Spreadsheets

30 Nov, 2025

And so, we're at the end of November. It feels like it went so quickly. For the most part, I've been making sure to tackle all the things I said I would, but there's never enough time in the day. Since it's going to all spill over into December anyways, and I said December would be my anime watching month, I'm here to announce that I did indeed decide to finish Sailor Moon Crystal all the way through and... Haven't started any of the others. Well, I guess I should get on that, but I have found myself working.

Which leads me to today's topic of spreadsheets. At some point, I told myself I should go through all of my neighbors (following, followers, mutuals, etc) and kind of sort out who needs to be linked still. I'm probably not going to keep a distinction on my links page anymore, so sorry, mutuals and non mutuals will be lumped together. If you're not following me and you wish to be removed, you can always pass me an email. I'm fine with it, really. But yeah, I'm going to attempt to getting around to this because I've been really slacking on updating. I think the only people I won't be adding are like, blank pages. So most people shouldn't worry about the possibility of being removed unless you've gone 404 or blanked your site. It's just a way to make sure I actually go through people's stuff and not end up forgetting to look. I also will probably condense my resources list and sneak a few other things in, because the page as a whole just needs a general overhaul. But I think that's a fair share of my older pages. I just figured its easier to sort everything out based on a spreadsheet.

Speaking of spreadsheets and links, I'll be peeking through Petra's Web contest spreadsheet one more time. There were quite a few people I was interested in, and thus, I figured linking them might be something worth doing as well.

And the final note I had was uh... I also decided to use a spreadsheet method to make sure I start to tackle my gigantic backlog of games. God, there's so many. This is what happens when you dedicate your time to playing only MMOs for years and you sleep on everything else. Over the next month, I'll be filling that out. Every once in a while, I'll take recommendations in certain categories most likely, but I suppose it really depends on everything else going on. With that said, I suppose that takes care of my plans for content over the new year...

Until then, I'm going to hope to finish all the things planned for this year as well. But that's going to take giving my camera a little bit of a workout, if we're being honest--If I don't just wait until Christmas to do most of that considering, y'know, I asked for a new camera. Well, that aside, I guess it's back to work on things I've been delaying for quite some time now.

Frustration

26 Nov, 2025

My ethernet cable is quite honestly a mystery. I'm not sure what's wrong with it. For ages, it's worked fine, but as of lately, it seems like if I don't push it into this PC at the right angle and if any sort of minor bend occurs in it, there's some sort of problem. And that problem shows up in how websites load. Want to look at the GSC smile sales? Better hope the ethernet cable agrees? Want to listen to a playlist someone linked that is unfortunately on spotify? That ethernet cable needs to consent to listening as well. Do you want to see a clip of how a mechanic plays out in FF14? Good fucking luck because John Ethernet doesn't want to. Oh, you're mid pull and you need to load this? Get a load of this guy. Have fun getting walled due to your own incompetence for the next 2 weeks, bozo.

I'm sure everyone is like "Just replace it." And initially, yes, I thought of that too. But then I remembered it goes through a hole in the wall. Which means cleaning out my entire closet to run it through only to be met with a completely different issue on the other side, which is dealing with other family members when it comes to all of this. I have no idea where the other hole is in my Grandfather's room. Which means I'm going to instantly get recruited to do 50 other things for him or yelled at to not touch anything because it's his stuff and he likes his dust just as he left it. I already dread replacing this thing but doing it would make my life so much easier. I mean, for the last god knows how many years, even the clip of the thing has been broken. This thing is constantly holding on by a prayer and the anxiety I feel towards bringing up any problems I may be having with my family.

Anyways, for now, I get to gaslight myself over what does and doesn't work, while I attempt to finish other things.

Also yes, my anxiety does get that high when it comes to bothering people when it comes to a minor inconvenience in my life so I start worrying about nothing. Is it healthy? Probably not. But everyone always thinks I'm mad when I communicate anyways so I'm just kind of stuck.

I Wish My Job Here Was Done

25 Nov, 2025

Sometimes I do stuff, and I really have nobody other than myself to blame. I guess I should preface this with a bit more of a story though, before I turn it into a full on rant, so here I go.

Every year for the last few years on Anilist, people make a New Years Resolution when it comes to their anime watch list. And the idea is to hopefully get it done. The year before last, I got a little over-ambitious, so this year I kept it sweet and simple. I picked out a series of anime that I wanted to get done for sure, and things that were a lot more manageable. The list for this year was the following:

• Yugioh GX
• Bocchi the Rock
• Ranma ½ (2024)
• Urusei Yatsura (2022)
• Yuru Camp
• 3-gatsu no Lion
• Sailor Moon Crystal
• Witch Hunter Robin
• Revolutionary Girl Utena
• Yugioh 5Ds

So far I've finished a total of 3 of them, with a little over a month to spare which is... plenty of time to watch most of them minus 5Ds to be quite honest, but I'm definitely the type of person who rushes things at the last moment at times. That's not what I'm mad about though. I just finished watching one of them and I have quite the unfavorable opinions on it. And I'm sure if you know remotely anything about some of the names on this list, you can probably tell which one that is.

I won't lie, I really haven't talked about Sailor Moon a whole lot on my blog so far. It's something I have a lot of familiarity with. It was one of my first anime, even before Pokemon, and it was also my first manga. There's something about pretty transforming girls with colorful personalities that I definitely love. And Sailor Moon's manga and anime are both near and dear to my heart, despite all their flaws. I really do love them. If I was made out of unlimited money and space, I'd probably go seeking out most of the media as well as plenty of the figures. Hell, it's probably at the top of my "Manga I'd love to own a complete collection of physically" list, aside from Bleach. But that's beside the point.

Honestly, if I didn't want to give the entirety of Crystal an entire watchthrough, as well as the original series, I'd just give up on continuing Crystal. Like yeah sure, I finished season 1, but the fact that I felt miserable through the entire season and came out of it with a pounding headache isn't a good look. Honestly, part of me wants to just update my general anime log right here and now and go "yeah this is what I thought of Crystal GOODBYE MOVING ONTO THE ORIGINAL," but I do like to give something an entire chance. And I hear the movies are at least better...

Truth be told though, I'm glad that they're 12 episodes and 4 movies because it seems a bit more achievable. But at the same time, those ending arcs do feel a bit...short for sure.

Anyways, for the sake of my head not hurting, I think I'll pick up something else next instead of forcing myself to go back to back on Crystal. Which who knows its like 3:30 AM, I'm about to go to bed in a few seconds, maybe I'll wake up and decide to return to Crystal before allowing myself to continue. But if not I'm probably going to binge the shorter stuff like Ranma and Yuru Camp because at least there isn't a planned gigantic essay to go along with those entries. Mostly because despite watching the original Ranma anime as well, outside of liking it, I don't have any particular feeling for it past that. I'd say "Well, I could give you my opinion on Inuyasha," but you probably don't really want that. And I'm not active enough during a GW week to justify doing something like rewatching it. Maybe one day I'll finish reading the manga, but it's not high on my priority list.

In the name of the moon... I gotta get some sleep before the sun rises.

Rain

18 Nov, 2025

So the rain has been ongoing for a while now. I was surprised it lasted almost a week. I think tonight is the last night, if it even rains. Truth be told, even if I love the rain, I'm a little bit over it solely due to the fact that it makes it so hard to walk my dog at night. I'm never fond of having to walk Felix in the rain. He hates it, I hate it. And then he smells like wet dog for a while, which sucks because it's always a struggle to bathe him. Well, if it actually warms up, and we're not going to have more rain, maybe I'll see about bathing him sometime soon.

Other than that, I finally got my friend to play Starbound with me and it's going uhhh... Okayish. It's mostly me building a giant base at this point, and I expect to drop off of doing that either after I farm out all my achievements, which I hear is hell, or I just get bored and I decide not to play anymore. But I asked another friend if they want to play, so I don't mind playing with them. In fact, I might just wait on the achievements thing until they're able to play because they tend to be a lot more understanding and just better with games in general. But they've been busy lately, so who knows.

For now though, I suppose that means I'll check out some other things on my backlog. Maybe it's about time to get some anime out of the way. I had a New Years resolution on what I was planning to watch this year, but it turns out I've watched uhhh... I finished GX. That's it. I am really bad at these list things, because I put it off until the last possible minute. But I guess that's what happens when you make plans, you struggle to stick to them, and then you see the pile of work and you just start chipping at it en masse.

Either way, I've got to make dinner, so maybe I'll see what I can get done until I get asked to play. God knows I have plenty of things I wanted done for November.

Though I hope to be able to fix my sleeping schedule because I need to start Christmas shopping...

Oh, something I almost forgot. So I found a bunch of old photos while cleaning out my files. Maybe I'll put some of them up soon.

Headache

15 Nov, 2025

So, I originally wanted to sit down and start writing a Starbound entry. While I definitely went through and played the story on my own, I was really hoping to get a playthrough with friends going or something, solely because of the fact that I felt that endgame on stuff like this can get a bit repetitve if you don't have someone going around with you, finding stuff to do. Instead, I'm here waiting for a friend to respond to get the game set up so we can do something, but they've ghosted me for the 5th time to stand around and AFK in FFXIV. Kind of annoying. Like, just say you don't want to do it. Because I'd rather be told "no" then a fake promise because someone won't put their foot down.

Anyways, when I decide to play with someone else, I hope that doesn't end with them getting upset. I suppose for now though, if another friend I asked doesn't want to play tonight, that I can just get the article up. I'm no stranger to changing articles later. And it's not like this article will be too long. So who knows. Might start out with just talking on the topic of single player playthroughs.

Other than that, going to get a review going tonight, hopefully. Also been trying to tackle some other site work. I might be switching over to the Tagged Zonelets script finally? But at the same time, most of my stuff is pretty sorted to make up for the lack of tags, so maybe not. I'll make sure to link it nonetheless.

Oh yeah, and for those who haven't heard, Needy Girl Overdose is getting an anime. Too bad there's a lot of messed up stuff they did to Nyalra... I feel so conflicted about everything.

Waiting for the Paint Fumes to go away

12 Nov, 2025

Hello, long time no update, I say, realizing it's been about 5 days or so. It definitely feels like a while because of the fact that I had plans to update and what not and just cast them aside completely. But to be fair, I did that for the sake of getting something done that I planned to do back in August before I got sick and also before I had even finished with raid--Which was painting my desk. It was an ordeal but it's done now and I couldn't be happier with the... half done results. Because I still have to vinyl wrap things. And paint another piece of furniture which I'm simply not bothering to deal with until after I have a decent amount of my Christmas shopping done. Mostly because I'll be down 300 dollars in paint at this rate with how finicky this all feels.

With that said, I plan on finally opening commissions. Probably only going to stick to icons for the time being, but if it gets me through Christmas without having to worry too much, then it's all I can ask for.

I feel like despite only being gone for what, 5 or so days? Well, I just feel like I missed a lot. I don't really feel like further commenting on the drama that happened but uh, all I'll say is: Don't support TERFs. I updated a few other sections of my site to make certain things a bit more clear, but yeah. That's my stance on all that. TERFS and other shit mentalities really aren't welcome here on this site.

Anyways, since Petra's Indie Web Contest, I plan on checking that out pretty thoroughly (I'm also participating under the content category! If you wish to vote for me, it's appreciated!). I also plan to go through quite a bit of my links page and double check everything. Making sure that everything links back to the right place and what not. Probably also going to combine a few sections. But for the most part, expect a bit of changes on that page coming up. As well as reviews. I have 1 photographed, but over the weekend I hope to pump out a few more, solely for the sake of getting that all done. I have just been so lazy on those. But I guess I do have an excuse to not rush myself: I asked for a new camera for Christmas, and while its nothing fancy, I think anything is better than my current camera being... not great. I think the only downside is needing to apply filters myself, but that's pretty easy. I'm used to photo editing software.

Either way, I promise I'll actually work on things instead of talk about it because that's literally all it feels like I do these days. And I've been trying to tell myself that steady growth is a lot better than forcing huge content dumps all at once, even if I convince myself that "I'm not doing enough." Oops.

With that said, I'll probably rearrange a few of my posters and get dinner because I'm kinda hungry. I also admittedly need to train my brain even moreso not to go on the birdsite, which is hard when most of your friends go on the birdsite. Even harder, when you want to do commissions but unfortunately, the easiest place to get attention for your art is birdsite or DA. I've been told go to VGEN but I don't think I have nearly enough pull to be able to go there. Frustrating.

For your troubles of reading this blog though, you get an Ame picture:

Weekly Rambling

07 Nov, 2025

So it's been a while, I suppose. I said I'd probably update a bunch of stuff this week, and I definitely plan on doing that considering I have a few pictures I plan on taking + a review I'm working on, so there's content coming. That, and I do plan to get some of my layouts up pretty soon.

I won't lie. In the back of my head, my brain is like, "oh I'm slacking on some of my responsibilities with my site" because I've decided to actually play through games on my backlog that I've either started and not completed all the way through, or I've just not gotten around to all together. I do want to make a few more substantial updates, but between being busy with some of the harder tasks I've had around the house, catching up on exercise, and just suffering at the hands of my ADHD, I just haven't gotten around to it.

At the very least, expect a few more reviews to go up soon, as well as some other pages finally getting updated.

Although, I won't lie and say I'm not a bit discouraged. One of my goals this year, as I stated, was to get most of my figures reviewed. And when I counted up how many reviews I did that were actually mine, I realised it was 9. And I looked at how many others I had in my review criteria (Which was admittedly just scales and prizes because posable stuff tends to be annoying to review, and I was also on the fence about wanting to review noodle stoppers and other sitting figures), I had realized that's still around 50. And I was like "Wow, that's doing a figure review a day."

Which we all know I won't do

I guess I'm just a bit annoyed at myself, I say knowing full well that I could easily just sit down and do all this work. It's not like I don't have a huge backlog of boxes photographed from prize figures with no blisters that I took before flattening them for easier storage, which means half the work there is done. Either way, I suppose the scope of my goal was too big, unless I make a huge crunch for the end of the year.

Considering I don't really want to play any MMOs right now so my time is free, I guess I should get on that. Or updating the tons of things I need to do. Or just idk, finishing any project I mean to finish...

Either way, I do have to be up earlier, so maybe I should sleep.

Expect some sort of content over the weekend. I'll probably prep a bunch of things tomorrow. Assuming I don't immediately resume playing the current review target.

Also at some point, I'll probably reorganize my desk & stuff, because I plan on painting some of the iron bars. I also plan on eventually changing over to a Linux based OS since I've stopped raiding, but I guess I just have to get around to all that. Which means backing up literally everything. Kinda not looking forward to the backup parts, but the update will feel better.