#and then for my own solo projects...

[purityvalentine]

i want to do more covers.

[yukipri]

I finally got a beta for my fic!! May I introduce: Sabo!

For his first time editing, he deleted my entire chapter and instead wrote:

Wow, he can type with his ass. Skills.

April Fool's (but he really did type that)

Cats tag: #YukiPriASLKittens

[sdv-confessions]

to the person who hc seb as not emo, i never looked at it that way but you are lowkey so right. i see him having a phase in highschool and not hating the genre but simply growing out of it. i do see him listening to ptv tho. and green day (but i don't think they're emo, right?) anyway. what are other band hcs that you have?? i feel like he would be into linkin park and a part of me tells me bring me the horizon. also sum41 but that's more pop punk. and misfits, slipknot, system of a down, etc. sorry had to get that out. YIPPIE

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[spotaus]

Fun Fact: I created about 75% of a presentation on Wheel Bugs yesterday. I'm carrying my group of 3 rn. (<- The animal special interest coming in clutch once again)

[glitterkairi]

solo sikoa is a pwbpd. thank u.

[cosmogyros]

I love the Replacements so much :(

I love Paul Westerberg so much :(

I want to eat all this music :(

But actually I don't, because then there wouldn't be any left to eat, and I want to keep eating it for the rest of eternity :(

[freshthoughts2020]

[bmpmp3]

love live bluebird's music style so far has been like, this near-frantic, hype in a slightly offputting way type of sound thats been really fun and interesting. these girls aint right (compliment)

[goldentigerfestival]

I've updated the GotC manga links on my blog on their dedicated page, so that the GotC translations page now gives the option to view the chapters on Tumblr via my blog, or via the imgur album versions.

Previously I only had the blog version linked on my blog outside of the posts for their release. Since the GotC manga will be concluded with the short chapter that will be up soon, I've reorganized the links a little bit for easier accessibility to them (you can't zoom in on the pages on my blog, which can also make it basically impossible to read some of the notes pages, but if people aren't worried about zooming in then you can still read it via the blog).

As usual, be on the lookout for the next manga I'm working on (plus the single remaining chapter of another manga), as well as drama CDs! Since the stageplay bonus segments are a collaboration project, I'm not doing those on my own and won't be releasing them until Kana and I have both confirmed we're all set on our respective ends of the segments. We haven't determined yet whose blog those will be posted on, but Kana usually handles stageplays on the whole (these are bonus segments and not the main play, so that's why I'm not sure whose blog we're plopping those posts on), so I'll be sure to reblog the posts when they come out if they're on Kana's blog.

Aside from that stuff, I still have the snippet I'm planning to do for TalesFes 2016, though no release window on that yet. I'll probably be getting back to some Rays stuff soon (I have several skits translated, but I'd like to go over them and touch them up a bit first since those were first drafts, and then I've gotta input the English text in my game and record it, then I have to crop the ends of the video and export it, then upload it to YT and make a post for it on Tumblr, so it's a bit of a process and why I've delayed it recently), and Claw's Asteria stuff is still on the backburner. I'm genuinely unsure if people care about the Vesperia tenth anni party stuff being translated, but I've had it in mind. It's very long though so it's also on the backburner for now.

That's where things are at atm, and thanks for all the support from folks and the kind tags! I really appreciate them very much! 🙏

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Books of 2023. ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE by Gabriel García Márquez.

Currently reading! This has been languishing on the TBR for a While™ and came highly recommended by a bookstore coworker. I'm only a couple chapters in, so far, and the family tree is ~Messy~, but the prose is lyrical and lovely!

[ankhkheperure]

Day 16: Angel

[suga-kookiemonster]

me, a person who knowingly hyperfixates on things i like until i basically start to hate it but is always somehow still surprised when i follow that exact pattern: wow, i guess i really put miles on my ateez playlist, huh 😳

[mars-ipan]

oh i am so confused.

[consensus-fiction]

finished reading the new Kabi memoir. it was really good i think or at least i really liked it

[jimmythejiver]

If I hadn't struggled to write all year to get some headway in October, I'd have declared No Write November this year.

[luke-shywalker]

let me know if you need anything

“Hey, Solo!”

Ben looked up. The sudden motion triggered a dull ache in his right eye—he winced.

“Uh—sorry.” Amalia came to a halt in front of him in the grass. The tall, bulky Togruta girl always looked like she was going to barrel right into you, but always managed to stop a few inches short. Back when they’d hated each other, Ben had thought this was some kind of intimidation tactic. But now that they were something like friends, he realized that she was just…well…awkward as heck.

Amalia peered at him and at his covered eye, then tapped her own cheek. “You look like one of the deep space pirates.”

“Wow,” said Ben, deadpan. “I’ve only heard that about five hundred times since I came back to Jedi school.”

“What’d they do to you, huh?”

Ben juggled the air with his hands, trying to figure out how much detail to go into. “Uh…they cut my eyeball open, and sewed a synthetic band into it to hold it together and make it stop falling apart. Basically.”

“Whoa. Sounds gnarly, dude.” Amalia paused. “…Can I see?”

Ben laughed. “Bro. Do you want to see?”

“I mean? Kinda? Will you like, die if it’s exposed to air?”

“Listen, I’ll show you, if you want to freaking see so bad.” He lifted the patch. He had to manually pry his eyelids apart—they were still swollen. He closed his left eye, just to see how well he could see her—everything was sort of a bright, slanted blur.

Amalia made a face. “Ew. It’s all red. Is that blood? Nasty. I see a coagulated mass of—something. There is straight-up slime in your eye, dude.”

Ben put the patch back on. “Yeah—I’ve been trying to, like—cry it out, but I can’t think of anything sad enough to make me cry. I dunno. I’ve had a hard time feeling emotion lately, in general.”

He said it, and then realized he hadn’t wanted to say it. He backtracked as quickly as he could.

“But now that you’re here, Mal, all I gotta do is look at your ugly mug,” he quipped.

Amalia rolled her eyes so hard she pretty much just rolled her whole head. “Hardee har har. Have you looked in a mirror? Geez, Solo, you can’t say shit like that to girls.”

“Oh—you’re a girl? Oh my Force, I didn’t realize. Sorry, miss.”

She wound up and punched him in the arm. Hard.

“Ow! Bruh. I’m already injured.”

“Well, you weren’t injured enough,” Amalia huffed. “Fixed it for you.”

“I’m telling Uncle Luke.”

“Yeah, go run and tell your Uncle Luke. Pissbaby.”

Ben tried to think of something clever to retort, but then his eye started hurting again, and he felt kind of sick. He hissed and lowered himself down into the grass, which seemed to initiate a truce.

Amalia leaned down. “You okay, bro?”

“Yeah—fine.”

“Are you still allowed to train and stuff?”

“I’m not supposed to do any ‘strenuous activity’ for four weeks.”

“Well, you were never getting any, anyway,” Amalia snickered. “Now you just have an excuse.”

Ben wrinkled his nose. “Ew. No, I mean…”

“Does lifting rocks with the Force count as strenuous activity? You’re not technically lifting them physically.”

“Eh. I always give myself headaches when I do that normally, anyway, so…maybe just littler rocks.”

“When are you gonna be able to see again?”

“Out of this eye?”

“Yeah, well, which eye do you think I’m kriffin’ talking about, dumbass—“

“I don’t know.”

“…Damn.” Amalia sat down next to him. “Sucks.”

“Yeah, I mean…I know it’s gonna be months. Maybe a year. And I don’t even know if it’ll ever be the same. Probably not.”

Amalia twitched her lips to one side. “Does it bother you?”

“Like, what, the pain? Or…”

“No, like…losing your vision. Like, coping with the loss.”

Ben shrugged. “…I dunno. Sure ain’t the biggest thing I’ve lost. It’s hard, I guess, knowing you’ll never be the same, but…I was already never gonna be the same, so…” He trailed off.

Amalia nodded at the horizon, picking a blade of grass apart with her fingers. “Yeah…I get how that is.”

They sat there in silence for a few moments. A low breeze came and rustled the grass.

“…Maybe I’ll gain some kind of extra Force sensitivity,” Ben said hopefully. “To compensate. Or something.”

“Yeah,” said Amalia. “Or…maybe you won’t, and you’ll just be half-blind.”

Ben threw her a tired glance. “Thanks, Mal. You’re a real pal.”

“What can I say? I try to offer a realistic outlook on life.”

“Hm.”

“But, for real though…let me know if you need anything. Okay, Solo?”

Ben raised an eyebrow. “Like what? Another punch in the arm?”

“Well, yeah, if you need that, I’m your girl. But, uh, seriously. Like if you need to talk, or…” She gestured vaguely at nothing.

“No offense, Mal? But you are not great at talking.”

“Hey. Never said I was. Just said that I would. Or if you wanna, like, just go throw rocks in the pond together, or something. Go look for weird bugs. Climb that cliffside Luke said not to climb. You know?”

Ben smirked. “Ha. Okay. Yeah. Gotcha. And then I’ll bang my head real hard, and knock out my other eye.”

“Exactly. You get me.” Amalia stood up and dusted the grass off her tunic. “Well…I’m on kitchen prep with Fannie and Meliko tonight, so…guess I gotta go. Do an extra meditation for me, will ya? Fannie drives me nuts.”

“Really? She’s so nice.”

“Yeah,” Amalia scoffed. “That’s what drives me nuts.”

Ben snorted. “Well, okay, Mal. See ya at dinner, then, I guess.”

“Will you see me though?”

“Dude, shut up!”