I sadly do not have any creative things for you but I can offer recs. :D
I can say that the things getting me through this year in terms of being comforting/distracting so far have been social-deduction reality-TV gameshows (The Mole, Traitors, The Circle) but I know those are not really to everyone's taste. Also fountain pen fandom, which I cannot in good conscience recommend that anyone join (I have many pens now) but you can buy some really cool pens and cool ink in lots of colors.
I have not read a whole lot of books recently but I think the recent book that I enjoyed the most was Lev Grossman's The Bright Sword which is an Arthurian novel about a boy who has dreamed of growing up to be one of Arthur's knights but by the time he gets to Camelot he discovers Arthur's already dead and it's all over and he's missed it, so he grabs a bunch of the B-list and C-list knights who are around and they try to see if they can make quests and magic happen again. It has a lot of queer characters, which is nice.
In terms of video games, I have been playing a lot of Slay the Spire, which I have probably recommended before, in preparation for the sequel which is coming out this year, which I am very excited about. It's a RPG deckbuilder. It is on both computers and the Switch. I like it because one run of the game takes maybe an hour so it doesn't feel like a big commitment. Of course, then I just play it over and over.
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I sadly do not have any creative things for you but I can offer recs. :D
I can say that the things getting me through this year in terms of being comforting/distracting so far have been social-deduction reality-TV gameshows (The Mole, Traitors, The Circle) but I know those are not really to everyone's taste. Also fountain pen fandom, which I cannot in good conscience recommend that anyone join (I have many pens now) but you can buy some really cool pens and cool ink in lots of colors.
I have not read a whole lot of books recently but I think the recent book that I enjoyed the most was Lev Grossman's The Bright Sword which is an Arthurian novel about a boy who has dreamed of growing up to be one of Arthur's knights but by the time he gets to Camelot he discovers Arthur's already dead and it's all over and he's missed it, so he grabs a bunch of the B-list and C-list knights who are around and they try to see if they can make quests and magic happen again. It has a lot of queer characters, which is nice.
In terms of video games, I have been playing a lot of Slay the Spire, which I have probably recommended before, in preparation for the sequel which is coming out this year, which I am very excited about. It's a RPG deckbuilder. It is on both computers and the Switch. I like it because one run of the game takes maybe an hour so it doesn't feel like a big commitment. Of course, then I just play it over and over.
Hopefully some of that is interesting!