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!
updated 5.14.24
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.
- preparing for ghost jam 2024, an event held by ukagaka dream team to make a ghost in the span of a week. I've tried numerous times to participate in ghost jam, with varying levels of success... this time I hope to outline a small ghost prior to the event so I can be more focused in my work.
- I ended up skipping out on ghost masquerade 6 because I was stretching myself too thin between masquerade and mikuexpo cosplay work, so I dropped masquerade in favor of finishing my cosplay
- 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!
- finished the cosplay just in time for mikuexpo (and by just in time I mean. literally an hour before we had to leave to go to mikuexpo.) I didn't grab a full picture of the outfit, so I want to clean it up a bit and take some proper pictures before I call this project totally finished
- 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
- I made a pair of earrings based on the vtuber geega's mascots, but haven't touched the shrink plastic since, because I got caught up in working on cosplay work. hoping to draft some charm/earring designs I can make soon. probably going to push this project to after ghost jam though
- 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.
- this project is kind of on hold at the moment because I got burnt out on sewing after sitting in front of the sewing machine for what felt like a billion hours sewing my cosplay.
- 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.
- catching up on japanese reviews. I went probably around three months without doing any studying or language immersion and I want to get back ontop of my reviews.
- building a new pc. have to start buying parts soon if I want to have a PC by dawntrail's release....
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.
- currently still have the black phone, orphan first kill, and halloween kills to watch
- 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: azarinth healer book 1 by rhaegar (geega's book club), the master and margarita by mikhail bulgakov(bookbug's monthly book), and it by stephen king
- recently finished: the ruins by scott smith (really enjoyed it even if it was extremely soul crushing. maybe I just like man against nature conflicts a lot), the hunger by alma katsu (I enjoyed it, but wish it had been a little more intense) the doctor who fooled the world by brian deer (interesting, if a bit dense at times)
Playing
- granblue fantasy. not playing as much as I was a month ago but still chugging through dailies when I remember them in prep for next guild wars
- ff14. not nearly as much as I used to, but I've started progging uwu with some friends. need to put in the time at some point to refresh my muscle memory for playing DRG and DRK though