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2023 Year Ender
Currently Listening to: Ginger Root - Nominated Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates Mood: Waiting listlessly Welcome to the 17th iteration of my Year Ender post. I'll be doing this a bit earlier than usual as I'll be going off to Musandam, Oman tomorrow. As you can see in the pic, I have been trying to go to different places. Anyhow, let’s do the 2023 edition of my year ender report!
1. Thankfully, COVID pretty much became endemic this 2023. Pretty much things have gone back to normal, travel wise. Sadly, inflation happened everywhere. Luckily, my salary also increased this year which was quite nice given the inflation and expenses I had.
2. This year was quite eventful that I was able to secure a state nomination from Canberra, Australia! All the expenses and effort paid off! I was quite surprised though that it was Australia that gave me a chance, since I thought Australia will be harder to get in compared to Canada. While sadly nothing happened with my Canadian application, now I'm waiting for that Australian visa grant. I sure hope I can get it as early as March. I was also quite lucky that I applied as soon as I could, because when July came, it became much, much harder to apply for an Australian PR.
3. Travel wise, I actually became active in camping for the first quarter of the year. I was able to try solo camping in various locations such as Hatta, Jebel Ali Beach, Al Mirfa in Abu Dhabi and Al Qudra with my colleagues in the office. I also travel twice in the Philippines and twice in Singapore. I didn't travel in the latter part of the year due to the summer heat + lethargy. Hopefully I get to travel more starting tomorrow in Oman!
4. TCG wise, the first half of the year was quite good, with our team getting Top 3 not once, but twice! I fortunately had really good teammates, and I was able to play well. I unfortunately had a bad run though on the second part of the year, and my dream of going to worlds didn't happen. Hopefully the next year will be much better, and I'm hoping I'll get more chances of going to worlds.
5. Health wise, I can't say that it was that good. Nothing really serious, but work stress kind of got to me, especially when new members of the Cerave team joined. The system became drastically different from last year, and it became so stressful that I became easily irritated. It even went to a point where I became so stressed I got sick. I wasn't even able to stick to my diet, and was living an unhealthy lifestyle. I do hope I can reset this coming year, I feel finally going to Australia will greatly help as I feel I'm currently in a limbo waiting for my visa grant. 6. Some not so good news regarding my sister. Seems she was involved in some drug issues and she got imprisoned. She got out of jail eventually but now she's currently detained in an immigration facility as of writing. She's still waiting for a verdict, and I'm hoping for a positive outcome. Kinda fearing for her ability to travel due to this though, as kinda worried for my niece and her fiancee as well. Kinda bummed with what my sister did to her life, but it is what it is sadly.
7. Anime, Manga and Pop Culture stuff.
Anime and Manga wise, I had been watching and reading less. It's probably due to the stress I experienced for a good part of the year. I was able to attend some conventions though, like the MEFCC in Abu Dhabi and AFA in Singapore. I also have some show lined up to watch. As for sumo, I'm not able to watch livestreams for the latter part of the year, though I still check upon the results whenever there's a tournament. I was hyped when Hakuoho was competing, and got bummed that he had to pull out for a while due to injury. I sure hope he'll bounce back in the coming year. It's also exciting to see whether the two new Ozeki, especially Kirishima (formerly Kiribayama) will step up to become the new Yokozuna. I'm also happy that the coming year will have Ura going to Sanyaku!
Currently Watching:
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Aria the Origination Planning to Watch: Kubo-San Won't Let Me Be Invisible, Isekai Nonbiri Nouka
Finished This Year:
Engage Kiss, Gundam: Witch From Mercury, Hataraku Maou Sama S3, Danmachi S4 Part 2, Mushoku Tensei S3 Part 1, Tomo-Chan is a Girl, Bofuri S2, Oshi no Ko, Isekai Ojisan, Tonikawa, In/Spectre, Tondemo Sukiru de Isekai Hōrō Meshi, The Dangers in My Heart, Masterful Cat is Depressed, Chainsaw Man, Arifureta S1, Aria the Animation/Natural
Unfinished Anime: Dumbbell Nan Kilo Moteru?, Kimetsu no Yaiba: Swordsman Village Arc, Rurouni Kenshin Reboot,
Finished OVA/Movies:
Tensura Scarlet Bond, Gundam Hathaway, Jujutsu Kaisen Zero, First Slam Dunk, Suzume, The Boy and the Heron
New Manga Read:
Oshi no Ko, Chainsaw Man
Finished Manga: Ayakashi Triangle, Other Stuff Watched:
Movies: Avatar: Way of the Water, Everything Everywhere All At Once, The Flash
Series: The Mandalorian S2, Ahsoka, Andor, Castlevania Nocturne
New Games Played: Mainly just playing Mahjong Soul, Teamfight Tactics, Weiss Simulator and Pokemon TCG Live. Occasionally playing casual games and Colonist (Catan clone).
8. Fulfilled (or not) Wishes a. Get Healthier - Kinda not, though I'm trying to be mindful. I need to reset this coming year and have less stress. b. Get to emigrate elsewhere - Funny enough, it was Australia that gave me the chance! Hoping to hear soon as early as March. I'm quite anxious to get there that I'm currently in a state of limbo. c. Travel to new places - This year made me do a lot of solo camping. Also was able to set foot in Qatar, albeit as a stopover. I am going to Oman tomorrow though, so that's exciting. And even more exciting if I'm finally able to go to Australia! d. TCG wise -I finally played in a teams format, and did quite well especially in PH. Sadly the worlds invite dream went downhill! Hoping this year I can finally get the worlds invite!
New Wishes: a. Get the Australia Visa Grant - Can't wait for it, hoping for a positive outcome, and soon! b. Improved Health - Hoping to reset this year and be better. c. WS Worlds Invite - Hoping to finally get that Worlds invite, so that I can finally retire in TCGs lol! d. Better situation for my Sis - I hope the issues get settled soon, and in a positive manner. e. Some new goal to look forward to - Because sometimes lately, I feel that nothing happens that much. Let's see what endeavor I can aim for the coming year.
I don’t have much else to wish for, maybe just for good health for me, my family and my friends. Hoping the Musandam trip tomorrow will be awesome, even if it's quite expensive. Anyhow, till next year!
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i've been doing digital art for a decade now so i redrew my oldest digital drawing :D
the og art from 2014:
#my skill may have changed a lot but my love for mc (and mcyt) stayed the same thru the years#minecraft#ender dragon#fanart#illustration
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Best of 2022: A look back at top photographs of the year from around the world
Best of 2022: A look back at top photographs of the year from around the world
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#2022 best photographs#2022 in pictures#2022 picture of the year#award winning photos of 2022#best of 2022#best photographs of 2022#best photographs of the year#best photography 2022#best photos of 2023#new year#One country one picture one year#photographs#Pictures of the year 2022#Top#World#world best photo in 2022#year#year ender
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more builds for my save. I redid the grocery store and laundromat because I didn't like them anymore so i merged them together. I also made a movie theatre because drive-ins feel very summer and I needed something year round!
#sims 3#ts3#sims 3 screenshots#sims 3 build#ts3 build#black simblr#ender falls#back with more wips#i redid the grocery store because i didn't like it anymore#i also redid the laundromat because i didn't like it#and I made a movie theatre even though i have a drive in#i should be working on lots i don't have but no#drive ins seem more summer anyways#at least this theatre can be year round
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PHIL MAY RETURN TO MCC?
#wrennrambles#mcc#philza#mcc liveblog#mcc ender cup#philza liveblogging#philza minecraft#in our lords year 2024#I am so happy
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(tiredly) fuck you man
#greching origins#in stars and time#isat#isat reaction#isat spoilers#thats some self-centered shit right here#mf who do you think you are??#ender dragon i couldnt defeat since i was 10 until last year because i was scared of dying?#bitch.
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I want to write a fic about Dream moving into a frat mid college for some reason and he has the surgery scars he has and every single time a frat bro sees him without a shirt on their reaction is "Dude, cool scars!! ... is it a trans thing?" "Uh... no, they're like, surgery scars" "Cool cool... you're still going with he/him right? Just to check" "yeah"
#the dog barks#dreamwastaken#the frat bros are of couse Sapnap Sam Punz George etc#I think Dream would have been put there because of an error in the system but the frat had space so he just stayed#he doesn't like talking about the surgery with strangers and the bros picked up on it so every single time someone asks they make up a new-#story about what happen#their favorite is “he was fighting a huge crocodile and it almost bit him in half” “he jumped into a trash compactor”#george in particular will always say that dream got the scars fighting the ender dragon#Dream has a girl group that he hangs out with and they use him as a test to see if the guy they like is worth dating#mostly not with the scars#Dream just has something that makes men feel like they need to puff up like a stupid chicken#(that something is that he's tall and hot and well liked by the girls and the gays)#the frat house becomes 70% queerer when Dream joins#his nickname by the end of the year is mr gay awakening#(no one calls him that to his face)#dsmp au#writing
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afterglow
prologue posted on ao3: read here!
Secret Life ends with the crumbling of an alliance that was never meant to last, the shine of its very few embers fade into nothing but bitterness, and that should’ve been it.
What Gem didn’t expect was the after part; of all the things that could follow, waking up in an unfamiliar world with an all too familiar face wasn’t what she had in mind.
#ender writes#pearlescentmoon#geminitay#shiny duo#shinyduo#trafficblr#secret life smp#double life smp#mcyt#mcyt fanfiction#so. guess im hopping on the actual multichapter fic grind now#(no im not this chapter was literally written in january and has been rotting in my docs for half a year)#ive decided to not dwell on staring at this whole fic in my drafts for too long now and just post it to see what happens#hopefully i get this whole thing done before the next season…but hey i wouldn’t mind the next life series in June#life series afterglow au
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"I was climbing, now I'm falling- I've been pushed off by a man who has made it to the top and now defends it 'cuz he can…" (x)
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New Dog's Life chapter today! ~ 3rd Life series fan-season
Chapter 38 - “Tuesday: Tango's Long Night”
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Tango layers more anti-viruses in Scott's player file. This goes against everything he knows about corrupted code... Should he keep going? ... Or, without consent, do what he knows will actually save this man?
Meanwhile, Pearl balances Rhetoric, Scott, and Grian visiting her unit at the same time. Yeah, this is gonna go well.
# 1 of 7 of our monthly intermission chapters
(First 1,000 words under the cut)
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Tango
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Location: His studio, West Bailey Wall, Bottom Floor
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Tango does not often regret choosing a path of codework. He loves modding. He loves adding pretty details; he loves giving people what they want and polishing the rough edges off blocky faces and backs and butts. His species is classed as avian, though he last respawned under a waxing crescent and lacks the wings and feathers to show for it. He's got tiny talons, blaze rods, and hair that shifts into flames, and that's it. Coding the fluff-tipped tail he wears now was a challenge that captivated his brain since the start. How do add twitchy muscles to lower back? Apply tail to butt, haha. Meld it in. Let the mind control it. Do it beautifully so it's elegant and won't drop frames.
His tail isn't dexterous, but he wears it like a trophy- Adding a mammal tail to a species that’s meant to have feathers there, and not only making it twitch and curl instead of hang, but look natural, is one of the most difficult things you can ever do with aesthetic mods. He's thinking of forcing out the wings he would have under a stronger moon, but never really got around to it. The conversion time takes a kabillion years. You gotta be careful with wings anyway- they release a lot of body heat. Between's a lot cooler than the Nether, so you might fall over and croak. You ever seen strider wings? Yeah, guess how much heat they put out, even if they are tough and resilient around lava. Anyway.
Let's just say it's a good thing his office doesn't have a window. He works with a lot of film in here, so darkness is peak necessity. He's got two copper bulb lights up tonight. The glow's hazy, but at least it keeps his attention on his work, eyes all goggled up and tongue pinned beneath his teeth. Working with player files isn't like working with redstone wiring, with all its tangled tubes of dust and tiny caps that easily get lost and spill all over the stupid floor. Nah.
Code work uses the coding table, and it's a whole lot less messy. You don't need to be super accurate. It's a lot easier to tap a delete key and remove a string of words than it is to rip out a chunk of wires and get all huffy when your machine stops working. They should sell more partly assembled redstone machines in the market- more than, like, comparators. Except all the serious redstoners still won't buy 'em in case corners were cut in the process and because they have to take 'em apart anyway to modify 'em, so there you go. Fiddling and tweaking can really suck you in. It's kind of like making banners you're printing on your soul.
Tango does not often regret choosing a path of codework. But it's a good thing he doesn't have a window. He glances up only on occasion, staring at the chipped, gunpowder-streaked blocks that separate him from the rest of the world.
I should be with the pack right now.
Hey. Little recap for you: Most people aren't going to bed tonight. The hub flower got skadoodley-yoinked. Without its roots hooked in, everyone's comm is black; they're all off the system. There's no way on a server right now. There's no way out of one either. The phantoms are under contract; they can't just log people out right now. Hope they got fed, then.
Eh, they'll be fine. They've got souls in storage. Tango keeps working, checking details on his screen and typing on the table keyboard. What time is it? The sun's officially gone-zo at 14k. That was a while ago.
Do you remember our biology fritter-fratter from before Dog's Life began? 'course not- That was a long time ago. Well, no worries! we'll cover it again. See, the Nether doesn't have a day-night cycle. The heat waves shift. Sometimes the dimension cools. There's never a schedule to it, but when the heat's down, it's down (whether it's been hours, days, or weeks since the last lull). Nether creatures group together for sleepy times. If Tango played on some of those raw servers where traits are turned up to max, he wouldn't even survive the Overworld- Not without a lot of prep from his friends on the other side. Thank goodness for vanilla servers that even out the playing field.
Blaze don't really hang out alone in Between. When they do, they have to keep their internal fires up, and that can really drain the metabolism. The pack is warm. The pack is safety. And Tango's fingers tremble as he blinks his lashes, pushing through the dimension's fading warmth. Nightfall is here. Capture the Flag will be winding down. It's time to go to sleep.
He does his work. He chose this path. Scott's crystal floats on the crying obsidian block beside him, casting a white glow over his workspace. The goggles tune it out a bit. Tango yawns wide (like one of those lions in the emerald savanna biome), then realizes what he did and shakes his head back and forth. "Brrrr! Whatchu doing?" He smacks himself in the cheek. Hard. "Come on, man- He needs you."
He keeps typing. Scott's code is layered in anti-virus protections. Lots of stuff to dig through. Tango's got a book on the edge of his desk, open to a page about data conflicts, and he's still checking and closing loops. Scott didn't want to amputate. He didn't want a graft. "More anti-virus protections," he said, and he was serious.
"Are you sure? That- That probably won't work. If you wait too long, there's no chance a graft will take. That kinda sets you up for like, either being an allay with a prosthetic or just a vex."
"No grafts, please. Just tell me where to sign."
"Okay, buddy… but that's against medical advice. Don't say I didn't warn you."
"He prob'ly would've listened to Etho," he mutters, typing more. "I swear, everybody thinks I just do visuals: slap a little colored fire on this guy, slap some wings on her… Hey, just because I work in the aesthetics department, it doesn't make my license any less legit. I've been doing this almost as long as he has." Who scrubbed in to save Impy? Who helped him and Skizz with the soul-sharing? Who once patched BigB up when he got shot in the neck? That was a Tango original. Just me. Why is he even doing this? All evidence in book and mind is screaming that this isn't going to work.
Fingertips stall. Blank stare. Soft breathing.
Scott would've listened to my medical advice if I was Etho. Should he have tried harder? Should he have done more? He got the signature, Scott confirming exactly what he wanted. He really shouldn't go against that. It'd be medical malpractice at this point.
… Even though the anti-viruses aren't going to stop him from becoming a vex.
Which he's trying to avoid by using stupid anti-viruses.
[Full chapter on AO3 - Link at top]
#trafficfic#TangoTek#PearlescentMoon#Scott Smajor#galaxy duo#Grian#EthosLab#Dog's Life#apparently art#ridwriting#Dog's Life art#mcyt#GIFs#animation#fic announcement#It's been like 2 years since I made one of these sprites! Feels nice to get back into it :)#Man. Maybe if I get the whole cast done I'll just use them in all my fics. Hmm...#I would actually enjoy that for some of Dog's Life tho because of their species changes haha. Get me that sweet sweet ender-Tango#Maybe I'll do it for Session 3 because Patrol Captain Jimmy and a line-up of all his pillagers would be fantastic#Edit: I drew Jimmy and his 6 pillagers and it was :)
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Sighs
#this era of gojo is defined by using thirst traps as a coping mechanism#hey how many times are you going to draw him shirtle-#I'LL DO IT UNTIL I FEEL SOMETHING BESIDES TREPIDATION DAMMIT 😭#the transgender song by crystal castles slaps so fucking hard#but when i die i gotta ask the cosmos how many times i listened to it while playing Minecraft that almost 2 years later it still reminds me#of that time i went like 10k chunks from spawn on the server and lived in a random village i found#trading wheat and gathering emeralds to purchase enchantments from the librarian#for a month basically.#eveyone else was busy accumulating resources to beat the ender dragon#and i was too but i was gonna be very cozy game about it.
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I'm gonna get that fucking squip, so help me god
#ngl chat- it tastes like shit#mtn dew#mtn dew red#bmc#be more chill#squip#bmc mtn dew red#bmc musical#ender rants#like crappy knock off cherry coke#if i was a squip and some 16 year old kid drank this shit i would fuck off too
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Enderkin flag I designed in two minutes because I'm enderkin
#miscellaneous#minecraft#enderkin#enderman#ender kin#kin#otherkin#alterhuman#Surprise!#I've known I'm enderkin for. Counts on my fingers. Exactly 3 years today#(October 6th)#yeah#This may be shocking but i found out because of ranboo#Coughs. Yeah#flag#flag coining#term coining
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i think i need to take a break from reading equals for a minute and reread enders game again,
ya know remember why i love that kid
and idk i feel like im at a place in my life were I'm just going to get some new stuff out of it.
#enders game#i just i think i need to read that god damn book again#its been at least two years witch I think is the longest I've ever been without reading it since I read it the first time
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oh god i've suddenly been smacked with the hammer of enderal feelings
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#new year new commissions amirite leT'S GO GAMERS#vtm#vtmb#vampire the masquerade#dragon age#dragon age inquisition#mass effect#fallout new vegas#fallout 4#fnv#skyrim#the elder scrolls#tes#tes oblivion#dnd#dungeons and dragons#neverwinter nights 2#nwn2#enderal#enderal: forgotten stories#saints row#commissions
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We have a birth date!
Time to get all weird about it and start an annual blood sacrifice. Or something. I mean, the Red Madness has to start somewhere.
#enderal#enderal forgotten stories#vynblr#game birthday#brought to you by the devs#i would've liked four birthdays but whatever#poor devs though#this must've been so annoying#i remember the story of the bush#anyway#happy birthday#damn SE is only 3 years old#meanwhile enderal has been around for 8 years now#please only be weird in a wholesome way#there are enough creepy cults in the game#names censored because i don't know if they want to be named
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