when you fuse a demon and the cathedral of shadows says "Whoops! Something went wrong" thats how you know its good

Now

I'm intending for this to be an expansion on the "Currently..." box on my main page! also as a way for me to try to keep focused on projects by having somewhere public to display my current plans, since I often pick up and drop new things depending on what my brain wants to do that day, and I want to be a little more disciplined than that

for more about /now pages, check out this!

Doing

  • trying valiantly to fix my sleep schedule. I used to fairly consistently get eight hours of sleep a night, but that has slipped in the past month or so to closer to 5-6 hours, and I have been feeling it.
  • working on an astray cosplay for mikuexpo at the beginning of may. I've never sewn an outfit before, and it's something I've wanted to do for a while so I figure a (fairly) simple design like rin's astray module would be a good place to start. also, I can reuse shoes I bought years and years ago for a fukawa dangan ronpa cosplay. nice!
  • experimenting with shrink plastic crafts. fauxpapillon on twitter posted pins he made with shrink plastic and paint pens, and that inspired me to dig out a few sheets of shrink plastic I had lying around to make something with them. I plan on making earrings and some small charms, but I still need to get a few more colors of paint pens and dimensional magic mod podge to finish off the earrings/charms. zi has also been a big help with suggesting materials and techniques for making shrink plastic trinkets
  • developing my entry for ghost masquerade 6. there's not much I can say about this one since the intent is for the author of each entry to be a secret (at least initially), but I will say I'm using ghost masquerade as an opportunity to get out of my comfort zone
  • sewing clothes for my zenos plush doll. I bought a zenos plush from wicksandwheat, and while he is very cute he is also Naked and so while I can order clothes from aliexpress for him, I wasn't super feeling any of the styles available. in the time being I wanted to sew a simple shirt and shorts outfit for him from some fabric scraps I have.
  • crafting watercolor paint from expired makeup. my sister recently went through all her makeup to throw out expired items, and I nabbed all of her colorful eyeshadows palettes. bergette pigmentshas made a few videos turning expired (powder) makeup into watercolors, and I want to do the same! still have to buy all the materials for making watercolor binder and the watercolor itself though
  • expanding my website. self explanatory.

Watching

  • 2021-2023 horror movies
    • john wolfe, a youtuber I follow, put out a video last year on 2022 horror movies he watched, and I am slowly making my way through them.
    • dead meat, a channel covering horror movies and media in general, has put out horror movie awards shows for the past three years (2022, 2023, 2024) and I am determined to watch all of the nominees. eventually
  • geega, a vtuber from vshojo. I'm starting to get into vtubers a bit, and I come back to geega repeatedly for her dry sense of humor and regular showcases of indie games.

Reading

  • currently: the hunger by alma katsu. a horror historical fiction novel about the infamous donner party, and the guy she was interested in wasn't a guy at all, a slice of life yuri manga about two girls who connect over their love of rock music. I'm reading the latter in japanese!
  • recently finished: the doctor who fooled the world by brian deer (interesting, if a bit dense at times), a collpase of horses by brian evenson (nightmare-like horror anthology that had some really good and some just OK stories.)

Playing

  • granblue fantasy. attempted to participate seriously in a GW even though I was unable to play for the majority of it. still got 400 mil honors, which is way more than I've ever gotten before. currently prepping for dark GW and gathering new m3 weapons
  • ff14. not nearly as much as I used to, but I did do the ff16 event on my main. trying to shuttle my alt through MSQ so he can also do the ff16 event.