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I am likely going to finish all current projects, and then my writing I share with the public will only be what I sign up for in charity drives and exchanges.

I just don't have enough energy to warrant putting the effort into sharing/promoting fic when it is a source of stress, given comment dearth and spammer content.

I will not be removing any of my archives. I'm just going to stop trying to engage with others.

setsuntamew

EVENT: DONE

I got the final copy of Madara already!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
idk what to say; I was possessed by a level of focus and determination hitherto unknown I guess???? I just locked in and played enstars for two days straight XD Seriously, I got the last copy at around 5 am, which was 52 hours after the event started. I did sleep some on Saturday night, but yeah, I was just on the nonstop grind.

Also, while I still don't love the event song (or outfit), the song started to grow on me after I'd played it nearly 50 times XD Which is good, since, you know, I had to play it so many times. Overall, I think I wouldn't have minded as much if this was a """regular""" event, but since the Fan ThanX events are meant to be more important, it was a bigger letdown. Like. It's a phone game, I'll live, but I'm still somewhat bummed.

KOHAKU REFERENCED IN ONE OF THE MINI TALKS THO SO LIKE. I'LL TAKE MY CRUMBS!!!!!!!!!!!!! And the office item also included Double Face decorations, not just MaM ;w; I was soooo afraid the event was gonna pretend like DF had never existed or some shit, so like....I was slightly healed by all that.

someone on twitter broke down all the references but I just wanted to share Mama's shooting range~
So, there's a Pop'n Music collab going on in enstars right now, which means that I played....a lot of the temporary collab songs during this event XD Sayonara Heaven, you are so important to me.

uhhhhhhhh my brain is still a little fried from how much enstars I played in such a short time....

OH, RIGHT. Since it's 2x fans for White Day (3x for Madara), I'm gonna spend the rest of the event fan grinding. Like...I have the card maxed already, I'm pretty much set on event points, you know? So I'm hoping I can make a big push towards Rank A+/120k fans for Madara and Kohaku~ I did the push for Rank A during the Bridal Campaign last summer, so now seems like a good time for it :D

( other various accomplishments from the grind )
Liz and I ran to the grocery store this evening because I was d y i n g for a vegetable. Like, yes, I was technically only grinding for two days, but it felt waaaaay longer, since I basically shoved the whole week of playing into that time, while subsisting mostly on instant food. Though on Saturday morning, Liz did make me eggs, bacon, and corn muffins from scratch for breakfast, which was very sweet ;w; They've been super supportive of my enstars-based insanity for the event, and I really appreciate it.

Spouses who game together stay together, you know? ♥

I do have to play a little bit more today, since it's Arashi's birthday, but like. It's sooooo much more manageable now XD

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Location: Garwyn Oaks, MD
Current Music: サヨナラ・ヘヴン ♪ 猫叉Master
Crossposts: https://kirrianu.insanejournal.com/53441.html

senmut

I really don't know why I bother uploading fic anymore.

I managed to get a 10k fic loaded between all of AO3's ups and downs. In the not quite 24 hours since, WITH MORE OUTAGES, I've had two comments which were BOTH ART SPAM.

Like. Fuck you spammers. Comments are the icing on the cake, but I swear to fuck getting one of you makes me want to never ever post fic again. Especially when that is the BULK OF THE COMMENTS I GET NOW.

tinny

TV finished

Nothing, sob.

Okay, maybe I could count the complete video of Wu Lei's birthday livestream (from his birthday in December) which I found on youtube? It's about an hour long, and I watched that a few times until I understood at least some very small parts of it. Yay? That took up a lot of time, too, lol. eowuli on twitter promised to sub it, but I haven't seen a subbed version of it yet. The raw is here on youtube.

TV new (ongoing)

I'll count Saint Pierre here. The second season has started, and I have now watched one episode. I had forgotten how much getting used to Arch's French accent takes. I had no trouble with it (loved it, in fact) by the end of season 1, and I'm surprised that I'm apparently starting from scratch again now. I don't know why I missed the show so much, but I did, and I'm happy to have it back. The first ep took me right back into the town and the characters. I'm looking forward to the season.

TV continued

The Company (16/30), the time-traveling cdrama. I watched eight episodes of that this month. Still enjoying the BL vibes, wondering if they really put them in there intentionally or if I'm just wearing slash goggles. Peak time travel shenanigans in ep 10, then they set logical boundaries, and then immediately broke them again, lol. :D They are adorable. I'm definitely enjoying the show more than I thought I would, even though I expected more time machine shenanigans in the latest plotline, but my guess as to what had happened was completely wrong, lol. :D Overall, now that I'm about halfway through: I find some of the show a bit preachy, but not overly so. It hasn't turned me off yet. Most of it is just fun, and I find it surprisingly engaging! It's on viki.

I watched four more episodes of The Cross-Dressed Union, now on 22/24. It really is a fun watch, and even the grasslands sidequest was kind of satisfyingly resolved and integrated into the rest of the plot. I was surprised. Sadly, I then lost track of it, I really should just finish it, there's not much left. I definitely rec it. It's on youtube.

Three eps of Bridgerton Season 4! Watchalonging this, and we're all caught up now for the second part of the season. I loved the Queen in ep2! I didn't expect them to make her this obvious. Her reaction to Agatha's announcement in ep1 was pretty obvious to me, but seeing it play out like that was *chef's kiss* and made me cry. For some reason, I'm not really invested in Violet's storyline anymore this season? I liked it better last season. But her line in ep4 was hilarious, I was laughing so hard I couldn't breathe. :D My favorite character continues to be Penelope. <3 Sophie is starting to grow on me, too. The cliffhanger after ep4 is painful, but I thought it was quite logical. I have no complaints, really.

Two eps of Our Times (05/38), the 90s retro "IT students go professional" cdrama with Wu Lei and Hou Minghao. I still just find Wu Lei and Hou Minghao in (ugly!) period dress and hairstyle very very adorable. The bromance vibes are through the roof. So far, all lead characters are being trodden on repeatedly, to really firmly establish their underdog status. I'm sure that'll change throughout the show, but for now, this is exactly my thing. The embarrassment squick is relatively strong so far, but I made it through and am confident I will continue to do so. (I now have an active icon for it. That escalated quickly. :D). It's on wetv and youtube.

TV (dropped)

Nothing, I hope?

Shows for which I have fewer than 5 eps left but haven't watched a single one all month: The Long Ballad (1) and Love on the Turquoise Land (4). /o\

Rewatches/Watchalongs

The Nothing But You watchalong is now on ep 20. \o/ Enjoying the hell out of this watchalong.

Bridgerton season 4 hasn't gripped me. I'm not sure if it's because I'm not watching it on my own, or if it's the show itself. Who knows. We do both enjoy it, though.

The When A Snail Falls in Love watchalong is now done! \o/ The last episode was actually a little better than I'd feared. I don't regret watching it. We have now also started Nothing But You, I can never watch that too many times. <3

abyss_valkyrie

Hey guys! I'm running a screencap pool round on ic_animated and need lots of screencaps for it. Anybody is free to provide screencaps even if you're not in the comm or a participant.. Head over here to contribute, please.

tozka

I used to have very vivid, memorable dreams all through my early 30s-- I'd wake up the next morning and have tons to write about in my dream journal. And then some time in the last 5 years I stopped being able to remember my dreams except MAYBE once a month, and even then it's not as detailed as it used to be.

I'm assuming there's a correlation between starting to travel full-time and having other things to focus on than my own internal life, but maybe also there's some aging thing happening? As my brain changes, so too do my dreams? Not sure.

Sooooo, since I can make polls and I'm nosy AF, here's one for y'all to answer:

( Under here )

Feel free to share this around with friends so they can vote, too. It's anonymous, though you do have to be registered on DW to vote.

And if you have tips for remembering your dreams, please share them in the comments!

senmut

( You're about to view content that the journal owner has advised should be viewed with discretion. )

sheliak

Separated these from the Arcee & Carly batch because, um, it seemed kind of silly to do a post where more than two-thirds of the icons were from the same image.

( 10 icons )

sheliak

This week, I spent probably too much time making probably too many icons of the same image. These are the ones I ended up thinking were good enough to post.

The icons

[1-5]

[6-10]

[11-15]

[16-20]

[21-25]

Textures: bombay101, bourniio, colette, elwyn, jeanna-davis, kaelien, lookslikerain, shiruji, unreported, vitriolicism, youcallitwinter

Blather

Okay. I really, really like the cover to Transformers Skybound #10—Carly and Arcee stargazing together while Carly is sitting on the roof of her van. It's a pretty image, and I really love vengeful human teenager Carly and her quasi-familial relationships with giant robots from outer space.

It turns out it is really hard to icon that image. A simple wide crop (#1) works, but you lose the details and especially the expressions. A close crop is tough because getting both characters will also get awkward parts of Carly's car (#2 was the best I got in terms of a close crop).

So I thought of circular crops! (#11-15, #24) Which did work better... but I have very few circular frame textures, and some of those had a pretty small "frame". (One also has part of the circle spilling off of the icon, which was useful for hiding inconvenient lone headlights and things like that—#11—pity I didn't like the flame border that much.)

So I used those few (some with significant color manipulation, and with different circle crops because I wasn't sure how much to prioritize getting Arcee's hand in the frame—I do like the neon effect I ended up with in #12-13), and then it occurred to me I could make my own frames by just resizing circles of different colors, and set those on other backgrounds. More flexible! (#15-20, #24-25). For a most of these I just used a plain circle crop, but in a few I used the circle as a flat colored background, or a transparent one (#20 is my favorite of these).

Then it occurred to me that I didn't actually need to keep the whole background–I could just cut the characters out! This led to #5 and #10, where Carly is "sitting" on the frame. Then I wanted the starry sky back so I did some with the background in frames, and then I started playing with text (#6-10, #22-23). I like how some of these turned out a lot! Some of them do basically use the text as unreadable texture, though.

(Around here I forgot my original objective and made icon #3, which is actually a narrower version of the wide crop, using a recolored texture as a border.)

Then it occurred to me I could crop two separate circles, one for each character, and get some flexibility that way. Thus #16-20 and #25.

... And then I realized I'd done a solo icon of Arcee and not one of Carly, so I did #21 to make things even.

Anyway, I'm planning on inflicting it on

ic_animated for the Screencap Pool round, to see if anyone else has ideas about what to do with it.

thisbluespirit

[I wrote this with about 0 brain something like 2 months ago. But I was feeling like posting one of my drafts and I just realised belatedly that Chris Bidmead had died in August. Or possibly just found out and was shocked for a second time, who knows, it's terrible how much I forget. But I do love his DW era very much and while he lived to a good age, I am still sorry to hear it - he brought so much to the show & was a rare DW script editor who was genuinely interested in SFF* as a genre, which showed in a whole bunch of scripts commissioned by him, which are like any of the other eras - even if a whole set of them then had the misfortunate to be made by the next script editor who Did Not Get Them at all. This serial is actually one he wrote later for his successor's rather more action/dark orientated era (and said successor, Eric Saward, Did Not Get this one either), but - I had prepared it earlier! And also: I love Frontios!]

I haven't much brain so I thought for this edition of the Unofficial Fandom 50 I would once again burble about a favourite classic Who serial, this time...

Frontios

tumblr gifset for pictures

What is it?

It is a four part Fifth Doctor serial (4x 25 mins; c. 1hr 25 minutes in total) from Season 21 (1984). Yes, it has Giant Woodlice.

The Fifth Doctor (Peter Davison), Tegan (Janet Fielding) and Turlough (Mark Strickson) accidentally stray into the far future - so far that the Time Lords are forbidden to go there. They arrive at a tiny, struggling colony of survivors from Earth, who are under bombardment from an unknown enemy from space - except there's also something beneath them: the earth on Frontios is hungry...

Sometimes, as a DW fan, you love the unloved serial; sometimes you adore the fan favourite - and sometimes you just love a decent one more than you can properly justify or exactly explain, but we've all been there. I have a few of these, and Frontios is one, although honestly I think it belongs in the circle just outside of the all time greats personally, which is why I'm going to babble about it. (I mean, I realise, like everything, it does depend on a) taste and b) how people feel about lumbering giant woodlice).

(It's also the only DW serial where a member of the main guest cast had to be replaced at the last minute because the original actor, Peter Arne, had been murdered. This has no bearing on anything, other than the replacement being the excellent William Lucas, but I felt the need to mention it anyway). (All my DW classic faves do not involve someone dying or nearly dying irl, I promise).

Watch on YouTube

What do I love about it?

It's about confronting buried/unspoken terrors & what you can do with gravity in SFF if you have some giant woodlice to hand, plus it's one of those forsaken, almost Shakespearean colonies classic Who loves to do (the youthful leader with his fragile hold on it is even called Plantagenet) and I am a sucker for such things. The guest cast is great - William Lucas, Lesley Dunlop, Peter Gilmore & Jeff Rawle, pre-Drop the Dead Donkey.

Penned by Five's original script editor, Chris Bidmead, Peter Davison shines here, and gets to pull out his brainy specs for the first time since Bidmead left; Tegan and Turlough are both really well used, with Turlough's buried race trauma demonstrating that having alien companions as well as earthlings on the TARDIS can lead to interesting options for storytelling.

It's dark and weird, fascinating and quotable, with excellent team!TARDIS banter. The hatstand gets a moment of glory. The TARDIS is disintegrated. The Doctor saves Tegan's life by being really insulting to her. "Frontios buries its own dead."

Basically, I love weird colonies, I love strange ideas, I love this TARDIS team, I love the hatstand, I'm not at all put off by giant woodlice and: "Just tell them I came and went like a summer cloud." (Oh, Five. <3)

* Classic Who script editors (and producers) were assigned to the show by the BBC and did not always have a huge amount of choice about being offered the post and then being removed from it - it was just how the BBC worked at the time.

goodbyebird

+ I may be somewhat trying to cope with the Horrors by making a big purchase, but I done did it: I ordered those oracles and the workbook I was eying + a tarot deck that spoke to me very loudly and was limited in quantities. Hopefully it doesn't take too long before it arrives so I can dip in before it's back off to work. Tomorrow's big plan is tidying and washing my entire bedroom, laundring the curtains, and set up a nice altar space on the top of my dressing commode.

+ Finished Fallout s2 and I'm happy with how their storylines turned out.( spoilery comment ) There was a small cut scene at the end in case anybody missed that.

+ Steam NEXT Fest is happening, and as usual I've managed to try next to nothing. Two big recommends: Esoteric Ebb and All Will Rise. They're both text-heavy, your choices matter kind of games. I'm gonna try to get a game in of Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes, Wax Heads, Above The Snow, WOODROT, I'm Making A Monster, Dosa Divas, Bookbinding, Twilight Imperium, and the new Moomintroll entry before the time runs out (in that order). 100% I'm going to fail at that.

btw how I loathe having to keep my enthusiasm in check until I've had a scroll to look for AI usage.

+ Why all science fiction and fantasy writers are historians by Ada Palmer.

+ The SEA Is Whose?, Ethnic Entanglements in Southeast Asian SFF, an essay.

+ European bison arrive in the Iberian Highlands for the first time.

+ Botswana shows how smarter cattle herding can save lions, reopen ancient wildlife pathways.

+

youtuberecs is a fun community I just became aware of!

+ Soda Blonde released a new song/video, Suit & Tie, and I dig em both. Weird women in suits on the moors. Mud. Pretty horsie. What's not to like.

+ Forbrukerrådet is a Norwegian consumer council that's focused on making sure customers are treated fairly and not scammed, etc. Big big fan. And they've just released an ad on enshittifaction that is top notch.

Watch on YouTube

sheliak

Didn't manage to post February's icons before the month was up, so here's some catch-up.

Mostly Percy, with some of Leeds and Cecelia and one Cameron.

1-5 were made for

ic_animated's Crayola round—can't resist the color yellow.

( 30 icons )

senmut

10trueloves - 5/10 posted

Random Plot Bunnies in Progress

~ Fulcrum and Rex time travel to before Anakin runs to Mace. - NEEDS CANON REVIEW
~ Sequel to Retrieval - 93 WORDS

Potential Bunnies Pending Further Bouncing

~ Rachel and Joe meet with BOTH finally aware in Closing Up Shop
~ Drizzt's fallout/Vierna's reactions in the Divining Destiny universe

Finished

~ An Atin universe that is more like The Second Clone War or Mine, All of Them - 10 chapters, 1k each - READY TO POST

thisbluespirit

Just wrote a little snippet for Small Prophets, for

100fandoms, because I felt like it and also I thought there should be something for it, so:

Live in Hope (266 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Small Prophets (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Kacey & Michael Sleep
Characters: Kacey (Small Prophets), Michael Sleep
Summary: Michael and Kacey have nothing to do but wait.

(I need to rewatch it - I think this must be set c. late ep4 or sometime in ep5? I mean, I need to rewatch anyway, because it hasn't stopped living in my head yet.)

bemused_writer

I didn't make a whole lot of progress yesterday thanks to being extremely stuck in the initial chase scene with The Girl (which is what the monster I referenced in my last post is called). I think I might have encountered some kind of glitch since the sequence of events didn't match up with what articles were describing, so I'll describe what I did in case it's helpful.

I was at the section where Grace needed to get the screwdriver. I will note, I was pretty low on health at this point, and things weren't going great. XD Now, I had already moved the cart in and been chased around by The Girl twice, and apparently that meant the little hideaway structure was supposed to have disappeared. It hadn't, though, so I think that's where things were getting confused.

( Instructions on the puzzle... )

( Level discussion and spoilers... )

( Grace theory, continued... )

Current Mood: tired

senmut

fth2026offerings is open for browsing!

My first auction has:
Doctor Who: Classic Doctor Who (1963-1996)
New Doctor Who (2005-present)
Star Trek: The Original Series
Star Wars: Original Trilogy / Prequel Trilogy / The Clone Wars, EU Legends / Rogue One

My second auction has:

Any fandom I've created for before
DC: Birds of Prey / Justice League / Justice League International / Teen Titans / Young Justice
Legend of Drizzt - R.A. Salvatore

Offering 5-10k words, minimum bid $5

setsuntamew

IN A WONDERFUL BIT OF GOOD LUCK, MIKA ALSO CAME HOME FROM THE GACHA AND I AM FEELING BELOVED BY THE GOD OF LUCK!!!!! I'm going into this event with 150% rate up, so I'm gonna call that a win~

he looks so happy!!!! thank you for coming home, Mika ♥

also this Mika is so beautiful....I want to make icons of his bloomed *w*
The only downside is that now I have 3 different blue Mika 5 stars and zero green ones......maybe someday his first feature scout will come home....

Anyway, I did not end up liking the full MV for the MaM event and ended up so upset I slept most of yesterday D: Like I also hadn't slept much the night before, but like......I had a huge crash out and couldn't stay awake any longer. I don't wanna rehash everything I don't like again, because I'm trying to be more positive ;w; I just. Bluh. I'd been trying not to build it up in my mind and I know I still did, but it's not even like sorta not what I like, it's just.......boring.

The song is sooooooooooo boring. Maybe I'll like it more once I play it, but that's hit or miss. Good beatmaps can save things, I guess. But I'm not trying not to get my hopes up, since every part of this event has disappointed me.

~~except the scout boxes lmao~~

But honestly getting the beautiful Mika improved my mood XD I also bought enough dia to carry me through the event, so like...I'm ready!!! I just have to lock the fuck in and grind for 8 days straight~

When Pat and Liz get home from work, Liz is gonna take a nap so they can stay up all night with me and Pat is gonna go to Micro Center with me. We're 3D printing some of the stars that are in Madara's card because I'm making some decorations for the event and I need to get some yellow filament. Right now we're printing a glow-in-the-dark one because that's what Pat had on hand, but I also want some in the yellow like the card. Also, I need to swing by Michael's to get more ribbon so I can make my Madara nui a bow inspired by his terrible pastel outfit.

ALSO I WAS RIGHT ABOUT THE PASTEL PRINCE BULLSHIT since this week's megaphoto battle theme is "Fairytale Prince" and like. They're usually tied into the current event. But he barely looks like one; he looks more like an easter egg merged with a children's theater performer. And not a good one. Like, an annoying one XD And I'm married to a former children's theater performer, so I would know.

I'm trying to listen to the new song a few more times...maybe if I hear it enough I can trick myself into liking it....................

Current Mood: excited
Current Location: Garwyn Oaks, MD
Current Music: Light on the Orbit ♪ MaM
Crossposts: https://kirrianu.insanejournal.com/53154.html

bemused_writer

I'm having so many conflicting emotions about this game, and I'm only an hour in. I am fascinated, irritated, confused, and I must finish it stat. So, I figured I would write up some of my thoughts as I make my way through it.

( Lots of thoughts and spoilers below... )

Current Mood: amused

tinny

The February round of

ships20in20 was an inspirational round on the theme of Valentine's day. There were provided textures and fonts and a ton of inspiration icons. I enjoyed it! I hope you do too.

Nothing But You

( 20+4 icons, most of them Wu Lei related )

Every single comment is treasured. All icons shareable! Concrit welcome. Check out my resource post for makers of textures and brushes I use.

Previous icon posts:

setsuntamew

I don't wanna talk about the MaM event so I'm gonna be positive and share what I made before the event announcement last night. I got a bunch of stickers to decorate toploaders with a bit ago and finally picked up a pack of toploaders last night~ I've never made any before, though, so I decided to start with this Tsumugi pasha I got awhile back:

ta-da!!!! I just had to highlight him crying uwu
Overall, a lot of fun to make, but I do feel like I need to buy even more stickers XD As if I don't have enough already ;D

More than anything, I think I need more cards of characters I love....I have so few ;w;

Current Mood: creative
Current Location: Garwyn Oaks, MD
Crossposts: https://kirrianu.insanejournal.com/52791.html

cap share

PSA

I am the MASTER of JP Events

don't mind me grumping

Fannish February

TV finished

TV new (ongoing)

TV continued

TV (dropped)

Rewatches/Watchalongs

Screencap collection for ic_animated

do you remember your dreams?

Star Wars AU: Too Long Waiting

Icons — Transformers Skybound

Icons — Transformers Skybound #10

Unofficial Fandom 50: Frontios [4/50]

to me, we are all bonita.

Icons — Barbarous

Projects and Bunnies

Ficlet: Live in Hope (Small Prophets)

Resident Evil: Requiem Thoughts Part 2

It is TIME!

Mika Loves Me, At Least

Resident Evil: Requiem Thoughts Part 1

20 lovey-dovey icons for ships20in20

arts & crafts will fix me

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