Thought I made it clear now--

So reading "Let's Plays" of Fire Emblem has seriously affected how I react to how a character levels in "Fire Emblem Warriors". Like when Chrom leveled and didn't gain an inch of strength, Lucina levels and gets that stat- and I am like, "Chrom, what is wrong with you? You're being showed up by your daughter from the future!". As if Chrom could talk back to me, hahahaha! But seriously it is a fun game, and while I'm not a fan of the overall style of Fire Emblem, I am a fan of the "Warriors" franchise, I find it fun in a hack and slash sort of way-- (also, seriously Chrom is the best dad, I would LOVE Chrom as a dad, he is proably in to BBQ's and profuse dad jokes.. at least that is how I imagine him.)

This weekend, my goal is to add a RP thread to my RP comm, musehalla, and I will invite anyone to drop in and play with any of the characters listed on the user info. For now I am going to shy away from Bakerstreet as I really sort of want to find my RP voice again, and I don't want to be overwhelmed; start out slow and steady. Also, if you know a series that I am into, feel free to ask what character I would play from that series-- perhaps we can get a PSL going or something if we find mutual ground. (only series out of bounds is Xenogears/saga-- Citan Uzuki/Hyuga and co is permanently retired-- just do not have the energy to invest in that series when it comes to RP, I just can't do it)

On the icon plate, there is a new challenge and I've picked the 80s for that challenge, it's a sweeping generalization but I don't like to pigeonhole myself into a set series, I like to be able to have variety on what to icon, and I feel that the nostalgia will do me good! Also, new texture set up at hiraethe, it's a departure from the usual grunge and there are a lot of textures that I am excited to use myself! When I make textures, my process is "would I use these?", and I've already used several of them on icons, they are really lovely and I definitely will be planning another set along those lines. But bright grunge is my usual style and goes so well with my anime/manga stylized trappings. (just call me shoujotrash, it's all good.) So far though the new style has gone over real well and it's really just taking stock photos and bluring them, overlaying or super zooming them, as well as adding colour effects when at all possible.

So now I have a new icon challenge to focus on-- this one will be involving the 80s~

As usually, I don't post icons over at this journal-- however if you are interested, my icon community is over at hiraethe where I post all of my responses to challenges and all that-- I've been trying to once again draw away from 'shoujo hell', but it's the colours and the sparklies, can't help it~!

Hope y'all are having a good start to the weekend!

note: Walmart is selling 'soylent' now. I did a double take and was like "WTF!" Oh boy! People now come in 'strawberry' flavor!

How it works: reply with "Oh! Shiny" and I'll choose three of your icons. Tell me about them: where they came from, what they mean to you, and/or when you deploy them. Drop a link here to your post in your own journal. Spread it around.

Three icons picked by terresdebrume


Song link: Delerium feat Nerina Pallot - Truly

There is ALWAYS a song, I have such a history with music and with songs that just move and inspire me. A little bit of background, this was the gateway song that led me to one of my most FAVORITE female artists of all time, Nerina Pallot. It was like a slippery slope to such songs like "Sophia" and "Real Late Starter"

So Snow White, if there is a character that is my favorite, disney wise-- it is Snow White. I want to believe that I am a Snow White, but I'm not-- I'm more like Alice or Anna from Frozen. But hey, I can dream-- and I can love this character as someone that I wish I could be like. This art also comes from a "If Disney Princess costumes were historically accurate" which also hits the history!nerd in me. But well, this song, it just very much like Snow White, like that hope even though all the odds are stacked against her, she still believes in her happily ever after, and I think that's damn near admirable. So the song was almost a natural choice for this icon!


Song link: Mark Owen - Morning Belle

Mark Owen is my favorite vocalist from Take That and his solo album "The Art of Doing Nothing" is an EXCELLENT song-- so really I can't hype that album up enough, the lyrics are super introspective and yet pretty positive, plus his song-- I absolutely love his voice, and strangely enough other voices that are similar to his doesn't do it for me, it's his exact vocal quality.

This is my FAVORITE picture of Sakura from Card Captor Sakura. Hands down, that is my favorite costume, favorite picture and once upon a time, I had a vision in my mind of an icon set to another song that I sort of associate that picture and that moment with; OMD - Walking on the Milky Way". But as I was creating the icon, the Morning Belle song stuck a little bit more firmly-- because I guess when I first envisioned an icon with that picture-- 10 years ago, I was a very different person and Sakura meant something a little bit different to me. But as we age, we interpet things a little differently, and the tone that I was going for was a little bit more somber then, including the little shadow at the edge (gasp, that shadow at the edge-- is that on purpose?!~?).


Duran Duran - Silver Halo

THIS IS NOT EVEN MY FAVORITE DURAN DURAN SONG! This isn't even in my top ten, or even my top thirty for that matter-- this is probably my least favorite song on that particular album. However it was chosen because it fit Kanda from D.greyman. Because this song just happened to come on while I was making this icon like 10 years ago (this is an ooooooold icon everyone, this is one of Nia's freshman efforts). Kanda is my favorite character from the series, which is almost laughable BECAUSE of all the characters of that time that came out that fit that stereotype, I was ambivalent toward every one. Sasuke, yes-- Ishida, yes. Usually guys like that annoy the shit out of me almost as much as the characters like Naruto and Ichigo do-- it's because the writers are so trying to hard to highlight two opposite ends of the spectrum, that they really do get the fire/ice down, with no real nuances to speak of. But Kanda, I loved Kanda-- because he and Allen sort of fell a little bit on the outlying part of the spectrum.

Does Kanda think he is better then everyone else, yup. Is the song accurate? Probably (in my headspace). And I really love what I did with his lips. (that was when I had first discovered the 'sharpening' tool and how it could make certain parts of a picture stand out-- so that is why his lips look so damn good). #nevergonnastopbeingproudofthat

No spoilers but the last patch Prelude in Violet is where things are getting sooo good and I don't think I've mentioned how excited I am with the direction the game is heading, I ate that last cutscene up AND I have a new favorite villian. (icon incomming, I even have a song picked out and everything). The villian of the last expansion was small beef, this is where we graduate to the big leagues (though to be fair, Stormblood's villian was pretty much OG, not gonna lie.)

I love evil empires-- even though I RP a character who is very anti-garlean empire but I secretly do love the evil empire and OH PLEASE MAKE GARLEAN A PLAYABLE RACE OH PLEASE OH PLEASE OH PLEASE.

I am totes excited.

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In work related note, I am on my last week. I was sad last week, this week I am not. It's like, I am seeing the cracks and the wear and I am thinking that I am moving on to a better place. Of course this isn't stopping people from creating drama, but I realize that I am three days out and I don't have to acknowledge it, but it's going to be so nice to get out of this lair of toxicity. Just deep breaths until end of day on friday, that's all it's gonna take.

Thank y'all for being support during this time, it's muchly appreciated!