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sunnysunnydayHi Dreamwidth girlies! It's been a hot second since I posted. Nothing major really happened to cause this break of mine, just... February is not a very good month for my mental health, so I struggled doing even as much as turning on my laptop (can't really post much from my phone). I'm starting to do a little better, though I still admittedly struggle. Enough about that though, I have a lot of art to share, as well as some fic snippets maybe. And there's more...
My original project is happening! Me and my husbandwhimcollector are going to work on a game, if we can get our shit together enough, that is. I thought long and hard about my original projects, and I've decided to not abandon Follow the Power Lines. It does still carry a lot of weight to me, but...it doesn't have to be this way. As I grew up, this project took many shapes and forms, growing up alongside me, but I feel my perception of it got too stagnant. I was reminded that I can just...change it again. I don't have to stick to the vision of me from 10 years ago (it probably wasn't as great as I remember it being anyway; I have much better storytelling skill now).
I'm already working on some character redesigns for this, as well as perhaps some key art just to settle on an art style, but some things are clear: I want it to be an RPG Maker game, and I want it to be set in an abandoned power plant, and I want it to be scary.
I'm not abandoning fanworks though. My brain has a hard time multitasking like this, I'll admit, but the variety would be good for me I think. I have a few fanfics in the works (and yes, they're still about the Faewish Sprites), as well as some fan art to post on here which I will do in the few coming days!
I think I will be all right, I just need to survive February and March. In April my mental state usually starts getting a little better...so there is hope. Thank you for your patience whoever is reading this! Now to recall my tagging system on here...
My original project is happening! Me and my husband
whimcollector are going to work on a game, if we can get our shit together enough, that is. I thought long and hard about my original projects, and I've decided to not abandon Follow the Power Lines. It does still carry a lot of weight to me, but...it doesn't have to be this way. As I grew up, this project took many shapes and forms, growing up alongside me, but I feel my perception of it got too stagnant. I was reminded that I can just...change it again. I don't have to stick to the vision of me from 10 years ago (it probably wasn't as great as I remember it being anyway; I have much better storytelling skill now).I'm already working on some character redesigns for this, as well as perhaps some key art just to settle on an art style, but some things are clear: I want it to be an RPG Maker game, and I want it to be set in an abandoned power plant, and I want it to be scary.
I'm not abandoning fanworks though. My brain has a hard time multitasking like this, I'll admit, but the variety would be good for me I think. I have a few fanfics in the works (and yes, they're still about the Faewish Sprites), as well as some fan art to post on here which I will do in the few coming days!
I think I will be all right, I just need to survive February and March. In April my mental state usually starts getting a little better...so there is hope. Thank you for your patience whoever is reading this! Now to recall my tagging system on here...
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pattroseUnstuffed cabbage rolls.
INGREDIENTS
2 lbs lean ground beef
1 large onion, diced
1 garlic clove, minced
1 small cabbage, chopped. (I use a large cabbage)
1 cup rice
2 (14 1/2 ounce) cans diced tomatoes
1 (8 ounce) cans tomato sauce
1/2 cup water
1 teaspoon ground black pepper
1 teaspoon sea salt
DIRECTIONS
In a large skillet or dutch oven, brown the ground beef and onions. Drain.
Add the garlic and cook an additional minute.
Add remaining ingredients.
Bring to a boil, cover, reduce the heat and simmer about 25 minutes or until the cabbage is tender.
Let me know if you tried it and liked it.
INGREDIENTS
2 lbs lean ground beef
1 large onion, diced
1 garlic clove, minced
1 small cabbage, chopped. (I use a large cabbage)
1 cup rice
2 (14 1/2 ounce) cans diced tomatoes
1 (8 ounce) cans tomato sauce
1/2 cup water
1 teaspoon ground black pepper
1 teaspoon sea salt
DIRECTIONS
In a large skillet or dutch oven, brown the ground beef and onions. Drain.
Add the garlic and cook an additional minute.
Add remaining ingredients.
Bring to a boil, cover, reduce the heat and simmer about 25 minutes or until the cabbage is tender.
Let me know if you tried it and liked it.
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sonofgodzillaAlongside Noro Kayo, Ohori Megumi, and Sato Yukari, Kohara Haruka was one of the early AKB48 members moved over to SDN48 on 22nd September 2009, joining former SKE48 member, Ichihara Yuri in the two months before she up and quit, presumably over the move, and a host of other older members who later went on to become SDN's first generation.
Originally auditioning for AKB in 2007, she passed and quickly became a member of the kenkyuusei, appearing on their recording of Oogoe Diamond as well as appearing on the recording of Shonichi that appeared on Namida Surprise!, having been transferred into Team B in early 2009.
2009 must have been a tumultuous year for Haruchan. Originally promoted in Team B in January, she was then moved into Team K in August during the team shuffle event, however, before she could even debut with her new team, it was announced she was one of the members comprising SDN in September. I'm not often critical of decisions made during early AKB because I mostly have nostalgia goggles on, but this passing around of older members like they were a hot potato, and, indeed, the final fate of SDN remains a real sticking point for me.
Regardless of Haruchan's inability to rank during the first five senbatsu elections, two of which she did not participate in, when it came to the smaller circle of SDN members, she came in ninth place and, as a result is present in the lineups for all of the group's releases, from GAGAGA, to Ai, Chuseyo, to MIN・MIN・MIN, to Kudokinagara Azabu Juuban duet, a duet with presenter and television personality, Mino Monta, for which she appeared as Wcentre with Yukarin, and, at last, Makeoshimi Congratulation.
It feels frustrating even now that Haruchan and other members of SDN did not get more recognition. It's not as if she did anything wrong, in early AKB, she appeared during the second stage performances by Himawari-gumi, the multi-team lineups that included many of the Kami 7, she put in shifts in the AKB48 Café & Shop, and she took every transfer to every new team like it was a chance to really show what she was made. AKS let Kohara Haruka down, just as they let all of SDN48 down.
Following her graduation, Haruchan went on to work in gravure before joining a number of former SDN members—Kazue Akita, Okochi Misa, and formerly Kimoto Yuki, Fukuda Akane, and Fujikoso Yumi—as the idol group R, whose releases are really hard for me to find, but whose singles I would love to have copies of. Look at how awesome they all seem in their promo photos!
In 2021, Haruchan got married and gave birth to her first child. She's still a member of R, and whilst the group doesn't seem to be doing much as of 2022, I really, really hope we get to see more of them again any year now!
AKS may have let SDN48 down, but I'm going to continue to support these members no matter what!
Originally auditioning for AKB in 2007, she passed and quickly became a member of the kenkyuusei, appearing on their recording of Oogoe Diamond as well as appearing on the recording of Shonichi that appeared on Namida Surprise!, having been transferred into Team B in early 2009.
2009 must have been a tumultuous year for Haruchan. Originally promoted in Team B in January, she was then moved into Team K in August during the team shuffle event, however, before she could even debut with her new team, it was announced she was one of the members comprising SDN in September. I'm not often critical of decisions made during early AKB because I mostly have nostalgia goggles on, but this passing around of older members like they were a hot potato, and, indeed, the final fate of SDN remains a real sticking point for me.
Regardless of Haruchan's inability to rank during the first five senbatsu elections, two of which she did not participate in, when it came to the smaller circle of SDN members, she came in ninth place and, as a result is present in the lineups for all of the group's releases, from GAGAGA, to Ai, Chuseyo, to MIN・MIN・MIN, to Kudokinagara Azabu Juuban duet, a duet with presenter and television personality, Mino Monta, for which she appeared as Wcentre with Yukarin, and, at last, Makeoshimi Congratulation.
It feels frustrating even now that Haruchan and other members of SDN did not get more recognition. It's not as if she did anything wrong, in early AKB, she appeared during the second stage performances by Himawari-gumi, the multi-team lineups that included many of the Kami 7, she put in shifts in the AKB48 Café & Shop, and she took every transfer to every new team like it was a chance to really show what she was made. AKS let Kohara Haruka down, just as they let all of SDN48 down.
Following her graduation, Haruchan went on to work in gravure before joining a number of former SDN members—Kazue Akita, Okochi Misa, and formerly Kimoto Yuki, Fukuda Akane, and Fujikoso Yumi—as the idol group R, whose releases are really hard for me to find, but whose singles I would love to have copies of. Look at how awesome they all seem in their promo photos!
In 2021, Haruchan got married and gave birth to her first child. She's still a member of R, and whilst the group doesn't seem to be doing much as of 2022, I really, really hope we get to see more of them again any year now!
AKS may have let SDN48 down, but I'm going to continue to support these members no matter what!
pattroseThings I'm Grateful For:
Gosh, this could take all night. 😂 I'll list the first thing I'm grateful for. That would be my father, a chef who taught me to cook and bake every Sunday night from when I was 11 until I was 18. He gave me his first cookbook when I got married and moved out of our home. I still have it, and still use it for many things. Once we got a house we had Sunday dinners at our place, unless we took the meal to my mom and dad's house and cooked it there. My folks were thrilled to have Sundays off. But I had to really learn to make smaller meals for us alone. On Sundays, I made dinner for 11 of us. That's what happens when you have six brothers and a sister, plus your parents.
What are your most grateful for?
Gosh, this could take all night. 😂 I'll list the first thing I'm grateful for. That would be my father, a chef who taught me to cook and bake every Sunday night from when I was 11 until I was 18. He gave me his first cookbook when I got married and moved out of our home. I still have it, and still use it for many things. Once we got a house we had Sunday dinners at our place, unless we took the meal to my mom and dad's house and cooked it there. My folks were thrilled to have Sundays off. But I had to really learn to make smaller meals for us alone. On Sundays, I made dinner for 11 of us. That's what happens when you have six brothers and a sister, plus your parents.
What are your most grateful for?
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pattrose18. What is your favourite shellfish dish (if you have one)?
I love almost all, but I love lobster and shrimp. I make this wonderful Alfredo sauce that I use for both of these delicious items. I like them cold, hot, diced into a casserole, and any other way anyone cooks it. And this leads me to ask if anyone has a favorite shrimp or lobster recipe. If you do, please share with me. Thank you.
I love almost all, but I love lobster and shrimp. I make this wonderful Alfredo sauce that I use for both of these delicious items. I like them cold, hot, diced into a casserole, and any other way anyone cooks it. And this leads me to ask if anyone has a favorite shrimp or lobster recipe. If you do, please share with me. Thank you.
pattroseWhat are you looking forward to this week?
I’m looking forward to having a day off. I’m helping a friend with her mom. Monday through Thursday from 11:30-1:30. So it’s just two hours a day. It’s not the end of the world but I get tired easily. That’s why it’s only two hours a day. And on Friday hubby and I are going out and celebrating. 56 years sounds like forever. And it has been. 😁🌹
I’m looking forward to having a day off. I’m helping a friend with her mom. Monday through Thursday from 11:30-1:30. So it’s just two hours a day. It’s not the end of the world but I get tired easily. That’s why it’s only two hours a day. And on Friday hubby and I are going out and celebrating. 56 years sounds like forever. And it has been. 😁🌹
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jazzfishI made English muffins ("or, as they say in the UK, muffins") yesterday, so I can make more frozen breakfast sammiches. Today I decided to have a proper Eggs Halifax, which is like a Benedict but with smoked salmon instead of back bacon. In the event the hollandaise broke. This has been the usual fate of my attempts at hollandaise for the last N years. It's frustrating because it -used- to work. Still tasted okay but the texture was way off.
Since making tricky food was going so well I decided to turn the egg whites from the hollandaise into divinity. (If you're not from the South, divinity is the answer to the question "what if meringues were candy?" It is somewhat nougat-like and somewhat fluffy and usually involves pecans, though I haven't had much in the way of pecans since the death of my great-uncle who had a pecan orchard.) This involves cooking a bunch of sugar to hard-ball / 260F and then adding it into a running mixer with whipped egg whites. After an hour my sugar was stubbornly refusing to go over 245F. I turned up the heat a little more and the sugar boiled over. Thankfully I grabbed the pot so it did not boil over onto the burner, just onto the stove top, but while I was salvaging that the sugar crystallized. I swore and tried again: added more water and some additional sugar and stuck it back on the burner to re-dissolve and re-cook. This time careful additions of heat got it up to 250F and more threatened boiling over, so I called it good and poured it into the mixer. Adding injury to insult: while scraping the last quarter or so of the sugar into the mixer I managed to splash some of it onto my hand. Molten sugar is a nasty business: it glues itself to your skin and keeps burning. Thankfully my mixer is right next to the sink. No permanent damage done but I ended up with several blisters, some of which had the tops ripped off when I tried to remove the sugar.
I used to hate and avoid dealing with candy-making / molten sugar. Now I seem to have reached a point where it is my nemesis, and I will conquer it or get really annoyed and minorly scorched trying. Anyway, the divinity is in its pan and setting; should be edible sometime tomorrow.
Twenty-seven and a half boxes of books (down one and a half from last time), and what looks to be about twenty-five boxes of games (down three or so from last time). Plus one box of CDs and two-plus of DVDs. My obsession with the Arrowverse means that DVDs no longer fit neatly into two boxes. Oh well.
Now to pack up all the random miscellaneous stuff that doesn't need to be out while the place is on the market, which will take probably less than ten boxes and probably twice the time. At least I have plenty of time: my preferred movers aren't available until early-mid March.
Since making tricky food was going so well I decided to turn the egg whites from the hollandaise into divinity. (If you're not from the South, divinity is the answer to the question "what if meringues were candy?" It is somewhat nougat-like and somewhat fluffy and usually involves pecans, though I haven't had much in the way of pecans since the death of my great-uncle who had a pecan orchard.) This involves cooking a bunch of sugar to hard-ball / 260F and then adding it into a running mixer with whipped egg whites. After an hour my sugar was stubbornly refusing to go over 245F. I turned up the heat a little more and the sugar boiled over. Thankfully I grabbed the pot so it did not boil over onto the burner, just onto the stove top, but while I was salvaging that the sugar crystallized. I swore and tried again: added more water and some additional sugar and stuck it back on the burner to re-dissolve and re-cook. This time careful additions of heat got it up to 250F and more threatened boiling over, so I called it good and poured it into the mixer. Adding injury to insult: while scraping the last quarter or so of the sugar into the mixer I managed to splash some of it onto my hand. Molten sugar is a nasty business: it glues itself to your skin and keeps burning. Thankfully my mixer is right next to the sink. No permanent damage done but I ended up with several blisters, some of which had the tops ripped off when I tried to remove the sugar.
I used to hate and avoid dealing with candy-making / molten sugar. Now I seem to have reached a point where it is my nemesis, and I will conquer it or get really annoyed and minorly scorched trying. Anyway, the divinity is in its pan and setting; should be edible sometime tomorrow.
Twenty-seven and a half boxes of books (down one and a half from last time), and what looks to be about twenty-five boxes of games (down three or so from last time). Plus one box of CDs and two-plus of DVDs. My obsession with the Arrowverse means that DVDs no longer fit neatly into two boxes. Oh well.
Now to pack up all the random miscellaneous stuff that doesn't need to be out while the place is on the market, which will take probably less than ten boxes and probably twice the time. At least I have plenty of time: my preferred movers aren't available until early-mid March.
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asuraidan oomf talked about maplestory private servers. i never grew up on maplestory, i did play it for a bit but not for a long time ... and i wanna at least give the older school servers a try bc many old MMOs to this day that are still alive are so overbloated with systems that it's atrocious (looking at YOU perfect world international) so ... trying it out of sheer curiosity!!!
... probably a terrible idea to install them when im exhausted from being sick but
... probably a terrible idea to install them when im exhausted from being sick but
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alchemicinkThings I have been thinking about today:
☆ it was super foggy this morning and I was absolutely baffled by how many people were driving around without their headlights on 😬 (I don't know why I was baffled because people don't turn them on for rain half the time either.)
☆ I went to Viz's website earlier to catch up on the latest chapters of Ichi the Witch (I'm enjoying the current arc) and Shinobi Undercover (I'm bored with this current arc), and I saw that you can currently read the first 150 chapters of One Piece for free. I'm not interested in reading it but I figured I'd pass along the message in case anyone here is.
☆ Saw the teaser for this week's Starfleet Academy episode and... 👀!!! It looks like there will be some interesting Jay-Den/Darem content. I am THRILLED
☆ Had dinner with at my parents house tonight and we watched the NC State-UNC men's basketball game. And our team (NC State) won 🥳🥳🥳 They won by A LOT actually. Vastly improved my mood after a stressful work day.
☆ I'm gonna watch an episode of Gingaman tonight because it's Year of the Horse! (They live on a horse ranch so I feel like it's fitting 😂) I'm also year of the horse, so I'm excited lol. It's my year!!
Goodnight, friends!
☆ it was super foggy this morning and I was absolutely baffled by how many people were driving around without their headlights on 😬 (I don't know why I was baffled because people don't turn them on for rain half the time either.)
☆ I went to Viz's website earlier to catch up on the latest chapters of Ichi the Witch (I'm enjoying the current arc) and Shinobi Undercover (I'm bored with this current arc), and I saw that you can currently read the first 150 chapters of One Piece for free. I'm not interested in reading it but I figured I'd pass along the message in case anyone here is.
☆ Saw the teaser for this week's Starfleet Academy episode and... 👀!!! It looks like there will be some interesting Jay-Den/Darem content. I am THRILLED
☆ Had dinner with at my parents house tonight and we watched the NC State-UNC men's basketball game. And our team (NC State) won 🥳🥳🥳 They won by A LOT actually. Vastly improved my mood after a stressful work day.
☆ I'm gonna watch an episode of Gingaman tonight because it's Year of the Horse! (They live on a horse ranch so I feel like it's fitting 😂) I'm also year of the horse, so I'm excited lol. It's my year!!
Goodnight, friends!
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Come one, come all, to the Kame Game Shop! We've got some new stock in today of some of those booster packs that everyone is talking about! Inside each booster is 8 cards, with at least 1 holographic... I guess you guys call them special cards.
As a promotion, I'll let you pick one pack from my current stock! But only one, since we have to leave some for the paying customers... Here's what I have at the moment!
AVAILABLE PACKS: Orange, Brown, Gray
Sometimes we get in other packs in, so stock might change every week... get them while they're still available!
This round ends on Tuesday, March 3rd!
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Kotori is the designer for µ's, and she works hard to make great costumes for each and every performance. But sometimes costumes she makes for fun get mixed in with costumes she makes for µ's. Can you figure out who is actually supposed to wear these?
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This round will end on Tuesday, March 3rd.
Kotori is the designer for µ's, and she works hard to make great costumes for each and every performance. But sometimes costumes she makes for fun get mixed in with costumes she makes for µ's. Can you figure out who is actually supposed to wear these?
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This round will end on Tuesday, March 3rd.
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March 1 is just weeks away, so that means the kickoff to this year's March Meta Matters Challenge will be taking place soon! The challenge involves locating and copying over meta you've created to a second site in order to ensure its preservation, plus there will be some prompts for creating new meta.
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