ENTRY 07: 11/01/2023 - October, Come and Gone

I rise again, from the grave!! Sorry once again for the hiatus, per my last post I got pretty caught up in a variety of things that had nothing to do with site development. Time to update you on eeeeeevvvvveeerrrryyyytthhhiiiinngg!!

So, that writing thing I mentioned last post! That culminated last night in a little gathering and posting, I had a rad time hanging out and I can’t wait to read everyone’s submissions today and in the coming days. The deadline got adjusted around mid-way through the month to the 31st, so we all had some extra time to work on our pieces. I managed to just barely finish it before the deadline thanks to some days spent cramming. My fingers and wrists weren’t impressed, but I’m very happy with how the piece turned out, I think I’m starting to get the hang of dialogue and fight scenes a bit more. When the next writing thing will be is up in the air, but it seems like December might be a good time to get back on that horse. We’ll see what happens.

On another topic, I succeeded in my mission to get caught up with Adventure Time, and have since moved on to Distant Lands, which I’m watching more slowly. So… uhhhhh nobody told me about Come Along With Me?? (T_T) I haven’t cried that hard in literal years. It was… well, it was an experience I won’t soon forget. Adventure Time is really good, you guys. If you have the time, and haven’t seen it before, I highly recommend dropping all preconceptions about it and watching it in full wherever cartoons can be found. I can assure you you won’t regret it. If I had to describe it in a word, it would be “life-affirming”. Is that technically two words? I don’t care.

Oh, update on the costume thing from… 3? blog posts ago. I have a replacement costume now. The good news is, this one actually fits around my body, and I can freely move while wearing it.

The bad news is they made the arms reach almost down to the floor. I sadly lack the orangutan arms needed to wear the thing without looking like a clown, so that leaves me two options: buy arm extemders, or have alterations made to reduce the arm length. All things considered, that latter option seems like it’s not such a big deal. There arer a couple other alterations I need done, too, because for some reason they decided to change the costume’s design for this second one, but those should be fairly simple, too. Still, annoying that I didn’t get to use it for Halloween shenanigans this year.

Speaking of Halloween, did anyone else feel like it didn’t really come this year? It felt like it passed me by, despite Halloween spooky stuff coming out, playing some spooky games, watching spooky movies, and eating candy. So, in light of this, I will simply be carrying the Halloween spirit with me into November, and even December, until I feel sufficiently Halloween’d out. Catch me in my Organization XIII costume in December, I’m unhinged, this shit is nothin’ to me, man, I live for this shit, I’m a rat out of its cage!!

Ahem. Anyway, with most of the aforementioned stuff out of the way, I should be more free to work on other projects, such as the development of this site. Stay tuned for that, I’m hoping to eventually get all of the main portal pages finished, likely before year’s end if I can get myself into gear in time. I’m hoping this month is nice and calm, I could use the rest.