oh god I'm so tired


BUT I BROUGHT HOME THREE COPIES OF NATSUME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YEAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I should have planned this better because uhhh I ground out the second and third copies in like. 30 hours? But I didn't sleep in those 30 hours....I pulled two consecutive all-nighters for his bitch ass, but honestly? Worth it.

Now if the next JP event is also one of my faves I'll just die XD

Anyway. I gotta go wrap up Shinobu's birthday in JP + CN. I napped for a few hours but I still feel pretty crummy, but...Shinobu.......

Oh I also got a fourth copy of Tetora from the CN merge game but forgot to take a screencap I was so tired...sobs...I even took a nap this afternoon but like. I need to stop doing dumb shit like this, I feel like I'm dyin.

I'm still not feeling great, but that's not what this entry is about!!!! It's about the Switch event in JP!!!! I managed to get Natsume with more than 24 hours to go, which is a nice change of pace from grinding out the 5* at the last fucking second.


and now I finally have Natsume 5* cards in every color :D
However...as I was running through the last few plays of the event song I'd need to get him, I started to worry about something. The other green Switch cards I have are dance based - as are most of my good green cards in general - and this bitch is performance based. Which means that someone is missing from my most ideal lineup for green Switch songs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


the role of Natsume is currently being played by Madara Mikejima
So, prayer circle for me while I make peace with grinding out a second copy of Natsume XD

In better enstars news, I managed to max out Madara's first feature scout during its revival in engstars!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was one of the first cards I got and I ended up playing a lot of Yukai Tsuukai That's Alright! with him, so I'm quite attached. Plus I just think the secret color is neat~


also his stats are quite good; he's now my best yellow card in eng~


AND I got a second copy of Kohaku's cross scout as my VIP solo scout of the day :D so that was a nice little surprise~
ANYWAY. I've got more to say about enstars because of course I do but I'm gonna get back to the grind for a bit before I pass out.

New event announcement featuring Switch with Natsume as the center, aka one of my favorite characters and units and just HOT DAMN I love the single shot of the MV we have right now!!!!!!


it's like Hot Topic meets summer festival (with a side of traffic safety thx to bright orange accents lmao)
uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh idk man I've been sick so I've been pretty much completely out of it, but at least I have Switch to support me!!!!!!! It's the Crazy:B climax in ENG, so of course JP had to do an event I super care about at the same time!!!!!!!!!!! NATSUME PLZ. I'm excited and also like "god why"

Also I'm just. idk how to put this into words because I don't feel great, but like...I was really disappointed by the last Switch event, so I'm trying to be hopeful but am also nervous. The song + outfits are better, but that's no guarantee the story will be...tho nothing could be as bad as some of the ending bits of Wish sooooo

I have a bunch of nui pics to share (featuring a cute outfit I found at the mall that actually fits the pattythree nuis!!!) but I'm tired :/ And uh. I got the ps2 repaired! So that's good. It's working even better than it was, since they managed to fix how the flip top was warped.

Maybe tomorrow I'll write a more coherent entry ;w;

ALTERED IS HERE!!!!!!!

And it started with my phone crashing in the middle of one of the event songs, because apparently it hadn't charged last night? So that sucked XD I managed to get another chance to play it, but it was very stressful and also it made me feel stupid.

After I managed to get that sorted out, we went out for some errands! I accidentally made me and Pat crave &pizza, so we got that for lunch :D And then went to Michaels, because I want to make cute bows to put on the Double Face nuis (thx to some cute ones I saw on twitter the other day).

However, Michaels ended up stressing me out because??? bad brain day?????? fussy they didn't have any active coupons??????????????????? idk I just got really overwhelmed ;w; I did end up getting some cute ribbons and shit, but it was an oddly harrowing experience.

BUT I DID TAKE SOME CUTE PICS OF THE NUIS WHILE WE WERE OUT!!!! Here's one~


saw this tree outside &pizza and I just had to put the boys in it~ they look so cute ;w;
And then I got home and continued to have bad brain times for no fucking reason??? I tried working on crafting but just got frustrated, so I tried working on icons and that also left me frustrated D: So I gave up on being "productive" and played a bunch of Crisis Core, and that helped :D

Also, it gave me something to do while my phone was running a billion autoplay loops of the engstars event XD

IN THE MIDST OF THAT THOUGH!!!! I FINALLY GOT NATSUME TO RANK A!!!! Because I managed to pull his rate up 5*, he's getting fans in basically every song, soooooo it helped push him the last little bit of the way to 75k ♥ So, he's almost forgiven for gacha crimes (betraying me during the Halloween MaM event in jp and cn).


sobs it's been such a long journey...cannot believe I have four different idols to rank A now...
Other than that...I've gotta log into jp and cn even once today...I've been neglecting them in favor of eng, because I've been looking forward to this event for over a year. Also my head hurts ;w;

SCREAMING ROUND TWO!!!!


the way I literally screamed when he showed up, I did not expect his tsundere ass to make an appearance :O
So the Altered scout box went amazingly, lmao. I also got three copies of Tsumugi, because at least he knows how to be prompt and responsible.

uhhhhhhhh the livestream was great, the new character wasn't Kaname BUT he's apparently an assistant to Nice Arneb Thunder, aka sketchy dude extraordinaire. There's now a giant floating blimp above Ensemble Square????? The next bit of plot sounds insane, though I'm not upset. I love ridiculous things; I do love YuGiOh after all XD

OH RIGHT. ANOTHER FUCKING THING.


Madara is one of the cards in the end of year tour because he's a fucking attention hog and I hate him and I want to chew glass about him all the fucking time!!!!!!!!!!!!
There's some sort of magical girl transformation going on with this event/the next bit of plot????? Like. Uh. It's a lot. It's called "Main Story Mega Sphere" which even sounds like some sort of YGO bullshit...

ngl I love it ♥

Also I'm fuckin tired, so this entry is kinda all over the place :T

Liz and I are gonna watch the Element web anime with Alex tonight, because we wanna rewatch it and she hasn't seen it yet. And since Altered is starting tomorrow in engstars, it's well timed :D

Hey, look, the event calendar in CN did a funny thing and Madara's stupid fucking spring time Halloween event is actually happening in spring XD


he's here he's here he's heeeeeeere I should be embarrassed by how excited I am but I'm not
I don't have a very good event bonus because I'm largely f2p in CN and I'm running low on sources of free dia + of fucking course Natsume didn't come home. again.

BITCH.

I love him he's just sooooo tsundere it hurts

I also ended doing chores earlier!!!!! I know I said I was probably gonna nap, but I cleaned the whole living room! :D I even took the rug out back and beat a bunch of dirt/dust/etc out of it, which was nice...the weather was cool but not too chilly today~ It's just really nice to look at the living room and see how much better it looks. Liz and Pat were suitably impressed when they got home, too.

.....I did take a nap in the afternoon tho, I'll admit it XD I did a bunch of cleaning and then sat down on the couch to rest my eyes, and it was all over. Lumos napped with me though, which was sweet ♥


demon Madara looks really fucking good in this MV honestly, so I kiiiiiinda feel like I should make icons of him in it OwO
Okay okay okay FOCUS UP I'm just still quite tired + my ADHD meds are on backorder so my focus is fucking shot. I just love this event a lot even if I was raging mad when it first happened in JP. I just love to hate Madara XD

We also went to Costco this evening, got some stuff we needed, had hot dogs in the food court - which has definitely become part of the Costco trip routine! - and then chilled for a bit before making a proper dinner. I helped nudge Pat into getting back into dreamwidth, since I've found its slow pace to be a breath of fresh air compared to most of social media. And now Liz is doing some more cleaning! We're finally taking the Christmas tree down, because of who we are as people.

Other than that...I have a bunch of comments sitting in my inbox that I wanna reply to, I've just been really out of it lately D: But I've gotten some really kind words on icons I've made recently, and I wanna express my gratitude ;w; Getting back into the graphics making scene has just been really lovely. Everyone is so welcoming ♥

yaaaaawn okay it's after 1 am...maybe I'll try to sleep at a decent hour (and actually succeed????? hopefully??????)

HELL TO THE YEAHHHHH I GOT TSUMUGI!!!!!!!!! :D
It was a lot of grinding in the last 48 hours or so, but!!! I DID IT!!!! I brought him home ♥ Now I have all of Switch in Yellow - all of them Vocal-based, even! - and I have to somehow get used to his shorter hair ;w; New glasses, too...

That's basically most of what I did today and yesterday XD I finally got a good night's sleep because we got more Nyquil and it KNOCKED ME THE FUCK OUT. I slept for nearly 12 hours, but it means I've now mostly shaken off whatever made me so sick :D

Oh, right!


2-for-1 special: I got Mika today in English~


Now they can hang out in the abandoned building XD
Okay, okay, it's after 5 am and Liz is falling over themself asleep, so I have to pass out!!

The play was so good!!! I love the theater!!!!!! I WISH WE COULD GO MORE OFTEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

sobs plays are good and I love them in general ;w;

But!!! The Importance of Being Earnest was gonna be queer no matter what, but this was a delightfully homosexual production :D All the costuming was spot on and just!!! I don't have enough smart words to describe it, but it was fun *w*

Also, we took the boys (because of course we did), so Double Face also got to have a nice date night!


and the theater is just soooooo pretty!!!!
HOLD ON FUCK WHATEVER ELSE I WAS GONNA SAY IN THIS ENTRY: SWITCH EVENT PREVIEW IS HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!! And I'm gonna take a hard stance and start complaining immediately, because excuse me wtf Tsumugi got a fucking hair cut?????


LIKE WHAT THE HELL IS THIS, SIR


AND it appears to be Natsume's fault- I don't care if Tsumugi asked him to do it, I'll fistfight him no matter what!!!!
sobs I was so excited...I mean I still am!!!!!! I'm just sad about Tsumugi and his hair and his promise to Natsume and.......and I thought maybe it would finally be longer AND INSTEAD THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm okay I'm okay lying

uhhhhhhhh okay. cool. lemme not end this by whining XD I've got a couple more pics from date night :D

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