wolgraha week 2025

Aug. 4th, 2025 05:21 am
requiems: (prih ☙ hand to heart)
[personal profile] requiems
I haven't written anything longform resembling a fic for this (much like I did not for wolfilia week or wolzero week...) but I did collect some of my wolgraha thoughts together that I haven't touched on in fic before in sort-of prose to solidify it for myself more than anything. Mostly codependent cats. All varying levels of angst? Pretend to be surprised.

First Meetings/Introductions )

Hurt/comfort )

AU )
larissa: (BSSM ☄ ⌈Usagi/Mamoru; shining star⌋)
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i just reached chapter 3 last night, so i should stop putting off making a post about it.

i've had a hard time getting into this game through no real fault of its own; i've had stuff going on and i haven't been able to dedicate time to it, even though i thoroughly enjoy it every time i sit down to play. so here's some thoughts through the start of chapter 3.

you won't believe how this entry starts )

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Aug. 3rd, 2025 05:56 pm
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Checking out some cnovels that have been licenced by Seven Seas to figure out if they're worth buying, because those things are nearly 20 quid per volume & I got burned by 2ha, which I bought since it sounded right up my alley but I ended up hating.

First up is My Husband & I Sleep in a Coffin (the online translations are called I & My Husband Sleep in a Coffin, but someone at 7S understands how English grammar works & I'm going with the correct version). Only a couple of chapters in & really liking it so far. The LI is delightfully deranged. The first volume comes out in a few weeks, so I probably won't read all of it. Just enough to be sure I like it, then I'll wait for the book, read that, & then read the rest of the unofficial translation.

To-do list

Aug. 2nd, 2025 09:16 pm
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-publish an amended page
-update my AF gallery
-add a link
-upload new art
-follow a bunch of AF people on TH
-upload art done for me on TH
-unprivate and make profiles/upload art of some OCs
-update my "for me" gallery
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I have volunteered to co-facilitate my queer reads book club and I'm actually kind of excited about it! Should be fun to be more involved in the process of running the club and seeing behind the scenes. :)

*

books! )

I am so good at the video game

Aug. 2nd, 2025 04:29 pm
requiems: (hawke ☙ red)
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All-star get!!! Climbing through pro with the reduced gain from wins is no joke - it took about as long to break out of those five divisions as it did to do the other four ranks that came before it. But, I did it 😤 I exclusively played Juno aside from a handful of Mercy games at the end, and Mercy is much easier (one of her powers makes her ult super busted) but you have to spend a lot of your build making up for her diminishing returns and compensating for healing reductions the enemy team should and will apply, which I know from all my time spent on Juno. Juno is still my favourite though. Love a torpedo build.

I'll grab all my builds at some point... would be nice to document. I'm still going to keep playing ofc, we're racking up so many comp points doing so, but I've earned a bit of a break from hours of stadium a night (where did the Rems go who didn't like this mode... this is what happens when the dps passive in standard gameplay is too high...)

As you can see I'm in elite for tank and dps. Tanking is weird. You have to make yourself incredibly self sufficient and be a thousand percent aware of what the enemy team has for their powers and not overstay your welcome, even when your team is nagging you. I once had my supports complaining about me not diving - into five people, a bad idea - and the enemy tank is an Orisa, and she'll just use her uninterruptible, I have zero movement, five second long spin to knock me into a wall and kill me so no no I am not getting that close to her, sry. That said they were actually allowing me to do tank things and make space; a lot of this mode people don't want to cart sit, so I end up doing it regardless of my role. Tanks should never be doing this :') Juno is fine because I can heal from a distance and have high movement, Ashe is infuriating because I am sacrificing my match cash to push but again someone's gotta and she doesn't work well in spawn camps as the distance is too close, but D.Va??? I should never be on car duty. Anyways.

Dps is far and away the easiest role tbqh. So long as you play with your team and get your butt on point when necessary, and do your damage to force resource expenditure, it'll go fine. And sometimes you'll die alone on point and your team will magically decide they want to touch it then. Come on y'all let me set things on fire in peace.

098 - 2 gifs; 25.02 - g-dragon

Aug. 2nd, 2025 02:36 pm
aliensamba: bleach (e)
[personal profile] aliensamba
Medium: official music video
Additional: team challenge (alpha)
Fandom: G-Dragon
Prompt: Party
Notes: 2 gifs from the official music video of "Crayon" for week 12 of Fortune Wheel at Fandom Empire.


Read more... )

Teddy's Place

Aug. 1st, 2025 05:27 pm
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[personal profile] paperghost
Awesome news! A MLP Tales fansite from 1999 is still online... And it was even poked at again 20 years later in 2019, but not after.

https://www.angelfire.com/tx3/teddysplace/main.html
aliensamba: vash the stampede (k)
[personal profile] aliensamba
Medium: anime
Fandoms: Bleach, Inuyasha, Yu Yu Hakusho, Ushio & Tora, Akazukin Chacha, Dragon Ball, Yaiba, Sailor Moon
Prompt: Magical Item
Lucky Color: Orange
Notes: 1 picspam for week 12 of Fortune Wheel at Fandom Empire.

Read more... )
requiems: (ashe ☙ show's over)
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Before some poor choices, which I've spent a lot of the past week having to ruminate on for disclaimers I need to add to my sites - if I have to dead dove do not eat any and all sensitive topics then I will - I actually wanted to talk about Ashe.

Against all odds, she got character development through voicelines. And this straight up never happens and likely never will again.

stages of grief )

096 - 1 picspam; 25.02 - haikyuu!!

Jul. 31st, 2025 07:40 pm
aliensamba: bleach (e)
[personal profile] aliensamba
Medium: anime
Fandom: Haikyuu!!
Characters: Hinata Shoyo, Kageyama Tobio
Prompt: Rivalry
Notes: 1 picspam for week 12 of Fortune Wheel at Fandom Empire.

Read more... )

some fandom events

Jul. 30th, 2025 11:11 pm
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[tumblr.com profile] whumpgifathon is a whump based gifmaking challenge that takes place in August.

[tumblr.com profile] augustwritingchallenge is a daily prompt based challenge that focuses on various Alternate Universes and takes place in August.

[community profile] fallingforyoufallexchange, an exchange dedicated to getting together romance tropes set in the fall, is still open for sign-ups until July 31st, 8PM EDT.

[community profile] thestoryinside, a community where you get assigned a buddy to pick a few books off your TBR based on the voted on themes and vice versa, is opened for August sign-ups. They will close at the end of the day on July 31st.

[community profile] ficinabox is open for Nomination Pre-Gaming, where you can request transfers from last year's tagset into the new one, until August 2nd.

[community profile] ships_crossing, a multifandom exchange that celebrates crossovers and fusions, is accepting nominations until August 8th, 10PM EDT.

[community profile] seasonsofdrabbles, an exchange for the creation of drabbles and drabble variants that runs once a season, has opened nominations for its Summer Round until August 11th, 11:59PM EDT.

[personal profile] sunflower_auction, an online fanworks auction, designed to raise money for nonprofit organizations that support the people of Ukraine, is open for creator sign-ups until August 13th, 11:59PM UTC.

The Immortal Ascension

Jul. 30th, 2025 02:22 pm
thispatternismine: (starry love - cf & lgqk)
[personal profile] thispatternismine
I wanted so bad to like this, but I'm just not. And what's frustrating it that I feel as if there is a really good drama there, but they're rushing by so fast that none of it is getting a chance to actually land, & a lot of stuff doesn't make sense.

For instance his dead master leaves a letter telling him how to cure the poison & I guess provides a letter of introduction (I assumed Han Li forged it but there's a secret letter hidden within it so unless he knew what paper Han Li was going write on this makes no sense) but hides a letter in it telling them Han Li is bad. The family also knew he was dead somehow but Han Li seems to act like he isn't at first. The wives plot his death but then forget all about that & want to keep him around because it's cool he killed their husband seeing as he's honest about it, & have him kill a bunch of random people & make out like the jade isn't something they can get their hands on like that. And then one of the daughters gives him it, he uses it, & then gives it back again & that's it. And that all happens in one episode (plus a few minutes of the next so they can have a cliffhanger). I have a feeling like this would all make a lot more sense given proper time to play out & with characters having a chance to react to stuff.

Or when he shows his new buddy the cultivation book he was given & asks him about the token. Not only does the guy have no info, but he apparently can't read the words on the page right in front of him, even though you'd think he's be interested in a golden ticket into one of the sects. And instead of just going 'Oh well I thought it sounded interesting' & moving on, Han Li feeds him info, just so the guy can blurt it out in front of someone else (& then be killed off). Again, I wonder if this is something where the bad guys suspecting he had a token would have been more organic if allowed time to play out.

These might still have been fine - the benefit of them rushing through the master's family part meant I didn't have to deal with them for too long, & I'm fine with some handwaving to move a plot along.

But the real problem is that I didn't feel invested in any of the characters or their interactions/relationships. Li Feiyu goes from sneering at Han Li to declaring eternal brotherhood within a couple of episodes with only a few short scenes between them. I don't need every little thing spelled out & can infer a lot, but I don't get any sense of them forming a bond at all. And that lack of emotional investment includes Han Li himself. I can push through a terrible plot or too slow/fast pacing or bad comedy or a thousand other drama sins IF YOU JUST MAKE ME CARE ABOUT THE MAIN CHARACTER(S). And I don't, because of the way stuff just seems to happen & he doesn't get a chance to react to or process stuff (aside from the death of his master & finding out what happened to his friend, & even those pass way too quickly).

I'm bored, even though there's a lot happening, because I don't care about any of it. I should have figured it was a bad sign when the episode count was reduced twice, from 38 to 34 & then to 30.

There's a chance I might try again & check out some spoilers towards the end of its run, just to see if things improve once it's found its footing (though I gave it 6 episode & normally even the slowest burning of dramas have hooked me by then).

Luckily The Wanted Detective/Calming Waves (they've gone back & forth so many times) is airing on Friday, so hopefully that'll fill the void.

tropicsbear: Kirishima Eijirou from BnHA clenching his fist and trying not to cry (BnHA: Kirishima overcome by manly emotio)
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Boku no Hero Academia the Movie: You're Next (7/10)

The fourth BnHA movie, taking place after the U.A. Traitor arc which places it sometime during the events of S07 of the anime, if I'm not mistaken. (Though anime movies tend to not really mesh with series timelines so I try not to get too fussed about continuity.)

If I were to condense this movie's story into one sentence, it'd be "A mafioso impersonates All Might and Deku was so offended by this that he decided to end this man's life."

It's a bit exaggerated, I'll admit—I highly doubt we'll get to see Deku go around murdering people—but the finale smackdown Deku unleashed on Gollini ... Some mild spoilers for the main series. )

The movie's plot is pretty standard but it has amazing animation in the bigger fight/action sequences. My favorite has to be when Giulio's fighting against Gollini. The moves are so fluid and pleasing to the eyeballs 😌 Second favorite is the big final fight between Deku, Bakugou, and Todoroki vs. Gollini. Dude had no chance whatsoever after ticking off All Might's top three overpowered fanboys.

My biggest takeaway from this movie is that Kirishima apparently has a long-lost older brother from Italy. You can't show me Giulio and expect me to not immediately think that he has some sort of connection to Kirishima. You can't.

Random stuff:

  • If I were a criminal in this universe, I would be so embarrassed to be caught by a high schooler. So embarrassed.
  • The fact that Iida says Bakugou's full gremlin hero name and then adds "-kun" at the end will never be not funny to me.
  • Is Italy going to send over some of their Pro Heroes to clean up this mess? These were their villains!

icons i've made

Jul. 29th, 2025 04:47 pm
mercurios: ballister boldheart from nimona (ballister my bb)
[personal profile] mercurios
i am not particularly graphics-inclined (i know i've used photoshop, yet for the life of me i can't remember how) but i've made a couple of icons here and there (landcomms usually), so i wanna have them all in the same place :)

are they good icons? eh

icons below the cut )

2025 week 30

Jul. 28th, 2025 09:58 pm
larissa: (FFXIII ☄ ⌈Lightning ; wild and free⌋)
[personal profile] larissa

what do you mean it's monday again. we just did this??

my week appears to have flown by, hmm. i'm not sure where july went, frankly. i have been wholly unsuccessful in my webdesign goals for the month, but i'm giving myself some leniency on that because i've been in terrible pain that's just barely started to let up. sitting at the pc for long hours has really not been in the cards lately.

other than that though, not a whole lot going on. i did pick trails in the sky the 3rd back up yesterday, only to find myself in a minigame i couldn't beat. (more on this when i make a post on the game.) kinda put a damper on things, but hopefully i can progress more soon.

mogtome season is winding down in ffxiv; i've been doing a lot of nier runs for glamour purposes and have mostly struck out, so there's more in my future. (this is not a complaint, i love the nier raids despite how much i strongly disliked nier.)

i finished the incandescent by emily tesh and absolutely loved it; strong recommend. i've since been diving into tesh's novellas, which haven't scratched the same itch... but i think this is more to do with subject matter than writing quality. i need to pick a novel to read next, though i've no idea what i'll end up on.

that's about all i've got this week.

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Jul. 28th, 2025 10:22 pm
thispatternismine: (svsss - mbj)
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Went into The Range for some things for my houseplants & was greeted with a shitload of autumn & Halloween stuff. Like, multiple big displays right inside the doors, & several aisles of stuff, & practically every end display was autumn-themed also.

Look, I love Halloween & autumn as much as the next goth, but it's July FFS! And the amount was just excessive.

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Forgot where I had this before, but decided to do a new one. So here is a new Dreamwidth guide. I'll slowly be working on this when I find stuff. Basically a guide for Dreamwidth newbies and regulars. If you want to suggest a link or community, please feel free below!


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squirrelmaniacs

Jul. 27th, 2025 04:57 pm
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This blog is still online and being updated!!

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