<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Getting Better</title><link>https://san-tagoy.neocities.org/</link><description>Recent content on Getting Better</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0800</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://san-tagoy.neocities.org/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>This Is a Reminder</title><link>https://san-tagoy.neocities.org/posts/this-will-be/</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0800</pubDate><guid>https://san-tagoy.neocities.org/posts/this-will-be/</guid><description>Reminders of stagnancy against the impelling need to move forward.</description></item><item><title>Saved by the Bell, a poem of hearts racing</title><link>https://san-tagoy.neocities.org/posts/saved-by-the-bell/</link><pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0800</pubDate><guid>https://san-tagoy.neocities.org/posts/saved-by-the-bell/</guid><description>A recount of a rhythm, I hope, where our hearts weren’t in competition. I was just the lucky one.</description></item><item><title>Better Coffee, fully realized</title><link>https://san-tagoy.neocities.org/posts/better-coffee-v2/</link><pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0800</pubDate><guid>https://san-tagoy.neocities.org/posts/better-coffee-v2/</guid><description>Something I re-wrote on a whim about a past and the growth thereafter.</description></item><item><title>d33 Troika Backgrounds for What Was Manila</title><link>https://san-tagoy.neocities.org/posts/d33-bg-pigs/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0800</pubDate><guid>https://san-tagoy.neocities.org/posts/d33-bg-pigs/</guid><description>I ripped characteres from KOTOR 2 to make Troika Backgrounds for the local post-apocalypse. Yay?</description></item><item><title>d33 Troika Backgrounds for What Was Manila</title><link>https://san-tagoy.neocities.org/posts/pitg-d33-backgrounds/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0800</pubDate><guid>https://san-tagoy.neocities.org/posts/pitg-d33-backgrounds/</guid><description>I ripped characteres from KOTOR 2 to make Troika Backgrounds for the local post-apocalypse. Yay?</description></item><item><title>Choom's Tomb, a fan-made adventure for Cyberpunk RED</title><link>https://san-tagoy.neocities.org/posts/chooms-tomb/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0800</pubDate><guid>https://san-tagoy.neocities.org/posts/chooms-tomb/</guid><description>The scenario is inspired by the Gunfight at the Ok Corral. That shound be obvious to a number of folks.</description></item><item><title>Thundering Steps, Gear List</title><link>https://san-tagoy.neocities.org/posts/thundering-steps-gear/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0800</pubDate><guid>https://san-tagoy.neocities.org/posts/thundering-steps-gear/</guid><description>The Gear List for Thundering Steps</description></item><item><title>ATTENTION: Relaunch of Smells Fishy, Jack!</title><link>https://san-tagoy.neocities.org/posts/attn-sfj/</link><pubDate>Sat, 02 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0800</pubDate><guid>https://san-tagoy.neocities.org/posts/attn-sfj/</guid><description>It never changes. Welcome to the post-apocalyptic land of the Kapitol Wastes! A land resistant to progress.</description></item><item><title>Thundering Steps, REVISED</title><link>https://san-tagoy.neocities.org/posts/thundering-steps-revised/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0800</pubDate><guid>https://san-tagoy.neocities.org/posts/thundering-steps-revised/</guid><description>Revised rules for playing nomadic horse archers. Inspired by Brandon Yu&amp;rsquo;s Chaos Reigns.</description></item><item><title>Better Coffee, a Practice Poem</title><link>https://san-tagoy.neocities.org/posts/better-coffee/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0800</pubDate><guid>https://san-tagoy.neocities.org/posts/better-coffee/</guid><description>Something I wrote on a whim about a past relationship and the growth thereafter.</description></item><item><title>Thundering Steps</title><link>https://san-tagoy.neocities.org/posts/thundering-steps/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0800</pubDate><guid>https://san-tagoy.neocities.org/posts/thundering-steps/</guid><description>Rules for playing nomadic horse archers. Inspired by Chainmail and ODnD.</description></item><item><title>Ten Haily Marys in the Dark</title><link>https://san-tagoy.neocities.org/posts/10-hm/</link><pubDate>Sat, 01 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0800</pubDate><guid>https://san-tagoy.neocities.org/posts/10-hm/</guid><description>On institutional violence and the viciousness it perpetuates in a world beyond healing. It&amp;rsquo;s also something I made and distributed without PDFs.</description></item><item><title>Found on the Road! No. 01</title><link>https://san-tagoy.neocities.org/posts/fotr-01/</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0800</pubDate><guid>https://san-tagoy.neocities.org/posts/fotr-01/</guid><description>A rundown of interesting things I&amp;rsquo;ve found, new and old!</description></item><item><title>Sages and a Non-Vancian Magic System</title><link>https://san-tagoy.neocities.org/posts/sages/</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0800</pubDate><guid>https://san-tagoy.neocities.org/posts/sages/</guid><description>A random magic system for use in your games.</description></item><item><title>Remembering the Sun and Its Shadows</title><link>https://san-tagoy.neocities.org/posts/sun-shadow/</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0800</pubDate><guid>https://san-tagoy.neocities.org/posts/sun-shadow/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Something I wrote about past mistakes, the burden of memory, and an epiphany brought about by good company.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div class="highlight"&gt;&lt;pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"&gt;&lt;code class="language-plaintext" data-lang="plaintext"&gt;&lt;span class="line"&gt;&lt;span class="cl"&gt;Remember when I was young? I rather
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="line"&gt;&lt;span class="cl"&gt;not. The sins from then still stain
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="line"&gt;&lt;span class="cl"&gt;the once ivory light I shine. Bright,
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="line"&gt;&lt;span class="cl"&gt;unyielding naivete colored those movements.
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="line"&gt;&lt;span class="cl"&gt;Wherever I went, my shadows inflicted pain,
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="line"&gt;&lt;span class="cl"&gt;undeservingly—
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="line"&gt;&lt;span class="cl"&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="line"&gt;&lt;span class="cl"&gt;I am not asking for contrition, Father.
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="line"&gt;&lt;span class="cl"&gt;I am unworthy, but I fetch a good price
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="line"&gt;&lt;span class="cl"&gt;in the market. The one online where
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="line"&gt;&lt;span class="cl"&gt;we&amp;#39;re always shouting. Listening
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="line"&gt;&lt;span class="cl"&gt;to this plague of intrusive broadcasts
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="line"&gt;&lt;span class="cl"&gt;is the penance already. I can leave it?
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="line"&gt;&lt;span class="cl"&gt;Where else am I to shill?
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="line"&gt;&lt;span class="cl"&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="line"&gt;&lt;span class="cl"&gt;I didn&amp;#39;t have to back then, and yet I did.
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="line"&gt;&lt;span class="cl"&gt;The retrospect churns my insides. It hits
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="line"&gt;&lt;span class="cl"&gt;me in the soft, fleshy mass of conscience
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="line"&gt;&lt;span class="cl"&gt;I apparently had. I&amp;#39;ve been had.
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="line"&gt;&lt;span class="cl"&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="line"&gt;&lt;span class="cl"&gt;Yes, I know I&amp;#39;m loved, but not by Him.
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="line"&gt;&lt;span class="cl"&gt;Them, yes. They&amp;#39;re nice—real even. Who am I
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="line"&gt;&lt;span class="cl"&gt;to deny charity. The gift horse&amp;#39;s mouth?
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="line"&gt;&lt;span class="cl"&gt;Bliss ends when ignorance is cured. I rather not
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="line"&gt;&lt;span class="cl"&gt;advertise? I ain&amp;#39;t selling anything. I don&amp;#39;t
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="line"&gt;&lt;span class="cl"&gt;yell in Divisoria. I&amp;#39;ve only been there once.
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="line"&gt;&lt;span class="cl"&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="line"&gt;&lt;span class="cl"&gt;It&amp;#39;s not a transaction? Thank God. I should
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="line"&gt;&lt;span class="cl"&gt;thank them for that. I owe them. They
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="line"&gt;&lt;span class="cl"&gt;deserve better. Although, I am better.
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="line"&gt;&lt;span class="cl"&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="line"&gt;&lt;span class="cl"&gt;Looking back, The shadows cast
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="line"&gt;&lt;span class="cl"&gt;by my once ivory light in the dark
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="line"&gt;&lt;span class="cl"&gt;allegorical cave were only for
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="line"&gt;&lt;span class="cl"&gt;my entertainment. I looked back when
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="line"&gt;&lt;span class="cl"&gt;the momentum was forward.
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="line"&gt;&lt;span class="cl"&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="line"&gt;&lt;span class="cl"&gt;There is no Icarus. I choose to be
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="line"&gt;&lt;span class="cl"&gt;under the sun, even if it burns. I am not alone,
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="line"&gt;&lt;span class="cl"&gt;even if sometimes I am. Now, especially, there
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="line"&gt;&lt;span class="cl"&gt;are no longer
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="line"&gt;&lt;span class="cl"&gt;undeserved shadows.
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>