Candyfloss & Dreams

Our Education System is Failing Children

January 8, 2025

Currently, as of 2025, the education in place in England as it stands right now is sub par, exclusionary and archaic. Mainstream school with the current national curriculum that has been in place for decades does not adhere to the growing technological and multicultural country we live in. It is outdated for a modern age. Huge change needs to happen to the subjects being taught and more flexibility for all students. If the system worked, why do we have huge numbers of children not in ... Read more

2024: The Year I Played a Lot of Video Games and Forgot Most of Them

December 31, 2024

I feel like the title says everything about this post. I have been playing video games since the PS1 era of video games, so that's quite a long time at this point but the variety and amount of games or franchises I've stuck to has been quite small until the last few years where I have branched out a bit more I suppose. Then in 2023 I got a proper gaming PC and therefore had more access, and towards the end of that year I took advantage of a discord offer which gave me a few months of ... Read more

FFXIV UWU: My First Ultimate Raid

December 17, 2024

FFXIV UWU - The Weapon's Refrain Ultima Weapon has been cleared by your local Lizard Lady. I did it! I cleared an ultimate raid in Final Fantasy XIV and I am feeling pretty damn proud of myself. It may not be the current or even a recent FFXIV Ultimate but it's still an Ultimate. My experience of progressing this fight and eventually getting that all important first kill is a pretty positive experience all around. I am super grateful for the team that had me join them and come along ... Read more

School Refusal is Stressful

September 9, 2024

I'm going to preface this right now with homeschool is not an option for me. As an AuDHD person that attempted a form of Crisis Schooling when schools closed it was equally as stressful as trying to convince a school refuser to attend school. I lack the mental energy from complete burnout to try and creatively think of ways to 'unschool' or come up with some kind of learning. I can't drive which limits places we can go for educational reasons, I am completely broke which is another ... Read more

Balders Gate 3 – The Dark Urge Playthrough

June 4, 2024

Committing myself to evil atrocities in my second full playthrough as The Dark Urge origin character was pretty fun and something I really recommend for a second playthrough. I also used it as a chance to do things I had missed out on in my first playthrough of Balders Gate 3 where I did mostly play a good character. Now I'm considering could I actually try and play in a harder difficulty and see just what else I've missed because honestly I'm pretty sure there is a lot. This will ... Read more