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I am almost out of things to do in Hollow Knight.

reaching the end of the game )

Almost done with Mogtomes: just those that can do everything that just need next week's weekly challenge to top them off and I'll be finished. I have a few alts that got some stuff this week that, despite having enough for Gwiber, I may still do anyway; extra dogs never went amiss. And although Prae takes an age, I have to hang up laundry tomorrow, and it's always a good time to do it in...

Drives are also done! I got lucky and had a win streak today so I only had to play three games to hit the last tier for points, which was good, because I was envisioning being just short if I had lost one and having to play many more to bridge what would have been a twenty score gap. I didn't quite make it back into Legend on tank, but I'm one game off it, and kept encountering a bug where I was not receiving compensation on losses so was just pingponging the same -80, +80 points over and over... small indie game and all that, Stadium has so many bugs even now... but I am not too worried about it, honestly. I played a lot in weeks 2-6 and kind of burnt myself out, so I've been glad to take it easy the end of last week and now the rest of this one before it starts over again. And people are really grumpy during Drives, lmao. My D.Va winrate went from 2-10 in BO5 to something like 50-30 in BO7, so that's my tanking comeback story.

I have 19515 comp points now, so I'm well on my way to getting the 27,000 I wanted for golds for all women. If we get bonus Drive points next season for the end of the competitive year, I'll probably get galactic on Moira and Mei, since they contributed to stadium gains to get me there.

Season 21 next week. Ashe is getting three (three!!) new skins next season, she has been very loved lately. One is heist themed with an animal mask, either a snake or a large cat, and she has soooooo many beautiful tattoos, another she's a cyber bunny because why not, and the third is a festive skin from official art from many years ago that never got made but Mercy's did and now it's finally real. And also has more art to go with it. Look at my girl who's happy and full of whimsy.



But wait. Who is she shopping for gifts for in this official art? Cassidy, because they're always connected and perhaps if they made amends she would, and...



Widowmaker.

Thank you for the crumbs T4 I will cherish them always.
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TheFridayFive

Dec. 4th, 2025 06:04 pm
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Hi all, I've been under a rock for most of the year and I hope you've been alright! Things have been very up and down for me, but I'm chugging along.

[community profile] thefridayfive has posted this week's questions already, so why not sneak in some participation?

1. If you had to participate in one Olympic event, what would it be and why?

Biathalon! Not that I would be any good at it, but I like the idea of cross country skiing and target practice combined into one. There's something very prairies in it for me that calls to some of the more positive thoughts of my heritage.

2. What is the one song you always sing along to?

I have to pick only one? Alright, let's see. I think that "Your Song" from Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge would probably be my #1. Kat and I sang it a lot together when we were first dating and it's been lodged in my head as one of those 'most romantic ever' ditties that lifts my heart and makes me smile.

3. Do you wear a seatbelt in the car?

Yep! I'm generally law-abiding if I have proof that it's sensible to be so, and I have second-hand accounts from coworkers who experienced trauma due to friends and family not wearing seatbelts, so I'm taking their word for it.

4. Car, SUV or truck and why?

Car! I like being low to the ground and being able to sense where the corners of my vehicle are. I also like having more maneuverability than either an SUV or truck can offer. I currently have an SUV right now and am having to relearn how to drive it, but I'm looking forward to understanding the new proportions a lot better.

5. Are you a good/bad driver? Explain.

I'm an inexperienced driver. For 40 years I have managed to get away with living as a pedestrian and a transit user, but a semi-recent move out to the boonies has required the use of a vehicle, so I've been working my way through getting learners and then new driver licenses, and practicing. In fact, I'm going to purchase some new driving lessons before my current work contract is over so that I can replenish some guided experience, because inexperience is worse than simply being a 'bad' driver, you know?

Anyways, sending lots of good vibes to y'all! I hope your holidays go well and that we all get a good break in the months and year ahead.

december is here....

Dec. 3rd, 2025 03:20 am
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 and i hate it already. like i hate my fucking family. i wish my mom was alive. or at least i died instead of her... better yet.. i wished my brother and fucking father died. they are the reason for my unhappiness and me being miserable. they even ruined my wedding was suppose to happen this month. so it pretty much got cancelled. they are over controlling and pretty much abusive. my mom was never like this!!! this is rather sad and pathetic at my age. i'm a fucking adult. i want to see the friends IDO HAVE or my bf. pretty much, i'll probably end up breaking up with him.. or he'll do it first. i'm sure of it. i'm disabled with special needs so i don't work. i don't have any money... the money i did HAVE was stolen by my brother. so yeah.. can't go to a hotel or get an uber. sucks don't it ? can't go to a shelter cuz they are booked up. my brother is asshole who hides aspirin and food from me. i'm pretty sure that is a form of abuse.. i get headaches often and blames me for being on the computer. he's on the computer 24//7 and games.. more than i do. calling the kettle black eh ? and plus i have very bad teeth which cannot be helped. what am i suppose to do???? like fuck him. i'm not even in the mood to celebrate christmas this year. i want no part of it. like i don't want to be around them at all. i don't even want their fuckin gifts either. i never get shit i ask for every year now. at least my fuckin mother tried when she was alive!!! they don't. always say money this, money that. sick of their lies and excuses. maybe, get off ur fat ass and get a real job instead working from home. doing youtube shit ain't a real job, moron.

The lengths to avoid spider hell

Dec. 1st, 2025 05:58 am
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Whilst playing Hollow Knight I've been loosely following a guide about which area to go to next, because a good chunk of the start of this game is manoeuvring yourself around to get abilities so you can actually do stuff, and to get other abilities you need x ability first, etc. I'll also open up a map to figure out where map guy is to buy the map from because I hate not being able to see a minimap, it's a dealbreaker, but the internet solves that one decently.

None of the bugs in the Silksong lp I watched bothered me. There were a few in Hollow Knight that did, the most egregious being Deepnest's spiders. The problem is they run across the foreground by the camera in front of Ghost, in the player's plane of view, so it's an exercise of being spider jumpscared, and if you have a crippling spider phobia...

Yesterday I finished the area that gave me the Crystal Heart, which allows you to fly horizontally and cross large gaps until you hit an obstacle. Neat. Where next? Deepnest, the walkthrough said.

Hell no, said I.

Here's what I did today instead of going to Deepnest.

I have discovered I can play this game for several hours if I use compression gloves which is how I played it for seven hours today. Woops )

holiday (e-)cards 2025!!

Nov. 30th, 2025 10:19 am
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HOLIDAY E-CARDS!!

hi-ho, friendos! it's that time of year again! i have loved sending you all snail mail over the last several years but this year for various reasons that's just not feasible for me. so i am trying something new and making e-cards (well... they're video cards bu v-cards just... yeah)! and because i just finished a puppetry course i will be making these with one of my puppets! so tldr fill out the thing below and i will record a short holiday video for you that i will hopefully get to you in time for the celebration! all videos will be uploaded to youtube as unlisted or i can send them via email!

i have four puppets you can choose from! pictures coming!
- sally monster (i made her lol)
- squireline dion
- alanis morissqueak
- carly spray jepson*
*if you want me on hard mode since she is the most difficult out of all of them lmfao.


please fill this out by december 14th. since it will take time to put these together and i want to get them to you asap. also don't expect a ton of fancy special effects, i am still just a simple girl with puppets and a few props... maybe next year. once you have the video feel free to do what you like with it. if you want to share it on social media go ahead, all i ask is you credit me (i will share my @ with you).

happy holidays!!!

Kai Shiden | Mobile Suit Gundam

Nov. 28th, 2025 03:43 pm
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Nov. 28th, 2025 01:18 am
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It's been faaar too long and yet here I am with only another meme. I've got a list of things I wanted to talk about and hopefully will find the motivation to write up some posts. 😭

For now just a fic meme taken from [personal profile] svgurl.

Go to your Works page on AO3, look at the tags, and see what the answers to these questions are. (Or any other site that has tags)

completely unsurprising results here )

The questions for anyone who wants to snag them:

I am still rotating the bug game

Nov. 28th, 2025 03:51 am
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I am inching my way through Hollow Knight, very slowly. GARAMA! SHAW! - Hornet words of wisdom )

But yeah I think like, vessel made of void that carries an equivalent great sword around is the most Dark Knight Hours it could ever be so it's no wonder I've latched on. It's been nice to spend an hour just doing something else other than XIV or Stadium every day. Stadium I've reached the stage of being at, or almost at, the rank I was last season, so all reduced loss percentages are gone, which really sucks because it's now +80 for win and -80 for loss so it's like hitting your head into a wall at times. The advertised part of this system is it gives you loss reduction if you have leavers or win multiple rounds! Not so at this point. It makes me not want to grind out anymore because losses feel twice as frustrating and it's why I don't really play traditional comp. It's just asking to be tilted, especially when the game matches you with any rank. Am I not being punished enough with having to carry two rookies on my back the whole time!! Apparently not.

It's drives next week though, so perhaps I will simply play less games overall this week and put the hard effort into next week. And hope it doesn't match me with people who don't know what they're doing and penalise me for it...

Furniture stuff happened on Monday; bed is rotated. Dozens of cardboard boxes flattened, old appliances removed. Had some vertigo issues during that that reminded me why I can't physically do shit or leave the house (not yay). I am now going through the wardrobe which is a weird exercise, because there are gifts in here from six years ago to people who have nigh vanished from my life. I would like to get them to them, but this may have to be tackled in spring. I feel like Ikea shall be getting more of my custom for bookshelves for that room and also a tv stand with actual storage for my living room, lol. And then I'll probably be done in my blissfully dust free zone.

The deep well of sadness is on its way for me again. Passage of time isolation static constantly losing things it takes me so long to do anything can't leave the house ten years ten years ten years. I do not expect it to ease for a while.
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Using truths whispered by the dead to expose the lies of the living: that is the standard by which I enact judgement. But this time... I want to use the words of the dead to gift a truth to the living.

I love Zenless Zone Zero more than life itself. The 2.4 story was a bit of a hot mess, but I loved every second of it. The devs are charging up for 2.5!

I was terrible at playing Banyue all the way up until the final boss, where I accidentally learned how to do the combo that the game's tool tips kept yelling at me to do for the entire zone. Yay! Unfortunately, I probably won't pull him, since I got Lucia at the last possible second and want to save for Ye Shuanguang, who's banner is right after his. Maybe next time!

ZZZ 2.4 Spoilers )

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Everyone's still working so hard. I'm the only one who's crying... that wouldn't be romantic at all, would it?

I have been ridiculously busy this past month with writing exchanges. Here are my belated thoughts on the Honkai: Star Rail version 3.7 Trailblaze Mission. I've had more time to reflect, I suppose, since I finished it a while ago.

Before getting into spoilers, I ended up pulling both Hyacine and her light cone! She's very powerful and fun to use. It's always funny watching her yeet that unicorn into the stratosphere. Unfortunately, I lost my 50/50 for Cyrene and am not really interested in anyone in the next version, so I will stockpile my jades for Stonehearts.

HSR 3.7 Spoilers )

Reading Wednesday

Nov. 26th, 2025 05:58 pm
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A few recent reads:

+ She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan. A girl assumes her dead brother's identity, joins a monastery, later becomes involved in a power struggle outside the monastery, and does everything she can to rise to the top. I found this really hard to put down! It was very engaging! There's a sequel out, so I'm going to pick it up at some point.

+ Moon of the Turning Leaves by Waubgeshig Rice. I read this as part of a challenge, but also because I read the first book and enjoyed it (that is, Moon of the Crusted Snow). 10 years ago, electronics stopped working and the world became dangerous and chaotic; a remote reservation managed to hang on and build up a life for themselves. So, this novel is set 10 years later, when people from that community set out to see what's out there (and possibly move somewhere else). It's relatively cozy even though the subject is sometimes very serious.

+ Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden-Keefe. This one is in progress, and I'm only about 1/4 of the way into it. The Sackler family built a pharmaceutical empire and contributed to the modern-day issues around opioids. Part of the money at the beginning came from pharmaceutical advertising; Arthur Sackler basically created the model for advertising that is currently used. I'm finding that the history of advertising in general is really interesting to read about, what led to the current state, etc.

+ Hyde by Daniel Levine. Another in-progress. It's Mister Hyde's POV of what happens in The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mister Hyde, basically. Very interesting concept. I'm having trouble getting into it, and I'm honestly not sure why; it's possible that I'm not in the mood for this novel, or maybe I don't remember Dr Jekyll well enough to appreciate it properly. It has the full text of Robert Lewis Stevenson's novel included at the back, which I thought was a clever move, though obviously it helps that the original is short enough to do so.

ren'py resources

Nov. 25th, 2025 12:37 pm
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my shitty elbow is flaring up rn because of the cold/some personal mistakes, and i can only do one handed tasks, so here's another list of resources. for a while now i've wanted to have something to send to people i drag into the ren'py pit with me, so here is my curated list. the selling point here is that i am an empty headed ADHD disaster who is not very good at coding and i personally have successfully used all of these. i'll probs update this list in the future.

comments are open (even to people without a dreamwidth account) if you wanna suggest stuff but im keeping the post itself to stuff i have personally used. ;D

🎺 = Trumpet of MOST FERVENT EVANGELISM
💰 = costs a lil money (worth it)

VSCODE EXTENSIONS
Official Ren'py Language Extension 🎺 - highlights your code to make it way, WAY easier to read and edit.
Ren'py Launch and Sync 🎺 - launch Ren'py straight to the line you're looking at in the code!! no more fast forward or typing in labels. (Kayin showed me this one and i screamed)
Ren'py Text Analyzer - tells you all sorts of interesting info/stats about your game

HANDY UTILITIES
Ren'Edit - makes beta testing, proofreading, note-taking and corrections much easier.
Ren'py Action Editor - helps a lot with image positioning and ATL by providing a gui you can mess around in + code output to clipboard
Layered Image Visualizer 🎺💰 - INVALUABLE if you are using layeredimages as sprites.
Intro To Positioning In Ren'py - shows you how image positioning works via interactive tutorial.
Ren'py Hotspot Tool - make imagemap hotspots easy. it has a thread on the Lemmasoft forums.
Ren'py Visual Novel Viewer - if you're a "learn by picking apart someone else's code" kinda person this will help. please do not look at my code from my games though because it's bad DONTLOOKATME... OTL

FEATURE EXPANSIONS
Easy Ren'py Gallery 🎺 - unlock images as the game progresses. very clear and easy to set up w/demo game
Controller Support Expansion 🎺 - rocks ass. works right outta the box

VISUAL EFFECTS

Ren'py Auto Highlight - highlights and focuses sprite of talking character
Frost Breath & Snow - works great out of the box, dead simple to use and modify for other purposes
MVN Action Effects 💰 - some really neat vfx!!
Point Emitter - rocks ass. i used this for some of the fireworks in Potion Stand Story. good instructions.
Transitions & Dissolves - biiiiiig pack. also good for looking at and learning to make your own.
MVN Ren'py Shader Pack - lots of fun shaders to play with
Wave Shader - very flexible tool for wiggling stuff. wiggle your game. WIGGLE IT

TEXT EFFECTS
Kinetic Text Tags 🎺 - i use this extensively for the shaky text (great for drama OR comedy, tbh)
MVN Text Effects & Shader Pack - LOTS of fun text effects like pulsing gradients and glowing letters

TUTORIALS ETC.
Screen Language For Dummies - 🎺 unfinished atm but already so much good info for newbies. read it!! REEEEAD ITTTT
LayeredImage Tutorial - 🎺 learn how to set up layered sprites. real nice tutorial, easy to follow
NomNomNami's tips - 🎺 a LOT of "things i wish i knew earlier" content here
VNDev Wiki - exactly what it says on the tin
Zeil Learnings - some great video tutorials with downloadables so you can play along
Visual Novel Design 🎺 - really great ren'py videos. i'm honestly so mad that video tutorials are good sometimes
FeniksDev's site 🎺 - LOTS of good ren'py info for devs of all skill levels

🎺🎺🎺 MORE GREAT STUFF (TOOT TOOT) 🎺🎺🎺
FeniksDev on itch - so many more tools i haven't even gotten around to testing yet (some free, some is 💰)
Make Visual Novels on itch - Stella is a genius, just go browse (some free, some is 💰)
official Ren'py discord - i know we're tired of joining discords but it is useful for real
r/Ren'py - a real good subreddit, i've learned a lot just searching here

 

winter card signups 2025

Nov. 24th, 2025 01:30 pm
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⑴ Reply with your name and address. (Comments are screened!)
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⑶ Profit.

so sick of him.

Nov. 24th, 2025 12:57 am
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 stop putting the damn cat in MY room. last time i fuckin checked.. i didn';t get the car. YOU DID SO STOP PUTTING HER IN MY ROOM!!! i have her in my room enough as it is. you barely take care of her. put her in your fucking room. fuckin asshole.

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