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overlord_mordax: (doffy)
Tuesday, December 31st, 2024 06:54 am
Partner woke up feeling better this morning. No fever, much more lucid than last night. Able to take a shower and enjoy breakfast. I'm still not feeling particularly bad (no sore throat, very mild fatigue) but I'm still expecting it to hit me- when I least expect it of course.

Had black coffee (decaf), and peanut butter mousse (peanutbutter, cream cheese, heavy cream, vanilla, sweetener) for breakfast and that was very enjoyable.

Sitting here now, deciding how to use the last day of calendar year 2024.

What a year it's been.

Started the year writing Resident Evil. Then moved to writing Urusei Yatsura. After that, Ace Attorney, and we actually finished a whole, very well received Ace Attorney longfic, though I have a lot of complicated feelings about it.

We read the entirety of One Piece this year, starting in May. It took us about 2 months to catch up and it was a very frustrating experience in a lot of ways. There are just enough things to like about One Piece to keep us coming back.

Now, here at the end of the year we've gotten back into Final Fantasy 7, which was not at all what I expected. Honestly the material is a lot more natively enjoyable than OP, which is refreshing.

According to AO3 statistics, partner and we wrote over a million words this year, which I think is pretty impressive. it's definitely our highest recorded word count. It might even be our highest ever yearly word count, though the year we wrote Danganronpa 4 might have given it a run for its money.

Two new system member woke up this year, Cable, who we hadn't seen since we were around 11, and Elizabeth who had never been awake in the system before. Monet/Lucrecia joined us in our partner's system this year as well, which was a hell of a day.

In January of 2024 we had started keeping a paper journal, which we worked on quite diligently-- for a month. We're planning to try again this year but I don't expect it to turn out a lot better.

We made roast duck for christmas this year, which was a first. It came out really well, and I'm hoping to make it a tradition. I don't plan to make the movie we watched with christmas dinner a tradition though. 1985's Santa Claus the movie apparently bombed for a good reason.

The system members who were the most active this year were probably: Chris, Hubert, Kaoru, Hal and Jas, Kirigiri (me), Jasmine, and Nikolai. Which, interestingly aside from Kaoru is the old gang from back in high school.

At the end of May we (Kaoru/Bobby, Hubert and Athena) went to the local zoo which was probably the best day trip of the whole year. We have a ton of photos and everyone had a wonderful time, even if we were really tired by the time we got back. The hot dog place Bobby found for us to eat at on the way home was also killer and we've been back there a few times already.

In October we made baklava for partner's work potluck and it came out amazing! I couldn't have a lot of it, but I was really impressed with how well it turned out despite us never having made it before. It just goes to show you how well cooking/baking will go as long as you follow the recipe.

We had a couple of fun trips in early June. There was a trip to the big thrift mall which was really enjoyable, and on June 2nd, which was the day that one piece "really hit" Komaru/Buggy and Leon/Shanks put a bunch of picnic food in the cooler, got in the car and did a spontaneous beach trip.

Here at the very end of the year, we've finally been able to get into drawing again without pain, which marks the end of an extremely frustrating 3 year hiatus. I can't say enough how much drawing does for our mental health.

The new year is always tied up with our birthday for us, since it's so close to it. In just two weeks we'll be in the final year of our thirties, before we hit the big "40" in 2026. We started this journal back in high school. It's a hell of a thing to be still updating it today, even hosted on another website.

I don't know. I felt nostalgic this morning.

It was a good year. A really good year.
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Monday, December 30th, 2024 10:11 pm
Partner has been feeling miserable all day and has a (very mild) fever this evening. I am very much expecting to be sick too, soon. Coughing, sneezing, runny nose, sore throat, the works lol. Partner's started out with a sore throat so I'm on the lookout for it. In the meantime just trying to to enjoy getting to spend time with them and take care of them. We watched a bunch of old two best friends videos and some MST3K today since that's some of the easiest media when you can't really focus. Two best friends was disaster report, and mst3k was Time Chasers which I hadn't seen before.
overlord_mordax: (doffy)
Friday, November 29th, 2024 05:08 pm

Today we:

  • watched the rest of the 1985 Macy's parade and ate home made crustless pumpkin pie with fresh whipped cream for breakfast.
  • Cooked turkey and side dishes (mashed potatoes, stuffing, roasted carrots) together while listening to 80s christmas commercials.
  • Watched the rifftrax of Santa Claus and the Ice Cream Bunny while eating Deviled eggs.
  • Watched Puff the Magic Dragon
  • Ate dinner and watched An American Tail.
  • Are currently chilling out video gaming and tumblring.
overlord_mordax: (doffy)
Thursday, October 3rd, 2024 12:32 pm

Just got back from a very eventful afternoon walk.

First off, instead of chiming the hour, the church nearby was for some reason playing an extremely discordant (and I think off-key) melody instead of chiming the hour the entire time we were out. All I could think was that it sounded like the sort of thing you'd hear in a video game to represent the total breakdown of linear time in the area.

Then as I was passing the corner store a very friendly guy walking in called out to me about the Heart Pirates t-shirt I was wearing and we had a friendly exchange of mutual fandom. (He had Luffy stickers on his car.) (He doesn't even know he just met Doflamingo.)

overlord_mordax: (doffy)
Friday, August 30th, 2024 04:16 pm
Today's been a listening to music day today. Before lunchtime I spent about 40 minutes just laying down and listening to 80s music and J-pop. Just now, while I was making dinner, "Little Boxes" popped into my head.

My favorite version of that song is the Decemberists version, which is so menacing, and it reminded me of my love of the Decemberists, so now I'm going through some of their music again.
overlord_mordax: (doffy)
Wednesday, August 28th, 2024 03:24 pm
Busy this morning! Catching up on chores put off because yesterday was a day off. Also did about 1.5k writing on my own as an insert for BBM. Edited the work from yesterday (or at least a first editing pass). Got in a walk. Started dinner.

I'm starting to realize just how much Tumblr scrolling poisons my mood, because I was feeling good, then I went to go post my fic link and suddenly I was just seeing people *wrong* and feeling like its my job to correct them.

Fucking hate that.

Considering just blocking tumblr and not using it any more. I already deleted the app off our phone.
overlord_mordax: (doffy)
Tuesday, August 27th, 2024 09:15 pm
Partner had the day off today, so we spent a lovely day together. Me (🔍⚔️) and Baby 5. LOTS of writing today. 10,000 words written on Bleeding, Broken, Mended!

Had breakfast. Went for a walk around the block. Went and walked around the mall, which was very quiet in the middle of the day. Had Wendys. Came home and did more writing! Partner is playing One Piece Odyssey in the background and we finally, FINALLY got to dressrosa.
overlord_mordax: (doffy)
Monday, August 26th, 2024 11:20 am
Ooogh. Just found out that one of the singers we listened to in high school put out a 20th anniversary recording of one of her songs. DX Had it stuck in our head today because it was an old blorbo song (becasue of course it was) and saw the 20th anniversary version.

How time fucking flies, eh?

Had this journal going for 20 years too.
overlord_mordax: (doffy)
Monday, August 26th, 2024 09:30 am
We have GOT to get some new icons for this account, goddamn.

Having a fairly pleasant morning so far, though getting a little exasperated by constant texts from mom and dad X_X seems like a rough morning for them. Our brother punctured his foot with a dirty rake and is in the emergency room. I can tell Dad's lonely and anxious cause he keeps texting and it is deeply overstimulating me. 😩

I wanted to play a video game today and I started up Tunic which is lovely and perfect to play while im doing other things. but between the texts and the cats I can't concentrate so right now I'm hiding in the dark in the basement and I'm going to listen to quiet music and edit. I'll try to play a game maybe tomorrow.

Basically I'm just trying to find things to distract myself from tumblr which has just become incredibly poisonous and toxic to mental health. I think anybody who spends any time there knows exactly what I mean.

Have to re-train my brain to do something aside from social media. I uninstalled it from my phone.


To do:

Chores (catbox, trash out, dishes, vacuum)
Make dinner (grilled cheese and tomato soup)
edit (Smoker and Tashigi, heart pirates disaster)