sally rooney – as told by zaheerah

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I mentioned in the last rewind post that I was waiting for some good news, and now I can finally share that I have extended my job contract at Penguin Random House! Initially, my contract was expected to end this December, but I was offered a year-long extension on my role as a Bibliographic Metadata Assistant. I was really anxious when I applied for this job in February, partly because I was deeply burned out from a long period of unemployment. I ALMOST didn’t apply for the role because I wasn’t sure if I would even understand the role. This role has really taught me so much about publishing. It is such an exciting position from within the company as I often interact with people who work in Editorial, Marketing and Production – three areas where I initially focused my attention when applying to publishing jobs.

I’m also slowly trying to return to the world of book blogging and bookish social media. I recently revamped my old art account into an art/bookstagram type account where I can post about streaming and books, which are two things that basically take up my life these days.

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A R T

One day, I swear I will finish an art piece I start….

My current WIP is a new PNG model for streaming based on Blaidd from Elden Ring as part of a viewer’s Channel Point redemption.

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L I F E

Of course, I accidentally went MIA just as I said I was going to be returning to blogging….. The past two months have been hectic: summer means everyone wants to come to our house (a curse of living by the beach, you’ll forever be the designated house to visit in the summer) I love seeing my family, but I also value peace and quiet so here’s to hoping for more quiet weekends as we reach the fall season. I’ve also been very busy settling into work and hopefully can share some good news soon 👀

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Ever since I played Baldur’s Gate 3 last year, I’ve had an itch to learn how to play Dungeons & Dragons and delve more into the world of TTRPGs. I came across this game called Cartograph which is a “a solo journaling RPG about map making, exploration, worldbuilding and resource management.” I actually made this one on stream with my Twitch community, the vods can be found here and here. The stream was split into two days as one was for the actual mapmaking and the second day was for making a digital version of the map. Using dices and cards, we were able to create this really cool map that we hope to use in future campaigns.