May 31st 2025
Me and Tofi had ordered some stuff off Neokyo a while back (like, a month and a half? ish? maybe two) that showed up yesterday.
Please, look at the gorgeous cover for the disc cover for Mars Red DVD box set 2. I'm so glad they went with art from the mangaka for the box sets, Karakara Kemuri's art is so pretty (ignore the filter I forgot I had on when I recorded the clip lol).
I actually don't have the first box set yet, I'm waiting on a listing for a good price. Took me a while to find the second box for a good price so I can be patient with the first one too.
But look at the contents! It's two DVDs (episode 7-13), a drama CD (I am sooo happy I have my hands on more Takeuchi material, I love that silly little vampire man), the drama CD script, a pamphlet with making-of material and prints of frames of each of the main characters.
Speaking of my favourite vampire man, I finally have the official mug with his company's logo! He uses the money from his company on inventions to either defend against vampires (UV flashlight) or make their lives easier (sunscreen) cus Maeda won't increase his department's budget lol. I regret not buying the pink t-shirt they had with his logo back when the show aired, I haven't been able to see any of the clothes in the online thrift stores yet.
Last of the thrifted items are the video games I think I mentioned somewhere that I was waiting on. Well, I don't think I mentioned the names of the games, just that I was waiting on more.
Look, it's Cinnamoroll! Running a cafΓ© and making delicious snacks for friends! And a Jewelpet rhythm game that is adorable! I've played both a little bit already through an emulator but I wanted to get them for myself too. I think it'll be good practice reading Japanese playing these games.
I really need to jailbreak that damn 3DS already
The last item is the only non-thrifted item, and its' a doujin! I haven't bought a Prince of Tennis doujin in well over a decade but an artist I follow on pixiv released a new AkuGoku doujin that looked so cute. And it is! I'm shit at reading Japanese but I actually got a little more than halfway through before I had to pull out the (online) dictionary. Now I just gotta commit γ·γ©γ to memory. I'll remember when I reread that that's what it means but in other contexts? Gotta try to remember it outside Akutsu trying to get a drunk-off-his-ass Sengoku to not fall asleep while they're walking down the street.
Link to the doujin sample cus it's cute.
On the topic of doujinshi, I flipped through the ones my brother's planning on selling (he's bought a lot more than I have over the years) cus I got first dibs on any I wanted, and I just found this page out of a Rikkai-centric one too funny.
This doujin was printed over 20 years ago, way back in 2004. Wow. I also snagged some doujin from a few other fandoms (D. Gray-man, Durarara, Prince of Tennis, Kamen Rider W) from the big box he's got of doujin he's not gonna keep.
Signing off with a couple more of the heart-pictures I made for my cats for their birthday, but sillier ones than from the previous entry.
Bye bye!
May 18th 2025
Hello again! This year on Valborg I went to a bonfire like I did last year, and this time it hadn't rained the day before, so the fire actually managed to light up! I should not have chosen that day to be the first day where I didn't wear my wool jacket, it was way too cold to be out in a hoodie and a jean jacket. But it was a nice time!
My cats turned 7 years old this week! Can't believe how big they've gotten already, they feel like little babies, still. Well, they are my babies.
I gave them some fancy wet food for the occassion.
Earlier this month me and Tofi finally planted a bunch of seeds in the garden. Carrots, wild strawberries, corn, everlasting flowers, some broccoli. Not banking on the broccoli though, I haven't had much luck with them the last few years.
Around the same time I decided to pick a little bouquet of flowers to put in my car, and I didn't notice til I'd picked it, but please look at this forget-me-not!
Isn't it cute? I actually made icons out of this photo and a few other flower photos over on livejournal dreamwidth. Along with some fandom icons. It's been fun making more icons again.
I've also started making stamps, which I've actually never made before. Speaking of icons, the icon I used for this entry was actually made for me by setsuntamew on the dreamwidth community vooglia. It's soooo cute! Honestly I've been using dreamwidth a lot more lately, it's been fun.
Here, have a few more flowers.
I actually counted how many cherry trees we have, cus it kinda feels like there's only a few, but we have a lot of small ones. 38 cherry trees, if memory serves. It's close to 40, at the very least. I guess I don't need to be that mad at the deer that ate the saplings (is that the English word for itty-bitty-baby trees? idk) last summer.
Comparatively, we only have two apple trees, both of which are on their last leg. We're gonna get a new tree to stick branches into from the smaller apple tree, cus those apples taste really good but I can't figure out what kind they are.
Both dad and grandma say they always called them 'lemon apples' but that's not it.
By the by, I finally finished my replay of Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward! I was so close to finished with the game when my save file corrupted a number of years ago that I didn't pick it up til years later, and now! I have finally finished it all! Every single route! And yeah, it's been one of my favourite games despite not having finished it 100% til now, but I was almost done with it last time, so who cares that I hadn't actually finished every single ending. The fact that I'd managed not to get spoiled at any point despite how long it's been since the game came out? Miracle.
God I love Clover. Alice x Clover, anyone?
As you may or may not remember, I started doing pole dancing earlier this year. I'm still doing it, and even though I'm by no means good at it, it's been fun. I can't do everything 100% cus of my hands, they make it a bit finicky, but last week I got to re-do the pole sit move for the first time in a while and! I can definitely say I've improved a lot there. The first time I could barely hold myself up, and had to cross my legs to stay up even that long, but this time? I could hold myself up purely by having the pole squeezed between my thighs for like 10 seconds! A vast improvement!
The move, for reference:
Lastly, this past week there's been a food festival going on. I didn't have the time to go during the week, but yesterday I finally got to go!
So for the first time in my life I've now tried a corn dog. Specifically, it was a Korean Cheesedog. It was absolutely delicious. I don't take well to too much fried food though, and the thing was massiv, so I was a bit nauseous for a while afterwards, but I'd say it was worth it, and I'd definitely have one again.
Next time I'll make sure to get away from the scent of food before and after though, so I don't get that food-smell nausea again.
I also bought pierogi that I brought home with me to have later for dinner, they were decent. I also bought some fudge that looked tasty, but it was... okay? It didn't taste bad but I probably wouldn't buy them again. I think I prefer marmelade candy when it comes to market candy, even to this fancy as fuck fudge.
I think I'm gonna go to bed and read (and hope that one of my cats wants to cuddle) now. Night night!