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➤ All I ever post these days is pictures of stuff I've bought, but that's because I'm not doing anything exciting except buying things. The world's a hot mess and I'm stuck in treat yo self mode. Anyway look at my amazing new shirts.


(Click to enlarge) In my defense, two of these are for work lol.
Some people on social media had teased that Arcane shirt being in stores at Hot Topic but it WASN'T ON THE SITE so I basically just stalked their site until it was finally put up and then I bought one immediately. I swear they only printed like, 10 of these things because it's already out, I don't know why Riot is so deathly allergic to making Jayce merch. Or Viktor merch where he's not in his Herald form.

(Then again, the monkey's paw curled so hard on this one because there'd been leaks about a Pop Mart collab for Arcane blind boxes so I was excited to see what they'd have because they've done some cute League figures before. And they turned out HIDEOUS like holy shit. They want THIRTY ONE DOLLARS for a single blind box. Insane. They finally release Jayce and non-Herald Viktor merch and it's like a slap in the face. But you know what, good for me at least I don't have to spend money on it now!)

The DnD themed shirts are for summer reading this year! The art's by Carey Pietsch, who illustrates the Adventure Zone comics. :D The dragon one in the middle is long-sleeved, the DnD party on the right is short sleeved. They were both soooo cute I couldn't decide which one so I shelled out for both lmao. But hey, more clothes I can wear to work!

➤ I took these last two days off from work and I've been trying to use the extra time to poke away at my current fic that I should've finished weeks ago (it's for a monthly fic challenge, I'm still working on March's and haven't even started April's yet lol). It's much more "serious" than my usual fare which I think is what's been blocking me. Well that and the fact I've been very bad motivating myself to write lately. I'm going to TRY to finish it this weekend though...

➤ New game mode in Overwatch! Has anyone tried Stadium out yet? I played a few matches, it's been pretty fun so far but I'm still trying to memorize all the item perks and such because right now it's taking me forever just to go over everything between rounds haha. Also that magical girl skin line is SO cute wtf... I want Kiriko's skin so bad 😔

➤ Wrapping up this post and my coworker texts me that our nail polish order from Mooncat arrived lmao I got peer pressured into getting actual polish, originally I was just going to snag a bottle of their fast dry top coat off ysay's recommendation, but my Mooncat-collecting coworkers were like you should get some polish too...so I did. I am weak. Their colors are SO cool though? I ended up picking Antifragile and Strangeberry. Now I just need to actually stick to painting my nails more than once a year!

Haven't had much to post about lately here. For a while my free time was just me rewatching The Good Place and Arcane, and finishing my Yuletide fic. Then after that it was playing catch up on the things I had put off doing while I'd been watching TV and writing instead. At least I'm all set for Christmas, though I keep thinking I want to make gingerbread cookies and still haven't done it. Really I just want to EAT gingerbread cookies without the making part, so that's been the main hindrance lol. I'm just not meant to be baking things that have a 20-step process smh.


The last of the packages I was waiting for arrived all at once, so now I'm swimming in excess stationery (my Christmas presents to myself lmao). I got the cuuutest notebook + matching memo pads/washi from an artist on Etsy, and a set of space-themed notebooks made by a different artist.

( stationery pics and chatter below )

I told myself no more purchases this month, but I'm only 200 stupid coins away from being able to afford the Cardboard D.Va skin in Overwatch that I want sooo bad (look at her!!!) but I don't want to give them any money. 😠 I wish you could buy the damn skin alone without the bundle items jacking up the price... So I guess I'll see which is stronger, Cardboard D.Va's cuteness or me not wanting to give Blizzard $5 lmao.

But that's enough complaining!! I hope everyone has a good Christmas/Hanukkah/New Year's, in case I don't update before then! ♥

Spent most of last week being sick, so that was fun. I had already scheduled a half day Monday because of an afternoon appointment, and I had taken Tuesday off for working Saturday, and good thing I did because I was already feeling pretty gross by Tuesday afternoon. Ended up taking off the rest of the week, which was nice in that I wasn't working, but also not great because sick. I'd taken a COVID test but it came out negative so god only knows what weird illness I had. I would've guessed the flu but I never had a fever so ??? But I'm feeling better now thankfully! A lot of last week was spent either napping or reading, which was nice if very unproductive lmao.


I've been severely slacking off on playing DAI because I got back into Overwatch aaarrghhh. So much free time now absorbed back into that dumb game... But oh man the new character Juno is very fun!! I sucked hard as Venture (I suck at DPS in general lol) so I'm glad we got a new support. And she's so cute, her VA is great.

I do still want to finish my DAI replay before Veilguard comes out so I need to stop putting so much time into Overwatch again 😑


I finally watched Inside Out 2 with some friends. I really liked the first movie so I didn't have high expectations for this one, but it was actually better than I expected. Not as good as the first, obviously, I feel like they tried to tackle a little too much at once, but they still made me cry lmao so that's a win for them I guess.

I also watched that new show Kaos on Netflix, a dark comedy modern reimagining of Greek myth with Jeff Goldblum as Zeus. It's only one season and of course ends in a bit of a cliffhanger with no confirmed season 2 lmaooo so I'm not expecting a conclusion. (I just found out they cancelled Dead Boy Detectives after one season too, I am coming for these Netflix execs with a gun I swear to god.)

But the story is a mash-up of the Eurydice and Orpheus myth and stuff with Minos and his family, both tied into an overarching plot where Zeus becomes increasingly paranoid about a prophecy that will supposedly see to his downfall. There's a lot of liberty taken with the myths, it's not a straight adaptation of anything, which I don't mind because I like to see what wacky stuff modern adaptations come up with, whether I think it's a good take or not lol. (Kaos writers I'm also coming for you for your one stupid Hera plot decision 🔫)

The casting is fun and there's some gay stuff, thank god because who's doing Greek myth adaptations these days without some gay stuff smh. Dionysus was my favorite because Dio's always my favorite, but I do hope we get a season 2 and we get to see more than the main few Olympians that were in this season. (Yes I am Olympian biased I will not apologize. Though my main man since my youth has always been Charon because I was a very weird child; he exists in this season so I don't have to demand his inclusion.)

☆ Getting through my reading list as promised! I hate falling behind even though I always do, though I guess there's not really any rush here compared to other social media. The posts'll still be there when I get to them! I did stumble upon a fic exchange that looked interesting, unsent_letters_exchange. Nominations are still open for a few more days! I've never done an exchange before, but I used to be big into epistolary fic, so I'm kind of tempted. 👀

☆ I've reached chapter 150 in my great Tsubasa RC re-read, which is definitely past the point I had previously read in high school. The amount of shit that has gone down since my previous update... ( + )

☆ I'm making progress in Final Fantasy XVI as well! According to my PS5 I'm about 63% of the way through? ( + )

☆ Does anyone still play Overwatch? Unfortunately I do lmao. I've never been big into first-person shooters but I've always enjoyed Overwatch as a game. Unsurprisingly I'm a healer main with D.Va as my main tank (though tanking has gotten sooo much more annoying since they switched to a 5-person team single-tank setup). This new season they've reset everyone for competitive, idk why but I'm sure there's some explanation that I don't care about, so I was stupidly like eh okay I guess I'll place myself again. BAD IDEA I had to stop because I'm 1:3 and consistently the best player on my team which is not good because I'm average at best jshdfsjkdfs. So I guess I'll just jump back in later after more people get sorted, maybe... Would be nice not to get put into games where my team has zero kills amongst us and the enemy team has 15 elims each. (And this is for my healer ranking, I shudder to think how things would go as the sole tank...)