Surviving the Felon: Week of 10/4/2025
I’m back with another instalment of Surviving the Felon. I’m gonna be honest, this was a bad week for me. And I assume it was a bad week for a lot of you too. The Felon has gotten a lot more deranged and chosen significantly more dangerous things too. I’ll have to limit the bad section for my sanity and the good section will take doing some serious digging to try and locate. But though I might feel hopeless, I’ll still be writing this blog every week. I refuse to let The Felon and his Fascist buddies win over my heart.
The news has been tough to even look at through social media. Its been a 9 months since I have looked at mainstream media directly because its all owned by people that profit off despair, fear, and hate. Rather, as I have tried my best to since the beginning of this nightmare, is give my attention to organizations and people that want to see the world become a better place than what they have observed.
Instead of focusing so much on The Felon, we should try and make the world better in spite of his existence. Sometimes all I have to remind myself that things will get better eventually is that mortality comes for us all. All things fade which is why art is that much more valuable than these Fascist scum would have you believe. I’ll get to what I have done to stay happy during this horrible week in a moment, but first, let’s get the horrible part out of the way.
The Bad
While the news tries to control what we are worried about, don’t forget to learn more about the Heritage Foundation, Peter Thiel, and Curtis Yarvin. These are our real enemies, alongside The Window Shover of course. I’m putting this at the start of The Bad Section because I feel like this is by far the most important thing to get out of the negative.
Well, here we are, at the end of what has been a horrible week. Chicago was looking like it would be able to resist The Felon and I went to bed with my head held high. But it looks like The Fascists struck back. The Gestapo is out of control in my hometown, kidnapping entire families without any warrant or due process.
And The Felon is using the government shutdown to cause more chaos and havoc. The architects of Project 2025 smell blood in the water and are using the fact that our entire security system has gone dark to rush their agendas through and cause as much harm to as many Americans and visitors as they can. And it seems each day that we are less able to fight back than the one before.
As far as problems away from the United States, hatred towards Zionism and Israel is doing exactly what many like me feared and legitimizing hated against Jews. Like in England where a terrorist attacked a Synagogue on Yom Kippur. Its sad that many Jews around the world just collective shrugged. We knew this was gonna be a thing. It will happen again, just like a lot of other terrible things I mentioned above.
The Good
I had to think long and hard about what to put in this section. Its been a horrible week in the political and cultural realm. And I’ll get to other reasons that my week was terrible in a moment. But this is the good section and so I looked around the world and this country, searching for reasons to have hope that didn’t come from within. And although I had to dig through some terrible oppressive news to locate some light, I found it.
Let’s start with Chicago again. Yes things are looking bleak, but the city and the Governor are not giving up hope. And so neither will I. I’m not sure what will happen to those who were kidnapped. But I need to have hope that Illinois will bring them all back home. I must have hope that this kidnapping will not become normal.
Portland Oregon gave me a lot more hope though. The Felon sent the military there alongside his usual goons. But the troops there were not taking their horrific objective serious and decided they would start playing music instead. Further proof that art is what will help us fight through these trying times.
If there is one important good thing I can truly breath easy about, its that so far, the top brass of the military is not willing to freely follow The Felon’s orders. If the army turns on him, then the game is over. Things might get violent, but if I’m being honest, things are turning violent already. Sometimes the bandage has to be ripped off quickly. Working at it slowly can actually spread the infection.
Transition
Now that I have made it past the political section of the blog, both good and ill, I want to talk about how I was doing this week for a moment before reflecting on what I did. I got blasted by some serious depression this week. For almost the entire seven days I was completely laid low and numb. It was as struggle to get up each day, much less feel like a person and accomplish person things.
All in all, the things that brought me joy were more valuable then ever. And even then it took the help of several friends for me to snap out of the web my own brain was casting against me. Depression is a nonstop battle that I will one day lose, as everyone does. But not this week. Not so long as my friends care about me.
This section ended up being a little longer than normal, but that is fine. It is my blog after all, and I am allowed to talk about myself. Still, this is a check in every week, not just for me, but the people I care about. So if you are feeling low, no matter the reason, don’t push your loved ones away. Don’t let yourself withdraw to that dark place. Find something that brings you joy. As usual, I’ll be sharing what did the trick for me.
Workouts
One of the greatest tragedies of Depression is how it saps all your energy and prevents you from doing the things that would actually help you. I was so out of energy and my mind so aghast for so many different reasons that I once more broke the habit I’m trying to form. I did not do any workouts this week. Nor did I go on a hike or run. I’ll do everything in my power to stop my brain from preventing me from being healthier. It will be a struggle though.
That isn’t to say I did nothing at all. At least Pokémon Go finally dragged me out of my house and convinced me to move around outside work. I’ll talk more about what I did in that section of the post. But for now, feel free to remind me in comments or feedback that I need to focus on my physical health. It will help shield my mind from the next attack Depression or Anxiety plot.
Video Games
Well, when I am feeling at my worst, and refusing to leave my house, its video games to the rescue. It was really telling how bad my depression got that even the games I have been playing this entire time had trouble bringing me joy. And so I traveled beyond my comfort zone and used my gaming time to force human interaction. Honestly, its empowering knowing that if I fight my own brain I can win.
Anyway, I’m playing Civilization 7 as I write this post, and honestly, its thanks to this game in no small part that I was able to pull myself out of the depths of despair. Playing with friends and solo helped me wash away my worries as I lost myself in a game that can take hours of time and help me distract my addled mind from the horrors of reality.
Genshin Impact as always has been a helpful center when I don’t know what else to do. After all, I’m fully invested in the story. There are days where few things keep me going quite like this game. In large part, this game and the story’s answers are a large part of the reason I continue to resist and survive The Felon. I won’t allow him to prevent me from seeing the story all the way through.
The third and vital game that dragged me out of the darkness this week was Helldivers 2. A friend gave me a much needed lifeline as we both decided to spread democracy together to cast aside our own negative energies. A lot of the time when I am depressed, casting aside loneliness and spending time with those I care about, even virtually is an antidote.
Pokémon Go
It was another active week for me in Pokémon Go. Not only did the raid hour feature Dialga a Pokémon that I need plenty of candy for to use in Master League one day, but there was a raid event this past weekend for one of my absolute favorite Pokémon of all. Metagross one of my absolute favorite Pokémon in the entire series finally had his Mega Form added to the game. I wasn’t gonna miss my chance to get enough energy to gain access to one of my favorite Mega Forms as well.
Outside of the events, I have started participating in some grassroot events that host local tournaments. Ladder PvP has been a struggle as the cups this week were metas I’m not a fan of. But instead I’ll focus some effort into improving in a different format. This upcoming week will be my first match and I’m a little scared. Don’t want to let my team down.
I spelled Calamity wrong intentionally but I’m gonna give this team a try. For those of you who play Pokémon Go or are curious to know how I do, look forward to my post next week where I will update you all.
Anime and Shows
The summer Anime season came to an end, and only a few shows are continuing on. I’m eagerly awaiting new stuff to watch, but this lull in things let me catch up on a few shows as well. Gachiakuta will continue and I have loved each episode more than the last. I am not sure where the story will take me, but that’s fine because surprises are welcome.
Speaking of surprises, with a chance to watch whatever I wanted, I took a chance to get farther into Lord of Mysteries. The show moves fast and if you blink for even a moment you risk missing something. But I don’t mind looking up recaps to make sure I understand what I am watching. So long as they remain spoiler free that is. The magic system in this one is really cool and I already got a few ideas from the new episode for my own work.
Thanks to extra time, I finally made some serious headway in One Piece. I’m all done with Punk Hazard and am moving on to Dressrosa. I have been told that the antagonist of this arc is among the most vile of characters in fiction. I’m eager to find out why people feel that way. I hope this arc will continue the amazing energy of Punk Hazard. I like that arc a lot more than the one before it.
Dungeons & Dragons
Speaking of One Piece, the current story beat of my Centrum Glacies Campaign draws heavily from my favorite arc from that show: Impel Down. Just like in the show, my players found themselves in a maximum security prison filled with plenty of dangerous criminals many of whom have clashed with the players before. And at the same time, they met a pretty face who was also locked up in there and yet they have no idea why she was there in the first place.
As for enemies, they met plenty that have been foes from near the start of the story in one case. And yet the group is now working with that character. I pride myself on creating even antagonists that are the heroes of their own stories. And it let’s me explore a lot of depth in the worlds I craft as a consequence.
If you want to take a read and see what happened to them this past week, take a look here. And if this seems complicate, just wait till you read what happens next.
Writing and Editing
Despite my depression holding me back, I still managed to get some writing and editing done. Not only did I catch up to my editor with my Earth Everafter Novel. But I wrote almost an entire chapter of my fifth Search for Eden Novel as well. If this is what I can do while depressed, imagine what I could accomplish if I wasn’t shackled by it?
Reading
I got to read one volume of Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic before I managed to reach a few that are rarer. I’ll take a wild guess and assume its because those volumes take place after the anime’s ending and so are snatched up quickly. Eventually I’ll get to read the next several volumes, but I have to wait at least a few more weeks before they arrive in the mail.
But that didn’t mean I read nothing the rest of the week. In fact one of the few things that I had the energy for, was reading. And I took that opportunity to read an indie novel from an author I met at a convention some months back. This novel is titled Vran the Chaos Warped and had a not so usual story, in a somewhat unusual setting. Here is a link to the author’s work if you want to check him out.
Wrap Up
October is here and I should be overjoyed for spooky season. But The Felon is getting in the way of a better world. And my depression is trying to drag me down and focus on him, instead of this wonderful world and universe that he is too much of a baby to even care about. A better world is possible if we can simply stop the sociopaths like the Felon from dictating our lives.
As more and more people are being kidnapped, and as propaganda spreads, it is more important than ever that we speak out. After all, if we were completely doomed, if our voices meant nothing, and our art was powerless, the Fascists wouldn’t be trying to hard to make use of and suppress us. They are afraid. Far more afraid than we are. And that is because strip away their fear and they have nothing of substance to contribute to the world. Strip away our fear and we have so much more to contribute to make this world better.
The past paints a bleak future, but that doesn’t mean we have to follow that script. If anything history should be a stern teacher that cautions us against letting the people who have lead the world for the past 2000 years to continue uninhibited. They only choose their own interests and as a collective world we really do need to come together as one and make a future where those people do not lead.
Still, as our hearts grow stronger together, we will stand as one and wash the filth The Felon and his friends have put everywhere away. Like any virus, our unity is a vaccine. And this is a fight for the body and soul of our species. After all, so long as we are led by Pedophiles, Terrorists, Rapists, and Felons, the world will not have a chance to be better.
We will outlast The Felon together. His Brown Shirts will target us and try and silence our voices. Everyone who he cannot break down will be seen as an enemy. And so it is vital that we stand together as one unified enemy of this evil.
Your reward for making it all the way at the end is an adorable sleeping cat.