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I wanted to stay on top of my book review roundups this year but we see how that's going lmao. Also I might start including a little log of what manga I've read too. But here's what I read in January and February so far!

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setsuntamew

MADARA MIKEJIMA WHEN I GET YOU-----

rough translation: "Today marks my last post as MaM...but it looks like I'll be making another appearance soon, so please look forward to it!"
What. WHAT. WHAT ELSE COULD THIS MEAN???? Like I know I'm setting myself up for disappointment, but that sounds like vague teasing Double Face reunion.............

I MEAN. THEY DIDN'T GET A FANTHANX. SOBS.

But like for real I'm gonna lose my mind waiting to see how this pays off. I can't even put it into words because I'm sooooooooo just *clenches fist* insane about these two. Clearly they don't have to be in a unit to spend time together (we now have two canonical trips they've taken together post-disbandment), but I really like Double Face's music. So I want more ;w;

Maybe we didn't get Sleeper Mystery Train or Secret of Metropolis added in the 2024-2025 cycle because they're saving them for when DF gets back together...that's the lie I'm telling myself, okay.

Also the quote retweets on that are just like.......soooooooo many Double FacePs crashing out and crying about it. Like. This isn't just me making shit up; we're all making shit up together.

lays on the floor

Anyway I found out about this because Liz called me from work to wake me up so I could be insane with them XD Which is so real ngl- sometimes you just gotta scream together. But this also means I've been going nuts since I woke up, and playing a bunch of Pokopia did not temper it. Instead, I've just been vibrating at a frequency that can shatter glass while trying to be chill.

......so Liz and I are gonna work on cosplay when they get home from work as a way to direct this madness XD If we really go hard, we could finish their first feature scouts in time for peak cherry blossom blooms in DC, and wouldn't that make for a nice photoshoot?? Or if nothing else we could take them to Sakura Matsuri :T Either way, I'd like to get them done, since we bought the fabric before Joanns went out of business (RIP).

OKAY OKAY OKAY I need to actually eat something today because I've just been going nuts about fictional anime boys all day XD Oops!

Current Mood: shocked
Current Location: Garwyn Oaks, MD
Current Music: Stippling ♪ Double Face
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Current Mood: INSANE

setsuntamew

The final rankings are in, and here's how it shook out for me:

Anyway, I'll be moving to Sea World with the rest of the whales, see y'all on the other side~

Seriously, nearly being in the top 100 in a JP event is insane. Like. Yeah, MaM isn't the most popular unit by any means, but still. I'm not gonna top this for awhile (largely because I cannot be spending this much money on enstars regularly lmao). Also Kohaku is much more popular, so even if I get as many points in whatever his next center is, I probably won't be as high ranked. So I will hold onto this proudly!!!!

Also, I'm up early because 1) I didn't sleep Sunday night so I made myself stay awake all of Monday so I could actually sleep at regular hour for once, and 2) big enstars announcement stream at 8 am. MELLOW DEAR US is finally being added in game as playable characters, after months of edging us~ I'm so pumped!!!!! I've been intrigued by them ever since they were teased in name only during VS★AUDIENCE nearly two years ago now, so it's exciting that it's all coming together~ Nice Arneb Thunder abandoned them to ES - which seems to be a pattern with him, sorry esupuri - and now they're gonna be part of RhythLin.

~~hopefully that goes better for them than all the other RhythLin units lmao~~

ANYWAY. The stream was very good, the new VAs seem to slot right in with enstars vibes already ngl, so it's probs gonna be good things moving forward. They're also the next JP event, which looks sick as hell aesthetically but why is Juis the center for it? He's the leader, so he's managing to debut with three 5 stars while everyone else gets one. Greedy XD I like him and his stupid green hair tho, so I'm not complaining....it's just funny. tbh from the vibes of the MV, Nozomi looks more central, but what do I know?

The other thing occupying my time and attention is the new Pokemon game.........I can't fucking put it down. Pokopia is so good; I just think it's unfair that it's Switch 2 exclusive. I wish Liz and Pat could play with me ;w; Everyone's been enjoying watching me play, but it's definitely the kind of game that's most fun when you can play it yourself. It's like if Animal Crossing and Minecraft had a baby, and the baby was full of Pokemon. Which is to say, addictive as hell.

.....after I finish this entry I'm gonna go play it some more XD My house in the beach area should be done being built!!! It's just really good, okay. It was absolutely worth spending a chunk of my severance pay on a Switch 2 as my birthday present to myself. It's a legitimately good system (better than I expected, ngl), and I just. Look. Pokemon is so good ;w;

OH AND I DID GET KOHAKU'S SECOND FEATURE SCOUT IN ENG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He came home on the first 10 scout ;w; I was so worried that I wouldn't get him, cuz like....his and Madara's FS2s run the same week and I've had two years to save for it and then I blew all my savings on Madara's stupid global exclusive because I hate him. And then I spent $$$ on the JP event, also for Madara, also so he could ruin my life, which means I don't have a lot to spend on scouting right now. BUT KOHAKU LOVES ME. HE'S A GOOD BOY. I can only hope it goes as well when Madara's scout starts on Friday D: Fingers crossed!!!!!

Current Mood: pleased
Current Location: Garwyn Oaks, MD
Current Music: サヨナラ・ヘヴン ♪ 猫叉Master
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impala_chick

For the

marchmetamatterschallenge I'd like to do four meta posts this month and cross-post them to comms and/or Tumblr. This one is about consent in the first two episodes of Heated Rivalry!

In our current internet culture, it seems like there is plenty of purity wank to go around. ( This is based on the show only as I haven't read the books )

OF COURSE Sex scenes can just be enjoyed for what they are, and shouldn't have to be justified. But I'm really grateful the show did not shy away from depicting sex in this way. It's essential for us to see the entire sex scene to understand Shane and Ilya's points of view in these intimate moments.

The TLDR; is that consent is not always black and white and requires good judgment.

aliensamba

Tumblr got banned in my country (the provided reason: "it's a gambling site" ).

Like what?!?!?!?!?

Who labeled it that? It's not a gambling site!

Current Mood: angry

impala_chick

Connor Storrie hosted season 51, episode 13 of SNL! Someone over at

gamechangerhr posted the playlist of the whole episode. I think he did a great job, plenty of laughs and silliness to go around. They brought out Knight and Keller from the USA women's hockey team during the monologue! I know the US has very little to celebrate right now but at least we got women's hockey and Alysa Liu. Very proud that Knight and Keller got such applause and that the Hughes brothers took the deserved jokes well enough.

Watch on YouTube

The funniest sketch wasn't even in the episode though! Here it is, with a Rozanov mention :D

Watch on YouTube

Very cute how they included Hudson in the ice skating sketch. And the stripper sketch was also hilarious even though morbid and NSFW.

flareonfury

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Submissions for the Bi-Weekly Prompt will be accepted until March 21, 11:59PM EST.

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Honestly the "Drink" prompt did not come to me because of St. Patrick's day but in the fact that I really wanted a female character as the prompt image in honor of Women's month/day, but then it kinda just felt right using the prompt with both communities especially when I saw that image of Emma. I didn't think through the Monthly Character prompts, otherwise I'd have done female characters there as well.

In other news,

galorechallenge Round 14 is now open! Officially finished uploading all the old prompts. I still need to add new prompts/crossovers since nothing new has appeared, feel free to suggest prompts/crossovers HERE. Still need to make a new promo banner & header but meh, I haven't felt like it honestly.

So it's been awhile since I posted anything directly to here, I apologize for that, but February has oddly been busy? Mostly with work but I also wrote a lot more last month (8 fics/drabbles) which I'm so proud of. I also did something to my right foot (not quite sure if it's my ankle, it feels more like the top of my foot) so I've been dealing with that pain off and on since mid-February. Most of the time I forget about it because my full-time job is mostly a sit down job (and it only vaguely hurt while sitting), and I haven't had a lot of scheduled retail shifts last couple weeks (thankfully for my mental health, horrible for my bank account), but I do have to get up and move around at my full-time job - sometimes a lot so that's when it mostly hits me. I did rest it a lot when I got home from work as well and I rested a lot this weekend (although I did get some cleaning done), so I didn't spend a lot of time online thus my oblivious to the world becoming on fire (I listen to audiobooks at work, and usually on the way to & from work, rarely do I put on the radio and when I did nothing mentioned anything at all - all I noticed was the gas prices shot the fuck up and I'm like why? Found out last night. Yeah. Fuck. The world is on fire. Again/Still depending on your viewpoint.)

ANYWAY due to my offline time, my newest obsession:

the Monsterverse (aka Godzilla 2014 & Kong: Skull Island shared universe along with the TV series Monarch: Legacy of Monsters). Caught the trailer for Monarch on Prime and I was like sign me the fuck up. I enjoyed every second of it.

Look I've loved Godzilla since I watched Godzilla (1998) and the animated series based on the film - I know most people shit on that movie but I enjoy it. And it satisfied the need for more dinosaur-type stuff I wanted back when I was a kid and in love with the Jurassic Park trilogy (haha, still am). I think the animated series of Godzilla also kind of synched it for me (I have the DVD set for it) and it's still pretty good - I want to rewatch again thanks to Monarch (they share some similarities that probably only I can see and enjoy but I'll take it). I also really enjoyed Godzilla (2014) film, which people also kinda dislike? I think or at least have mixed feelings about? I enjoyed all the sequels as well, and I appreciated what they were as monster movies, but I think Monarch show really kinda synched my love for the universe. I kinda wish I could have showed the show and the other newer movies to my Nana, she loved the original Godzilla stuff and would watch those, I'd love to know what she'd think of the show. I haven't seen those since I was a little kid and I don't remember actually enjoying them? Maybe it was the graphics, maybe it just didn't hold my attention - not quite sure (might try again). Anyway, as much as I loved Aaron Taylor-Johnson & Elizabeth Olsen in Godzilla (2014), I didn't really go looking for fanfiction or other fanworks (maybe gifs on Tumblr) until Monarch. The cast is just so good, and the characters! Ugh, I love all of them and I ship like everyone (as you can see what I've iconed so far). And the fact that they have Kurt & Wyatt Russell playing the same characters but at different points of time - BRILLIANT. I think my favorite characters are probably the "core" main characters: Cate Randa, Corah "May Olowe-Hewitt" Mateo, Kentaro Randa, Keiko Miura, Bill Randa (did not expect to like that character after Kong: Skull Island!) and obviously Lee Shaw.

Also I obviously noticed back when they did Kong: Skull Island, but a lot of Marvel/MCU actors/actresses appeared in the Monsterverse and all it does is making me want them to do a Godzilla/Marvel crossover movie. They won't do it, but there is at least I think a Godzilla/Marvel comics series I think.

It's a small fandom, so there's that... but at least it exists. Anyway, let me know if you like any of the movies or like Monarch! I'd love to hear what you think or who you ship :)

tinny

I keep forgetting to write down what I learned... /o\ There are a few fun things, though:

( 13+1 things I learned in February )

aliensamba

Medium: anime
Title: The Matador of Love
Fandom: SK8 the Infinity
Character: Shindo Ainosuke (Adam)
Prompt: Jump Street - "charismatic"
Notes: 2 gifs for week 08 of "26.01 - Monopoly" at Fandom Empire.

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Current Mood: amused
Current Location: hueco mundo
Current Music: paradise - Rude-α

setsuntamew

MaM event accomplishment the second: I got Madara and Kohaku to Rank A+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

lookit them go ;w;
I'm not trying to sound ~elitest~ or anything, but I do feel somewhat more accomplished when I rank idols up in JP, probably because of the lack of autoplay. All of that was manual, babeeeyyyyy!!!! And so I even though I have more fans for my faves in ENG & CN, it feels more ""real"" in JP in a sense.

~~or maybe that's just my wrists crying in pain lmao~~

OH AND ANOTHER THING!!!! Because I got them both to rank A+, I got a new title to use in my profile~ Since I wasn't playing in JP when the Double Face climax or TRIP album ran, I don't have any other DF titles ;w; but!!!! I'm excited to have the gold one now ♥

the rank A one is silver and it's like fine but gold is clearly superior
And in another year, I'll have gotten them to rank S, trust!!! Just.....55k more fans to go...............but I want the outfits + the rainbow title, so I must push onwards.

uhhhhhh what else? Alex is coming this weekend to play some more P5R, since she's only played vanilla. We're on the 3rd semester and it's just delicious, since she's somehow stayed spoiler-free??? Wild. And since I finished the MaM event so early, I can actually have a social life, lmao.

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Location: Garwyn Oaks, MD
Current Music: Be My Princess♡ ♪ Special for Princess!
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reeby10

Reading

I finished reading Mutation by Roland Smith (Marty & Grace #4). Enjoyed it! Did not enjoy the little bits of het romance pushed in at the end, but it does make me want to write fic for my ship instead...
Ficwise, I've been reading a lot of VegasPete and JunDylan. Currently I'm reading a long JunDylan fic that's very sweet and soft and it's making a rough week a little more bearable.

Watching

The roommate and I finished Peaceful Property. Such a good show!! Sad and heartfelt and wonderful. I ended up not really being bothered by it being more of a bromance than a BL since they did keep referencing them (jokingly, but still) in couple-y ways and also TayNew's chemistry is just so good.
The roommate and I started watching MuTeLuv. We've watched the first two and a half stories of the anthology. First one was super cute, love SeaKeen. Second one was bonkers but fun, and I really liked seeing Nani for the first time. Third story is... well, I wasn't expecting all the gross out humor tbh. Not sure if we'll finish it or skip to the next story.
The roommate and I started watching Running Man Thailand. First episode was hilarious and so fun! I love Tay, Daou, and Jeff even more now lol
The roommate, best friend, and I watched the latest episode of Cat for Cash. Cute, nothing much else to say.
The roommate, best friend, and I watched the latest episode of Duang With You. The TeeteePor dynamic is great, I'm loving them together.
The roommate, best friend, and I watched the last episode of Dare You to Death. Oh man, it was not very good lmao JoongDunk and unhinged!Sing were great, but wow, the show suffered a lot from bad directing and underfunding.
The roommate, best friend, and I watched the latest episode of Yesterday. Some interesting things coming into play with other characters! And some interesting glimpses into Vier and VierKelvin's past.
The roommate, best friend, and I watched the latest episode of My Romance Scammer. JuniorMark and OhmPoon are both so good and I love how the two relationships are developing so differently.
The roommate, best friend, and I watched the first episode of Only Friends: Dream On. Good so far, looks like there will be lots of fun drama! Worst part of the episode was Mix making eye contact with the camera during the sex scene, was not expecting how uncomfy that would be XD
The roommate, best friend, and I watched more of My School President. Having fun! And also a little sad, because WinnySatang announced their breakup this week, and then we got to the first episode where Satang shows up :(

Listening

The No Way by LYKN fixation continues...

Writing

Wrote a couple thousand words on the ArmTae fic I started last week. I think it's going to end up much longer than I originally thought lol But I'm enjoying working on it!
Wrote some song lyrics.

Learning

Nothing.

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Current Music: those gODDAMN WHITE NOISE MACHINES

setsuntamew

I think I'm still too incoherently excited to post about the end of the MaM fanthanx event story but just know that it redeemed everything about this event like. just. I didn't think that was possible but I was WRONG and I'm so glad for it ;w;

KOHAKU SHOWED UP IN MADARA'S FUCKING BACKSTAGE DRESSING ROOM AND THEY PLANNED A TRIP AROUND TOKYO TOGETHER AND LOVE IS REAL AND I'M SOOOOOO HAPPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
okay okay okay I'm normal I swear XD

Really I just wanted to post about potentially designing a new layout......I do love my current one and it was a lot of work to get it to play right with dreamwidth, but like...it's been over a year, I need change XD I wish Component wasn't a livejournal only experience, cuz some of my ideas may or may not be feasible with other layouts...or my skill level :T Either way, I don't even know who I'm gonna feature in it ~~probably double face who am I kidding~~ it's just been like...vague coding ideas........

ngl I wish LJ hadn't shit the bed entirely because I managed to score free paid time there and I would absolutely overhaul my layout there if I could actually, you know, crosspost my entries conveniently. I just don't think I have the dedication to post them all manually :T

~~tho maybe if I had a fancier layout I would~~

Also, Kohaku and Madara are soooooo close to rank A+ in JP!!!!

so close I can almost taste it!!!!!!!!
120k fans, here I come!!!! tbh I got them to rank A+ in CN a bit ago and they have more than enough fans in ENG for once it comes to that server, but it feels a lot more earning in JP, you know? I had to manually grind for every single on of those fans, and it's only taken me 2 years. Which like, okay, I guess that's a lot of time, but it's also a sign of my dedication ♥

I'm trying not to dread the climb to rank S....175k fans seems insurmountable, but so did 120k!!!!! I can do it!!!!!!! It's going faster now because 2x/3x fans for White Day, but like...it's not impossible. If I want something, I can make it happen~

edit: forgot to include that I actually got a 5* from my MaM 10 scout ;w; Like of course it's yet another green one, as if I didn't just max the green event one, but I'm not complaining!! I was so excited ;w;

wish we could have unit/idol specific scouts more often...this is great XD

Current Mood: ecstatic
Current Location: Garwyn Oaks, MD
Current Music: Never See the Sun Rise ♪ Dayseeker
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goodbyebird

+ Very much had a plan to tidy my bedroom 100%, but then my dryer was like, "nah I'm not going to function" and I derailed completely. There's a couple more things I want to try to see if I can get it sorted, but if not I'll have to call for a repairperson ugh.

...so today I'm focused on cleaning the visible parts of my apartment instead lol.

+ Actually had lunch with a few of my friends today. It's been a while. Like, I didn't manage to meet a single one of them properly before Christmas even. How they all put up with a shut in like myself all these years, I just couldn't tell you. We tried a new noodle place, the food was excellent, I tried a marinated egg for the first time, and we were all laughing and enjoying ourselves.

One of my friends had helped clear out an apartment a couple of days ago, and when she saw the official and un-official guides for The X-Files in the donations box, she decided to grab them for me instead. Very sweet of her, and funny considering she did not know I'd just started watching s1 again.

+ Since AO3 seems to be fairly unstable atm I got some requests to do a new round of

ao3_isdown, so come on over.

+ I've been fiddling with the idea for

fannishtarot and running a Make Your Own Fandom Tarot event for a good long while now, gathering some quotes and such here and there. I think it would be such a rewarding way to deep dive into the tarot and also your own fandom(s) and fannish inclinations. Like, who or what would The Fool be to you in your chosen fandom? I think it'd be an excellent way to internalize a bunch of significators, etc. But I am not getting that started until I have a bunch more prep under my belt lol. I'd basically have to amass six months of posts beforehand, to make room for work schedules, travel, the occasional downtime/brain crash.

But it would be SO cool. I just hope some people will join in.

+ My Dune tarot will be arriving tomorrow, and I'd love to play with it a bunch. Let me know in the comments if you want me to do one of the book's spreads for you.

Current Music: The Echo Friendly - Same Mistakes

impala_chick

Browsing is open at Fandom Trumps Hate here! I find it easiest to navigate using the fandom tags list.

Here is my offering. I'll write 5-10k fic for Raven Cycle, Band of Brothers, or Masters of the Air. I'd love to write a rarepair or a poly fic, but I'm open to lots of other things. Feel free to ask questions if you have anyway!

setsuntamew

EVENT: DONE

I got the final copy of Madara already!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
idk what to say; I was possessed by a level of focus and determination hitherto unknown I guess???? I just locked in and played enstars for two days straight XD Seriously, I got the last copy at around 5 am, which was 52 hours after the event started. I did sleep some on Saturday night, but yeah, I was just on the nonstop grind.

Also, while I still don't love the event song (or outfit), the song started to grow on me after I'd played it nearly 50 times XD Which is good, since, you know, I had to play it so many times. Overall, I think I wouldn't have minded as much if this was a """regular""" event, but since the Fan ThanX events are meant to be more important, it was a bigger letdown. Like. It's a phone game, I'll live, but I'm still somewhat bummed.

KOHAKU REFERENCED IN ONE OF THE MINI TALKS THO SO LIKE. I'LL TAKE MY CRUMBS!!!!!!!!!!!!! And the office item also included Double Face decorations, not just MaM ;w; I was soooo afraid the event was gonna pretend like DF had never existed or some shit, so like....I was slightly healed by all that.

someone on twitter broke down all the references but I just wanted to share Mama's shooting range~
So, there's a Pop'n Music collab going on in enstars right now, which means that I played....a lot of the temporary collab songs during this event XD Sayonara Heaven, you are so important to me.

uhhhhhhhh my brain is still a little fried from how much enstars I played in such a short time....

OH, RIGHT. Since it's 2x fans for White Day (3x for Madara), I'm gonna spend the rest of the event fan grinding. Like...I have the card maxed already, I'm pretty much set on event points, you know? So I'm hoping I can make a big push towards Rank A+/120k fans for Madara and Kohaku~ I did the push for Rank A during the Bridal Campaign last summer, so now seems like a good time for it :D

( other various accomplishments from the grind )
Liz and I ran to the grocery store this evening because I was d y i n g for a vegetable. Like, yes, I was technically only grinding for two days, but it felt waaaaay longer, since I basically shoved the whole week of playing into that time, while subsisting mostly on instant food. Though on Saturday morning, Liz did make me eggs, bacon, and corn muffins from scratch for breakfast, which was very sweet ;w; They've been super supportive of my enstars-based insanity for the event, and I really appreciate it.

Spouses who game together stay together, you know? ♥

I do have to play a little bit more today, since it's Arashi's birthday, but like. It's sooooo much more manageable now XD

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Location: Garwyn Oaks, MD
Current Music: サヨナラ・ヘヴン ♪ 猫叉Master
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tinny

TV finished

Nothing, sob.

Okay, maybe I could count the complete video of Wu Lei's birthday livestream (from his birthday in December) which I found on youtube? It's about an hour long, and I watched that a few times until I understood at least some very small parts of it. Yay? That took up a lot of time, too, lol. eowuli on twitter promised to sub it, but I haven't seen a subbed version of it yet. The raw is here on youtube.

TV new (ongoing)

I'll count Saint Pierre here. The second season has started, and I have now watched one episode. I had forgotten how much getting used to Arch's French accent takes. I had no trouble with it (loved it, in fact) by the end of season 1, and I'm surprised that I'm apparently starting from scratch again now. I don't know why I missed the show so much, but I did, and I'm happy to have it back. The first ep took me right back into the town and the characters. I'm looking forward to the season.

TV continued

The Company (16/30), the time-traveling cdrama. I watched eight episodes of that this month. Still enjoying the BL vibes, wondering if they really put them in there intentionally or if I'm just wearing slash goggles. Peak time travel shenanigans in ep 10, then they set logical boundaries, and then immediately broke them again, lol. :D They are adorable. I'm definitely enjoying the show more than I thought I would, even though I expected more time machine shenanigans in the latest plotline, but my guess as to what had happened was completely wrong, lol. :D Overall, now that I'm about halfway through: I find some of the show a bit preachy, but not overly so. It hasn't turned me off yet. Most of it is just fun, and I find it surprisingly engaging! It's on viki.

I watched four more episodes of The Cross-Dressed Union, now on 22/24. It really is a fun watch, and even the grasslands sidequest was kind of satisfyingly resolved and integrated into the rest of the plot. I was surprised. Sadly, I then lost track of it, I really should just finish it, there's not much left. I definitely rec it. It's on youtube.

Three eps of Bridgerton Season 4! Watchalonging this, and we're all caught up now for the second part of the season. I loved the Queen in ep2! I didn't expect them to make her this obvious. Her reaction to Agatha's announcement in ep1 was pretty obvious to me, but seeing it play out like that was *chef's kiss* and made me cry. For some reason, I'm not really invested in Violet's storyline anymore this season? I liked it better last season. But her line in ep4 was hilarious, I was laughing so hard I couldn't breathe. :D My favorite character continues to be Penelope. <3 Sophie is starting to grow on me, too. The cliffhanger after ep4 is painful, but I thought it was quite logical. I have no complaints, really.

Two eps of Our Times (05/38), the 90s retro "IT students go professional" cdrama with Wu Lei and Hou Minghao. I still just find Wu Lei and Hou Minghao in (ugly!) period dress and hairstyle very very adorable. The bromance vibes are through the roof. So far, all lead characters are being trodden on repeatedly, to really firmly establish their underdog status. I'm sure that'll change throughout the show, but for now, this is exactly my thing. The embarrassment squick is relatively strong so far, but I made it through and am confident I will continue to do so. (I now have an active icon for it. That escalated quickly. :D). It's on wetv and youtube.

TV (dropped)

Nothing, I hope?

Shows for which I have fewer than 5 eps left but haven't watched a single one all month: The Long Ballad (1) and Love on the Turquoise Land (4). /o\

Rewatches/Watchalongs

The Nothing But You watchalong is now on ep 20. \o/ Enjoying the hell out of this watchalong.

Bridgerton season 4 hasn't gripped me. I'm not sure if it's because I'm not watching it on my own, or if it's the show itself. Who knows. We do both enjoy it, though.

The When A Snail Falls in Love watchalong is now done! \o/ The last episode was actually a little better than I'd feared. I don't regret watching it. We have now also started Nothing But You, I can never watch that too many times. <3

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MADARA MIKEJIMA WHEN I GET YOU----

MaM Event: Done!!!!

Consent in Ep 1 and 2 of Heated Rivalry

Can't access tumblr

Connor on SNL

Crossover Galore Challenge is now open!!

Things learned in February

016 - 2 gifs; 26.01 - sk8 the infinity

White Day is Kind to Me

Wednesday What I'm...

Community Thursday

cracks my skull open

ALL IS FORGIVEN

In my defense,

Fandom Trumps Hate!

I am the MASTER of JP Events

Fannish February

TV finished

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