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➤ Someone find my motivation for me because it must be dead in a ditch somewhereeee. I have been reading my friends list (slowly, I'm always behind lol) but not been commenting on much. 🥲 And I kept meaning to write up an entry but obviously haven't!! Clearly... I think spreading my journaling out to various places (here, my media log, my physical journal, etc) is making me too lazy to update in multiple locations.

➤ Though speaking of journals lmao I caved and got a super cheap Hobonichi Techo Original A6, 2026 edition, but I'm going to use it next year as a daily journal and just ignore the year/days. I know, I know, I just said I'm too lazy to keep up with multiple journaling locales, but listen...I miss the Hobonichi paper sjhkjsfsdfs now that I'm using a fake Weeks it's just not as nice... So we'll see!! I'm already itching to get a cute cover and start using it but I have to wait until January. 😩

➤ I was finally forced out of Samsung Messages on my phone and now I have to use shitass Google Messages because Samsung hates me personally. 😑 It sucksss give me back my color customization!! However at least now I can see the emoji reacts from Apple users in group texts jsdhfkjsdf it was so funny before because it'd just be like "So-and-so liked [full original text]" five times in a row.

➤ Okay ending with a random music rec, I just stumbled across this Korean duo that debuted at the beginning of the year named dodree who combine pop with traditional Korean music. Apparently both women have a traditional art background (one is a pansori singer and one does dance). This is their latest release; they only have like, 5 songs out so far but I listened to all of them and really enjoyed them so I hope they continue to make music!

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My new Miku figurine came in!! I pre-ordered this one at the end of last year, I'm so happy she's here because she's soooo cute. I took some photos but when I looked at them later I realized the lighting was terrible lmao so here are some pics I snagged from the website instead just so y'all can see her. 👀


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That's it, that's all I had to say. Look at the visualizer video for "Lemonade" by aespa ft. Becky G, they made a fake video game in old school PS1 era style graphics and it's super cute.

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OH speaking of video games, I hear The Wolf Among Us 2 is actually finally happening?? Holy shit.

➤ We have finally gotten a proper trailer for The Old Guard 2!!! I feel like it's been in production hell for several years now? So I'm so excited there's finally a release date.

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If you haven't seen the first one, it's an action film based on a comic book about a team of immortal mercenaries dealing with 1) a newly created immortal they take into the fold and 2) some guy trying to capture them for medical research. As an action film fan I thought it was a lot of fun, and Tumblr was very into it when it came out so you may have seen a lot of gifs going around at the time lmao. The sequel looks promising, Uma Thurman is here and she's fighting Charlize Theron in melee combat so 👀

➤ Japanese girl group F5ve's debut album Sequence 01 is out! I've been following them since they released the single "Lettuce" and I've loved every release they've put out since then. All their previous singles plus some new tracks are on the album.

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A no-skip album, tbh. "Lettuce" and "UFO" are probably my favorites, but "Underground" is also a huge bop. "UFO" reminds me a lot of FEMM's stuff who I also really liked (an EDM duo that sadly disbanded a couple years ago. Highly recommend!! Try "Wannabe", "Fxxk Boyz Get Money", and "Cherry on Top" as some of my faves).

➤ I guess while I'm shilling music, listen to Le Sserafim's new EP Hot! The title track is honestly the weakest track on here tbh (well, ignoring the opener, those never count). It's still good but it does not live up to "Crazy" at all, and I'm loving the b-sides on here.

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"The EP incorporates pop, rock, disco, retro, nu jazz, Jersey club and house stylings." Thanks Wikipedia I'm trusting you on this here because I don't know genres. What the hell is Jersey club.

➤ I didn't mean to turn this into a music entry but whatever. Stream Katseye's "Gnarly" now.

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I don't use Spotify much but here's my Spotify Wrapped, why not. I can 100% blame Veronica Roth for skewing half my results. ( Read more... )

While on the topic of music, TWICE just released a new track featuring Megan Thee Stallion lmao I love that they're working together. It's not my favorite English release of theirs ("The Feels" has yet to be dethroned) but it's catchy and everyone looks sooo good. Chaeyoung has lines and screentime! And Jihyo with the knives hello?????

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TWICE recently featured on a remix of Megan's "Mamushi" that's also worth a listen, and I just want them to keep doing collabs!!

So au_challenge is now live! I advertised it on a couple fandom comms and it's gotten more interest than I expected; I guess people really do love those bingo cards lol. But I'm very glad, hopefully people will get some use out of it!

If you're interested in AUs, please check it out! It's a multi-fandom, multi-medium fanwork challenge that has prompt tables you can take and/or a bingo card you can request. No deadlines or anything, this is an anytime challenge you can work on at your leisure.


Le Sserafim's new EP dropped today and it slapsss. A lot of EDM and some hip-hop influence.

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I've got a long weekend thanks to Labor Day so I'm hoping I'll be able to get some stuff done I've been putting off! Unfortunately I just started watching a new TV show and have been reading a wild amount of fanfic lately so I can pretty safely say that's how I'll be wasting my weekend. Anyone else have any fun plans?

Whoops where did those posts I swore I was going to write go... *nervous chuckle* I just have not been in a writing mood lately. I almost want to blame the fact that I'm writing more frequently in my physical journal, but the stuff I put in there is just tedious irl minutiae so not even stuff I'd be writing about here lmao. It's stealing all my blogging energy!!

I also want to revamp my tag system on this blog but I don't know exactly how I want to do it, so I'm just chasing my tail in circles with that.  Maybe I just need to tag fandoms and things more specifically so I can find them again later if need be. How do you guys prefer to set up your tags, or do you just throw whatever onto your posts?


I have a bunch of TV and anime I've watched over the past few months, so I'm going to try and hit the highlights. This'll just be the live action post, having typed it all up it's getting too long so I'll just split it haha.

It's a bit late at this point, but Interview with the Vampire season 2!! Absolutely fantastic and just as good as season 1. Maybe better? Or maybe we were just hyped more haha. Either way, if you haven't watched this show yet, I highly recommend it, it's probably one of my top favorite shows of all time. ( Spoilers for S2 )


Sweet Tooth had its third and final season air recently. I've been watching this one since season 1 came out so I was curious how they were going to wrap things up. The premise of the show involves a post-apocalyptic world where a mysterious illness has killed most of the human population, while all new babies born are animal-human hybrids. ( non-spoilery thoughts )


Another Netflix property, I watched season 1 of Dead Boy Detectives. This is a fun little supernatural series about a pair of ghosts who decide not to move on and instead solve crimes. They meet their newest member, a psychic who can see ghosts, and various hijinks ensue. ( non-spoilery thoughts )


I also finished my Black Sails rewatch a while ago, and it is just as good as the first time I watched it! This is another one of my top favorite shows, one that's actually objectively good lmao. Season 2 of this show is one of THE best seasons in TV and James Flint is one of the characters of all time!! Basically I mention it now to say it is sooo worth the watch, if you've ever been on the fence about watching please know I am on my hands and knees begging you to give it a try. (And if you tried but season 1 put you off, it DOES stop being so blatantly a Starz show by the end of the first season.) If you don't watch it that's okay too, you should still listen to the opening theme, which, like the show, is one of the best opening themes ever lol.


PHEW okay I blabbed too much so that's enough of that. I'm not even going to reread/proofread anything I'm just gonna hope for the best. Anime-centric round-up coming next!! Until then, any new TV shows you guys been watching lately worth checking out?

Sign-ups are open for that unsent_letters_exchange! I did end up submitting some nominations as I was debating in my last post, so now I sit here waffling on actually signing up. I feel like I can't back out now because what if someone wants to write one of my noms and I miss out on it!! So I did go through all the noms and made a list of possible offers/requests I could do at least... (Whoever nominated The Last Binding series PLEASE reveal yourself I need to be your friend.) Now I just need to figure out the etiquette for those dear creator letters...

At this point I am highly doubtful I'll get around to doing the snowflake_challenge in any sort of timely manner, so I think I'm crossing that off my to-do list lmao. Hopefully next year I'll give it a try on time! But I DO want to steal Challenge #10: Five Things and do a list of five of my top no-skip k-pop albums/EPs because I've been thinking about it too much not to just do it.

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This definitely isn't all my fave albums, for example Itzy and Dreamcatcher never put out bad b-sides, and a lot of good singers never do anything other than singles (Sunmi, my love, album? Full album?? Please?) so I could definitely go on about a thousand other songs/groups lmao. A lot of these are fairly recent too so clearly a recency bias happening but I already put too much time into this so I am stopping here sjhfskdjsf.

I think I only have like, 2 k-pop fans on my friends list, but what's everyone's favorite albums? Of any genre/country of origin! K-pop recs not required haha.

I keep saying I want to do a book round-up post of what I've been reading lately but I can't seem to get it started. So instead I'm just going to promote the Rina Sawayama remix of one of my favorite Le Sserafim songs: "Eve, Psyche & The Bluebeard's Wife".

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Le Sserafim is one of my favorite new kpop groups and I love Rina Sawayama, so this remix was a very nice surprise lol. The original is amazing, I think it's so catchy and almost too good to be a b-side, but the remix is really good too!

What have you all been listening to lately? Any kpop fans here got recs to share?