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 )

I'm still knitting!!! I'm actually quite pleased with myself for keeping at it~ I ended up using some of the fancy yarn I got last weekend to make myself a small-ish dice bag for d&d, because I have more dice than I know what to do with.

Related: we started a new d&d campaign this week!! It was technically a one shot, but we made characters that we wouldn't mind playing more if they all jived. And they did!!!!! I finally got to use a character design + concept I'd come up with a few years back - a Cleric of Olidammara who is fucking his way through the realm in hopes of meeting his deity - and he was just as fun to play as I'd hoped. Pat was DM for this session but I think he and Liz are gonna alternate sessions going forward. I'm not, because I'm a bottom simple player with no desire to DM ;D

Sooooo that's why I ended up knitting again: I had to keep my hands busy during d&d (because ADHD says I gotta). I did end up spoiling myself with the fancy yarn I got tho...it's just so nice to work with!!! It's hand-dyed merino wool and also the softest thing I've ever used. I dunno how I'm gonna go back to acrylic yarn but like, financially, I can't keep doing this XD At least I got to have fun this once...

Also, I still have Trigun brainworms something fierce because I sat through fuckin commercials this morning so I could watch the new episode of Stampede on Hulu the second it dropped. Just. Okay. I had to know what was happening and I could not wait another second. I've given myself way too many feels about Knives because of course I did; I'm a villain fucker at heart. I already screamed about my spoilery feels over on tumblr so I'm gonna hold back for now, but just know: I am dying inside. In a good way.

My wife is to blame for not just Trigun feels but also accidentally getting me invested in a relatively rare pair. Because I love villains and fucked up loyalty kink, of course I had to love Knives and his most specialest boy Legato, who he's totally gonna kill last. But apparently everyone else just wants Knives and Vash to fuck which is completely valid and I agree BUT ALSO I WANT MY BAD BOYS WITH LOYALTY PROBLEMS TO KISS TOO, OKAY

sobs

aaaaanyway, here's some pics from the past few days! I'm trying to spend more time with my Nikon and less with my phone, and it's really helping me rediscover my passion for it!


Dice bag!! I found a pattern on ravelry and used madelinetosh A.S.A.P in Umbrella Sky for the yarn (very soft, big recommend)

( peek peek peekachures )

This past week has been a whirlwind of both good and bad. Number one bad is definitely from today, though. I twisted my ankle on my way into Japanese class, spraining it in the process as well as breaking my favorite Starbucks cup ;w; I'm more heartbroken about the cup, tbh, but my ankle really fucking hurts nonetheless.

Uhhhhh like I said there's been a lot but I am tapped out on going through them all in detail...so here's a quick rundown:

• wrote a bunch of stuff for theatre class and posted it online (mostly on toyhouse because it's OCs but I absolutely did write Trigun fanfic for one of them, so it's on AO3)
• finished watching Trigun (1998) and had way too many fucking feelings that I still can't escape (see writing fanfic for class above)
• wrote and posted a different fanfic (aka not homework), all over the course of a day. new fandom hyperfixation is the realest drug
• got back into knitting because I needed something to do while getting new tires and promptly fucked up my wrist from knitting for two days straight. I now have some tiny knitted dicks tho XD
• drove down to Gaithersburg for "Sorry about your childhood, part two" aka one of Liz's childhood malls is closing at the end of the month and we had to go experience it together
• charged up my fancy camera for dead mall photography and was reminded of how much nicer it is than a phone camera, so I'm gonna try to use it more often despite it being less convenient
• related: I took 300+ pictures at the mall, so I'll be going through them & editing them for awhile

I feel like there's probs more that I'm forgetting but???? Uh??????? I've got a couple pics to share of this whole mess as well~


Lakeforest Mall, Spring Entrance

( click for DICKS and also more mall pix )

I spent a big chunk of yesterday putting together a website for my fountain pen related things - mostly planning on it being ink reviews tbh - and I'm very proud of it! It's just Wordpress with one of their free themes, but I think it came out really nicely~

Ink Reviews by Killian
All the pictures were taken with my phone because I've misplaced the charger to my DSLR. Because I'm competent.

I have a few reviews planned already, but I really need to be doing homework; I have a bunch due tomorrow. Did I spend hours working on this yesterday instead of homework? Maybe so!!!! But I should try...to not be completely distracted by it...

Aaaaand I finally fixed all the security issues on my domains, so both setsuntamew.net and juhaku.com are using https:// by default and have properly signed certificates. I fucked it up like two years ago and never fixed it BUT IT IS DONE. AFTER MANY PERILOUS ATTEMPTS, IT WORKS THE RIGHT WAY!!!!

Love that juhaku.com purely exists as an image host for myself + Liz, thx to photobucket shitting the bed a few years back. It's nice though!!! It's given me a lot of freedom to just do little projects like this, because I already have hosting set up for myself.

Though...I do kinda wanna make a juhaku shrine as the landing page, in the style of early 2000s fansites. Will anyone else care? WHO KNOOOOOOWS A BUNCH OF PEOPLE RECOGNIZED ME AND LIZ AT KATSU SO MAYBE!!!!! I just have to figure out how to do something with frames but like, a modern internet take on it...

OH LAST THING. I did unfortunately learn that updating my site's PHP to 7.4 - aka what Wordpress suggests - breaks the manga reader that MewDragon uses. And I'm just not good enough at PHP shit to figure out how to prevent that or fix it...so I'm running 7.1 which is ostensibly less secure but at least everyone can still read their gay doujinshi on the go.