Proof of Life and Whatnots

Sep. 27th, 2026 09:19 am
kalloway: (Xmas Lights 24 Burst)
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I'm here, and I'm reading when I can. Still pushing along with things. I ended up withdrawing from [community profile] iddyiddybangbang because I just... I had a few days where I was very deep in the hole. Casting off a deadline was the first thing I could think of to do. I'm feeling a bit better now.

I've got a busy October already and I have a short but dense list of things I want to get done during it. Mostly sorting out accounts and whatnot, and figuring out what I want to do with-

Figuring out what I want.

I still can't figure out where I want to live from day to day. This is a question that only I can answer, but right now it feels too big. (I can also change my mind, depending. I suspect I'll find a way to be more fluid about residences but it's going to take a little more time.)

Anyway, next is paying an absolutely ungodly amount of money to get the roofs replaced. The house needs done and the barn needs done and my parents had intended to get it done this year but now the homeowners insurance is down my back about it. And since the garage roof is nearly as old as the house, I might as well just get them all done at once so they're all done and I don't have to do mental calculus to remember how old each is.

After that, sort out the warehouse club memberships. Then on to the cellphones... (And then, and then...) I have achieved propane/heat, at least.

Also going to meet up with my funeral director and pick out a nice box ("urn") for Dad for burial. Simple, but nice. And I think that'll be enough for one week?

Eventually I'll manage a Media Roundup post or something.

Bleach fic

Sep. 25th, 2026 12:45 pm
thawrecka: (Bleach - fighting is better back to back)
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Cool With It (1245 words) by thawrecka
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Bleach (Anime & Manga)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ishida Uryuu/Kurosaki Ichigo
Characters: Ishida Uryuu, Kurosaki Ichigo
Additional Tags: Pre-Fullbringer Arc (Bleach), Humor
Summary:

Ichigo expects to get left behind. Ishida refuses to play along.

Writing & anime hijinks

Sep. 24th, 2026 03:17 pm
thawrecka: Tolle and Miriallia (Gundam Seed)
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As far as progress on my works for this FIAB round, & FIAB in general... hysterical laughter. I mean, I've written more than one thing, and I'm just in the editing and refining stage for the last one, but like... well, when we do post mortem for this exchange I'll see how I feel.

OTOH, the progress on my trick or treat fic is non-existent thus far because my brain can't work on this until this final FIAB thing is done, so. Anyway, hopefully a story pours out of me at some point.

Things watched:

I wish Crunchyroll had the option to remove something from the currently watching view, because it keeps putting series I've watched in full on there and I can't mark them watched to remove that because they're already marked watched... because I've already watched them... I've already watched Prince of Tennis and Given in full more than once, crunchy, please let me remove them from this row!!

Season 2 of Hana Kimi was pretty cute, all told! I'm looking forward to season 3. Even though the animation is pretty cheap, I'm honestly really happy with this anime adaptation of a series I've loved for decades, which seems loving and respectful and is updating to current times without overdoing it and straying off story too much. It's just really sweet.

Goodbye Lara, the Little Mermaid in modern Japan anime with a side of yuribait, turned out at the last minute to have a real fizzler of an ending. I don't know that I'd recommend it overall, but it is beautifully animated, and I did enjoy 10 and a half of the 12 episodes, so... There's that.

Kaiju Girl Caramelise, OTOH, after some rough moments in the middle turned out to have a very satisfying ending. Kaiju battle across Tokyo and the love interest likes her as a monster, also! I don't know if this will have more seasons, but it felt pretty satisfying as an end.

The finale of You and I Are Polar Opposites and the last two episodes of the final season of Bleach have both been postponed to fix some wonkiness in the animation, apparently, so I'm still waiting for those, but meanwhile minisodes about a popular side character from Kaiju no. 8 are coming out (which are amusing, though tbh I'm not super into that character and I would like the actual final season to finish the story, please!!).

Bleach fic

Sep. 21st, 2026 10:06 am
thawrecka: (Default)
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First Dates in Hueco Mundo (355 words) by thawrecka
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Bleach (Anime & Manga)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Tier Harribel/Nelliel Tu Oderschvank
Characters: Tier Harribel, Nelliel Tu Oderschvank
Summary:

Nel applies her enthusiasm to sitting at Haribel's side.



Originally posted here on FFA.

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Sep. 17th, 2026 09:32 pm
kalloway: (SaGa Neidhart 2)
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It's mid-September, somehow. My father's memorial service was last weekend, and the number of phone calls and appointments and whatnot is slowly decreasing. (Slowly.) I can't say things have gotten easier. They're just different. (I did get the model car done for the memorial. I promise I'll post pictures at some point. It's not perfect but I'm pretty happy with it.

I'm mostly building models in my spare time, because it remains a good way to turn off certain parts of my brain. I'm also working on a fic for [community profile] iddyiddybangbang which I think will require their amnesty extension. It's basically a story from Ye Olde Long-Running (War)Game but it's unplayable because the main two characters are both mine and yeah, lol. Right now, I'm still at the very beginning, whoops. Like, they've not even gotten breakfast on Day Zero. (LOL SOB)

Work is work, other stuff is other stuff. I re-read all of Gundam 00F basically in one shot before the 00F event started in Eternal and 1) 00F still holds together pretty well. I think this is the first re-read I've managed since it came out, despite multiple attempts where I ended up bouncing. And 2) the event is unfortunately pretty bad. There's some 'new' art that might be from Crossrays or something, and that's nice-enough, but overall the event is a let-down. Somehow, the first Astray event was actually pretty good, X Astray was crap, and this is crap. I suspect some of the events for stuff I'm not as familiar with were also crap but because of unfamiliarity, I didn't realize how crap they were. Which is probably partly a constraint of adapting manga to a mobile game but probably also partly the way they're choosing to adapt things.

There have been some really good events, for the record. The SD events have been great, and there was a UC-Alt-Timeline event that was fun.

I have, unsurprisingly, dumped like all my hoarded resources into making white Astraea into something fancy.

It's Tokyo Game Show weekend and I'm just kinda checked out on it. RomSaGa 3 remake was already announced and we've got Resonance coming up and idk what else I'm really looking forward to?

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