Day 4 | IceBreaker Challenge! Tell us about yourself.

noooooooooooooo I just redid my profile and updated things about myself on other sites, do I really have to do it again? XD

Anyway! Hi, I'm Killian~ I just turned 34 earlier this week and I live on the east coast of the US - though not in the same state that I grew up in! - with my wife dragonofeternal & my bff arahith. We bought a house a couple years ago and very quickly filled it with a delightful amount of fandomy things, as well as our four cats :D I'm currently a creative writing student, and I'll be finishing up my associates degree this spring, with hopes to transfer to a bigger university to complete my bachelors. Very exciting!!!!

I'm currently deep, deep in Trigun hell, thanks to my wife dragging me into it last year ♥ It's got me in a fucking death grip; I got out of watching the 98 anime and IMMEDIATELY started writing fic, the same day, and that fervor hasn't really subsided yet XD It's, uh, really good, I swear!!!!!!!

One of my first loves is Kingdom Hearts, and it will always have a very special place in my heart. I enjoy JRPGs in general, particularly Final Fantasy VII & X and the Persona series. Other "previous" fandoms include Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic, Mo Dao Zu Shi, and Yu-Gi-Oh!........though previous is a kinda strong term, since I can never truly leave a fandom behind.

Fun fact: my wife and I met through Homestuck, and they decided to date me despite the Eridan sleeve tattoo I have XD That's true love, baby!!!! We've been together for over a decade now ♥

Other fun fact: my desk has been dubbed the "ita desk" because of how extensively I've decorated it. I'll share a pic and let y'all be the judge of that XD


Okay okay okay, lemme try to wrap this up some~ When it comes to participating in fandom, I mostly write fanfiction, all of which can be found at my AO3. I'm the most active on bluesky, because it's still fairly slow moving and lowkey, with a lot of the features of Twitter I use most. I also cosplay occasionally, but not as often as I used to ;w;

That's about all I've got! If you also like any of these fandoms and/or wanna be writing buddies, I'd love to be friends!!!!!

Once again, I'm here to make an entry about all the shit I did all week without writing proper paragraphs or anything XD tho number one on the list is *pours one out* my paid account time lapsed and I spent all my fun money for the week on yarn, so I have very few icons right now ;w; My life is truly suffering.

Here we goooooooo!

• Took my Japanese test I missed from spraining my ankle and somehow got a 98% despite thinking I maybe possibly failed
• Went to three (3) different yarn stores to scope out the local goods. This was bad for my wallet but mostly saved by the fact that I had to wait until payday to buy anything
• Yarn, part two: Liz and I went to a gathering at the yarn shop closest to us on Thursday even and it was super nice!! Free entry, full of eccentric older people and queers around our age, free booze, and all around good times :D
• Yarn, part three: Liz, Pat, and I had errands on the other side of town on Friday so we stopped at a yarn store on the way, which had the exact yarn I needed for a knitted plush cat pattern. They were out of gray so I ended up getting just white and light orange, and I'm gonna make Hanna (rest in pieces soft baby)
• Also on Friday we went to the local BDSM dungeon for geeky boardgame night, which is honestly not that far off from the crowd at the yarn gathering I went to the night before XD tbh it was a lot of fun and I'll probably actually talk about it more later
• Made a new layout for my writing tumblr since my old one was like 7 years old. I did this instead of homework one day, because ummmm that's who I am lmao
• BDSM club, part two: got dunked on for having a Homestuck tattoo. Not because it was Homestuck - everyone was sharing their dorky tattoos - but because it was Eridan. Which is like, fair, but just remember that I had this tattoo before Liz and I even started dating
• Yarn, part four (I'm so sorry): we had to get groceries on Saturday, so I made us detour to Hobby Lobby for more yarn. I haaaaaate them as a company but what I hate even more is how fucking good their prices are for super unique yarn >< Pat got some neon yarn that I'm gonna turn into socks :D

Not on the list: The steady and increasing screams about Trigun every single day by everyone in the household!!!!!!!!!! STAMPEDE SATURDAY IS A HOLIDAY IN THE HOUSE AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT WE'RE GONNA DO AFTER IT'S OVER!!!!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

seriously we're all in soooooo deep

We did also make plans for when we're picking up Chi!!! Yepppp, time number three of Chi living with us, this time in a house with much more space. It's just meant to be for a few months until she gets settled in Baltimore and finds her own place, but I'm still excited. We're gonna make her watch so much anime with us XD And I am always pumped for road trips, especially up to NYC. It's been awhile since we've been!!

I'm gonna return to trying to do homework but mostly just making icons to fill the void in my soul (aka can't upload them for myself so I'll post them on my icon journal). OH RIGHT I changed the resolution on my laptop slightly so it doesn't feel like I'm working with icons for ants, and it's honestly been quite nice. The internet feels bigger and more friendly again!

But first, pictures! :D I had to get a new memory card this week because I somehow lost mine in the couch????? At least I'd backed up everything from it ;w;


Side bar for my writing journal, featuring my current fave pen + ink and Legato/Knives fanfic ;D

( I only remember half of this week from the pics I took lmao )

Day 2 | Rec at least three fanworks that you didn’t create.

So uh, today got rather long. I know it said three, but I got carried away and ended up with closer to...20. Okay, look, I really like fanfiction :D Full disclosure though, some of these are rather old and I haven't reread them in awhile, but I distinctly remember my younger self loving them. So they're still on here, because they shaped what I enjoy and how I write.

Organized by fandom, but other than that they're not in any particular order. I don't like to rank fics by quality or whatever.

( snip snip there's too much to not put it under a cut )