HELL YEAHHHHH THE ENGLISH SERVER GOT THE UPDATE AND MY PROFILE LOOKS SO COOL!!!! Plus I got the new titles that you only get if you've gotten every achievement for a specific character...my months of grinding fans for Kohaku and Madara have paid off~~~


also I just love that you can more easily show off borders + text bubbles now...it's cute!
I went to Costco today, which usually isn't too bad when I go alone, since I'm quite efficient. But something about today was...worse?? Somehow????? I think because it suddenly got a lot warmer in the middle of the day...I dunno, I left feeling super rundown, and then I drove past the exit to get home...as if I've never driven home from that part of town before?????????????? I don't fucking know :T

But I got everything I needed there, so I win anyway!!!! I also managed to unload the fixture that was still in the car, because Pat and I took it apart and just left it there last night. We bought it from the Joanns that was closing this month and had to pick it up before today, so Pat and I went to get it yesterday...and taking it apart was quite the experience. Pat ended up having to partially break it to get it into pieces that would fit into the car, but we're pretty sure we can put it back together.

I got some good pictures of the nearly empty Joanns, though! I remembered to bring my nice camera, so I ended up using a Nikon D3000 + Pixel 8 Pro for ultimate versatility~ I still have to go through all of the, but from the in-camera previews, I got some nice shots :D

Anyway...I'm working on another icon tutorial :D I wanna revisit the sparkle icon tutorial I wrote in 2006, because I've definitely improved since then. Also, it was written for Photoshop CS2, and not all the functions are the same in modern Photoshop.

Writing tutorials just takes sooooooooooo long ;w; I'm trying to be thorough without writing 10k words or something...and sometimes it's hard to tell what counts as general knowledge of the software and what's more specialized that I need to explain. The "curse" of using something for over two decades XD

also I feel like I failed to make a properly "sparkly" icon as an example but WHATEVER

omg wait, I also had a very lucky discovery!!! While looking for something completely unrelated, I found a whole folder of Photoshop brushes I downloaded in like, 2005-2007? Most of them have already been imported into my main massive brush file, but now I can more easily check the credits for them. And there are definitely some that I never got around to, sooooooo it's a really cool find :D

...also I found seven different brush sets that I made in 2005 and have no memory of. Like. What???? I guess it's been 20 years, but I usually have a better idea of resources I've made, since it wasn't that many- or so I thought!!! I ended up condensing three sets of grunge border brushes into one and sharing it @ killiansicons, because what else was I gonna do with them? I'll probably share the rest eventually, I just have to go through them and make new previews.

OKAY NOW THAT I EATEN DINNER I FEEL LIKE I CAN DO THINGS!!!!! Onwards, to writing that tutorial~