Sinister System

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.

"The great thing about 'the closet' was the only people it made miserable was the fags. Now that they're all out of the closet, they make everybody miserable."

Fuck you, dad. Fuck you.

Why do people make it so hard for me to just enjoy myself? Is it deliberate? Or is it just another case of everyone who likes me being womanish, hysterical and entitled? It seems to happen every time I get close to someone. FML.

-Mordax

Because there aren't enough hours in the day, or days in the week to get what we want/need to get done.

Here's what we (barely) manage to get done every week, aside from miscellany: Work job (biggest time sink aside from sleep). Spend night at boyfriend's house. Hang out with best friend. Hang out with other best friend. Play Wajas. Play weekly D&D game. Update Livejournal. Draw personal Art. Participate in ongoing ARG. Get in some reading before bed.

And we'd like to add: 2nd weekly Tabletop RP game. Play World of Warcraft. Draw art project art. Draw Webcomic. Participate in Play by Post RP.

Not to mention the things we'd do but can't find a place to jam in and so have cut out almost entirely: watch TV and Play Video Games.

Oh, and "get a good night's sleep".

And these are only the things we're including because they've got a hope of making it onto the list. There's a whole host of others, if only there was more time.

We just don't have the time to give more than a handful of these things they time they need/deserve, but none of us are willing to give up our pet  projects for the sake of anyone else's.

Oh, and not to mention our parents  get mad at me when we don't spend sufficiently "quality time" at home or doing things with them.

I CANNOT DEAL WITH IT ANY MORE. I NEED TO GET RID OF THIS FUCKING LONG HAIR.

CAPSLOCK OF PISSED.

Hi guys. Thank you for all the love and support, it really helps.

I'm told she's awake now, but on life support. Unfortunately, since she's across the US from us, all of our info is filtered through multiple relatives in a heinous game of telephone. But what I'm hear is she's stable for the moment.

Thanks again, everyone.

-D

Finally found a place that delivers that actually makes subs I like! YEAH! Bacon=necessary ingredient of any sub.

-D

Being stick Sucks. Stupid cold. I hate coughing. :(

-Mordax

Holy fishcakes that boy is annoying to talk to. Please tell me you all are dating him because he's super hot or something. Really David, I know Mordax has terrible taste, but how do you put up with him?

-Vin

Took off from work today.

Imma make stuff!