Simon McDonnell
simonmcd.bsky.social
Simon McDonnell
@simonmcd.bsky.social
Hark ye now to my words!

Let the dull years of not following me fall behind you, for you now enter a blessed age.

- Senior Game Tools Programmer
@RockstarGames. All views my own, not my company's.
- He/Him
- Irish
- I like musicals
My friend gifted me a Lego rose set after I ran a DND game for him and a bunch of other friends (inside reference) and they look so cute now on my mantle in the little vase I got for 'em
December 18, 2023 at 5:22 PM
This has been a pretty tough year for me with knee injuries keeping me from both my community and the things I love to do - but there has been good stuff too which it's important to remember. For example I now have visible abs, which to be honest is pretty fucking cool
December 12, 2023 at 10:43 AM
The only Godzilla film I've ever seen is this bad boy, which I feel is probably representative *braces*
December 11, 2023 at 10:18 AM
After using my hand for it most of the week, then using pens blue-tacked together by the illustrious
@lloydknott.bsky.social
, I have at last 3d printed my own set of coordinate axes. Genuinely going to be so helpful, especially once I paint the axes different colours
October 1, 2023 at 11:01 PM
I really do just love old cemeteries
September 14, 2023 at 7:20 PM
Everything I cook looks like mush. It's delicious but it does not photograph well
September 4, 2023 at 9:31 AM
Am I really happy that I look ripped in this photo? Yes, absolutely. Do I wish I hadn't been making a purposefully stupid expression now that the photo has turned out to be good? Also yes.
September 1, 2023 at 9:45 PM
Some time before my aunt Patricia passed away a few years ago, she recommended to me T.S. Eliot when I asked about poetry. So I bought this collection, but never dipped into it till yesterday.

Wow, I sure do hate these poems. Overwrought junk. You can love someone, and hate their taste, I suppose.
August 20, 2023 at 10:25 AM
The chilli almost breached containment
August 2, 2023 at 9:59 PM
Years wearing low rise jeans! For nothing! They look so much worse on me than higher rise trousers/jeans. This is cus my torso is long, but my shoulders are wide and my hips are narrow. Low rise just emphasises my hips, whereas higher rises de-emphasises them and shows my natural V shape instead.
July 25, 2023 at 9:30 AM
I've been trying to become better at dressing myself lately. It's hard, turns out.

These outfits I do like a lot, but I'd love to become both more comfortable with wearing them out, and also just better at sort of...more casual styling? These are all fairly smart/a little too formal I think?
July 25, 2023 at 9:01 AM
Writing a postcard to my niece and nephew with the last of my old stamps. I wonder if they've ever received a letter/postcard before? It'd be nice if this was their first, though even if not there's something so lovely about receiving something physical like this. Someone putting time and thought in
July 24, 2023 at 10:22 AM