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I'm Sianya Dawnmist
This is where everything lives.
You’ll find writing, reflections, and notes across games, films, books, music, audio, and television, alongside a few pieces that don’t fit neatly anywhere else. Some posts are fragments, some are longer, and some are best dipped into rather than read all at once.
There’s no intended order here. Follow your interest, or simply browse.
Take your time.
Pop Culture
When Reality TV Becomes a Target
A small reflection on fandom, editing and real people Over the past few months several online fandom storms have made me pause and think about…
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Return to Moria EP4 – The Second Descent: steel swords, spider chaos, Orc Town, and our first truly terrible decision
There are streams where you begin with a clear plan, sharp focus and an organised sense of purpose. And then there are streams where you…
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Return to Moria EP3 – The Second Descent: birthday mushrooms, Orc Town, the Crystal Depths, and the first time Moria felt properly enormous
The Return to Moria EP3 – The Second Descent originally streamed on 10th March 2026 – it was birthday dwarfing, chest-sorting, steam-vent death, a black…
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What I Watched, Played, and Listened To – February 2026
My monthly media journal – games, music, films, books, and whatever else captured my attention that month. February felt like a month lived in the…
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Return to Moria EP2 – The Second Descent: the internet dies, Tel becomes my foreman, and I accidentally turn into a dwarven huntress
The Second Descent EP2 originally streamed on 5th March 2026 – the internet betrayed us last time, the loot luck improved dramatically, we survived the…
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Return to Moria EP1 – Second Descent: Identical Dwarves, Mushroom Economics, and a Very Large Iron Vein
Return to Moria – Second Descent EP1 originally streamed on 3rd March 2026. We went back into the mountain with a clearer plan, an improved…
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Return to Moria EP3 – The First Descent: Steel Tools, Bear Panic and Base Building
Originally streamed in early exploration sessions of The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria. By the end of this episode we had working steel…
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Return to Moria EP2 – First Descent: forward bases, mushroom logistics, and our first proper Orc horde
Session 2 – we put on our first proper armour, establish a forward base in the mines, I continue behaving like a Hobbit with a…
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Hamnet at Norden Farm – I thought I was getting Hamlet and walked into something else entirely
On a freezing Thursday night, I went to Norden Farm with the book club ladies. Only one of us had read the novel. The rest…
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Return to Moria EP1 – First Descent: Cosy Co-Op Survival, Orc Raids and Mushroom Stew
Session 1 – we descend into Moria, I panic about the word “survival”, Tel becomes my dwarven handler, and we accidentally discover this game is…
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A Date With Death Part 3 – He Floated Outside My Window. I Ceased to Exist.
A Date With Death originally streamed on 17th February 2026 – He brought stolen sunflowers to my window, confessed his feelings, and I accidentally unlocked…
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What Is Your Love Song?
On memory, mornings, and the impossibility of choosing just one BTS asked a simple question this week. “What’s your love song?” I thought I’d answer…
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