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I got a haircut a couple days ago because my brother's wedding is coming up and I didn't want to be in photos with a half-assed mullet, but I went to someone new cause my usual barber was on vacation, and I don't know how I feel about the cut. I feel a bit like... an Asian Hitler when I look in the mirror. Hopefully this is just my weird anxieties about my appearance and no one else looks at me and thinks the same lol. It's a bit of a messy cut too, like the edges are kind of rough... but still better than a mullet I guess. Maybe I should figure out how to give my hair some body, but I just.. cannot be assed to do anything but put shampoo in it.

I went to the Demon Slayer world premier tonight! It showed the final two episodes of the previous season, and the extended first episode of the new one, which felt about as long as two episodes. I think a number of people (including myself honestly) either forgot or didn't know exactly what would be shown during the event. I was pretty sure we'd be seeing new stuff, but my memory is ass and when the Entertainment arc episodes started showing I wasn't sure what I was getting. It didn't help that the episodes were not really cut for theater, and so I ended up sitting through three credits rolls throughout the whole thing. A handful of people, maybe 4 or five, ended up leaving at the end of the Entertainment District arc, presumably unaware that there was more, which really sucks for them because the whole point of the event was to get a sneak peek at the new content.

Even if the show had just been the old stuff, watching the Tengen vs Gyutaro fight on the big screen was great. And I think this was the first time I saw those episodes with subtitles, so there were a couple points where I was like... oh, that was what they were saying lol. It was a little frustrating cause whenever there are subs on I think to myself. I fucking understand all of those words and the grammar and it makes perfect sense to me, but without the subs being able to catch the meaning is tough. It's the 90% rule in action I guess.

Anyway, the first episode of the new season was hype. It looks like there's going to be little to no Inosuke and Zenitsu in it though. I've managed to remain spoiler free from the manga so I'm looking forward to whatever heart wrenching plot comes up, and of course the fights.

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I'm also trying to decide if I want to join a fic exchange. I have always enjoyed the gifts I've gotten from exchanges, but have also almost always been disappointed in the fic that I wrote myself. Writing is stressful and I'm too much of a perfectionist in my own work. I'm not really comfortable pretending writing doesn't make me miserable either. I think one of the first exchanges I ever did, like a decade ago, I had in the note that writing it was tough and the only comments I got was that it was rude to say so lol. Plus back when I tried exchanges I had the luck of getting non-commenting defaulters multiple times in a row. So maybe once has a giftee ever acknowledged the gift I gave them.

Eh, I stopped trying to participate in exchanges a long time ago, and I should probably stay away.