dw:mood>
    <dw:security>public</dw:security>
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    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Forgot to post here, but I've made two more teavlogs over the past two weeks:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UldUH5K9uys"&gt;Complimenting Myself&lt;/a&gt;: one of the things that I struggle with is accepting that I'm a good person, so I talked a bit about that and also said some nice things about who I am.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItrA29hRjV4"&gt;Does any1 care?&lt;/a&gt;: I talk about how having an audience affects my motivation to create.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;...they're fun. Making a vlog while doing something else adds visual interest, gives the vlog a natural stopping point (the tea is done and the kettle refilled), and it's just kind of fun to perform for the camera. And I pick topics I feel capable of speaking extemporaneously about - subjects I've thought through and have a pretty clear idea of what I want to communicate.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=packbat&amp;ditemid=298203" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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  <entry>
    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-03:244784:297330</id>
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    <title>thinking about comforting people</title>
    <published>2019-01-13T22:41:44Z</published>
    <updated>2019-01-13T22:41:44Z</updated>
    <category term="packbat favorite posts"/>
    <category term="stream of consciousness"/>
    <category term="thoughts"/>
    <category term="life"/>
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    <dw:music>U2 - Mothers of the Disappeared</dw:music>
    <dw:mood>uncomfortable</dw:mood>
    <dw:security>public</dw:security>
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    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;(I hope talking about what I do doesn't make it uncomfortable for people I comfort, but I'm doing it anyway)&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;span class="cut-wrapper"&gt;&lt;span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class="cut-open"&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-text"&gt;&lt;a href="https://packbat.dreamwidth.org/297330.html#cutid1"&gt;a lot of this is gonna just be all-lowercase short paragraphs with no periods&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-close"&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=packbat&amp;ditemid=297330" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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