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april 2025

hi! as i'm posting this it's yet another birthday... i've been treating this one a little like a second new years, but it's only for silly low stakes things like watching movies i don't wanna keep in my watchlist (the nolan watchaton continues...). still, glad to still be alive and kicking and so on. i've had a pretty good time this month actually, i saw machine girl live (!!!), i hung out with friends, met new people, watched good movies and played good games, painted a fair bit, i'm writing a new short story.

new on the site: is this the month of the blogger.

and for links:

art

charcoal drawing. two abstract objects nestle against each other. charcoal drawing. an object, forked in one end, is encased on a thin membrane, only part of its 'head' poking through. another, perhaps tongue-like, penetrates the membrane, pressing against the other object. charcoal drawing. two small abstract objects lean against each other on a plain. charcoal drawing. upon a plain, two abstract objects meet each other charcoal drawing. two protusions on a plain charcoal drawing. an object, forked in one end, folds upon itself to rub against its other end. charcoal drawing. an abstract object (or two?) entertwined, lying on the sea shallows charcoal drawing. two abstract objects lie upon a plain, spikes interlocked suggesting scissoring

i remain firmly in charcoal central! i love itttt i need to go bigger and cram more detail but these 15x20 canvases are SO quick to bang out which is how i like to work...

btw the white details on these are tailor's chalk because my white comte pencil is lost to the sands of time (but i'm dead sure it's still around somewhere despite ten-ish years and three moves) and i get very lazy about buying materials like these... if i can't get something locally i'll put it off forever.

and foddart:

chibi drawing of a brown and cream snapper dragon with a playful expression, surrounded by magical sparkles chibi drawing of a thistle and yellow snapper dragon

i also did the badges for the agents: recon event. click to see all seven, these are just my faves ^_^

dusthide dragon getting hit by lightning, cartoony style dusthide making a heart with their claws, against a sunset monochrome digital drawing, bust up. stocking grabs kneesocks by the horn and kisses her neck. they're both nude
i feel this one (the sketchpage) is a bit more suggestive pinup sketch page of kneesocks daemon in various poses

and a few kneesocks... as i wrote on tumblr, stocking is a little out of character here but i needed to draw the horn grab so bad. i really like her idk what to say. her glasses swag. i think she got really bayonetta-esque on the sketchpage which is fun (more so initially when i forgor and made her brunette since i didn't use a reference at all).

media

games

also finallyyyy cleared perfect cherry blossom. i've not been a diligent grinder, if the game stats are accurate i cleared it in under 8 hours... across two years. yeah. i do love it, feels nice to have conquered yuyuko (and nicer to have her stage unlocked for practice!), and my mindset has changed a lot while playing too — not feeling desperate and lost means i can ditch reimu a and score higher for some extends. working on a 1cc now. a single touhou game can feed a grown adult for years. i find the predictability comforting. but i've also poked at mountain of faith (that's #10, from 2007), which is kinda brutal with its lives — which i think can be good to train me to bomb more. though the power-bomb system makes me so greedy. and i'll definitely be playing fossilized wonders once the demo drops (and the full game too ofc).

i've also played more angel at dusk and for a little addition / change to my review, i do think the chronicle mode is a neat concept and well executed but it's definitely not for me, or at least not for me right now, because it's both kinda unpredictable (in that there are so many stages you won't really keep track in your head of what is what, and you'll see new stages often as you work across the tree) and repetitive (in that you need to replay stages a lot so you can level up at least a little bit before tackling stuff you haven't completed yet, and bosses repeat so much). so i think it kinda sucks that you have to complete it to unlock the third arcade track, and i kinda gave up on that for the time being.

movies and series

books and manga

now reading foucault's pendulum. sniles sneetly. book's good.


smell ya later :)

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