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MADARA'S GLOBAL EXCLUSIVE 5* IS HERE AND THE UNBLOOMED IS HIM AND KOHAKU ON A FESTIVAL DATE I'M GONNA LOSE MY MIND


LOOK AT THEM LOOK AT THEM!!!!!!!!!!!! LOVE IS REAL♥
I'm taking this in a very normal and rational way, as you can tell XD It's Kohaku's birthday and I was gonna make a nice post about that and maybe take some pictures of my nuis but noooooooooooo this hit and I'm losing my mind. I'm so fucking pumped it's everything I could possibly want and then some ;w;


honestly the whole lineup is good; I'm excited that Jun is the 4* too!!!!!
okay okay okay I'm trying to be calm about this but it's not going well XD I'M JUST SO EXCITED AHHHHHHHHHHHH

I mean I'm not excited that he's gonna run during the Eden climax in eng and right before the MaM fanthanx in jp, but what the fuck else was I expecting? Madara's always a pain in the ass ;D

tho nothing is worse than the Kanata experience last year....so much fish

tbh I keep getting so overstimulated (good trick) I have to close my laptop and play Katamari Damacy for awhile...idk it just makes me slow down a bit, and I'm like OFF THE WALLS with excitement. just. when a fictional character makes you go insane, you know???? It's overtaking my whole system ♥

also this starts the day before Liz's birthday so I guess this is some sort of response to Kanata's event running during my birthday last month XD

MY BRAIN IS SITTING HERE LIKE 'look at all these tiny things i can write about' juxtaposted with 'well dreamwidth isn't a microposting site u can't just dump out ur two-liner thoughts or two paragraphs of rambling' and im like AUGH ... maybe ... like i know i could just opt to be like 'don't put on reading page', sometimes i'd like ppl to see it in case they want to comment!!!

i know i could also yap and do my microposting on tumblr or pillowfort but i. i dunno. i just find dreamwidth weirdly more comfortable to do it on. WHICH IS WEIRD bc pillowfort is JUST as private if i wanted it to be. i guess it's because this feels like MY journal vs just posting on a social media site. probably why i also used twitter for so long before it went into the absolute shithole because i had a private account and could limit who sees what; it was MY hole. tumblr is great, but it doesn't have that

i could always return to my website microblog but it's tedious to write anything because i'd continually go back to it and have to edit the HTML then do the HTML in the first place to make said new micropost ... thoughts.page exists literally for microposting but ... its just ... microposting. no tags, no longform stuff, no real way to view what others post, nothing to support that.

i know i can do it, but its hard to tell my brain!!!!!

edit: wait im stupid i could technically make my pillowfort private but its like...... it doesnt feel the same i guess? with it being a much slower social media, i dont feel the need to private it vs twitter which is an avalanche of content and u just wanna hide amidst it all

some part of me wonders if i should do some game logs like ... what i do in games every day. maybe not every day but like when i remember to. i do log my gaming on backloggd when i remember to (or at least my play times) but not what i do ... to be fair, some part of me worries more that i'll forget what i've literally done.

it's a struggle sometimes to even log my day to day since it's sometimes just the motions that you do by habit, so having to reflect back on that sometimes draws a blank for me. and i hate it so much. :(

to be fair today is also a bit of a blur in general, so that doesn't help much but ... i guess if i had to think...

tomodachi life: usual shenanigans. its hard to remember exacts, but it's funny watching one of my ocs try to befriend his nephew (not related in game, just in their canonical relationship) and fail at doing so ... and fail at then befriending sylvie. LOL. otherwise pretty lowkey, conflict resolutions ... TWO MIIS CONTINUALLY TRYING TO PUSH TWO OCS TOGETHER THAT WOULD NOT DATE EACH OTHER ... damn i will be so glad to have aroace miis and NOT have to deal with this shit. the lil baby between my two oldest oc blorbos is growing well :]

warframe: just a simple survival omni fissure ... finished a dupe rhino to snackrifice for roar but i forgot you need to wait 23h to have access to it. got the pupper decoration armour :)

hollow knight: got the wall jump finally!!!! and used it to access a new area

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Sooooooooo, apparently I'm on a kick with mood themes? I swear, I didn't expect to release another so soon, but I finally had the means to accomplish a ~vision~ I had. I thought it'd be cool to make an enstars mood theme styled like the cards, and once I got a hold of transparent card borders, I knew I had to do it. They're a bit bigger than most mood theme images are, but I wanted to retain details and I just think they look neat like this~

It uses all 5 star cards, mostly from !! (though I did pull a few from ! if they fit), and there are at least 2 moods for every character- the 4piece kiddos included :D So if you have a fave, they're in here somewhere~

Preview

Happy	Sad	Angry	Awake	Devious
Nervous	Scared	Thoughtful	Tired	Worried

[ download here ]
--132 unique moods
--150x94
--admin console text file included
--no image hosting required
( installation instructions under the cut! )

i say as if i haven't also posted it here haha, augh. i'm so thankful for the people who have opted to sign up to review the book. i genuinely want my friend to have a success with her second debut (esp since i did the cover art with a full humanoid illustration this time), it's just definitely so hard to get people hooked in if you don't have a giant outreach or money to dump on review sites to try to scrape a few people who may pick up the book, and may review it ...

marketing for books sucks so bad bro. and her previous book only had a 1-star review that was AI generated which completely tanked a lot of the chances of that book (and said person came from a review site!!! i was like wattahell!!! we paid to get reviewers and ur here dumping out stupid shit to inflate ur reviews!!!!!)

it's just so hard to work through the feeling of reaching out and not feeling like i'm shilling myself LOOOL. i gotta make a list of book reviewers to reach out to as well slowly through the month ... the thing is--its more like idm mentioning it once, but having to repost, re-mention things makes me feel insane in bad ways like 'oh god im being fucking annoying' AUSASUAH to be fair im the same w/posting commission info, id rather just post it once and sit and wait (but life doesnt work like that)

(even though i dont think the same of others also reposting commissions/aid posts/other posts of reaching out)

I took my 'morning after' fill for the Three-Sentence Ficathon and expanded it into a longer fic! Featuring weird insecurities about power and whether certain sexual positions are 'weak', because... well, because it's about Chris Bean and Robert Grove, both of whom are enormous weirdos.


Title: The Morning After, Or Not
Fandom: The Goes Wrong Show
Rating: 15
Pairing: Chris/Robert
Wordcount: 1,700
Summary: “Robert,” Chris says, scrambling through his mind in desperate search of some sort of clear recollection, “did we sleep together?”


( The Morning After, Or Not )

Hi.

Please know that if you had access to this journal, and now find that you don't, there's no hard feelings on my end. I've either cleared away journals that hadn't been updated in over six months, namely, and a few that I didn't feel connected to.

I genuinely wish you the best on your journey, be well.

ixalisse

i’m hitting the point idk where to ask anymore LOL… would anyone be open in reading/being an advanced reviewer for the series i’ve worked on with my friend?? i’ve done the cover work and editing!! and it’s coming out at the end of march :3



it’s a dark fantasy M/M, centric around dragon shifters, religious trauma unpacking due to a goddess who basically wants to bleed the world dry, and those who look at her seeing her through rose tinted glasses … an assassin failing his target to kill the head, and instead finding himself alive and entangled in his fate in a way he’d never expect. immensely slow burn!!!

if yall like dragon age/the witcher/kinda game of thrones vibes, the yearning of heaven official’s blessing… gestures

it’s up on booksprout rn, just to make it easier for people to sign up for reviews, but if you guys don’t feel comfy using it, yall can hit me up

i always feel so weird reaching out for this kinda stuff but it’s so hard to find people for early reviews

What are you thankful for this week?
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By this point, I've stopped even pretending to think about other fandoms. Have ten more tiny Goes Wrong Show ficlets for the threesentenceficathon. Most of these are actually three sentences, at least!


( Assorted ficlets for the Goes Wrong Show, mainly Chris and Robert, 1,100 words total. )


Poking through bits of the script for the stage version of Peter Pan Goes Wrong, I was intrigued to discover one particular tiny segment. Robert, playing Nana the dog, is trapped in the dog door, meaning he's nowhere near the human characters when they start complaining that he's getting fur on them. Naturally, they come up with the sanest possible solution:

Chris: Oh, you useless animal! You've got dog hairs all over my trousers!
(He goes over to Robert and rubs his trousers over him.)
Sandra: Silly hound! You've got hair all over everyone.
(They all rub themselves on Robert.)

Tragically, this did not make it into the television cut! HOWEVER, I'm delighted to find there is a three-second 'Robert on his hands and knees while Sandra rubs herself against his beard' clip from rehearsals floating around, which you can find here on Tumblr if you're as normal about Robert Grove as I am.

Hi all!

I'm doing some minor operational work tonight. It should be transparent, but there's always a chance that something goes wrong. The main thing I'm touching is testing a replacement for Apache2 (our web server software) in one area of the site.

Thank you!

人間は、大きな幸せを前にすると急に臆病になる。
幸せを勝ち取ることは、不幸に耐えることより勇気が要る。

Humans suddenly become cowards in the face of great happiness.
It takes more courage to grasp happiness than endure misfortune.

Summary: Momoko is a high schooler who loves Rococo and lolita fashion. She moves to a rural town called Shimotsuma after her father gets into trouble for selling counterfeit clothes. There, she meets a female biker gang (bōsōzoku) member named Ichiko, and the two develop an unlikely friendship.

I rewatched Kamikaze Girls after many years. I remember watching it for the first time when I was around 14 and blogging about it, but that blog seems to have been wiped from the internet for some reason.

Coming-of-age stories seem to hit me a lot harder when I rewatch them as an adult. I think it's because of the nostalgia, coupled with the feeling of knowing that everything will turn out okay.

Yapping about the movie below; CWs: spoilers for the movie (of course) + some screencaps + some social commentary on the bōsōzoku sub-culture and its roots in nationalistic/right-wing ideology.

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( 1518 words )

Rating: 9/10

I FINISHED MY SECOND MOOD THEME!!!!!!!!
I mean I'm now kinda behind on grinding the jp event, but I accomplished the very cool thing of mood theme creation~ I've now made two separate themes, so I'm feeling pretty badass ;D

Unfortunately, enstars isn't super popular on dreamwidth, so I doubt it's what people are looking for...but I don't really care cuz I make things that I like, first and foremost XD Though I'm not actively using it here, I did post it at killiansicons for anyone interested!

.........anyway I know I just finished this theme and I have an event to run, but I was thinking of doing a differently styled mood theme next!! I have all the card assets because enstars changed how they put cards together in the app, so I can finally do what I had initially envisioned for an enstars mood theme: make them with the card borders!!


something like this, probably!!!
I'd make it of all the characters, and since there are over 50 of them I could even just use 5 star cards for all of them (to match the borders). I'm still torn on if I want to do editing for every single image, because doing too much is why I always stalled out on mood themes in the past. But I'm really proud of this design and definitely wanna do something with it eventually.

Other than that......I gotta get back in the trenches (grinding songs in enstars) so I can get all the Mayois my heart desires ♥

OH RIGHT LIZ BROUGHT HOME THE BUTTON MAKER FROM WORK AND I'VE BEEN MAKING ENSTARS BUTTONS!!!!!!!! It's been fun uwu

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