aliensamba: bleach (e)
[personal profile] aliensamba
Medium: film
Title: Fairy Love
Fandom: Thumbelina (1994)
Characters: Thumbelina, Cornelius
Prompt: Fleet Street - fairy tales
Notes: 2 gifs for week 04 of "26.01 - Monopoly" at Fandom Empire.

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setsuntamew: (Kohaku & Madara → we're in bloom)
[personal profile] setsuntamew
MADARA'S GLOBAL EXCLUSIVE 5* IS HERE AND THE UNBLOOMED IS HIM AND KOHAKU ON A FESTIVAL DATE I'M GONNA LOSE MY MIND


LOOK AT THEM LOOK AT THEM!!!!!!!!!!!! LOVE IS REAL♥

I'm taking this in a very normal and rational way, as you can tell XD It's Kohaku's birthday and I was gonna make a nice post about that and maybe take some pictures of my nuis but noooooooooooo this hit and I'm losing my mind. I'm so fucking pumped it's everything I could possibly want and then some ;w;


honestly the whole lineup is good; I'm excited that Jun is the 4* too!!!!!

okay okay okay I'm trying to be calm about this but it's not going well XD I'M JUST SO EXCITED AHHHHHHHHHHHH

I mean I'm not excited that he's gonna run during the Eden climax in eng and right before the MaM fanthanx in jp, but what the fuck else was I expecting? Madara's always a pain in the ass ;D

tho nothing is worse than the Kanata experience last year....so much fish

tbh I keep getting so overstimulated (good trick) I have to close my laptop and play Katamari Damacy for awhile...idk it just makes me slow down a bit, and I'm like OFF THE WALLS with excitement. just. when a fictional character makes you go insane, you know???? It's overtaking my whole system ♥

also this starts the day before Liz's birthday so I guess this is some sort of response to Kanata's event running during my birthday last month XD

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05/02/2026 09:50
kissed: commission ༉‧₊˚. (blue lock [⚽] king)
[personal profile] kissed
Hello! Since it's been over 3 years since I've kept an active journal here, I decided to do a very overdue friends cut. I've primarily cut dead journals along with journals that:
  • don't really interact with me
  • I don't really interact with
  • just isn't going anywhere as journal friends which is fine, and maybe I did us both a favor if they were hesitant to remove me first
  • I don't even remember giving access to
My reasons are not personal, but practical — I've been wanting to shorten my list for some time. While I'm not trying to cause any offense, I also doubt anyone will feel as such after reading why I potentially cut them and probably acquiesce.

My entries will continue to be access-locked, so please remove me back at your leisure since there'd be no point continuing to subscribe (unless you really want to for whatever reason you may have).

If anyone would like to be added back or I made a mistake, shoot me a comment here and we'll talk. Same deal for any dead journals that come back in the future. Otherwise, I wish everyone well. Thank you for giving me the chance to get to know you, even if it didn't work out in the end. No hard feelings! (シ_ _ )シ
hindsightseeing: ([BtVS] Once More With Feeling)
[personal profile] hindsightseeing
I promised myself I'd try to post some little check-ins for this, so here we go.

A little late for the start of the month, but... eh, it's February. All bets are off.

So. [community profile] getyourwordsout check-in #1:

Had a pretty awesome start, all told. A few little hiccups means a lot of time got taken up by Technical Issues (TM), but I still got what I wanted out of the month, creatively speaking, so it's all water under the bridge.

Total word count for the month was the highest it's been in well over a year (which is very good, because my GYWO pledge is the highest it's been in many years!), and I achieved my main goal for the month, which was to finish the first draft of Ye Endless WIP O'Doom Part 2 (Electric Boogaloo).

Tragically, this means that the entirety of February (at the very least) is going to be spent on editing said first draft... which, as we all know, is the worst, most exhausting, most soul-sucking part of any creative pursuit.

Writing longfic is my happy place. Editing longfic is the bane of my existence.

I would very, very much like this whole thing to be done, edited, cleaned up, and posted by the end of the month... but given the fact that February is the other bane of my existence, I'll accept this is highly optimistic.

If I can see an end to this darn thing by the time we hit March, I'll call it a win.
aliensamba: yuuji from jujutsu kaisen (s)
[personal profile] aliensamba
Medium: anime
Fandoms: Hunter x Hunter; Jujutsu Kaisen
Characters: Pokkle; Ryomen Sukuna
Notes: 2 gifs for "24.23 - on the hunt" at Land of Art.

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-aliensamba of ren

Mood Theme: Done!

03/02/2026 23:01
setsuntamew: (Yohane → welcome to my graveyard)
[personal profile] setsuntamew
I FINISHED MY SECOND MOOD THEME!!!!!!!!

I mean I'm now kinda behind on grinding the jp event, but I accomplished the very cool thing of mood theme creation~ I've now made two separate themes, so I'm feeling pretty badass ;D

Unfortunately, enstars isn't super popular on dreamwidth, so I doubt it's what people are looking for...but I don't really care cuz I make things that I like, first and foremost XD Though I'm not actively using it here, I did post it at [community profile] killiansicons for anyone interested!

.........anyway I know I just finished this theme and I have an event to run, but I was thinking of doing a differently styled mood theme next!! I have all the card assets because enstars changed how they put cards together in the app, so I can finally do what I had initially envisioned for an enstars mood theme: make them with the card borders!!


something like this, probably!!!

I'd make it of all the characters, and since there are over 50 of them I could even just use 5 star cards for all of them (to match the borders). I'm still torn on if I want to do editing for every single image, because doing too much is why I always stalled out on mood themes in the past. But I'm really proud of this design and definitely wanna do something with it eventually.

Other than that......I gotta get back in the trenches (grinding songs in enstars) so I can get all the Mayois my heart desires ♥

OH RIGHT LIZ BROUGHT HOME THE BUTTON MAKER FROM WORK AND I'VE BEEN MAKING ENSTARS BUTTONS!!!!!!!! It's been fun uwu
setsuntamew: (Mayoi → splashes of vibrancy)
[personal profile] setsuntamew
There is an evil within me, and it says: "make another mood theme"

I am debating making an ALKALOID one, but I also have to actually grind the jp event, you know? And it's sooooo time consuming, and the last time I made a mood theme I was basically a man possessed, and I don't wanna miss out on getting a bunch of copies of Mayoi!!

.....so we'll see XD

Finally posted icons to [community profile] killiansicons because it had been a hot minute. I'd been fighting the feeling of inadequacy for not having "enough" to post, but I managed to convince myself that I was being fucking stupid.

Uhhh it's still fucking cold here and it keeps icing over, which is making digging ourselves out of the snow a real pain. Pat finally managed to find some ice melt at a grocery store, so that should help. And Liz is apparently a fucking beast at shoveling ♥ Which means our driveway may be cleared some time before spring. And then I can hopefully stop feeling so trapped ;w;

Needless to say, I'm kinda over winter at this point...and it's supposed to snow some more throughout the week. plz no more!!!! I'm done!!!!!!

I wanna be able to leave the house with ease!!!!!!!!!!

okay that's all I'm gonna either grind the event or get lost in mood theme hell, and even I don't know which~
aliensamba: bleach (e)
[personal profile] aliensamba
Medium: anime
Fandoms: Cardcaptor Sakura; Fullmetal Alchemist
Characters: Kinomoto Sakura; Edward Elric
Notes: 2 gifs for "24.23 - on the hunt" at Land of Art.

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-aliensamba of ren

Mayoi x2 for Meeeeee 💜

31/01/2026 23:25
setsuntamew: close crop of Mayoi with a pink and purple light texture over him (Mayoi → sanrio collab)
[personal profile] setsuntamew
I got Mayoi in both events that started today!!!!!!! :D




......even if it meant pulling an all-nighter for the JP event. I had planned that one, but the accidental one I pulled the night before made it hellish. Do not stay up two days in a row...my skin hurts ;w;

Worth it though ♥

I took a nap in the afternoon but I'm still feeling beat, so I don't have a whole lot to say. So I'll leave y'all with the nui brigade that kept me company while grinding JP for 8 hours straight.


Liz brought a button maker home from work and I used it for evil (making Mayoi buttons)
aliensamba: yuuji from jujutsu kaisen (s)
[personal profile] aliensamba
Medium: anime
Fandom: Jujutsu Kaisen
Character: Itadori Yuuji
Warning: Canon-typical Violence. Injury. Spoiler warning.
Notes: 2 gifs from Jujutsu Kaisen - 03.02 - "One More Time".

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goodbyebird: Supernatural: the Impala is driving down a road, flames in the background. A sigh says "highway to hell". There are three passengers. (SPN one way ticket)
[personal profile] goodbyebird
Snowflake Challenge is wrapping up today and awww, they didn't do the Make A Challenge thing this round. You know what, it's happening, can't stop won't stop.

When you are logged in and go to Dreamwidth (home page), scroll down and you can see your tag cloud.

Are there any tags you feel don't represent you very well now? Are there tags you feel should be there?

Go into your tags, have a look at the numbers, and make a plan for 2026 to be the year you whip that cloud into shape 💪


Tag cloud Jan 2026, with Supernatural in the lead boo hissss.

Sooo... Supernatural, ey? This is what happens when you get a giga-fandom! (same thing giving me HR vid songs atm; shouting I don't even go here at my brain to no avail.

SPN has 139 entries tagged. Looking over potential rivals, television is at 92, assemble! 102, buffyverse 90, music 103, rec: vid 83.

Or do I hard mode it and go for IWTV? *g*
goodbyebird: The X-Files: Dana Scully in bright color. (X-Files aka my wife)
[personal profile] goodbyebird
+ Yesterday was rough. Just walking around vibrating, had a cry in the storage room, absolutely hated the feel of washing my hands. Extremely over-stimulated. People being around all the time, and complete disruption of routines will do that eventually, which I did not appreciate learning. Thankfully I got a full nights sleep after I dozed off - got a sleeping pill from my dad to help out, still my brain was trying to scrabble back awake several times before I succeeded.

Fishery is somewhat more decent yoday, god I hope that holds up. January is supposed to be prime fishing season 😤

+ Today is Festivids Go Live Day \o/ hopefully it opens up earlier in the day for me, I absolutely cannot allow myself shiny new vids late in the evening. I just get too worked up.

+ Discovered I'd left some small fandom icons behind at [community profile] forsquares, including Borgen, so I have one more masterpost to put up before I move on to re-uploading the existing [community profile] spankulert icon posts to Dreamwidth. Those random black images are really starting to piss me off.

+ Also toying with the idea of fiddling with my journal layout. Gotta admit I'm too old for the piddly font size at this point, le sigh. Could be better for mobile as well.

+ Decided that yes, I will make myself a mood theme when I get home, thank you very much. Probably IWTV, and just the top/base moods, as I'd like to incorporate s3 as well. Making gifs is absolutely not in my wheelhouse, but imma give it my all.

+ Ugh a mail about Susanne Sundfør concert happening when I'll be at sea. I am having a sulk about it. Raye is performing in Oslo a few days before I get home. My bad concert luck is not letting up boo.

The Final Snowflake!

30/01/2026 11:37
hindsightseeing: ([Def] Little Wolf)
[personal profile] hindsightseeing
Challenge #15
How Did the Fandom Snowflake Challenge Go?


About as well as expected, really. It definitely kick-started me into keeping up with Dreamwidth and centring my thoughts on posting, which was just what I wanted -- even when I opted out of a challenge (which naturally happened more and more towards the end) I'd still carve out some time on odd-numbered days to wait for the question and feel it out, which is very useful when you're trying to rebuild a routine.

I only participated in about four of the challenges -- five if you include this one! -- but as I may have mentioned at the start, I've never actually managed all of them, so... again, as expected.

This year's challenges were a little different from what I recall from previous years, so I really enjoyed seeing what would come up. I'm kind of kicking myself for freezing up and failing to think of something to list for the Top Ten especially, as I love making those kinds of lists... but I guess the beauty of open-ended challenges means I can go back and do that in mid-April or July or November, whenever the impulse takes me.

All in all, I got what I wanted: a kick up the backside to start posting again and build a routine around being here, checking in, reading other people's posts, etc. As ever, a joyful experience!
aliensamba: gawain the green knight (g)
[personal profile] aliensamba
Medium: anime
Title: Sparkle
Fandom: Dance Dance Danseur
Characters: Murao Junpei, Oikawa Natsuki
Prompt: Chance - Arlington Road (delight)
Notes: 2 gifs for week 03 of "26.01 - Monopoly" at Fandom Empire.

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Some links and such.

29/01/2026 08:10
goodbyebird: Pluribus: Carol sitting in front of a burning house, "this is fine." (Pluribus this is fine)
[personal profile] goodbyebird
+ Refrained from making this post until I had the icon that's been living in my head made and uploaded. (I have now opened my laptop two whole times this trip)

+ Fishery is still bad. People are here aalllll the tiiiime. I want to shove my face in a pillow and banshee shriek. I want to be in a small, slightly chilly and soundproof box. Absolute and utter isolation for one, please.

+ Adding to that, one of the crew has started sitting at my (usually empty) back table for meals, so now it's active conversation time on top of it all. And boy does she want to talk about how the solar flares are affecting her, and what are my thoughts on the aliens, she thinks they're friendly (watches yt about aliens every day). Girl, I know you know I'm into tarot, but we are Not The Same.

+ I'm not sleeping enough and it's not helping.

+ Did a silly and signed up for Fandom Trumps Hate. Do people still want icons at all time will tell 🤷🏻‍♀️ Offered IWTV, Pluribus, and WoT with the fandom ticky boxes, "You're welcome to request specific pairings, characters, or scenes from those three fandoms. I am also willing to do icons from the following comics: Absolute Wonder Woman, Thompson's Birds of Prey, Wilson's Poison Ivy, Galaxy The Prettiest Star, Supergirl Woman of Tomorrow, Far Sector, Abbott, Ahmed's Exiles." Should maybe have specified a number, but I figured I'd wait and see the bid amount to decide.

+ The Endless Appetite for Fanfiction.
On the surface, this feels like it should be a good thing: More fic readers means more people in fandom, right? Instead, I read post after post talking about how distant writers felt from these newer readers—how impersonal and lonely the act of fannish creation has become. Anecdotes where readers gush about a fic on Discord, but make zero attempts to connect with the author. Screenshots of fic titles or passages with no URLs—and captions like, “I wish I could tell the person who wrote this how incredible it is.”

+ To Fandom, With Love. (previously at Bitch Magazine, published 2020, now re-uploaded)
I also made friends through fanfic—actual, honest-to-goodness close friends. Comments on each others’ fics turned into email correspondences that began with exchanging headcanons about our favorite characters, and expanded into mutual care and support—often around issues we’d first broached anonymously in our respective works.

+ Neil Young trashes Amazon, gives his complete musical catalog to Greenland for free.
“Amazon is owned by Jeff Bezos, a billionaire backer of the president,” he wrote. “The president’s international policies and his support of ICE make it impossible for me to ignore his actions. If you feel as I do, I strongly recommend that you do not use Amazon. There are many ways to avoid Amazon and support individual Americans and American companies that supply the same products. I have done that with my music and people who are looking can find it in a lot of other places."

+ There is no such thing as other people’s children.

+ Talking Greatness to Death. On Ryan Coogler's sins and the kinds of performances that attract vampires.

+ Does anybody want me to do a lil tarot draw for them? I can do A World Without Shrimp (feeling as though something is missing from your life, this spread can help you identify what you're craving), or Five By Five (general idea of how things are going).

+ Dropkick Murphy's performing Citizen I.C.E. live in Paris. Enjoy!
setsuntamew: Mayoi grinning while singing, with bright yellow as the main focus color (Mayoi → so bright you have to look)
[personal profile] setsuntamew
I have, and his name is Mayoi Ayase *w* Which is to say, the next event is not MaM, and is instead ALKALOID!!! AND MAYOI IS THE CENTER FOR IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


I just knew he was gonna be the center for the fanthanx, I knew it! I feel so validated ;D

ALSO JUST. HELLO. GOD HE'S SO GORGEOUS EVEN WHEN HE'S WEARING THE MOST QUESTIONABLE OF THE FANTHANX OUTFITS SO FAR. ALL OF THE FANTHANX OUTFITS HAVE BEEN INCREDIBLE; WHY MUST ALKALOID GET A WORSE VERSION OF THE TRICKSTAR ONES??????? IT'S NOT FAIIIRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!! Me and the homies (friends in a discord chat) were crashing out last night because Mayoi is just so beautiful and we couldn't wait for the song to drop. Like, how dare they reveal the event and then make us wait 3 hours for the MV???? It dropped at 4 am my time, which is inconvenient when your wife has to work at 8:30 am.

....we totally didn't mean to stay up for it but oops we did anyway and holy shit it was worth it. The plaid outfits are (mostly) redeemed; the song is so fucking good that it made everything better!!!!! And the outfits honestly look better in motion, so there's that.

Anyway, in my defense, they did use possibly the most boring frame of the whole MV as the thumbnail, so what was I supposed to think?


like look at this shit!!! they're all just standing very still, despite 99% of the MV being incredibly dynamic :T

My other main gripe is that this isn't very Valentines, you know? 'Cause this is running in the usual time slot for that...I guess the Megasphere finale could be our Valentines event, but it's doubtful, especially since the holiday campaign is starting this week.

bluhhhhh

Though apparently Mayoi's first center event ran in this exact time slot despite being sky pirates, so???? What do I fucking know XD I should really stop trying to predict what the hell they're gonna do, because half the time they just do whatever the hell they want.

oh god right---

Speaking of Mayoi events, I cannot fucking believe he's overlapping with an ENG event where he's a 5* but he sure is!!! The Plum Blossoms event also starts on the 31st, though I guess the JP event starts about 12 hours earlier because of time zones. BUT STILL. Plus Blossoms was the first ever event I played in JP and I got two copies of the Mayoi from it, so he kept me company in green songs for the first year or so I played. So I was planning on maxing him in ENG, because I love him, but now his fanthanx is here. sobs.

plz let the SCR of his fanthanx outfit be bad. plz. I can't afford to max two different events at the same time I'll die

I'm determined to get Mayoi in the first 24 hours tho, so I'm probably gonna just stay up all night playing. Maybe gonna hop in the voice chat in the one of the enstars servers I'm in and stream me playing (probably badly esp once it's like 6 am lmao) so I have some company. idk. I'm just excited!!!

OH LOL SO ANYWAY. One of the enstars discord servers I'm in started as the chat for anyone interested in tiering in War Atop the Sugoroku Board event, but as since just turned into a small, chill chat. It's got some people who produce different units than other chats we're in, which means Liz and I finally have someone to talk about Eden with ♥


I did impulse tier in that event, but tiering in Last Mission was 100% on purpose and I'm still so glad I did ;w; Double Face forever!!!! also lol 67 *shot*

.....okay this entry is long enough, I gotta stop because I've kinda run out of things to rant about properly, you know? And Pat is currently trying to dig the car out enough that we can go to Home Depot, since our shovel is actively falling apart while he's using it.

Goths in the Winter

26/01/2026 20:49
setsuntamew: (Tsumugi → bunny boy)
[personal profile] setsuntamew
You know what a foot of snow needs? Photoshoot in your backyard featuring a skirt you made in 2017 and then promptly forgot about!!! Pat very kindly braved the cold to bring my ~vision~ to life.


the skirt is so warm and the shirt was a poor life choice XD


I like to think I'm cute and funny, and I'm right~

At least now I know what I'm wearing to the ren faire this year ;D I made this skirt to wear to a vampire ball that Liz and I went to as part of our anniversary trip, and then just...never wore it again???? idk man, it looks good actually so I have no idea why I never found another use for it. Definitely wearing it in like, 9 months, when it's ren faire season. I've also just been wearing the skirt around the house because it's floor length, so it's keeping the warmth in. So yes, I'm wandering around with a black lace train like I'm living in the Addams Family, I guess XD

ANYWAY.

I did manage to make a few icons, so that's cool. I don't necessarily love them, but part of that is just...getting back into it...thankfully it's only been like 6 months so I'm not as rusty as I could be, but I still wish I could stay more on top of things and/or skip this stage.

And then the enstars event announcement is tonight and I'm sooooooo fucking anxious, since it's either gonna be MaM or ALKALOID, so my money is gone either way. If it's MaM, no one's gonna hear from me for a week while I grind out 22 mil points. sobs. It's just like.....some of my fave units have ended up last in the rotation and also why couldn't Madara have his event while I had a job and therefore more money to blow on a phone game? Like of course he waited until I had less disposable income. Bitch.

idk I don't have anything else to say, since I've been in the house all weekend. At least the snow is really pretty and we've had a fairly chill time just vibing. Trying to focus on the positives, you know?

🪦😁📺

25/01/2026 19:12
bluedreaming: white-sheeted ghost in a field with a lantern (*kat_lair - field ghost)
[personal profile] bluedreaming
It's maybe a little odd to phrase it this way, but only after like 4+ years of on and off watching BL dramas (and getting into GL dramas) am I getting to stage of actually being okay with/open to "bad" endings again because it's not about the gay, it's about the plot. You now have my trust that you're not “killing off the gays” because they're gay, so I'm okay with killing off main characters if the plot makes sense that way.

[spoiler about a 2025 GL series]I really loved Runaway.
And I probably would not have been ready to like it 4 years ago.

Right now I'm making personal bets about characters dying in
[vague not-really spoiler about a currently airing BL series]Goddess bless you from death
and having a lovely time.

(Okay I’m still not going to watch heavy political/etc. type dramas but that’s just a general preference.)

Heated Rivalry

25/01/2026 18:36
blueshiftofdeath: greyed out image of a man being caressed, with text overlaid, reading "I started to wonder if he'd be better off... ...not having sex with someone with a big cock like mine" (eryn)
[personal profile] blueshiftofdeath

You have likely heard of the recent Heated Rivalry craze-- a Canadian live-action 6-episode adaptation of the Game Changers gay hockey romance series. As longtime fujos, me and ebaths decided to finally watch it for ourselves, and I'm sure fujo friends are dying for my report, so here it is...

The TLDR is I basically didn't like it / I thought it was bad. SORRY!!! My lengthy review is under a cut so fans of the show can avoid taking psychic damage from all my criticism. HOWEVER, I still think it's great that the exists. Demonstrating an eager audience for gay media is by itself awesome, and hopefully will inspire future investors and creators to help produce more (and better) stuff in the future. And as always, people have different taste, and I'm glad people (especially gay people and fujos) are out there enjoying themselves.

I also want to say that I saw a lot of talk about how much the adaptation improved upon the source material. I have only read a few sections of the books so I can't confirm this, but honestly I feel like I'd have a higher opinion of the books than the show. The kind of entertainment you expect from what was literally originally published as AO3 fanfiction is clearly different from what you expect from six hour-long episodes of TV on HBO Max. Plus, something like cringe dialogue has less impact in a format where you're expected to essentially skim ahead to the smut, versus when it's spoken aloud and acted in real time. Just to give my angle here as I will continuously default to blaming the TV show creators for something that I'm aware was also in the book.

onto the criticism... oh also there's going to be spoilers )

snoooooooooooow

25/01/2026 17:22
setsuntamew: the name "Killian" and a large snowflake over a pale gray-blue background with white sparkles and animated snow (custom → 19)
[personal profile] setsuntamew

IT'S A WINTER WONDERLAND!!!!"

So it snowed basically all night and most of today before switching to freezing rain, which is decidedly less good but like. Whatever. It's still very wintery, and I like that...even if I'm not going out in it. It's way too damn cold!!!! Even after taping up a bunch of the windows in the house, we're all bundled up cuz the heat is only doing so well.

Other than that, I'm baking some cookies and debating trying to make icons again, since it's been...months.........all my photoshop skills have been going to [tumblr.com profile] ensemblerefs because that's less creative, I guess? It takes less brain thinking skills, at least.

I also wanna try to write something for [community profile] threesentenceficathon cuz it's one of my favorite yearly events...I'm just still fighting Mental Illness, you know?

also trying to get back in the habit of updating this and I'm like "how the fuck did I write such long entries????" I think I spent a lot of time rambling about enstars, so I guess...that's it XD

I mean I am upset about Hiyori fucking me over in the gacha, since there's a 50/50 chance that the next jp event is gonna be MaM (though the other option is ALKALOID so I guess I'm kinda screwed either way) and I need the rate up if it's Mama. I'm not saving up another 120+ memorial coins like I had to for Halloween Madara last year :T I'm just gonna max him during the event!!!!

..........also also I've made a lot of nui outfits in the past 6 months, so when I'm up to it I kinda wanna post them here. Dreamwidth is just such a better way to organize and hold onto things than everywhere else ;w;