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The news: I got a set of Jojo gashapons with Pucci!(and others but the goal was to get Pucci) Ordered mgs gashapons. Finished Baroque for ps1 and started Galerians. Also was tugged in playing TF2
( Portal to vento aureo ^^ )
( Old Polnareff photo )
( Different ages headcanon )
( Spooky background practice )
( Bright blue color warning )
( Hypnotized )
( amputee sex )
( Pol unicorn sketch I'm planning to draw full )
( that blue-haired dude from UNdeadUnluck )
( Portal to vento aureo ^^ )
( Old Polnareff photo )
( Different ages headcanon )
( Spooky background practice )
( Bright blue color warning )
( Hypnotized )
( amputee sex )
( Pol unicorn sketch I'm planning to draw full )
( that blue-haired dude from UNdeadUnluck )
I am currently not allowed to purchase any further emotional support notebooks until I use up a substantial amount of the emotional support notebooks that I have. This is actually fine, because for the first time in ages I can get to most of my notebooks. At the very furthest reaches of my bedroom shelves are a bunch of old and battered spiral notebooks, quite a few of which suggest they're leftover from my first stabs at college and university. Any remaining pages in these can be used for things like Accidental Advent, rough logging possessions before sorting properly, and general notes. Use once and destroy. (well, recycle)
I have, multiple times over the years, found absolute notebooks upon notebooks filled with my old fantasy novel. The last plan was to stuff it all into the back of my file cabinet, which I apparently then never did because I just found it all again. This time, it'll get filed for reals. (hopefully)
But I have also found some blank or blank-enough notebooks for projects, which is good. Also found the beginnings of a Serpent Tail timeline, probably from the big timeline that came with the serialized version of Frame Astrays, pre-smartphone... I remember working painstakingly with my kanji dictionary on my lap and now I can just point, poke, and probably have the whole thing translated and corrected in an hour. ;_; (this is mildly untrue because the amount of cross-referencing I'd start doing would turn it into a weekend project and then I'd start adding in information and whoops)
((I wonder if a newer whole-series timeline exists in any form.))
I have, multiple times over the years, found absolute notebooks upon notebooks filled with my old fantasy novel. The last plan was to stuff it all into the back of my file cabinet, which I apparently then never did because I just found it all again. This time, it'll get filed for reals. (hopefully)
But I have also found some blank or blank-enough notebooks for projects, which is good. Also found the beginnings of a Serpent Tail timeline, probably from the big timeline that came with the serialized version of Frame Astrays, pre-smartphone... I remember working painstakingly with my kanji dictionary on my lap and now I can just point, poke, and probably have the whole thing translated and corrected in an hour. ;_; (this is mildly untrue because the amount of cross-referencing I'd start doing would turn it into a weekend project and then I'd start adding in information and whoops)
((I wonder if a newer whole-series timeline exists in any form.))
Last week, a few of my students told me that my Japanese fiction class has inspired them to visit Tokyo this May, and they asked for recommendations. I’m the sort of boring nerd who loves bookstores and bases my travels on a foundation of finding nice cafés to sit down and chill out, but I did my best to make a list of places that might be fun for people in their early 20s. This was a labor of love, so I thought I’d share it here too.
So here are some of my favorite spots in Tokyo:
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And now for some daytrips:
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So here are some of my favorite spots in Tokyo:
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And now for some daytrips:
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I've been looping 幸福絶頂!! りむ・で・らてんと☆ and YUNYUN HARDCORE today, i really want to play all the new songs...
I also drew them! yay!
also, happy 4.20
I also drew them! yay!
also, happy 4.20
Now that it's time to go back to work for the week, the brainweasels of "you didn't get enough done this weekend" have come to circle. Could I have done more? Probably. But did I do an absolute lot? Sure did! (Just ask my back!)
While digging through stacks of books that I didn't realize I had, I came to two conclusions. First, swapping out the short, long bookcase in degrading condition would be a good plan. There have been two tall, thin bookcases at the 'rents that were 'given' to me years ago that I just didn't think I had space for. If those will fit in the same spot, it'll be perfect. And second, I completely fell off with Accidental Advent, which is fine and not terrible surprising. I'll see about re-starting in the near future because I did enjoy the nudge. (The old bookcase can probably go to the garage if I can get it up on cinderblocks. It's still fine to hold non-book things but if the bottom shelf has started a chemical reaction I don't assume it'll magically stop.)
I suppose plans for the rest of spring/summer are going to involve clearing every shelf, cleaning it, and checking conditions of things. I also need to get fresh air into the place more often. I'd wanted to get things opened up already but it's also rained every day for like two weeks now. Except right now, because it's snowing heavily. (WTF)
Also got a good percentage of my gunpla logged. I want to eventually have a good list of what I have both unbuilt and built. While just my backlog sounds like a slightly better time, I definitely know that I've built things and then forgotten about them as time passed. (In my defense, I mean built in like ~2010.)
I stirred up a lot of dust, which mostly means that I have a lot of dust and need to do some work tetris-ing things around so I can do a more thorough vacuum and whatnot.
I know I declare every year as the year I finally sort through everything but I'm feeling the motivation and am going to try to run with it.
While digging through stacks of books that I didn't realize I had, I came to two conclusions. First, swapping out the short, long bookcase in degrading condition would be a good plan. There have been two tall, thin bookcases at the 'rents that were 'given' to me years ago that I just didn't think I had space for. If those will fit in the same spot, it'll be perfect. And second, I completely fell off with Accidental Advent, which is fine and not terrible surprising. I'll see about re-starting in the near future because I did enjoy the nudge. (The old bookcase can probably go to the garage if I can get it up on cinderblocks. It's still fine to hold non-book things but if the bottom shelf has started a chemical reaction I don't assume it'll magically stop.)
I suppose plans for the rest of spring/summer are going to involve clearing every shelf, cleaning it, and checking conditions of things. I also need to get fresh air into the place more often. I'd wanted to get things opened up already but it's also rained every day for like two weeks now. Except right now, because it's snowing heavily. (WTF)
Also got a good percentage of my gunpla logged. I want to eventually have a good list of what I have both unbuilt and built. While just my backlog sounds like a slightly better time, I definitely know that I've built things and then forgotten about them as time passed. (In my defense, I mean built in like ~2010.)
I stirred up a lot of dust, which mostly means that I have a lot of dust and need to do some work tetris-ing things around so I can do a more thorough vacuum and whatnot.
I know I declare every year as the year I finally sort through everything but I'm feeling the motivation and am going to try to run with it.
its only been 3 episodes, but i have a few things to say.
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tagging as review even tho it kinda isnt. whatever who gaf
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tagging as review even tho it kinda isnt. whatever who gaf
Anyway my trick is that writing fanfic helped me remember how much I enjoy playing these games.
Like check out (this) design draft of Zelda from The Archives of Hyrule by the amazingly stylish Conito. How can I not love this character?
Like check out (this) design draft of Zelda from The Archives of Hyrule by the amazingly stylish Conito. How can I not love this character?
I also started a new game of Tears of the Kingdom!
My deep dark fandom confession is that, while I understand and agree with the (many) criticisms of this game, I’ve actually really come to love it. A lot of the big-picture story ideas are poorly considered, but most of the smaller game design choices are brilliant.
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* My answer to any and all questions concerning Ganondorf is that he’s a dramatic little bitch, so it's best just to sit back and enjoy the show. He raised an entire castle into the sky for fun! Are you not entertained? Give the man his flowers.
My deep dark fandom confession is that, while I understand and agree with the (many) criticisms of this game, I’ve actually really come to love it. A lot of the big-picture story ideas are poorly considered, but most of the smaller game design choices are brilliant.
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* My answer to any and all questions concerning Ganondorf is that he’s a dramatic little bitch, so it's best just to sit back and enjoy the show. He raised an entire castle into the sky for fun! Are you not entertained? Give the man his flowers.
Went on an entire road trip today- Michael's first, which is down near where I used to work but feels like the other end of the universe. I have, for months, kept thinking I should make a chunky list for when I finally got down there, because I need many things... Did I ever make this list? No. Did I get the one thing I really needed? Yes. (smallish ziploc bags, generally sold for beads and whatnot but I use them for gunpla accessories)
Then on to HobbyTown to pick up a belated prize from that contest a month ago. It is a ballcap, and I am not a ballcap-wearer, so it'll just chill on a wig head or something. Also picked up a couple of 30MM kits, RG Wing (all the Wings!), and a couple stands because I am direly low on stands and keep building critters that don't balance well.
After that, back across to a free "anime convention" also near where I used to work. I can't even say I managed to walk around once because it was the biggest shitfire I've ever seen of a convention and I have been to a lot of dire nerd shows. No parking (I parked at a drugstore nearby and hoofed it), no lighting, a rock band playing loudly over a wrestling show, and a bunch of randomly laid-out artist tables and some random woo and a poor guy selling fudge. The layout was so bad that it was impossible to walk down aisles normally, even without cosplayers in large costumes blocking things (possibly the only actual "anime convention" hallmark). Maybe stayed ten minutes.
Doing a lot of cleaning tonight, both in my bedroom and online. First is a quick journal cleanup, removing inactive accounts and a bunch of communities that I'm not doing anything with and probably won't any time soon. As always, it's not anything personal. I should do my fediverse accounts next, and discord servers that I haven't looked at in ages.
(Bedroom cleaning is cataloguing models and became a dedicated shelf clean of a bookcase where I think the old paperbacks and the old clearcoat are interacting badly. But I think I can replace that bookcase easily so *waves hands* I also gave the discolored/spotty book bottoms a quick sand and they look a lot better. Also also these are mass market pocket paperbacks from the ~80's so they are not in great shape to begin with and there's some book repair in my future.)
Then on to HobbyTown to pick up a belated prize from that contest a month ago. It is a ballcap, and I am not a ballcap-wearer, so it'll just chill on a wig head or something. Also picked up a couple of 30MM kits, RG Wing (all the Wings!), and a couple stands because I am direly low on stands and keep building critters that don't balance well.
After that, back across to a free "anime convention" also near where I used to work. I can't even say I managed to walk around once because it was the biggest shitfire I've ever seen of a convention and I have been to a lot of dire nerd shows. No parking (I parked at a drugstore nearby and hoofed it), no lighting, a rock band playing loudly over a wrestling show, and a bunch of randomly laid-out artist tables and some random woo and a poor guy selling fudge. The layout was so bad that it was impossible to walk down aisles normally, even without cosplayers in large costumes blocking things (possibly the only actual "anime convention" hallmark). Maybe stayed ten minutes.
Doing a lot of cleaning tonight, both in my bedroom and online. First is a quick journal cleanup, removing inactive accounts and a bunch of communities that I'm not doing anything with and probably won't any time soon. As always, it's not anything personal. I should do my fediverse accounts next, and discord servers that I haven't looked at in ages.
(Bedroom cleaning is cataloguing models and became a dedicated shelf clean of a bookcase where I think the old paperbacks and the old clearcoat are interacting badly. But I think I can replace that bookcase easily so *waves hands* I also gave the discolored/spotty book bottoms a quick sand and they look a lot better. Also also these are mass market pocket paperbacks from the ~80's so they are not in great shape to begin with and there's some book repair in my future.)
so i finally learned how tagging with a colon works on here! lol
heres what all i did:
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as for personal updates, this week urgent care did malpractice against me then i was in the ER 2 days later (seems i recently passed a kidney stone, the Actually Good doctor said. urgent care was awfulll but ive dealt with worse doctors before). IM FINE NOW just not happy about having more Future Bills to get in the mail ofc
been working on commissions as well, finished lineart on one today! just gotta do flat colors, send for approval, then shade. THEN after submitting on vgen, i print it and mail to my client! (:
+ i finished a piece of my oc Solithe, which i will be sharing here soon! tomorrow if i dont forget— ah its 1am... TODAY if i dont forget!
heres what all i did:
- removed "games" tag, added "game:" before relevant tags (ex. game: kirby)
- the above with "my art", "oc", "character", etc
- removed tags of characters im not invested in (ex. astarion, i dont really think about him. nor is he up there in fave bg3 characters, so i wont post about him much if ever again)
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as for personal updates, this week urgent care did malpractice against me then i was in the ER 2 days later (seems i recently passed a kidney stone, the Actually Good doctor said. urgent care was awfulll but ive dealt with worse doctors before). IM FINE NOW just not happy about having more Future Bills to get in the mail ofc
been working on commissions as well, finished lineart on one today! just gotta do flat colors, send for approval, then shade. THEN after submitting on vgen, i print it and mail to my client! (:
+ i finished a piece of my oc Solithe, which i will be sharing here soon! tomorrow if i dont forget— ah its 1am... TODAY if i dont forget!
The Wind Waker is a marvelous game. A miraculous work of art. A blessing directly from heaven. A beautiful shining treasure on this earth.
I haven’t gotten to the relaxing part (the sailing) yet, but that’s okay. I always forget what an incredible charm offensive the opening hour of the game is, and I’m always delighted.
I love how, when Link is leaving Outset Island, the music crescendos into a heroic swell as he waves goodbye to everyone on the island from the stern of a pirate ship – but just when the song is about to reach its climax and transition into the classic Legend of Zelda theme, it crashes to a halt when Tetra is like, “Are you fucking done?” I love her so much, and also. That’s thematic foreshadowing babeyyyy.
I also somehow managed to forget how cool the first encounter with Ganondorf is. I love the way his face distorts into the most bitter and unhinged smile, and the way he ever-so-slightly twists his chin to signal the Helmaroc King (his giant pet murder bird) to release Link back into the ocean. Ganondorf covets that wind, and I covet... his magnificent bone structure...
I haven’t gotten to the relaxing part (the sailing) yet, but that’s okay. I always forget what an incredible charm offensive the opening hour of the game is, and I’m always delighted.
I love how, when Link is leaving Outset Island, the music crescendos into a heroic swell as he waves goodbye to everyone on the island from the stern of a pirate ship – but just when the song is about to reach its climax and transition into the classic Legend of Zelda theme, it crashes to a halt when Tetra is like, “Are you fucking done?” I love her so much, and also. That’s thematic foreshadowing babeyyyy.
I also somehow managed to forget how cool the first encounter with Ganondorf is. I love the way his face distorts into the most bitter and unhinged smile, and the way he ever-so-slightly twists his chin to signal the Helmaroc King (his giant pet murder bird) to release Link back into the ocean. Ganondorf covets that wind, and I covet... his magnificent bone structure...
my boomer parents are people who would, politely, not be able to sit in the same room with the majority of bsky poasters without several arguments starting (lol)
but i am so thankful, increasingly so the last few months - that without fail they're both champions of critical thinking and real 'own your process/stuff/responsibilities' believers versus outsourcing ... everything. finances, computers, cognitive ability, etc.
just been talking about [current tech events] with them a lot and it's amazing how nuanced/aware of social knock on effects they are once they get to see how the tech works. 'ah, so it can do X kind of graphics that clients are enamored by via these prompts, but the the accuracy of Y, Z is totally off, and struggling to prompt it often takes longer than doing it right to begin with... why would you even bother doing that, then, you have a brain .... '
anyway there's a lot of change and uncertainty out there, also in my personal life right now but just, man. it's just nice to know this is one less Thing not to have to step carefully around in this next phase of life.
but i am so thankful, increasingly so the last few months - that without fail they're both champions of critical thinking and real 'own your process/stuff/responsibilities' believers versus outsourcing ... everything. finances, computers, cognitive ability, etc.
just been talking about [current tech events] with them a lot and it's amazing how nuanced/aware of social knock on effects they are once they get to see how the tech works. 'ah, so it can do X kind of graphics that clients are enamored by via these prompts, but the the accuracy of Y, Z is totally off, and struggling to prompt it often takes longer than doing it right to begin with... why would you even bother doing that, then, you have a brain .... '
anyway there's a lot of change and uncertainty out there, also in my personal life right now but just, man. it's just nice to know this is one less Thing not to have to step carefully around in this next phase of life.
Been using a new Stardew Planner tool that's got better interior design options than the old one.
My current Switch save is on the Beach Farm map, and I want to lean into the furniture that the Beach Farm's farmhouse starts with:
- Single Bed (1)
- Floor TV (1)
- Oceanic Rug (1)
- Basic Window (2)
- Artist Bookcase (1)
- Birch Table (1)
- Birch Bench (1)
- Birch Chair (2)
- Indoor Palm (2)
- Small Plant (1)
The "Artist Bookcase" uses the exact same pink-cream color scheme as the "Birch" furniture, so that's effectively a total of... 4-5 pieces of Birch furniture. Here's the other pieces of furniture with the "birch" palette:
- Birch Dresser
- Birch End Table
- Birch Lamp End Table
- Birch Tea Table
- Birch Double Bed
- Breakfast Chair
- Cat Tree
I've already bought a Birch Dresser from the Traveling Cart and a Birch Double Bed from the Desert Trader. I plan to use a Birch End Table or Birch Lamp End Table as a nightstand for the bed. I honestly am not sure ho to incorporate the tea table or breakfast chair into anything... but I have a cat, so of course I will have a cat tree.
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It’s the end of the semester, and I’m running on fumes. The absurdity of the current worldstate isn’t helping. Still, I’m going to make a serious effort to vent less and be more chill and normal going forward. I set up my Wii U to play Wind Waker, and hopefully spending some relaxing time on the Great Sea will help. But I won’t lie, a productive eight-hour workday with a Death Note would help more.
It’s the end of the semester, and I’m running on fumes. The absurdity of the current worldstate isn’t helping. Still, I’m going to make a serious effort to vent less and be more chill and normal going forward. I set up my Wii U to play Wind Waker, and hopefully spending some relaxing time on the Great Sea will help. But I won’t lie, a productive eight-hour workday with a Death Note would help more.
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You get why I suspect that this answer was created by Gen-AI, right?
It’s not so much the writing itself, but rather the tone and context. The student’s answer is completely wrong, but it’s written with complete confidence. His answer is something that could conceivably be possible... but again, it’s totally unsupported, not to mention totally irrelevant. So where does the student’s confidence come from? And also, given that he’s apparently unable to read the specified paragraph, where does that smoothness of writing come from? Why does he feel the need to write a perfectly balanced three-sentence paragraph when a simple four-word answer would suffice?
I am so fucking ready for this semester to be over, you have no idea.
You get why I suspect that this answer was created by Gen-AI, right?
It’s not so much the writing itself, but rather the tone and context. The student’s answer is completely wrong, but it’s written with complete confidence. His answer is something that could conceivably be possible... but again, it’s totally unsupported, not to mention totally irrelevant. So where does the student’s confidence come from? And also, given that he’s apparently unable to read the specified paragraph, where does that smoothness of writing come from? Why does he feel the need to write a perfectly balanced three-sentence paragraph when a simple four-word answer would suffice?
I am so fucking ready for this semester to be over, you have no idea.
in happier news: got to personally thank one of the character designers for the old Buzz Lightyear animated show back in the 2000's. :D (He's posting on bsky -- that show genuinely rewrote some of my brain neurons.)
Reminds me when I got to thank the main dev of SW:Starfighter for his amazing physics engine work when i think he was posting on formspring? ask.fm? (one of those); that game also made a substantial chunk of my childhood.
i do have to remind myself the internet can be a really cool place sometimes.
(This feels loosely relevant to a blog post i saw recently how all of the writer's favorite commenters actually never commented and instead sent emails directly to him. Got a chuckle out of that as somebody who sent like, three emails yesterday to webmasters personally thanking them or for similar casual chatting. email is the best social media <3)
Reminds me when I got to thank the main dev of SW:Starfighter for his amazing physics engine work when i think he was posting on formspring? ask.fm? (one of those); that game also made a substantial chunk of my childhood.
i do have to remind myself the internet can be a really cool place sometimes.
(This feels loosely relevant to a blog post i saw recently how all of the writer's favorite commenters actually never commented and instead sent emails directly to him. Got a chuckle out of that as somebody who sent like, three emails yesterday to webmasters personally thanking them or for similar casual chatting. email is the best social media <3)
I'm currently reading two books about bloggers and influencers (Hooked and If You're Seeing This, It's Meant for You), and I was thinking about what I would even talk about if I shared aspects of my real life online. Is academia interesting? I don't think it's interesting! Also generally only bad things happen. For example:
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Fun times, fun times.
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Fun times, fun times.
Bloodborne Video Game Getting R-Rated Animated Movie Adaptation From Sony
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/bloodborne-video-game-r-rated-animated-movie-adaptation-sony-cinemacon-1236720936/
PlayStation’s Bloodborne is being developed into an R-rated animated feature for Sony Pictures that the studio says will embrace the carnage that made the game so popular. Sanford Panitch, president of Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group, promised during the studio’s CinemaCon presentation that the long-rumored film will be “very true” to the gory spirit of Bloodborne, which follows a traveler who journeys into a gothic city full of nightmarish creatures.
Not gonna lie, they had me at "animated."
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/bloodborne-video-game-r-rated-animated-movie-adaptation-sony-cinemacon-1236720936/
PlayStation’s Bloodborne is being developed into an R-rated animated feature for Sony Pictures that the studio says will embrace the carnage that made the game so popular. Sanford Panitch, president of Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group, promised during the studio’s CinemaCon presentation that the long-rumored film will be “very true” to the gory spirit of Bloodborne, which follows a traveler who journeys into a gothic city full of nightmarish creatures.
Not gonna lie, they had me at "animated."
since there's been some lively discussion about dewitt's the last samurai here on dreamwidth before: i found phil christman's post on dewitt's latest book very interesting, and that post links to all kinds of other very interesting bits and bobs—e.g., dewitt's reflections on david foster wallace's writing. posting here for those who may find such things interesting!