I’m doing Domaystic (as you know). Have several exchanges I’ve signed up for. They don’t require too many words, so I don’t feel overwhelmed. However, I do have one that is a minimum of 1k and I’ve already reached 5k for it. Whoops!

I guess I did. Stupid card games.

Yeah, that’s the weird thing. I haven’t posted a Bandori fic in a bit, so it’s been a surprise that someone has started going through them, giving kudos on a lot, and occasionally giving a few words on the ones they like most. And it isn’t sticking to a pairing/character. So they just like my writing all the way around~ <3

Considering it is actually addressing the miscommunication issues of the main pairing and not leaving it as something for the end of the four season plan gives me hope in ways a lot of series don’t when it comes to romance plotlines.

Thank you for the reminder I should binge some QI again.

I’m barely keeping up with things I want to be doing! However, I have signed up for a few more exchanges though, because those have managed to get my creativity flowing where my projects are… not. I still want to be doing them, but perhaps I needed a break? I’m hoping to at least get a few chapters of my ongoing big series done so I can start updating again on its anniversary in June. That would be nice.

I’ve gotten some comments on much older pieces in a smaller fandom though, which were a pleasant surprise! Nice to know people are still reading some of those drabbles/double drabbles I did when I was getting back into writing fanfic.

Still obsessed with the Hellaverse. The rest of HB season 2 is coming out this year and I’m already dying.

Taking part in a pairing week too. It’s the last day and I have two days (or four chapters) left to do. It would have been fine, but my ideas have grown for every part to get longer and longer as the week went on. Whoops!

I’ve signed up for other exchanges, for some reason. Perhaps because I got really inspired by one of them and am hoping that another will do the same? Anyway, I’m currently working on one exchange and one Big Bang submission for YGO. Then it will be time to get back on the stupid Puzzle vs Haga duel which is causing me such problems.

Oh, and prepping for Domaystic. Both of those things. This weekend is busy though, so I’ll probably only be finishing up the pairing week and then doing the rest of the stuff after the weekend.

Here’s a Mulan fanfic that I thought was quite good! It’s a mix of the Disney flick and the original Ballad of Mulan.

There is some violence, because of course there is it is taking the fact of someone going to war seriously. Still, it goes into what if the main character was indeed trans and then how long an actual war would take.

Well, I’m not doing a great job with Finishing then. Oh well. XD

A friend helped me make real decks for everyone in Duelist Kingdom, so I’m good on that front. It’s still hard work to make it all something interesting to read. But I’ve gotten some compliments on my writing of duels so far, so it’s worth the effort to put into it!

Link to Domaystic coming right up!

Oh shit. Finish What You Started? When was that starting? When is it ending? I’ve forgotten everything.

I’m so deep in the HH/HB brainrot. Perhaps it is because I’m not wanting to write a duel, but I’m in Duelist Kingdom and the first duel is finally starting. There is so much of this story I want to write, but why so much Duel Monsters? No wonder both the manga and the anime made up whatever they wanted when it came to the game. It’s easier than writing consistent rules.

I’m preparing for Domaystic in the meanwhile. I like having a lot of those prompts at least prepared so I can post daily in May. Hopefully I’ll manage with it.

Can’t believe you are doing more Squirrel Stapler.

Yeah, there really is nothing like the Neverhood OST either.

I’m glad I got the whole experience in my life before I really knew anything about Western religion or the creator. I just got to enjoy the game as a child would. With some help from smarter people around me. XD

Oh, yes. This was also a game of my childhood. I first played it when I was six, maybe? Didn’t get very far, because I never thought to go back to the place the Weasel popped out of for that final button to get out of the first area. I think I was eight when my older sib and I finally completed it. This was before I had access to the internet, so we called up the family member who had given it to us for hints when we finally put our nose to the grindstone to get it done.

In retrospect, the help we needed was ridiculous and somehow we figured out the harder puzzles with less issues. (Probably not me. My sib is better at those things than I am.)

I also didn’t know anything about the biblical overtones, because I wasn’t raised with religion. It was just nutty and unique. Yet I still listen to the Neverhood OST and quote Willie Trombone’s tapes.

I remember being scared of the first person sections. I genuinely expected something to pop out. XD

Today I read the news.

…mentally and emotionally hurting counts too, right?

Whether people like his videos or not is irrelevant. He has done a lot for lots of causes and he genuinely appears to wish everyone the best. It isn’t a stunt. Over the years he’s put his actions where his words are to prove that he cares.

I don’t watch him as much as I used to, but whenever I do or hear something about him, that much hasn’t changed.

AI-generated art posted anywhere can bother me. It depends.

If the art comes with a post crediting the art and artists used to create the piece? I don’t mind them, even if the art isn’t to my taste. But more than often it’s not. And I do consider it stealing if the AI-generated art wasn’t pulling only from the person who was using the AI’s own art.

As most take from anywhere on the internet and attributes it to no one, I shall continue to block.

There is something strange to me about using the term teenager when referring to someone in ancient Egypt. There is nothing wrong with it, but seeing it in an article opposed to in casual conversation? New to me.

Some people in the comments are missing the point. You didn’t want something. You told your parents you and your partner didn’t want it. You were given and pressured into it regardless.

Do not feel awful for not appreciating it. It doesn’t matter why you don’t. Your parents have ignored you completely. Not just you on the cruise, but your wishes in the first place. It doesn’t matter how nice Cozumel is. If you are stressed out from the cruise experience to start with, you won’t be in the mind space to enjoy something else you might have if you were visiting it normally.

OP, this is not your fault. You have every right to feel angry. You were left out in many ways and guilted into feeling bad about yourself for not enjoying something you upfront said you didn’t want.

I hope this gives you the ability to stand your ground in the future. Sure, it can be nice to experience new things and find out you like something you never thought you would. But that’s up to you to decide. Whether its about a cruise or something else, only you and your partner should make that decision for yourselves. I hope you call your parents out on this, but if you don’t, I hope you can always say “no” without buckling in the future.

Sounds like you have a lot in common with my father’s reading tastes. In which case, I will recommend the Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde.

I had not heard this one before, though I have looked into atonal music one time in the past. This is certainly the most unsettling piece I have ever heard and it is amazing. Thank you for sharing the link.

When you are on your own schedule, yes. Otherwise you have to deal with the schedules of businesses and people who aren’t available at night. My doctor won’t see me at midnight, after all.

Yeah, but the community here is theonion. The comment applies the same for any of the satire sites.

For real. The headline could have said “The U.S. is unprepared” and covered the same concepts.