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RIP
All politicians have their failures, bad moves, and detractors, but it's sad how "he's not a bad person, I just don't agree with him" is a normal statement that's considered radical now. I wonder what the history books kids are reading now are saying about this...
DW keeps shitting itself when I embed more videos, so here's Obama's eulogy and Biden's eulogy. Obama was a pretty average / "baseline" president, but I thought it was incredibly mature of McCain to invite his opponents to his funeral. Note how Trump and Ms. Palin weren't there...
I was hoping to have a rewritten review of Game Change back on my site by now, but I'm low energy and hit with post-con depression to want to chip at any HTML. Still, it'd feel wrong to not post about this somewhere.
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"Summer is over," says me.

The temperature got down to the low 50s last night so we slept with the windows open. The high is only supposed to be 69 today!
And then they had all the pumpkin flavors out at Dunkin. So I've got a pumpkin iced coffee with me this morning.
All this to say, I officially declare it to be fall now!
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Postcards and Post-apocalypse
◇ Read Erio and the Electric Doll, up to chapter 21, which is as much as is scanslated in English. There's more in French, though! Maybe I should try reading that for practice? Anyway, it's a GL manga, a post-apocalyptic steampunk story that has very nice art. I think the atmosphere is the most notable thing about it— the back-story and all that is pretty cliche robots rose up against the humans so to prevent the robots from doing that, humans stopped using electricity all together. The protagonist girls are an electric doll left over from the war and a girl whose body has been engineered to create electricity, as they travel through cities recovering from the war. I have a weakness for post-apocalyptic travel manga. There's honestly a fair few, and it's nice to see one that feels optimistic rather than pessimistic.
◇ I took down a few friend's addresses to send them post-cards! And I do have the post-cards! I just need to write them all, since I'd like to send them all out at once. Which... means I have some more to do. I've written some, just not all of them yet. It's maybe kind of a silly thing to do since we're all in contact online anyway, but I still want to.
◇ Diet time for real. It's just a few kilos but my dysphoria is acting up real bad, and I hate my clothes feeling tight.
◇ Dyed my hair! Or rather, a friend dyed it. I'm really happy with it. And since it's just the tips, if I get hired at a place that requires natural hair colour, it shouldn't be hard to cut. I'm hoping I won't need to, though.
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New Toy: Innioasis Y1
I'm not going to do a full review because I haven't used it much, and have barely uploaded all my music onto it. The Innioasis Y1 is designed to look like an iPod but feels way cheaper than an iPod, because, of course, you are only paying $50 for it. I got the blue (which is a teal color) even though my first choice would have been the teal (which is a blue color), but it still looks nice. Honestly in terms of first impression of builds, I think the Snowsky Echo Mini is probably nicer. I am definitely contemplating getting a screen protector for this thing.
The sound quality is ok -- on first impression I am not sure if it is slightly worse than the echo mini or I just haven't found the right volume (I think the Echo Mini can get way louder). One thing it does have is the ability to create themes. The Y1 is advertised as being "for kids," I guess because it doesn't have any web functionality so you can control what your child is listening to, so most of the default themes are kinda goofy looking. So the first thing I did was download a bunch of themes and am currently using a Windows 95 theme I found on Reddit.
I'm going to give it at least a week to see how it compares to the echo mini, or if I want to try running rockbox on it.
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Pokémon: Get!
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I'm writing about Xatu and Sneasel. Xatu's got a pretty cool design in general, and I've been a fan of Sneasel pretty much since I first laid eyes on it. Reading their 'dex entries and lore on Bulbapedia got me a plunny for Sneasel already, but I'm still working on finding one for Xatu.
If you haven't checked out the fics/podfic from last year, I recommend it! It was a long listen (about ten and a half hours total), but I loved almost every fic, and keep meaning to go back and comment on all of them.
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TTRPG CHARACTER 8: Theatri Glacialis
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Migrating to Nearly Free Speech
🖥️ Migrating to Nearly Free Speech
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2. Soooo there's whispers over on Bsky (etc.) that Neocities might follow suit on the NSFW bans. This was disclosed via an email from Kyle Drake, and Neocities in general is kind of... unmoderated unless it's something REALLY bad or something that exploits the site's spaghetti code. NSFW will only get banned from Neocities IF the US laws allow it, but.... I was thinking that maybe, the silver lining of the social media bullshit is that people will go make their own sites again with no rules besides "don't post CP or anything else illegal". But if this happens, I will go postal. I will cry. I've been willing to grit my teeth and agree to disagree with Kyle Drake's AI shilling but he cannot sell out so easily when the baseline rules of "anything legal in the US" works and NSFW websites are shadowbanned / not searchable. I'm already worried Bsky is going that way when I really like it, but if the worst happens I really might bite the bullet and look into buying a domain and a paid host. I'm just not ready :( (<- draft I wrote last night when I was sober lol)
I know there's Nekoweb, since the servers are in Germany and they (probably) won't be affected by US laws. But it's run by zoomers and customer support is done over Discord, that's insane. I don't even mind Discord but emails are right there. I know where I'd buy a domain, and what paid host I would use (NFS), but ugh. I've been taking a prolonged hiatus from my site because I don't enjoy it anymore, and the community is just refurbished Tumblr/Discord. I should probably look into push updates and a SSG. If I move to a better paid host, I'm sure that .php or .cgi has better ways of hosting an art gallery than the hard-to-organize OC bullshit I have and Javascript. But I'm just not ready for all of it, but the way things are is too much for me. Again, I'm drunk so if this is "unfiltered but incoherent" I'm sorry. I'm a wagie, not a techie. I'm trying to touch grass and try to be in sane online communities. But man. It's hard.
2025 is 2005 if I was an adult during it. What the fuck.
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When You're too Lazy to Login
Well, besides that, I've been getting a lot more kind random messages these days since I started being more social again, which is nice. I'd like to focus on that and write some kind of Today In Video Games post to talk about some of the latest games news I've been interested in besides Sonic.......but also Sonic. I've also been thinking of some older artists that influenced me a lot that deleted their galleries and I want to write about that. Much to do. Too much, even. I hate that being social requires... being social. It's as overwhelming as it is stimulating.
Oh, I've also never posted my art here before despite saying I willl, but I don't know if the first art of mine I want on this journal to be Espio getting fisted by Vector. A friend of mine mentioned it to me offhand and I just HAAAAAAAD to make it real. It looks as ridiculous as I thought it would. I don't know if I'm gonna color it or leave it a sketch, LMAOOOOOo... it'll be on Inkbunny eventually either way. Oh. Inkbunny is the only site that feels like it has a lot of Sonic artists outside of Twitter?? Weird. Oh, but I'm really rambling off all stream-of-consciousness like now and that'll never end. Back to werk.
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Random PIDW Monster
My first reaction to this thought was that Peerless Cucumber absolutely roasted Airplane in the comments when this monster made its debut, because he thought that "Eight-Legged" and "Spider" were redundant. Airplane retaliated by introducing Six-Legged and Ten-Legged Spider Hawks in the next chapter, including important distinctions between the species.
I don't know about the six- or ten-legged varieties, but here's the lore I came up with for the eight-legged ones:
Appears very much like a very large spider with hawk's wings, it is often mistaken for one in flight or while hunting. Its movement on the ground, however, is unmistakable. These creatures line their nests with a particular type of silk that makes exquisite bondage rope.
The ten- and six-legged varieties probably have somewhat different venom or are more prized for their feathers or something.
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Green nails and knitting
Knitting is a beanie in Knitted Wit Sock Yarn I got from Peoria. Nails are a c.2012 China Glaze "Rare & Radiant".

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Fiddling with things
One recent example is this cubic zirconia necklace I got from Body Art Forms (which is where I get most of my jewelry. I have...11 piercings. I had to pause to count haha.) I had been on the hunt for a very simple pendant necklace for a while. I have some beaded necklaces, both vintage and me-made, but no pendants that would work for every day wear.

I really like the necklace but the bale was wayyy too big. Almost as big as the pendent itself! And it kept flipping upside down and sticking out funny. I've been on the hunt for a replacement and ended up getting this stainless steel one from Michaels. Much better!
Also, a lot of the nail polishes are I are from around 2010. While they are generally in excellent condition, their brushes are often that long skinny older style that are a huge pain in the butt to work with. Especially because I really like metallic polishes which are enough of a pain to work with as is. I got some paddle style replacement brushes from KBShimmer since they fit with China Glaze and Sinful Colors. I got my info on what brushes fit what bottles from this chart on Reddit. My only quibble with the chart is that the KBShimmer brushes did not fit into any of my Revlon polishes, even with the KBShimmer caps. :/
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No News Is Good News
I'm feeling weirdly motivated to try to improve my art again. I really want to get better and more consistent and not cringe at literally everything I make and feel embarrassed I actually showed it to people and want to hide under a rock and--
Anyway, I need to kiss Espio desperately.( random unhinged nsfw fantasy text )
I never really understood what people meant by a comfort character, but I guess I do now. Life really feels so much brighter when you spend a portion of your time gushing over a fictional magenta chameleon.