#lessa musings

[lessapander]

Back on my shit. ♥

This shelf is the Magical Girls With Swords shelf in the centre column of my set-up, which is all Magical Girls. Largely Sailor Moon, but some Cardcaptor Sakura and these four as well. I tried to fit my shelf of Pretty Cure figures in as well, but the spacing just doesn't play nicely due to having a FigFix Sakura. I might have to reconsider her placement and just store her box elsewhere, frankly. It's too big to display behind her like I've been doing with these.

The other shelves aren't even vaguely ready because as I was sorting through parts from when all my figures used to be displayed elsewhere (stands and accessories got sorted into tackle box compartments by character to save time), I discovered that Super Sailor Moon's hand is snapped off at the peg. It was rattling around in her box and I definitely didn't put it into storage in that state, so I'm a little bit baffled about how that happened. Heat fatigue? I have no idea. As a result, rather than putting everyone together, I've been going through parts and figures to make sure none of the others are damaged.

So far, only Sailor Saturn and Black Lady show any issues, and both are defects that were present since arrival, so I'm not fussed. By the time I got to the bottom of the shelves and these girls, I realised I had never opened Fuu or Utena, so I went ahead and got these girls out and on display. I was already conscious of the quality difference between the Sailor Moon S.H.Figuarts and other figures in the same line, but the difference compared to Figma's offerings is even more glaring. Any wonder I haven't bought anything from the S.H.Figuarts lines in so long, I suppose.

[lessapander]

Turns out I didn't hate salad, I hated iceberg lettuce. Other lettuce and salad ingredients are great.

Hey when you move out on your own the most important food tip I can give you is “maybe you don’t hate x maybe your guardians just cooked it wrong”

The number of foods I have learned I really like if they’re Fucking Seasoned

The number of foods I’ve introduced friends to that they warned me they’d always hated til I let them try a piece of mine

Also marinade things for 24 hours the second you have your own fridge it is a GAME CHANGER you thought you knew food but you have never met her

[yamamiya]

Musalchemy

Fleetwood Mac – Storms (Cover) by Sarah-Beth Musalchemy (Sarah-Beth) – Your Muse (acoustic) Musalchemy · Your Muse (acoustic)  牙（タスク）のなかでも昨晩なんだか眠れなくてとカバーする女性。けして若くはないんだが。２年前まで活動していたロンドンのオルタナティブポップバンド、Luunah さんのフロント女性で、アイルランド出身の Sarah-Beth さん（いまは西海岸で Musalchemy 名義で音楽活動中、職業は教師）の音楽は地味にメランコリック剥き出しでなんど聞いても心地よい。うたうひとを思い偲ぶ気がする。いやいや本人は生きてますよ。 Every night that goes betweenI feel a little lessAs you…

[lavendervcined]

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i have no self control and i’m probably. gonna add my dnd ocs....

[lessapander]

God, this keeps happening in the otome game I'm currently playing and IT IS DRIVING ME BERSERK. I try not to save scum/quick load too often with VNs and go with my gut, but in at least three options on the route I just finished, the actual text choice and what the character said, DID NOT MATCH AT ALL.

In those cases, I keep wondering if the translator for the choice text and the translator for the actual story text that results were different people who came to alternate conclusions based on ambiguous phrasing in the original Japanese. Games natively in English do not get that same benefit of the doubt obviously. lol

When the player character dialogue options in a game all suck:

[bladeshowers]

LETTER [ardbert]

send “ LETTER ” for a letter my muse left for your muse!

Heavensward era

Lessa,

If you're reading this, things didn't turn out quite how I expected. Considering the few times we've gone up against one another, I feel that it might and figured it'd be worth it to make amends on the paper. If anyone can beat the Ascians and somehow make everything right, it's you.

Our world, our shard, is going to end because of us. We fought. We did everything perfectly and the world fell to light. Right into the Ascian's plans. The only thing we could do to fix it was to help bring about the rejoining. That's what we were told. When pushed to the edge there was nothing else to do. We either live with the knowledge that we damned our star or hope that, maybe, Elidibus was telling the truth.

Truth be told, after our time together, I do hope you beat us. What's done is done, but that doesn't mean we can stop fighting either. Not unless some bloody miracle happens.

I did enjoy our time together, for what it's worth. I wish we could have had more of it. Waking up next to you on the rare occasions we could was an experience I never could have fathomed before. There's something about you. Something special that I will always hold dear in my heart.

Yours, Ardbert

[sylvana-the-tsarina]

Worlds vs Authors

You probably already know this, but recently I’ve been having trouble enjoying books. Even books from authors I normally enjoy a lot.

And here’s something I discovered after some musing.

I’m never going to have A Favourite Author: the author whose every book is an insta-buy without even having to check the blurb. I can use authors as a link between books to see more in their writing style, but I’m never going to feel completely safe in every book they write.

A more reliable way for me to feel safe is by worlds.

Let me explain.

See, most authors that I like have this one world which they write in that’s just Amazing to me. Every book and story in that world with its rules, characters, and vibes is just ✨immaculate✨. And I can use that world as the reliable link to know that I’ll like other stories in here.

For W. R. Gingell, I really only like books set in the world with Between. Everything else is just not for me. For K. M. Shea, nearly every book in the Fairytale Continent, or her other name A. M. Sohma is a great read. But Magiford Supernatural City or Elves of Lessa? Not so much, I’m afraid.

And that’s fine. An author’s writing style and feel is going to change with the genre’s they dabble in, and you can like some of their works and not others. It’s really only authors with just the one world they work in that makes them a reliable link between books, at least for me.

So, yeah. I’m going to use worlds instead of authors to judge a book an insta-buy or just safe. Authors like to experiment. I don’t mind that. I just prefer these books they wrote, and not those. And that’s alright for me.

[lessapander]

Hakuoki is getting an English release on the Switch!

Going to be screeching about this for the next week. Please excuse me. It's the same two games (now reunited) that I've bought like six times, but I don't care. I'm preordering on day one if it gives the localisation company even the smallest hint to do the rest of the games that have never seen an English release.

[lessapander]

I haven't seen a ghost, but I've seen things I don't know how to explain, exactly. Most of the time nobody else was with me, but on one occasion, my partner and I saw the same thing and no one can tell us how or why we saw what we did.

bonus: tag this with ur experiences!

[calenlily]

2, 6, 8, 22 for the writer ask, please and thank you!

Thank you, especially because this ask came just when I was really needing something to draw my attention away from anxiety-inducing IRL shit

2: Tell us about what you’re most looking forward to writing – in your current project, or a future project

The sequel to the half-written sequel to Milkshakes and Confessions, which is going to be Buffy/Faith/Angel OT3 in the aftermath of NFA. I need to do a ton of AtS canon review before I feel like I can actually write it, but I’m so excited for when I get there. It’s going to be a fic where Angel is a wreck and Buffy is falling apart and Faith is left wondering how the hell she ended up the stable one, Faith plays the world’s most grudging matchmaker, and Faith and Angel are both hypocrites about “I don’t deserve nice things but you do”.

Also, whenever I manage to get my Pern muse back, I’m psyched to write the next fic in the Bronzerider Kylara verse, because that AU is way too much fun to play around with, and I’m getting to the point where the bi disaster squad shenanigans really start ramping up

6: What character do you have the most fun writing?

Buffy and Lessa are both forever faves who I always enjoy writing. Recently I made my first forays into writing Faith POV and was blown away by how fun that was, definitely want to write more of her.

8: Is what you like to write the same as what you like to read?

I’d say what I like to write is a subset of what I like to read. I like reading everything I like to write (or nearly everything, at least; occasionally I get plot bunnies that demand to be put on paper that are angstier than is really to my taste), but there are a number of things I love reading but I’m not up to writing – political intrigue, slow burn, and long plotty fic in general are notable examples.

22: Do you reread your old works? How do you feel about them?

All the time, honestly. I like to write things that make me happy, and go back to them like comfort food. Nearly all the recent stuff I’m quite pleased with, but my older work is more iffy. A lot of my old fic just feels clumsy now, and there are a few pieces that I still really like the idea of but am horribly unsatisfied with the execution. (For this reason, one of my current writing projects is a complete rewrite of a BtVS season 3 AU that I published in 2008; I’m almost done with the first part and super excited about it.)

[god-tier-aesthetics]

Could you analyze a session that has a Mage of Blood, Sylph of Heart, Witch of Rage, Muse of Light, Prince of Breath, Seer of Hope, Bard of Time, Knight of Light, Maid of Void, Page of Mind, Heir of Space, Thief of Life, Lord of Void and Rogue of Doom? If that’s too many you don’t have to do it and I hope you have a great day!

Hey amigo I’m very sorry to inform you of this, but Mod Lessa🌺 has left the blog and the other mods who do session analysis feel that there should be a 12 player limit on session analysis. I’m sorry but we won’t be able to do your request.

~Mod Zeros

[thedaughterofkings]

loverofcake hat auf deinen Eintrag geantwortet: loverofcake hat auf dein Foto geantwortet: ...

I have a spotify subscription and it’s available to me via that so I’ll definitely have a listen :D To be honest I couldn’t care less about Phantom plot wise but do love some of the songs and so will sometimes listen to it selectively. Cats and Joseph will always be my favourite Lloyd Webber musicals though :D

Enjoy! :D

Yeah, that’s pretty much how I feel about phantom, I’m very glad I’m not the only one! Like I really like Masquerade for example, but like just as a song, not in any relation to what it means for the plot, characters, anything^^°

I promise I’m going to watch/listen to Joseph eventually! I’m just not sure yet whether I should watch or listen to it first (to watch it I probably need to figure out whether our old vhs player still works because I think we have a vhs copy of Joseph flying around somewhere) 

For now JCS still takes the favourite Webber spot, sorry!^^

My absolute favourite musical is still My Fair Lady though! :D

[infernal-feminae-archived]

Send two names and my muse will say which they’d rather kiss.

Anonymous said:  for agent two, moxxie or blitzo

“Moxxie’s tha’ littler one, right? I’d ratha’ kiss ‘im than tha’ talla’ one. Lessa’ of two evils.”

[lessapander]

EXCUSE ME. I am in the middle of this one and the world-building has been my favourite part. I keep hoping they're going to flesh it out more. Fingers crossed the fandisc elaborates on the rest of the world (meanwhile my friend is just screaming for them to give her Sachsen lolololol)

hi steam prison fans we're winning today (fd is real)

if you didn't see the tweet yet !!!

[lavendervcined]

me @ me: do not add your dnd ocs to your blog, do not add your dnd ocs to your blog, do not--

[bladeshowers]

[ palm kiss ]  –  for the sender’s muse to kiss the palm of receiver’s hand. (Ardbert)

The soft feeling of her lips on his palm lightly tickled and drew his gaze her way. "Feeling affectionate are we?" His tone was light and teasing as his eyes danced over her form. The Warrior hardly let it bother him as they were generally fairly affectionate with one another. Just every now and then she was able to take him by surprise and this was one of those times. His hand shifted so the pad of his thumb caressed her lower lip with equal fondness.

"Love you Lessa."