#and wait

[yumethefrostypanda]

Valeria Garza

[nshi-ao3]

Pffft haha! "Oh my god, you guys! They added my WoL to Smash Bros!"

[naamahdarling]

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[bredforloyalty]

can someone convince me it does end or am i left to my own devices, like for the rest of my life to convince myself. cause if so that kind of sucks balls

[forgottenflickr]

bruh how did u blow up 😭 i am trying to do my own little upload blog thing and it seems so hard

to be honest, I think it’s just because I already had another sideblog with a few thousand followers, and after some time with this blog i happened to reblog one of my own posts there talking about it. Before then, I got almost no interaction here (though I didn’t post very much then compared to now)

regardless, it’ll take some time and then you’ll get some hit post you didn’t expect, that’s what happened on my other blog I mentioned, here too

[mysdrymmumbles]

Time for Round #5 DMV Rumble

I'm bringing the book When the Moon Hatched. Hoping it's a good one. I'll be there for at least 5 hours today so I'll have time to read a few chapters.

[fosermi]

also I didn’t add but again look forward to the answer to your ask I too will be cooking 👀

[television-overload]

On the one hand, I have a cool job that I really like, great coworkers and supervisors, decent time off, good weather, a supportive, irreplaceable community, and a nice life where I live now.

On the other hand, I have very few close friends, it's so expensive to live here, we basically don't have seasons, and I live almost 11 hours away from my whole family. My sister turns 11 in a few weeks and I've been out of the house since she was 3, and living this far away since she was 6. I've missed so much. Her whole childhood, basically, she'll be a teenager soon. But jobs close to my family in my field are so few and far between, and hard to get. At least the ones that would hold my interest. I'm so lucky to have wound up at the job I'm currently in, but I'm going crazy being the deadbeat sister (which I know isn't a thing, but I want to be a real part of my family. Not just someone who comes around for holidays and family vacations.) My parents are getting older. My grandpa is getting much much older. I feel stagnant where I am, like I know it's time to move on, but I'm stuck.

And I love how this always occurs to me in the middle of my work day. I love fighting back tears at work.

Anyway, midday existential crisis/venting over, back to your regularly scheduled fan content soon

[weasleywrinkles]

I never complain publicly about the Disabled Experience (tm) but tonight has to be some sort of record and if I don't write it somewhere I might combust.

[guardians-of-exo]

Okay so I am unreasonably terrified of wasps and right now there is one the size of my fucking PINKY in my HALLWAY! And I’m sitting here like the pathetic grown ass woman that I am, staring at it through the glassdoor hoping for it to drop dead so I can have access to my bathroom again 😫

Googled some wasp traps and luckily had what I needed so I put two out there. Wish me me luck or maybe even some courage 🤞🏻

[dafukdidiwatch]

Don’t be like that Dupree you have two hands to stab someone with

[lisbonsteresa]

I won’t say Psych is a slow start, because it’s not, but the pilot while very good is definitely clunky and only gives 75% of what the rest of the show does. By episode 4 it feels much more fully formed. The writers have the characters voices down and understand the dynamics.

I’ve started a rewatch because of people talking it up to you, and I am so delighted. Im always loving how quickly the chemistry between James and Dule form, and how they truly feel like they’ve been best friends their whole lives.

It’s been long enough that I forgot where in the show they start doing spoof episodes, but I’m so hype to get to it. The Clue spoof episode is one of the best times, as is their Twin Peaks episode, Dual Spires.

ooh ok ok 📝📝

i've heard so many people say they're some of the best co-stars they've ever seen; i'm so excited to see for myself

[chibi-sunrise]

One fan’s observations on Luminaria’s Merch Sales

Because it’s difficult not to feel a little anxious when the future of your favorite game heavily depends on sales of limited merchandise.

That being said, based on what I can observe and no matter how anxious I get, I think Luminaria’s done objectively well for itself when it comes to merch sales.

First, when Luminaria’s OST was released it became the number 1 quickest trending MP3 album on Amazon JP within 12 hours of its release. Here’s a tweet that recorded this statistic.

It was also number 5 in the Top 5 quickest trending MP3 album on Apple Music JP and number 6 in the Top 10 quickest trending MP3 album on Rekochoku. I thought I had the tweets/screenshots that recorded those two, but it turns out I only got the one for Amazon JP this whole time... Well, you can decide for yourself if this sounds right!

Second, around March 2022 there were multiple stores that opened pre-orders for Luminaria’s chibi acrylic stands among other Luminaria-related types of merch. Animate also had them in physical stores because there was an event (AGF 2022) going on in Japan.

Oddly, or perhaps not so oddly, those stores had it in writing that they’d sell the pre-ordered Luminaria merch regularly in June 2022...only to pull their merch from the store listing some time after Luminaria announced EoS. Animate, the Chara, and Animo didn’t offer any explanation for this, but it’s not hard to guess that they were probably just cutting their losses.

[To be honest, I don’t blame them either since the official Tales Channel Plus twitter never once retweeted these stores when they opened pre-orders. Tales Channel Plus also never made any news posts about these stores opening pre-orders either. Any business would be insulted by that.]

At the time, Colleize was still a new store that sold official anime and game-related goods. Because Colleize was new, no one in the Tales of fandom knew enough about them to be confident in buying from them. Tales Channel Plus also didn’t retweet them or make a post about them either.

But the first and only official Tales of merch that Colleize sold was Luminaria merch that the other stores were no longer selling, so Luminaria fans gave them a shot. Colleize was also proxy-friendly and partnered up with Buyee to deliver their products to overseas fans.

And Colleize actually sold out ALL of their Luminaria merch in July 2022! I’m a short-sighted fool, so I didn’t nab any screenshots of their inventory at the time (Past me was probably, “well, the JP fans already took pics and I RT’ed them, so I don’t HAVE to take my own screenshots”) but I do have this tweet I made when I saw it.

Then Colleize restocked their Luminaria merch in September 2022. I actually made sure to record that one, at least. At the time of this post, 3/1/2023, all Luminaria’s badges sold out, all Luminaria’s masking tape sold out, the Federation motif keychain sold out, Falk’s chibi stand sold out, Hugo’s chibi stand sold out, Leo’s chibi stand sold out, Hugo’s acrylic stand sold out, Leo’s acrylic stand sold out, Hugo’s keychain sold out, and Leo’s keychain sold out.

A few other Luminaria items have also sold out around the fourth of April, 2023. August and Alexandra’s chibi acrylic stands are both gone, just to name a couple.

[Wait, all of Hugo and Leo’s stuff sold out with the exception of the blind bromides, which are on back-order, where they could still appear?! Damn, okay...]

And Colleize has a lot more Tales of Series merch available on back-order now too! They’ve got some Destiny stuff, some Arise stuff, some Zestiria stuff... I couldn’t be happier for them that they seem to be doing well! And I hope that more Luminaria fans who haven’t bought Lumi merch, but want to buy them can find their way to Colleize soon!

Because if you’re a Hugo or Leo fan, then you’re already out of luck. People don’t play around... I hope people at least get to buy merch of their faves before it gets sold out like that...sheesh. But when it comes to Luminaria merch, I guess you need to approach it with the mindset that they won’t always be selling Luminaria merch and if they do, your fave isn’t always going to be in stock either. It’s a rough world out there in Luminaria merch availability...

Third, I found some merch photos of people who received their acrylic stands from Asobi store some time after I was sad that Bastien and Raoul’s stands were sold out. I think it just took some time for the stock to be accurately reflected, so all of the physically in stock Luminaria-related merch is sold out on Asobi store too...but until 3/5/2023 JST, you check out this post on how to roll some random Luminaria badges while they’re still available!

And finally, this might be the crowning achievement for Luminaria fans in merch sales so far: the Luminaria hanko stamps! The company had actually been planning to open orders for Luminaria hanko stamps for over a year. When they were accepting orders, Tales Channel Plus actually wrote a news post about it! And the official twitter RT’ed them too! Three times!

The person in charge of the project tweeted that they were excited to see all the different custom engravings the fans had requested early into the ordering period.

The planning and PR manager for the hanko stamps thanked all the Luminaria fans who ordered stamps, tweeting that they think they could probably convey the fans’ love for Luminaria to the publishers too at the end of the ordering period.

The person in charge of the stamp company’s twitter also tweeted that they received many, many, A LOT of orders and thanked the Luminaria fans at the end of the ordering period. They’ve also tweeted that Lycoris Recoil and Luminaria’s requested engravings are some of the most unique ones they’ve seen in the last few years.

So, tl;dr, because Luminaria’s in a delicate position where its future heavily depends on good merch sales, it can be easy for fans, especially EN fans, to get pessimistic about whether or not we can have a meaningful effect.

But when I look at the little victories that Luminaria fans have been able to accomplish despite the rocky challenges, and when I see that the Luminaria fans have made such a stellar impression on a company that their planning and PR manager even commented that they could probably convey the fans’ love to the publishers...

I think it’s okay for Luminaria fans to be a little more hopeful. I think it’s okay for Luminaria fans to look at this and realize that every small victory will add up.

Slowly, but surely, I think Luminaria fans are making a tangible impact.

[teddybearsandspaceships]

Hearing the Warden´s heartbeat get faster or slower from really long distances away really makes it feel like the entire Deep Dark has it out for you.

[strawbarisouls]