#it was also before I was daily posting. that started in. March or April

[justkillingthyme]

i think.That you are worth more than you think you are Because the way that i see you and the way that you see yourself are wildly different things ,. Fromw aht ive seen i mean.

Anons are very strange sometimes and i dont think they should be called human when that happens because what is human without a name to. To go with it

i get very happy whwn i see you post . that isnt to say ill go on a rampage and start killing people if you wver need a break because you dont owe me the happiness you bring. You are doing what you like and i am along for the ride .! like a stupid hitchhiker who saw where you were headed and liked the idea .

i think layton has the worst most atrocious handwriting or the most curliest neat fancy writing ever. Chicken scratch or constant calligraphy no in between. also that time he slapped a sticky note on floras back and ran off. Yeah that was a good one. go little gayboy and have fun with the evil goth man in the alleyway who likes to cosplay

I see you’ve trapped me into responding by attaching a headcanon! Nefarious!

I’ve gotten the impression that a lot of how people see me and the way I see myself are different but I’m just kinda. Chalking it up to the persona I put online. I’ll always be a different person to you guys because here (and particularly on this blog) I’m a more normal idealized version of myself and then like. Parts of The Mental Illness seep through which is bad cause my blog is for silly posting about puzzle game characters and making other people cry. Ideally here I’m not. Me. Thyme is a silly little guy behind the screen who goes feral for Clark Triton and like. I’ll leave it at that. My personal blog has more bitching (a lot more. And I thank everyone who’s been putting up with it) but even then I try to curb the worst of it. Cause you guys don’t wanna hear allat and I don’t like making people worry. It kinda makes me want to die actually. Emotional vulnerability is like. Mmy worst trait.

I am glad that I make people happy tho! That’s kinda all I want out of anything so likeeee life goal achieved thanks. I should start calling you guys my hitchhikers now. How did I get 300 people in my car idk but you guys are along for the ride

Hershel is so me. I think he tries to have super nice handwriting and he does when it matters but if he’s going fast it quickly just devolves into something illegible to anyone but him. Hkdbkdb

[bcacstuff]

Hi, have you heard anything or have any news on Cait’s London premiere of The Amateur on the 31st?

I haven heard and posted about the London premiere on 31 March at the Odeon in London. I haven't heard anything new about that.

I just saw a new article with a new still as well. It's article from Mujerhoy in Spanish.

Using Google translate:

LIVE

Caitríona Balfe begins her new journey.

By Aloña Fdez. Larrechi 22 Mar 2025

Entering the name Caitríona Balfe (Dublin, 1979) into any internet search engine means entering a universe of biographies that begin with her career as a model, fans who admire her for her work on Outlander, and information about the popular series, which will air its final season this year. Among the results, you can also find a video recorded in 2002, shortly before she participated in the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, in which she is asked about her acting studies and whether she will resume her acting career. "I don't know, I don't have any plans, maybe," answers a young woman in her early twenties with a smile and uncertainty. Four years later, aware of the importance of age in the fashion world, the possibility became a reality.

“When you look back on your life, you realize that everything that's happened has brought you to where you are,” explains the Irish actress. “Every moment can fuel your future existence. I've been very fortunate to have had an interesting life up until now,” she acknowledges. The current moment is one in which the daily routine that has defined her life for the past 11 years has undergone a change, as filming for the series that brought her worldwide fame has ended. “I know I've been doing this for 15 years, but since I was on Outlander for so long, I feel like I'm starting a journey,” she confesses.

The first stop on this journey is Amateur (April 11 in theaters), a feature film starring Rami Malek in which

The actor best known for portraying Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody is Charlie Heller, a brilliant CIA codebreaker who makes revenge for the death of his wife, murdered by a terrorist group, his most personal mission. To carry out this bloody task, he will have the help of a Russian hacker played by Balfe.

“When I read the script I thought, ‘This is fun,’” she confesses, before adding that although “these action movies are dominated by force, because everything revolves around the fights, Amateur is a very intelligent and very funny take on the genre.” Something that, added to the admiration she feels for Malek – “He’s a very interesting and unique actor” – with whom she had not worked but whom she knew “socially because we coincided at the Golden Globes,” led her to change the wardrobe of a 21st-century doctor during a break from filming the latest installment of Outlander.

XX who travels back in time 300 years through the life of a woman who lives in hiding today.

For the actress, the best part about the character is that she's "a lone wolf who lives in the shadows." She was inspired by Pussy Riot member Nadya Tolokonnikova because "I was trying to find someone who was very comfortable in English but had a Russian background," due to her character's accent, but also her motivations. "I really enjoyed finding in her a commitment to justice and integrity that isn't tainted by the influence of a regime," she acknowledges.

The revenge that drives Malek's character, and her own, is, for the actress, "very interesting to portray, because it's very different for each person: for some, it's debilitating and completely paralyzes them; for others, it propels them forward and leads them to do truly incredible things. That's a point where my role and Malek's diverge, but it also gives them this place where they connect deeply," she explains.

A childhood dream with an unexpected detour

The fourth of five siblings, with two other foster children at home, Caitríona Balfe grew up in rural Ireland dreaming of becoming an actress. “I was that annoying little girl,” she shares with a smile, “who would do little skits at home from the age of three or four. My dad used to do comedy sketches with his friends, so I think it was in my genes, in a way.” So when it came to choosing a career, she opted for acting. But she didn't expect that, while helping friends raise funds for multiple sclerosis, a man working for a modeling agency in Dublin would give her his card, and soon after, a French agency would sign her to work as a model in Paris.

She walked for fashion houses like Louis Vuitton and Chanel, but she defined herself as a "blue-collar model," one who lives on the ladder below supermodels and goes unnoticed. When she decided to return to acting in the 2000s, she moved to Los Angeles and took classes again. "I was very lucky because I met great teachers and it helped me regain my confidence," she shares, after acknowledging that "when you come from the fashion world, you get comfortable with rejection." After landing small roles in films and TV series, in 2013 she had been out of work for several months when her agent suggested she audition for Outlander. With no news, she organized a vacation, which she ultimately had to cancel because she was asked to travel to London for the final audition. After landing the role that brought her fame, she decided to leave Los Angeles for Scotland for a year.

More than a decade later, she still lives in Glasgow and enjoys spending time with her son, "because it was hard not to do so in recent years." A project as long-running as the series based on Diana Gabaldon's novels has been a "very hectic time, like being on a train that never stops." That unstoppable journey took her, among other destinations, to work on Belfast, the Kenneth Branagh film that earned her a Golden Globe nomination. "Now I enjoy the luxury of taking some time and choosing good projects," she admits, eager for the direction her new, yet highly experienced, career will take.

[butchdiaz]

tagged by @iinryer to do a 2024 fic roundup but i'm adding my videos in too because. uh. its fun to look back! and i want to!

MARCH

american teenager (36s)

my first ever commission! for my best friend bia! to this day i hear do what you want (do more!) everytime i listen to this song.

APRIL

arms (1:02)

this was for seti. and it hurt.

good luck babe! (1:11)

literally never felt euphoria the same since the week of bi buck when i made this. changed the timeline. (although i was so euphoric and excited to post that i cropped in a rush and left a little white line in one of the shots and it pisses me off massively to this day. yes im a virgo thanks for asking)

to open up my arms and give it all to you (2.5k)

my little buck coming out to chris fic with hints of buddie <3 bi buck got me writing again after months of literal Nothing. god bless

one of your girls (3:09)

kirby's vision went OFF. so proud of this one like. its gotta be one of my favs and i feel like it became a bit of a butchdiaz classic which makes me so happy :D

MAY

kill her freak out (1:33)

this video is my little baby. ohhh samia. ouaagh eddie.

scared of my guitar (2:23)

shoutout to the way the dialogue syncs up in this one. rly satisfying to me hehehe. honestly didn't think i'd like this one as much as i do but she hits hard

promise (1:15)

love when people commission me to edit songs im already currently obsessing over yay!!!!!

JUNE

happy to be here (2:16)

julien baker. eddie diaz. aka abby had a mental breakdown making this one.

closed hands, full of friends (45s)

this was my first time editing a song i had Never heard beforehand! 3 cheers for finding new music!!

JULY

l'amour de ma vie (3:26)

ok not to toot my own horn but. this one is good. i feel like i really told a story u know. and about now is when i started to play around with fun/more intricate text ooh ooooh

a burning hill (1:01)

this prompt was designed in a lab to kill me specifically. i wanted to do the whole song originally but i like. could not go on.

my ego dies at the end (2:49)

i reallyyyy like this one. long edits my beloved! i love to build to something. i rewatch this one often tbh. jensen mcrae is everythinggg

AUGUST

north star (2:16)

again, had never heard this song b4 i got this prompt and it got me obsessed with this searows album. this edit makes me feel all soft. rly loved incorporating fleabag into it bc like. fleabag for life. shoutout summerofbuddie for the inspo

feels like (58s)

this song has been on my buddie playlist(s) forever so i was So excited to get this prompt. it was so fun to make something. not depressing and just like. fluffy. fun fact i hand drew all the hearts for this in ps and they were such a pain to work with but i really love how it turned out cause i'd never done anything like that before :')

pink balloon (2:29)

finally made a proper buck amv. after so many eddie ones it was actually nice to switch it up. felt re-inspired! also always so inspired by samia ugh. i am an eddiegirl literally to my bones tho so this was both v hard and v fun to make.

SEPTEMBER

"i want a divorce" / "it was a date" (2:19)

the buckshannon parallels ouuugughhh. this was one of those ones that haunted me so persistently i literally was forced to make it. saw hanna's post and then blacked out and i was posting this.

had a feeling i could be someone (3k)

+

leave tonight or live and die this way (1.1k)

dyke buddie!!!!!!!! these fics are sooooo near and dear to my heart. i love to make everyone wlw! i love to project my butchness onto my fav characters! wrote these so fast (for me) like writing has Never flown out of me like that. i was possessed by the spirit of lesbianism. and. GOD. the response to these fics also makes me want to cry daily. the beautiful art that was created?????? for me and my little fic?????????? i actually can't believe it i love you guys so much. lesbians forever and ever and ever.

did it to myself (1:11)

another one of my favs. i think it slaps so hard tbh. i tried a lot of new stuff and it was so FUN. orla's music is so much fun to edit to i need to do another one of her songs asap.

afraid of heights (2:46)

boygenius wrote this for my friend buck buckley. got entirely consumed by this one. thank u han for being my buckafraidofheights warrior for life <3

headlock (2:23)

i love buck but i remember coming back to making an eddie amv and breathing a sigh of relief. i just Get him. its so easy. this one's underrated i think oop it kinda slaps

OCTOBER

savior complex (3:16)

this one was a rly good challenge and idek why. super happy with how it turned out though i like watching it back

NOVEMBER

funeral bell (2:54)

the buck thesis statement. to me. and such a crazy unique process. loved working w kaitlin on this one and sending her 10 million drafts (she rly got a behind the scenes tour yall and it was not pretty). this was an absolute BEAST to make despite it not even being that complicated. i think i just cared so much about making it perfect for my dear friend who trusted me with her visions and inspiration and that made it all the more special!

you get your dreams for free (14.8k)

drunk cuddling!!!!!!!! my longest fic i've posted to date and i fully thought i was never gonna finish it. i abandoned this last YEAR but im SO glad i came back to it and most of the reason for that is because of the absolutely lovely responses to my earlier fics this year <3 literally hilarious to me that i originally wanted to post this on halloween 2023. abby. abby no.

surrender my heart! (1:30)

post-confessions euphoria + a carly rae jepsen prompt? i was literally in heaven. SURRENDER UR HEART EDDIEEEEEEEEE

DECEMBER

every place leads back to your place (2.1k)

music inspires me soooo much (looks up at this post. no way right.) so i absolutely loved writing based off a song! and a chappell song nonetheless!! so fun to twist a breakup song around to fit Them. i particularly love the kiss in this one <3

oldie's station (3:17)

phew we're almost there! this one is recent but lowkey it feels like another classic to me already. i really really like it. making it felt like cooking a three course meal and watching it kinda feels like eating one :D (thank god) (i spent so many hours in that kitchen)

letter to god (1974) (2:27)

+

letter to god (1983) (1:52)

putting these together bc they are sister songs and sister videos. first time in my life i've worked on two videos at once. it was fun because they kind of grew together and influenced each other very directly. not fun because i ran out of space and my laptop crashed. several times. these felt rly indulgent and raw. kind of shocking to me how perfect both songs feel for both of them. had a lot of fun messing with the voice/video filters to try and place these in their respective eras bc im obsessed with that aspect of the songs. halsey's artistry is crazy yall if u havent listened to her newest album GO. NOW.

the rush of slumber party kissing (3.2k)

posted this literally yesterday lol. also my first time writing smut. somehow. scary! but i did giggle all the way through writing this tbh. when buddie reveal their true nature as silly teenage girls >>>>>>>>>>

SPECIAL SHOUTOUT

fleabag au wip, who saw the light of day again this year. she could be finished in six months or six more years, but she Will be finished. im determined!

<3

ok if u read all that uh. wow congrats fhdhhdh im gonna get sappy for JUST A SEC now cause uh. im actually blown away by the support and love and appreciation this fandom has shown me this past year. you guys have given me so much confidence in my skills as both an editor and a writer and you also quite literally helped me pay my rent. by making videos about gay firefighters. its actually kind of mind blowing to me how lucky i am and i never want to take that for granted <3

to anyone who has commissioned me, or sent me a prompt, or left a comment on a fic, or a tag on a video, or sent me a kind ask, or subscribed to me, or followed me, or reblogged anything of mine this year: thank you.

im so grateful for this little community and all the friends and connections i have made through our collective insanity over a procedural drama on abc (neé fox). yall rock so hard.

<3

tagging @userbuddie @chronicowboy @confessionseddie @try-set-me-on-fire @userautumn @lovelettered @exhuastedpigeon @sibylsleaves @saryasy @team-118 @lemmeaskthedevil @eddiebabygirldiaz if u wanna do any sort of yearly roundup!

[sleepytoycollection]

Asking because I know there are a of other challenge months, holidays, and so on that might make doing a daily photo challenge tricky.

It's impossible to entirely avoid an overlap with something else, but I want to make sure as many people as possible will feel able to participate. It's okay if that means it'll be a while before out first challenge starts! I'll just use the time to polish the plan more.

Rb if you vote so as many collectors as possible can see!!

EDIT: I should probably have explained what this is for those who are new here. I'm attempting to plan a photo challenge month for toy collectors where you can only post about the toys you currently have, and cannot post about any new purchases. This is to encourage appreciating the items you own, and curb FOMO impulse buying instincts. Also maybe just to show off the toys you haven't photographed in a while. There will be themed prompts to go with it. I hope it will be fun!

[emeraldmew]

Want to (re)read Animorphs?

Have you seen posts about the series by K A Applegate around tumblr and thought “What happens in these books?!” Are you like me and read them all as a kid but want to reread now? Maybe you just read them last month and still have the brainworms from them (heh). Maybe you want to be unmarketable by diving into a kids’ series from the 90s for the next year or just want a long-term alternative to doomscrolling?

Whatever your reason, do you want to make it a book club in the spirit of Dracula Daily?

So it looks like the poll suggests a one-book-a-week read-a-long, so it will take over a year to complete. Don’t let that intimidate you. You can always pick up at any time �� either starting with an earlier book later into the year or by picking up with the book of the week as the Animorphs series was made to be largely self-contained in the individual books.

As previously stated, I’m not emailing out the bits and pieces like Dracula Daily. I don’t want to get in a fight with Scholastic and for no particular reason the year 2025 seems like an excellent year to support libraries. If your library or library app doesn’t have the ebooks or audiobooks apparently there are also PDFs of the entire series floating around on the internet with the authors’ blessing. Who knows, maybe you’re lucky enough to be in a position to have the physical copies.

Yeah. There are a lot of books. At one per week it will take over a year, but the books themselves are very short. If you’re unfamiliar with the series you might be confused by the addition of Megamorphs and Chronicles books meant to be read between the main 54. No worries, I’ve made a schedule.

I decided (admittedly quite arbitrarily) to start the first week of March to try to give a buffer between the idea and the start date for interest to spread before the first book. The idea is to finish each week’s book by Saturday but there’s no pressure if you fall behind or skip a book or join late. I can’t guarantee you’ll avoid spoilers, but I’m hoping people tag with the number or title of the book or some such method to discuss them. Idk, I’ve never done something like this before.

March 2-8: #1 The Invasion March 9-15: #2 The Visitor March 16-22: #3 The Encounter March 23-29 1: #4 The Message March 30-April 5: #5 The Predator April 6-12: #6 The Capture April 13-19 #7 The Stranger April 20-26: Megamorphs #1 The Andalite’s Gift April 27-May 3: #8 The Alien May 4-10: #9 The Secret May 11-17: #10 The Android May 18-24: #11 The Forgotten May 25-31: #12 The Reaction June 1-7: The Andalite Chronicles June 8-14: #13 The Change June 15-21: #14 The Unknown June 22-28: #15 The Escape June 29-July 5: #16 The Warning July 6-12: #17 The Underground July 13-19: #18 The Decision July 20-26: Megamorphs #2 In the Time of the Dinosaurs July 27-August 2: #19 The Departure August 3-9: #20 The Discovery August 10-16: #21 The Threat August 17-23: #22 The Solution August 24-30: The Hork-Bajir Chronicles August 31-September 6: #23 The Pretender September 7-13: #24 The Suspicion September 14-20: #25 The Extreme September 21-28: #26 The Attack September 27-October 4: #27 The Exposed October 5-11: #28 The Experiment October 12-18: #29 The Sickness October 19-25: Megamorphs #3 Elfangor’s Secret October 26-November 1: #30 The Reunion November 2-8: #31 The Conspiracy November 9-15: #32 The Separation November 16-22: #33 The Illusion November 23-29: #34 The Prophecy November 30-December 6: #35 The Proposal December 7-13: Visser December 14-20: #36 The Mutation December 21-27: #37 The Weakness December 28-January 3, 2026: #38 The Arrival January 4-10: #39 The Hidden January 11-17: #40 The Other January 18-24: Megamorphs #4 Back to Before January 25-31: #41 The Familiar February 1-7: #42 The Journey February 8-14: #43 The Test February 15-21: #44 The Unexpected February 22-28: #45 The Revelation March 1-7: #46 The Deception (we’ve hit a year, folks!) March 8-14: #47 The Resistance March 15-21: The Ellimist Chronicles March 22-28: #48 The Return March 29-April 4: #49 The Diversion April 5-11: #50 The Ultimate April 12-18: #51 The Absolute April 19-25: #52 The Sacrifice April 26-May 2: #53 The Answer May 3-9: #54 The Beginning

They’re kids’ books but they do have enough gray morality (buckle up for August, folks), violence, and body horror to satisfy your average Magnus Archives fan, so be forewarned if you’re squeamish. If someone who’s read the books more recently than I have wants to add content warnings for individual books, feel free. Also feel free to correct me on where to place the Megamorphs/Chronicles in relation to the regularly numbered books.

I leave the perusing of the Alternamorphs to your own schedule if desired.

Join the Sharing in and tag your readthrough with Animorphs Book Club!

Let’s do it!

[daily-nightamins-at-25-00]

HELLO!!

Hello!! Welcome to the (un) Official Nightcord at 25:00 pharmacy!! Here we distribute all vitamins and supplements under the 25-ji group of medicine!!

Here at the Nightamins at 25:00 pharmacy, we give out all kinds of vitamins for your health!!

Vitamin Ena: Very prominent and effective, known for helping with blood circulation.

Vitamin Kanade: Helps with hearing and gives emotional comfort.

Vitamin Mafuyu: Prevents brain implosion. Very dangerous to stop taking.

Vitamin Mizuki: Helps mental health and gives self confidence! Some hair supplements are a part of this vitamin.

Along with vitamins, we also administer supplements to assist with your daily life!!

Supplement Niigo Miku: Assists with emotional regulation and reduces depression.

Supplement Niigo Luka: Gives a boost in creativity and ideas.

Supplement 25-ji Rin: Provides emotional support and gives comfort.

Supplement 25-ji Len: Helps with digestion and has a calming effect.

Supplement N25 MEIKO: Assists in solving logic driven problems, like puzzles.

Supplement N25 KAITO: Gives motivation and energy, while regulating exhaustion.

Please take these meds with caution!! Taking infrequent doses and varying sizes will cause side effects to pop up! Stopping consumption of these vitamins and supplements will lead to death, so tread lightly.

Taking more than prescribed will lead to severe side effects, some of which include social reclusion, anger issues, becoming nocturnal, death, cardiac arrest, loss of sanity, nausea, etc. More severe instances of these side effects will occur from malnutrition and deprivation of Nightamins.

Nightamins are distributed every day! Scheduled to meet up with almost every time zone!

That being said, the schedule is as follows:

Vitamin Kanade is to be taken on every 01, 05, 11, 15, 21, and 25 days.

Vitamin Mafuyu is to be taken on every 02, 06, 12, 16, 22, and 26 days.

Vitamin Ena is to be taken on every 03, 07, 13, 17, 23, and 27 days.

Vitamin Mizuki is to be taken on every 04, 08, 14, 18, 24, and 28 days.

Supplements will be provided on every 10, 20, and 30 days in the following order:

Supplement Miku during January and July

Supplement Rin during February and August

Supplement Len during March and September

Supplement Luka during April and October

Supplement Meiko during May and November

Supplement Kaito during June and December

On each 09, 19, 29, and 31 day, the vitamin will be a random art piece either official or unofficial.

#notamin for non vitamin posts

#nightamins at 25:00 for daily vitamins!!

Each member will have their own tag! It being their type, surname initial, and name! (Ex: vSEna, s25Len, vAMafuyu, s25Meiko, etc.)

This blog also has some occasional accidental milgram and other fandom content. Reference to the Amane President post that I reblogged on the wrong account and won’t take down.

My firefighter related ramblings because I love them <3

#Fire Department Ramblings for that btw

Important!!: I am very bad at tagging and will continually forget to do so on non-nightamin posts. I’m working on it but please be patient and careful!!

DISCLAIMER: I am a minor ( @calleigator (pjsk id is 432929375353335813) and am NOT affiliated with SEGA, Colorful Palette, or anything official related to Project Sekai. Also this was very much inspired by @daily-vitamin-ena so thank you!!

Also!!: I am the Janitor ™︎ for Fazlens :D

OG divider by @/Kawaii-Lau!! Edited to suit Niigo

[the---hermit]

second semester goals and to-dos

Tomorrow I am starting with the second academic semester, and I decided to sit down and write down a sort of goals and to do list. I have already done some planning on my bullet jorunal, but I like to have lists here as well to keep me motivated. And it's also nice to keep a journal of what I am doing academically. I usually do to do list posts before exam season, so I have no idea how this will be structured, but it will surely be a long post.

This second semester will be starting in February and it will end in June with the end of lectures and the start of the summer exam season. It is divided in two sections with a pause at the end of March/beginning of April, in which lectures stop for a couple of weeks to allow for a small spring exam session. I have a general plan for the whole semester but as I like to break things down I will be focusing on planning the first half of the semester, so from now till the beginning of April.

My focus in these first two months are two classes. I will be working on materials for a class completly alone at home, and I will be attending lectures for the other class (which will also continue in the second half of the semester).

Goals for this first half of the semester:

work on all the materials for the six credits class and take the exam in the spring

attend all the first half of lectures for the twelve credits class

figure out how the second half of those lectures will work + the materials

mantain a good work/rest balance in order to avoid burning myself out, especially since I will be commuting again

General to - do list for the first half of the semester:

watch and write notes for the online lectures (13/13)

read and write notes for the mantadory materials (5/5)

read and write notes for the other materials (3/3)

review out loud for at least a week and a half before the exam

general list of key words (?)

attend to all in person lectures for the second class and keep tidy notes

add informations to my daily notes after the materials for each week have been shared by the professor

try to start working on the materials of the 12 credits class so I won't have to do everything last minute

figure out the materials and how the exam is going to be structured

figure out how to do the second half of the class + talk to professor

I haven't done a productivity challenge in a while, but I might do a 50 days of productivity to track my work this semester. Additionally I would also like to track my rest time, to make sure I am getting my energies back, and to avoid burn out. I might set up a weekly reflection system or something. Overall I'd like to start posting daily again both to journal and to track my productivity.

[echoghost1]

Echo’s 2024 Year in Review: Creative Edition

So this got a bit long so I'm gonna put it all under the cut

All the pfps I made this year

January

Doodles

I drew a couple pictures to put on my thank you cards [that I forgot to post here]

February

Doodles

Drew myself as an Oddish because it was Pokemon Day

Also drew a Valentine card for/of my DND OC Kleethee 

Fics

Are You My Father? (dp x dc crossover) - added a 3rd chapter

March - Green With Envy

Doodles 

Drew a new lil pfp for the Green With Envy event 

and then got to coloring

First one

The second one and it has a short little fic-let to go with it

Fics

Things You Find In The Forest (fae au) - added chapter 3

Down Dog - Added the 7th and final chapter!!!

April - Phic Phight

Fics

Unlocked Locks for jackdawSprite

White Out for StrawberryCamel

Liminal Magic for SkarlettSkwrl

The Honoring Ceremony for Marsalias (aka Five-Rivers)

The Blizzard that led to an Avalanche - added ch. 4

May

Fics

The Light Draws You In (moth danny) - added chapter 2

The Show Must Go On

Just One Bite (vampire au) - added chapter 6

June

Doodles 

Started preping for ArtFight - made a pfp and a lil border to put around my thumbnails

July - Art Fight & Crossover Angst Week

Doodles

Drew my new dnd oc Tobi and put him up on the artfight site (still feel bad for not giving the poor guy clothes)

Did four attacks!

Fics

A World Unseen (warehouse 13 crossover) 

August

Doodles 

Played with an idea of changing the race of my girl Kleethee

Made her a brightmaid and a flowershifter

September - Invisobang posting!

Doodles

Started ectober by doing my first ever redraw of old art

Fics 

Bitter Taste (vampire au prequel) [wrote this from February through August]

Cutting It Close (a PJO fluff fic) [I had started to re-read the entire pjo/hoo series and got a little obsessed so I had to write a lil fic - there were many more ideas but sadly no time/brainpower to write them... yet]

October - Ectober

Fics

Like Sand - added 3rd and final chapter

Dinosaurs, Dragons, and Dances

Storm Sense

Misplaced, Replaced (fae au prequal)

Under the Full Moon (teen wolf crossover) - added chapter 6: The Halloween Rave episode!!! (part 1)

November

Doodles 

Drew Kleethee in an outfit someone else made up [that I forgot to share here lol]

Also was busy doing ficmas prep since I run that event - made some doodles for the daily prompts (or at least as many as I could think of things to draw for the prompts lol)

Also also made a pfp for the fic-mas blog as well

December - 12 Days of Ficmas

Doodles 

Drew the new bg for the ficmas blog

End of review thoughts:

Before I rounded everything up, I thought I didn't do much this year, but then I saw I at least did something every month and that did feel nice to see

Bonus round!

Here's all the stuff I forgot to post during the year

[slimeylee]

🪲🧃 || pinned -- # introduction post . *

The Whole " Being Dead " Thing

1:03 ──⚬──── 3:45

⇆ ◃◃ ıı ▹▹ ↻

❝ Hey , folks ! Beggin' your pardon !

'Scuse me ! Sorry to barge in ~

Now let's skip the tears and start on

The whole , y'know ... bein' dead thing ! ❞ /lyr

## last updated ;; march 19 , 2024 ,,

my blog introduction . . . remade !

this blog is a semi - tickle , semi [ normal ] blog .

♡ ‧˚⊹ ❝ Ready ? Okay ! Hi ! I'll be your guide !

I'll be your G-U-I-D-E to the other side ! ❞ /lyr

๋ ࣭ ⭑ 🧷 ABOUT ME

⚝ . * || names i go by are ;;

— slime

— loser

— les / leslie

— kenny

i steal most of my names from my favs :3

nicknames are okay , but i prefer them from closer moots only .

* . ^ i am a minor & my birthday is on april 1st . NSFW & 20+ DNI + DNF . 20+ & sfw are free to int .

please do not be weird and also do not dm if over 20 preferably please n tyy

⟡ i identify as asexual

i use they / he / fae / ze / it pronouns .

you do not have to use my neopronouns . at the least just use they or he

๋ ࣭ ⭑ 🧷 BYF

— i am unhealthily obsessed with my fandoms and characters . and i will post about them daily .

— i make kys / kms jokes . they're never serious / gen

— slurs . i say FAGGOT and FAG a lot . its all / lh i swear

— i have a very difficult time reading tone . please dont misuse or overuse tone tags but use them .

— i get attached to people easily so i might talk to u a lot

— i am not usually dry but i will try to match peoples energy most of the time !!!

— i use emoticons !! and i often talk in caps

— i have a typing quirk ( spaces before punctuation ) n im also either VERY GOOD or very bAD with spelling theres no in between .

i also never use grammar i hope you never expect me to use grammar

๋ ࣭ ⭑ 🧷 DNI / DNF

— basic dni criteria . [ this includes but is not limited to ;; racist , homophobic , transphobic , ableist , proship / comship , etc . ]

— nsfw or primarily nsfw blogs

— 20+ blogs that are nsfw

— tickle kinks / fetishisers

— people who misuse tone indicators

— extra sensitive people cuz i make insensitive jokes sometimes . im also a helluva boss , hazbin hotel , and south park fan so

— wilbur soot , dteam fans

— i love talking abt my fixations and fandoms PLS TALK TO ME ABT M FANDOMS also im so sorry if i post a lot abt a singular topic its just bcus im rly excited abt them . or it or whatever it rly is

.𖥔 ݁ ˖ [ are you still reading ? maybe leave a follow .. im pretty kewl rite ?! :3 ]

๋ ࣭ ⭑ 🧷 FANDOMS

________________

- south park

- the amazing digital circus

- hazbin hotel

- helluva boss

- dsmp / mcyt

✮ these are fandoms that I will write for !

๋ ࣭ ⭑ 🧷 TAGS

#slimey-thinks ;; my thoughts

#slimey-selfrbs ;; self reblogs

#slimeyLER ;; ler mood

#slimeyLEE ;; lee mood

#slimeySWITCH ;; switch mood 😭

#slimey-reblogs ;; reblogs

#slimey-asks ;; asks

#slimey-art ;; my drawings

#slimey-fics ;; my fanfics

#slimey-ficlets ;; short fics / oneshots ( ? )

๋ ࣭ ⭑ 🧷 CHARACTERS I WON'T WRITE FOR

tadc __

— I can write for them all I think I might not accept a ton of requests for certain characters . I think the only ones Id have trouble w is bubble and NPCs

hazbin hotel characters __

— valentino - self explanatory

— lilith - dont know enough abt her

helluva boss characters __

— stella - self explanatory

— mammon - self explanatory

— verosika's team [ -vortex maybe ] - dont know enough abt them

south park characters __

— I'll write for most if not all sp characters but I do prefer to write for the kids over the adults

dsmp members / characters __

— dream

— wilbur

— punz

— georgenotfound

— sapnap

and any characters unlisted you can request , ill let you know if i will do the req and or if im adding a new character to one of these lists

๋ ࣭ ⭑ 🧷 WHAT I WILL WRITE

for tickle fics :

— pinning down ( no tying )

— feathers , wings , nails , hands .

— ALL SFW

— angst

— fluff

— hurt / comfort

— ships romantic and platonic

๋ ࣭ ⭑ 🧷 EXTRA

i like to roleplay !! but i am rusty so bare with me ok

i love drawing and i like to sing :3

i also used to play gacha club / gacha life 2 a lot

anddd thats pretty much it :3 ty for reading and make sure to FOLLOW ME i am very cool .

maybe

♡ ‧˚⊹ ❝ See , I wasn't kidding , its a show about death ! ❞ /lyr

[more-than-a-princess]

Just a small PSA (which I'll reblog on Munday too):

As I work to reply to current threads between now and Tuesday (as that is what my current queued and to-write list has dictated), I just want to give current writing partners (and interested writing partners!) a heads-up that I will be cutting off daily reply posts starting Friday, March 29.

I will be using the next week between March 29 and April 5 to create a backlog of RP replies that will be queued, alongside art and aesthetic posts, for the next two weeks while I'm on vacation hiatus. This is hopefully to prevent an onslaught of replies while I'm on vacation and therefore will, hopefully, give me less to catch up on all at once upon my return!

tl;dr - If it's your turn to reply and you get me a reply early next week, I will likely get you another reply in turn before March 29. After March 29, you will get your next reply from me sometime between April 5 and April 21. This is also contingent on just how many replies I get back in the next few days.

[la-galaxie-langblr]

February Reflection/Goals check-in

The first two weeks of February were wonderful, the last two came from hell, but we made it!!

Academic 🎓

Study French outside of classwork on 90% of the days ✅ - yes but I'm going to shelve this as a goal for March, I have so much going on that I won't have time to do more than the bare minimum for language study

Achieve firsts on both linguistics modules and 65% on both of my French exams ✅ - I actually achieved this exactly: 76 in Syntax, 78 in Pragmatics and 65s in both translation and oral!!

6 volunteering hours 🟡 - work in progress, I did 2 hours of community gardening :) I intended to go to another gardening session but my mental health absolutely tanked the day before so I bailed, ah well

Wellbeing/hobbies/social 🌻

Stay up to date with daily devotionals - 😬 welllllllll it's lent soon, I'll catch up

Read at least 3 books ✅ - yep!! Finished Blood, Sweat and Pixels from January and also read Boy Parts and What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20, hoping to read a book or two in March as well if I have the time

Improve my current swimming best of 1200m in an hour with breaks ✅ - I swam 1350m in an hour with breaks this week!! I think I'm on track to reach 1500m before the end of the semester :D

Create and maintain routines - this is flopping unbelievably badly but I'm going to give it another good go in March

Attend a special event at least twice a month - again going well, this month I played a Pathfinder one-shot, went to a comedy show, went on a date and went to a ceilidh!! Been a big month for new experiences, most of these happened at the beginning of February and I've spent the rest of the month recovering from so much socialising and novelty, but I think ultimately it was worth it :)

Leave the house at least 6 days a week - I've been less good at this recently, also due to very poor mental health, but every time I have left the house I've felt much better so all the reason to keep trying

Side quests/bucket list/things to look forward to 🍄

Lots of fun events with friends ✅

March: Musical, St Patrick's Day, Going Home

Learn how to eat with chopsticks 🟡 - I started practicing this month!! I'm alright at eating chunks of food and I got 2 or 3 mouthfuls of rice in one meal, still a long way to go but I'm not at 0 ability anymore!!

Learn how to read 2 non-Latin scripts ❌ - I keep forgetting about this as a goal, probably going to shelve this for March because I will NOT have the time

Attend a mushroom foraging event - still no word from my uni nature societies, maybe in March?? Otherwise I'll have a look at cheap walks organised by outside organisations

I'm going to be off Tumblr for March and most of April due to Lent so the March monthly roundup and my Q2 goals will be posted afterwards :)

[mskerri]

Weight-Loss Journey 2025 II

Hello Everybody, I told you I'd be back with an update and here it is.

I started this past month off strong. I had been steady in my daily caloric intake and reintroduced weight training into my workout. No, I did not stop the cardio I now simply do two workouts every day. One cardio-focused and the other strength. It has been pretty nice. I enjoy the break in between the two workouts and it allows my energy to re-level out and enables me to go hard at both sessions.

What these workouts usually look like throughout the week is Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday I train cardio and strength. On Wednesday I slow it down with easier cardio and mobility. Saturday I train for my 5k, it's officially going to be in April. Although I don't train it more days throughout the week, I think my daily cardio has really helped with my stamina, my time is steadily dropping, and my speed is slowly increasing. I think I will be able to get my 5k under 40 minutes when I run it in April. This may not seem like a lot to daily runners but I am looking forward to completing this first running goal! Sunday we do as the lord suggests and rest.

My daily caloric intake, as mentioned, has been pretty consistent. Running between 1500-1700 calories daily. Sometimes it's a little lower, I've had some 1400 calorie days and rarely has been a little higher landing in the 1800s. But all in all, I am satisfied with this consistency. I will continue to play with these numbers though. I am considering increasing them yet again to land a little closer to 2000 daily for a few weeks, then dropping them back down. I believe it's called reversed dieting, but first I want to get a better idea of where I would like my maintenance calories to fall in the long run. I thought 1500-1600 would be sufficient but as this has stabled out I am thinking I may want to increase up to 1800 first. If I decide to go that way I will likely spend the month of March maintaining that. Then in April start a weekly hike up to 2000 before dropping back down to 1800 for two weeks. More on that in the coming post though.

Protein has also been consistent, I usually bring in between 70-100 grams and that lands me right in the recommended amount. I would need a little less in theory but with all the extra workouts I do I have increased to meet those needs.

My sugar intake is down substantially and I am honestly doing better than I could have hoped. Am I 100% no but I would definitely say I follow the no sugar 90-95% of the time. Aside from the sugar that is snuck into some of the processed food I still eat, working on cutting more of that out, I can count on one hand how many times I reach for something extra sweet and sugary, and even when that happened it was minimal.

Now I do not include alcohol in this as of yet, but I have never really been a heavy drinker and I usually drink pretty spread out. Once a month or so when I go out with friends. That is something that worries me as I do have a lot of events coming in the next few weeks which usually means alcohol. This is typically wine, but every now and then it's a mixed drink. I am working on decreasing this as well and one day I am sure I will give it up altogether. Not today but one day in the future, lol.

I started on some new supplements this month as well. I would feel like a pill popper but a good bit of them are in gummy form. Currently, I am taking B12, D3, Biotin, a Multivitamin, and Ginkgo Biloba. These ones I take daily and I believe I see a difference in all the areas that they are individually meant to help. The most prominent ones are the Biotin, as my bald spots are thickening up, and Ginkgo as I find I can concentrate better. I have also added Creatine to the mix on the days I do strength training. I want to say it's working but I think it's still too early to tell. I also still consume LMNT for electrolytes on a mostly daily basis. I enjoy it and it helps me to drink more water. Currently getting in about 48oz a day and trying to get to a consistent 64oz or more.

Sleeping, as you all know I have been working on my sleep habits. They are still not great, but they are getting better. I am usually in bed by 12am and find that I can wake up around 8-9am with no issue, but sometimes a little earlier. This does not happen every day and in complete honesty these last two weeks it's been faltering more. But still more consistent than before and I will continue my efforts to becoming a morning person, but I worry it's not in my blood.

Some setbacks I had this month. I got sick at the beginning of February and ran a fever for almost a week. This meant I had to take almost a week off of working out and trust me when I say I did try lol. I also smoked a little with my brother, which really triggered my hunger, and not in a good way. This was when I started eating extra sweets and sodas, but luckily he didn't have much so it only lasted about two days. Other than that I have been really good about not smoking. In the past week, I have been experiencing some minor knee pain. It started in one and then the other started to act up as well. This meant changing my workouts a bit and moving my leg days. I did get one in today, but I kept it fairly light so as to not re-agitate either of them. I will continue to do that for at least another week. I also find that I am not shopping enough. I want to say I go out shopping at least once every two weeks and may pick up little things in between, but I think it may be time to increase that amount to once a week. With the increase in calories that means an increase in food consumption and I need to be able to meet those needs otherwise processed food starts to creep back in.

Overall I have been feeling pretty great. My energy has improved and even my depression is getting better. I have also been tracking everything on a wall calendar which has really helped in keeping me motivated. Even with my sickness, it didn't slow me down in getting back into my routines once I started to feel better. In the past, that may not have been the case.

This has already gotten longer than I had intended for it to be. So without further ado, here are the stats:

Starting Stats:

Age: 35

Height: 60 in / 152.4 cm

Weight: 171 lbs / 77.5 kg

Body Measurements:

-- Bust: 41.24 in / 104.75cm

-- Waist: 33 in / 83.8 cm

-- Hips: 44.5 in / 113 cm

BMI: 33.4 *based on this site

5K Time: 47 minutes

Current Stats:

Age: 35

Height: 60 in / 152.4 cm

Weight: 171 lbs / 77.5 kg

Body Measurements:

-- Bust: 39.25 in (-2in) / 99.7 cm (-5cm)

-- Waist: 33 in (-0cm) / 83.8 cm (-0cm)

-- Hips: 43 in (-1.5in) / 109.33 cm (-3.66cm)

BMI: 33.4 *based on this site

5K Time: 46 minutes

Goal Weight by birthday:

Weight: 130 lbs / 59 kg

When I did my weigh-in this morning I won't lie I was pretty disappointed as that had not changed in the last month and I have been working so hard. But once I took the pictures and compared the measurements, this is why they are important, I could really see some changes in the overall physic of my body. So even though the scale is not always our friend remember to mark your progress in multiple ways. I am ready to conquer this next month and I know the weight will come off, I just need to stay consistent.

[boyd-speaks]

January As usual January started slow. Apropos of nothing, I decided to draw this anthropomorphized Musharna (from pokemon) and she's so sleepy, she has a plush Teddiursa. I think that's cute.

February And so begins my art this year, mostly being art for my various youtube videos. It's kind of amazing I made the video this is for back in February. Only this week, at the time I'm writing this, I've been working on a variant of the deck it's about, and won a clean game with it. Jalira is really cool. Shame 'Cold Brews' didn't go anywhere. I liked the idea for a series, but I guess it was too slow. Who's to say more, maybe if I'd done more one of them would have caught fire. (I didn't even end up using this as the thumbnail since I wasn't sure anyone would pick-up what it's about.) March This one is an exception to my usual rule. I always use pictures actually on DeviantArt, and its an easy rule considering just before posting this year in review I added some pictures I missed, but this is but one of a group that, while I think embody the month, I don't really think need to live on dA. This, and the other images I made with it, were for my April Fool's video, so they weren't even shared until then, but were definitely drawn in March. April I loved the video this was for so much! I wrote some short fiction, and gave it a dramatic reading. I made a mechanically interesting card that combined these two beloved magic characters, and I drew this picture, which is one of the few drawings I did this year in this specific style, which I kind of think of as my signature style, despite not using it much in 2024. May There are surprisingly a lot of good may pictures, but I had to give it to my boy Amnesio. One of my favourite pictures of the year, regardless of context, they're also the face of one of the years best received videos.

June June was Splatoon-June, one of the weirdest daily art projects I've done, because the art was actually secondary. Instead of challenging myself to draw a picture every day, I designed a magic card, made art for it, and recorded/edited a short video about it. This was just one, but click through to the linked picture if you want to see the entire month of art. July Like with Amnesio in May, this was drawn for a very similar video, and I really tried to match the level of quality I did for Amnesio with this one. Interestingly this is actually the third in the series, the second one came out in June, but I never posted the art because it just didn't come out super great. This one though... I like this one. August These weren't the only options for August, but I love these little weirdos. I think my best work is when I go simple and stylized, but I tend not to include them in stuff like this, because they aren't the most, obviously impressive. As I've said about other pieces in this review, these guys are the face of one of my better performing videos of the year, so they have that going for them too. September And here's Morrigan, my girlfriend's most important OC (to me and our relationship, I can't speak for her.) I haven't drawn her in a long time, but she's always in the background of our life. For her birthday I decided to draw Morrigan and make a magic card for her, and this was the result. I tried to keep it relatively stylized, while still putting in the extra effort to make it feel special. There's a bunch of fun techniques I used in this that I hope to use again in the future, like the post white outline and the way the background came together. October I couldn't not use my October daily drawing challenge for October, but this year I went so stylized with it, one drawing wouldn't do. So here's the end of October summary picture for you to peruse. I highly recommend clicking through to the video as well since it includes a very cute scene that a fan made using them which I found incredibly touching. November I feel like not that much happened in November, I ended up getting very busy and the only really good picture from that month, I didn't even remember to post. I just put up this piece today in preparation for my Year in Review, so here it is. I like Taya, she's fun. Not a very complicated design, but a cute one. December And finally December. I didn't make this piece because I was overwhelmed, but it works well for it. December is always busy, and this year was no exception so it's a very fitting image.

I love doing this series, not just because it gives me an excuse to look back at all I've done, but during the year it makes me remember to do at least one noteworthy thing a month so I don't have any empty spaces at the end of the year.

Happy New Year everyone, here's to another one.

[authorkrysejay]

2023 Recap

This year has been the first one I dedicated solely to writing Hiraeth Song. I always thought the hard part was the never ending cycle of writing and editing but it turns out there are so much more to publishing than the manuscript.

January:

Continued book 3 draft 2

total word count: 11.923k

got covid for the first time

February

covid knocked me out for the first two weeks

total word count: 9.510k

became certified in first aid

March

settled into a daily writing habit

total word count: 20.830k

April

lost power for three days due to an ice storm

total word count: 18.436k

May

book 3 draft 2 completed

total added: 6.398K

began book 1 edit, added chapters, spelling and grammar

total revised: 46k

June

finished book 1 edit

total revised: 30.420k

began making the map

finalized the map

wrote book 1 synopsis

photoshoot with friends, dressed up as Moira

July

edit book 2 act 1 and stopped keeping count of words edited

hired an artist for book 1 cover

smog from forest fires and record high temperatures

August

edit book 2 act 2

artist for book 1 cover fell through

fall seasonal depression takes hold

September

edit book 2 act 2

bought a wacom drawing tablet and learned how to use it

spent way too much time on cover ideas i didn't end up using

October

edit book 2 act 3 and finished

worked on book 1 cover

revised act 1 and 2 again for book 2

finalized book 1 cover

November

uploaded book 1 ebook on multiple platforms for pre-order

began social media postings

learned how to create reels and use canva

created website

worked on hardcover design

uploaded book 1 paperback on amazon and barns n noble only to realize ingramsparks will distribute to them

ordered several amazon proof copies to figure out proper dimensions, paper color and font size

uploaded book 1 for physical copies on ingramsparks

encountered uploading cover issues

started book 3 draft 3 edits

worked on book 2 cover

got covid for the second time

December

began posting on a scheduled for tumblr and instagram

updated website and instagram (created linktree)

book 3 draft 3 edits

book 2 full edit, quick pass for spelling and grammar errors

finalized book 2 cover several times before changing it again to finalize it for realsies

wrote book 2 synopsis

ingramsparks cover issue resolved

ordered book 1 paperback and hardcover, only one arrived before the holidays

try to get arcs through booksirens but was rejected

discovering other arc alternatives

I learned a lot in the past few months about indie publishing and how overwhelming it can be to not only be the writer, editor, cover artist and map designer but also to spend hours creating content for posts and reels to market. But it's worth it to have my book finally published for others to enjoy and not simply having the plot and characters running wild in my head.

[transilvaniaroots]

Michael Hermann was from Hungary…but where in Hungary?

This was chapter 1 of my booklet, "Unwinding the Mystery of Johann Hermann from the Land of Transylvania to the Shores of Baltimore: Documenting the Hermann Lineage," which was an early Father's Day present in June 2017. While I now know that Michael Hermann was NOT born in Hungary, and his exact place of birth, but I still see this as worth reprinting here.

The Necktar was one of the first ships to arrive at Baltimore's Pier 9 in 1904. This ship was made by the same company that had created the passenger ship Michael would travel on across the Atlantic and would dock at this same pier. Courtesy of the Maryland State Archives.

The year was 1906. Michael Hermann was a simple farm laborer who had just come of age. On April 2, after a long train ride to Bremen, Germany, Michael boarded the Karlsruhe. Those recording the manifest, who were not immigration officials, described his nationality as “Hungarian” and race as “German” and name as “Michael Herman” which is not far off from Hermann. [1] This distinction would explain why in stories told years later, after the marriage of Lena Franci and Raymond Hermann (the son of Michael), the Hermann side of the family would be called “German” and the Franci side called “Italian.” Technically they were Hungarian, or to be more precise, Transylvanian, but nitpicking isn’t the point here. Instead, it is worth digging more into this record.

Originally posted on my WordPress blog on Jan. 25, 2021.

When he boarded the ship to the United States, Michael had a ticket to his destination, which was East Pittsburgh. His passage was paid for, and he had no mental health (or other) issues. He may have had only $40 on him at the time. He would arrive in Baltimore, “Charm City” as some call it today, on April 17. Years later, in his Petition for Naturalization and the Declaration of Intention he would say that the ship left on March 13, 1905, and arrived on March 30, 1905, but his dates were mixed up. Perhaps this is because he was applying for citizenship in 1913 and later, once he was more established in the US. By then, coming over on a ship may have seemed like a distant memory. He may have remembered stepping off the boat, perhaps even going into a tavern for a meal, but it soon became a blur, and he didn’t remember the date precisely.

On April 17, Michael was on a journey to East Pittsburgh. But he was there for one simple reason: to visit his half-brother Johann within the same town. Along with them was a woman named Sara (or Jara) Wenzel who was going to join her brother-in-law, which happened to be the same person, Johann. This could indicate that the Wenzel and Hermann families were intertwined, since, Michael’s father had married a woman named Marie Wenzel. So, it is possible that a member of the Wenzel family would have felt secure going to the United States to the home of a cousin. One could also consider the possibility that Sara or Jara and Michael planned this trip together and came over as friends, since they were on the same ship, but no documentation supports or refutes this possibility. Regardless, Michael likely took the daily Baltimore and Ohio (B&O) Railroad to Pittsburgh from Camden station, then within Baltimore’s port area, with a direct ride to Pittsburgh starting at 10 AM. [2]

Some may be asking why this was not mentioned before. After all, in the previous family history, I said that he was a German farm laborer going to Pittsburgh with a possible servant woman named Jara Wenzel traveling with him and a relative named Johann Hermann, guessing it was his father. That supposition was not correct. However, I was right to say that the Hermanns may have been established in Pennsylvania by this point. I’ll explain why that is the case later on.

Once Michael stepped his foot likely on a pier at Baltimore, he was one of many who entered the city in that way. With direct connections to St. Louis and Chicago, and contracts with immigrant passenger lines such as those run by Norddeutscher Lloyd, of which the Karlsruhe was part of, Piers 8 and 9 were run by the B&O railroad at Locust Point. This area played a major role in “receiving the millions of immigrants” coming to the US in the post-Civil War period as former Maryland State Archivist Edward Papenfuse points out. Michael was arriving two years after the B&O inspection center had opened at Locust Point, which was documented in great fanfare in company literature and in the Baltimore Sun. In later years, thousands would use the port to come to the US, with their final destination as Baltimore. But, by 1913, the pier was seeming worrisome as it was built out of shoddy materials and to replace it, some of Fort McHenry’s land was re-purposed into “a new immigration reception station which included a hospital facility” while the rest of the fort became a public park.

Articles in the Baltimore Sun shed further light on Michael’s journey to the United States. He was not alone on the passenger ship. There were 1,610 in steerage and four in the cabin, with a 6-month baby body dying of enteritis on the journey, and Captain Francke in charge. [3] The twin-screw steamer ship was scheduled to leave the port that Friday, April 20, at 2 PM and sail back to Bremen, one of two ships (the other Gneisenau) sent over to the US bringing immigrants, the latter to New York. Cabin rates ranged from $45 to $50 depending on the cabin selected.

Beyond his journey, the minute he stepped onto Pier 9 of Locust Point, where the Karlsruhe docked, he was leaving behind his homeland in the “Old Country.” His Declaration of Intention says he was born in “St. Ivan, Hungary” and his draft registration card in 1917 says he was born in “Yohanisdorf” with other documents saying he lived (or temporarily stayed) in Segesvár/Sighișoara before he left on a train headed to Bremen. Perhaps he was born in a village named Johannisdorf, two of which are near Sighișoara and in Romania today, with a church also with that name, but on the fringe of Transylvania. [4] There is even a St. Ivan, called Pilisszentiván (Sankt-Iwan in German) which exists but it is within Hungary, not in Romania.

There is one town which has names in Hungarian and Romanian that literally mean Saint John. It is 133 to 145 kilometers by foot from Sighișoara. [5] There likely was a railroad between that city and the city he was born and raised in.

Other records give further clues. The East European Genealogical Society has some answers, although their results should be taken with a grain of salt. [6] They list the “Herman” surname as within three villages in the Galicia province (Mezhirichi, Pischatyntsi, and Radomysl Wielki) and in the Volhynia province (Mezhirichi). It also lists the “Hermann” surname in Gau Warszawa village within the Warszawa province and the Neuborn village within the Volhynia province. From these results, two are of those living within the Russian Empire and three are within the Austro-Hungarian empire with those with the Herman surname. Any of those families could have been those from which Michael’s parents originated. Narrowing this down would require on-the-ground research.

Other information on Michael is not clear. While there are passenger records for the Karlsruhe assembled by the Bremen archives, they only date back to 1907, one year after Michael was a passenger on that ship which sailed across the Atlantic. [7] The available censuses are no better. An all citizens census in 1869 lists 22 people with the surname of Hermann, two with the surname of Hermann in the assorted census records of Hungary from 1781 to 1850, 11 with the surname of Hermann in the 1848 Jewish Census in Hungary, and one in the Jewish Names in the Property Tax Census in 1828. None of these provide any leads. There are a number of “Genealogical Guides and Handbooks” for those who are Hungarian or Romanian provided by the National Archives. [8] There are also “Maps of the Austro-Hungarian Empire” assembled by the Foundation for Eastern European Family History Studies (FEEFHS) but this is also of no help. But there are other sources which provide more insight into Michael’s immigration to America.

Gradual immigration of Romanians commenced in 1880 and increased by the turn of the 20th century. [9] Many of these immigrants came from Transylvania, Banat, and Bucovina, which were territories under Austro-Hungarian rule, where “political ethnic and religious persecution” and precarious social and economic conditions had forced them to leave their homes. These immigrants “found employment in the factories, the mines, and on the railroads” and in 1906, the “The American Newspaper,” the organ of the Union and League of Romanian Societies of America was founded. Furthermore, as a result of “ethnic and economic repression,” Romanians emigrated from their homeland to Canada and the US in search of better lives. This short bit provides more background than a number of other varied sources, such as a website dedicated to covering certain Romanian villages, and the Morton Allan directory of steamship arrivals from 1890 to 1930.

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Notes

[1] Michael Herman, 1906, Immigration, Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, United States, NARA microfilm publications M255, M596, and T844 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL film 833,019 within Family Search database titled “Maryland, Baltimore Passenger Lists, 1820-1948.” Accessed in April 2017. Specifically see this page of the document; “List of Alien Passengers for the U.S. Immigration Officer at Port of Arrival,” Passenger Lists for vessels arriving at Baltimore, Maryland, 1891-1909, Record Group 85, NARA, NationalArchives, INS, Reel 53, Vol. 205 (Apr. 1, 1906-apr. 30, 1906), p. 474-475.

[2] “Baltimore and Ohio Railroad,” The Sun (1837-1991): 13. Apr 21 1906. ProQuest. Web. 7 June 2017.

[3] “Immigrants Coming,” The Sun (1837-1991): 12. Apr 18 1906. ProQuest. Web. 7 June 2017; “Port Paragraphs,” The Sun (1837-1991): 12. Apr 04 1906. ProQuest. Web. 7 June 2017; “North German Lloyd. Baltimore—Bremen,” The Sun (1837-1991): 5. Apr 13 1906. ProQuest. Web. 7 June 2017; “Activity among Immigrant Ships,” The Sun (1837-1991): 12. Apr 17 1906. ProQuest. Web. 7 June 2017; “To Sail for Bremen Today,” The Sun (1837-1991): 6. Apr 20 1906. ProQuest. Web. 7 June 2017; “North German Lloyd. Baltimore to Bremen Direct,” The Washington Post (1877-1922): 1. Apr 14 1906. ProQuest. Web. 7 June 2017.

[4] “Sajószentiván, Sântioana, Johannisdorf,” Place, Genealogical Gazetteer (GOV), Accessed Jun. 2017; “Vajdaszentiván, Johannisdorf, Voivodeni,” Place, Genealogical Gazetteer (GOV), Accessed Jun. 2017; “Johannisdorf,” Evangelical Church, geographic position estimated, Genealogical Gazetteer (GOV), Accessed Jun. 2017.

[5] “Sajószentiván, Sântioana, Johannisdorf,” Place, The Genealogical Gazetteer (GOV), Accessed Jun. 2017. Distances stayed on maps provided by Google Earth and Google Maps; “European Transportation Maps of the 19th Century” provided no answers on this question, but is a good start.

[6] East European Genealogical Society, “Surname Index for H,” Surname Index, index last updated Mar. 29, 2017. Accessed in June 2017; Result 1, Result 2, Result 3, Result 4, Result 5, Result 6. All courtesy of the East European Genealogical Society’s database. Accessed May 2017.

[7] “The ship ' Karlsruhe ' run the following passages,” Bremen Passenger Lists: A Project with the Bremen Chamber of Commerce and the Bremen Staatsarchiv, copyright 2003-2009. Search on passengerlists.de. Accessed June 2017; Cyndi’s List, “Eastern Europe » Census,” Cyndi Ingle, CyndisList.com, Accessed June 2017. Lists numerous censuses. It is not worth naming these individuals as they may not be related to the Hermann family.

[8] See Edward R. Brandt, Contents and addresses of Hungarian archives: with supplementary material for research on German ancestors from Hungary (Minneapolis, Minn.: E.R. Brandt, 1993); Emil Lengyel, Americans from Hungary (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1974); Jared H. Suess, Handy guide to Hungarian genealogical records (Logan, Utah (P.O. Box 368, Logan 84321): Everton Publishers, 1980); Steven Béla Várdy, The Hungarian-Americans (Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1985); Vladimir Wertsman, The Romanians in America and Canada: a guide to information sources (Detroit, Mich.: Gale Research, 1980); Vladimir Wertsman, The Romanians in America, 1748-1974: a chronology & factbook (Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.: Oceana Publications, 1975).

[9] “Romanians in America,” from the “History of the 'United Romanian Society'; Istoria Societatii 'Unirea Romanilor,’” put online by the Foundation for Eastern European Family History Studies (FEEFHS). Accessed in June 2017; “Concise History of the Romanian People,” from the “History of the 'United Romanian Society'; Istoria Societatii 'Unirea Romanilor,’” put online by FEEFHS. Accessed in June 2017; See  “GenealogyRO Group”; “Donauschwaben Villages Helping Hands”; and the Morton Allan directory of European passenger steamship arrivals for the years 1890 to 1930 at the Port of New York and for the years 1904 to 1926 at the ports of New York, Philadelphia, Boston, and Baltimore.

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✦ Lost in Limbo Devlog #3 | 03.31.23

Almost April already, huh? Time does really fly when you are busy. If February promised to be a stressful month for me and the team, March has been hell let loose. Our second trimester has ended as of today and our plan of action is to do as many things as we can during April, as we will hopefully have less workload from our master.

Without further ado—let's see what we managed to do this month!

Fixing sprites has still been one of our priorities. Truth is our master is doing a good job at teaching us how to do things better, and the eyes that once did those sprites are not the same watching them now. One of our bigger struggles is the lack of personal—we are literally four people doing our best with our daily lives while also being in charge of whole departments, and that is a bit crazy sometimes because there's a lot to do. I hope we can hire some help for the full game, because I don't want us all to crunch forever :').

Following the character art train of thought, this month we will also be giving priority to finishing at least one of our key art / promotional art pieces. Raquel is already working on polishing the sketch and we hope we can finish it soon to really start having a solid package of key art to represent us and our game.

Final piece will include bodies attached to heads, mind you. Unless...

Ahá! Remember last month when we said Raquel and I were working on some LiL backgrounds for a master assignment? Well, they are looking pretty good! We got rid of one forest background during the prologue outline process to alleviate some workload, but we seized the opportunity to bring it back! We won't be showing that one yet as we want to finish it and make an individual post for it, but you can have a look at this one instead!

Taking a stroll through Limbo's woods seems like a good idea...

Not too many news from the writing department this month. I'm going full speed with the fixes and editing the demo script like I planned, and I hope to have everything ready next month, but we'll see how things go. The changes to the script are being very beneficial to the general pace of the prologue. We want to get to the juicy part as soon as possible and have as much content of the LIs as we can, right?

The main lore document is still on the works too, but, dare I say it, I'm very happy with it! I'm secretly hoping we can offer the lore book as a physical reward for our future kickstarter, but that's still far away in the future. The artbook is our main priority!

This month we have also focused on something really special and important that sadly we won't be revealing until it's done because, well, it's in the making, and no one wants to see it all ugly and in progress, right? But we are working very hard and are very excited to be able to show it soon! Agh!

Also, our GUI is almost, almost completely finished! Only the title screen is left, so we are leaving you a preview of another screen right below. Our designer is once again doing an impeccable job.

Yep, you'll have a compendium with all the important bits and lore pieces you discover. Only in the full game, though.

It has been an okay-ish month for us. Very stressful because of our master; there's definitely a lot of excitement we have been bottling up as we found ourselves unable to work on LiL like we wanted to. I hope that April, or at least the beginning of it (before the last trimester of our degree starts getting serious and unhinged, which I'm afraid will happen) proves to be productive and enough to at least tie up some loose ends. The team needs a couple of days to rest, but we are ready to get back on track and do as much as we can this next month.

Thank you all so much for your unending support and for your patience, it means the world to us :') 💜 We hope you all are doing alright!