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[formosusiniquis]

WIP Whenever

Posting this on a Wednesday, so anyone I might tag can play that way if they prefer but this is my official announcement that I will be doing WIP Wednesday/Weekend every day from now until my bang fic starts looking like it's an actual completed story

Rules:

Send me a 🔮 or just labyrinth au at any point from now until October

I'll write 3 sentences on that doc and send it to you in a reply

That's it, that's the whole thing

Here's a snippet to get us started and a tag list below the cut:

“You made a wish, it's my job to answer it. That much hasn’t changed.” “What wish? You and your fucking goblin queen dragged me through a portal while I was trying to help. Maybe you had a leg to stand on before, but if words are power then they probably need to actually be said instead of relying on implication.” “I wish I knew how to help you,” his own half-slurred voice comes out of the mouth across the table. Fluttery and panicked vowels from a face that doesn’t move, impassioned as a statue. With a head tilt, not unlike that fucking owl he was a few hours ago, he’s mimicking Eddie’s shout, “I wish the Goblin King was here right now. “Dustin seems to be doing well,” the King says in his own voice, “I’m glad you two were able to make up, the brotherly bonding really is cute.”

and here are some zero pressure tags to some folks: @augustjustice, @cauldronoflove, @thefreakandthehair, @stevespookington, @fuctacles, @lingeringmirth, @aparticularbandit, @pennyplainknits, and anyone else who would like to play!

[constantfluxx]

Fluxx Status Update, March 2020 / Milestone Unlocked: 200 Followers!

Hello, everyone! Figured it’s about time I gave a little update on what’s going on in the World of Fluxx :) This is coming out a bit later than I’d hoped, but better late than never, right?

I’m Actually, Like, WRITING??? Again! It’s wild, yo. Between homeownership standardizing my personal schedule and full-time employment standardizing my professional schedule, I’ve actually got a pretty significant amount of time I can spend writing every single day. Although I never fully stopped, I’ve dearly missed having this level of activity, and am so pleased to be back at it again! I may even bring back the #Evening Earworm posts... who knows? (Probably not every night, though. That’s a bit much.) As a quick recap of what all I’ve been cranking out lately, I invite you to go check out the updated Writing Index!

Shadowhunters: The Children of Flames is Nearing Completion! This is a huge one for me. Thus far, I only have two #Completed Projects, Honeybee and, more recently, The Carnival of Rust, and those are both only 3 chapters long. The Children of Flames has already hit 20 fucking chapters. I have never completed a project that long! (...scratch that, there was a thing I did in 6th grade with a friend of mine, but we don’t talk about that.) I took a look at what I’ve got left to cover, and I’m confident I can finish it off in just another 5-7 chapters. So stay tuned for the final events of this giant fic, and thank you for all the support you’ve sent its way over these past few years! (YEARS??? I need a drink @____@)

A New Challenger Approaches: The Witcher! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Y’all can blame @kiomaya for this one - Hel knows I do. Bitch dragged me aboard the Geraskier ship and now the muses are running amok. What began as a simple little musing (The Carnival of Rust) has warped into its own fucking #Series: Wilt, Part 2 of which is something of an ongoing project - it’s episodic in nature and overall should read more like a NSFW TV drama than a novel. In the midst of working on that, yet another fic got spun up as a Part 3 to #Series: Cryo-Crash. (Check out this post for some more details on that.) My extended CoF hiatus is proof enough that having multiple ongoing projects is a good thing for the health of all of them, but I do apologize for the inherent delay this imposes on any given fic’s updates. On the bright side, once CoF finishes up updates will be much more regular with Interstellar and Starsong (and The Flower and The Wolf, as applicable).

So What the Hell Does All This Mean For Fluxx’s Fics? It means Fluxx is suddenly, delightfully busy. But worry not! All my lovely dolls will be receiving equal, rotational attention as follows:

The Flower and The Wolf (currently in progress)

Interstellar

The Children of Flames

Starsong

The Flower and The Wolf is currently up to bat, so look for Chapter 2 to hit sometime this week!

Boy Howdy, That’s A Lot! But Just ONE More Thing... Despite my horrible lack of activity on this site, I’m DELIGHTED to announce you all have brought me to my next blog milestone: 200 Followers!!! WOW. It really does brighten my day to know there’s folks out there tuning in to my ill-conceived whims! So, as soon as I get the current chapter out... how do you all feel about cruises? I’m referring of course to 🎶The Evening Earworm Tune Cruise🎶! (And we CAN’T forget 👻The Spook Cruise👻!) I’ll make a separate post about it when the time comes, but in the meantime I encourage you to check out #The Tune Cruise and #The Spook Cruise to test the waters - be ready to prompt me with a ship and any song you like. (You can find some of my favorites under #Evening Earworm, but it’s of course totally up to you!)

(A note to Witcher/Geraskier fans: this would be the ideal time to suggest anything from @joeybateyofficial‘s The Amazing Devil. Yes, this was a thinly-if-at-all-veiled excuse to tag Joey’s tumblr. It’s the product of drunken shenanigans, but give him a follow nonetheless!)

Thanks For The Support! I don’t say this enough. What drives me in live, both personally and professionally, is providing folks with experiences that bring some kind of joy to their lives, even if only temporarily so. Even if my work only ever touches a single person’s heart, that will have made the endeavor worth it. So truly, deeply, from the bottom of my heart, thank you for sticking around over the years! Now let’s venture forth and make 2020 a blast, shall we?

[leciell]

AnimeOnStage & Buying services experience

Hello Tumblr,

I’m back. (kinda not really) I’ve taken a hiatus from this place and have found respite on other social medias. I still love my musical boys to death but life has caught up with me and has had me plenty busy. I still log in once in a while but you can definitey find me at other SMS where I’m much more active.

but I’m here to touch base on a subject that I’ve had some people DM me about since I guess my ASK box isn’t working? (Welp then)

I didn’t feel the need to make this post only because I feel so much of us have already have our ways to get our grabby little hands on all our favorite butai merch but to those who are new to the game and are looking at the right places to buy, tumblr and other butai blogs have long extensive lists and more detailed posts on how to procure your merchandise, as well as how to access DMM or even how to be a member on Toumyu’s website.

I’ll be blunt, I have a JP address and a card that allows me to gain access to all that.

How to get your own JP Address? Tenso. it does require you to do some verification but its really simple and easy from there. they will even provide you a phone number to use to gain access to all the other stuff They offer ems, dhl and regular shippping. Their basically a forwarding service, you buy the items yourself and you get it shipped to your tenso address and the warehouse guy wil contact you to let you know your stuff is in and forward it to your US/UK/overseas address.

Downside to tenso: Again you need to procure the items yourself, meaning you bid on your own and etc.

FromJapan: Good place to shop. They will source all items from rakuten, amazonjp and yahoo auctions and more. they are also a buying proxy with very good rates. They offer a variety of shipping and will do bids on your behalf.

AmazonJP: By far my favorite place to shop as their pricing are very very *very* competitive. If anything, sometimes even way cheaper than the regular retail price. for example: bakuten bluray originally was approx $85-95 USD. At amazonjp it was $65 USD with free global dhl shipping. Downside to buying from amazon or frommJP sellers, like buying from auction houses, your basically buying from a 3rd party seller and if your intention is to ‘support the show directly’ your better off buying directly from their sales division either by a 'in-person proxy’ or directly from the shows website and using tenso or personal shopper to buy in your place.

This post is getting quite long but let me get straightto the point as to why I’m bringing this post up, this was meant to be a walk through or talk through on my buying experiences with AnimeOnStage.

Let me start with, I’m not here to bash on a business, I’m not out to destory their reputation or anything like that. but its very apparent that so many people have been rather unhappy with their services as of late (ie; see twitter please)

Now, before we go on the whole 'why this business is bad and why you shouldn’t shop from them’, no. Stop. check yourself. And remind yourself that they are also a small business. For the fans by the fans if their motto, and for the longest time I appreciate what their trying to do. And that is to bridge the gap between western and eastern fans and basically feed us our 2.5D merch needs.

I’ve used their services a few times in the past and so far haven’t had any issues.

(but Chisa! Why would you use them when you have all these other accesses? - I’m lazy. Simple as that. I’ve said this so many times on all my other posts — yes guys i’m sorry i still have half the audio rips from the shinken ranbusai that i’ll eventually put up LOOo see how lazy i am?!.

but basically, I opted to join in on their 'group orders’ for certain live plays coz hey, i figured their going to watch the show and buy merch anyway I might as well put in a request for an item or two coz the price isnt any different if i pay for ems or dhl…etc…)

So how does AOS stage play orders work? let me run down on this real quick, they will post up the merch list on what will be on sale, you fill out the form on what you want and they invoice you for it. Simple enough right? After a few weeks when your merch is in their hands (in the US) they’ll then forward you a email/2nd invoice to shipping within the US. So in the end, you basically just pay priority mailing which is approx $7-10 depending on how heavy your package is. Simple enough.

Now, heres my gripe with them lately… their a small business, I get that. They travel all over the place, traveling wears you outand takes a lot of time. Vending at cons isn’t easy. I’ve been there, done that. So i’ve been pretty patient. But, I’ve been waiting on hold on my Engekki jacket orders for well over 9 months now, how long ago was the engekki reprisal show when the jackets were first announced? Still no word… Now fast forward June 2017…I’m waiting to hear from them.

I’ve emailed them a few times before and as of this post today, I’m still waiting on my refund. (Its been a few weeks, I won’t name a number because I’m trying to give them the benefit of the doubt here)

again, I want to stress I’m not out here to destroy their reputation, I know a lot has been going on at twitter on how their business practices are; ie bootleg merch and all. But I would like to point out that from one thread I found on twitter (I won’t link them, please feel free to search on there) that they had no intentions on selling bootleg mech and will offer refunds to those who mistakingly bought bootleg items. So, I atleast gotta hand them that.

Tl;dr I’d shop with them at your own discretion. Because lgr, you could be duped by another seller when your trying to bid on items online but atleast finding bootleg merch on JP buying sites is almost impossible atleast.

So what happened to my engekki jacket orders? Basically, from what I can disect is that they were unable to procure the said jackets at the time of the event, for months I was led to believe that maybe they were on a pre-order basis considering the only people I’ve seen sporting them were the cast of engekki hq themselves and no other fans were posting them…but fast forward a few months later, I sent in an inquirey and the response I got was; “Hi, xxxx!

We are still trying to source the parkas from a reliable source and we deeply apologize for the delay. If you would like a refund at this time, we totally understand! ”

now, I knew full well that the jackets were gonna be a hot item to be sold at the venue so I guess in my mind it made sense that they would probably be on a pre-order basis but this response / email made me think other wise. Reliable source? As in, purchasing it elsewhere?

Anyways its been a good few mins since I started drafting this post and as I was about to hit 'post’ I got an email response from them (Finally, after a twitter blast later as well) and got a refund from a personal account. Ok.

I didn’t want to back track and rewrite the whole post. But this is my experience with AOS.

Again, I want to stress that their not a bad business, I’ve been pretty patient waiting all this time on their responses and I’ve been pretty forgiving coz I know how its like to run a small hub of a business and I just hope that this experience (and other peoples orders) go smoothly and would serve as a learning step or building block for them to grow their business better and to continue to (re)build their reputation coz I’d hate to see a vendor like this crash and burn because of a few unhappy clients. There is room for growth, I hope that they will continue to grow into being a better service provider by supplying legit merch if they insist on charging the prices they charge for other merch.

(But I would say that their buying service charges are actually very reasonable imho)