In January my musical focus was popular songs in Spanish, Japanese, and Mandarin (although other Chinese languages may have snuck in), and in February my musical focus was songs in those languages from genres I like specifically. I discovered so many songs that I didn't even know which to DM to my usual music buddy -- and sending all of them would only result in threats on my life. But then I remembered I have a blog. So now I get to put on not just her, but all of you. Welcome to my twisted playlist.

Probably unnecessary to say, but I feel like apologizing anyways: None of these songs are very niche or underground, and maybe some of you have known some of these songs or artists for a looooooong time. I'm aware that I'm not sharing anything particularly wild. I just wanted to cast a wide net and see what artists I should already know but don't, and later I can dig deeper. Especially for the Spanish and Mandarin/Chinese music scene. (I think I have "rare Japanese music" covered, but still I could listen to more popular songs too.)

R&B ft. 2 Hip Hop Songs

I'll be there by Tina ❤ Girl's Night by Crystal Kay ❤ Di Da Di by CoCo Lee ❤ Yǒngbào by FeiFei Ou-Yang ❤ I'm Sorry by John-Hoon ❤ Love, Day After Tomorrow by Mai Kuraki ❤ Hi no Ataru Basho by MISIA ❤ 1977 by Ana Tijoux ❤ miss you by m-flo

⮩ Yongbao sounds so good but every time I look at the album art I go "damn that's crazy" TT

Rock

Lamento Boliviano by Enanitos Verdes ⯍ Los Imanes by Odisseo ⯍ Francés Limón by Enanitos Verdes ⯍ Amárrame by Mon Laferte & Juanes ⯍ De Música Ligera by Soda Stereo ⯍ My Dear by L'arc~en~Ciel ⯍ Me Gustas Tu by Manu Chao ⯍ Robinson by SPITZ ⯍ Swallowtail Butterfly～Ai no Uta～ by YEN TOWN BAND

⮩ The singer in Frances Limon sings like he is gently holding my face. I really like singing this song too <3

Pop and Electronic

Super Star by S.H.E. ✿ A.I.N.Y. by G.E.M. ✿ To My Love - Tainy Remix by Bomba Estéreo & Tainy ✿ Roman Hikou by Kome Kome Club ✿ Kimi ga Iru Dake de by Kome Kome Club ✿ Traición by Miranda! ✿ Tèwù J by Jolin Tsai ✿ Ai Ni by Cyndi Wang ✿ Xué Māo Jiào by Xiao Panpan & Xiao Fengfeng ✿ Jì Míng Yuè by SING Nǚ Tuán ✿ White Love by SPEED ✿ Momoiro Kataomoi by Aya Matsuura ✿ Chokotto Love by Petitmoni ✿ Ren'ai Revolution 21 by Momokawa Tomomi & 9LoveJ Executive ✿ Kaze no Tadoritsuku Basho by AYANO & Key ✿ Bravely You by Lia & Key ✿ Hellokittybalahcurryhellokittyoishii by babyMINT

⮩ This is too many pop songs. Please take my alt card away.
⮩ Ai Ni is a cover of this, which I heard first years ago and is probably the original unless there's a secret older version. Two cakes!
⮩ Ji Ming Yue has an equally as good English version.
⮩ White Love by SPEED is a crazy combination of words, but they mean snow. It's a winter love song. And the group's name is just very #Y2K in a way.
⮩ Someone posted Momoiro Kataomoi's MV once, and I watched a little bit of it and thought "hmmmm. Cute, but not the best." That was clearly the thought process of a complete fool, because the song is great and I dunno what I was on the first time I heard it. I love the little wind-up into the chorus.
⮩ Ren'ai Revolution 21 is a mix of a Morning Musume song, which I still have not heard.
⮩ Hellokittybalahcurryhellokittyoishii is super catchy in a way that's really obvious, so I'm mad that it worked. Whether I actually like it or not doesn't matter when I can't stop saying Hellokittybalahcurryhellokittyoishii. babyMINT makes some really interesting-sounding songs, so if you have time to waste you should listen to 2023 : BBMeme ODYSSEY or another one of their popular songs.

Challenge #15: How Did the Fandom Snowflake Challenge Go?
I liked having a reason to talk about the things I like prompted. I met some cool people, and even became mutuals with at least one, so that's great and the Snowflake Challenge wasn't a complete bust. All in all I think it went well for me! And I'm really glad this challenge has been held annually for so long.

This is a personal skill issue, but making such long posts so often made me feel annoying. (The length of the posts is a choice but I'm talkative when given the chance to be, so...) I might not participate next year, or I will only via commenting, but that doesn't mean I think it's bad.

One thing: I know it didn't do well in the polls, but I think having Grant a Wish as a challenge is a good idea and it should stay. People should not only ask for things, but give too. And I'm not just saying that out of greed, because I didn't have any of mine granted. SPEAKING OF, I didn't write about it but I did grant at least 3 wishes, so please include in the record that I completed Challenge #11 too ☝🏾

Thanks to the mods, volunteers, and my subscribers for sticking around! ❄️

Another one of these lol. But for January!

What I Did

Not Related To Media Consumption Enjoying the Arts 🍷

• On New Year's Eve I saw cows up close for the first time and fed them (their tongues are very rough!), and on New Year's itself I shot a gun for the first time. Multiple guns, actually -- a pistol, shotgun, and rifle. Into the sky. As one does. You'll never believe it -- I spent the night in Texas on my mom's boyfriend's ranch. I wanted to share food with all the cows, but three greedy fucks were all in the way of the others cows 💢 Just selfish.


• Not really something I did, but something that happened -- it snowed, which turned into ice, so for almost a week we couldn't really go anywhere. The power never went out though! I was surprised about that. I would probably be even more amazed if it weren't for the fact that it already had snowed in the (southern) state I was in before twice in the decade+ I lived there. Climate change is taking the joy of rare snow away from me smh


• I did get to work on my resolution to learn how to dance, but I haven't gotten around to recording myself yet. I really should eventually, for growth-measurement purposes... And I participated in snowflake_challenge! Besides the final challenge, I've done every challenge I wanted to this time around. I'll do the final one another day :)


• I made a community! vkotd Post in it if you can, or only sub to it if you're interested.


• I got shoulder-length medium twists, and I feel so fly that I started taking care of my skin and using makeup xD Makeup looks like it can get expensive, so I'm going to avoid following anyone on socials who shows off a lot of products and things like that so I don't tempt myself into evil, but I feel better about myself. Maybe a bad thing to say about something that covers up my natural skin, so I feel kiiiiiiiiiiiiiinda bad... reeeeeeeeeeeeally deep inside. It's mostly covered up by the happy though LOL
  

Enjoying the Arts 🍷🕯️🌹🫦

TV/ONA/OVA

• I finished Sailor Moon Classic, which I watched half of many years ago. I think it's fun, way better than the manga before since girls besides Usagi get attention. Never made me feel as Hype as Naruto did... but I guess because the fights against the villains are pretty lame. Like someone else said, they just run away until there's an opening to do their magicks. This is why Pretty Cure sweeps. Also, I feel like a complete asshole for this, but I like all the other girls more than Usagi. She's kind of........................... annoying 😭 I guess it's just due to the nature of anime and exaggerating personalities. Well, I'm sure it only gets better from here.


• I watched the first two Thunderbolt Fantasy seasons and movies with a friend. Well, the second movie I watched yesterday, but I'm grouping it with the things I watched it January. I think I have the same reaction as everyone else -- Curiosity about how a puppet TV show works, and then amazed that the plot and characters are pretty darn good too. I want to watch the show it's a spinoff of, but I guess it's probably inaccessible if you don't know Chinese u_u So I'll have to put a pin in that for about 3 years or so.


• But you know what ISN'T inaccessible even if you don't know Chinese? That's right baby, The Legend of Luo Xiaohei. I watched the first season. I tried to watch this years ago after watching the movie, but I was put off by not knowing how it relates to the movie. I thought maybe it was some stupid boring comedy AU or something, and the movie took the protag of the show and made something more serious. Not exactly! I've been describing the show in my head as "iyashikei if it was epic" -- it's slow-paced and calm, almost slice-of-lifey, but it's also an urban fantasy that has fast-paced action scenes when needed. It has a plot, but it takes its time for you to get to know the characters and world. I like it more than I thought it would, considering it doesn't have any of the movie characters I know and love besides Hei. I think you should watch it. You should watch the movies too. The comic? Also probably great. Please get into The Legend of Hei -- and remember who put you on. I'll watch the season season after I finish Sailor Moon R.


• Also watched the 3-episode OVA Gensei Shugoshin P-hyoro Ikka(/Modern-Day Guardians, the Piihyoro Clan?). I expected something more serious than what I got, and it was best enjoyed on 2x speed. Not the worst thing ever though. It's about sibling exorcists who have to handle ghost and possession cases. Sometimes they're hired, sometimes one sibling finds themself in a Situation. I had a feeling something deeper was happening or was going to happen too, but the OVA ends before it to entice you to buy the manga. The manga was probably fun to read while subscribed to Princess Magazine, but I definitely wouldn't pay money for the OVA. I'll have to keep in mind to read this one day, since the manga isn't on Anilist and thus I cannot put it in the Planning list.

Movies

• Swing Girls!! A comedy movie even a guy like me can enjoy. And despite it being about a guy teaching a bunch of bum girls how to swang, there's no romance either. Cute and feel-good with musical performances aplenty (and I'm big fan of music, personally), this is also something I feel the urge to force others to watch. And, did you know? None of the actresses knew how to play their instruments before having to work in the movie either. So in case you're like me and thinking "no way could they get so good so quickly in real life" ... yes. Yes they could.


• I expected something VERY different from 2001: A Space Odyssey from what I got 😭 Since it's so popular and people still mention it I figured it was an action-adventure movie or something like that... Instead it's just. Weird. With very pretty visuals! But quiet and odd. I'm not smart enough to say anything about it, positive or negative. But I guess it's good I know what exactly it is now!


• I really thought I'd love Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, but I just thought it was fine. I dunno. I think animation has raised my bar for fight scenes inhumanly high. Maybe this is implied in the movie, but I find it hard to believe it's possible to be free at all as a woman married to a man in that time unless you make him swear he won't keep you in chains, which Jiaolong/Jen (? Why did they change her name to Jen? Jiaolong isn't hard to read or say.) never made whatshisface do, I think. I think the flashback to how their romance developed was fun though, probably the only part of the movie where I never paused to do something else. Funny time to choose to have sex, but I suppose these things do happen.


• As a (very old) Gen Z-er with a fried brain, at some point I had to swallow my pride and change the playback speed to 2x. But besides the old-school pacing, I Am Cuba was a great movie! Too great! I actually recommend NOT watching this right now what with the real things going on with Cuba, because it will make you miserable! :D Or, maybe you SHOULD watch it so that you too will want to fight to protect what those people sacrificed all they had for. #DeathToAmerica

Exactly One Book

• Not something I finished, but I spent a solid chunk of the month reading Yona of the Dawn along with a shoujo server on Discord. I've tried to read or watch this MULTIPLE times in the past, but I'd always lose interest. I decided this year would be the year I force myself to read it and see why it's so beloved... or at least figure out why it repeatedly put me off 🗿 It's literally adventure shoujo, I shouldn't want for much else. AND YET... I think the main problem is the art style isn't my taste, although objectively it is good and Kusanagi is good at drawing. Because of this, I don't think the heartthrob Hak is hot, and I actually dislike him because I think he's not hot enough to justify the things he does or says. I like assholes, but not when it comes to romance or sex, so when he says the typical "I can't help myself cuz I'm a guy yknow" stuff I want to beat him to a pulp. (If the character is hot I roll my eyes when they say those things.) I do like Suwon and want to see more Suwon. Mr. Dragon Hand too. And Yona herself! But Hak needs to pay with blood, sorry. So bascially, after being semi-forced to keep going, I do like YOTD now!! But I don't like the love interest. Common Chris L. Suwon should've installed himself as communist dictator (or Yona should in the end) 💯 Tae-jun is really funny and we should imprison him in a bottle forever


• I finished this a few days ago so I won't vent about it yet; I'll leave it for a separate entry or February summary, but the main thing I spent all month reading was Kamisama Kiss. Tomoe was letting Akuraoh hit jsyk (or the other way around sometimes)

Music & Games

• I beat Sakura Wars. The ending was corny as hell. The ending animation I got for successfully romancing Kanna was cutefunny, and I did like the SRPG sections. I said this before, but the presentation is great. I love the art style! So there's lots of things about this game to like, but I didn't end up hitting the like button on Backloggd because... I dunno 💀 Maybe I'm too haunted by them pressuring me to be a lolicon that one chapter. And this is typical in dating sims, but I wish the girls felt a little more human and a little less like comfortable tropes. I liked it enough to want to play another Sakura Wars though -- it was only the first game after all, maybe in the second or third one they'll nail it.


• Every month I had an idea/prompt/idk of what kind of new music to listen to all month, and January's was "Latin, Japanese, and Chinese music from genres I like". Compare with December's "Latin, Japanese, and Chinese music popular among speakers of those languages". I found SO much music in January I intended to make a separate entry dedicated to it, but in sort, we should find and eat the people on Spotify making all the Chinese playlists a bunch of slow ballads. For China week I felt like I was in ballad hell until I found a playlist with faster music towards the end 😭

What I Will Do in February

• TV: Thunderbolt Fantasy with friend, Sailor Moon R alone


• Film: The Dark Knight, Kamikaze Girls, Y Tú Mama También, A Touch of Zen. I try to choose 1. A movie important to a group I belong to (this month being U.S. Americans), 2. A movie with original Japanese audio, 3. A movie with original Spanish audio, and 4. A movie with original Mandarin audio.


• Lit: I finished Kamisama Kiss, sooo Yona of the Dawn, Vampire Knight, and Deborah ga Rival if I catch up with the reading groups reading the first two.


• Games: Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow, and if I beat that before the month is up I'm going to finally plug in my SNES mini and complete Final Fantasy VI.


• Whatever: I want to finish the dress-up game by the character's birthday on the 20th (<- wont happen), I should update both my personal and fan sites, of course I'll continue dancing in secret where none of you can see, aaaaaaand this month's music theme is "unfamiliar songs by familiar artists" (songs I haven't heard yet by artists who have songs I really love).

Have a good February! Or else.

The "3 Things Make a Post" thing. For posting. Yea. <3

I feel bad making posts when I haven't checked my reading page nor cleared my inbox, but I have a policy of not reading my reading page until I'm done with everything else I need to do on here. Which is just writing that last Snowflake Challenge post...

1. Yesterday I found this post by the studio that handles the Luoxiaohei series. So much cute art!! Found the account for Luoxiaohei itself too and even more art. But there's probably so much more hiding from me that I can't see because I don't have a Weibo account :( I don't really want to make one because it requires giving out your phone number and I hate doing that, but maybe it's a small price to pay for Hei? It's so tempting now.

💡 Wait.

Holy shittttttttttttttt.

Well, that pretty much takes care of that for now xD There's definitely more on the Weibo, but this will do for now. After I write this I'm changing my phone wallpapers. (End of an era... Goodbye Felix.)
( kamisama kiss + stuff ive been working on )

Challenge #14: Promo/Rec List
1. Read my Angelique primer *cracks whip*
2. Maybe consider reading whatever this is, although I will be cleaning it up and putting it on a shrine page later.
3. If you're super bored, my response to challenge #9 ended up being a rec list of new canons to get into as well, in a way.

I had planned on doing this on From Far Away if I had my volumes on me by the time this challenge came around, but I still haven't gotten my book collection back. So it looks like I'm defending a ship. If you like Fire Emblem: Three Houses.... hiiiiiiiiii ♡ My name is Chris and I think FeliBern is great.
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Challenge #9: Favorite Tropes

Skipping #7 because both bragging and blatantly seeking compliments are go against moral code, and skipping #8 because if I even have a process, it clearly sucks TT I haven't completed anything in 87 years. So, my favorite tropes! Every time this question comes around I have to look up my favorite canons on TV Tropes and try to figure out why I like them.

This time I'm going with Defrosting Ice King. I like Ice Queens too, but due to what I like to read/watch my examples are mooostly M/F with the F as the main character, although there's platonic examples too. This is a really popular trope and I feel somewhat ashamed to be using it for this challenge, but I suppose I'm not so above it all. Even I feel moe when I see a gap </3 (Translation: Even I feel deep affection when I see someone do something very different from my initial impression of them.) But I like it best when it's an over-time thing! Finding out someone serious has a plushie collection at home has nothing on seeing someone serious cry over another person they swore they'd never give a hoot about later. Also the idea of someone caring about another so much that they stick with them even though they're cold or kind of mean, thus allowing them to open up, makes me :)

I like pictures, so you're getting pictures.

Exhibit A: Kamisama Kiss

- 25 or so episodes later (and do note the apron) -









(^just to be clear, he is removing the mushrooms here)


Rather than just being "cold," Tomoe is very decidedly an Ice King of the Jerkass variety. I'm not looking up how TV Tropes defines Jerkass though. I just know he is mean and rude and arrogant, which makes him seem awful to new people probably but it's in a comedic way I swear. Not a good person. Great househusband! 10/10, would tell him off again.

Exhibit B: The Legend of Hei

The subtitles were soft and the thing I was using to screenshot doesn't catch such subs, so I'm putting them under the images.


Wuxian (blue guy): "Saved me the trouble of finding you."
- ONE HOUR LATER -

Hei: "Can... Can I go with you?"

Wuxian: "Of course."

Wuxian: "You sure you want to wander with me? Don't you want a home?"

Hei: "Nuh-uh. I wanna be with you."

Wuxian: "Alright."

TV Tropes says Wuxian is the Ice Queen, but I don't buy that. Even if one may assume from the beginning he's just an agent/assassin and it's later proven he's pretty chill and deadpan-comedic, it's not that Hei changed him through the power of love. It's just that there's more to him than being good at his job. On the other hand, Hei is cold and tries to escape Wuxian many times but eventually ends up sobbing at the thought of being apart from him, and that's all because of Wuxian's kindness. Hei's like a widdle Ice Prince.

And look! I've got some "Not So Above It All" too!




"We also accept mobile payment."





"This is my jade pendant. Keep the change."




"DINE-AND-DASHERS!!"

Wuxian is kind of the king of that trope. To me.

Exhibit C: From Far Away

In case you don't know, Japanese comics are read from top to bottom (like English comics) and right to left (not like English comics).
My favoritest meetembarassing ever btw:







- You'll never guess what happens 6 volumes later -





Saved my favorite couple for last :33333333 I judge all love confessions by comparing it by the urgency in this one, I really do. And I like that Izark is kind and caring throughout, but still rather distant until the confession. Mean guys are funny, but nice guys are like french fries for the soul. (French fries are chicken soup to me.)

Izark has some Not So Above It All moments, but I imagined trying to find the page where he draws on the face of someone who lost a fight and sighed really deeply. Not, not today.

There's lots more examples I like, like Reika in Aim for the Ace, Michel from The House in Fata Morgana, Edmond from NU: Carnival, Sesshomaru of Inuyasha fame, Clavis (maybe Julious and possibly Lumiale too?) from Angelique, whom I really wish I could have included because he is SO funny but I can't do an entire Angelique run before the next challenge gets posted, Seung-gyu from Bad Boss in a 4D chess kind of way because Young-jo didn't even know she was defrosting an Ice King as he was Nice Guy-faking, probably Felix from Fire Emblem, and Utena has some crazy Defrosting the Ice Witch going on.

This trope has a lot in common with tsunderes, so why not just say I like tsunderes? It's technically true, many characters I like can be described as such, but I associate the word "tsundere" too much with girls who are unnecessarily abusive, not even in a hot way, so I'm not a fan of it. A tsundere done well is fun though. Kuuderes too!

If you have any ACG reccs with non-babyish art styles -- YMMV but compare Yamamori Mika's art with Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table, which is the first example I could think of LOL -- let me know :] It can be any gender combination or any kind of love.
If the guy doesn't have long hair I don't care

Challenge #5: A Wishlist

Finally, a challenge I pre-wrote my answer for last month!
>checks the file
>literally a shopping list of physical items I want like it's Christmas and you all are my parents
........... Okay. Maybe past me was very sleepy when he wrote that. Looks like I'm doing this from scratch.

1. More public activity on Dreamwidth, particularly in communities. I feel like due to the nature of the web now DW attracts those who want to be private + lurkers, which is fine and I'm glad there's a site for them, but we need more people with a poster's heart (as opposed to a diarist's heart). All love to my fellow diarists, no hate, journaling is awesome and good for your health; I'm just noting something.

2. Avatar templates. Like these? Also some here. I like making avatars for my own specific and niche needs, but I don't have the (confidence in my) design skills to make my own borders, so I like using ones others' have made to give mine a nice flourish. You don't have to make anything new; anything you scrounge up would be great.

3. I am once again asking for illustrated pornography of my faves.

4. And more visual content of them in general ( ᵔ ⩊ ᵔ ) illusts and comics and such.

The ones who don't get fanart so often are Clavis (Angelique), Michel (FataMoru), Shannan (Fire Emblem), and Jeritza (Fire Emblem). The situation is dire. Help me. The ones who DO get fanart pretty often but idc I need more are Felix (Fire Emblem), Cirrus (Obscura), Testament (Guilty Gear), aaaaaand Edmond (NU: Carnival, and me asking for porn of him is the type of greed they talked about in the Bible but idcccccccccc)

And I'll include one thing from my drafted wishlist. If anyone knows who I need to shank to get this dress or where to find something like it, let me know ☆

Challenge #4: Rec The Contents Of Your Last Page

So, I skipped the last challenge because I couldn't come up with anything to say to any fandom or the concept of fandom in general (possibly because I was very eepy. But anyways), and I didn't have it in me to publicly write a love letter to a fictional character. This challenge made me truly realize that "fandom" for me right now is just me, the voices in my head, and sometimes ghosts from fandom past when I'm looking at abandoned sites and stuff. The few sites I use don't have the feeds tailored to show the fictional things I like, partly because the fandoms are small/dead and partly because I wanted to curb my socmed addiction by not making my feed too fun. So I hope it's okay to go a bit off-script and instead link three sites I like, not ones I've actually been on recently:

http://femicom.org/ is a site dedicated to games aimed at girls (＠＾◡＾) Worldwide joseimuke... It's really cutely designed, and I like looking at all the pictures and games I've never heard of before! I've never submitted a memory before since I played 0 girl games as a child, but if you have any you should try submitting something and see if they'll still put it on the site. I like reading what memories exist too.

https://popnmusicdatabase.neocities.org/ I love Pop'n Music!! What little I've gotten to play, at least. This site has a wonderful design just like the colorful games it's dedicated too, and has lots and lots of info. I still haven't gotten through it all. Please God let me one day live by a place with a Pop'n booth please I don't wanna have to play on emulated console anymore please please please

https://nar-nar.neocities.org/ I have mentioned Navarre Fire Emblem twice (x, x) on my humble blog. I'm rather fond of him and his look, but maybe more than that I appreciate the concept of Navarre. Thank you IntSys for coming up with Navarres. So, I really love this fansite filled with images of him and promises of more to come in the future. I love sites that are filled with pictures. I love pictures. This is why I prefer fanart and doujins and such over fanfic. Yayyy stimulation for my eyes yayyyy ⸜(*^ᗜ^*)⸝ ⸜(*^ᗜ^*)⸝ ⸜(*^ᗜ^*)⸝ わーいわーい

Challenge #2: Pets of Fandom

There's too many photos I wanted to share, so I made the quickest collages in the west using CollaGen, Background Tiles (first thing my browser gave me when I typed in "tile background"), and a dream.

Content warning for animal/pet death

This is my dog, Dogie. Pronounced DOUGH-gee. My family could never agree on how to spell his name, and no conceivable spelling is perfect in my opinion, but I settled on Dogie.

Dougie is a dance move. Stop spelling his name as Dougie. He is not Dug-ee. @/my sister



No clue what breed he is. Someone came to our door asking if we wanted a dog, and we did want a dog, so we gave the guy (he looked ~17) money and he gave us a dog and we never met again.

Had Dogie for almost 9 years, the longest I've ever had a pet, before he died 2.5 years ago in circumstances I still haven't explained online yet. (That's for another post.) He lowkey had no redeeming qualities besides "would sit in your lap as soon as it forms" and "didn't attack toddlers on sight," but I wuv him anyways! And he's still my dog. When I'm asked if I have pets I include him. Yes, I have a dog 🙄 Yes, he is bones 🙄 God forbid a dog be dead!! Actual menace; pour one out for him tonight.

Kimmy, short for Chimera, was never actually "my" pet. She was my roommate's pet, and she let me watch her when she didn't feel like it -- which was basically all the time. Functionally my pet. Kimmy's not even her "real" name, I think my roommate called her Leo, but I didn't really care 😭

She was so cute!! I took no less than 20 pictures of her a day, I'm sure. She loved to sleep on/near me and knead my tummy, which was awesome, but she also loved to jump on my desk and knock the fandom keychains off my corkboard, which wasn't so awesome. But it's okay, she's cute so we forgive her even if she never asked for forgiveness and definitely feels no remorse.

Long story short, my roommate dumped my clean laundry on the porch and I left that apartment, so no more Kimmy. I hope she kept her, but I have little faith in that woman. So Kimmy kind of isn't currently my pet and shouldn't be included in this post. But I like her. More people should know about her. Look at her.

As for an actual living creature that lives with me as we speak--


This is Luna (despite clearly looking more like a Sol). This is who kept my mom company before I moved in with her. She's a funny-looking Cocker Spaniel, but the sweetest thing around. I've been feeling like a liar for never writing about walking her, like "how will future beings know about the daily life of some random person they found on a hard drive somewhere if I don't include the dog-walking??" so here's me finally saying this -- I walk her every afternoon/evening, unless it's below freezing or I'm sick.

She's not allowed in the bedrooms, so right now as I type this she's laying at the entrance to my room staring at me. Do you think she knows I'm talking about her?

Disclaimer: I did watch The Last: Naruto the Movie. I did not watch 98% of filler episodes, and I didn't watch the first ~30 episodes of Naruto because I was a manga-reader at first and switched to the anime in hopes that the animation during fights would be epic (which turned out to not always be the case, but when it happened, boy did it happen).

I really want to write about watching all this in a year, but I can't come up with words on my own. Thus, I'm forced to go at it MAL-style and break it this review up by parts.

Note: I started this Dec 31st at 4am, but New Year's happened and yea.
( meow )