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and therefore not what the doctor(or Dan Savage, for instance) might have ordered--me over a notebook is novel like a thing that is not, clearly, no *transgressions* there, but the haunted house fiction class was a little bit better last night...

It would be a little better to watch us form into a group if there were more than two more sessions. Not that I exactly want to ponder a genre I don't really have a feel for every Monday night forever and ever, amen. But I am taking a shot and even living with not being the star in a way my fifteen-year-old self might not believe, so that is a tiny shoot of growth, even if it might not be worth the price of this thing.(Maybe the plot bunny about a haunted mall might be if I wrote it, not sure if I will. It's often hard to read a lot and write a lot at the same time, but I jotted thoughts down anyway.
Probably not taking Anne Elliot's class next month, as it is more expensive and I think I need to give extra Zoom a rest after this. But I will e-mail her if I ever get a pub date for Wedded Twist, short version. She's a great instructor/workshop leader and took a flattering interest.

(Nice smart people, nobody I even imagined sending a flirty comment to at a moment when I might imagine chemistry with damn near anybody...but it's probably okay because the closest person is in L.A. or Orange County or something and even if he were pine-worthy,(Nope, gay in a way that's easy to spot. Smart, though. Thorough reader in a way I've never quite mastered.) I think I have "Long-Distance Yearnings" fully covered anyway.

Current Mood: relieved
Current Music: washing machine

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When you just can't see the light at the end of the tunnel as you face grave uncertainty for your future? In all my years in this unforgiving world, I had winged it the best I could, but as I get older and things in life just get worse to get by much less having guaranteed a place to live, things just don't seem that optimistic anymore.

And I know I'm sounding pretty depressive compared to what I had posted up to know, but sometimes it gets too much for me to even keep it inside.

Current Mood: bitchy
Current Music: Peter Gabriel - Shock the Monkey

chicating

trying to pretend that an intellectual expansion makes up for my lack of passion(want a thrill, but feel so guilty...so many people have such bigger problems.) But I'm not totally wrong, right--we wouldn't have endorphins and oxytocin and stuff if we weren't all built to want to use them somewhere.

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Been playing the original Ys for Famicom. This game ain't no Zelda I can tell that much, it's a whole lot harder than it looks.

Current Mood: dorky
Current Music: Chvrches - Death Stranding

bedes

( Contains spoilers for Pokemon Legends Z-A... Continue? )

Current Mood: pleased

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I went to a conference yesterday and there was a talk about Brittonic languages in Britain and Gaulish, and now I really want to study Gaulish. I quite like historical linguistics I think, I want to explore it more.

Current Mood: curious
Current Location: new home!

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A few hours ago, the new pilot for Helluva Boss titled Mission Zero was posted on Viv's channel, which served as a prequel to the established series and how they started their work as mercenaries for hire. It was fun, actually. I see Loona was still in her "Not my real father" phaze before she finally accepted Blitzo fully as she did in the finale. Its kinda weird seeing the MGM logo at the beginning of the episode since its now syndicated by Amazon, but so far, doesn't seem to be affecting it.

I hope it never does.

Current Mood: content

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Been catching up on Vampire Princess Miyu as a way to go with the Halloween thing without doing too much about it. Its still haunting, and it has become one of my all-time favorites. I'm hoping to finally finish the series and the OAV which I also watched way back then on VHS.

(In fact, that was the first time I began watching it.)

I'm also watching episodes of Ghost Sweeper Mikami with the same goal of finishing it up as well.

Current Mood: busy
Current Music: Thomas Dolby- She Blinded Me With Science

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A scribbled/doodled comic of Siffrin and Isabeau. In the first panel, Isabeau is waving Siffrin over with a big smile, saying, 'OMG Sif come look at this!' Siffrin sits right next to Isabeau, shoulder-to-shoulder with a calm smile, and asks, 'What's up?' Isabeau says, 'Uh-', which transitions to the next panel, that shows him sweating and blushing. He's thinking, 'So close OMG they are so close OMG how do i react WHAT DO?' The final panel shows Isabeau sweating, blushing and panicking in silence, while Siffrin remains sat next to him, also blushing but significantly calmer. Siffrin is thinking, 'We're friends. This is friends behavior.'

Cannot stress enough how integral this comic in the artbook was to understanding Isafrin for me. So many questions I had regarding Siffrin's actions/feelings towards Isabeau can be explained by "We're Friends. This Is Friends Behavior. *blushing*"

"Why does Siffrin say he doesn't know how he feels towards Isabeau, despite his internal monologue showing that he does with decent clarity?" They simply believe that it is Average Friends Behavior. Thinking about Isabeau when shown a buff man in a romantic evaluation context? Friends Behavior!

This, of course, interacts with him saying that he hates that he feels romantic attraction. They don't want to experience it. So he tells himself that anything he feels isn't romantic; it's Friends Behavior!

TL;DR: me when I'm in an "avoiding confronting my feelings" competition and my opponent is Siffrin

Current Mood: amused

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I am extremely cross with the MILGRAM translation team for translating "可哀想" (kawaisou) as "baby", when Muu refers to Haruka. "Kawaisou" is a word that means someone who is pitiful. You use it in order to express sympathy with someone who is in a sad situation. It does not imply age.

"Poor boy" would be a much more accurate translation. And it doesn't have the unfortunate side-effect of infantilizing an intellectually disabled character, and implying motherly feelings on Muu's end that she pointedly does not harbor. (Haruka saw her as a mother, but Muu viewed Haruka as a friend.)

I will ALSO say, though, I 100% commend the English translation team for localizing that one line as, "I won’t stop hurting you, ‘cause I’m a mean girl."

They seemed to understand the weight the phrase "mean girl" holds with English-speakers. The blonde girl, the "rich bitch". These ideas, these stereotypes internalized as facts in English-speaking audiences due to misogynistic teenage fiction, have been held against Muu from the release of her very first MV.

This is the idea that they invoke as they humanize her, show her trauma, show her love for Haruka.

"You thought I was nothing but a mean girl. That’s why you chose to punish me, even when it came at the cost of someone else's life… So I will become the villain from the PG movies of your past. I'll flatten myself into someone so 2D like that, as long as you apologize to him."

It turns the mirror back on the audience, and shines a light the misogyny Muu has been facing from the very start. I've said it many times, and I will say it again: Muu Kusunoki, they could never make me hate you!!!

Current Mood: geeky

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"Woaw I can’t believe that (XYZ thing that happened in the MVs) is 100% true, canon and real" So there’s thing funny thing called 'the whole concept of the MVs is that they are based off of how the prisoner feels, not facts'.

We know that the end report cards can lie, too. The thing that we can trust the most is what comes out of the prisoners' mouths, and even that comes with the caveat that they can lie, have their feelings/viewpoint manipulated by others, etc.

There is no reliable narrator in MILGRAM, and there is no 'canon' information about their crimes. At least, not yet.

Current Mood: thoughtful

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Moved my fandom list page from Rentry. The huge-ass porn banner ads, and the un-closable “support Rentry!” banner when you have adblock, was the final straw. That said, the "URL reclaim" system having its rules be stupidly inconsistent, and, thus, causing multiple of my pastes that I thought followed the rules get deleted with no warning also didn't help. Plus, I've been seeing some people saying that, when they click on links outside of the ad, Rentry treats it as if it was a click on the ad. So if you click any link in Rentry, there's a chance it'll just straight up send you to malware or a porn site. As a treat.

I've moved this information to pastry.diy. I considered a lot of different pastebin sites, but none of them won out over Rentry, given that it is probably one of the best-known pastebin services with decent customization. Pastry.diy relatively new, so I could get all the same URLs as I did on Rentry with no problem, and it's a pastebin service that uses HTML and CSS, which means better customization, as well. My fandom list is at pastry.diy/chara now.

Current Mood: rejuvenated

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While annoying orange is demolishing the White House to make room for his well deserved ballroom, the government shutdown continues, leaving countless federal workers without the means to provide for themselves and their families, and depending on government aid as benefits are depleting rapidly, also affecting others who are in more need than them. This, along with inflation increasing which according to mister dictator, would "fix" the moment he was in office.

I hope this is what everyone who voted for him was hoping for.

Current Mood: irritated

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(another CP I am learning too much about, being me)
Went to Big Box bookstore to hang out in the cafe, like that was the whole point of why I went, but the cafe was closed--to sit in--I still bought a muffin and Actual Mom got cheesecake with Oreo. I bought two books of women's fiction I don't really need because I have hundreds of books already, but they are Liane Moriarty and Anna Quindlen so not even *that* shallow, though I like to look good to the black guy who waits on us in there for some reason(I finished "James" yesterday, if we really knew each other, I might try to talk to him about it, but probably not in line so I am That Kind Of White Chick.)
The womanhood home game is not as consoling as it used to be, but the books do look, well, maybe not *fun*, because one is explicitly about carrying on after someone dies, but they seem like decent ways to spend time.(I miss fun. Anyone else? I hardly knew it, but I thought I'd get a chance one day.)

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Dani Chambers who voices Becky Blackbell (One of my favorite characters in the series,) is taking time off voice acting for voice therapy as stated on a post she made on X:

"This isn't permanent but when my voice comes back I can pop back in," Chambers said. "I'm currently in voice therapy to work on getting back to my normal range. But for now, Becky (and other baby voices) will be voice matched."

The announcement came hours before Season 3 of Spy X Family premiered on Crunchyroll.

Meanwhile, Chambers will still be providing her vocal talents to other characters in the show. Alongside voicing Becky Blackbell in Spy x Family, Chambers has also been in the English dubs of Solo Leveling, Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, and several video games, including Pokemon Masters and Genshin Impact. - gamesradar

You can read more about it here:

Link

Current Mood: gloomy
Current Music: Stone Temple Pilots - Plush

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Yesterday some asshole confronted me about leaving trash on one of the seats inside the rail I was taking back home. In hindsight, I know why anyone would get upset, but the way he directed to me acting like self-entitled jackass didn't resonate with me at all. I simply ignored him as he went on complaining to another passenger that had nothing to do with what was happening as I internally was laughing at how much this was bothering him. Another fact is that he didn't even tried talking to me about such things, it sounded more like he wanted to start something which didn't do him any favors on anything.

I simply ignored him and he got off some stop, taking his entitled ass with him.

As for the trash, I did took it and tossed it inside a trash bin once I was outside. You see, there aren't any such thing *inside* said train rails, so all one can do is politely keep it and dispose of it the right way afterwards.

Something aspies like that guy who should mind his damn business from the beginning should realize before opening their mouths and shake their fingers at anybody.

Current Mood: amused
Current Music: Blue Oyster Cult- Don't Fear The Reaper

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I don't think any of you - if some of you know it may be very few of you - but I live on a hill and its in the front part of my yard that my driveway goes up and around. This hill is somewhat steep and over the years I've had trouble mowing it. Lately because of the lilac bushes I planted spread out has caused my mower to get stuck as I go around them. That's been a pain to deal with not to mention all of the weed whacking I've had to do around each small bush now. Mike and I met a local guy who does all sorts of work with local farms, landscaping and educational related talks about native plants and editable plants of North East Ohio. He came to check out my yard and go over what I could do with this hill and we figured out for the area I want to be garden he would come back and help fill it with different plants for pollinators. He would charge $100 which I don't think is bad at all.
The lilac bushes have been doing alright - some are looking better than others. I planted some astilbes but they did not do well in the direct sun. So about a month ago I moved the astilbes into a shady area of my yard on the east side under some trees in a row as a boarder. I think they will do well there.
For the last several weeks I've been collecting cardboard from work and putting it down on my hill in a giant circle to kill the grass so come spring the plans can begin for the pollinator garden! With every piece of cardboard down I think to myself this will be a good plan! Less to mow, plants for nature and a rewarding feeling. This morning I'm going to get a bit more of it done - or hopefully if I have enough cardboard - I will get the whole area I want covered done! Fingers crossed! I'm grateful the weather has been nice to work in. Later today we are expected to get rain so I'm hoping to get it done before that happens. This has been a-lot of work but the reward will be nice in the end! Maybe more people will do more natural things with their yards as time goes on. One can hope!

Current Mood: accomplished

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...and it was something alright. This Anime, like the Manga it was based upon manages to make you feel so uncomfortable in a variety of ways from the overly graphic violent tones paired with unapologetic streams of blood splashing everywhere coupled with over saturated scenes of fanservice ranking from Sailor Moon-type of revealing to the unconditional tropes of a distasteful Hentai you would watch to point out how cringy and ridiculous it is. The moral undertones in this series makes to wonder why it was even planned to begin with, and while some characters have potential to grow into a sympathetic trope themselves, it gets thrown out the window in the very next scene with aforementioned themes.

However there's one character in particular that makes this Anime even worse than you could ever tolerate watching, that character being Mugen Kurumi AKA The "War Nurse," who is potentially the very worst Anime character I ever had the displeasure in watching. Her very, VERY questionable portrayal as a healer AND torturer comes highly polirizing at best.

It makes me uncomfortable that Square-Enix was involved in the publishing of this series as well. You *could* watch it for the sympathetic feelings towards characters like Asuka and some actually good battle scenes, but I doubt you could get past a couple episodes much less the entire thing.

On the other hand, went on downloading Streets of Rage 2 on my phone and had a great time in nostalgiaville, so it did ease the uncomfortable feelings I experienced watching that Anime at least.

Current Mood: uncomfortable
Current Music: Silverchair- Freak

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Ever have one of those days...

Horror fiction class tonight...

Ys

The Ages of Team MZ

Gaulish

It's Millie Time

Celebrating Halloween my way

"Friends Behavior"

Pain's Localization (The Good and the Bad)

There Is No Easter Bunny, There Is No Tooth Fairy, and There Is No Reliable Narrator in MILGRAM

Another Site Falls to Internet Enshittification

Mr. Dictator just wants a ballroom

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Spy X Family voice actor temporarily steps down

When you meet such people anywhere

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Finished watching Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka...

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