got_quiet | Entries tagged with friday five

Haven't been doing much besides work. I haven't had a chance to lay back and just play a visual novel in such a long time man. More than a whole year ago I was almost done with all the BLM games, like there's 1 left, and I haven't been able to close it out. Someone needs to dissect my brain and figure out what's wrong with it.

I ended up posting a fic. I was trying to get a beta for it but it didn't work out so obviously reading it back I realize some things need fixing, so I'll edit it a little I guess.

thefridayfive
1. How often do you typically shower/bath? ATM Every other day or every three days when I'm really feeling like a gremlin. When I'm not as despondent it's every day but real talk that hasn't been for a while.
2. Do you prefer showering or taking a bath? I prefer the Japanese style where you take a shower and then soak for as long as you can stand it. The bathrooms in the US don't really make this easy so I don't bother and just shower.
3. What's the longest you've ever gone without a shower/bath? In high school my depression manifested as a complete neglect of hygiene so I'm sure I managed to go for more than a week.
4. What's your favorite personal hygiene product? I use a bar of soap and whatever shampoo seems cheap but not complete ass and that's it. My soap smells good though.
5. Do you shave your legs and/or beard? If so, how often? Don't shave. One small blessing of not having facial hair.

Checking the other replies it seems not washing every day is kind of standard! I've read diaries from the 1930s that kept track of housework every day and they often also seemed to wash up every 3 days or so. Kind of interesting!

thefridayfive, a bit late but since I submitted the questions I feel I should answer them.

1. What is the last shower thought you had (aka random thought in the shower or during downtime): It was coming up with these questions lol. Otherwise I'm usually coming up with scenes for drawerfic.

2. What is the last thing you changed your mind about? I went back and forth about taking a roadtrip cross state to see some friends over the weekend. Eventually decided to go for it and had a nice time.

3. What was the last low-stakes argument you were in about? Whether or not the shopping mechanics in MOBAs are stupid. (They are and I hate them.)

4. What is an idea you have that you know would probably never work, but it would be cool if it did? I'd like to open up a bookshop with just the books that I like. No one else likes them so it would be a fast fail.

5. Who is someone who has ideas you like, or take inspiration from? Mona Eltahawy is a feminist thinker I like a lot. She's very no nonsense and not afraid to be incendiary at times to get her point across, but it's very speaking truth to power.

Little late but I've lost the plot this month.

1. Your favorite book? Kokoro. I don't tend to reread books but I've reread this one a number of times. I'm due for another read soon I think. I want to try it in Japanese someday.

2. Your favorite movie? I tend to say Laputa, but I don't know that I really have one. I'm not a massive movie watcher. The only movie I got super fannish about was Inception, so maybe that one? But I also don't think it was the best movie I watched, just the one that created the most interesting playground.

3. Your least favorite adaptation of a book to a movie? Les Mis was pretty bad, but Phantom of the Opera hit me at a time when I wasn't jaded enough to endure it, so I'mma go with that one.

4. Your least favorite adaptation ever of anything to a movie? The Dragon Ball Z Movie was certainly the worst one I'd ever experienced personally.

5. Your first ever novel/comic book/movie character crush? Well my first cartoon crush was Puck from Gargoyles. I also had a thing for Shawdowspawn from the Thieves' World series.

Current Mood: exhausted

I feel like I knew that there were beta layers to Dreamwidth at some point but it certainly left my mind completely until Denise's post a few days ago. I dutifully turned on the beta option after reading it and I like the changes a lot! The rich text editor feels the same, but the arrangement of the elements make sense and are sized well for my screen etc. I tried out the html options too, so I'm considering this a test post for the refurbished tools. The biggest gripe I had with the old editor is when using html markup it does not maintain line breaks, so if you ever go back to edit you're looking at a morass of text. That's the thing that kept me from ever sticking to html and it doesn't seem to have been fixed, so I'm probably just sticking with rich text and hoping I don't ever edit anything, as usual.

Anyway here's today's Friday Five (

thefridayfive) :

1. What is on your bucket list that you want to do in the next ten years? Bit hard for me to come up with things here because I'm not much of an aspirational person. I'd love to have the leisure time to spend like a month studying tea in Kyoto or visiting the Konnichian. Or to be able to serve tea to the public without looking like a total mess maybe. Oh, I do want to someday print my own book!

2. What bucket list items have you completed and enjoyed? The only thing I really had as an aspiration and achieved was making it to Japan when I was in college, which is now a long way in the past!

3. What bucket list items did you accomplish but they weren't as great as you hoped or expected? It was never a bucket list item but was eager to be in the marching band going into high school and in the end it turned out to be kind of awful. We had one good year when I was a freshman, but for whatever reason the director lost control of the students in later years, who all didn't give a fuck, and it was just so frustrating to spend so much time and then ultimately sound and look terrible on the field. I never played music again after graduating. I'd grown to hate it.

4. What short term goal(s) are you currently working on? Cleaning my room lol. It's such a fucking project. I don't have anywhere to put these goddamn books. I need to discard something like two boxes just so I can start to see my floor but I want to read everything first, but there's literally hundreds of them... aaah!

5. What middle term goal(s) do you have, and are you working on them? I'm almost done playing all the BLM Bundle visual novels, which will finally be something that I both started AND finished. Possibly for the first time in a decade. I'm also trying to write 50k words this month, though a lot of them are in my private journal, or the VN reviews, but since it's a personal goal it doesn't matter!

From thefridayfive

1. Which website do you go to more often than any other? Reddit, but I'm trying to wean myself off of it as the main subs are now just shit and rage bait and my personal subs are too slow or constantly rehashing the same shit.

2. Which website have you stopped going to, that you used to go to a lot? Gaia Online. Used to live on that site. Literally hundreds of thousands of posts.

3. What is the weirdest or most unusual website you have bookmarked? Uhh.. I still have old bookmarks from Japanese art sites cira 2000s that are absolutely dead links, but I refuse to remove them. Other than that.. IDK. postalhistory.com? While digging through my old bookmarks I found a fucking lesswrong link lol, don't remember bookmarking that.

4. If you shop online, which online store do you buy from most often? I try to not shop online at all. When I do buy things it's usually a one off sticker at an artist's shop. I buy something off Amazon about once every two years.

5.. Which online store do you browse but almost never buy from? Christie's auctions lol. Not even kidding. That and like, biblio.com.

Holy mother of jet lag. I'm back from my trip to Japan and the last handful of days have been me waking up at 2-3 am, trying and failing to get a little more shut eye, dragging myself to work and barely being able to do much, being exhausted and tired around 3PM, dragging myself home and struggling to not go immediately to sleep and kind of failing, rinse and repeat. I'm writing this while actively trying not to pass out but I need to get myself to 9PM tonight so that the trend is in the positive, or I feel like I will feel like a zombie forever.

Eventually when I'm done doing all the catchup work I have left for myself I'll unpack and take some pictures of the little souvenirs I bought or something but for now I'm to tired to do basically anything. I don't even know how I'm typing right now honestly.

( Mostly the movies I watched on the plane )

The fandomgiftbox boxes got opened while I was in Japan, so I haven't had a chance to reply to my gifts quite yet. I'm hoping I'll be able to really sit down and read my presents closely this weekend, after work, but I'm super excited that I got an Arthur/Cobb fic and a Widdershins fic that seems to emphasize the husbandness of Whyborne and Griffin, so seems like my gifter tailored their fic to my gushing about their marriage on my journal.

Friday Five

1. Are you superstitious? No, pretty much not at all. The only thing that could maybe be interpreted as a superstition is actually more a manifestation of anxiety or something, believing that when bad things happen I've brought it on myself somehow every time. But I don't believe in pretty much any entity or system that isn't provable or testable.

2. Which superstitions do you believe in and act on? I don't believe in any superstitions, but I kind of like some traditions that are tied to superstitions? Like not gifting knives, and I have a medallion of St. Christopher in my car. But I have it because my mother gave it to me and it makes me think of her love, not because I think it's doing anything.

3. What superstition does someone close to you believe in and act on? I have friends who believe in ghosts, and some who are very intense about astrology. Live and let live.

4. Do you take any extra precautions on Friday the 13th? Nope.

5. Do you secretly judge superstitious people? I guess sometimes against my better self I can get judgemental. When I was younger I was seeking answers and hit Wicca and Catholicism and so on and I would like a lot of superstition or religious stuff to be true, but I just can't believe in it. I do still find a lot of superstition and religion to be interesting, and I like talking to people about what they believe. I have very little tolerance for people who try to insist to me that something is true when they can't prove it though, so I only really get judgemental when someone is trying to argue.

Current Mood: sleepy

It's Friday in a lot of the world so here's a Friday Five. (

thefridayfive )

1. What's your favourite musical? Phantom of the Opera, followed closely by Les Mis, and maybe Jesus Christ Superstar is a distant third, but I haven't heard it since I was a small child so I don't know if I actually like it any more. After that, I like almost no musicals. Actually, I generally hate musicals, but this may because I was made to watch Chicago and Moulin Rouge one after the other and just... never recovered I guess.
2. Would you rather star in: a musical or movie? Movie, definitely.
3. Which actor do you think deserves to be in a musical rather than a movie? Since I view this as some sort of punishment, maybe Chris Pratt.
4. Which is bigger in your opinion, the Oscars or the Tony Awards? Oscars?
5. Should old musicals be shown in cinemas for those who didn't have the chance to catch it? I love reruns in theaters so why not?

Overwatch League started yesterday with a Pro-Am tournament, so there goes my spare time for the rest of the year. The tournament is this weird thing where OWL teams are competing alongside Tier 2 teams that have qualified. There's a round robin portion in groups and then there's going to be a single elimination tournament. The matches are first to 2 instead of three too, so all in all there's a hurried, sink or swim feel to the whole thing. The first day was pretty good and full of upsets. It's always hard to tell how the season will go from the first few weeks, because teams that look very strong initially can just have had good luck against a week opponent and teams that struggle can find their footing or just have lost to the eventual grand champions. But it's still something of an eyebrow raiser when two contenders teams end up winning their matches against OWL teams. With the Valiant it wasn't too much of surprise. That roster is literally fresh out of T2 anyway. But Shock lost both their matches and while they also have fresh faces Proper and Finn are still there. The copium is that Shock played at like 3AM KR time on ping, which is fair. We'll have to see how things change in the regular season I guess.

But I guess the main takeaway is that I won't be reading much anymore if I have so many games to watch.

I also am already stressing about the big work event that happens in the middle of the year. I checked my posts last year to see when I started stressing and I had managed to keep myself calm until May so this is a bit of a problem. And I have to do taxes still! I'm feeling the pressure, and can't really put things off last minute with so much building up. Gonna deal with it later though.

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A new thefridayfive got posted so here's some random survey questions. They're looking for question contributions so if anyone likes making little questionnaires you should send something in!

1. Forest: Do you spend a lot of time in nature? Do you want to? I spend almost no time in nature. In the past I would try to drive out to a park and walk a little at least but I've just been a little to much of a mess to make the time recently. I should though because It's relaxing.

2. Cereal: What do you usually eat for breakfast? I usually don't eat any breakfast at all. I'm usually rushing out the door late for work. When I do have breakfast it's usually toast or cereal.

3. Flu: How do you cope with getting a minor illness? I drink a bunch and stay in bed as much as I can. I don't exactly like being sick, but I also kind of like being sick? I donno, outside of congestion and sore throats it's kind of a pleasant experience? This may be nostalgia for when I was a kid, had conjunctivitis all the time, and was given some very strong medicine lol.

4. Worm: What sort of dirty/messy activities do you enjoy? I hate getting messy. I eat ribs with a fork and knife. I'm trying to think of an exception and I can't.

5. Bang: What's the last celebration you went to? A wedding!