I’ve never really been much of a movie or TV watcher, but some days my multiple sclerosis prevents me from doing much, and I like to have something to watch in the background other times while I knit, spin, draw, or game. Unfortunately I’m also horrible at remembering what I’ve seen, and I leave off on some shows depending on my mood / interests – only to completely forget I was even watching them when I eventually return.
So I stumbled into a discord conversation about this exact thing, and someone mentioned a website called ‘Serializd’ (which I believe is a TV series version of Letterboxd). I signed up, and spent an evening browsing through my netflix/crave histories attempting to remember shows that I’ve seen over the years. I love tracking statistics, and I really like the minimalistic view of this one, for now at least. Whether or not I keep up the tracking, we’ll just have to see. I also wish that both movies & tv were tracked together, but I imagine that’s a whole other ballgame to handle.
Anyone else using a website to track like this? How do you like it? How long have you used it? Let me know in comments!
Another week of gold making – but as a heads up, I did take wed/thu/fri/sat off this week from the daily posting happenings. I needed a bit of a break, the holidays are just about upon us and real life has been busy with all that entails. So, no posting happened then.
I made a grand total of 23 sales, for just shy of 3 million gold in-game. Most of those sales (as you can see in the screenshot above) came from recipes, although there were a handful of transmog scattered in there too. Normally I check my statistics on the tradeskillmaster website, but this time I opted to just take a screenshot of the in-game ledger. Either way the information is the same since TSM syncs with the in-game data. I have to say, part of the reason I enjoy gold making is because I just love data / statistics / charts / graphs. Who doesn’t!
I’m debating whether or not I want to do a year at a glance type of post at the end of the year, the TSM website doesn’t seem to go past 6 months, and I am pretty sure I wiped the in-game TSM data when I returned to the game because the files were gigantic. Plus I have information scattered across various accounts as it’s still pretty recent that I consolidated all of my auction house characters to one ‘account’. I’ll think about it more and then see what I can manage. It has been fun posting these weekly gold making posts, and I hope to continue doing it in 2026, that much I know.
As always, happy gaming no matter where you find yourself!
(I know the screenshot is a shuttle, not a helios, but it’s what I had taken recently, so that’s what I used!)
Filed by E, Helios pilot, full-time wanderer
Some wormholes feel like they wake up with you.
This one didn’t. It was already watching.
I slipped into the system in my little Helios, cloak humming softly around me like a blanket someone knit out of shadows. Today wasn’t about adventure or dodging hostiles or stumbling into some dramatic rescue. Today was simple: tend the rescue cache, make sure it’s stocked, make sure it’s safe, make sure some future lost soul has a lifeline.
The hole was quiet. Not the dangerous kind of quiet—just that soft, endless hush that only deep J-space seems to know. The kind that makes you feel like you’re the only heartbeat for ten light-years.
I drifted toward the cache’s bookmark, navigating around drifting ice and slow-spinning gas clouds. Every so often, a particle shimmered off my hull like it was trying to say hello. Cosmic dust is friendlier than half of nullsec, honestly.
The cache was right where it always is—tucked away, invisible to everyone except those who already know it’s there. A tiny container of hope in a place that normally eats hope for breakfast.
I checked the supplies:
probes
launcher
a few nanite pastes
little handwritten note from the last tender, telling whoever finds it that they’re not alone
Everything tidy. Everything ready. It always amazes me how much meaning fits in something so small.
With the practical stuff handled, I let myself just… float.
The wormhole’s star was off in the distance, a pale blue thing flickering like it was thinking of blinking out but hadn’t quite decided yet. Clouds of energized particles spiraled lazily between shattered planetoids. The universe does this thing sometimes where it looks like art made for no one, shown to whoever happens to wander by.
And here I was, a tiny speck in a stealthy little frigate, witness to all of it.
I know it’s silly, but I swear the ship felt quieter too—like even the engine didn’t want to interrupt the view. These are the moments that remind me why I do what I do. Why I wander. Why I help. Why I keep coming back to wormhole space even when it’s moody and unpredictable and occasionally tries to set me on fire.
The universe is vast and wild and often cruel… …but sometimes it’s peaceful, and gentle, and full of small kindnesses we leave for each other.
I gave the cache one last look, whispered a soft “stay safe, whoever you’ll help next,” and aligned out.
Just another quiet day in the dark. Just another reminder that even in forgotten corners of space, someone cares.
I had a few sales this week, but I also relaxed and let the auctions lapse a time or two for a bit of a break – I need to go through my banks and restock those AH characters, something I’ve been neglecting. So far I’ve continued to post auctions on 10/20 servers to cut down the amount of time spent, but I might start increasing this again, we’ll see (I say this every week but I haven’t actually moved forward with it yet).
I expect things in game to slow down a bit as we wait for March and Midnight. There’s no new content happening, and it’s a good time for people to take a break (minus player housing, of course). There’s a lot of gold to be made right now with furniture, so if you haven’t looked into that yet, you might want to!
For my own sales, gold this week came from transmog armor and then transmog weapons. Recipes came in third place, although that is probably because I need to restock more than anything else. I’ve been leveling characters to 80, working a bit on remix, and of course diving into housing (which will come in another post). As always, happy gaming no matter where you find yourself!
I’m not always a huge fan of in-game events when they correlate to real life holidays, because I feel like some folks always get left out, and sometimes those holidays are not happy times and the emotional reminders can be a lot. One of those exceptions is EverQuest II and their celebration of Frostfell. I have loved Frostfell since it first became a thing way back in 2005. The Frostfell village that many of us love came to be back in 2006, and each year the event tends to grow with a new quest or two, and some new crafted items.
Each day from Dec 3rd to 15th you get to claim a free gift, but before I could get to that, I ran around Freeport collecting shines. The closet (the portal you take to get to the Frostfell instance) was in the same place I expected it to be, though the zone itself does look slightly different from when I saw it last. I picked up a large number of crafting books from Frostfells gone by, and then spent the next hour running around the zone harvesting. Frostfell has its own crafting components.
I received a blue-striped sentient present as my daily gift from Santa Glug, and then spent far too long crafting Frostfell items to decorate whatever house I feel like focusing on. There were also shiny collection pieces strewn across the zone, so I picked those up when I spotted them. I did also pick up the few quests that were scattered about, but I haven’t completed them yet. It was nice to see the zone active, there were people running around all over the place collecting their own frostfell goodies.
I haven’t decided which character I want to play and focus on – a recurring theme in pretty much ALL of my gaming history. I am fairly sure I’m going to use a level 130 boost on a coercer, which is my absolute favourite class to play. I do have a level 120 coercer already, but I’d like to create on the Maj’Dul server. Antonia Bayle has been my home for many many years, but I’m looking for a wee bit more population these days. I have two characters over on Maj’Dul, a level 100 illusionst, and a 120 shadowknight. I need to make a choice ‘soon’ as the next expansion, Rage of Cthurath, launches on December 10th! Exciting times.
As always, happy gaming no matter where you find yourself!
A Pixel Nomad 