I was so excited about Madara that I forgot to share that I actually finished another mood theme: Ensemble Stars! Cards ;D I have no idea where all this inspiration is coming from, but I'll take it. I think this is the one I'm most proud of, since it required a bit more editing and going through soooooo many more images to pick moods.

Today, Liz stayed home for a much needed mental health day. We ended up playing some more Katamari Damacy - technically Once Upon A KATAMARI but I just kinda think of them as all one big fun thing - and did some light cleaning in the living room & dining room before napping on the couch. All in all, very restful (for me at least, and I think Liz as well) :D

And then after Pat got home from work, Liz made a very tasty dinner of pork loin and roasted baby red potatoes. It was so good *w* We used to get pre-marinated pork loins from just the regular grocery store, but Lidl has them now for way less, and they're easily just as good. So that's good to know!!

Since we'd gotten started earlier, Liz, Pat, and I did some more cleaning after dinner. We got the Christmas tree taken down, took a bunch of crafting supplies back up to the third floor, and organized the stuff we're keeping down here. The basement still needs to be fully sanitized after the waste pipe burst last month, so all the Christmas stuff is still upstairs, but at least it's now condensed down into boxes.

BUT IT'S LOOKING SOOOOOO GOOD DOWNSTAIRS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Pat's also gonna help me go through all my clothes and put them away, since laundry is where I stall out a lot. And we got a cat tree to put in our bedroom like two months ago, but Liz and I haven't been able to make the space for it so it's just.....still in a box in the kitchen..........

Anyway. I'm gonna think on the positive side and be proud of all that I did get done today!! :D


some great recent pictures of Pat: a sign he found on the side of the road that got knocked down by a snowplow and posing with part of the Christmas tree like it's a fish XD


the new Katamari is honestly soooo good and I've taken a decent amount of screenshots so far, but I think this T-rex might be my fave. the way the dinos are rendered is just delightful ;D


this steggy is a close second, tho ♥
I gotta go finish up the JP event tonight so I can be prepared for everything that's coming OwO And probably play more Katamari, since I am like a man possessed with it~

I FINISHED MY SECOND MOOD THEME!!!!!!!!
I mean I'm now kinda behind on grinding the jp event, but I accomplished the very cool thing of mood theme creation~ I've now made two separate themes, so I'm feeling pretty badass ;D

Unfortunately, enstars isn't super popular on dreamwidth, so I doubt it's what people are looking for...but I don't really care cuz I make things that I like, first and foremost XD Though I'm not actively using it here, I did post it at killiansicons for anyone interested!

.........anyway I know I just finished this theme and I have an event to run, but I was thinking of doing a differently styled mood theme next!! I have all the card assets because enstars changed how they put cards together in the app, so I can finally do what I had initially envisioned for an enstars mood theme: make them with the card borders!!


something like this, probably!!!
I'd make it of all the characters, and since there are over 50 of them I could even just use 5 star cards for all of them (to match the borders). I'm still torn on if I want to do editing for every single image, because doing too much is why I always stalled out on mood themes in the past. But I'm really proud of this design and definitely wanna do something with it eventually.

Other than that......I gotta get back in the trenches (grinding songs in enstars) so I can get all the Mayois my heart desires ♥

OH RIGHT LIZ BROUGHT HOME THE BUTTON MAKER FROM WORK AND I'VE BEEN MAKING ENSTARS BUTTONS!!!!!!!! It's been fun uwu

There is an evil within me, and it says: "make another mood theme"

I am debating making an ALKALOID one, but I also have to actually grind the jp event, you know? And it's sooooo time consuming, and the last time I made a mood theme I was basically a man possessed, and I don't wanna miss out on getting a bunch of copies of Mayoi!!

.....so we'll see XD

Finally posted icons to killiansicons because it had been a hot minute. I'd been fighting the feeling of inadequacy for not having "enough" to post, but I managed to convince myself that I was being fucking stupid.

Uhhh it's still fucking cold here and it keeps icing over, which is making digging ourselves out of the snow a real pain. Pat finally managed to find some ice melt at a grocery store, so that should help. And Liz is apparently a fucking beast at shoveling ♥ Which means our driveway may be cleared some time before spring. And then I can hopefully stop feeling so trapped ;w;

Needless to say, I'm kinda over winter at this point...and it's supposed to snow some more throughout the week. plz no more!!!! I'm done!!!!!!

I wanna be able to leave the house with ease!!!!!!!!!!

okay that's all I'm gonna either grind the event or get lost in mood theme hell, and even I don't know which~

I FINISHED A MOOD THEME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I've attempted to make mood themes on and off since the late 00s, with minimal success....but not this time!!! I actually did it :D

.......largely because I wrangled my ADHD and powered through all 132 moods in just over 24 hours, you know, just totally normal behavior.....I have no chill whatsoever XD But that's fine, I don't care, I'm so proud of myself.

I did learn a few things while making this! There's only one mood for being awake and over five for being tired...which is some sort of environmental storytelling, lmao.

jeezus christ it's after 3 am I'm normal I'm chill I'm totally mentally well

Anyway, this mood theme brought to you by the newest Valkyrie song, because why listen to music by the unit featured in the mood theme when you can hyperfixate on the upcoming event song? IT'S JUST SO GOOD!!!!

god I'm tired

GOOD NIGHT I'm gonna share this on killiansicons tomorrow, but for now: sleep.

YEAHHHHHH I MAXED YET ANOTHER EVENT 5* BECAUSE MADARA AND KOHAKU HAD EVENTS TOO DAMN CLOSE TOGETHER!!!!!!!!! my wallet is crying lmao
Also, like the moron that I am, I'm once again trying to make a mood theme. Enstars is new enough that no one else has made one, so I either have to go without or make my own, I guess!!! I'm trying to work on it in some sort of order - aka, the top level moods first and then work on the lower level ones bit by by bit - but I'm not that smart and/or organized. I jumped into it and just started running XD

Look, I tried to go in order, but I have ADHD and sometimes you just go with what you feel...because while trying to find the right image for one mood, you find the PERFECT!!!!!!! one for another, and it just gets out of control.

WHATEVER. It's coming out really nicely so far ;w; It's live on my blog already, because I have no chill and also I love instant gratification~


20 moods down, 112 to go......

aka, I'm doing what I swore I'd never try to do again: make a mood theme. Liz told me about moodthemeinayear and I really like how they break it up into sections; it feels way more feasible. Of course, it started at the beginning of the year, so now I gotta play catch up, but I have homework + katsucon is in a couple days, which means I have plenty of time to do it XD


of course it's fucking Knives & Legato; expect nothing less from me~
I plan on coloring them later, but I'm trying to catch up...I mean, I'm also jumping ahead as I find random manga panels, but that's a me problem. I gotta make myself a reference PSD for coloring them though, since I used pretty much the same colors for all the icons I made...

ANYWAY. I made the mistake of downloading jp enstars because....I hate myself, I guess? I dunno!!!! I just wanted to play the newer songs and now I'm in hell, because the upcoming event features Mayoi and the event boost cards are fucking gorgeous and gacha games are so fucking dangerous for my impulse spending problems XD Seriously though, I've been having fun with the actual rhythm part, but I like having pretty cards (and also that dopamine hit from pulling the random box!!!).

Katsucon is fast approaching and I have to do extra homework ahead of time so I don't have to work on it at the con itself, but uhhhhhhhh focus is hard when I could be glued to Photoshop making this mood theme XD

I hate mood themes >_>

Or rather, I love them, but I hate making them. I have tried and failed many times because I get lazy, but this time I am like...determined cat. It just takes forever.

On the plus side, it will look pretty when done. It's going to be Ulquihime. So far all the images have come from two different doujinshi: the one my in my layout and another one by the same group. mmmm, pretty...

Also, my stats class was miserable as always. I really, really want to hit my teacher >_< She's an idiot and makes me so fucking angry D: