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[tinkaton]

about
Lex. She/They. 30+. USA. Bi. Virgo. Jupiter Ascending apologist. General interests include: reading, writing (fanfic/RP), video games, movies/tv, anime/manga, comics, kpop, online TCGs, making icons/gifs/etc. I work full time at a public library so posts here will be sporadic but ideally I want to try for one or two posts a week. (I used to be on LJ @ scintillulae and DW @ admiral if by chance we've met before!)

fandoms
At the moment, you can check out my tumblr or media tracker for the best way to see what series/fandoms I'm currently into even if I'm not specifically posting about them here. I tend to gravitate toward sci-fi, fantasy, romance, and historical genres, but I enjoy the occasional mystery, action, or comedy series too.

friending policy
If you'd like to follow/friend me, stop by and say hi! I'm always looking for more friends with similar interests. Most of my posts will be unlocked unless they contain more personal info, which will probably be limited. Feel free to unsubscribe at any time if you feel like our vibes aren't meshing.

find me elsewhere
Other sites I can be found at are viewable through my carrd. If you add me anywhere just let me know that you did/who you are on that site! Fanfiction, though not frequently posted, can be found at starkly or fairykiss. I'm also a mod (under my old DW username) over at colors_tcg, an online anime/manga/game character TCG.

Comments

[sinew]

👀

[tinkaton]

gasp how did you find me

lol jk hello ♥

[adore]

hello! we have interests in common (kpop, fic writing, animanga and comics/webtoons). may i add you?

[tinkaton]

hi~! sure thing, I'll add you now :3

[straightforwardly]

Hey, I found this account through the link in your old dreamwidth account. This is Kits; we were LJ friends back in the day.

[tinkaton]

ahh hello! so nice to see old friends still blogging :D

[pill]

hi lex!
my name is bailey -- & we have a lot of friends in common on here, as well as lots and lots of interests in common. i'm always looking for people to add who share my love for online journaling. (i, too, had Xanga, LJ back in its prime, GJ, and so on and so forth.) i am one of the people who (in recent years) made the move over here to DW from LJ.

i would love to be friends if you're okay with it! if not, no worries AT ALL. it's all love either way ♡

[tinkaton]

hi bailey! I'd be happy to add you! nice to meet you :3

[pill]

aw, thank you so much! you're so kind. ♡
i look forward to getting to know one another more!

[kissed]

hey lex, this is selena!! o/ would you like to be journaling friends? also i really love your layout, it's totally you and your aesthetic if you don't mind me saying~

[tinkaton]

hi selena!! I'd love to be dw friends, nice to see you around :3 and thank you! ♥ tessisamess on ij makes the nicest layouts, though adapting them onto dw is a struggle sometimes lmao.

[manatee]

Found you from some mutuals we have, I absolutely adore your layout! Care to be friends? :3

[tinkaton]

Thank you! I'll add you right now, welcome :D

[emoswears]

hello lex this is tsukinio from colors tcg! care to be friends or mutual?

[tinkaton]

hello! I'd be happy to add you :3

[emoswears]

yeshhh tysm :D

[sushiflop]

UTENA HEADER! What a great anime. I watched it in 202...1? with a friend and had a blast, just stellar execution from start to finish tbh

also hello!

[tinkaton]

Hello! :D

Utena is one of my favorite series of all time, there's just So Much Happening in it... I rec it all the time.

[sushiflop]

It was just so good. I want to watch it again lmao. Do you have any particular faves? I really liked Anthy, Wakaba, Nanami, and Utena of course, but cared a lot about most all of the characters, even the shittiest and most disastrous of the teens. I also got very weirdly attached to Akio's throwaway wife, last seen being fed apples as if she were a helpless baby bird (what HAPPENED there??? dying to know)

[goblinesque]

Hello! We have quite a few mutuals and some common interests (reading, gaming, anime, Disney, anyone who likes Yu Yu Hakusho and Tenchi Muyo has THE BEST taste etc...). Wanna try being pals?

ALSO VERY NICE ICON HEHE

[tinkaton]

Nanami and Juri(+Shiori) are my ultimate faves but Utena and Anthy are great too of course. All the girls in the show are fantastic. And the guys are there too I guess -_- sjhfskjdfs a necessary evil. Saionji is probably the funniest to meme on though. But as characters I think everyone is really well done/interesting. I really need to do a re-watch at some point because I'm sure like 50% of what was going on went over my head the first time.

[tinkaton]

Hello icon twin! I'm always happy to add people with such good taste. Nice to meet you!

[sushiflop]

It's funny because I was just talking to someone else about the Utena guys, specifically Saionji, and my word on him was "I wish Saionji a very grow up and be less terrible." They just came back like two weeks after I dropped that comment to say that they had finished the series and now they understood. 😂 I like the Utena guys like I like leeches and mosquitoes: they play an important role in their ecosystems, but no fucking way do I want them on me.

[22]

I’m not trying to be annoying I swearrrrrr I switched journal accounts hehe care to still be friends? :)

[tinkaton]

Saionji is like, funny because he's the first guy you see be a big shit and you're like wow what a jerk?? but then you get farther into the show and it's like oh lordy he's basically the least problematic of all the big shits jshdfksjhdf

[tinkaton]

Of course! Welcome back.

[luckyzukky]

hello there i'm melo (or kat)! i run chillwaves which is how i found you :) we have some overlapping interests and you seem cool so i'm down to add you if that's alright with you?

[tinkaton]

hello hello! go right ahead, I'm happy to make friends! :3

[fujiapplefox]

Hi *waves* I see we share lots of same interests (reading, video games, movies/tv, anime/manga, kpop).
I too once graced the pages of LJ before it got ruined. I'd love to be friends if you are still accepting them!

[tinkaton]

Hello! I'm happy to add you, welcome. :)

What's one thing (game, anime, hobby, etc.) you're really into right now?

[fujiapplefox]

Thank you!!!!

Hmmm, right now I am playing Assassin's Creed Shadows, anime would be Gachiakuta, and for hobbies I am reading. Was sewing but ran out of projects and material.
What about you? What are you into at this moment?

[tinkaton]

I'm still very much trapped in Arcane hell lol, that's where most of my fandom interest has been lately. I'm SO close to finishing playing Metaphor: ReFantazio and then will probably start Hades II...

What's your current read? I'm in the middle of The Strength of the Few (the sequel to The Will of the Many which I really enjoyed) but it's a long book and I'm a slow reader.

[fujiapplefox]

Arcane is awesome! I love how different each character is and the storyline is great!
I've heard of Metaphor: ReFantazio but haven't gotten around to getting the game. Have you played it before?

Right now I am reading 'The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue' and 'Tender is the Flesh'.
You'll have to tell me how 'The Strength of the Few' is? sounds like an interesting read.
I also want to re-read 'Frankenstein' after watching del Toro's movie :D

[tinkaton]

I hadn't played it before, but I have played Persona games and I really enjoyed them, and Metaphor is similarly structured. Since my last comment I did finally beat the game after dragging my feet too long lmao so I gotta find some time to write up my thoughts.

I've heard of both those books but haven't read either. I feel like V.E. Schwab is always highly recommended but I don't think I've read anything by her at all.
I'm about halfway through The Strength of the Few but I'm enjoying it! If you don't mind starting an in progress series with an unknown number of books lol I definitely recommend checking out The Will of the Many.

[fujiapplefox]

Persona games are so fun! Which ones have you played?
I'd love to read what you think of Metaphor. It's on my to-get list but it's fun to read what others have to say.

So far I really like her book. I'd recommend it if you like a bit of magic and romance. I will add The Will of the Many to my list, it sounds like it's right up my alley :D

What genres of books do you gravitate towards?

[tinkaton]

I've played 3, 4, and 5 + P5 Strikers! They definitely have their problems (P4 my problematic fave...) but the characters are always so fun. Which ones have you played?

I usually read any combo of fantasy, historical, romance, and/or sci-fi. Top tier mashup is a fantasy historical romance haha. I read graphic novels a lot too. What about you, what's your faves?

[fujiapplefox]

tbh I have only played 3 so I can't say to much about how I feel about the others. I do want to play them though I love the persona universe, it's very interesting.

Combo reads are so much fun! I'm not big on romance but I do like fantasy, historical, suspense, paranormal and psychological thrillers. The only graphic novels I read are manga lol I'm a big fan of Owari no Seraph, love me some vampires haha. I do have a fav light novel though, Baccano! There just something about it that resonates with me. Can't say what but there is something there. What are your fav graphic novels?

What kind of music do you like?

[tinkaton]

They're definitely worth trying out if you've never played them!

oh I haven't read the light novels but I loooove the Baccano! anime, one of my top 5 faves I think. and hmm it's hard to pick faves but I really like the Nimona comic (and the movie too) and Saga is probably my current favorite ongoing series. but there's a lot of random standalone graphic novels I've enjoyed.

lmao mostly I listen to kpop these days and I've gotten back into Vocaloid hdsjsdhf but I enjoy pop, indie, rock, edm type stuff in general. I was a big Florence and the Machine, Marina and the Diamonds, The Hush Sound, etc girlie back in the day. I mean I still am lol but lately if I'm listening to something new it's probably kpop. how about you?

[fujiapplefox]

I will try my best to find them and play them. They sound like so much fun!

Yeah!!! another Baccano! fan XD I was reading lately that Ryohgo Narita is going to try to finish the series soon. I'm glad to hear he is doing better. Being that sick is just awful!

I will have to look into Nimona and Saga, this is the first time hearing of them. What genre are they?

I love Marina! She had some really good tunes back in the day. OMG I feel so old now lol Oh gosh my music taste is everywhere. I really like TMRevolution, if it wasn't for his songs I wouldn't have been introduced to Jpop. I do like Jrock, V-kei, pop, classical and phonk (recently). I don't really have fav artists I just listen to whatever speaks to me and makes me fell happy. Have you heard of Epic of Zetcbach? I was big on that music for a long time.

[tinkaton]

Oh that's cool I didn't actually know Baccano was still ongoing. I'm glad Narita is feeling better, hopefully the series gets finished soon!

Nimona originated as a webcomic which is how I originally read it, but I think the site is no longer up now that it's officially published. But it's a YA science-fantasy about a shapeshifter who teams up with a disgraced knight in his quest to take down an organization called the Institute that he was expelled from. The movie has a similar setup but a different plot; it's lighter than the comic and they have a different vibe, but I really enjoyed both versions!

Saga is an ongoing sci-fi comic by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples that starts with a couple from two warring races fleeing the war with their newborn daughter (who isn't allowed to exist as a child of both species). The comic's been publishing since 2012 so a ton more stuff happens, but it's got a lot of cool characters and wild twists.

I used to listen to a lot of jpop/jrock in high school! Gackt, An Cafe, Malice Mizer, Dir En Grey, L'Arc-en-Ciel, etc haha. I've never heard of Epic of Zetcbach, what is it?

[fujiapplefox]

It was on hiatus for so long and I just read a translation of his latest post.

I saw Nimona the movie, it was really good. I'll be on the hunt for the comic now. It had some good/fun vibes.

I think I saw Saga in our local bookstore but I never did pick it up to properly look at it. will do next time i go.

Dir en Grey was my jam, I was such a weirdo as a kid. I listed to everything no one else was listening do. Did you also listen to Nightmare? they were another band I really liked. I think I still have some of their music videos on a drive somewhere.

Epic of Zektbach had a whole storyline along with the music. It is mostly classical-electronic musical compositions. There are various stories, or chapters, for each music type but essentially the stories are set in a fantasy world. It's hard to explain, it's more of an experience than anything else. if you get a chance to listen to it let me know what you think.

[tinkaton]

I hope you enjoy Nimona if you read it! And Saga's definitely worth checking out the first volume as long as you don't mind mature content (it's got a lot of sex and violence).

I don't think I listened to Nightmare, though looking at their Wiki page I see they did the Death Note opening/ending so I have heard some of their stuff.

Oh that's cool, I actually love stuff that mixes classical/electronic music so I'll have to give it a look sometime.

[fujiapplefox]

I don't mind that kind of content at all.

Nightmare was big back in the day. The band that really got me into Jrock/Vkei was Luzmelt, they no longer are together but I loved their style and music.

Let me know what you think of zektbach when you get the chance to listen to it.

How has your 2026 been so far?