Happy Birthday to the Express' resident pretty girl!
Or maybe "rebirth-day" would be more accurate.
I only recently notice that we don't know anyone's birthday in star rail. I'm so used to receiving birthday mail in genshin lol
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Himaruya Bamboo Thicket Blog Posts Link
Hi, today I came across those super old blog posts from Hima on Hetarchive, many of which are apparently still left untranslated. Since I had nothing to do today, I decided to put them all in a doc in order and side-by-side with English translations. Since it's A LOT and I'm lazy, I decided to just put them through ChatGPT lol. It's still a work in progress, atm of writing this I've only done January-March 2008 lol, but anyway if you're interested, feel free to check it out:
I'm learning a lot about Hima like this honestly, like apparently he has ADHD? It's very interesting
And if you happen to know if there was anybody else who tled these elsewhere, please let me know! :)
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Finally got around to watching Boom (was too busy to watch it on the day it came out). It wasn't what I'd call one of my all time favorite episodes but I thought it was overall pretty good and definitely reinforced my feeling that Steven Moffat, for all his flaws, is actually a pretty good writer, he's just a terrible showrunner. When he's writing stand alone episodes he's usually at bare minimum decent and often, with episodes like Blink, even great, and I think the impression I get is he's good at coming up with ideas and horrible at sustaining them. Every time he brings something back he seems to feel the need to muck it up and make it more confusing and more convoluted and detract from the thing that made it interesting and cool in the first place. Truly the epitome of less is more. You can see it with stuff he introduced in the episodes he wrote during the original RTD era and then brought back as showrunner. The Weeping Angels got less intimidating and more convoluted and dull every time he wrote a new story with them. River Song was never as good a character as she was in her debut episodes because her hot mess of a storyline and backstory completely overrode the things that made her stand out in the Library episodes. Anyway. I don't mind him writing further stand alone episodes but I hope that's all he gets to do. I don't want him having significant input on long-term plot arcs.
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So I've recently seen your Grove AU, care to tell me a bit about it? :D
Of course!!! Here is!! A bit of a messy tldr of the story? Though I haven't figured everything out yet 🎉
In Welcome Grove, it takes place on the actual set that they used to film the show- which then was eventually cancelled. The entire set , props were just left to sit there. Which!! Unfortunately was the fate of a lot of older TV shows or films at the time.
Time would carry on, and nature does what it does best. It reclaimed the building - the once sparse woods surrounding it growing thick and old. The Neighborhood set outdoors was certainly not spared from the elements. Even the studio building it's self becoming carpetted with grass, vines hanging from the walls.
All of them had been stored away inside the Studio building, with the expectation that the crew would be returning soon. All of them except for Wally Darling, whom had been left inside Home, seeing as normally he would have been perfectly safe in there. Home was meant to be pretty structurally sound and the door locked!
But.
Eventually, one day. They woke up again. Not all at the same time- Wally was the first. He then eventually braved the Studio halls to find the rest- repairing them so that THEY could also wake up.
From most of puppet's perspective- everything was perfectly okay in the neighborhood one day. Then the next they woke up and everything was in disarray! The bugs looked completely different, the leaves green, the stars far brighter! Yes- this was definitely not the neighborhood they knew before. It was all very exciting and frightening at the same time!
But it's the only home they ever knew. This was their neighborhood and they were going to reclaim it! Bit by bit, and piece by piece! After all before all of this they were a perfectly well functioning place, everyone helped out in their own ways. Just as before really! It was a .. A lot harder in some ways! But they managed. And eventually the Neighborhood became Home again.
But.. They all can't help but wonder about that abandoned Studio nearby, and the outside world it represents.
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