#just do a full 3rd City July on it

[freedfromthegalactichivemind]

Honestly, sometimes when I am updating my new Trigun stuff on Ao3, or contemplating more Zelda stuff, I see the SHEER VOLUME of my Spop fics and I get a temptation just to personal-archive them all and take them all offline. Most of my experience in this fandom has been pain and I feel kind of ashamed of my Spop fics because "why was I writing for a children's cartoon that people take way too seriously, anyway?" Even though I was a prolific Trigun-ficcer back in the day, and after that, a prolific Zelda-ficcer, I never wanted to take all of my fanfiction dot net stuff over to Ao3. It's kind of surreal for me to see myself as an author of around 100 fics on Ao3 and instead of them being "mostly Zelda" or "half Zelda, half Trigun" like on the old site, on Ao3, there are just sooooo many individual Spop fics, most of them Entrapdak or veering into my original characters, and that's listed-fics, some of what I have are small-fic COLLECTIONS. And, it's like... I've returned to what has become a far better (and less traumatising) fandom now? I have a lot of stuff I've done over on fanfiction dot net from like 20 years ago, but it's not good, I just want to keep on doing new stuff, with the occasional bring-over of an old "I've re-read and I don't hate this" fic. So, I just leer at my Spop stuff and wonder... "What if I blew you all up?" I don't know if anyone is reading that stuff anymore. I get a few kudos now and again, but it's old stuff. I don't think I'm particularly missed in the fandom. And it's like...comparing my lower-effort fan-writing for a not-too well-written show with my explorations of something that is inspirational, amazing and burrows into the soul. I...just don't want people going to Ao3 to think of me as "an Spop writer anymore, when I'm becoming a Trigun writer again. But... I am not a coward. I've left up my old, dubious-quality bullshit-fic for many fandoms that I did over 20 years ago up on fanfiction dot net TO THIS DAY - seriously, things that make me facepalm still exist on the Internet, easily accessed. I also wonder, if anyone does still like my Ao3 Spop work, feeling nostalgic or whatever, they should be able to find it.

[libraford]

(I have permission to share this.)

Text- from Walking Distance Brewing Company

Happy Pride month! We are here another year to celebrate Pride with you! Thank you for your love and support through a difficult year of slander and harassment. Your support has not just kept us afloat but has made us thrive! Our inclusive community isn’t here just for Pride - we’re here all year. It's not always easy being inclusive in town. The library, community organizations, and yes, even Walking Distance have been targets. In this post, we're going to discuss the attacks against the library and against us. Last June, the library had a pride book display [1]. On July 3rd, (now ex) city councilmember Deb Groat wrote an email to the library at the request of the Union Faith Family Coalition [2]. In this email, she wrote: “I am deeply offended by explicitly sexual material on display in the children’s section of our library. Shame on you and your staff for pandering to any social agenda in displaying reading material to children.” [3] Later on in the email she wrote: “The library may well want to pass a levy in the future, or have input in a community TIF.” [3] On November 27, 2023 - Deb Groat was joined by city councilmember Mark Reams in voting for a TIF that would divert money away from the library for 30 years. Luckily, the extension did not pass. [4] According to Union County Faith Family Coalition’s founder, Mark Reams is a member. [2] Deb Groat and Mark Reams vote together to divert money from the library. Let’s move on to us. In June 2023, we had a drag show. On July 8th, Mark Reams’ wife, Leslie Reams posted on Facebook calling Walking Distance “Little Epstein Island” [5] joining in the same rhetoric spread by the Union County Faith Family Coalition, who nicknamed us, “Walking Distance Grooming Co.” Additionally, on April 15th, 2024 - while on-shift at her job, Leslie Reams called us a “den of depravity bar [that] preys on children,” and called our bartenders and customers, “pedophiles” and “drunks.” Let’s be clear. Leslie Reams, the members of the Union County Faith Family Coalition, and their followers have never called law enforcement (to our knowledge) - something we would expect and want to happen if pedophilia was happening. Law enforcement has never been called, we suspect that even they know that it’s not true. We have heard many rumors, as bad as, “Walking Distance is full of pedophiles” to more innocuous rumors that hurt our reputation. Our guess is that the same people who don’t believe we’re pedophiles, but want to demonize queerness, also know their audience and are able to tone it back to do the damage they can. We saw sales dips directly following Leslie Reams’ statements. We have heard city council members echoing similar rumors. Last summer, we had around 10 citations against the owner’s house and the business from the city and council - none of these citations asked us to remedy anything (except for the one about mowing…oops), and in fact there were instances when the local officials said that we were doing everything right, but they are only reaching out to us because they had so many calls. The year prior, Walking Distance and the owner's house had 0 citations. We’ll never know exactly how much business we lost due to the slander against us. We do know, we lost a lot. Similarly, we’ll never know exactly how much the support of our community has meant. We do know, it meant a whole lot. The support has kept us afloat, and with time, it's made us thrive. We know that we have survived to see another June. And we are ready to celebrate it, in the face of the hate. There would be no pride with no hate. Looking forward to seeing you on Wednesday for drag BINGO; Saturday for drag brunch; and also visit us on Saturday during Marysville Pride. We have more Pride events this week and month, keep your eyes peeled! And even if it's not a pride related event, we are always inclusive. Oh, and there's a city council meeting next Monday, June 10th at 7PM.

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Here's some photos of the extremely offensive library display:

They haven't given a call to action yet.

So anyways, that's what's happening in a nearby town. Marysville's pride event is this weekend and if you'd like to show up for local queers its going to be a very fun time.

I'm thinking of grabbing some of my local gays and giving them our patronage, of course. Its somewhat unrealistic to ask strangers on the internet to do take a hike all the way to Ohio for drag bingo.

So I think I would just like to call attention to it- if this is happening in our area, its probably happening in yours too. If you were thinking of attending a drag show but were on the fence about it, I think you should. They're a fun time.

Being involved in the queer community can be as simple as attending a drag show. Or going to a silly queer-focused event. Or supporting a queer-owned business. Every little bit of support for your queer community counts!

[darkpetal16]

June 26th through July 14th Progress Update

June 26th 2024 - Continued to write and program ch1 for Dancetale. This will be my first game incorporating the use of magic prosthetics.

June 28th 2024 - Continued to write and program ch1 for Dancetale, mostly focused on the different branches of the different prosthetics MC can have, and began researching canes for MCs with a leg prosthetic.

June 29th 2024 - Completed the prologue / ch1 groundwork for prosthetics (right leg, left leg, right arm, left arm and a three-way combination of those variants), along with if MC uses a cane. Currently now drafting / programming Toriel’s house.

June 30th 2024 - Drafted / Programmed the opening sequence for Toriel’s house. The locket makes a return!

July 1st 2024 - DANCETALE Programmed a portion of MC customization. Attached is a snippet of just the clothing customization.

HORRORTALE Drafted more of the lab

July 2nd 2024 - HORRORTALE Worked more on programming the opening scene. Also came up with a different idea for the later half of the lab that I think will be much more interesting, so started outlining that instead.

DANCETALE Worked on a new sequence as part of day 1. Since there’s so much customization, I’m trying to naturally spread out the options throughout the first day so it’s not so overwhelming.

NOTE: Discord voted for a 0 death Toriel encounter in DT

July 3rd 2024 - DANCETALE - Continued drafting & programming for ch1. Worked briefly on Toriel’s dance, but mostly focused on programming the soul variants & writing the backstory for MC with Chara.

July 5th 2024 - DANCETALE - Nearing completion for Ch1’s first programmed draft. Only two scenes left to complete - the dance with Toriel & the first major “Bad Ending”.

July 6th 2024 - DANCETALE - Played around with creating a rhythm game for the boss fight. Attached is what was voted on to use as buttons in the forum.

HORRORTALE - Drafted a very fun scene where a certain ghost meets a certain reaper. >:D

I did briefly open up MAFIAFELL to begin the revisions / corrections needed but then my computer blue screened so I quietly backed everything up when it came back on and moved on lol.

July 7th 2024 - Had two full uninterrupted hours of me time and got to start something I’ve been wanting to do for a hot minute: UNDERFELL update.

Began with updating the ui and themes, and randomized which LI talks to you after your first death. Hope to do more soon!

July 8th 2024 - Almost finished UNDERFELL’s facelift. Made it all the way to the city. I think I’ll be able to upload the updated version tomorrow.

July 09th 2024 - Completed the visual update to UNDERFELL and posted it.

July 10th 2024 - Mostly worked on trying to figure out how to code a few things for DANCETALE. Trying something new and haven’t got it working yet. I also did a little more drafting into ch1 while it stewed in my thoughts.

July 11th 2024 - DANCETALE rhythm boss fight coding. Vid’s in the forum for more details, but it took me a couple days to get it working well enough.

July 14th 2024 - DANCETALE continued drafting & programming Ch1. Only one day left. Also created a brief “how to” on the boss battles / rhythm games. After some play testing I have determined I’ll leave the rhythm games just for boss battles, and use a more typical method for regular encounters. It’ll bog the game down too much for each regular encounter to have its own rhythm game to its own song.

NOTE: Discord currently voting on death loop & soulmate rule in DT.

[psychiatristtriangle]

Can you please talk about your current fandoms and why you like them???

Okay, alright

Let's start

1) Tolkien Legendarium (since February 2024)

I'm a linguistics, most likely philology nerd and this man created TONS OF LANGUAGES just for he got bored and wrote an creation myth to his OC's

I love the whole Arda in general, it doesn't matter which time the story takes place or where it takes place

However my favourite time period of all is between Y.T 1495 and F.A 590

I even made a whole presentation about The High Kings of Ñoldor in literature class and I got an 100 🙂

2) DC Comics (since 2022(partially 2015-2016))

DC is a total mess.

Completely, it is a mess when you're both trying to watch something or read something

No order, no logical explanations, everything is in chaos

God, I love it

Especially Batfam

This city and family is full of angst and tragedy

They're full of traumas, yet family chaos, psychological issues and tons of responsibilities which shouldn't be on their shoulders

I adore them

Jason and Tim are my babies and that's all thanks for listening to me

3) Marvel Cinematic Universe (Infinity Saga+some of phase 4 series) (since 2021(partially 2015-2016))

First of all I'm a #teamstark

And this was the top of my teenager obsessions at one time

MCU has an order, everything is planned and on a plane

If you're interested in this you easily may connect so many dots and understand a whole

I loved MCU for its domestic and friendly vibes

4) Shakespeare Tragedies (since April 2023)

I'm a theater kid, really

I'm in the theatre club of my school and I've been in 5 or 6 plays since 2023 and by the next week, I'll be performing a play in Arabic which is my 3rd language.

I love reading theatre texts and especially Shakespeare, for his chaos and tragedies.

Hamlet, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Macbeth, Julius Caesar and many other

I really love tragedies

5) Jujutsu Kaisen (since July 2024)

This is totally because of my bff who was currently obsessed with it at that time.

God, I love tragedies and domestic stuff at the same time, I know BUT WHAT GEGE DID WAS UNFAIR

I'm kinda traumatised by the end of it

6) Harry Potter (since May 2019)

I don't even follow or do stuff about this but this was the first fandom which I got in contact with real people instead of myself again.

So it's here

7) Gravity Falls

It is a classic at this point. Same things with 6

8) Heathers the Musical (since June 2023)

I LOVE musicals. Me myself is kinda musical and this was the very first musical I've ever watched and also it was the first video which I didn't watch with Turkish subtitles

Full of chaos, teenage bullshit, musical numbers and also CHAOS

Hehe

9) Hazbin Hotel

Also a musical, same with 8

10) Miraculous Ladybug and Chat Noir

Tragedical issues, same with 4-5

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Those are my fandomish fandom if you ask,

However I'm not sure my current and newest obsession can be counted as a fandom

~Football~ (since June 2024(partially 2015-2018, 2020-2022))

I'm a Beşiktaş supporter

I've always known something about football but I was younger than and when I was preparing for big exams in my life, I put aside football.

This year I turned back with EURO2024 and I really was thinking of stopping it there but because of boredom and some gossiping issues I started to consume things with football once again in July and I'm sure it was a fault by these two months that we have passed

Beşiktaş may be getting too tiring, you know?

And being obsessed with football is not so easy especially if the management of your favorite team is in terrible chaos

It is also tiring if your national team is in kind of a chaos too

[trivialbob]

I like the sight of a huge flag hanging from a fire department ladder truck.

This one is out there today because my city always does fireworks on July 3rd. It is rather nice to stay out late then have the next day off from work. I snapped this picture as I waited to turn left because the road ahead was shut down for the event.

Where my house is, if I go about three blocks away to an elementary school, I can see -- but not hear -- the city's fireworks. The school is atop a big hill. You look forward rather than up to see the show. The fireworks are far enough away that even the loudest explosions are just sort of a mild "whoof."

When our kids were little it was perfect. Sheila and I put them in a bike trailer and the four of us pedaled over there. Other families with young children hung out at that school for fireworks.

Going right to the site of the fireworks is a lot of fun too, if you like noise and a nice crowd of people like I do sometimes.

Tonight though I'm in the basement of my house. The dogs ain't happy.

Ella and Oliver were shaking because of neighborhood firecrackers and a bit of distant thunder. Double whammy!

I gave them trazodone and made everyone go downstairs. With the windows shut and the A/C and an air purifier running full blast they can't hear fire crackers (and I can barely hear the TV).

The two older dogs got a pair of pills stuffed inside a treat. Sully doesn't seem to be afraid of fireworks, but he gets nervous seeing the other two dogs upset, and getting treats he might not get.

So he got half a pill as well. Everyone is chill now. Maybe I'll take one too :)

Ella finally relaxed on the basement floor next to me.

[a-spell-a-rebel-yell]

July

hello friends!!! i am sorry (again) for the late post (again) this time i'm distracted by making sure i watch all of my favorite sport branches in the Olympics 😂 i swear i had like, a draft for July and had been thinking about it on the last ten days of July but then boom the Olympics took my attention away! literally writing this as i watch the men's sports climbing qualifying and wait for artistic gymnastics to start 😂😂😂

so... for a starter... July might be... a start of something new? :) not going to elaborate further but i'm glad i get to experience again something i haven't felt for so long, wherever this will end up as. i don't mean it to be cryptic but: life can hold its mysteries only to reveal it at the most specific time? 😂 it's all casual fun still, but what is life if it's not to enjoy every chance you seize to the fullest!? 😉

went to Bandung again at the first weekend of July, always a good time in one of my fav cities. i'd say Bandung can be my favorite city if only the local govt devised a proper integrated public transportation system, Jakarta still superior with MRT-Transjakarta-Jaklingko-KRL combo. attended a wedding, had a superb time, got to see my fav person too... :) had my routine that is trying new restaurants (Gormeteria, a good 85/100 from me and Lao Ban with 80/100) and of course a bit of refreshing morning walk! anyways i left my heart in Bandung and i will always be so excited to visit :)

also Penang story is due now! spent 6 days in Malaysia for the very first time and it was not even in Kuala Lumpur 😂 so there's this orthodontics seminar there, held by the Malaysian Association of Orthodontists at Georgetown, Penang and me along with five others were accompanying our profs. to save money, the six of us rented an apartment ten minutes away from the venue (which is a 5-star hotel we couldn't afford lol) actually had lots of fun, and i'm so glad all of us have the same personality that spending 24x6 hours together was just an experience full of laughter! tried some of local foods, visited and took pics at the Penang Street Art, the rest was just us exchanging stories at our apartment 😂

July is the first out of two months (summer-like) break and i love i get to do nothing most of the time... i can catch up on films, dramas, series, Olympics games, f1, motogp, and reading while just relaxing. IAO dance rehearsals also going smoothly, a nice weekly exercise for me who don't do workouts much (unless you count house chores???) i just love day-offs i can do whatever i want hehehe

next month on August it'll still be 2nd semester break and i'm kinda nervous now because i heard 3rd semester i'll start handling patients, excited but yeah, nervous!!! good news about August is that my Brisbane based cousin will move back to Indonesia next week! can't wait to be reunited with her 😁

i suppose that's all for July, praying for more good things to come. see you in August post!

[nepofm]

*     ꗃ      event  unlocked   . . .   CRESCENT  FEST  !

hey  upper  east  siders  .  looks  like  the  summer  heat  has  finally  hit  us  .  and  what’s  more  summer  than  the  slew  of  music  festivals  lined  up  for  the  season  ?  for  the  fifth  year  in  a  row  ,  the  crescent  music  festival  returns  to  new  york  city  this  weekend  .

taking  place  from  saturday  to  monday  ,  crescent  fest  boasts  of  a  variety  of  genres  ranging  from  rock  ,  electronic  ,  pop  ,  hip-hop  ,  indie  and  more  .  formerly  held  at  forest  hills  in  queens  ,  crescent  fest  will  be  held  at  none  other  than  the  home  of  the  new  york  mets  ,  citi  field  .  the  change  in  venue  is  to  accommodate  the  larger  crowd  it’s  drawing  in  .  safe  to  say  that  you  won’t  want  to  miss  one  of  the  hottest  up  and  coming  music  festivals  this  year  .  and  if  you’re  a  yankees  fan  ,  you’ll  just  have  to  make  the  sacrifice  and  enter  mets  territory  .

tickets  have  been  sold  out  for  months  now  so  if  you’ve  managed  to  snag  one  now  ,  consider  yourself  lucky  .  the  lineup  boasts  of  over  40  artists  performing  .  some  of  which  include  our  upper  east  side’s  very  own  group  of  artists  .  this  isn’t  your  typical  upper  east  side  event  so  while  there  isn’t  a  dress  code  ,  we  here  at  nepoupdates  are  still  expecting  a  little  something  out  of  all  your  festival  outfits  .  

 we’ve  heard  that  anyone  who’s  anyone  has  already  purchased  their  tickets  .  so  i  hope  for  your  sake  ,  you’ve  snagged  your  tickets  already  .  we  sure  have  !  as  always  ,  be  sure  to  keep  your  nepoupdates.com  notifications  on  .  we’ll  be  reporting  live  so  hope  to  catch  you  there  !

OOC  DETAILS

out  of  character:  this  is  a  full  length  event  !  the  duration  is  two  weeks  ,  starting  on  friday  ,  july  7th  at  12:00  am  est  and  will  last  until  sunday  ,  july  23rd  at  11:59  pm  est  .

in  character:  the  music  festival  will  take  place  from  saturday  ,  july  1st  at  12:00  pm  to  monday  ,  july  3rd  at  11:59  pm  and  is  held  at  citi  field  .  you  can  view  this  pinterest  board  for  event  inspiration  .  this  is  a  dash  only  event  .

event  participation  is  optional  ,  however  highly  encouraged  !  by  participating  in  the  event  ,  you  can  apply  for  10  points  from  our  points  system  !  points  can  be  redeemed  for  both  ooc  &  ic  prizes  .

please  utilize  the  #nepofm.event005  tag  for  any  event  related  posts  be  it  muse  outfits  or  starters  .  feel  free  to  share  your  muse’s  outifts  in  our  ooc  discord  channels  as  well  !

if  your  muse  will  be  performing  at  this  event  ,  please  be  sure  to  LIKE  the  follow-up  post  .  if  you  play  multiple  muses  ,  please  be  sure  to  notify  us  by  replying  to  the  post  !  we'll  be  putting  together  the  list  of  muses  for  tracking  purposes  .

nepoupdates  will  be  interactively  involved  in  the  event  .  muses  can  send  in  anonymous  (  or  not  )  tips  to  the  gossip  blog  .

once  the  event  is  over  ,  you  may  continue  &  finish  the  threads  from  the  event  but  please  do  not  start  any  new  ones  !  if  you  decide  to  fade  to  black  plots  for  event  ,  please  leave  plotting  updates  for  nepoupdates  .

finally  ,  this  event  is  100%  about  character  &  connections  development  as  well  as  fun  for  both  muses  &  muns  !  if  you  have  any  questions  ,  please  don’t  hesitate  to  reach  out  to  admins  on  main  or  through  our  #questions  channel  on  discord  !

[yumeka-sxf]

Off to Anime Expo 2023!

My ITA backpack is ready!

And in case my favorite anime wasn't obvious enough already, I also put some pins on my badge lanyard!

So yeah, later today I'll be heading to Anime Expo (also known as AX), which is arguably the biggest anime convention in North America. Since I live near Los Angeles, I've been to the expo many times...this will be my thirteenth year attending! I've even saved all of my AX badges over the years ;)

(if you're wondering why I had to blur out parts of the badges, it's because they used to be personalized with every attendee's full name and city/state. They stopped doing that in 2015).

Even though I've been to AX many times, this will be my first convention since the pandemic, so I'm especially looking forward to it.

These are the events I'm planning to attend (emphasis on SxF related events of course):

Day 1, July 1st

-Spy x Family Panel featuring Takuya Eguchi

Start: 5:00PM End: 5:50PM

Day 2, July 2nd

-Production I.G x WIT

Start: 12:00PM End: 12:50PM

Day 3, July 3rd

-Bushiroad Panel

Start: 11:30AM End: 12:20PM

-Crunchyroll Industry Panel

Start: 3:30PM End: 4:50PM

Any time I have in between panels will be spent in the Exhibit Hall, where 100+ vendors will be selling all manner of anime goods, or Artist Alley, where 100+ artists will be selling their works. And when those places close in the evenings, I'll probably hang out in the Tabletop Gaming room playing Weiss Schwarz and Osica.

Obviously the SxF panel on Day 1 is my top priority. That would still be the case even if Eguchi wasn't part of it, but the fact that he will be there makes me even more excited! But anyone who's been to big fan conventions knows how crazy crowds can be, and unless an event has reservation tickets or something (which this one doesn't) it's all first come first serve. I know I'll have to get there at least a few hours early to ensure I can get a seat. This year AX will not be clearing rooms before or after most events, so that could help. Fingers crossed I can get in! The other events I want to attend will be crowded too, but not as bad as this one. I'm hopeful we'll get a sneak peek of SxF season 2...we've already gotten a movie trailer, and the movie comes out months after season 2, so maybe they're saving the season 2 teaser for AX!

Unfortunately I've been dealing with a health issue for the past month that has yet to be resolved. After weeks of pain in my gut and battling ongoing fatigue, I finally got a CT scan today and found out I have inflammation in my colon. I just started taking antibiotics that will hopefully get rid of it, but if not I'll have to get a colonscopy for further inspection. I wish I felt better so I could enjoy myself more, but I know I'll feel at least a little better once the adrenaline and excitement kicks in. Just keeping my fingers crossed that I don't get worse during the trip...I've been looking forward to this all year and would be devastated if it was ruined!

Anyway, I definitely plan to blog about my time at AX. Unfortunately most of the big events, especially ones with exclusive content, don't usually allow photos or video. But I'll do the best I can even if I can only recount my experiences in text! I'll try to make posts while I'm actually at the expo, but depending on how things go, I might not be able to do the bulk of my posting until after I return. However, I do plan to make more sporadic, real-time posts on my Twitter, so follow me there if you're interested!

[jalgajalga]

JULY

July, my birthday month, though it ain't making any different. The month i travel a lot, month that I nervously waiting as I knew would experience many new things.

July 2nd

This day, i wanna do a lot of things in my bucket lists. Watching elemental, I heard it being a good romance cartoon many people could relate. I asked my friends previously if anyone were interested, but i was being impatience, i wanted to do it immediately, so i ended up waching it alone. Not a big deal for me tho. After watching the cute movie, I eat my legendary high school dish chicken katsu noodle, also alone. At this point i must be looked very sad and lonely. But I really value my time and other's too, I don't have to wait for other when i could comfortably do it mysef. Others don't have to enforce themselves do the things they actually doesn't really interested in and spent money on it.

The-me-time day hadn't end yet. After having dinner, I went to watch artjog, anual art exhibition, the biggest and most famous one. I bought bundling ticket for exhibtion and theater stage. It would be my first time watching profesional theater performance, I was really excited. There were a lot of paintings and installation, but i was in a rush as the theater was about to start.

The artists were really cool. I could see their talents, their passions, and when all the staff were being called at the end of the performance, i was really moved. It's how art were made.

july 3rd

My birthday. Nothing different. There's no birthday present, just a little dimsum-as-a-cake surprised from my workmates. Thankyou, I really appreciated it.

July 6th, 7th I'm lucky my hometown is such a cultural city. It has a lot of culture related events. Like today, i was casualy scrolling my instagram and found an event, an opening of Kotabaru Heritage Festival, there would be a dance and orchestra performance and later, walking tour and photography exhibition. All was free, of course I won't miss it. That part of the city is realy familiar to me, my junior and senior high school located there. It's fun to know more abot its history.

July 8th First out of town trip. The closest one, 2 hours distance. It's only me and my long time close friend. First, we wanted to go by train, but then she offered to drive. That's a better idea, better moblity and these day the trains were so packed.

We don't really had a plan. We had the list but we went anywhereour moods lead. First stop, to fill our stomach we visit cute small coffeshop. The coffee was good, my friend said. I am not a coffee person, i ordered matchalatte and it was decent. The croissant was tasty also, I'm not a fan of croissant but I really like that coffeshop has.

Then we walked for little bit to Pura Mangkunegaran Palace. That palace is still functioning as residential house. My imagination flew away imagining how it was living as a nobleman, having the freaking huge house. The tour must be conducted wit a guide, and the guide war realy helpfull and informative. But they missed informing the history how this palace or kingdom (?) was form, and what's the difference between it and the other palace that Surakarta has. We looked up for that information while having dessert at the oldest ice cream shop in town. It's very famous, full of people. I wonder were they all tourist or there were some locals. Its nostalgic taste but not really special.

After the coffee, light meal, and dessert, we then heading to another famed food stall. We oredered take away so we won't coming back home empty handed. We had our late lunch almost dinner at small cute ocal steak. everything here is cute and small. The place were decorated with a lot of vintage items, a little bit random, here and there, but still cute. The food were great too. Not a fancy kind a steak, i think it was fried. But really tasty.

July 10th Asian Badminton Junior Championship. If there's a Badminton event held in town, of corse i should watch it. Young athletes working hard for dream, how can my heart not moved

July 16th After a long time, i join the weekend jogja walking tour again. I registered myself a lot, but then in the morning, i was overslept. Since my sister was home, I finally came to the tour. It's a tour of chinatown area of the city. Not much left but the story and history stayed to be told. We wanted to try the old bakery there but it hadn't open yet even after the tour ended, we had lunch and came back.

July 19th

Because of Greta Gerwig, i'm being #teambarbie haha. Second cinema this month. This time I have friend acompany me. As expected of Greta, it doesn't have to be explained. I really like it, the jokes hit me right. A lot of underlying meaning, a ittle bit too much i would say.

July 25th-28th

The very exhausting and worrying, make me nervous trip finally came. It's 4 days business trip to Bali, with car. I get dizzy easily so i'm afraid i would get motion sicknesss. Thanks god it didn't happen. actually I don't really remember how it went wkwkwkk. All I remember was I really tired and that I promise myself I woud comeback to bali and had enjoyable trip, my kinda style trip.

July 30th

This the highlight of the month. RADWIMPS CONCERT!!. I had been manifesting for about four years. Still tired from the Bali trip, i wasn't really excited at first. And also I came alone, so i'm a bit worry. I traveled solo quite often,but never to attend a concert. I literally just arrived, entering concert, jumping and singing and walking back to the inn quickly. Watching concert alone not bad, but being with friends is more fun. Inside the hall it was like magic. Wow i was reallyyyy happy.

July end. What a month. Somehow it felt restless. and I'm writting this post in a university library where i should doing my thesis. My biggest homework in life for now. Soon my post will full of library picture, me working hard on this reasearch. And by the end of the year, post about thesis defense presentation. Aameen :"))

[infactforgetthepark]

[Free Audiobooks] The School That Escaped the Nazis by Deborah Cadbury & The Republic by Plato [1930s Germany Jewish History & Classic Philosophy]

The annual SYNC Summer of Listening program encouraging literacy among teens by giving away a themed weekly pair of audiobooks—1 modern or non-fiction, 1 classic or drama—returns for another year, courtesy of sponsor AudioFile Magazine and participating publishers.

This 3rd week's theme is “Life Lessons” involving both real life and speculative historical takes on justice, morality, and ethical behaviour, available from Thursday May 11th through Wednesday May 17th:

The School That Escaped the Nazis: The True Story of the Schoolteacher Who Defied Hitler by British historian and award-winning documentarian Deborah Cadbury, read by Julie Teal from Hachette Audio. This is a history book about the daring escape from 1930s Nazi Germany of an entire school full of mostly Jewish children to safety in England, and its headmistress, Anna Essinger who planned and led it. You can also read an article about this topic and its accompanying book by the author in Smithsonian Magazine.

The Republic by ancient Greek philosopher Plato, translated by 19th century British scholar Benjamin Jowett, read by Leighton Pugh from Naxos Audiobooks. This is his influential classic work of philosophy concerning the meaning and nature of justice, contemplating the character of the just man and rulership and speculating on imaginary city-states, as well as touching upon other topics such as love and lust, ageing and immortality, poetry, and societal roles, done in the form of a Socratic dialogue between assorted characters.

The freebies are available via Overdrive's Sora service (listenable via browser on their website, or via their mobile app for iOS & Android devices).

To claim them, you'll need to register on the SYNC website with a valid email address to use in a Sora account, using the setup code and directions in the instructions in SYNC's FAQ (no need to re-register if you've participated in previous years' giveaways), clicking “Borrow” to add them to your Sora library as a permanent loan. NB: if you need to free up space on your device later, follow the instructions in the FAQ to only “delete files” and DO NOT “Return” the title, which would remove your future access.

Offered worldwide through Wednesday May 17th until just before midnight Eastern Time, available via the Sora website and app. You can also browse AudioFile Magazine's planned season list to see what will be offered in the weeks ahead and if there's anything you'd especially like to get.

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[the-mess-of-a-dreamerrr]

The phenomenon of Sam

12.28.22

When driving down the interstate praying every morning I sometimes like to wonder where everyone around me is off to. Are they going to work as well? Dropping off their kids to school? Road trip and Birmingham is just a place they are passing through? There are endless possibilities as to where people are going and what is running through their mind as they ping pong their way through traffic at 7am. There are all billions of people living different lives all going through different pain, joy, and sorrows but yet all find themselves on the same road at the same time. It's wild if you think about it. Almost as wild as me meeting him at a minor league baseball game at 16. 

I’ve always thought back to that summer, that month in July, him. I’ve tried to rationalize it, pick it apart, ignoring it, but nothing seems to work to make sense of the phenomenon of sam. You see, I kept a secret from him for years. When we met he had no idea how broken of an individual I was. How dark my nights were after he dropped me off from the 3rd movie marathon of the week. The light his friendship gave off was enough that months and years later I still felt a glimmer of it. It was enough to keep me going. 

For a long time I thought we ended the way everything else did in my life. He got bored and wanted to spend his time with more interesting people. Which, I was terribly broken about but I understood. He wrote to me last week about what was going on in his life at the time. When I read it I wanted to laugh. Not at him, but at life. I felt like life was laughing at us. Who were we to believe that two kids can meet in highschool go through actual hell in their brains and think they can just fall in love?! This isn’t some romance story, this is life. Some may say a freaking mess of two dreamers who believed that if one thing were different that things would be different today. 

My heart breaks for young Sam doing everything in his power to be able to take full breaths. How tired he must have felt from running from everything with the feeling that every second the rug was about to be pulled out from under him. I wish I could’ve talked to him about this. I could’ve been the person that spoke the truth into him about who he was and maybe we could have made our own pact like I had with Jami. Make it to 18 and make it to a doctor that can help us because minds are not supposed to feel like jail cells. You aren't supposed to feel trapped. 

I also am struck by how him running and “following his gut” I think contributed to one of his best qualities…following his dreams. I think it taught him how to jump when most people would be too afraid to stand on the ledge. He just needed to learn when it was okay and beneficial to stay and be. It took him a long time to get the help that he deserved but I think those years created a Sam that is so valuable to the world. He coined it best in his letter saying how one of his greatest gifts is how he deals with people and how gentle he is with others. I think with every valley that he walks through he shows up on the other side stronger than ever. What an incredible unstoppable force. 

I don’t know where this leaves my brain with "the phenomenon of Sam." We were two kids struggling to stay alive when we met oblivious to each other's pain. We parted ways and each went to live separate lives in different cities. I think him telling me this story gives me some bitter sweet peace. I don’t know if Sam and I “belong together” or are just two people that mesh together beautifully and are meant to share small important meaningful roles in each other's lives. But I know without a doubt that we were supposed to both be at the same minor league stadium that day. That the world, though incredibly cruel with its humor and poetry of all of it, gave me the gift of knowing Sam. And for that, I am incredibly thankful.

-MV

[crazilust]

(PAC) Tarot reading : What's in store for you this Capricorn full moon (July 13th 2022)

This is a Tarot reading (PAC), regarding what's in store for you this Cap full moon on July 13th. I always keep track of full moons and new moons as I feel it helps me stay aware of my recurring patterns and fix them. Please choose a picture that speaks to you and remember to disregard anything that doesn't feel right.

Pile 1, to 3, from left to right.

Pile 1 : Blue

You've been wanting your happy ending for a long time now. A celebration, marriage, or a union of some sorts. Not just with a partner, but with your community as a whole. 

While you deeply want that, do you, yourself, possess the qualities that is needed in order to maintain healthy relationships? 

What this moon in capricorn highlights for you is that you may be commitment phobic. What are you scared of? Failure? Betrayal? Humiliation?

You may lack the maturity or the willpower to actually pursue what you want in life. 

If you don't feel like this apply to you, please look at your circle. The people you hang out with or or the person you're with at the moment may be exhibiting these traits. 

Whoever it is, you may need to distance yourself from it in order to reach what you actually want. Or, at the very least, talk it out.

Follow your intuition for this full moon in capricorn. Your anxiety may twist the truth but your intuition will never. Listen to it. It might be stronger than ever on that day. 

Possible placements for this pile : Water dominants, Pisces, Pisces Venus, Cancer dominant, Fixed dominant

Possible other traits: Live by a body of water, speaks Spanish or understands it or wishes to, live where it's sunny or warm, travels a lot or wishes to.

Pile 2 : Orange

Things have been going really fast for the past few months and even though you've seen progress, you can sometimes feel like you're slowly losing control. 

You've been focused on your goals, but at what cost? 

You've grown apart from the people you usually surround yourself with and built this thick wall that no one can reach. 

On this capricorn full moon, you will feel the need to finally move on to better horizons and claim this new era of yours in order to move at a much slower, but healthier pace. 

If u felt like you were running away from something before, this shall stop. The only condition is that, you need to observe your past and recognize what mistakes were done in order not to do it again. 

On this cap full moon, because this is a really rational moon, you'll know that the answer is to move on, but emotionally might feel like you should stay because you have seen progress when u were surrounded by those people. Don't doubt yourself and your mind. Move on. 

Possible placements : Sagittarius sun, Scorpio sun, 3rd house placements, Fire dominant, Sun dominant

Other possible traits : Fire tattoos, candle lovers, owns a pet or a cat, loves lizards, lives in a small apartment, lives in the city, love/hate relationship with the city.

Pile 3 : Yellow

I can feel that this pile might be a little younger than the other two. Young adult, maybe? Teenagers? You might just have a young soul, but anyways. I can feel the ambition and drive through your energy. You've wanted something for a long time and have devoted yourself to it these past few months. You've felt tired, doubtful at times, drained but you've pushed through. Stay careful of your health, there is nothing more precious than that. I can tell you may have neglected that at times. Your ultimate goal is to create something for yourself, a kingdom of some sort, an empire. Something tangible that people can look at and be like "hey that's the work of ____".

On this cap full moon though, you may realize that you are more lonely than you've realized. Being surround by loyal and supportive people is something that is necessary for you and with this Capricorn full moon, you may finally realize how .... poor your relationships have been. No support, no loyalty. You will have to come to terms with the fact that you'll walk this path alone. Don't get too attached to the feelings of betrayal and bitterness that may arise with this realization, as you may close your heart off for too long. The right people will come along, but maybe, not right now. 

Possible placements: 5th house placements, Leo sun, mercury, Venus, midheaven, rising. Virgo placements. Sun in 9th, Jupiter dominant. Aries sun.

Other traits: Loves Doja cat, goes to concerts regularly or wishes to, tough childhood. Absent father. Cold mother.

[garc-i-a]

Why Julie and the Phantoms is NOT Anne with an E

Since Saturday, the 18th, us Fantoms have been campaigning to get the show picked up by another network or to get Netflix to reverse their decision (not likely on the latter because they are cowards 😒). And people have been saying it isn’t going to happen because Anne with an E couldn’t be saved.

Now here is where Anne with an E is different. Anne with an E is a show created by CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Company) and it was only distributed by Netflix internationally outside of Canada. CBC confirmed the day following the end of season 3, on 25 November 2019, that the show was cancelled. Fans of the show rallied to save it but the creator of the show made clear on 6 December 2019 that it could not be saved.

Netflix is very finicky with picking up a series that was cancelled that they had distribution rights for. Shadowhunters aired on ABC Family (I refuse to call it by that stupid name they changed it to) and was distributed by Netflix outside the US. When ABC Family said they were not picking it up for a full 4th season, Netflix didn’t want to take on the full load of it in their catalog. This was even after campaigning to the point we had billboards up in cities around the world.

In contrast, One Day at a Time was a Netflix original. When it was cancelled after the 3rd season, we campaigned for it to be taken by another network. After 4 months of efforts, it was picked up by PopBuzz (which also distributed Canadian comedy Schitt’s Creek in the US).

With Julie and the Phantoms we have support from the cast and crew. Madison, Sacha, Madison’s dad, Dan Cross (one of the writers) have all been vocal about getting the show picked up by another network and sharing our campaign. We are also not waiting on Netflix and reaching out to various networks to get our voices heard.

I do know that some people have said Netflix does not allow any of their original content to be taken by another streaming platform for 2 years. If that is truly the case, Julie and the Phantoms can be put on Disney Channel, Nickelodeon, or ABC Family. Two of those channels are owned by Disney as well. With Disney Channel there just so happens to be another musical comedy-drama. It is called Almost Never, from the UK, and is distributed by Disney Channel in the US. From watching the first episode alone, JATP is WAY better in every way. The show has its own version of Reggie but is not nearly as endearing.

On Nickelodeon’s end there is no show with a musical element within it. And considering Nick’s shows in the past, that is actually shocking. There was a special that aired on 16 December but it was only an hour and was more a vehicle of the musician and producer Ryan Tedder (from OneRepublic). So based on that, JATP would DOMINATE on the network and have huge numbers.

If you have gotten to this point, congratulations. The reason that Julie and the Phantoms is different is because it speaks to toddlers and senior citizens. It has a large following in Brazil (Brazilians and Filipinos are the most hardcore fans of ANYTHING) as well as the rest of Latin America thanks to Madison, in Canada because of Charlie, and in Germany since Owen is German. among other countries. And for what it is worth, people LOVE music. It helps them relay their thoughts and feelings and makes things more enjoyable. The music from Julie and the Phantoms is infectious and is worthy of tours. And that is all I got. This was me breaking things down on why our little show with three ghost himbos has a chance unlike some other shows.

[zexalmonth]

Since 2021 is the ten year anniversary of Zexal, we on the mod team decided to add a little ‘magic’ to this year’s event. So, you may have noticed that this year’s prompt list is late. Our apologies, everyone! It’s taken a lot of work and is totally not because one mod’s sick and I got really drunk in July.

Regardless! Our fifth Zexal Month begins on the 1st of August and ends on the 31st! Under the cut is a new set of prompts and alternative prompts, so peruse them at your leisure. Keep an eye on this blog and the #zexal month 2021 tag for the event! We certainly had fun prepping the intro posts!

Week 1: Welcome to Heartland City

Day 1: 2nd of August

Who are you? Introduce yourself! When did you get into Zexal? What Fandom are you in at the moment? 

Day 2: 3rd of August

Who would you be in Zexal? Champion? Alien? Tomato? Alternatively, what part of Heartland City’s society do you find interesting?

Day 3: 4th of August

What’s your favourite moment or favourite episode in the series? 

Day 4: 5th of August

Who’s your favourite character? Which Zexal Characters would you like to meet?  

Day 5: 6th of August

Zexal has so many cool locations and backdrops. Where would you want to go in Zexal?

Week 2: Summer Holidays

Day 1: 9th of August

What’s your favourite team? Numbers Club? Numbers Hunters? Arclights? Barians? Fearsome Four? Someone else?

Day 2: 10th of August

Break Time! Imagine the characters chilling out and put the hold on the fighting. What will they do?

Day 3: 11th of August

Let’s have a look through the looking glass: Take a character and make them the opposite of who they are!

Day 4: 12th of August

Place your bets! Pit 2 (or more) characters against each other! In a duel? A fist fight? A game of checkers? Up to you!

Day 5: 13th of August

Super power appreciation day! The people in Zexal can fly, conjure weapons out of nowhere and purge poison from their bodies through sheer force of will. Alternatively, include a power you wished Zexal included!

Week 3: Stranded in a Brave New World

Day 1: 16th of August

Where did they come from? Show us your headcanons about characters’ origins and/or expand on established backstories!

Day 2: 17th of August

Let’s get lost! Choose a character(s) and throw them into the Barian/Astral world/the past/the Duel lodge/etc. What would they do there? Would they survive?

Day 3: 18th of August

Let’s go YA for a moment. Make Zexal a YA novel. Action? Romance? A try-hard dark story? A shameless parody? Honestly, just do what you want. YA novelists do.

Day 4: 19th of August

Everything is the same but... (It’s an AU day! Show us your Zexal AUs)

Day 5: 20th of August

Astral phone home. It’s a free crossover day! Crossover Zexal with whatever series you’d like.

Week 4: Back on the ship!

Day 1: 23rd of August

Ships, ships, ships and vehicle appreciation day! (Show us the pairings you like!)

Day 2: 24th of August

Written in the stars: Zexal is full of lore and incorporates many myths/mythical creatures. What’s your favourite?

Day 3: 25th of August

Alien appreciation! Give the Barians and Astral beings some artefacts, architecture or bling! 

Day 4: 26th of August

The true treasure were the friends we made along the way! Tell us about your OCs. 

Day 5: 27th of August

There is an imposter among us: Plot points that you liked/ weren’t prepared for!

Week 5: Home Sweet Home

Day 1 and 2: 30th and 31st of August

What’s in store for Zexal’s future? What are some memories you’ll always cherish?

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As usual, feel free to do whichever prompts you like. These prompts are a guideline, rather than a hard rule, and you can make art, write fanfiction, make amvs/animatics or just talk about it! Just do what you can manage! No need to do all of them if you don’t want to.

Below here are the more ‘modern’ prompts. That is to say, a list of alternative prompts you can do any day. Pick and choose, go in order, RNG, combine… The sky’s the limit!

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Alternative Prompts:

Serendipity: A happy and unexpected discovery

Jentacular: A word used to describe something related to breakfast.

Desuetude: No longer being used

Chaos and Numbers

Music / Musicals

Rain / Sunshine

The Sickness

Mythological beasts

First Time

Death / Resurrection

See you soon! Please share this around and spread the Zexal love!

<3 Mod Pyra