dunmeshi | Member Posts

I've been meaning to mod it for *such* a long time, but honestly, when it was still supported I was a little scared of getting my account banned... and then I straight up forgot about it, honestly. But then I started playing various Pokemon ROM hacks and other gbc/gba games on my phone to replace mobile gaming / scrolling, and I started really craving a proper controller and one thing led to another... I used this guide and everything went completely smoothly! Unrelated, though, the rubber on my joystick completely fell to pieces after just being sticky for a while. It's so annoying how badly rubber ages, ugh. Looks like that'll have to be a project for another day...

Besides that, did a little bit of decorating!

I got a couple stickers from a friend a while ago including this Shinx that I thought fit well with this cute Luxray theme I found. Then I crocheted a little four-pointed star dangly charm-thing to look like her tail. :3

Some random ROM hack recs / etc:

Pokemon Lazarus: really beautiful, gen II-style graphics and putting a spotlight on gen II mons. clothing options. following Pokemon. Stardew Valley-style fishing. quests (including wanting you to catch all the Pokemon on each individual route. I've been sinking a lot of time into doing those, lol). really enjoying it! I'm also a big fan of their other hack, Emerald Seaglass, which is Emerald redone in the same style
Pokemon Sour Crystal: Crystal with a few quality of life updates (most importantly, the box system is more like gen III and you can catch mareep <3)
Karpe Diem: a short and sweet fishing-themed Pokemon fangame. very chill and cozy!
Taiyaki's Fabulous Museum of Fish: a nonogram-based rpg for gbc. love this, great vibes

I dunno, I've just really fallen in love with the Gameboy Color recently; there's something that's just so charming about these graphics. I downloaded various others, but decision paralysis tends to kick my ass, so I've been defaulting to these (to start with, at least). I might also get FE: Gay Awakening (lol) and finally marry Cherche as fem!Robin <3

[Also, I got sooo badly sunburned from yesterday, yowch!! ( ꩜﹏꩜; ) ]

Current Mood: excited

batiferrite

Howdy! Happy Three Weeks For Dreamwidth! I've been meaning to participate in this the last couple of years, but kept forgetting, oops. I do have a bit of a stockpile of ideas for future posts, though -- mostly journaling, questionnaires, and / or casual crafty-stuff. So, let's jump into it....

Earlier today, I met up with a friend who I haven't seen in a long time! We went to a cafe with outdoor sitting right by the river and just sat there for like six hours catching up, coloring, and talking about art supplies. She brought a full backpack of various things that she let me try out, including some Derwent Inktense pencils I've been eyeing for a while! I think I will end up getting them, after all; they were really nice to use and I've just really been wanting to get a set of watercolor pencils for a while now. I also just really appreciated being able to nerd out over art with someone IRL; no one else I know really understands: "Paper is paper and a crayon is a crayon. What's the difference?" Oh! and I ended up talking to her about Dreamwidth, also; she apparently was really big into LiveJournal back in the day, but had never heard of DW, so maybe now she'll check it out! Overall, just a very relaxing, fun day! ^^

Speaking of art, the piece I was coloring was very meditative to make but not necessarily the most interesting to show, I don't think... I did finish a little painting yesterday, though, that I wanted to share!

I constantly think about the "Sailor Moon color palette" and the way background elements kinda melt into the fog and I've done several paintings "in this style," but I've never actually done a proper study of it. This painting is based off a random screenshot I found online. I would also really like to keep practicing how to achieve that dreamy / foggy look and how to simplify colors and shadows and whatnot, so I might do a couple more of these soon!

This isn't necessarily a straight forward study, though. I bought some neon acrylic inks recently, so I wanted to take them out for a spin... I think I definitely should water them down in the future rather than using them straight out of the bottle; it's a bit much, rip. I am still kinda fond of the neon purple tree, though, but yeah, more practice & experimenting needed! Also, I bought some masking fluid a long time ago and only just now tried it out here... very messily, but it does work nicely!

Letssee, what else?... I also signed up for a couple of events here on Dreamwidth / Ao3 a while ago:

but both of those have quite a while to go before they're revealed (May 29th & June 20th, respectively). I already submitted my story for the first one but can't talk about it, obviously. ^^

I think I'll stop there for now; see you tomorrow (hopefully)!! ^^

Current Mood: artistic

wyrmlore

It's been another hot minute. Did I say 2025 was rough? So has 2026 been so far. Inbetween a burnout, a painful conclusion to a cat situation, and general mental health things I'm dealing as best as I can and trying to appreciate the positives.

I sometimes miss rambling about my interests on the internet. Especially books. I sometimes entertain the idea of starting a BookTube channel, but then I realize I'm not comfortable with putting my mug so publically on the internet. And YouTube has been enshittifying as well with ads, AI slop, and algorithms. I don't want to deal with that. So I don't.

And then I remembered this account existed. It's anonymous, doesn't have algortihms, and it's hardly as 'official' as a whole ass blog? Let's be real, I'll be shouting into the void. Might not be as much of a hurdle to post here.

So. Hello. I'm alive and we'll see where this is going?

quailfence

polyamships prompts for

3weeks4dreamwidth , April 25: What is/are your current favorite poly ship/s? Want to share a little bit about them with us?

My current favorite poly ship is Moonlight Bridge Trio (Aigis/Ryoji/Protagonist) from Persona 3, I’ll try to get into more details when the ship manifesto prompt comes around but -

(vague spoilers)

aughhh they love each other sooo much and are so incredibly connected, them being together fits sooo well with the game’s themes, they are the
crux/core of P3’s plot and it literally could not have happened if they hadn’t met. Aigis and Ryoji in particular are super underrated together both platonically and romantically, the way they go from butting heads to understanding/getting along with each other is something I love and I really wish we’d got to see more of them in game

Other poly ships I really like are:
- Protagonist/Fuuka/Shinjiro, Mitsuru/Shinjiro/Akihiko (leaning more qpr on that one) and general polySEES (Persona 3)

- Royal Trio (Protagonist/Goro/Sumi) and general polyThieves from Persona 5

- Athena/Juniper/Apollo and Kay/Franziska/Eustace (Ace Attorney)

-I've also been sloowly working my way through Jojo's Bizarre Adventure and I really like Joseph/Susie/Cesar

(on the comm)

Current Location: library

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churin

my current lease ends at the end of this year and have been thinking of places to move to. one place i'm considering is by the ocean, but the downside to that is that it's a bit of a drive from where i'm at now, and i'm afraid i'll be feeling lonely way more often without my friends and family nearby T_T

so maybe i might stay in the area? but it's also my dream to live near the ocean...i've got until the end of the year to think this all over, at least

Current Mood: tired

shroomystar

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stepnix

Finally got my hands on Fellowship through a bundle after years of telling myself "i should read Fellowship." worth it!

Fellowship puts some work into codifying GM actions and pacing. This is a good thing. Right now I'm looking at how it asks the GM to have two multi-stage plans running at all times, either to seize a new source of power, or to destroy a specified community. Certain actions of the player party trigger the advancement or completion of these plots.

Fellowship doesn't demand a fully-defined world, it invites you to continue to add details during play, each player contributing information that their character is most likely to know in-character. So, when the Overlord starts every game with a plan to destroy a named community, the most likely option is that you're targeting either an important location from the players' backstories, or the literal first location they're visiting in-game.

Without directly saying so, it nudges you into putting the players' hometowns in the crosshairs. This rules.

churin

hello friends! i've been busy with work and reading lately. been re-reading black cat and soul eater, and also started reading fire force which is also good~ i finally have a day off tomorrow, so i'll probably spend that relaxing and reading TwT

i also have an itch to play guild wars 2 some more again, so i'm sure i'll spend tomorrow playing that as well

hope my followers are doing alright!

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: home sweet home

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stepnix

My day job (self-employed) includes wandering around the internet and keeping track what people say about PbtA. Occasionally a new one will pop up. Lately I've been seeing "in a PbtA game, you shouldn't be rolling dice that often anyway." I'm like, you shouldn't what now? Where did THIS come from?
— lumpley (lumpley) Apr 16, 2026 at 10:51 AM

vincent baker i am so sorry the world has become this

I can propose a path for the shift in meaning, though. "Narrative" as used to mean "imaginary description of the fictional world" gets positioned against use of rules, and, separately, as used to mean "what's more interesting to me" gets positioned against ludic goals (victory in a combat, character progression (in the sense of accumulating personal power), etc). All of which gets mixed together with Forge or post-Forge narrativism (discussed previously), and people who intuitively understand those first definitions read those games as if they share those priorities.

it's fun to have such a clear demonstration that's just not the case!

Current Mood: amused

stepnix

Watch on YouTube

I'd heard that Studio Pierrot was doing a new magical idol anime for the first time in almost twenty years, and then forgot to follow up on it, and then saw that it's on youtube in English now. get hype. It's making some very clear callbacks to Creamy Mami, but the music design honestly reminds me of more modern American cartoons. bee and puppycat. idk. Real interested to see where this goes.

locking in and finishing Full Moon would make it easier to compare the two... both magical idol revivals but themselves separated by over a decade...