blurb: `Today is <ahref="https://www.unaids.org/en/zero-discrimination-day"target="_blank">Zero Discrimination Day</a>`,
class: "flag-progress-intersex",
};
else if (month === 3 && day === 8)
return {
blurb: `Today is <ahref="https://www.internationalwomensday.com/"target="_blank">International Women's Day}</a>`,
class: "symbol-venus",
};
else if (month === 3 && day === 31)
return {
blurb: `Today is <ahref="https://www.manygendersonevoice.org/tdov.html"target="_blank">Trans Day of Visibility</a>`,
class: "flag-trans",
};
else if (month === 4 && day === 6)
return {
blurb: `Today is <ahref="https://internationalasexualityday.org/en"target="_blank">International Asexuality Day</a>`,
class: "flag-ace",
};
else if (month === 4 && day === 26)
return {
blurb: `Today is <ahref="https://www.lesbianvisibilityweek.com"target="_blank">Lesbian Visibility Day</a>`,
class: "flag-lesbian",
};
else if (month === 5 && day === 17)
return {
blurb: `Today is <ahref="https://may17.org"target="_blank">International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia</a>`,
class: "flag-progress",
};
else if (month === 5 && day === 19)
return {
blurb: `Today is <ahref="https://www.believeoutloud.com/voices/article/agender-pride-day/"target="_blank">Agender Pride Day</a>`,
class: "flag-agender",
};
else if (month === 5 && day === 25)
return {
blurb: `Today is <ahref="https://genderedintelligence.co.uk/panvisibilityday"target="_blank">Pansexual and Panromantic Awareness and Visibility Day</a>`,
blurb: `Today is <ahref="https://bivisibilityday.com/about"target="_blank">Bi Visibility Day</a>`,
class: "flag-bi",
};
else if (month === 10 && day === 8)
return {
blurb: `Today is <ahref="https://www.lgbtiqhealth.org.au/international_lesbian_day2"target="_blank">International Lesbian Day</a>`,
class: "flag-lesbian",
};
else if (month === 10 && day === 11)
return {
blurb: `Today is <ahref="https://www.hrc.org/resources/national-coming-out-day"target="_blank">National Coming Out Day</a>`,
class: "flag-rainbow",
};
else if (month === 10 && day === 17)
return {
blurb: `Today is the start of <ahref="https://www.grlgbtqhealthcareconsortium.org/significantdates/genderfluid-visibility-week"target="_blank">Genderfluid Visibility Week</a>`,
class: "flag-genderfluid",
};
else if (month === 10 && day === 24)
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blurb: `Today is the start of <ahref="https://www.grlgbtqhealthcareconsortium.org/significantdates/ace-week"target="_blank">Ace Week</a>`,
class: "flag-ace",
};
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return {
blurb: `Today is <ahref="https://interactadvocates.org/intersex-awareness-day"target="_blank">Intersex Awareness Day</a>`,
<p>28 July is my birthday, and in 2023, it also marks my first birthday after the launch of this personal website. I have had a nice birthday this year.</p>
<p>I spent the moments counting down to my birthday by playing Cassette Beasts, which has become one of my all-time favourite video games, to the extent that I am planning to make a shrine for it on this site. I defeated <ahref="https://wiki.cassettebeasts.com/wiki/Lamento_Mori">Lamento Mori</a>, who in the lore of Cassette Beasts is an <ahref="https://wiki.cassettebeasts.com/wiki/Archangel">Archangel</a>, one of the eldritch entities in the game's settings, that specifically embodies humanity's fear of death. It is both amusing and poetic that I celebrated the countdown to my birthday by defeating a boss in a video game that represents death.</p>
<p>Since I have been playing and loving Cassette Beasts, and I want to support indie developers of indie games I love, I decided to purchase the Deluxe Edition on Steam, which includes the soundtrack, the art book and the Cosplay Pack as a birthday gift for myself. I received the base game as a Steam gift from a friend, and now I chose to use my money to support the developers myself as well. Not to mention, the music of Cassette Beasts is amazing. "Same Old Story", the battle theme of the Archangels, in particular, has become one of my all-time favourite battle themes in video games.</p>
<p>I had my birthday celebration with my family and received birthday wishes from friends.</p>
