#thus was my 13th of January

[february-academia]

15.01.2024

Happy new year everyone!💗

I wish you all experience good things in 2024. and will eat lots of good food as I did on the 13th of January.

[breelandwalker]

Wolf Moon - January 13 2025

Shake off the cold and sing to the sky, witches - it’s time for the Wolf Moon!

Wolf Moon

The Wolf Moon is the name given to the full moon which occurs in the month of January. The name is said to be derived from the sound of wolves howling with hunger while prey is scarce in the midst of winter. Given that we now know that wolves howl mostly for communication, my personal opinion is that people huddled in their homes during a very dark and dangerous time of year probably noticed these sounds a lot more readily with little else to occupy their time as they waited out the winter, and thus were set to worrying about ravenous beasts invading their villages and farmsteads. (It’s worth noting that wolves preying on livestock was a very real concern for most people outside major cities for many centuries, so this isn’t entirely unfounded.)

The name also calls to mind the howling of the wind during winter storms, or whistling around the eaves during the long cold nights. And for those of us who might not have been careful with our spending over the holidays, I might cite a tongue-in-cheek reference to the wolves being at the door when those credit card bills come due.

[For those not familiar with the English phrase, to have “a wolf at the door” is a saying that refers to some imminent hardship or disaster. In modern parlance, this is usually applied to poor finances or looming bankruptcy.]

This month, the moon peaks at 5:27pm EST on Monday January 13th, so the moon may appear to be full on the nights of the 12th or 13th, depending on where you are in the world.

Some North American indigenous names for the month of January and its’ moon are Cold Moon (Cree), Center Moon (Assiniboine), Severe Moon (Dakota), Ice Moon (Catawba), and Spirit Moon (Ojibwe). Other names include Mantis Moon (South African origins), Quiet Moon (Celtic), and Moon After Yule (Anglo-Saxon).

What Does It Mean For Witches?

As a new year dawns, it’s time for rest and reflection before we set out on the next phase of our journey. While the cold weather lingers, take some time to sit by the fire, literally or metaphorically, and take stock of where you stand, what resources are available, and what you plan to do with them.

Check in with your near-and-dear following the mad rush of the holiday season as well. Make sure that friends, family, and community members around you are doing all right. Offer support and kindness where you can, but don’t overextend yourself. It’s your time to recuperate too, and it is good and healthy to set boundaries which allow time and space for yourself.

While it's a bit early to expect progress on our goals and resolutions, the beginning of a new calendar year is a good time to lay the foundation for what we intend to do with the year to come and to reflect on the year that has just ended. It's also the perfect time for self-assessment in your craft. Take a moment to acknowledge where you are, how you've grown, and what you might like to do next. Perhaps do some journaling on the subject, if you're so inclined. You can outline your craft knowledge and beliefs, mark the lessons you've learned, or record your progress. (This is a great way to measure future milestones and personal growth!)

What Witchy Things Can We Do?

Winter is a prime time for storytelling. Back in the days before internet or television or radio, people would often read to each other or tell tales to pass the time. Consider re-reading a favorite book that inspires you or exploring some region of folklore or mythology you’ve been meaning to look into. If you have children who are of an age to enjoy stories, read them some of your favorites or introduce them to something new. Share stories and discussions with your witchy circle too!

While you’re at it, take a moment to examine the role that folklore and stories play in your practice. If you subscribe to a particular mythos, be it through deities or just general belief, consider which parts of it resonate the most with you and why.

Consider also the lessons of the winter season - the necessity of rest between periods of growth and activity, and the role of death, cold, and darkness in the natural cycles of life. What do these things mean to you and your practice? Are they a source of fear or fascination? Do you come alive in the winter or bundle up and wait for spring? How can you best remind yourself to pause for breath as the year goes on?

And of course, the beginning of a new year is an excellent time for goal-setting and divination. You’re making resolutions for your mundane life, so make a few for your craft while you’re at it, and pull out your cards or runes or pendulum for a New Year forecast on how things might go. If you need some ideas or inspiration, you can check out this article on Casting The Bones or try this craft-building exercise to Create Your Own Personal Runes.

Happy Wolf Moon, witches! 🐺🌕

SOURCES & FURTHER READING:

Bree’s Lunar Calendar Series

Bree’s Secular Celebrations Series

Wolf Moon: Full Moon in January, The Old Farmer’s Almanac.

Why The 2025 January Wolf Moon Is So Insanely Powerful, The Peculiar Brunette.

Casting The Bones: How to Read and Throw Bones, The Peculiar Brunette.

Witchcraft Exercise - Creating Your Own Runes, Bree NicGarran. (Masterlist here)

Moon Info - Full Moon Dates for 2025

Calendar-12 - 2025 Moon Phases

Everyday Moon Magic: Spells & Rituals for Abundant Living, Dorothy Morrison, Llewellyn Publications, 2004.

Image Source: What Is A Wolf Moon?, The Fact Site.

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[serpentface]

What intervals of the year do the -mache signs correspond to? Assuming the same length as an earth year. I want to know my horoscope...

I did give it the 365 day length. Presume everything about this planet is functionally earthlike (besides the three moons, which just so happen to be the exact size/mass/distance that perfectly balances out into things still being earthlike, probably not possible, too late to retcon three moons out, don't worry about it)

The Wardi zodiac assigns signs based on when the constellation and its 'field' (buffer of space between each) passes through the ecliptic, (rather than dividing the ecliptic into even spans and assigning a roughly correspondent sign, as in the western zodiac). IE: Only the tail of the Lion passes through and thus its period is very short (6 days), while the entirety of the Gull's wingspan passes through and thus its period is very long (34 days).

I'll add equivalent dates in the western calendar. It's unlikely that zodiac dates would just so happen to align perfectly to the start and end of the western calendar, but the it doesn't exist in-universe and the zodiac dates don't align neatly to the Wardi calendar year so it's fine . Whatevr.

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Catfish: January 1st-23rd

Crow: January 24th-February 4th

Duck (associated with Anaemache): February 5th-24th

Polecat: February 25th-March 11th

Hare: March 12th-April 1st

Khait (associated with Inyamache): April 2nd-April 23rd

Scorpion: April 24th-May 9th

Aurochs (associated with Mitlamache): May 10th-23rd

Rat: May 24th-June 9th

Pheasant: June 10th-24th

Dog: June 25th-July 4th

Dragon: July 5th-23rd

Lion (associated with Odomache): July 24th-29th

Horse: July 30th-August 15th

Leviathan: August 16th-September 12th

King Hyena: September 13th-21st

Gull (associated with Pelennaumache): September 22nd-October 25th

Gazelle: October 26th- November 15th

Ox (associated with Ganmache): November 16th-December 3rd

Snake (associated with Kusomache): December 4th-31st

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You can read about meaning ascribed to each sign here:

Note that Imperial Wardin uses a generalized solar calendar consisting of 13 total months (twelve thirty-day months and one five-day month (6 on leap years)), and a separate lunar calendar with specifically ritual functions (most holidays occur along the lunar calendar).

The solar calendar starts its first month at roughly the seasonal equivalent of September (when most of the latest seasonal crops have been harvested, the earliest are being planted, and the rainy season typically begins), the new years holiday is actually Celebrated on the first new moons of the first month (and thus its date changes year by year), and the solar year ends with the five-day month.

[riagraie]

birthday/age headcannons

for whatever reason, i wanted to share birthday headcannons for my ninjago au (including Hanna). and to go with them is the ages I have each character at the finale of Dragon's Rising Season 2.

i don't have any reason for placement of when someone's bday is, well. kinda? but it's not super major so uh yeah. if I have an explanation, i'll give it. if not, then i don't lol

also, some people have a "chronological" age AND a "physical" age. Chronological age is how many years they've been a living "being". Physical age is how many years old they are on a biological level, including but not limited too: Mental age, Emotional age, Body age, and Appeared age.

Hanna, Lloyd, and Zane, at least for the physical age, don't really matter since they either don't age or age REALLYYY slowly. yk, nindroid and oni/dragon/harmonizer genes and everything lmao.

also minor spoiler warning for Seabound and Dragon's Rising Season 2 obviously.

Kai's birthday is May 19th. Dragon's Rising Season 2 finale, Kai is 26 years old. - his b-day is in May bc it's a warmer month and because it includes lots of rainfall. the rain being a connection to his mother being the former elemental master of water.

Cole's birthday is August 25th. Dragon's Rising Season 2 finale, Cole is 28 years old. - he just give's August baby vibes. idk why - also, it's confirmed he's technically the oldest ninja, so, he's almost thirty. it is also my explanation as to why he lost against Frak, because he's getting older lol

Jay's birthday is April 5th. Dragon's Rising Season 2 finale, Jay is 25 years old. - April is a super stormy month, and what do storms include? lightning!! thus he was born in April.

Zane's birthday is December 10th. Dragon's Rising Season 2 finale, Zane is Chronologically 90 years old & Physically 27 years old. - pretty sure his birthday just makes sense. - as for his age, it's because he spent decades in the Never Realm as the ice emperor which impacted his chronological age. but, since he's a nindroid, it didn't impact his physical age.

Nya's birthday is October 20th. Dragon's Rising Season 2 finale, Nya is Chronologically 25 years old & Physically 23 years old. - don't ask why she was born in October. i just decided it. - as for why she has a chronological and physical age, it's because when she was merged in the sea, in my au, her birthday past twice making her chronologically 2 years older. but, because she didn't physically age since she was literally water, she remained the age she was before merging with the sea.

Lloyd's birthday is June 22nd. Dragon's Rising Season 2 finale, Lloyd is Chronologically 21 years old & Physically 24 years old. - he's such a June baby. bundle of sunshine this boy. - in my au, he was 11 years old at the start of Child's Play. then, the tomorrow's tea made him become 14 years old.

Hanna's birthday is January 13th. Dragon's Rising Season 2 finale, Hanna is 23 years old. - January has some of the shortest days in a year, meaning the sky is black most of the time. plus, it's super snowy (or should be) making the ground white. - her hair is black and white. so. yeah.

Arin's birthday is March 3rd. Dragon's Rising Season 2 finale, Arin is 15 years old. - younger brother energy. - also idk why i chose March i just did.

Sora's birthday is August 12th. Dragon's Rising Season 2 finale, Sora is 16 years old. - also gives August vibes. - she's so big sister.

Wyldfyer's birthday is July 7th. Dragon's Rising Season 2 finale, Wyldfyer is 15 years old. - elemental master of heat? bam. you are now born in July.

what other headcannons should I do? let me know. I love getting asks about my AU so please send them to me :D

[clearedpipes]

All about me and Pipes' Directory

Well, hello Tumblr in general and writeblr in particular! Had this account for a while (Branding is important), and with the return of my enter key I can actually format this stuff appropriately!

So heya! I'm Cecelia/ClearedPipes, I'm British and all of 23 years old! I use she/her pronouns, and am an employed individual (So may not be available 24/7).

I read the Hunger Games for the first time at 12, and have spent a hell of a long time since (from ~15) reading the fanfiction people produce! I started properly publishing it in June of 2024, and that's (not) all she wrote)! My AO3 and FFN accounts are both ClearedPipes, and how I got to that name is courtesy of a not so long story I've prepared to post on Friday, June 13th 2025 (my 1 year anniversary)I am also a District 1 (Hunger Games) enthusiast, so treat that as you will!

Outside of the Hunger Games, well. I'm soon to be engaged to a lovely woman, my favourite musical artists are too diverse to talk about in certainty (Amelie Farren, Nightwish and Ramin Djawadi being my 3 most listened artists speaks to this), and my favourite books are Angels and Demons, The Hunger Games (hope you'd expected this) and the ASOIAF set. Stannis Baratheon haters DNI (For legal reasons this is a joke).

In visual media, my favourite movies are The Rock (1996), National Treasure 1/2 and the first 4 Pirates of the Caribbean because 5 is... also there. My favourite shows are Game of Thrones, The X-Files, Doctor Who and Andor (Arcane is also up there)

I'd expect most of you are here for the writing, which I do way too much of. I've got a few active projects at the moment (Albeit have fully handled one of them and got it all predone), so that's fun! Posting dates for my big fics are every Friday (Alternating between LIAB and NBC), so that's when you can expect me to get handling things!

Pipes' Mainline (Canon-Compliant until SOTR hits like a plane into a tower)

None By Chance

This is my main one. My firstborn daughter, arguably the one I love the most, and the one that's expected to be the longest (Current projection is 432,000 words). An anthology of the Victors between the 1st and 75th Games, and providing a glance into their world because they need that glance.

None by Chance AO3 None by Chance FFN

Lightning in a Bottle

My second child, and one I've spent significant time writing to make sure it's all ready for posting ^^. The story of the 67th Games, and one girl's journey through it, written as an addition to None by Chance.

Lightning in a Bottle AO3 Lightning in a Bottle FFN

Pipes' Secondary Line (Written in a divergent universe from canon, so the stuff is not Canon-Compliant)

Mentor's Guide to the Reaping

Lol guys what if mentors had a little guide to make sure they stayed on track with what the Capitol expected of them? Well, it was certainly fun to write, and helped me canonize a lot of details, so that's that!

Guide to the Reaping AO3 Guide to the Reaping FFN

TFIMW: I promised this for 31st January 2025, so until then I'll leave y'all with a nice beefy lore document to tide you over!

Justice's monthly prompt sets!

SunnyJustice popped out some incredible sets of prompts in Careertober and Tributember, so I've thus far been endeavouring to follow them to get lore all handled for TFIMW! I will also promise that there are spoilers for both of my longfics in here, so do read with warning!

Valiant: Careertober (AO3) Valiant: Careertober (FFN)

Viable: Tributember (AO3) Viable: Tributember (FFN)

And that's all, folks! If you have gotten to the end, many congratulations, and feel free to HMU here or elsewhere!

Until next time, Pipes out!

[docilepillow]

2024 January Media Post Thingy

i dont post on tumblr.com a whole lot i mostly just love to reblog but i wanna see if this novelty thing sticks because for like 2020-2022 i had like a text file i did that i stopped doing in 2023 or so for like video games in particular and i unno it was fun but i got distracted cus half that month i was doing retail anything special happen this year yet? not especially, but since soon ill be very busy with something that IS indeed special, and my bday, i may as well make a post now bc i feel like i will be preoccupied for the first good bit of febuary personally ( exciting life stuff ! ) last disclaimer is that at some point i would want to add movies and shows to this list when i get around to it , but for me december and january've kinda blended in that regard.. me and my friends watched Wonka recently and i was kinda so-so on that just cus' i think the original movies a certain way i guess. oops. i think there were other movies/ shows too and comics as well but once again, december-january blurr for me. Furthermore, any piece of media i pick out for this will also have a completely arbitrary doc-ism secondary title just because i feel like it. Enjoy! VIDEO GAMES! ! MARIO GALAXY 2 < SECOND ROUNDEST MARIO GAME >

I wanna say i spent from the first of january to the third on this game, but my Wii Menu calendar is a little fucked up....

Whoops! Regardless, i do have a bit of a background of not completely " gel-ing " with the original Mario Galaxy gameplay wise in my own friendgroup, to mostly dismayed reactions n junk. In short, i think artistically the game's merits are absolutely fantastic, but since i played it on the switch 3d mario collection some time after sunshine, i do think the control scheme is overall pretty limited, and that does apply to mario galaxy 2, i guess, but methodically, i think playing this game on a wiimote does make the limitation feel i guess more fair in terms of like camera control and deliberacy n stuff... the galaxy games and presentation are completely amazing works of art obviously and theres some good music here but i think between galaxy 1 and 2 i definitely prefer 2 mechanically. i enjoy the level scenarios more thats primarily it, i think. I'm so-and-so on how comets work and how many stars you need to get to get to the end ( I think how comets spawn is a little filler-ey and waiting for them to appear in a level i don't know it'll appear in was a little obtuse to figure out, even if i did eventually manage it and actually enjoy the challenges they offer. its mostly just really annoying comet spawning mechanics that were a drag. a very deliberately- controlling mario i guess and being more familiar with galaxy's control probably was why i was able to enjoy this one more ? Yay! I think i still enjoy 3d world more then this and most other 3D marios, though. It's a good video game and i liked the boss fights in it, theyre surprisingly cool and dynamic for what i'm used to from the mario series. I didn't do the special world, though. i wasn't compelled to go that far past the credits. ( You'd think this game's doc-ism title would come from it being the sequel to mario galaxy, and thus, second roundest, but honestly, i think in terms of the mario series scale, Mario Pinball Land has round mario in it, and galaxy 2's starship mario is definitely, i think, rounder then the comet observatory from galaxy one. That makes Mario Galaxy the third-roundest mario game! )

From around the 6th to the 13th, I ended up playing --- ACTRAISER RENAISSANCE < THE CEREAL-BOX GOD GAME >

actraiser is definitely a mixed video game for me, because i definitely see the merit in it. It's a very unconventional splicing of both sidescrolling and city-development game, a " remake " of a novel SNES/Famicom game with the same premise. You're like a big god of light guy who sends your soul into this little warrior guy who cleanses the land of monsters for around 6 different settlements to florish in with the assistance of a cute little angel friend and whatever area's flavor of local legend the game gives you after a story event or two to hold down the place from encroaching monster dens and such; and, apparently exclusive to this version, there's also little tower-defense segments that come in waves around four or five times per area, which in my opinion are kind of this game's weakest link, but not without like Some kind of merit. At the end of each town segment, there is also a big boss fight, usually tying into the story in some way.

( I think one of the things that genuinely pushed me to give the game a try was the cute angel design in it..... ) (I usually take an excessive number of screenshots whenever i'm playing on switch, just because doing so is very easy and i'm a sentimental freak ( For actraiser R, this is 148 screenshots ) ) ( If i continue doing this next month, i'll try to include the foresight to actually use my capture card for images, instead of taking pictures with my phone.. ) ( I think one of the things that genuinely pushed me to give the game a try was the cute angel design in it..... ) (I usually take an excessive number of screenshots whenever i'm playing on switch, just because doing so is very easy and i'm a sentimental freak ( For actraiser R, this is 148 screenshots ) ) ( If i continue doing this next month, i'll try to include the foresight to actually use my capture card for images, instead of taking pictures with my phone.. ) Some things i like that this game does, alot ---

i think it has a very very cool " world select " map. one very postive thing is that it updates in real time with your progress in the area, so you can watch it all expand from your little sky palace once you've done your buisness there. it's really satisfying and pretty... this game's got really good 2d art, i think. I've heard people be mixed on the sidescroller art in comparison, but i think it's got a charm to it. I think it's cute and while its probably more a budgetary limitation, i do like how everything kind of looks like one of those fantasy stills you can sometimes buy from arts and crafts stores. The framerate on them is like a bit lower then what you'd expect from a modern game but mechanically its still very responsive, which makes me feel like it's a stylistic choice to look more stop-motioney, i guess. Maybe im just a fan of ham, i unno.

In terms of the overhead segments, it's pretty basic and automated, which is fine by me, and perfectly workable for what it is, i think, conceptually ( they build out on your own but you do kind of " guide their hand " when it comes to where paths go, at least. It does lead to a weird meta thing being to zap your own people with holy lightning to destroy stuff you don't want though, which feels flavorfully odd for a benevolent god.... I guess it's fair enough

the main problem with the game is that the tower defense segments, the main major feature and addition of this remake, does kind of take the game's pacing and drop flat in the middle of it. They're usually decently long segments where you can only indirectly fight, and are kind of slow. They also usually need you to protect or have a certain number of buildings left by the end of it ( having all of your farms in tact by the end, defending the main temple, not having every house burned down ) which can be a bit more difficult then it sounds. i dont think the segments are bad or anything, there's just.... entirely too many of them??? like mechanically theyre fine they just happen every other second between story events and it feels kind of padded after like the second one in one area, and there's about 5 per area of increasing difficulty. i definitely think if anything could be reined back, it'd be that. I don't think the story is too special , either, the angel kind of just quips sassily about the story at you from time to time and your followers make requests of you at the temple, usually manifesting in the town segements as " have x number of y " or getting the population to a set threshold, or getting x number of resources. The structure of each area isn't shaken up too much, mostly just " new settlement, find a guy, guy isnt so sure about this lord of light guy but through fighting alongside u and some small character arch, they become a champion of yours or something and you meet the scary boss guy and kill them and weaken the big bad dark lords forces behind it all, but there were two segments i liked, both pretty late-game, with the ice wyvern and this guy named shemall whose only affront to you is having a more popular humanitarian ideology ( who actually becomes the dominant ideology in the segment leaving the church literally empty for a good portion of it , and is only tied into the status quo by the dark lord himself possessing the other temple and shit and starting a really really bad storm of eeevil , who i like a bit ) and a boss in the last area who was implied to once be a force of good but ultimately subservient to the bad guys will, which is basic but i tihnk neat. also they have cool designs. )

Shrug! I think it's neat but it has problems that bog it down! Waah! i dont regret playing it or anything but it's like a 7! ( It's kind of like a game you'd get in one of those cereal boxes, and it's a little cheap, but its endearing to me ? ) TOREE 3D < LEAST-CONSEQUENCIAL SPOILER AWARD >

finished this game the same day i finished actraiser, in one sitting. Ummm... i know this game's like a crowd favorite, and it's, like, solid, but i don't really have all that much to say about it ..... Like, it's an OK platformer, with like really great value for your dollar, but i don't really have all that much to say about it, endearment-wise. I think also that the VHS horror elements are largely unnecessary and are kind of whatever, but I know i'm not really the audience for it. That's the spoiler, i guess. Around the same time, in a date range I don't remember, I basically ended up completely reorganizing my room for Life Stuff, and ended up giving a really cool fan project a try, from a series i've always wanted to try more of, if not for the language barrier, in the form of -- STARFY ORIGINS ( Densetsu no Stafy ) < SPLASHABLE VIDEO GAME >

Waaaaaaaa ! i love starfy ( Stafy? ) You probably wouldn't have the background on it unless you knew me, but i'm a real DS head, and one of my earliest games on the system, one i have vivid memories with, was The Legendary Starfy, an " underwater platformer ", mostly known as being a kirby-like game in style, and being the last entry in a mostly untranslated series of platformers that're japanese-exclusive!

Essentially, what this means for me was that there was , for a very long portion of my kid-years, a bunch of video games out there that i knew i'd be instantly endeared by if ONLY i could play them ( since, even at the time, gba emulation for me was kind of mystical and out of my ability ) ; and , at least in my mind, that meant it'd have just as many lovable characters and such as the the starfy I got to play, anecdotaly meaning the only exposure i'd have to these games beforehand is ferverously looking up stuff on the starfy wiki and watching youtube videos of the final bosses and stuff; basically just lementing for years that " aww,, theres no translation. i guess it's just too obscure " with the rest of the starfy fans i've heard about online, until recently! I emulated this game on Vita and overall i'd just have to say its a cute, decently-novel-but-slightly-padded 2d sidescroller. I'd say it was like ok-levels of worth the wait, but im honestly just floored that a translation of the first game happened at all, and i think its awesome what's been done. It's selfish to want, but i'd really like to try the other DS starfy game sometime, whenever that's translated. It's honestly one of the few loose-end games i can even think of and mechanically that one's a whole lot more out there then this one, which, other then the novelty of playing this game i've only heard murmurs of for over a decade, is just kind of alright. kudos to the fan translators making this game work out!!! I wonder if the team that did this have plans for the others now that this game's been translated....

Wew, halfway down the list, i'm sick of typing, but i'll keep going with ---> DEATHSMILES < SCARY >

Cool bullethell shmup with really tight gameplay my friend endeared me to with a single screenshot and a slightly empassioned ramble i forget the exact context of

idk i think this green girl is neat and the arcade style bullethell gameplay's really fun on steam deck; i just think the girls should be like 7 years older each then what the game says because the loli aspects of this game are kind of uncomfortable and unavoidable and i don't like them at all... the gothic horror halloween aestetic the game has otherwise absolutely rocks and is just up my alley, though. i guess its just part of the style theyre going for, but it's a really unfortunate Japanese quirk you kind of have to just tolerate for the other Very Good aspects the game has gameplay and artisticly wise ( music and art direction is awesome )

the girl's dragon familiar is named booboo by the way. just thought that's important. LITTLE GOODY TWO SHOES < GAME **MOST** RESPONSIBLE FOR SINGLE-HANDEDLY HOME-WRECKING MY BRAIN CHEMISTRY THIS MONTH >

Another game my friend reccomended whicch is completely awwesome and my entire aestetic and i love it alot and i think its my game of the year unless something else comes around and im absolutely floored with it and i went into it completely endeared and its completely wrecked my vernacular and its so pretty and its so artistic and its so different and its so pretty and its so girl and its so gay and im Elise and im in the woods i like being in the woods this game has the best aestetic of any game ive played ever and it feels like no competition and ummmmmmmmmmm

idk just fucking look at it its so so so so good i love this games world so sooso osososoos s oso ososo o os so mcuh its so good it so nice its so charactered genuinely great little slice of life slash horror slash social sim game with admittedly some jank portions of it that piss me off a little bit but holy fucking shit this games aestetic is the best besy best best bersy tbest best thing ever made i think its really really good pelease watch this segment on youtube its so silly

im not gonna type anything else this game Is its narrative and i dont wanna spoil anything but its great its got a lovely dark fable aestetic and i think everyone should play it especially if you like rpg maker horror type games / are gay as hell / love fairytale aestetics like I do

i like ummmm Lebkuchen by the way. if u wanna know what my ending is. there is some fucked up shit that happens in this game though despite how absolutely adorable it looks. everything in this game points to it being one of my favorites of all time or at the very least it will definitely poison my brain forever at the expense of my friends who havent played it yet. Waaah..... no i dont think talking about a fanmade pokemon rom hack after arguably a massive artistic achievement is disrespectful thats just how the month flows POKEMON ROWE < I broke it, oops... >

really cool open-world emerald rom hack, similar to crystal clear and the like. I've technically played it already, but this is the first time i've completed it, though i completely broke the game really early into it that undermined it in a way i didnt realize for about 7 gyms, before i accidentally nuked the overworld with a massive bug that scrambled my player's gender and made the overworld color pallete fuck-ey, which, im not ggoing tto blame the developer on, i'm summing that up to a cosmic ray or something. i think with time and with more polish i could see myself liking this more then crystal clear, but time'll see. ( Team was as below )

MIGHTY GUNVOLT < tie in video game i've ever played >

typing this like an hour ins making me realize this docism thing might not stick but mighty gunvolt is neat i guess i never finished it when i first played gunvolt and obsessed over that when it was new ( Mighty gunvolt came as a free download if you bought the first game digitally, you see ) because of the first boss, but now as a more experienced gamer, that's really just because the fire boss is kind of just a weird difficulty spike at the start that the rest of the game difficulty wise doesnt really match up to. It's a cute, very short ( i beat all 3 character campaigns in two hours , liesurely ) platformer styled like megaman, and that's all it really needed to be at the time. i wouldnt go out of my way to play it these days if it wasnt for my own baggage with the gunvolt series in general, and if it wasnt for my much greater affection for its sequel, mighty gunvolt burst.... I'm just gonna say if this game interests you , you really should just play burst instead. Even if you've played the latter before, you're really not missing out on much more then a moderately ok side scroller. it sure is a tie in demake on the early 3ds ! 6180 THE MOON

Surprisingly, this game's on alot of platforms? I just kind of chose it on a whim 'cus it was on the top of the list of H-SHOP stuff and i was looking for something short to play, but it's pretty artsy.

It's a puzzle-platformer where the gimick is that the ball wraps around the screen when you fall down or up, which works really well with the 3ds in my opinion. with the compression and stuff on the 3ds and how the game was laid out, it affectionately reminds me of a flash game you'd find on coolmath or the such, and its very relaxed ( if a little wonky ) . i dont have anything bad to say on it or anything its just a small little game i played on a whim. it's very minimalistic, if you're into that aestetic, you might like this. That's the last of the wholy " new " stuff i finished this month, and id say overall its a solid start for me, and kind of out of season ( very octobery-feeling game lineup in retrospect..! But that month's always usually crowded with obligations and stuff, so i doubt i'd be in a mood for them even at that time of year.. )

Also, i gave a try to cavestory on wiiware, first time i've played the game in a few years now since the switch rerelease! I think its just as fun as i found it when i first discovered it on 3ds, and, while i have a friend who adamantly disagrees, i actually really do like the OST of this version. It's a cute mutation on the games ost that in my opinion enhances the kind of forelorn vibe the game originally had, and i really like the blown up art of this version of cave story, even if it does have nichalis's hands all up in the matter. since it's unlocked from the start, i played the game on Curly Story till the true ending. I still love this game alot. Sometime i'll trick a certain individual into finishing it, i hope.

That's all i have to say! this is the first time i've made such a big post on any kind of social media period, so, hopefully its not unreadably disjointed or self-absorbed. Whatever!

play little goody two shoes

[p5x-theories]

Its me again =w=

Can you refresh my memory and tell me if Kamoshida's palace event was splitted in two parts? Because they could do that with Maruki's and so give us both Crow and Violet.

And like. If they dont give us black mask Akechi in a *gacha* it means they hate money.

Also more delulu take but I think the Maruki's palace event will be relased on march, thus finishing the crossover events with P5 a little before the game turns 1 year old. And kickstarting either crossover with Reload or Golden. Thus giving us at least 2 more years of crossover content. And maybe if p6 is really relased in 2025, they might even do a crossover with that once they finish the modern trilogy (im not sure if they will touch p1 and p2 till those get a remake)

The Castle Chapter was not split into two parts; so far every Palace has gotten one single event that covered that chapter completely. Even when two chapters are connected by the story, they've still been (at least mostly) separate events! The Museum and Bank chapters shared some features, but the chapters themselves were still separate. I thought this was relatively clear with how I've organized the summary posts, but let me know if there's a way I can make that more obvious!

If we do the math, it's possible that the Royal collab could take much longer than you're suggesting, unfortunately. Assuming they continue the same schedule, the updates in the future should look like this:

Nov. 7 (Gameplay update)

-> Nov. 21 (Story update) -> Dec. 5th (Event update 1) -> Dec. 19th (Event update 2) -> Jan. 2nd (Event update 3) -> Jan. 16 (Gameplay update)

-> Jan. 30th (Story update) -> Feb. 13th (Event update 1) -> Feb. 27th (Event update 2) -> Mar. 13th (Event update 3) -> Mar. 27th (Gameplay update)

-> Apr. 10th (Story update) -> Apr. 24th (Event update 1) -> May 8th (Event update 2) -> May 22nd (Event update 3) -> June 5th (Gameplay update)

-> June 19th (Story update) -> July 10th (Event update 1) -> July 24th (Event update 2) -> Aug. 7th (Event update 3) -> Aug. 21st (Gameplay update)

The summer event was also a set of event updates, if you recall, and we're set to get our next three event updates right around December and the start of next year! That seems like prime time to have another event, to me. And the next event update falls right around Valentine's Day, which we know we're getting some kind of event for! I'm not sure if both of these updates will be for holidays instead of the collab, or if they might celebrate the holidays in some other way (the 6-month anniversary just gave rewards), but I think it's worth considering both the best and worst-case scenarios here.

Best-case scenario, like you implied, we get the last part of the original collab in the event updates from December 5th to January 2nd, adding Crow and wrapping up that collab. Then, the Royal collab only lasts one event update, from February 13th to March 13th, adding both Violet and Black Mask.

Two other possible scenarios I can imagine, however:

1) The December 5th to January 2nd update is a holiday event, and then the February 13th to March 13th update is the Valentine's Day event, meaning the original collab doesn't end until the April 24th to May 22nd event update, and then they add Royal in the July 10th to August 7th update after.

2) They stick to an alternating schedule for collab events vs. other events, so the December 5th to January 2nd update is a holiday event, then the February 13th to March 13th update is a collab event update. The April 24th to My 22nd update is another holiday/other event, and we get Royal in the July 10th to August 7th update.

It also feels possible they could push the Royal event out even further, for any number of reasons, but I don't think we'll know for sure until they announce some future update plans, heh. But these all feel reasonably possible to me.

Definitely, though, I agree there's plenty of things left for them to cross over with, heh! If the first three Persona games ever get remakes, I'd absolutely love to have collabs with them as well, but given the book with the SMT: If... reference, I do have this small (probably unrealistic) glimmer of hope that they might consider collabs with them even if remakes aren't announced any time soon, especially if they've finished collabs with the other modern Persona games by that point. So I guess we'll just have to wait and see!

[unhonestlymirror]

*sighs in Lithuanian*

What is wrong with that?

1)"Not everyone's flavour of ice cream." Yeah! Definitely not Lithuanians'. Yk why?

This lady's name is Loreta Asanavičiute, she liked to sing in the folklore ensemble, she was an accountant, and she was killed on January 13th, 1991, in Vilnius. She was 23 years old. Defending the independence of Lithuania, together with other citizens of Vilnius, she stood guard at the Television Tower, protecting it from capture. Being run over by the tracks of a russian tank, she died in the Red Cross Hospital from her injuries, which caused slow, continuous bleeding.

I wonder if the artist mentioned above would have guts to show this art to the parents of this girl? Many people, whose loved ones were killed by russians, are still alive and in their mind, surprise-surprise! My professor had to suture the lungs of one guy, who also was heavily injured that day by russians. Op, would you have guts to come to Lithuania and show this art to Lithuanians, to my professor, for example? I don't think so. People like op really don't think about minor stuff like other people's mass murders by russia... or they're just cowards.

2)Drawing drunk Lithuania hugging russia... Op, I know you're from Brazil, so I won't demand a lot of knowledge about the history of Europe from you - but you still should know that one of favourite russian tactics towards the occupied lands is to make locals drunk. They imported simply gigantic quantities of vodka to get people drunk, so that they would become stupid and controllable. It was like this for CENTURIES, so many old families and clans in Eastern Europe have even stricter laws about alcohol consumption than in Shariat. Alcoholism in Eastern Europe is not a "fancy funny gopnik feature" - it's a huge historical tragedy, it's just less popular than Holodomor and Holocaust because the consequences weren't sudden. Seriously, if you drew Muslim people as pigs, it would be less offensive.

3)Lithuanians really don't like Belarus, for a lot of reasons. And when people try to sew Lithuania and Belarus together, the more they popularise idea of "Lithuania being in love with Belarus" - the angrier it makes Lithuanians, thus, causing them discriminating Belaruthians even more, thus, making Belaruthians (a LOT of whom lives in Lithuania) feel really unsafe. PLEASE don't make our lives miserable.

In conclusion: you like a problematic ship and you know that it can harm real people? Create your own private Tumblr community! It is possible! It is free! Or just find an already existing one - and DON'T post publicly Lithuania/russia, especially tagging these countries. Because countries are very much real. I wish I was Brazilian, so I wouldn't have to care about being suddenly raped and murdered by russians.

Improve your taste and knowledge, op, and have a long and boring life.

[wednesdayaddams4president]

Wednesday's Zodiac Sign is Libra!

Investigating post...

Establishing show timeline:

1. Claim: the Year is 2022

Proof: Weems! The first Poe Cup took place in 1897 and the current one is the 125th...thus, 2022.

Now lets narrow that year down to at least a season. I say Fall!

2. Claim: The Show runs from somewhere September-ish to about late-November/Early December.

Supporting clues:

School is already in session in the first episode. Could be anywhere from first school day to several.

Undetermined time later we learn that Nevermore doesn't usually accept students mid-term implying that it's not definitely not between terms or end of school year.

Wednesday tries to escape during the Harvest Festival which is typically a Fall event.

Weather: everyone is running around in light clothes and leaves are bright green in the first two episodes, going steadily browner and yellower. SNOW in the last episode. Which means that Season 1 definitely ran before the Winter and ended with an early Winter break.

Number of full moons in show: 3

Episode 1: Why aren't you wolfing out? My guess is that this was the September full moon around mid-month because school was already in session.

Then we know that no more than a week passed between Episode 4 and 5 because in E4 Wednesday sneaks into the coroners office just before his last day (and Thing sticks bubblegum on the camera) and in E5 Reggie the coroner dies...and the Sheriff claims he saw him last week.

Episode 6: Wednesday's birthday episode and the Gates Mansion incident.

My guess is these things all happen in October because we haven't had a full moon episode since the first and the few time flags we do have indicate that only a couple of weeks could have passed since Ep1.

Episode 8: Full bloodmoon. Enid Finally wolfs out.

Logically since the Gates Mansion full moon wasn't a blood moon an entire month must have passed between Ep6 and 8 making this somewhere around November which matches the weather signals.

3. Claim: Wednesday could only have been born on 13th October 2006.

Now this is just math. We know from Episode 6 that she's turning 16.

So that means she was born in 2006.

It's standard Addams Family lore that Wednesday was born on Friday the 13th.

And 2006 only had two Friday the 13ths: January and October.

And since we established that the show runs during the Fall semester...

Wednesday could only have been born in October - which is right on brand for her anyway because it's also the month of Halloween! YAS!

[acrossthewavesoftime]

Because nobody has added any concrete historical instances of this happening, here are some excerpts from the letters exchanged between Mary II and Sophie von Hannover, a relative somewhat older than her in whom Mary confided many of her most private thoughts and feelings, especially when her husband, William III, was at war on the continent:

Mary to the Electress Sophie, Kensington, 12/2 June 1690. My cousin. Though I make use at present of the return of Mr Schütz [a courtier at Sophie's court] to write to you, I hope you will do me the justice to belie that I should not have neglected responding to your obliging letter of the 7th/17th of the last month any longer. If something I have said is of some consolation, I assure you that I have much need of such myself, the King being on his departure. I cannot boast possessing any fortitude of spirit, but I see that one gets used to afflictions. I have had those so long that they are not new to me; this current one, however, appears to me to be still greater. You may well judge that I have all the reason in the world to be in agony for a husband and dare I say such a husband, i am yet a daughter and do not know what wishes I must make for a father.

Mary to the Electress Sophie, Whitehall, 23rd/13th October 1691. From Whitehall, this 23rd/13th October 1691. My cousin. I am in the last anger against myself to see that I have had two of your letters to which I have not yet responded, and especially since I found out from one of the two that this is not the first time that I have been pained by my negligence, but you have so much consideration for me that I hope you will excuse it once more. I admit that when the King is not here, I am so overwhelmed among affairs, to which I am not at all suited, and the worry I have for him whhen he is exposed to all the mishaps that could befall him at war, that often, I forget myself and do not that which I should, to the discontent of my best friends.

Mary to the Electress Sophie, Kensington, 26th January 1692. From Kensington this 26th January 1692. My cousin. I certainly do not deserve the obliging letters you sent me, for it takes me so long to respond to them.

Mary to the Electress Sophie, Whitehall, 1st July/21st June 1692. From Whitehall, this 1st July/21st June 1692. My cousin. I always have the misfortune to appear negligent towards you, and this is presently at such a point that I don't know where to begin my letter, having one from you which, though without date, I see very well that it was written too long ago to not have received a response yet. I don't know myself why I don't make any more excuses at all, but I beg you nevertheless to do me the justice of beliving that there were many things that contributed to this fault, a bad cold, many affairs, a month in continous fears for a battle in Flanders (which god has not yet permitted).

And here, in English.

TL; DR: There you have it. Sometimes, people take time to write back because:

being Queen is hard (their job that they don't like is very stressful)

they are exhausted and worried because the King, who is "such a husband" is away to do battle against some other, less worthy king (they miss their partner/someone else in their life and struggle with that)

the less worthy king the valiant husband-king is fighting is also their dad (they have struggles in their family/private life)

they were busy

they had a bad cold (or other illness)

they just don't currently have the mental energy to reply.

In all seriousness, I can recommend reading Mary's letters to Sophie. It is evident how much Mary emotionally relied on Sophie, and how liberating it was to her that, instead of expressing annoyance, Sophie realised that Mary was not doing well and thus decided to simply not date her letters, to make it easier for Mary to reply whenever she felt up to it. As this is their private correspondence, it hightlights the personal relationship between these two women, who never met in person - they only ever knew each other through letters, and remained pen-pals, so to speak, until Mary's death.

Do you think people used to have ADHD Text Reply Anxiety back in the day. Do you think there was some girl in the 1870s going "Oh, a letter from Esther, how delightful! I must make time to write her a reply this evening!" And then later she was like "It has been 5 months since Esther wrote me, and I am yet to reply. I fear I have tarried far too long, and if she receives a letter from me now it will seem terribly rude and she will want nothing to do with me. And yet, it is ruder still to not write her at all! I fear I am the only one to blame for my current predicament, as I am most terribly forgetful. Ah, but what a fool I am! I shall pray this evening for guidance from the Lord"

[darkmaga-returns]

16 January 2025, by Eric Zuesse. (All of my recent articles can be seen here.)

Israel’s longest-serving and most far-rightwing Prime Minister ever, Benjamin Netanyahu, is holding up and trying to prevent the Israeli Cabinet’s approval of Trump’s deal to end the war in Gaza: Netanyahu’s office said on January 16th, “Hamas is reneging on the understandings and creating a last-minute crisis that is preventing an agreement,” and so, “The Israeli cabinet will not convene until the mediators notify Israel that Hamas has accepted all elements of the agreement.”

The deal was forced by Trump’s appointed Special Envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, along with Qatar’s Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani; Biden had okayed the deal on January 13th, so as to prevent Trump from announcing publicly that for many months the only person who had been backing Netanyhahu’s rejection of this very same same deal (and thus Biden alone is ultimately responsible for all of the deaths in Gaza for at least the past six months) was Biden. Witkoff didn’t create the deal but only okayed it (a deal that Netanyahu had always refused to accept), and therefore Biden knew that if Biden weren’t now to go against Netanyahu on this, then Biden would become publicly exposed by President Trump, as having been the only person who had been allowing Netanyahu’s Israel to exterminate the Gazans.

As I had explained on January 15th under the headline “Haaretz: Trump Forced Netanyahu to Accept Gaza Hostages-Ceasefire Deal”,

[roman-catholic-mass-readings]

13th January >> Mass Readings (USA)

Monday, First Week in Ordinary Time 

or

Saint Hilary, Bishop, Doctor. 

Monday, First Week in Ordinary Time 

(Liturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I))

First Reading Hebrews 1:1-6 God spoke to us through the Son.

Brothers and sisters: In times past, God spoke in partial and various ways to our ancestors through the prophets; in these last days, he spoke to us through the Son, whom he made heir of all things and through whom he created the universe,

who is the refulgence of his glory, the very imprint of his being, and who sustains all things by his mighty word. When he had accomplished purification from sins, he took his seat at the right hand of the Majesty on high, as far superior to the angels as the name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs.

For to which of the angels did God ever say:

You are my Son; this day I have begotten you?

Or again:

I will be a father to him, and he shall be a Son to me?

And again, when he leads the first born into the world, he says:

Let all the angels of God worship him.

The Word of the Lord

R/ Thanks be to God.

Responsorial Psalm Psalm 97:1 and 2b, 6 and 7c, 9

R/ Let all his angels worship him.

The LORD is king; let the earth rejoice; let the many isles be glad. Justice and judgment are the foundation of his throne.

R/ Let all his angels worship him.

The heavens proclaim his justice, and all peoples see his glory. Let all his angels worship him.

R/ Let all his angels worship him.

Because you, O LORD, are the Most High over all the earth, exalted far above all gods.

R/ Let all his angels worship him.

Gospel Acclamation Mark 1:15

Alleluia, alleluia. The Kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the Gospel. Alleluia, alleluia.

Gospel Mark 1:14-20 Repent, and believe in the Gospel.

After John had been arrested, Jesus came to Galilee proclaiming the Gospel of God: “This is the time of fulfillment. The Kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the Gospel.” As he passed by the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and his brother Andrew casting their nets into the sea; they were fishermen. Jesus said to them, “Come after me, and I will make you fishers of men.” Then they left their nets and followed him. He walked along a little farther and saw James, the son of Zebedee, and his brother John. They too were in a boat mending their nets. Then he called them. So they left their father Zebedee in the boat along with the hired men and followed him.

The Gospel of the Lord

R/ Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.

-----------------------------------

Saint Hilary, Bishop, Doctor 

(Liturgical Colour: White. Year: C(I))

(Readings for the memorial)

(There is a choice today between the readings for the ferial day (Monday) and those for the memorial. The ferial readings are recommended unless pastoral reasons suggest otherwise)

First Reading 1 John 2:18-25 Whoever confesses the Son has the Father as well.

Children, it is the last hour; and just as you heard that the antichrist was coming, so now many antichrists have appeared. Thus we know this is the last hour. They went out from us, but they were not really of our number; if they had been, they would have remained with us. Their desertion shows that none of them was of our number. But you have the anointing that comes from the Holy One, and you all have knowledge. I write to you not because you do not know the truth but because you do, and because every lie is alien to the truth. Who is the liar? Whoever denies that Jesus is the Christ. Whoever denies the Father and the Son, this is the antichrist. Anyone who denies the Son does not have the Father, but whoever confesses the Son has the Father as well. Let what you heard from the beginning remain in you. If what you heard from the beginning remains in you, then you will remain in the Son and in the Father. And this is the promise that he made us: eternal life.

The Word of the Lord

R/ Thanks be to God.

Responsorial Psalm Psalm 110:1, 2, 3, 4

R/ You are a priest for ever, in the line of Melchizedek.

The LORD said to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand till I make your enemies your footstool.”

R/ You are a priest for ever, in the line of Melchizedek.

The scepter of your power the LORD will stretch forth from Zion: “Rule in the midst of your enemies.”

R/ You are a priest for ever, in the line of Melchizedek.

“Yours is princely power in the day of your birth, in holy splendor; before the daystar, like the dew, I have begotten you.”

R/ You are a priest for ever, in the line of Melchizedek.

The LORD has sworn, and he will not repent: “You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek.”

R/ You are a priest for ever, in the line of Melchizedek.

Gospel Acclamation Matthew 5:16

Alleluia, alleluia. Let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your heavenly Father. Alleluia, alleluia.

Gospel Matthew 5:13-19 You are the light of the world.

Jesus said to his disciples: “You are the salt of the earth. But if salt loses its taste, with what can it be seasoned? It is no longer good for anything but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot. You are the light of the world. A city set on a mountain cannot be hidden. Nor do they light a lamp and then put it under a bushel basket; it is set on a lampstand, where it gives light to all in the house. Just so, your light must shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your heavenly Father. “Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have come not to abolish but to fulfill. Amen, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or the smallest part of a letter will pass from the law, until all things have taken place. Therefore, whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do so will be called least in the Kingdom of heaven. But whoever obeys and teaches these commandments will be called greatest in the Kingdom of heaven.”

The Gospel of the Lord

R/ Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.

[mskoreodyssey]

Revolutionary Girl Utena [Timeline - Pt2]

Attempts to categorize the canon events in the best of my abilities.

1998

[Student Council Saga]

Ep1-2: The Rose Bride + For Whom the Rose Smiles

August 5-6 (Green Duel #1-2)

Ep3: On the Night of the Ball

August 8th [Nanami’s Birthday]

August 9th (Kiryuu Ball)

Ep4-5: The Sunlit Garden - Prelude + Finale

August 11-13th

August 14th (Blue Duel #1)

August 15th

Ep6: Take Care, Miss Nanami

August 16-18 (Animal Incident)

Ep7: Unfulfilled Juri

August 19th

August 20th (Orange Duel #1)

August 21st

Story of the Someday Revolution Arc

August 22nd (Kiryuu Masquerade Ball)

August 23-24

August 25th

[Saionji’s Birthday // Wedding Anniversary]

(Phantom Duel #1)

Ep8: Curried High Trip

September 1-4 (Swapped Bodies Incident)

Ep9: The Castle Said to Hold Eternity

September 6-7 (Touga’s wound)

Ep10: Nanami's Precious Thing

September 8th (Kiryuu Party #1)

September 9th (Yellow Duel #1)

Ep11-12

September 13th (Red Duel #1)

September 14th

September 15th (Red Duel #2)

Ep13: Tracing A Path

September 18th (SC Saga Recap)

[Black Rose Saga]

Ep14: The Boys of the Black Rose

September 19th 

[Akio’s Birthday] // (Saturday class)

September 21st (Black Rose Duel #1)

September 24th [Chigusa’s Birthday]

September 26th (Anthy & Akio meetup)

Ep15: The Landscape Framed by Kozue

September 28-29

September 30th (Black Rose Duel #2)

Ep16: The Cowbell of Happiness

October 3rd (Kiryuu Party #2)

October 4-6

October 6th [Keiko’s Birthday]

October 7th (Cow Duel)

October 8th

Ep17: The Thorns of Death

October 13-14

October 15th (Black Rose Duel #3)

October 16th

Ep18: Mitsuru's Impatience

October 19th

October 20th (Black Rose Duel #4)

October 21st

Ep19: A Song for a Kingdom Now Lost

October 26-27

Ep20: Wakaba Flourishing

November 4-5

November 6th (Black Rose Duel #5)

November 7th

Ep21: Vermin

November 11th (Kiryuu Party #3)

November 12th (Black Rose Duel #6)

November 13th

Ep22: Nemuro Memorial Hall

November 17th (Mikage’s Backstory)

Ep23: The Terms of a Duelist

November 18th (Phantom Duel #2)

Ep24: The Secret Nanami Diary

November 20th (Nanami Recap)

[Akio Ohtori Saga]

Ep25: Their Eternal Apocalypse

November 23-24

November 25th (Green Duel #3)

November 30th [Mikage’s Birthday]

Ep26: Miki's Nest Box "The Sunlit Garden - Arranged"

December 1-3

December 1st [Juri's Birthday]

December 4th (Blue Duel #2)

December 5th

Ep27: December 7-12 (Egg Incident)

Ep28: Whispers in the Dark

December 13-16

December 17th (Phantom Duel #3)

December 18th

Ep29: Azure Paler Than the Sky

December 21-22

December 23rd (Orange Duel #2)

December 24th

Ep30: The Barefoot Girl

December 29 (Utena's Birthday)

December 30-31

1999

[Akio Ohtori Saga]

Ep31: Her Tragedy

January 3-6

January 7th (Nanami's Tragedy)

Ep32: The Romance of the Dancing Girls

January 8th

January 9th (Yellow Duel #2)

Ep33: The Prince Who Runs Through the Night

January 10th (AO Saga Recap)

[Apocalypse Saga]

Ep34: The Rose Crest

January 15th

January 16th (Utena's backstory)

Ep35: The Love That Blossomed in Wintertime

January 17-20

Ep36: And Thus Opens the Doorway of Night

January 20th

January 21st (Red Duel #3)

January 23rd [Ruka’s Birthday]

Ep37: The One to Revolutionize the World

January 27-28

January 29th

Ep38-39: End of the World + And Someday, Together, We'll Shine

January 29th (Purple Duel)

Few Months later…

April 29th (Anthy leaves)

[Before] [During] [After]

[stupidanniversaries]

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ABOUT THE BLOG

hi i run this blog u can literally call me whatever idc !! my main is @skyburger and ummm yeah this combined with the blog description pretty much covers everything i wanted to say. peace ✌️

edit (not even an hour later): oh i remembered i wanted 2 say THE ASKBOX IS OPEN !!! youre welcome to suggest dates for me to add but this is my personal blog for dates of stuff i like so no guarantees BUT UR ALWAYS WELCOME TO ASK OR EVEN JUST COME SAY HI !!! :D

edit (like the next day): BTW. forgot to mention my timezone is EST & i have trouble not mixing up midnight & noon (the AM and PM thing always messes me up), so all my posts will be scheduled for 1AM EST!!

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#birthday - posts for birthdays :3

#deathday - death anniversaries, just fictional characters and maybe the occasional real life person but only if its really funny

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NAVIGATION

im putting this under a cut because theres a link for every day of the year :)

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[solarpunknow]

March 13th, 20__

It was a hard, but good day today. Wren and I both have wednesdays off from our job, so we went out to Peigi's place to work on getting the garden there reading for the growing season. It was unseasonably warm for March, but then the last three years in a row have been the warmest globally on record. So, really, while I'm glad the sun has come back (less than a week until the equinox!), I'm worried about the heat waves and wildfire smoke that will certainly hit us this summer. Ugh, not looking forward to that. Just, hopefully no actual wildfires here.

Anyway, it costs a whole two hours worth of wages to drive out there, so we try to spend the whole day when we go- and yes, we've designed the garden around that. We packed a lunch (sandwiches with my sourdough and some black bean tempeh we've been working on), and a plan to fill the day.

See, we haven't been out there since the end of fall, and the crocuses out there have just now started to bloom. (Ours bloomed the last week of January, but we're pretty close to the water and they're halfway up- well I was going to say mountain, but with Mt. Tahoma right there that seems silly. Halfway up a tall hill? They're at roughly 2000 ft of elevation, and we're barely at 300. Still high enough we don't have to worry about the rising sea level though!) So today we went around and took down the temporary deer fence from the last two years (yes, that really should have been taken down last fall, but, well, life happened. What matters is we're getting back on track now... Right?), weeded two 4ft by 70ft rows, refenced one of them, and sowed fava beans as a cover crop/deer lure in the other. We also talked about putting in a real, sturdy deer fence- I think we can afford it this year, and Peigi and xyr parent, Nancy said they could pitch in.

Did I mention that we're getting to garden/farm/forage Peigi and Nancy's land in return for sharing the harvest? It's a pretty sweet deal, and the only reason why Wren and I kept our place in town.

So, anyway, out at Peigi's, we grow the plants that appreciate cooler temperatures (because that urban heat island effect is real! our place is toasty, and I don't appreciated it), plus the plants that are riskier to grow on urban soils, namely root crops and low growing leafy greens. That leaves the fruiting crops and heat lovers for our place (tomatoes, green beans, eggplants, corn, squash, etc, etc. And amaranth. Because amaranth is awesome). Well, and the raspberries and such, because up until now our place has been better protected from the deer. Small yappy dogs are good for that!

Anyway, it's still a bit early to start things out there, as they're still getting hard frosts and a little snow, but I sowed some fava beans, and while the deer have munched on the garlic, it's still there. I'm hoping that with generous enough fertigation that garlic will size up and make a decent harvest. Yeah, yeah, the deer ate them last winter and you'd think I would learn- what, the deer fence? Why didn't that keep them out? Uhhhhh, well, it's not a great deer fence. It wasn't actually a deer fence, or it wasn't originally meant to be for deer, it was originally an electrofence for sheep. And sheep are less nimble than deer.

And since no one wants to hunt the deer any more because of the chronic wasting disease and the cougar and other predator populations haven't rebound yet, there's too many deer, and this is the hungry time of year. So they're a bit desperate, and willing to eat things they normally wouldn't bother. Like garlic. I'm frustrated, but I can't blame them. And I certainly don't want to eat them myself. Ugh. Thus, getting a better deer fence, and in the meantime planting the favas as a distraction. Hopefully it works.

Where was I? Took down the fence, weeded the garlic/other things bed, sowed fava beans, covered them with fall leaves from like 6 months ago, put the fence back up around the garlic bed, checked under the mulch on the other beds (which, the soil looks so much better than it did three years ago! It actually looks like soil now! Deep mulching and cover cropping and patience for the win!). Wren was displeased by all the native black berry, but come on! Having that as a weed instead of the (invasive) cutleaf blackberry? I'll take it! I'll take it home, that is! I'm going to set up a really simple trellis and see if I can grow it semi-domestically so that it's easier to pick the berries. As tasty as they are, the vines are just unpleasant to walk through.

We also went through the wooded area and took out more invasive blackberries and did a light thinning of the native berries there. We really haven't touched that area, so it's super thick and very hard to work through, and it's mostly salmon berry. We'd like more thimbleberry, salal, and huckleberry, so yes, we did remove some salmon berry to make room for the others. I feel a little guilty about it, but it is the most abundant. I put them in the back of the truck and will post to the local groups to see if any one wants some. Not quite the right time of year for transplanting, but they're still dormant, so as long as they're mulched well and watered this year they should do fine. Also worked on expanding the trail, and checked on the nettle patch but they're still doing nothing. Too cold yet.

Now I'm back at our place, and it's time to do a little resting and relaxing before the next work day.