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You can watch Castlevania: Awakening Under Moonlight for $15.20 with English, Korean, Chinese, Thai, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Spanish, French, Portuguese, or Tagalog subs here, although you need to use Microsoft Edge or Safari. I hope that if this does well they offer more Takarazuka performances on demand, because yes I am aware of other means of watching them, but I do like when things are easier to show others.

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I like seeing useful communities revived, so please participate in this friendzy and join this community if you're interested :3

two log cabins with snow on the roofs in a wintery forest the text snowflake challenge january 1 - 31 in white cursive text

You've probably already heard of this, but for the sake of not missing any bases: Snowflake Challenge is now on. If you want to meet new people or you want to revive a dead blog, this is a good way of doing it. You just need to be into fandom. The link to the community is the image.

And last but not least, I'm officially opening up my community for posting. Please feel free to share a song or two. I'll be advertising it in various promo comms slowly over the next few weeks. At some point I'll start holding events (which are just me giving a theme and hoping people posting songs that fit it). Please don't flop 🙏🏾 But please don't be successful in an annoying way either 🙏🏾

Current Mood: nervous
Current Music: Still haven't found a band I like -_-

I have "make a public blog post" on my to-do list today, and I have nothing to talk about publicly, so you know what that means.

The World's Deadlist Addiction Is Popping Up on Brain Scans. And It's Not Even a Drug.

(PDF) The Biology of Human Survival: Life and Death in Extreme Environments

The Buddha's daughter: A young Tibetan-Chinese woman has an unprecedented role to play

Who Invented the High Five?

Double empathy problem (Relatedly: Autistic individuals are more prosocial towards strangers and people they barely know)

The disastrous voyage of Satoshi, the world's first cryptocurrency cruise ship

The Worst Magazine in America

The Cat's Maew: Thai Treatise on Auspicious Felines (19th Century)

Anatoly Moskvin (tw for child death)

These all have no common theme except they don't have much in common with the rest of the links I have saved. Which I need to go through and clean out, because I have saved a LOT but have been slacking on linkposting. Oops! Also, follow

longreads . See ya!

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Current Music: Sextape - Deftones

If you're on Bluesky or have friends who are, you may have heard about the CEO of Bluesky being wildly unprofessional considering who she is and what she represents. Very strange behavior! However, ATProto, the protocol Bluesky is built on, is really cool. Jay (the aforementioned CEO) does a terrible job explaining it because her gameplan here is clearly to get other people to do the explaining for her or whatever, but that may go horribly if the people who need the explanations leave the main app before they can see them. Well, worry not! Because I'll explain it! Badly! Because I'm not good at this kind of thing either!

A protocol is a thingy that a site can have so it can talk to other sites that have the same thingy ^_^ The thingy being the protocol. They use the same protocol. Yea. ActivityPub is another protocol, the one Mastodon and Akkoma and Misskey and Peertube and Pixelfed and Wordpress (with plugins) use. These get collectively known as the Fediverse. Maybe you've heard of it. If you make an account on one of these, you have access to content on all of them*. Depending on where you're starting and going, you can generally transfer your follows/followers and sometimes even your posts when you decide to change your homebase. The Fediverse is decentralized -- if one site goes, the others will still be up (and if your instance, or the site you made your account on, warns that it'll be closing soon, you have time to transfer to somewhere else), and it's not that hard to make your own federated social network too.

*Your server admin can block certain accounts and whole instances from interacting with their own. This is usually for Nazi or CSAM reasons, but sometimes it's for very, very petty reasons. Good luck navigating that!

But there's a new kid on the block... They call it AT Protocol, and sites/apps that use it are part of the ATmosphere. When you switch accounts in the ATmosphere, you retain all your followers, follows, posts, and all other data that's attached to your account. However, since the data is very public, they have trouble implementing things like private accounts/posts, which are things Fedi apps have had for a while now. Bluesky was basically meant to be a proof-of-product type deal, and clearly everyone who works on it resents the audience it attracted and wants it to die/become a barren husk of center-right commentary. But it's okay! You don't have to use Bluesky, or just Bluesky! You can use other apps in the ATmosphere, and you'll still be able to talk to people who remain there. Here's a bunch of links to cool things people are doing with ATproto to prove you can use it while avoiding the big website, and other helpful or interesting things:

First things first, here's how to leave Bluesky without leaving ATproto. See, if you leave Bluesky you can still see posts from Bluesky, but you won't be subject to their moderation nor will they be able to punish you. Bluesky might hide your post from their website if it breaks their rules, but it may still be on other sites depending on those sites' rules. By the way, you can log into your usual account on other websites if you don't feel like changing your PDS but hate the moderation/aesthetics/whatever, but if you personally break the rules of your PDS... something bad might happen to your account, I dunno. Shrug. Unlike the Fediverse there aren't many PDSs, but hey, the ATmosphere is new. Give it time.

Don't wanna be [username].bsky.social or whatever? Handles Club has you covered. They have dozens of free domains you can use so that you can be [username].loves.yaoi.fyi instead :)

Anisota, a client that renders posts as cards that you swipe through instead of an endless vertical scroll of posts. Instead of numbers the cards have rarities that show how much attention a post has gotten, there's a stamina meter that stops you from doomscrolling, and there's even items to collect and (soon) quests to complete.

Make a blog, newsletter, or collaborate on writings with Leaflet! If you're like me, when you saw this you were like "why would you make a blog connected to your Bluesky account? What happens if you lose your account somehow?" but it turns out all data connected to your ATProto account is saved onto your PDS. Meaning, you can take the data from your Leaflets and put them elsewhere any time.

Tangled advertises itself as a platform where you can collaborate on git projects and yap. Of no use to me, but maybe someone will read this and be like "this is something I've been looking for for years...!"

Final words, where you can see posts that are being deleted float on like bubbles into the air. It shows every post ever, so don't be caught off-guard by shocking or offensive ones.

nooki is a Reddit-like that I've heard might be of questionable quality, but 1. I don't know what those pictures and words mean, and 2. at least someone actually made something new! If someone doesn't like it, they should show nooki how it's done and make a better Reddit-like, or show the creator what's wrong and how to fix it so nooki can be better.

There's going to be a last.fm-like called teal.fm. Pretty cool, pretty cool.

Another way to microblog would be using TOKIMEKI, which has many pretty themes and ways to control what and how much of it appears on your timeline. This was the way I used ATproto for a long while, but I use Anisota now.

But wait, there's another way to read your feed. Windows Vista fans, now's your time to shine.

What the hell, why not. Here's another one.

I use SkyFeed to create custom feeds, similar to antenna on Misskey/Sharkey if you know about that. For example, I created a feed that collects every post that mentions any series started by a certain video game studio because... I wuv them ♡

And here's a site that catalogues basically every PDS, regardless of whether you can actually use it or not. Lots to check out.

If you have an ATmosphere account but would like people on the Fediverse to be able to interact with you, or vice versa, try Bridgy Fed. It's totally opt in, so you won't see everything from everyone, only those who have their account bridged. If you're on the Fediverse your instance may have chosen not to cooperate with this for their own reasons -- consult with your admin(s) if so.

Or... you can make an account with Wafrn, which is a network that is both ATproto AND ActivityPub compatible! Wow! If you have an ATproto account you can transfer it to Wafrn in its entirety, but if you have an ActivityPub account you can only transfer your follows and following, not your posts or anything else.

You can also use Openvibe to combine your feeds on multiple sites into one and crosspost. I haven't used this, so if you do tell me how it goes.

Article time! This one patiently explains how the AT Protocol works for laypeople, this one explains why what Jay is doing with Bluesky is stupid and how she could improve if she cared, and here's a buuuuunch more stuff made on the protocol. (← I just found out about SkySpace from there and it's sooo cute.)

This took me an embarrassing amount of time to write and I'm not proofreading it o7 I hope this helps someone out! Sorry if some of my wording on technical matters isn't very correct or precise -- I'm a humanities major.

Current Mood: okay
Current Music: G[REDACTED] Woman (She's Homeless) - Crystal Waters

First of all...

♡ There's a Fall In Love With Shoujo Humble Bundle! $30 for everything. It comes with all of Shugo Chara, Peach Girl, Mars, Say I Love You, and A Condition Called Love. I think these are... interesting choices, BUT I can vouch for Mars. Mars is really, really good. Peach Girl is also iconic, and Shugo Chara has its place as a popular, unique magical girl series, but Mars stands out here. I'd say it's a must-read, but I am so disconnected from fellow manga enjoyers or shoujo manga enjoyers that I don't actually know if I should say that and risk setting someone up for disappointment, LOL. Anyways, at the time of posting there's 2 days left of this sale. Yea, I've had it bookmarked for a while... It's a good thing I remembered at all!

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♡ A music video featuring the Maho-dou girls! Can I just say that I don't like how their hairstyles haven't changed or have just barely changed since they were kids? It's always made me go :/ . Check the description of the video too - they got all of Ojamajo Doremi (the first season) dubbed in English, as well as some long videos featuring nostalgic Toei series dubbed in English (namely Ojamajo Doremi, (Futari wa) Pretty Cure, Digimon, and others). Who knows how long they'll be up. I need to check them out too.

♡ Examining the DNA of BL: Takemiya and Hagio by fujoshimenacecw is yet another essay about the origins of BL, but every time I read one I learn something new, so it's always fun. I didn't know about a secret third person who advised them along the way.

♡ Otomate recently announced some new titles. The ones that I'm most interested in are Crazy Chain, made by the same team as Virche Evermore, and Hakuoki Ibun: The Witch of Berezinsky(sp?), a Hakuoki prequel that takes place where the [Hakuoki spoiler, but it's a kind of supernatural creature]s originated. Easy-to-access PV for Hakuoki Ibun here. I also want to play Yuukyuu no Tierblade, Wand of Fortune, and I really really need to buy Over Requiemz, but that's neither here nor there... There's tons of other games coming up too; check their site.

♡ I got a link to an interview with the localization team of Despera Drops, if you're into that sort of thing. I've never played, but it's probably great if you really wanna date Robin from Fire Emblem: Awakening(?)

♡ And lastly, this isn't actually aimed at women but it's related: the writer behind Hypnosis Mic is making a new thing, so that's probably cool. I mean, I think it's a little disappointing that you can't really tell what era the girls are representing at first glance, but who knows how things will be in the future. I feel like most of them don't follow the fashion trends of their eras at all. Wait, look at the design of their official site though. Kind of funny, not gonna lie.

Current Mood: hungry
Current Music: Friend playing Bomb Rush Cyberfunk

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Current Music: Baby cruising love - Perfume

I realized I only have to post these few links to have my Notion cleared of links for my blog -- I keep them all in Raindrop now.

- At 10, I fled the Nazis to live starving and alone in the woods. For two years, detection meant death.
- The Diary of Éva Heyman - Éva Heyman <- Also Holocaust literature.
- Fayun mummy portraits, the gallery part of a Wikipedia article.
- Histories of women in and around Japan, 1868-1945, a blog on Dreamwidth!
- Taking Orwell’s Name In Vain
- “I Am Making the World My Confessor” - Mary MacLane, the Wild Woman from Butte, for the bisexuals. I keep you in my thoughts <3
- What Is It Like to Be a Bass? Fish-Eye View Photography (1919–22)

Current Mood: okay
Current Music: Big Time Rush Theme Song

did some intense backloggd research, and it seems video games didn't get good until 1993 (first year with 5+ games that are rated 4/5 stars or above)

these are the games btw

i'm putting a star by the games i've played and like :3
1. mega man x
2. castlevania: rondo of blood
3. super mario bros. 3 (the snes port)
4. day of the tentacle
5. super mario all-stars
6. doom
7. the legend of zelda: link's awakening 🟊

... after typing that i wanted find out during which year did games get REALLY good (what year has the entire first page of games with 4/5 or above), and the answer to that is 2021.

for the curious

1. disco elysium
2. outer wilds echoes of the eye
3. outer wilds archaeologist edition (wtf that's the same game twice?)
4. mass effect legendary edition
5. the binding of isaac: repentence
6. the great ace attorney chronicles
7. final fantasy xiv: endwalker
8. mass effect 2
9. tsukihime: a piece of blue glass moon
10. library of ruina
11. the binding of isaac: repentance (...? this one say's it's for afterbirth, the higher one is for rebirth)
12. the legend of heroes: trails through daybreak
13. lost judgement
14. resident evil 4 vr
15. crosscode: a new home
16. deltarune chapter 2
17. death stranding: director's cut
18. devil may cry 5 + vergil
19. gothic the chronicles of myrtana: archolos
20. metroid dread
21. jack jeanne
22. psychonauts 2
23. ghost of tsushima
24. castlevania: aria of sorrow 🟊 but it's specifically the port in the advance collection
25. scarlet hollow
26. it takes two
27. the elder scrolls v: skyrim - anniversary edition
28. judgement
29. nier replicant
30. honkai 3rd impact: outerworld traveler
31. cruelty squad
32. final fantasy vii remake intergrade
33. inscryption
34. before your eyes
35. demons roots
36. slow damage
37. blazing hope
38. spiritfarer
39. super mario 3d world + bowser's fury
40. metro exodus: enhanced edition
41. mass effect 3
42. hitman 3
43. nioh 2
44. rhythm doctor
45. neo: the world ends with you
46. little nightmares ii
47. imposter factory
48. sound voltex: exceed gear
49. final fantasy: pixel remaster
50. honkai impact 3rd: the phantom of the theater
51. echo
52. super mario 64 plus
53. metroid dread: special edition
54: blasphemous: wounds of eventide
55. devil may cry 5 deluxe edition + vergil
56. super metroid redux
57. honkai impact 3rd: hacked
58. virche evermore: error:salvation 🟊
59. touhou mystia's izakaya
60. umineko no naku koro ni saku: nekobako to musou no koukyoukyoku

good thing i started making a list. it includes dlc and ports and stuff! i'm not sure if that all counts. now let's see what happens if i filter it to only include main games

...

then there is no year where games are REALLY good, unless i lower my standards to 30 games that are 4/5+ instead of 60. 1993 is still the first year of ~good~ gaming though, because it just removes super mario all-stars (collection of ports) and super mario bros. 3 (the favorite from that quartet of ports).

let's say i lower it to 30 community-decided best main games. then the first year of great gaming is 2023.

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1. baldur's gate 3
2. alan wake ii
3. resident evil 4: deluxe edition
4. the legend of zelda: tears of the kingdom
5. in stars and time
6. pikmin 4
7. armored core vi: fires of rubicon
8. theatrhythm final bar line
9. pizza tower
10. octopath traveler ii
11. misericorde: volume one
12. chants of sennaar
13. hi-fi rush
14. the talos principle ii
15. super mario bros. wonder
16. sakura no toki: sakura no mori no shita wo ayumu
17. void stranger
18. lies of p: deluxe edition
19. bomb rush cyberfunk (es oomf)
20. lies of p (??)
21. like a dragon gaiden: the man who erased his name
22. blasphemous ii
23. little goody two shoes
24. street fighter 6
25. the cosmic wheel sisterhood
26. tloz tears of the kingdom deluxe edition (???)
27. undertale yellow
28. peaks of yore (me playing snes games)
29. gravity circuit
30. sanabi
31. a space for the unbound

could actually be true, could be recency bias. backloggd was created in 2019, if that means anything. in my perfect world i would love to see how the ratings would look if everyone who has ever touched a single video game was made to participate in rating.

while i'm here: it's link time babeyyyy
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Current Mood: hungry
Current Music: Kill Yourself - TImbaland (stuck in my head)

i know it's best for him to have as few tethers as possible for story purposes, but it's so weird sasuke doesn't seem to have any guardian(s) he's abandoned by leaving the leaf village. maybe he seemed old enough to take care of himself when he was 12/13, but when he was little? i dont know how old he was -- maybe 7 or 8...? i'm not sure third graders can take care of themselves? (but i'm having trouble thinking of what they neeeeed adults for... if there's a microwave food is handled, so... hm....)

4:47 P.M.
learned a new thing
暁 (akatsuki) means dawn/daybreak, as we all know, but also can be used like this:

2. event (e.g. "in the event of ..."), occasion, occurrence

usu. as 〜の暁に

kind of beautiful if you ask me. i will make sure i overuse this 👍🏾

11:10 P.M.
realized if i post links the day i check them out i will decrease the chances of having a "fuckkkk i have like 200 things to share to dreamwidth" problem in the future

- the color purple only exists as cope
- there is something crazy going on with a subset of white women (but what's new?)
- lizard click

Did you know that Women of the Internet webring is transphobic?
Free Site Hosting Resources
Notes on Migrating an Online Community
How to Make Discussion Happen on Dreamwidth
Zuck's anti-antitrust argument is that he ruined the Internet

You know, there's multiple online "communities" I'm in where there's only conversation once every blue moon. I have ideas on how to revive them, but I'm not a mod in any of them, so it'd be weird if I randomly started doing mod or admin things like QOTDs or Weekly Topics or whatever. So I just sit and look at these quiet groups I'm subscribed to/following/part of, wanting to talk with fellow fans but having nothing in particular I want to say, and wish I was online during a more chatty time in internet history. So it goes...

Current Mood: okay
Current Music: Machiavellism - Dir en grey

This time it's assorted things about gender and sexuality, and then a bunch of entertainment stuff you can enjoy.
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Current Mood: full
Current Music: ROUAGE (1994 album by, you guessed it, ROUAGE)

Since I'm free from the chains of review catch-up. It's late and I should be getting to bed though, so I don't have much to say right now.
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Current Mood: sleepy

I was nearing 100 saved links, so here we are.

Not that I'm going to post them all in one go. Hell no. I organized them into groups, and I'm going to post 2 or 3 groups max per linkdump.

As for my life, I've been a little busy lately. In a few days I'm going to opposite side of the country to visit a friend for a month. She has to really impress me, because this will determine if after graduation I'll move to Seattle and stay with her or stay in the comfycozy South and feel warmth on my skin 3/4 of the year. Until I leave, I've been working to put out an update on my site - an update I won't drop without completing work on a brand new second website, a fansite where I mostly translate stuff. :p And I have to clean and stuff... yeah, you know how it is. I also have a summer Japanese class, but I'm not stressing it.
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Current Mood: normal
Current Music: Wild Eyes - Shinhwa

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I'm typing this while babysitting. It's her naptime. I want to nap too, but I won't sleep until she falls asleep. In the meantime: I need to dump some links again.

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Current Music: Deux Sérénades (Written for Hilary Hahn): No. 1. by Einojuhani Rautavaara

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Current Music: Every Time He Comes Around - Minnie Riperton

Hello whoever may be reading this. Hope you're doing well, and if not, I hope things get better. This entry is like a combined journal entry + dump of links.

( Normal Journal Entry )

( Things I've Done )

( Things Others Made )

( Near-Future Plans )

And here's my Nintendo Year in Review! :]

Favorite Game of 2024: Metal Gear Solid

Played most in January - 44 hours played - Jan 44, Feb 27, Mar 6, Apr 4, May 13, Jun 19, Jul 30, Sep 6, Oct 1, Nov 17

Narrative Adventure 26%, Action 23%, Character Driven 14%, Most-played Games of 2024: Harukanaru Toki no Naka de 7, Fashion Dreamer, Metal Gear Solid 2 / 28 total games, 171 total hours

Like how I never want to decide between Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask, I don't want to decide between Metal Gear Solid and Metal Gear Solid 2. When I beat 3 I'll probably feel the same. So I'm using MGS1 as a representation of all 3. Or all 2.2. Because I haven't beat Snake Eater. That's a 2025 goal for sure.

You know what's funny about my hours suddenly dipping in March... I think that's when I started Angelique. :P

That's all for now. See you around.

(This entry was started at 2:29pm and posted at 6:25pm, for my own personal record.)

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Current Music: Don't Ask My Neighbors - The Emotions

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