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Ugh, I feel like I'm moodswinging a lot lately. It still doesn't feel like Wilson is gone, so that kind of grief feels disconnected, almost. Like there's a sadness that can't find an outlet, since Wilson is fine and he's right here somewhere, maybe even under my desk! But he's not dead, he just can't be gone, even though I know he is and still replay his last moments in my head. I think as a result those feelings are just finding anything to latch onto, mostly right now it seems to feeling bad about myself. I DO have ideas, but when I try to draw it's really hard to focus, and then I'm frustrated with my art, and there's a feeling like, why bother? Someone else could do this idea way better than I could (I remind myself of the two cakes meme constantly when this thought comes up). Things don't come out like I intend and art looks weird, my theories are dumb, dumb opinions, dumb posts! Dumb!! Being weird in conversations, being annoying to talk to, annoying and bad at everything. Doing everything wrong, even grieving! Not feeling sad enough! Did I even care if I feel like nothing's changed yet? And god forbid the world situation, everything sucks and is hopeless, what's the point of doing anything, etc etc.
It sucks!! It sucks feeling like this. I feel like it's the free-floating sadness/grief just attaching to any negative thought it can to find something to hold onto, but it's frustrating anyway. I'd rather just feel sad about Wilson instead of just generally negative about everything but it's still just so hard to believe he's gone. :< I think sitting alone with my thoughts while playing Solitaire wasn't helping. I might check out the Mother 1 in the Earthbound engine fanhack, if I don't go through Chapter 5 in Deltarune again with my GOOD pacifist save with my shadow mantle/blackshard because GOD that was a nightmare to get and I'm NOT LEAVING THEM BEHIND.
In random music recs, Seven Dollars is a great Teto song about burnout from commissions, super catchy chorus. Surprised it hasn't gotten more buzz than it has, considering! It's so good!
Robots and Chimeras Don't Sleep is a cute song with Teto and Rei, can really get the contrast between an UTAU voicebank and Teto's SynthV.
Zigi is a cute Rin/Len one that I think might be about sibling rivalry but I'm not sure, it's catchy though.
Music, I forget which Vocaloid was singing this originally but this is a real person cover since I liked it better lol. Chirpy brisk notes, with a steady beat.
You're an Angel is an ominous one with Yuki which I don't see very often. Up to murdering! Maybe.
Honestly is another one with Teto singing in English, she's really pretty understandable as far as a Japanese voicebank can be when doing English, haha. I mean, Miku in comparison is really hard to understand since her accent is so thick, but Teto I can pick up pretty easily.
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It sucks!! It sucks feeling like this. I feel like it's the free-floating sadness/grief just attaching to any negative thought it can to find something to hold onto, but it's frustrating anyway. I'd rather just feel sad about Wilson instead of just generally negative about everything but it's still just so hard to believe he's gone. :< I think sitting alone with my thoughts while playing Solitaire wasn't helping. I might check out the Mother 1 in the Earthbound engine fanhack, if I don't go through Chapter 5 in Deltarune again with my GOOD pacifist save with my shadow mantle/blackshard because GOD that was a nightmare to get and I'm NOT LEAVING THEM BEHIND.
In random music recs, Seven Dollars is a great Teto song about burnout from commissions, super catchy chorus. Surprised it hasn't gotten more buzz than it has, considering! It's so good!
Robots and Chimeras Don't Sleep is a cute song with Teto and Rei, can really get the contrast between an UTAU voicebank and Teto's SynthV.
Zigi is a cute Rin/Len one that I think might be about sibling rivalry but I'm not sure, it's catchy though.
Music, I forget which Vocaloid was singing this originally but this is a real person cover since I liked it better lol. Chirpy brisk notes, with a steady beat.
You're an Angel is an ominous one with Yuki which I don't see very often. Up to murdering! Maybe.
Honestly is another one with Teto singing in English, she's really pretty understandable as far as a Japanese voicebank can be when doing English, haha. I mean, Miku in comparison is really hard to understand since her accent is so thick, but Teto I can pick up pretty easily.
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Jun. 30th, 2026 09:17 pmAh, the night before I heard Gatsby yowling, but it was quieter and sadder than usual :< He didn't do it for very long either... poor thing, he's lived with his brother his whole life. Maybe it's sinking in for him that he's gone...
Slept a long time last night which I guess makes sense, I felt so tired. It doesn't at all feel like Wilson's gone, it's like nothing's wrong or different! He's just hiding somewhere, napping under a bed, something like that... it's kind of hard to know how to feel as a result. I did spend a lot of last night looking through pictures of Wilson on my phone. I need to transfer them off so I can put together some of the best ones...
In the meantime I've been thinking about Deltarune on and off. Finished both routes, I think, so I'm trying to put it together. I remember when the first chapter came out, I wrote a long post about what I thought the themes would be, of no escape and your choices not mattering. Things will just happen regardless of what you want or try to do. Chapter 2 then came and sort of blew that theory out of the water, but now with 4 and 5, I'm wondering if maybe I was onto something the whole time. Snowgrave in 5 in particular made me think about it.
( Spoilers for the whole chapter here )
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In the meantime I've been thinking about Deltarune on and off. Finished both routes, I think, so I'm trying to put it together. I remember when the first chapter came out, I wrote a long post about what I thought the themes would be, of no escape and your choices not mattering. Things will just happen regardless of what you want or try to do. Chapter 2 then came and sort of blew that theory out of the water, but now with 4 and 5, I'm wondering if maybe I was onto something the whole time. Snowgrave in 5 in particular made me think about it.
( Spoilers for the whole chapter here )
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~Quietly, quietly
Jun. 26th, 2026 09:33 pm
Said goodbye to Wilson this morning. I kept him in my room that night so I'd know where he was, since there are so many places for a cat to hide here. I put him on my bed for a bit since he seemed too frail to jump, and he did stay there for a bit but eventually got down to get some water. He was so thirsty! I recently found this new treat that he and Gatsby really love that I was using for his medicine, so I took a tube of that with me. I took him over to Gatsby too before we went over so they could see each other one last time, Gatsby licked his paw and groomed his chest a little bit which was nice, although Wilson still seemed kind of dazed or disoriented. Everything for him seemed like it took so much deliberation... drinking water, moving around, lying down, like it all took ten or fifteen seconds for him to decide or get his body to move. His purring was so weak too...
Anyway, once we were at the vets we went to a room and I fed him the little churu tube which he liked, although even then he seemed kind of distracted and had trouble sniffing it out, got some of it on his face. We were all petting him, and he pressed his head into my stomach, and they gave him a sedative and I held him and he rested his chin on my arm, and eventually he fell asleep like that, just resting on me while I was holding him. I set him down gently when it sounded like it was a bit hard on his throat to breathe. His eyes didn't close but he was totally knocked out, just completely limp. Got to feel him breathe and his little heart beating, it wasn't too fast so I want to think he wasn't scared through a lot of this, even if he did seem kind of confused and his purring was so soft.
Once he was settled down, they came in to give him the euthanasia shot, mentioning that his kidneys were so small they'd have to do it another way, thus why he was so thirsty lately. The night before, I put down a cup of water for him on the floor (both he and Gatsby love drinking out of my cups of water more than anything else) and he'd go and drink from that for a while, and then come back to me and I'd pet him for a bit, and then he'd go and drink more water, and then come back to me, and drink more water, and so on for a while until I guess he had enough and very gingerly and slowly lied down. He'd been at an equilibrium for a while but it definitely feels like the past two weeks he hit some kind of threshold where he was in a serious decline... I don't know if he's been able to keep any food down for a while except the little liquid or creme treats I was giving him.
I had my hand on his chest and I could feel his heartbeat get kind of almost watery as the injection went in, and eventually the vet nudged my hand out of the way so she could listen with her stethoscope, and when I felt his chest again it was quiet, so I guess I didn't feel the very last heartbeat but I got close. He was arranged in such a way that he really looked like he was sleeping. I stayed there for a bit petting him, it really didn't feel like he was gone since he was still warm and soft. His eyes were still open, so I tried to shut them for him, but I couldn't quite get it all the way. As a result when I was trying to leave, he looked kind of like a sleepy cat who heard you come in the room, and opened their eyes a tiny bit to be like "what's that? oh it's just you" before going back to sleep. Very restful, but he looked so thin and so flat. Just skin and bones.
Both the vet and the assistant tech offered their condolences and the vet gave me a hug, and when I got home I sat on the couch near Gatsby and he sat near me for a while, and he rested his head on my lap and I just pet him with my eyes closed for a bit. Just felt so tired and my eyes hurt. In a way it didn't feel like I'd actually done anything or anything had changed. Like I'd go upstairs and he'd be sleeping on the same white blanket he always slept on, or he'd be in my room, or eating something in the kitchen. It's not that unusual to not see a cat for a day or so. Actually just now as I'm typing this, I caught something in my peripheral vision and automatically turned my head expecting to see Wilson stepping on over to sit on my lap. Like he always did. It doesn't really feel like he's gone yet, so one hand sometimes it feels normal like nothing's changed. When I think about it or let it sink in though I just feel so tired and so heavy. It doesn't feel real, like it's not connected to anything but it's like something's dragging me down.
I was playing the new Deltarune chapter and that was keeping me distracted for the last couple days, but I did the main routes (I think) so now that's kind of done, and now I'm not sure what to do with my time. I don't really feel like drawing or writing something right now. I want to lose myself in something but I feel kind of guilty about it at the same time, like I don't care about him being gone if I'm just going back to playing games or something, even if I know that's not true.
I went and added the descs for the dustjar comics in the gallery maybe a week ago? Before any of this, anyway. Dustjar is still painful to read even this many years out, and I'm sure now it'll hurt again like crazy. The one I'm thinking about now is Toriel talking about grief and how hard and complicated it can be, how you can feel like you're betraying your own feelings or your grief. Like there's a way you "should" do it and if you don't then you didn't really care, something like that. This is kind of rambly though.
I was trying to think back to when I first got Wilson back in 2010, like where I was in my life. It's all kind of hazy for me now. I guess that's when a journal like this comes in handy since I can go and do some backreading. I'd like to put together some cute pictures of Wilson into an entry but I dunno if I have the energy for it tonight. I heard Gatsby yowling a little while ago, he just does that sometimes at night but I wonder if he's realized, if he's wondering where Wilson is. How long will it take him to notice? They've been together their whole lives.
It's so hard, when they look at you with those big eyes and they trust you to take care of them and help them and fix things and make the pain stop. They don't understand. How could you explain it to them? They trust you and I took him to the vet and he never came back. There's this feeling like it's betraying his trust, that I like tricked him into going, that it's like a violation of how I'm supposed to take care of him and help him. Trusted me to make the pain go away and instead he falls asleep and never wakes up again. I mean in one sense the pain does stop but I don't know. There's just this pervasive feeling of guilt.
The new Deltarune chapter was really good. Lots of interesting things going on, lots of stuff to chew on. Not sure when I'll get the energy to write up something substantial but maybe I can do a short list soon-ish at least. Thank you guys for your condolences and such, I haven't been replying to much lately but I do appreciate them a lot.
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Anyway, once we were at the vets we went to a room and I fed him the little churu tube which he liked, although even then he seemed kind of distracted and had trouble sniffing it out, got some of it on his face. We were all petting him, and he pressed his head into my stomach, and they gave him a sedative and I held him and he rested his chin on my arm, and eventually he fell asleep like that, just resting on me while I was holding him. I set him down gently when it sounded like it was a bit hard on his throat to breathe. His eyes didn't close but he was totally knocked out, just completely limp. Got to feel him breathe and his little heart beating, it wasn't too fast so I want to think he wasn't scared through a lot of this, even if he did seem kind of confused and his purring was so soft.
Once he was settled down, they came in to give him the euthanasia shot, mentioning that his kidneys were so small they'd have to do it another way, thus why he was so thirsty lately. The night before, I put down a cup of water for him on the floor (both he and Gatsby love drinking out of my cups of water more than anything else) and he'd go and drink from that for a while, and then come back to me and I'd pet him for a bit, and then he'd go and drink more water, and then come back to me, and drink more water, and so on for a while until I guess he had enough and very gingerly and slowly lied down. He'd been at an equilibrium for a while but it definitely feels like the past two weeks he hit some kind of threshold where he was in a serious decline... I don't know if he's been able to keep any food down for a while except the little liquid or creme treats I was giving him.
I had my hand on his chest and I could feel his heartbeat get kind of almost watery as the injection went in, and eventually the vet nudged my hand out of the way so she could listen with her stethoscope, and when I felt his chest again it was quiet, so I guess I didn't feel the very last heartbeat but I got close. He was arranged in such a way that he really looked like he was sleeping. I stayed there for a bit petting him, it really didn't feel like he was gone since he was still warm and soft. His eyes were still open, so I tried to shut them for him, but I couldn't quite get it all the way. As a result when I was trying to leave, he looked kind of like a sleepy cat who heard you come in the room, and opened their eyes a tiny bit to be like "what's that? oh it's just you" before going back to sleep. Very restful, but he looked so thin and so flat. Just skin and bones.
Both the vet and the assistant tech offered their condolences and the vet gave me a hug, and when I got home I sat on the couch near Gatsby and he sat near me for a while, and he rested his head on my lap and I just pet him with my eyes closed for a bit. Just felt so tired and my eyes hurt. In a way it didn't feel like I'd actually done anything or anything had changed. Like I'd go upstairs and he'd be sleeping on the same white blanket he always slept on, or he'd be in my room, or eating something in the kitchen. It's not that unusual to not see a cat for a day or so. Actually just now as I'm typing this, I caught something in my peripheral vision and automatically turned my head expecting to see Wilson stepping on over to sit on my lap. Like he always did. It doesn't really feel like he's gone yet, so one hand sometimes it feels normal like nothing's changed. When I think about it or let it sink in though I just feel so tired and so heavy. It doesn't feel real, like it's not connected to anything but it's like something's dragging me down.
I was playing the new Deltarune chapter and that was keeping me distracted for the last couple days, but I did the main routes (I think) so now that's kind of done, and now I'm not sure what to do with my time. I don't really feel like drawing or writing something right now. I want to lose myself in something but I feel kind of guilty about it at the same time, like I don't care about him being gone if I'm just going back to playing games or something, even if I know that's not true.
I went and added the descs for the dustjar comics in the gallery maybe a week ago? Before any of this, anyway. Dustjar is still painful to read even this many years out, and I'm sure now it'll hurt again like crazy. The one I'm thinking about now is Toriel talking about grief and how hard and complicated it can be, how you can feel like you're betraying your own feelings or your grief. Like there's a way you "should" do it and if you don't then you didn't really care, something like that. This is kind of rambly though.
I was trying to think back to when I first got Wilson back in 2010, like where I was in my life. It's all kind of hazy for me now. I guess that's when a journal like this comes in handy since I can go and do some backreading. I'd like to put together some cute pictures of Wilson into an entry but I dunno if I have the energy for it tonight. I heard Gatsby yowling a little while ago, he just does that sometimes at night but I wonder if he's realized, if he's wondering where Wilson is. How long will it take him to notice? They've been together their whole lives.
It's so hard, when they look at you with those big eyes and they trust you to take care of them and help them and fix things and make the pain stop. They don't understand. How could you explain it to them? They trust you and I took him to the vet and he never came back. There's this feeling like it's betraying his trust, that I like tricked him into going, that it's like a violation of how I'm supposed to take care of him and help him. Trusted me to make the pain go away and instead he falls asleep and never wakes up again. I mean in one sense the pain does stop but I don't know. There's just this pervasive feeling of guilt.
The new Deltarune chapter was really good. Lots of interesting things going on, lots of stuff to chew on. Not sure when I'll get the energy to write up something substantial but maybe I can do a short list soon-ish at least. Thank you guys for your condolences and such, I haven't been replying to much lately but I do appreciate them a lot.
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~Inside and outside
Jun. 24th, 2026 10:10 amWilson's been losing weight for a while now, I've been trying to find ways to balance it out with meds and such, but it's seemed pretty severe the last month or so, and he'd been throwing up a lot. Yesterday he threw up kind of violently and it seemed to mostly be bile, so I took him to the vet this morning. She could feel a kind of growth or mass in his abdomen, and the prognosis for it isn't good. Someone who struggled kept their cat alive for four weeks after the growth was found? And that cat didn't have any other medical issues going on like Wilson does.
So I think I might have to say goodbye to him tomorrow. It feels really sudden. Wilson was part of a litter of four, with two brothers that looked exactly like him and then Gatsby, the tuxedo who looked completely different. His two other brothers died a while ago, maybe a couple years? So now I wonder if their mutual father (they must have had the same father) had the same genetic code that led to this kind of thing, while Gatsby's father had something different, thus why he seems to be totally fine for now.
The vet said that she was always really impressed with how well I took care of the two of them and how much I was willing to do to keep them healthy, and she gave me a hug and seemed to tear up herself about it. I've been going there a while, so they all know Wilson and Gatsby. They gave him some fluids and an anti-nausea shot so he'll at least be comfortable for now. Last I checked on him he was drinking some water downstairs.
It's kind of strange, it took a while for what she was saying to sink in, and even now there's a sort of emotional muffling? But physically I'm crying on and off. It could still be sinking in too. I dunno, it's been a while. I got him back in 2010, so he's almost 16 now. One month away, I think. That's pretty good for a cat, all things considered. I should probably let him go quietly instead of finding him one day in some hidden place at home. I don't know. I don't know. It's hard to know what to say or how to react.
So I think I might have to say goodbye to him tomorrow. It feels really sudden. Wilson was part of a litter of four, with two brothers that looked exactly like him and then Gatsby, the tuxedo who looked completely different. His two other brothers died a while ago, maybe a couple years? So now I wonder if their mutual father (they must have had the same father) had the same genetic code that led to this kind of thing, while Gatsby's father had something different, thus why he seems to be totally fine for now.
The vet said that she was always really impressed with how well I took care of the two of them and how much I was willing to do to keep them healthy, and she gave me a hug and seemed to tear up herself about it. I've been going there a while, so they all know Wilson and Gatsby. They gave him some fluids and an anti-nausea shot so he'll at least be comfortable for now. Last I checked on him he was drinking some water downstairs.
It's kind of strange, it took a while for what she was saying to sink in, and even now there's a sort of emotional muffling? But physically I'm crying on and off. It could still be sinking in too. I dunno, it's been a while. I got him back in 2010, so he's almost 16 now. One month away, I think. That's pretty good for a cat, all things considered. I should probably let him go quietly instead of finding him one day in some hidden place at home. I don't know. I don't know. It's hard to know what to say or how to react.
~By "got Tivo" she means "got pregnant"
Jun. 21st, 2026 04:20 pm
Still keeping busy! I should really write up a Tomodachi Life post at some point but in the meantime, a music post! I updated the mixes page with two new tapes I found: Randomousity 7 and Sheena's cool tape. Still not sure where the other Randomousity tapes are but maybe I'll stumble across them sometime. The tape page SHOULD load a bit faster now since I set it so it doesn't load every audio file the second you click on it, haha. Anyway, the track listing for Random7 goes...
Side A
Hamtaro - Hamutaro tottoko uta
E-Rotic - Hanky Spanky (skips, cuts off)
The SSK & M Brothers - Joedel (Euro Version)
The Magnetic Fields - 100,000 Fireflies
Scooter - The Logical Song
Pikmin - Tane no Uta
Pikmin - Ai no Uta
Jefferson Starship - We Built This City
Freezepop - Here Comes a Special Boy
Fatima Vs. DJ Taylor & Flow - Salaam Aleikum
Jan Hammer - Pyramid
U2 - Eletrical Storm
Alan Parsons Project - Old and Wise
t.A.t.U - How soon is now? (cuts off)
Side B
t.A.t.U - How soon is now? (picks up from where the other side left off)
Long Beach Dub All-Stars - Sunny Hours
Usher - Yeah
Christina D'Avena & Giorgio Vanni - Johto Champions League
Christina D'Avena & Giorgio Vanni - Oltre I Cieli Dell Avventura
Christina D'Avena & Giorgio Vanni - Always Pokemon
Doublehead - Pikachu vs. Double Head
Christina D'Avena & Giorgio Vanni - Viva Pokemon (Dance Mix)
Max Longhi and Giorgio Vanni - Oltre i cieli Dell'avventura (Dance Mix) (cuts off)
Pokemon - Polka o Dolka (Hyper-Dance Mix)
Ween - Hey There Fancypants
Mika Kanai - Happy Happy!
Stemage - Metroid Metal - Norfair
Famicom Music Vol. 2 - Super Mario Bros. 2 (Arranged)
Soul Caliber 2 - Guided by Wind (cut off)
Then Sheena's tape goes...
SIDE A
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat - Any Dream Will Do
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat - Close Every Door
Enya - Carribean Blue
Enya - The Celts
Enya - Book of Days
Primitive Radio Gods - Standing Outside a Broken Phonebooth with Money in My Hand
Aqua - Happy Girls and Boys
Aqua - Doctor Jones
Aqua - In the Heat of the Night (cuts off)
I think we didn't get a chance to finish it! I'm not positive though since I don't really remember making it at all... I dunno if anyone cares about old tapes like this but maybe some people are into that analog sound, idk.
Anyway, it got me thinking about my old Refresh CDs and I figured I might as well do another one of those too! It's been a while, haha. This was a fun one, lots of catchy little songs on it.
( Chippy )
Lately I've been thinking about Half-life again and coloring some old comics. If I pivot back to Half-life of all things that'd be so random lol. I mean I guess I pivoted to TF2 not too long ago and that kind of came out of nowhere. I JUST LOVE GORDON FREEMAN SO MUCH, THAT POOR MAN
It's kind of nostalgic, I inked the last one in Flash like before, did a fairly in-depth background like with Handplates... and it was based off a pencil sketch! I used to scan so many pencil things, haha. Then they just started stacking up and I couldn't keep up with them...
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Side A
Hamtaro - Hamutaro tottoko uta
E-Rotic - Hanky Spanky (skips, cuts off)
The SSK & M Brothers - Joedel (Euro Version)
The Magnetic Fields - 100,000 Fireflies
Scooter - The Logical Song
Pikmin - Tane no Uta
Pikmin - Ai no Uta
Jefferson Starship - We Built This City
Freezepop - Here Comes a Special Boy
Fatima Vs. DJ Taylor & Flow - Salaam Aleikum
Jan Hammer - Pyramid
U2 - Eletrical Storm
Alan Parsons Project - Old and Wise
t.A.t.U - How soon is now? (cuts off)
Side B
t.A.t.U - How soon is now? (picks up from where the other side left off)
Long Beach Dub All-Stars - Sunny Hours
Usher - Yeah
Christina D'Avena & Giorgio Vanni - Johto Champions League
Christina D'Avena & Giorgio Vanni - Oltre I Cieli Dell Avventura
Christina D'Avena & Giorgio Vanni - Always Pokemon
Doublehead - Pikachu vs. Double Head
Christina D'Avena & Giorgio Vanni - Viva Pokemon (Dance Mix)
Max Longhi and Giorgio Vanni - Oltre i cieli Dell'avventura (Dance Mix) (cuts off)
Pokemon - Polka o Dolka (Hyper-Dance Mix)
Ween - Hey There Fancypants
Mika Kanai - Happy Happy!
Stemage - Metroid Metal - Norfair
Famicom Music Vol. 2 - Super Mario Bros. 2 (Arranged)
Soul Caliber 2 - Guided by Wind (cut off)
Then Sheena's tape goes...
SIDE A
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat - Any Dream Will Do
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat - Close Every Door
Enya - Carribean Blue
Enya - The Celts
Enya - Book of Days
Primitive Radio Gods - Standing Outside a Broken Phonebooth with Money in My Hand
Aqua - Happy Girls and Boys
Aqua - Doctor Jones
Aqua - In the Heat of the Night (cuts off)
I think we didn't get a chance to finish it! I'm not positive though since I don't really remember making it at all... I dunno if anyone cares about old tapes like this but maybe some people are into that analog sound, idk.
Anyway, it got me thinking about my old Refresh CDs and I figured I might as well do another one of those too! It's been a while, haha. This was a fun one, lots of catchy little songs on it.
( Chippy )
Lately I've been thinking about Half-life again and coloring some old comics. If I pivot back to Half-life of all things that'd be so random lol. I mean I guess I pivoted to TF2 not too long ago and that kind of came out of nowhere. I JUST LOVE GORDON FREEMAN SO MUCH, THAT POOR MAN
It's kind of nostalgic, I inked the last one in Flash like before, did a fairly in-depth background like with Handplates... and it was based off a pencil sketch! I used to scan so many pencil things, haha. Then they just started stacking up and I couldn't keep up with them...
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Bunch of smaller things!
-Updated the ukagaka walkthrough! Added a new guide for how to make a overly-complicated shell, then went and did some clean-up on the template itself about interval/envelope terms. They technically aren't accurate so I went and fixed that up, although in my head I still call them intervals and envelopes lol.
-Added the descs in the main gallery for the MGS, Ace Attorney, Zarfox, Left 4 Dead, Pokemon, and TF2 sections! Essentially the only sections now without comments are the Undertale/Deltarune/Handplates ones and the Vargas ones. The Undertale one is going to be such a huge undertaking...
I went with my Devart desc for a lot of them but not all of them! I should probably add some kind of signifier somewhere about that lol.
-While I was doing a lot of the descs, I realized some of the Phoenix Wright ones were in my Devart gallery but not in my site gallery... and when I looked through my files, I couldn't find them! :O I usually try to keep all my art no matter how old it is, so I'm surprised that some of it slipped through the cracks like that... there was this period around 2007 I think when I was switching between two computers so it's possible it got lost in the shuffle, but it's still so weird! I have multiple back-ups of so much stuff and yet those files just weren't anywhere. :O I was able to find them again from my own site at least, which is another reason why personal sites are so useful, haha.
On that same note, I found a few Teisel things from old LJ comm posts I made, while the files themselves had disappeared... it's alarming to me that these things could disappear and I'd have no idea! I mean I've forgotten drawing things before but that's different than like entirely LOSING them... I guess I've been drawing non-stop for decades now so it's understandable that some things might slip through the cracks but I don't like it! Even if I don't remember I should still have the files! Reminders of just how fragile your memory can be, haha.
I don't THINK any other things are missing, but of course if I don't remember, how can I be sure! It mostly seems like things from that one time period are the most likely to have disappeared at some point. Just have to try and keep an eye out...
-What was I talking about? Oh yeah! Little updates! The MGS art dump apparently wasn't working when you clicked the images. It turned out it was an http/https issue so it was an easy fix, you should be able to click things normally again. I should really update that some time...
-I didn't have my goofy Toetocelot video linked on the flash vid page so I added it, even though I didn't really do it in Flash. I routinely forget about it! It should be listed somewhere so people can watch it. I dunno how many of you even know it exists lol. The truly old-school...
Also, the EB community finished a fanhack that remakes Mother 1 in the Earthbound game engine! You can pick it up here! You may remember my old Mother 1 screencap adventure a while back (or on my site), and I did enjoy it for all its weird quirks! I wonder if it'd have the same feel in the EB engine...? It had such a unique vibe to it, although the random encounters really did get so tiresome after a while. I'm super curious about it, I should see if I can find some time to check it out.
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-Updated the ukagaka walkthrough! Added a new guide for how to make a overly-complicated shell, then went and did some clean-up on the template itself about interval/envelope terms. They technically aren't accurate so I went and fixed that up, although in my head I still call them intervals and envelopes lol.
-Added the descs in the main gallery for the MGS, Ace Attorney, Zarfox, Left 4 Dead, Pokemon, and TF2 sections! Essentially the only sections now without comments are the Undertale/Deltarune/Handplates ones and the Vargas ones. The Undertale one is going to be such a huge undertaking...
I went with my Devart desc for a lot of them but not all of them! I should probably add some kind of signifier somewhere about that lol.
-While I was doing a lot of the descs, I realized some of the Phoenix Wright ones were in my Devart gallery but not in my site gallery... and when I looked through my files, I couldn't find them! :O I usually try to keep all my art no matter how old it is, so I'm surprised that some of it slipped through the cracks like that... there was this period around 2007 I think when I was switching between two computers so it's possible it got lost in the shuffle, but it's still so weird! I have multiple back-ups of so much stuff and yet those files just weren't anywhere. :O I was able to find them again from my own site at least, which is another reason why personal sites are so useful, haha.
On that same note, I found a few Teisel things from old LJ comm posts I made, while the files themselves had disappeared... it's alarming to me that these things could disappear and I'd have no idea! I mean I've forgotten drawing things before but that's different than like entirely LOSING them... I guess I've been drawing non-stop for decades now so it's understandable that some things might slip through the cracks but I don't like it! Even if I don't remember I should still have the files! Reminders of just how fragile your memory can be, haha.
I don't THINK any other things are missing, but of course if I don't remember, how can I be sure! It mostly seems like things from that one time period are the most likely to have disappeared at some point. Just have to try and keep an eye out...
-What was I talking about? Oh yeah! Little updates! The MGS art dump apparently wasn't working when you clicked the images. It turned out it was an http/https issue so it was an easy fix, you should be able to click things normally again. I should really update that some time...
-I didn't have my goofy Toetocelot video linked on the flash vid page so I added it, even though I didn't really do it in Flash. I routinely forget about it! It should be listed somewhere so people can watch it. I dunno how many of you even know it exists lol. The truly old-school...
Also, the EB community finished a fanhack that remakes Mother 1 in the Earthbound game engine! You can pick it up here! You may remember my old Mother 1 screencap adventure a while back (or on my site), and I did enjoy it for all its weird quirks! I wonder if it'd have the same feel in the EB engine...? It had such a unique vibe to it, although the random encounters really did get so tiresome after a while. I'm super curious about it, I should see if I can find some time to check it out.
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~Papers rustling
May. 31st, 2026 05:31 amAdded comments for the Mother, Starcon2, and Half-life sections of the art gallery! I also added a loading="lazy" tag to all the images which should lessen the load time a bit, so the pages should hopefully load faster and there should be less lag. I had no idea that was even a thing! I also went and added it to all the Screencap adventure pages, so those should hopefully also load faster too.
Part of what makes adding the descs take so long is that the list of filenames I'm generating is in alphabetical order but the images are uploaded to Tumblr/Devart in chronological order, so I have to find where each one is. It doesn't help to sort the images in the filename list chronologically either since things in the gallery weren't uploaded at the same time they were uploaded elsewhere, I only made the gallery a couple of years ago. So some of the dates on those are all over the place too. Slow but steady...
Part of what makes adding the descs take so long is that the list of filenames I'm generating is in alphabetical order but the images are uploaded to Tumblr/Devart in chronological order, so I have to find where each one is. It doesn't help to sort the images in the filename list chronologically either since things in the gallery weren't uploaded at the same time they were uploaded elsewhere, I only made the gallery a couple of years ago. So some of the dates on those are all over the place too. Slow but steady...
~File it under D. For Donut.
May. 30th, 2026 10:38 am
Big update for the art gallery!! Very excited about this one, I've added a lot of new features I've wanted for a while!
-There's now a byline for each gallery that tells you when it updated and with how many images! Includes sub-folders too!
-The preview images now show the last six images that were uploaded to that gallery!
-When you click an image, it now tells you when that image was uploaded! It also has next and previous buttons so you can go through the gallery easily!
-Maybe biggest of all, when you click an image now there's COMMENTS FROM ME! A desc so to speak!
I have this set up in a way that should hopefully not be too hard to maintain in the future, but right now it's so pleasing to look at it! The thing is, I still have to add in the descs for each image, and doing a count, I apparently have 3110 images uploaded there, christ. Christ!! HOW ARE THERE THAT MANY??? I assume the Holiday Requests bloat some of it up but that's an absurd amount. I guess it DOES cover a wide area...
That does mean I'll have to add descs for thousands of pictures eventually lol. I'm taking it one step at a time though, there's no rush. Right now the Pikmin, Metroid, Neko Atsume, Megaman Legends, and Misc. page all have comments for all their images. The other ones don't have them yet, but the pages still work and it'll still tell you when they were updated. Also added a bunch of art so everything should be current! Mostly.
One handy thing is that I'm going to Devart to grab my descs from there for the most part, which does save some time. There are tumblr descs too but that's a bit harder to search through. I guess in a way this'll be a personal back-up of my descs now? If Devart ever went down or I got banned or something lol. Some of the comments are pretty old as a result, you can probably guess just by how old the art attached to it is. So cool though!
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-There's now a byline for each gallery that tells you when it updated and with how many images! Includes sub-folders too!
-The preview images now show the last six images that were uploaded to that gallery!
-When you click an image, it now tells you when that image was uploaded! It also has next and previous buttons so you can go through the gallery easily!
-Maybe biggest of all, when you click an image now there's COMMENTS FROM ME! A desc so to speak!
I have this set up in a way that should hopefully not be too hard to maintain in the future, but right now it's so pleasing to look at it! The thing is, I still have to add in the descs for each image, and doing a count, I apparently have 3110 images uploaded there, christ. Christ!! HOW ARE THERE THAT MANY??? I assume the Holiday Requests bloat some of it up but that's an absurd amount. I guess it DOES cover a wide area...
That does mean I'll have to add descs for thousands of pictures eventually lol. I'm taking it one step at a time though, there's no rush. Right now the Pikmin, Metroid, Neko Atsume, Megaman Legends, and Misc. page all have comments for all their images. The other ones don't have them yet, but the pages still work and it'll still tell you when they were updated. Also added a bunch of art so everything should be current! Mostly.
One handy thing is that I'm going to Devart to grab my descs from there for the most part, which does save some time. There are tumblr descs too but that's a bit harder to search through. I guess in a way this'll be a personal back-up of my descs now? If Devart ever went down or I got banned or something lol. Some of the comments are pretty old as a result, you can probably guess just by how old the art attached to it is. So cool though!
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~Argv bargv wargv
May. 28th, 2026 02:59 amOOPS IT'S BEEN A WHILE still playing Tomodachi Life, wanna post about a few smaller things that have been going on before I throw a billion caps at you, haha.
There was a NEW EVENT in Pokemon Masters where Larry and Kabu go to the hot springs together!! Kabu explicitly invites him and Larry's like I'd like that :) and then they just hang out together for the rest of the event and IT'S SO CUTE. HOW DOES THIS SHIP KEEP GIVING ME NEW STUFF TO WORK WITH
As a result I've updated the KABLARRY page with the new event script and some other things, haha.
I also finished a new fic for them! Man how did I do my fic headers, let's see...
It's mostly silly, I had a lot of fun writing Larry freaking out internally over everything, although the ending gets a bit angsty. |D I do enjoy writing light-hearted silly things, haha. And it's before they get together! Most fic has them together already so it was fun to have something in that before period where they're just pining.
What I love is that Larry is screaming internally but outwardly apart from the blushing he's acting and saying things very normally. DOES KABU SUSPECT SOMETHING? DOES HE NOTICE... WHO CAN SAY...
Edgar and Scriabin have been popping in and out of the back of my mind, mostly spurred on by how sysig is doing drawings for every chapter as they do a reread. :D Really gets me thinking about them again, haha. Mostly I've been poking at their ghost again... I stalled out on the punch pose for Scriabin cause I didn't like how it was coming out and got distracted, but I went back to revisit it a bit lately. I also went and filled out a lot of extra dialogue for them, like for changing your clock or checking your email, things like that. Very small things and Scriabin doesn't do any of them, he just mocks you, but they're easy things to fill out and it's nice to get some of it done, even if it's just little steps forward. Each bit as a little bit further!
Since I was thinking about ghost stuff though and I recently did this cute Gimmecat sprite
, I remembered that a while back I made a super tiny simple ghost I called Little Sprites. It was mostly a sub-page on my TF2 site since it only had my Soldier/Demoman sprites and the Spycrab that I made, haha. Essentially it just has the sprite on your desktop with some very limited functionality. You could double-click Soldier or Demoman to make them rocket/sticky jump for example, or put them close to each other to have them kiss, but otherwise they don't say or do anything. It's a good ghost to just keep open if you want a teeny little guy in the corner of your screen you can poke at every now and then. Maybe a bit specialized but still, sometimes you just want to decorate your screen! Nothing too big or complicated!
Each sprite in the ghost is a different shell for it, so I made one for the Gimmecat using some of Zi's code for making ghosts wander. So now the Gimmecat will wander around a little on your desktop while you have it open! It's super cute, it reminds me of shimejis, haha. Since these shells are so simple and easy to make, I also added the one with Edgar and Scriabin with Scri hovering behind him semi-transparently, and the one with Larry and Kabu where Larry hugs him to recharge. All very simple little things but I enjoy them! Anyway I made a solo page for the ghost now if you want to pick them up. If you understand very basic SERIKO shell coding, you could probably make a simple shell for this ghost of your own if you want. :B I dunno if anyone will want to but if so I could add like double-click functionality if there's something specific you have in mind, it'd take me like two seconds. Probably. idk I'm probably counting my chickens before they hatch.
I've spent a lot of the past days doing various bug fixes and fiddling with Edgar and Scriabin. In fact I just got distracted from this entry for like an hour because SSP updated with a new functionality for the Surfacetest, meaning I could name intervals in it! I assume that's gibberish to all of you BUT what it meant tangibly was that it did kick up a bunch of errors with Edgar and Scriabin's shell that weren't there before, so I had to do some clean-up. They're working again... for now.
I've been experimenting with the Interval Stacker that Zi and Levi made as well to see if I can add little QOL features and stuff, just things I'd find useful personally. I dunno if anyone but me uses the Stacker since my shells are so stupidly complicated and this tool is like designed just for shells in that style. |D BUT anyway, I did learn a few interesting things about the Stacker that will be useful in the future! I also spent a lot of time chasing bugs and breaking things as well which wasn't great and felt like a huge waste of time. In the end I do have it in a place where I'm happy with it and I think the process will speed up a lot! Although I haven't really tested it myself in practice yet since I need to finish the frames for the new animations... well even breaking stuff can teach you things in the end, haha.
One thing is that I got it so the Stacker can read multiple surfaces files, which means I can split off Edgar's poses from Scriabin's poses, which cuts down a ton on size and makes it way easier to find the right place to add a new pose or find an old one for either of them since I don't have to scroll through the other's.
It's fun to do coding for them since I can just be mean about everything lol.
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There was a NEW EVENT in Pokemon Masters where Larry and Kabu go to the hot springs together!! Kabu explicitly invites him and Larry's like I'd like that :) and then they just hang out together for the rest of the event and IT'S SO CUTE. HOW DOES THIS SHIP KEEP GIVING ME NEW STUFF TO WORK WITH
As a result I've updated the KABLARRY page with the new event script and some other things, haha.
I also finished a new fic for them! Man how did I do my fic headers, let's see...
Title: In Your Wake
Words: 12.3 K
Rating: G
Fandom: Pokemon Masters
Pairings: Larry/Kabu
Warnings: None I can think of
Summary: "The hot tubs?" Kabu said, a momentary blip in his good mood. "Aren't you going to come in?"
At that point, Larry made one of the worst mistakes of his life.
"Oh, no, I can't swim," Larry said, his face entirely neutral as the awful words came out of his mouth before he could stop them. He knew, instantly, what was going to happen, and he was helpless to do anything about it as it played out.
"I could teach you!"
It's mostly silly, I had a lot of fun writing Larry freaking out internally over everything, although the ending gets a bit angsty. |D I do enjoy writing light-hearted silly things, haha. And it's before they get together! Most fic has them together already so it was fun to have something in that before period where they're just pining.
What I love is that Larry is screaming internally but outwardly apart from the blushing he's acting and saying things very normally. DOES KABU SUSPECT SOMETHING? DOES HE NOTICE... WHO CAN SAY...
Edgar and Scriabin have been popping in and out of the back of my mind, mostly spurred on by how sysig is doing drawings for every chapter as they do a reread. :D Really gets me thinking about them again, haha. Mostly I've been poking at their ghost again... I stalled out on the punch pose for Scriabin cause I didn't like how it was coming out and got distracted, but I went back to revisit it a bit lately. I also went and filled out a lot of extra dialogue for them, like for changing your clock or checking your email, things like that. Very small things and Scriabin doesn't do any of them, he just mocks you, but they're easy things to fill out and it's nice to get some of it done, even if it's just little steps forward. Each bit as a little bit further!
Since I was thinking about ghost stuff though and I recently did this cute Gimmecat sprite
, I remembered that a while back I made a super tiny simple ghost I called Little Sprites. It was mostly a sub-page on my TF2 site since it only had my Soldier/Demoman sprites and the Spycrab that I made, haha. Essentially it just has the sprite on your desktop with some very limited functionality. You could double-click Soldier or Demoman to make them rocket/sticky jump for example, or put them close to each other to have them kiss, but otherwise they don't say or do anything. It's a good ghost to just keep open if you want a teeny little guy in the corner of your screen you can poke at every now and then. Maybe a bit specialized but still, sometimes you just want to decorate your screen! Nothing too big or complicated!Each sprite in the ghost is a different shell for it, so I made one for the Gimmecat using some of Zi's code for making ghosts wander. So now the Gimmecat will wander around a little on your desktop while you have it open! It's super cute, it reminds me of shimejis, haha. Since these shells are so simple and easy to make, I also added the one with Edgar and Scriabin with Scri hovering behind him semi-transparently, and the one with Larry and Kabu where Larry hugs him to recharge. All very simple little things but I enjoy them! Anyway I made a solo page for the ghost now if you want to pick them up. If you understand very basic SERIKO shell coding, you could probably make a simple shell for this ghost of your own if you want. :B I dunno if anyone will want to but if so I could add like double-click functionality if there's something specific you have in mind, it'd take me like two seconds. Probably. idk I'm probably counting my chickens before they hatch.
I've spent a lot of the past days doing various bug fixes and fiddling with Edgar and Scriabin. In fact I just got distracted from this entry for like an hour because SSP updated with a new functionality for the Surfacetest, meaning I could name intervals in it! I assume that's gibberish to all of you BUT what it meant tangibly was that it did kick up a bunch of errors with Edgar and Scriabin's shell that weren't there before, so I had to do some clean-up. They're working again... for now.
I've been experimenting with the Interval Stacker that Zi and Levi made as well to see if I can add little QOL features and stuff, just things I'd find useful personally. I dunno if anyone but me uses the Stacker since my shells are so stupidly complicated and this tool is like designed just for shells in that style. |D BUT anyway, I did learn a few interesting things about the Stacker that will be useful in the future! I also spent a lot of time chasing bugs and breaking things as well which wasn't great and felt like a huge waste of time. In the end I do have it in a place where I'm happy with it and I think the process will speed up a lot! Although I haven't really tested it myself in practice yet since I need to finish the frames for the new animations... well even breaking stuff can teach you things in the end, haha.
One thing is that I got it so the Stacker can read multiple surfaces files, which means I can split off Edgar's poses from Scriabin's poses, which cuts down a ton on size and makes it way easier to find the right place to add a new pose or find an old one for either of them since I don't have to scroll through the other's.
It's fun to do coding for them since I can just be mean about everything lol.
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~Do we not have ghosts within us, Mike
May. 5th, 2026 02:20 am
Ahhh I feel busy lately, like there's so much to do and I can't find time for a lot of it! So many projects on so many backburners! Messing around in Tomodachi Life isn't helping probably lol. SPEAKING OF DO YOU WANT MORE SCREENCAPS
Posting so many entries with a million images is so nostalgic. I found a fast and easy way to set up the html for it too! I use the column editor and alt-drag in Notepad++ to change the filenumbers quickly. Zi wrote a guide about it! I'd been using Notepad++ for years and I had no idea it had these features. :O Definitely makes these much faster to put together, haha. Well, html-wise anyway.
I should work on my Edgar/Scri ghost again at some point, that reminds me... ugh, so many things I want to do!
Also in terms of tips, I used to use Adobe Elements 2 to do batch editing for resizing/renaming a billion caps at once, but eventually I hit a hardware limit for that where it can't recognize drives that are too big to save stuff on them anymore since it's so old. Faststone Image Viewer does it though! A lot smoother than the Windows default image viewer too.
This one has some clean shots of some of the more complicated things I've made! I don't have grid on so it's probably not as helpful as it could be, but I guess if you wanted to replicate them or just have a nice good shot of them then there you go. This ones around 600 caps again, I should've cut it down further but I'm trying to do each day as a whole so I can keep track! And the 20th and 23rd were busy, haha.
( New characters arrive to shake things up... what dramas ensue... )
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Posting so many entries with a million images is so nostalgic. I found a fast and easy way to set up the html for it too! I use the column editor and alt-drag in Notepad++ to change the filenumbers quickly. Zi wrote a guide about it! I'd been using Notepad++ for years and I had no idea it had these features. :O Definitely makes these much faster to put together, haha. Well, html-wise anyway.
I should work on my Edgar/Scri ghost again at some point, that reminds me... ugh, so many things I want to do!
Also in terms of tips, I used to use Adobe Elements 2 to do batch editing for resizing/renaming a billion caps at once, but eventually I hit a hardware limit for that where it can't recognize drives that are too big to save stuff on them anymore since it's so old. Faststone Image Viewer does it though! A lot smoother than the Windows default image viewer too.
This one has some clean shots of some of the more complicated things I've made! I don't have grid on so it's probably not as helpful as it could be, but I guess if you wanted to replicate them or just have a nice good shot of them then there you go. This ones around 600 caps again, I should've cut it down further but I'm trying to do each day as a whole so I can keep track! And the 20th and 23rd were busy, haha.
( New characters arrive to shake things up... what dramas ensue... )
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AND MORE TOMODACHI SCREENCAPS i take entirely too many honestly, every time I play it I get more! Some of the items I made are in here, which i GUESS you could use as a guide if you follow where I placed the pixels? idk lol. I'm just thinking about this thread about object builds where I followed the pixel guidelines to make some of the buildings myself, but it's probably easier with the fine details of a building. Gatsby sitting on my aarrrmsss
Anyway not as many this time, just around 430 or so. JUST AN AVERAGE AMOUNT OF IMAGES TO PUT IN A POST man dreamwidth has been so laggy for me lately. i wonder if it's the post size or just dw itself?
( Do skeletons appear? Perhaps )
THAT'S ALL FOR NOW that was just two days of screencaps lol, gotta sort through some more.
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Anyway not as many this time, just around 430 or so. JUST AN AVERAGE AMOUNT OF IMAGES TO PUT IN A POST man dreamwidth has been so laggy for me lately. i wonder if it's the post size or just dw itself?
( Do skeletons appear? Perhaps )
THAT'S ALL FOR NOW that was just two days of screencaps lol, gotta sort through some more.
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~Love that for you.
Apr. 22nd, 2026 03:32 am
OKAY gonna make the Tomodachi post, haha. Well it's not complete, I found out how to batch-edit to get them all to a smaller size and all, and I got up to like 660 caps before I figured I should just post what I had lol. 660 caps is kind of a lot. MEMORIES OF THE OLD SCREENCAP ADVENTURE DAYS...
Anyway, I also put together all the little clips I recorded of them into one Youtube video so you can see them all pretty easily. A lot of the fun of Tomodachi is hearing their weird little Mii voices as they talk which you can't get across in screencaps. |D Also their little movements are super cute too!
In particular I think Temmie's voice is very cute, haha. Gaster's voice is incomprehensible which was an idea I stole from Robyn but it's SO GOOD
ANYWAY LET'S GO
( Who will make the cut )
Alright that's enough for now lol.
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Anyway, I also put together all the little clips I recorded of them into one Youtube video so you can see them all pretty easily. A lot of the fun of Tomodachi is hearing their weird little Mii voices as they talk which you can't get across in screencaps. |D Also their little movements are super cute too!
In particular I think Temmie's voice is very cute, haha. Gaster's voice is incomprehensible which was an idea I stole from Robyn but it's SO GOOD
ANYWAY LET'S GO
( Who will make the cut )
Alright that's enough for now lol.
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Apr. 17th, 2026 05:22 pmI'm completely lost in the Tomodachi Life sauce to no one's surprise, I'm just barely dragging myself away to post this, haha. I want to post some caps from it here when I get the chance but I'm not sure what to do with the video clips. Maybe I'll just stick them all together into one big thing and put it on Youtube? idk there's so much, haha.
~RED LIGHT ABBNNORMALITY
Apr. 10th, 2026 10:12 pmgfhhhhhhrgghhh THE 16TH IS STILL SO FAR AWAYYY AAAAAAAA
In other waiting news, I accidentally knocked my tablet off my desk and the connecting bit to the cord bent and now my tablet isn't working D: I took it in to get looked at at a local repair place and they can still plug some things into the port on the tablet, but the cord just won't go in. I talked to Wacom about it too and they recommended getting a new cord, so I'm giving that a try but it won't get here until Monday. UGH EVERYTHING IS WAITING LATELY EVERYTHING IS WAAITTINNGGGGGG a real test of patience here
I think I mentioned before that I was playing Miitopia to fend of Tomodachi cravings and it's cute! I've taken some screencaps along the way so why not post them, haha. GOTTA DO SOMETHING
( Does my team have a high proportion of old people? yes )
In other waiting news, I accidentally knocked my tablet off my desk and the connecting bit to the cord bent and now my tablet isn't working D: I took it in to get looked at at a local repair place and they can still plug some things into the port on the tablet, but the cord just won't go in. I talked to Wacom about it too and they recommended getting a new cord, so I'm giving that a try but it won't get here until Monday. UGH EVERYTHING IS WAITING LATELY EVERYTHING IS WAAITTINNGGGGGG a real test of patience here
I think I mentioned before that I was playing Miitopia to fend of Tomodachi cravings and it's cute! I've taken some screencaps along the way so why not post them, haha. GOTTA DO SOMETHING
( Does my team have a high proportion of old people? yes )
~God, the human body is hideous
Apr. 6th, 2026 12:34 am
TOMODACHI LIFE DROPPING ON THE 16TH AND I CAN'T WAIT I CAN'T WAAAAIIITTT AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
I can't remember the last time I was counting days this intensely, haha. I'm so excited!! I can't wait to make so many Miis with all the great customization tools and the CLOTHES and the PETS and MPREG/FPREG AAAAAAAAA
the lack of a filter is also hilarious lol. I'm a little sad there doesn't seem to be a way to share Miis like with Streetpass back in the original! But who knows, maybe there'll be something, we don't know! It could get updates or something if it's like super popular or something, haha. The hype for it seems real! I don't remember people flipping out about the original but people definitely seem to be flipping out over this one. At least in my circles, haha.
Anyway, I thought the first game also didn't have a filter but it turns out that's not true! The 3DS ITSELF has a filter, but the game itself doesn't! So I was halfway right? It's really easy to get around though if you just stick words together. I tried to find my Tomodachi Life cartridge to test for myself but no matter where I looked I couldn't find it! Then I got curious if maybe it was just a Streetpass thing, since the screencap I had was from a Streetpass I got. Then it turned out there's a way to get Streetpasses over the net called Netpass! I loved getting Streetpasses back in the day, but it's hard when you don't live in a huge city where a lot of people have DS's, and you're definitely not going to get any nowadays, so the idea of Streetpassing again was very appealing! I could play my stupid flower breeding game again!
However, it only works on hacked DSes, but people told me that hacking a DS is actually pretty easy. :O There's a site that lists all the steps in detail, and following that, I actually did it! And all my data's intact and everything. :O I tested out Netpass and I can indeed get Streetpasses again! When my internet connection decides to work anyway, haha. My DS always had shaky wifi... well in general my wifi is always a bit shaky. But I've been having fun trying out new things on my 3DS again! I COULD technically redownload Tomodachi Life if I wanted, apparently my data for it is still on my DS? But I don't want to Tomodachi myself out before the new drop, haha. I HAVE TO SAVOR IT
So instead I've been playing Miitopia, which is also fun! I like the relationship system in it, where each party member has a relationship that goes up or down depending on what you do, and at certain thresholds you get new little abilities, like helping each other with attacks or comforting each other or taking hits for each other. It's cute! My current team is my old lady Mii, Dahlia, Yanni, and Disco. I wanted a team of all olds but I didn't have another old character on my Tomodachi Island, haha. Though if I get a chance at another team member I'm going to make Wickerbottom.
Anyway, in more interesting news, I UPDATED VARGAS!! It hasn't QUITE been five years but it's incredibly close, haha. The longest gap was five years and I MANAGED TO BEAT IT. It's shorter than most chapters but pretty intense, some big things happen in it! A very complicated pivotal scene that went through many iterations, I have tons of scraps from it on the cutting room floor. I don't want to get into more detail since I just posted it and some people might not have read it yet. It's getting the reaction I was hoping for though, hehe. Updating Vargas feels like such a huge momentous deal to me every time I do it and I can only imagine it as another "eh, don't care, what's the big deal" for most people who follow me lol. VARGAS FANS ARE PASSIONATE BUT I DON'T KNOW WHAT PROPORTION OF PEOPLE FOLLOWING ME THEY MAKE
The 16th feels so far awaaaayyyyy
I can't remember the last time I was counting days this intensely, haha. I'm so excited!! I can't wait to make so many Miis with all the great customization tools and the CLOTHES and the PETS and MPREG/FPREG AAAAAAAAA
the lack of a filter is also hilarious lol. I'm a little sad there doesn't seem to be a way to share Miis like with Streetpass back in the original! But who knows, maybe there'll be something, we don't know! It could get updates or something if it's like super popular or something, haha. The hype for it seems real! I don't remember people flipping out about the original but people definitely seem to be flipping out over this one. At least in my circles, haha.
Anyway, I thought the first game also didn't have a filter but it turns out that's not true! The 3DS ITSELF has a filter, but the game itself doesn't! So I was halfway right? It's really easy to get around though if you just stick words together. I tried to find my Tomodachi Life cartridge to test for myself but no matter where I looked I couldn't find it! Then I got curious if maybe it was just a Streetpass thing, since the screencap I had was from a Streetpass I got. Then it turned out there's a way to get Streetpasses over the net called Netpass! I loved getting Streetpasses back in the day, but it's hard when you don't live in a huge city where a lot of people have DS's, and you're definitely not going to get any nowadays, so the idea of Streetpassing again was very appealing! I could play my stupid flower breeding game again!
However, it only works on hacked DSes, but people told me that hacking a DS is actually pretty easy. :O There's a site that lists all the steps in detail, and following that, I actually did it! And all my data's intact and everything. :O I tested out Netpass and I can indeed get Streetpasses again! When my internet connection decides to work anyway, haha. My DS always had shaky wifi... well in general my wifi is always a bit shaky. But I've been having fun trying out new things on my 3DS again! I COULD technically redownload Tomodachi Life if I wanted, apparently my data for it is still on my DS? But I don't want to Tomodachi myself out before the new drop, haha. I HAVE TO SAVOR IT
So instead I've been playing Miitopia, which is also fun! I like the relationship system in it, where each party member has a relationship that goes up or down depending on what you do, and at certain thresholds you get new little abilities, like helping each other with attacks or comforting each other or taking hits for each other. It's cute! My current team is my old lady Mii, Dahlia, Yanni, and Disco. I wanted a team of all olds but I didn't have another old character on my Tomodachi Island, haha. Though if I get a chance at another team member I'm going to make Wickerbottom.
Anyway, in more interesting news, I UPDATED VARGAS!! It hasn't QUITE been five years but it's incredibly close, haha. The longest gap was five years and I MANAGED TO BEAT IT. It's shorter than most chapters but pretty intense, some big things happen in it! A very complicated pivotal scene that went through many iterations, I have tons of scraps from it on the cutting room floor. I don't want to get into more detail since I just posted it and some people might not have read it yet. It's getting the reaction I was hoping for though, hehe. Updating Vargas feels like such a huge momentous deal to me every time I do it and I can only imagine it as another "eh, don't care, what's the big deal" for most people who follow me lol. VARGAS FANS ARE PASSIONATE BUT I DON'T KNOW WHAT PROPORTION OF PEOPLE FOLLOWING ME THEY MAKE
The 16th feels so far awaaaayyyyy
~The encounter rate is busted
Apr. 3rd, 2026 07:52 amOKAY PRETEND I POSTED THIS HERE ON APRIL FOOLS, I WAS BUSY AND FORGOT
I was playing Leaf Green on the Switch and I was wandering around in Mt. Moon, and I found a ladder behind a rock that led me to this weird area and all these weird Pokemon showed up!
I've never seen any of these before! Maybe Nintendo added them as a secret for the new release...?
This one scared me to death lol, when I ran into it the game crashed! When it loaded back up I tried to find the ladder again but I couldn't, all the caves in FRLG look the same. I should have saved or something! Hindsight...
( I took a few more screencaps, I'll put them under here )
I was playing Leaf Green on the Switch and I was wandering around in Mt. Moon, and I found a ladder behind a rock that led me to this weird area and all these weird Pokemon showed up!
I've never seen any of these before! Maybe Nintendo added them as a secret for the new release...?
This one scared me to death lol, when I ran into it the game crashed! When it loaded back up I tried to find the ladder again but I couldn't, all the caves in FRLG look the same. I should have saved or something! Hindsight...
( I took a few more screencaps, I'll put them under here )
~YOU'RE MY FAVORITE [Costumer]
Mar. 21st, 2026 07:52 pm
I've been sitting on the new merch for like way too long wondering about shipping and costs and math and such and it's just like I JUST GOTTA DO IT, I'LL FIGURE IT OUT AS I GO ALONG, I JUST GOTTA DO IT
So I'm gonna open up sales in the store tomorrow (March 22nd) at 6:30pm. Last time the little shakers went very fast but hopefully this'll be enough advance time for people to get ready? idk. Anyway, what I've got is...
47 Papyrus shaker keychains
19 Edgar/Scriabin pins
24 Gaster pillow keychains
20 Brothers sticker sheets
Some of them I've given away to people as gifts and I think I did the math right on those... if not then I might have to give up some of the personal ones I keep near my desk to play with, haha. I'm hoping I did the shipping math right this time... it's tricky! Shipping is such a hassle now ugh, especially international shipping. Hopefully it'll all work out... well, assuming they all sell, haha. I haven't decided how many of the little connecting charms to order yet, although I do have them hanging by my desk and they're great, I love looking at them, haha. Maybe after this is done I can give it some more thought.
So I'm gonna open up sales in the store tomorrow (March 22nd) at 6:30pm. Last time the little shakers went very fast but hopefully this'll be enough advance time for people to get ready? idk. Anyway, what I've got is...
47 Papyrus shaker keychains
19 Edgar/Scriabin pins
24 Gaster pillow keychains
20 Brothers sticker sheets
Some of them I've given away to people as gifts and I think I did the math right on those... if not then I might have to give up some of the personal ones I keep near my desk to play with, haha. I'm hoping I did the shipping math right this time... it's tricky! Shipping is such a hassle now ugh, especially international shipping. Hopefully it'll all work out... well, assuming they all sell, haha. I haven't decided how many of the little connecting charms to order yet, although I do have them hanging by my desk and they're great, I love looking at them, haha. Maybe after this is done I can give it some more thought.
~GoodBYE, Columbo
Mar. 15th, 2026 03:29 am
A few things going on lately!
I sent out the next Vargas chapter to be beta'd so it's happening!! Depends on when I hear back from her and how long I decide to fret about it before I post it, haha. It always feels like such an event to me! It's nice to get the ball rolling on it though.
I went back and fixed the broken images in the giant sketchposts at least, although posts with individual images are still broken. I figured the giant posts would be the ones people would most likely be looking at, haha. Relive the memories! Or not! I can't tell you what to do!
In terms of my cool music page, I added two more cassettes I found! One called "Radio Picks 92" which really only has a handful of songs and, mysteriously, Silent Lucidity like four times in a row?? If it was me who recorded it I don't know what I was thinking. The other one is "Special tape for car only" which despite its name just has very normal music on it. BACK BEFORE MY TASTE IN MUSIC BECAME TERRIBLE BEYOND BELIEF
If I decide to do any more tapes maybe I should set up a second page, it seems long with just the four on it already! Or maybe my resolution is just too small.
On a related note, there is now also an ipod on that shelf! You can click it to get to a new page for my car playlist, which is like 1300+ songs long at current. No downloads or links for that one because christ but I have been working on a youtube mirror of the playlist, although I'm only like 900 songs through it. You can get a taste of it though!
Setting up the ipod to flip open on hover was really annoying, I ended up trying like a few different methods and running into weird roadblocks before I got it doing what I wanted. Tough to get it to stay in place too! Getting a good shot of the ipod itself I could use was also annoying, I went through like three different versions of it open/closed before I decided on this one. It looks so realistic on the shelf!
I also made some Teeny Tower rooms!
One for Horses because that's so inappropriate lol. I need to make a post about that at some point. I love how the little horses came out, cute and creepy at the same time, poor things. Had a hard time thinking of a background but then I figured I could work with the whole silent film/theater symbolism it has going through it.
BRAINLESS RAAANDYYYYY there is SO MUCH fog in the Illbleed cutscenes I swear
Hornet and Shakra are girlfriiieeenddsss god, everything in Hollow Knight/Silksong is so ornate and intricate, it was murder to try and get it all down into such a small space. I based it off of my bellhome in Silksong so I have all the relics in there and everything, haha. Very hard to get a sense of metallic surfaces on a small scale!
Something reminded me or made me think of how a lot of Undertale environments would make for good little rooms, so I went with Asgore's throne room first. He looks so cute!! Cutest tiny Asgore! The window was a pain to try and shrink down. It's interesting seeing this one set against all the others since it has dark outlines, which very few of my other rooms have. Really emphasizes how simplistic Undertale's art style is...
And the brothers' room! Well really it's all about the Mettaton TV, haha. Mettaton on every channel! He's gotta be doing something! I spent way too much time on all those little segments. I could still add one for the news if I felt ambitious...
And as a complete tonal shift, that one scene from Hereditary. If you've seen it you know! I wonder how recognizable it will be to people when it's so tiny? It was a lot of fun to recreate this, trying to balance the right amount of darkness in the doorway so you're not sure if you see something.
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I sent out the next Vargas chapter to be beta'd so it's happening!! Depends on when I hear back from her and how long I decide to fret about it before I post it, haha. It always feels like such an event to me! It's nice to get the ball rolling on it though.
I went back and fixed the broken images in the giant sketchposts at least, although posts with individual images are still broken. I figured the giant posts would be the ones people would most likely be looking at, haha. Relive the memories! Or not! I can't tell you what to do!
In terms of my cool music page, I added two more cassettes I found! One called "Radio Picks 92" which really only has a handful of songs and, mysteriously, Silent Lucidity like four times in a row?? If it was me who recorded it I don't know what I was thinking. The other one is "Special tape for car only" which despite its name just has very normal music on it. BACK BEFORE MY TASTE IN MUSIC BECAME TERRIBLE BEYOND BELIEF
If I decide to do any more tapes maybe I should set up a second page, it seems long with just the four on it already! Or maybe my resolution is just too small.
On a related note, there is now also an ipod on that shelf! You can click it to get to a new page for my car playlist, which is like 1300+ songs long at current. No downloads or links for that one because christ but I have been working on a youtube mirror of the playlist, although I'm only like 900 songs through it. You can get a taste of it though!
Setting up the ipod to flip open on hover was really annoying, I ended up trying like a few different methods and running into weird roadblocks before I got it doing what I wanted. Tough to get it to stay in place too! Getting a good shot of the ipod itself I could use was also annoying, I went through like three different versions of it open/closed before I decided on this one. It looks so realistic on the shelf!
I also made some Teeny Tower rooms!
One for Horses because that's so inappropriate lol. I need to make a post about that at some point. I love how the little horses came out, cute and creepy at the same time, poor things. Had a hard time thinking of a background but then I figured I could work with the whole silent film/theater symbolism it has going through it.
BRAINLESS RAAANDYYYYY there is SO MUCH fog in the Illbleed cutscenes I swear
Hornet and Shakra are girlfriiieeenddsss god, everything in Hollow Knight/Silksong is so ornate and intricate, it was murder to try and get it all down into such a small space. I based it off of my bellhome in Silksong so I have all the relics in there and everything, haha. Very hard to get a sense of metallic surfaces on a small scale!
Something reminded me or made me think of how a lot of Undertale environments would make for good little rooms, so I went with Asgore's throne room first. He looks so cute!! Cutest tiny Asgore! The window was a pain to try and shrink down. It's interesting seeing this one set against all the others since it has dark outlines, which very few of my other rooms have. Really emphasizes how simplistic Undertale's art style is...
And the brothers' room! Well really it's all about the Mettaton TV, haha. Mettaton on every channel! He's gotta be doing something! I spent way too much time on all those little segments. I could still add one for the news if I felt ambitious...
And as a complete tonal shift, that one scene from Hereditary. If you've seen it you know! I wonder how recognizable it will be to people when it's so tiny? It was a lot of fun to recreate this, trying to balance the right amount of darkness in the doorway so you're not sure if you see something.
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