#it seems fitting to post this on april 1st

[stra-tek]

The Animated Series' weird takes on Trek history deep dive!

Check out S.S. Bonaventure 10281NCC from "The Time Trap", according to Scotty "the first ship to have warp drive installed"

Among the council we see a woman in a white Starfleet TOS-ish uniform with blue collar and a science insignia, presumably a surviving crewmember.

TAS is weird because it was out of continuity during the 90's, due to Filmation's bankruptcy and subsequent rights issues and Gene Roddenberry's supposed dislike of it. As a result, episodes and novels were forbidden from referencing it even if a few were snuck in regardless and subsequent Treks took things in different directions.

Now in 1993 the Star Trek Chronology was released, largely ignoring TAS. It featured this same named ship, which subsequently made it into a Deep Space Nine episode via this graphic:

And this Bonaventure design would be inspiration for the Phoenix in the movie First Contact

So how does TAS' Bonaventure fit now? Ummmm not so well. Fans speculated she was the first ship to have a Dilithium powered warp drive... until Star Trek: Enterprise nuked that. And then TAS nuked itself on those details a little later...

April's Enterprise

"The Counter-Clock Incident" is the first time we meet Robert April and his wife Sarah. Robert April was an early name, eventually changed to Christopher Pike for the 1st pilot episode of live action Star Trek and eventually James Kirk for the original series proper. Then retroactively made into different characters who commanded the Enterprise prior to Kirk.

Sarah comes out with "As the first medical officer aboard a ship with warp drive..." which is problematic to say the least.

TAS seems to imagine a universe where Bonaventure 10281NCC was launched shortly before the Enterprise, and warp drive and everything are all very new. The Star Trek Chronology and then the Enterprise series would move things back considerably, giving us the warp-powered Enterprise NX-01 with Dr. Phlox a century before Kirk's time.

Spock and the Enterprise's age

In "Counter-Clock Incident", weird stuff happens and the crew are in a bizarre reverse universe where they age backwards. April begins as a 75 year old man heading to mandatory retirement, but as everyone de-ages he ends up a young man looking much like Jim Kirk. At that time, everyone else is a toddler. Spock lasts longer though, and is still functional on the bridge as a teenager until the last few moments. This implies Spock is the oldest by far of the TOS crew, which makes sense due to the long lifespans of Vulcans. However, beginning with that 1993 Chronology book and made official in Star Trek Beyond, Spock is only 3 years older than Jim, born 2230 and 2233 respectively.

And how old does this make the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701? This goes all the way back to The Making of Star Trek, which supposed the vessel is 40 years old at the time of TOS - something modern Trek would cut roughly in half. Strange New Worlds makes official her launch year as 2245, when Jim Kirk was 12 and Spock 15 (and in the Kelvin Universe, the Enterprise is launched much later in 2258 under Pike, but that's explicitly an AU where everything post 2233 is different)

The Man-Kzin Wars

I wrote a whole thing about the Kzinti in Trek here:

In Larry Niven's Known Space novel universe, the Kzinti were defeated when humans invented faster-than-light travel. In the 1970's, long before Star Trek First Contact, Star Trek Enterprise or the official Chronology book, I'd guess the 4 Man-Kzin Wars took place much as in Known Space, warp drive made the difference. But what does Sulu say?

"The Kzinti fought four wars with humankind and lost all of them. The last one was two hundred years ago..."

So despite "The Counter-Clock Incident" implying 40 years ago for warp drive and "The Time Trap" giving us a first ship with warp drive looking much like the TAS Enterprise implying it's not that old, now it's 200 years ago. Which in modern Trek would be around the time of Star Trek First Contact. I have a headache.

So in summery, TAS is amazing and it's continuity is utterly flawless and it's everything else made since that's wrong even when TAS clearly wasn't paying attention to what it itself had established.

#star trek #deep dive #star trek the animated series #star trek the original series #deep lore #star trek chronology #star trek books #robert april #spock

[heroesriseandfall]

I think Jason and Tim may have canonically been in the same school grade before Jason died. Not because Tim skipped any grades, but because Jason was behind two grades. This would also mean Jason died before he ever made it into high school.

Based on what I have extrapolated from post-Crisis comics, this seems like a working timeline:

Here is a calendar view with arbitrarily chosen years and other details added in for reference (if you can’t see it very well, here’s the spreadsheet)

Below is the math + sources (all based on post-Crisis comics)

Before being adopted by Bruce, Batman #410 says Jason was a 5th grade dropout

(sidenote: Jason said his mom was sick for over a year and she died in the most recent February before Bruce met Jason in Batman #408-409)

By the time of Batman Annual 12 (published only a few months before Jason died)*, Jason was in 7th grade

His deathdate is given as April 27th in Batman Annual 25 and The Batman Files, which is during the school year

So he was probably in 7th grade when he died

Jason was most likely 14** when he died, and his Aug 16 birthday is before the New Jersey cut-off date of October 1st

Tim was most likely 12 when Jason died, since they’re almost exactly 2 years apart

Usually, 7th graders are 12-13 years old

So Jason was 2 years older than typical for 7th grade, and he is 2 years older than Tim

Tim started 9th grade/high school at age 14 (Robin II: Joker's Wild), over a year after Jason's death

14-15 is typical starting age for 9th grade, so Tim is clearly in the usual age-range for his grade

So Tim would be in 7th grade when Jason died. Same as Jason.

* Publishing dates don’t always match up with where things fit in a timeline. Especially since annuals aren’t always clearly positioned in related to the rest of the comic’s issues. In the annual, Jason does mention KGBeast, who he’d fought recently in the then-current Batman run.

My default is to presume things are meant to be set generally near other comics published the same time unless I see an indication otherwise. There isn’t much indication here—Jason’s age really isn’t mentioned at all during his actual run as Robin IIRC, we have to extrapolate from later comics.

**My reasons for Jason being 14 and Tim being 12 when he dies are long and complicated, but for a brief overview:

We know they’re almost exactly two years apart because Jason turned 18 on Aug 16th in Detective Comics #790, and just a while before that, Tim had turned 16 on July 19th in Robin Vol. 2 #116. That would make them around 1 year 11 months apart. The death certificate in The Batman Files says Jason was 15 when he died on April 27. However, Jay dying in April and Tim being 13 when his training starts a few months later (implied to be late summer/early fall, in Batman: A Lonely Place of Dying; age 13 confirmed again in Batman #448) and then December and more than 6 months passing before Tim is finally said to be 14 starting high school (Robin II: Joker’s Wild), and then having to stuff Tim’s Robin training, Knightfall, Contagion, Legacy, and Aftershocks into all being while he’s 14…all make it mathematically unreasonable for Tim & Jason to be anything other than 14 and 12 when Jason dies. Tim must turn 13 after Jason’s death, right before he’s introduced, so that he has time to become Robin etc. before he turns 14. Jason being 15 really doesn't work well when comparing to other comics, so I think it makes more sense to say they for some reason rounded up his age to 15 since he would have been turning 15 in a few months. With this timeline, Jason would be roughly 14 years, 8 months, and 11 days old when he died. There IS a comic (Batman #416) that implies Jason was Robin for longer than this would require, but the timeline for that makes my head hurt and it was contradicted by Nightwing: Year One anyway. There’s also the case of Dick’s age compared to them, which bitimdrake has already gone into depth about and also makes it less likely Jason was 15 since Dick was 19 when he became Nightwing (Batman #416) and at most 21 after Tim already became Robin (Deathstroke Annual 1, 1992). TL;DR: Jason could, theoretically, have been 15 when he died, but it makes the timeline so wonky to do that and 14 almost 15 works way better.

My personal headcanon is Jason drops out of 5th grade at age 10, probably due to homelife issues. Catherine Todd gets sick, and a year or more passes of Jason not being in school while she’s sick. It’s not entirely clear when Jason becomes homeless, though Batman #426 says he “disappeared” (according to his old neighbor) after his mom died to avoid getting put in a state home. Catherine dies in the closest February to when Dick quits being Robin/gets fired at age 19. Then Jason gets adopted at age 12, turns 13, and goes into 6th grade right after. This would match up perfectly for Jason to be in 7th grade by the time he’s 14, rather than 9th grade like most other 14 year olds.

(Which, at that point, especially when Jason had such good grades, why not let him skip to be in his own age group? idk, maybe Bruce or Jason or Alfred had particular thoughts about Jason continuing where he left off, maybe Gotham schools have particular feelings about that, who knows)

I do want to note, I think it is very unlikely Tim and Jason attended the same school in pre-Crisis canon. Jason’s school for 7th grade wasn’t specified, though in Batman and Robin Vol. 1 #25 he says he went to Thomas Wayne Middle School for 3 months (why only 3 months??? eerily that is the same amount of time between a spring semester starting & Jason’s April deathdate...an implication Jason switched schools or was homeschooled at Wayne Manor for a bit??).

EDIT: I've recently looked it up and realized some schools in the US do include 5th grade as middle school. So if Jason dropped out of 5th grade, at Thomas Wayne Middle School, three months after starting there, that could be an explanation for why he said that.

It seems like (but not totally sure) Jason probably went to public school, which would match up with Robin: Year One showing Dick go to a public middle school, too.

On the other hand, we know for sure that Tim attended various private boarding schools throughout his childhood (as stated in Batman: A Lonely Place of Dying, Robin III: Cry of the Huntress, etc.) so I just really don’t think they were at the same schools. If you wanted to, though, you could easily make them go to the same schools in fanfic so they could be in the same classes.

#jason todd #tim drake #batfam #robin jason todd #dc comics #dc continuity #heroesriseandfall #post crisis #robin ii

[lutiaslayton]

Hey so, aside from that time I shared an excerpt from chapter VI a few weeks ago, I haven't posted anything related to SLS in quite a while. Earlier today I finally took the time to clean up my desk for the first time in forever, and I happened to find amongst many other things a few wandering sticky notes with SLS stuff on them! They're like. Many, many months old by now. As you can see in the one above, they date back to the times when I still thought I could fit everything into a four-part chapter IV (which explains why some chapter banners are missing, notably the one for chapter V.2). They're even old enough to date back to the times when I was still referring to the games as "PL1-6" instead of acronyms, wow.

Also hey, what's that? Seems like you get a free teaser for the upcoming chapter's banner 👀 I don't think it counts as spoilers, since just reading chapter V.2 (+ the excerpt I shared a few weeks ago) should be a big enough hint to make quite clear what chapter VI will be about.

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Also, what's that thing on the right? Very good question. I'll let you guess :P It's completely unrelated to SLS, but it is Layton-related. I have zero idea what this thing is doing here though, past me was doing something in a context that present me has no remembrance of. But hey, that makes for a fun little puzzle if you want to try to figure out what these scribbles correspond to!

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There's another interesting sticky note under the cut, but I'd rather keep it hidden so that people who are interested in the fanfic but haven't caught up to chapter V.2 yet (n° 011 in AO3 numbering) won't get spoiled. If you have read up to chapter V.2, you might have an idea as to what this means regarding its contents.

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Boom. There it goes:

So, here it is! A sketch of what exactly was hiding inside Clay's pouch, as well as (as you likely all figured out by now) what Dimitri found in the lab amongst the debris of the time machine.

Regarding this specific sketch, I had actually planned to make a fully coloured version and share it in the end notes of chapter V.2, but alas, I was not able to finish that drawing in time, and it is still unfinished to this day. And now that the best opportunity to share it is behind us, I admittedly am unsure how to reveal it on AO3. I guess I'll make an announcement such as "btw I updated the author's notes at the end of chapter 011-V.2 with a drawing of what Clay's pouch contains, go check it out if you're interested" in the starting/end notes of a future chapter...? Either that or I'll wait for another opportunity, but that would be a shame.

I'll still let you take a look at the current state of the unfinished digital version, since I feel like this is still something you should have been allowed to see all the way back to April 1st:

If you read chapter V.2 carefully, you will notice that the part about the QWERTY keyboard is partially incorrect -- there's also a section with four arrows and a center "OK"-like button. So you basically need even tinier fingers to use that thing.

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Aside from that, I do have more sticky notes, but they're all filled with spoilers -- so I obviously won't share them here. I hope that what I did share here was fun enough to satiate your curiosity a bit!

#professor layton #stable like sand #lutiasdraws

[cinnabun-bunny]

Sorry I've not been partaking in the boops you're all doing, but I'm not in the mood today. And I shall explain why under the read more cut, because it contains potentially triggering info.

My brother has been diagnosed with colon cancer. He told us yesterday, but I think he's been keeping it quiet for a few days prior. He doesn't seem worried at all, though he's always been incredibly chill and nothing worries him, he says he doesn't feel ill, and the doctors are optimistic. He's still young, and he's very fit and otherwise healthy. So I believe he will be fine.

I'm still devastated. And so is my mum. We're both worriers, and my mind especially always goes to the worst case scenario, so I'm fucking terrified.

I know this looks bad with us being told on the 1st April, which is why I waited til now to post, so you wouldn't think I'm joking. I'd never joke about that anyway. To be honest, I wasn't going to say anything at all, but... I don't know, this is as much a blog as anything else, and a blog is essentially a diary that other people can read. I want you all to know that I'm dealing with something right now, and although I think it's going to be okay, I'm still having a rough time.

#personal post #illness warning #I don't really wanna tag the specific illness

[ms-m-astrologer]

Transiting Pallas Athene stations retrograde

Timeline (current events in bold)

Thursday, September 29, 2022, 16:08 UT - transiting Pallas Athene enters pre-retrograde shadow, 10°26’ Cancer

Wednesday, November 30, 2022, 08:36 UT - transiting Pallas Athene stations retrograde, 26°33’ Cancer

Thursday, February 16, 2023, 14:39 UT - transiting Pallas Athene stations direct, 10°26’ Cancer

Sunday, April 23, 2023, 23:48 UT - transiting Pallas Athene exits post-retrograde shadow, 26°33’ Cancer

Caveat: unless the Lady Asteroid Pallas Athene is a player in your birth chart (closely aspecting the Sun, Moon, and/or an angle), you probably won’t feel much from this transit.

I am exhausted, so I’m going to quote Martin Bulgerin at www . biopscinst . com:

Pallas retrograde is a time when you must concentrate more fully on some creative endeavor. There’s often a need to rethink your plans and come up with a new approach to some situation. It may seem like there’s a conflict between the head and the heart, although it’s possible to go beyond this apparent conflict and have it both ways. You may be experiencing troubles adjusting to situations where you don’t naturally fit in, requiring compromise or creative resolution on your part. This is often a “mental” period when the emotional life takes a back seat to something more important.

Pallas Athene happens to be retrograding in the sensitive, emotional sign of Cancer, and we all should re-read that delineation with that in mind! Looking at four of Pallas Athene’s areas:

Creative wisdom and intelligence - Pallas Athene may seem more like a left-brain deity, but she needs to realize that the right brain can be just as powerful.

Arts and artisans - here is where poor Ms M and all the other fiber artists are going to be unhappy! Our projects are going to be delayed, and/or to be reconsidered.

Political activism - this is the one (frankly) I’m most worried about; we’re going to be hearing too much about “who the real patriots are.”

Professional excellence - probably a lot of “your work is like your family” stuff; nepotism rampant.

Many of the challenges of this retrograde will come in the form(s) of other people, as the swifter-moving planets (Sun, Mercury, Venus) will all oppose Pallas Athene as they move through Capricorn. Either we get people telling us “no,” or we’re projecting. Or both. Family members may become unexpected mentors, &/or you may (have to) mentor a family member - perhaps in the manner of my kids whenever I get a new phone or laptop, like that.

My natal Pallas Athene is in Cancer (but direct) and the 8th House - and the way it works for me is, feeling the connections to my mom, her mom, her mom, all the way back - especially when I’m knitting or crocheting. Maybe finding your family/maternal lineage and making that connection, can be a project, if Pallas Athene is transiting your 8th?

Going through your 1st House, Pallas Athene can mean you should look at “embodying” Pallas Athene more - making the choice to be emotionally intelligent and nurturing others’ intelligence.

#Astrology #Transiting Pallas Athene stations retrograde #Ms M astrologer

[rutilation]

Calendar Spotted! Let's Gooooooooo...

A couple months ago, I observed that some chicanery was afoot with regard to the calendars in CSM. Here's a link to that post. But, if you don't feel like reading through all that, I'll go over the salient points:

We encounter our first calendar in chapter 13. The only unusual thing about it is that it starts on Monday. From here on out, every calendar that doesn't explicitly label its days of the week may start on either Sunday or Monday.

In chapter 72, there is a calendar that potentially matches three months from 1997. If the calendar starts on Sunday, as is traditional, then it only matches June. If it starts on Monday, like the calendar from chapter 13 did, then it matches either September or December.

While September was confirmed as the true time frame a few chapters later, there are a couple complications here. Firstly, snow doesn't fall that early in the year in Hokkaido--it starts in October in the mountains, and November in the lowlands. Secondly, the hydrangeas featured on that calendar are traditionally associated with Japan's rainy season, which spans early June through mid-July. In short: the weather, the calendar, and the actual timeline are all in conflict with each other in chapter 72.

The fantastical photo of Denji, Aki, and Power at the aquarium is dated to June 12th, and is shown to us as Aki's tragedy reaches its crescendo on September 12th. This, for me, confirmed that Fujimoto was doing all this on purpose, and wasn't simply ignorant of how snow works.

The calendar from chapter 119 could be from either March of '98 or '99, depending on how it is formatted. In 1998, March started on Sunday, and in 1999, on Monday. The apocalypse is either a year out, or right around the corner.

We have only been given concrete dates whenever the gun devil is summoned, and also to mark the upcoming apocalypse. Calamities are set in stone, and may be recorded down to the second. All other dates, though, are made ambiguous in some capacity.

Maybe this is hinting at CSM taking place in a timewarp, or some such thing; maybe this is all just a weird symbolic conceit. But, whether metaphorical or literal, it's too consistent to not be deliberate.

So, keeping in mind that Fujimoto sees calendars as an opportunity for shenanigans, let's take a close look at the one in this chapter. This time, the days of the week are clearly labeled, and we can see that the month starts on Thursday the 1st. Using March of '98 as our earliest possible starting point, and July of '99 as our end point, the calendar potentially matches October of '98, April of '99, or July of '99.

The '7' prominently emblazoned on the calendar would seem to confirm that it is July, and that the apocalypse is mere weeks--if not days--away. But, there's not many points where a time skip could have feasibly occurred. It couldn't be between 131 and 132; the children in Nayuta's class speak as though the prior chapters' events had just happened, and there's no indication that Asa was in a months-long coma. Perhaps Yoshida kept Denji and Nayuta imprisoned for much longer than we assumed, but neither of them behave like they've spent months in Public Safety's basement, and Nayuta is wearing the same clothes as when she was abducted. The most likely slot for a timeskip, as far as I can tell, is after the end of 133. But, even that doesn't quite fit. Denji and Nayuta's conversation about how he won't transform any more would have happened a lot earlier--devil attacks are quite frequent, after all. And, why would Asa only just now ask why Yoru has been in a good mood, if it's been months since Falling attacked? Finally, Asa is still wearing her winter uniform, but Japanese schools typically switch over to short sleeves on June 1st (Nayuta was already wearing short sleeves, but her elementary doesn't seem to have a uniform in the first place.) If we're trying to create a coherent timeline, it would make the most sense to assume that the calendar from 119 depicted March of '99, that it's currently April, and that we're only a few days out from Falling being summoned.

But... that sure is a very obvious '7,' isn't it? You can't exactly discount it, even if it makes no sense with the timeline as shown (kind of like a September snowstorm.) And the rabbit hole goes yet deeper still: much like the calendar from chapter 72, this one also features some seasonal Japanese flora. While the illustration is very small, there are some hints as to what it depicts: it's a medium-sized shrub with large, showy flowers that have dark petals, and pale centers. To me, it would appear that these are camellias.

There are two species of camellia native to Japan, japonica (椿), and sasanqua (山茶花.) Japonica blooms from January to March, while sasanqua typically bloom from October to January. Of all the flowers Fujimoto could have picked, he picked the one that does not bloom in either April or July.

But wait, there's more! You'll recall that one of the possible months for this calendar was October of '98, which is when sasanqua first blooms. What I didn't mention is that January of '98 matches both 135's calendar, and the start of japonica's blooming period. I left it out because obviously we didn't travel two months backwards in time since 119, right, Fujimoto? But, I cannot stress this enough, this man is messing with us.

To summarize: the calendar is labeled for summer, only makes sense in spring, and is decorated with flowers for fall and winter. Considering how the last ostentatiously surreal calendar was setting up an awful gut punch in the form of chapter 79's cover illustration, I'm on pins and needles waiting to see what this calendar will bring down the line.

#chainsaw man #i should make a post about instances of hanakotoba in chainsaw man because i have Observed Some Things

[yaminerua]

Duklyon doesn’t at first seem to have the same thing crop up as CSD and 20 Mensou does (with regard to the timeline seeming to pass through April when a new school year would commence and everyone should move up a grade) because within its story it doesn’t pass that April point where the grade should change. Based on the flashback to when Takeshi and Kentaro are first invited to form Duklyon, which is stated to happen in May, 5 months earlier, I think the bulk of the rest of the story takes place from around October to I presume late March because they’re still in the winter uniform and still stated to be in 1st Year by the last chapter that is set in the school before the timeskip epilogue.

The only point it gets messy is if you’re like me and try to plot out the total timeline for the CLAMP School series based on dated events we do know of in each of the series. When you insert Duklyon into the larger timeline that encompasses the other two series taking place in CLAMP school around the same time, it becomes clear that it takes place during the autumn to spring period, but before the turn of the new school year that should usually happen in April because they’re still stated to be in 1st Year at the end.

We know when it takes place because of other events that match up. As I mentioned in another post, both 20 Mensou and CLAMP School Detectives have a similar discussion on the planning of the Christmas party, so we know the events around that match up. But also not long after that there’s a scene in CLAMP School Detectives where Nokoru loses the creative plans for the school show and the Japanese on the document says デュカリオン vs 20面相 ‘Duklyon vs 20 Mensou’ if you look closely, which obviously is the same show that we see playing out in Duklyon, in which 20 Mensou kidnaps them so we know that’s happening at the same time as the Detectives are looking for the faculty list, which is presumably around January.

Bearing in mind that the overall CLAMP School series timeline starts in Summer (in 20 Mensou and the Duklyon flashback), moves into winter which is where CLAMP School Detectives begins, and then continues on through Summer again (where 20 Mensou ends) and on to Autumn of the next year where Detectives ends, it is clear that more than a year passes and there should realistically be a point where the characters move up a grade at the start of the school year.

But if that were to happen with Nokoru in 6th grade during the first half of this timeline, come April he should move into first year of the Junior High division which would split up the group! Obviously we don’t see that happen and everyone continues without changing grade and CLAMP weren’t too worried about the overall timeline. But I like trying to find ways to tweak things to make it work.

With that in mind, if we want Nokoru to still be in 6th grade for the second half of the Detectives manga, it makes sense to mess with the ages a little bit.

I propose having him be in 5th grade for the earlier parts of the stories that take place before April when the new school year starts, and having him move into 6th grade for the rest of the series so that it doesn’t split up the trio. Of course that would require aging Akira and Suoh down a year too along with him so that they’re all still in different grades.

However, as I mentioned before, we know Duklyon takes place over the autumn to spring period and presumably ends before the April new school year, so with my modified ages for Nokoru and the other elementary schoolers it would mean he’d technically be a 5th grader during that part of the story even though originally he’s written to be 6th grade.

Of course this is all just me having fun adjusting things to fit into a chronological clamp school timeline and it’s not meant to be looked at this closely;;;

#I have been thinking WAY too much about this recently and my drafts are a MESS with long rambling posts trying to explain all this #Clamp school defenders #clamp school detectives #duklyon #man of many faces

[murumokirby360]

My NVMe Needs - Part 3: Installation and trial & error (w/ my paper dolls) [Recorded on Apr 21st, 2023]

So, here’s Part 3 of “My NVMe Needs“ (featuring my paper dolls). 😁 Actually, this is Part 1 of 2 videos that I've recorded, yesterday (April 21st, 2023).

And this part is the moment I've been waiting for, the installation & test using the two important upgrade items I need for my current PC. ⬆️🖥️😁 Plus, I'll share my overall thoughts, in Part 2 recorded video.

If you haven't seen my previous parts of the same topic, then I'll provide some links down below. ↓

• Part 1: Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus NVMe M.2 SSD (1TB) Review [Apr 7th, 2023]

• Part 2: Thermalright M.2 2280 Pro Review [Apr 11th, 2023]

So, without further ado, let's get started:

✋ HOLD IT! ✋

• Okay so before I discuss my experience, let's discuss my recording process. I have 17 recorded videos 🎦📲on my smartphone (the Honor 8C), one of which is from the VLC media player 🎦🖥️. However, squeezing 17 videos in one package wouldn't fit in my (Tumblr) post 😕, so I decided to slice it in half to make a minimum of 500 MB per video post 🪓, not to mention, the adjustments, speeding up the process, and adding subtitles. 🎦✏️🖥️ And thus, I made two videos. It took 7 hours to finish these videos between 7 PM to 2 AM (Apr 21st to 22nd). And man, I'm all relieved after editing. So much so, I want a take a break after this, but I can't because I want to end my ambitious topic sooner before celebrating my birthday, next month (May 6th). Regardless, at least I'm all done with editing, and all was left is to type in with my thoughts. And uhh, if you see me shirtless, then my apologies for that, I completely forgot to wear a shirt before recording. lol 😅 Plus, it's damn heat season in my country (The Philippines), so it's hard enough to sweat my glands while progressing (, both daylight & night), you know. 🥵☀️ Anyways, let's get over with...

My Recorded & Edited Video (using Filmora 9): (pls watch) ↑ 🎦✏️🖥️

• Alright so, what you see here is I combine two techs in one digital memory sandwich before I connect it to my current PC. Yeah, I speed it up my thoughts because I've already add subtitles. So please, go watch my entire 8½ minute recording before you read my thoughts. Anyways, here are the photos I took before I proceed. ↓ [please see my 1st to 5th image(s)]

• See? What I told ya! It's like PB&J Sandwich, right you two?! They get it... But, please don't eat it. lol

• However, once I install my custom NVMe my PC won't read, and thus I need to do manual & painstaking troubleshooting (1st Round). It took me minutes to fix without disassembling it before it functions. What a relief! Here are more pictures before I firing up my PC. ↓ [please see my 6th & 7th image(s)]

• What a thing of beauty, isn't it? What I don't like is the plastic peg. It should it go with metal screws over this. (just saying)

• Next, I need to open "Computer Management" for setting up my NVMe stick from switching "GPT" (which stands for "GUID Partition Table") to format with "NTFS" (which stands for "NT file system and the New Technology File System"), and then I proceed to install Samsung's provided "Data Migration". I also downloaded the "Samsung Magician" software in a form of the RAR file. Which, I'll discuss in my final part.

• Once my NVMe is formatted & installing the data migration, the latter automatically opens (at a slow pace). Sorry, my physical drive is having a rough day, but don't, my HD will be retired once I've done migrating. Before I start migration take a look at their capacity differences. Their quite an opposite when it comes to storage spaces of 400GB (Seagate Barracuda 7200) & 1TB (Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus NVMe). So anyway, I start the migration process & wait for couple of hours. ↓ [please see my 8th image]

• [9th image ↑] And while we're wait, my paper dolls seem to be hungry. Luckily, I have a single fun size M&Ms for my beloved paper dolls! Take it, you two & eat share. Yum-yum!

10th & 11th Image(s): ↑

• Hours later, the migration is almost complete! Until the physical drive went to halt the process despite the red light indicator immediately stopping blinking. *Sigh* We're SO CLOSE to reaching 100% migrating files & OS to my first owned NVMe stick! So, I guess we're gonna try again on the second attempt.

But, will it succeed? I don't know, so please click here to proceed Part 2 of the video → [CLICK ME!].

○ No overall thoughts this time around! ○

Well, that’s all for now!

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[eglectic]

Breaking my back? No. Back from my break.

Here’s basically what I’ve been up to:

This past month I’ve allowed myself to indulge in foods not normally on my protocol, and I’m getting back in the swing of it all. I did gain 10-15 lbs in the process, but I learned a lot. Honestly, a lot of the food just doesn’t hit the same anymore. I’ve continued working out although maybe not going as hard as I was in December for some of it. I allowed myself to relax a little in January but now that February is in full swing, I’m coming back better and stronger than ever.

I’m also changing the focus of this blog a little. I’ll post maybe weekly summaries on Sundays about my fitness journey and progress, but since this journey is about learning what is going on with me when I’m not overeating and who I am outside of food, that’s also what I’ll post about here. Just like I don’t define myself as a non-smoker, even though I am not a smoker, I don’t want my eating habits or my weight to be the crux of my identity.

I moved out of my crazy housemates’ place! Literally today I moved in with a gracious and amazing friend here in Marathon. That’s pretty much the biggest stressor I dealt with over the last month. They told me at the end of December to move out by February 1st. Then after talking we agreed I could stay through February. Then, my friends loaned me a scooter to get around town. Within not even 12 hours of having it there, my housemates’ dog chewed on one of the handles, and when we discussed it they didn’t like my tone. So they gave me two weeks to move out. I guess it IS pretty rude of me to not be happy about that! Silly me! I should have hugged them and thanked them for allowing their dog to damage my/my friends’ property! Maybe I should have tried their definition of politeness — I should have moved someone (a recently jailed person who has been known to be addicted to drugs and steal to pay for them) in without talking to them about it, or eaten their food without asking, or worn their shoes, or damaged their property, and then gotten mad at them for not loving that.

Part of me thinks they let their dog do that on purpose. Anyway, they definitely take the crown for my least favorite people I have ever lived with! And I lived with a literal Nazi last year! But at least that guy, even though I totally disagree with him on so many important issues, minded his own business and wasn’t all up in my shit. And he never tried to dictate how I should feel, as if anyone ever could. I’m not saying he’s a better person than my housemates, just a slightly better roommate. My housemates are probably good employees, maybe good family members, probably good partners to each other, but as roommates/housemates to me they sucked. Ultimately though, I wish them well. At the end of the day, they didn’t hurt me. They’re just a speck in the tapestry of my life. Soon they’ll just be another kind of wild story I get to tell. Living with them I learned a lot about myself and how I can show up even when I initially feel disempowered and disrespected in a situation.

Finally, and this is the most exciting part to me — I’m moving out of the Florida Keys in April! I love it here so much and it’s already so bittersweet, but I’ve been feeling the pull to leave for a long time now. I’m going to spend a couple weeks in Lithuania, then travel around Europe (not sure where to yet or what modes of transportation) before going to work in Ibiza for the summer. Truthfully, I’d rather not spend all summer in Ibiza. I’d rather move to Madrid or Valencia and live there for a couple years or more, but living and working in Ibiza all summer seems like a fantastic back up plan to me. I’ll get to meet lots of cool people from all over the world and even though I’m not a huge partier and I’m pretty much always sober, I love to go out dancing.

I’ve been doing light research about life in Madrid and Valencia and I’m already thinking maybe I should just make that my permanent home. But then I wouldn’t have Amazon and I wanted to try out Rent the Runway! Haha. Plus the entertainment industry is essentially in America, so I don’t know if I could reach my artist/media creator goals while living in Spain. We’ll see. If nothing changes, my plan is to travel around Spain after Ibiza and look for a job. One thing for sure, though, is that I want my income, my savings, and my investments to continue increasing. And based on how it’s shaping up right now, it WILL be an epic, luxurious, and rewarding year.

#me #fitness journey #my life #life update #what i’ve been up to #january 2023 #recap #photo of me #gif of me #photos of me

[a-moth-to-the-light]

Tranquil's Studyblr Challenge, 10

Today, I am grateful for the apartment I call home, and for how much it feels like one. Also, for a teal faux-velvet button-down that actually fits me, found at a thrift store today!

Today, my goals are to shower and start cleaning up my room, since I've had visitors the whole weekend and things are a bit chaotic.

When did you create your study blog or tumblr account? Why did you create it? Has the blog fulfilled the goals you’ve set out to accomplish so far?

We created this account in early 2022, and the first post was made on April 1st. The goal was to give Six, the writer of our collective, a chance to express himself--he has the personality of our favorite video essayists, except for his love for working with only written words, which is why he chose to make an account on this site!

I think this blog has turned out better than expected in that way! We always look forward to writing for Tumblr, and there's a steady stream of ideas for this blog that we keep in a channel on our Discord server! Even better, Eight (they/them), the youngest of us, has started wanting to write for this blog, too, so it seems like this project will turn out to be helpful for more than just one of us :)

#-- the collective (you can think of us as Six's family!) #tranquilfallbuddies

[lisbethpham]

Tumblr case study

Earlier in the course we learned about the definition of ‘public sphere’. It is, in fact, not a sphere, but a metaphoric saying to describe and make sense of a virtual space where people interact (Hartley, 1992). Another more specific definition of the public sphere is:

A domain of our social life where such a thing as public opinion can be formed, where citizens…deal with matters of general interest without being subject to coercion… to express and publicize their views. (Habermas, 1997, p105). 

In addition, Kruse (2018), also stated: “The public sphere requires unlimited access to information, equal and protected participation, and the absence of institutional influence, particularly regarding the economy.” In today’s context, there are many social media platforms that fit in this interpretation and with that said, Tumblr will be the topic for this week’s case study. 

Tumblr is ranked in the top 10 used social media platforms in Australia (David, 2023) with a steady 3.7 million of monthly users. It was founded in 2007 by David Karp and was bought by Yahoo in 2013 but David remained the CEO of Tumblr. Just like Twitter, Tumblr’s users can follow others without having them to follow back, which creates a non-reciprocal network among users. However, Tumblr does not limit the length of each post and supports a whole range of multimedia such as images, videos and audios, as well as reblogging and hashtagging, without or with very little surveillance. All of these features make Tumblr one of the best microblogging services that many activists have used this platform to create public space for their activities. Tumblr has been used for early feminists and body positivity trends by having female users posting selfies and pictures of themselves to depict a more diverse and authentic body types and races. Many experts on feminism argued that female figures have always been depicted as the symbol of objectification and representative of male desires (Lin, 2009). And women seem to appear more controlled and restricted with expectations, especially societal, than men (Dvir et al., 1995; Rayburn et al., 1999). Both Western and Eastern mass media have very big, but negative, influence on teenage girls and young adult women with them promoting a narrow ideal of female beauty: young, slim, whiter skin, etc. Many have seen that as an underrepresentation of diversity; and examples are women with higher weight, women of color, older or above a certain age. But with the lack of surveillance and to no extent the diversity can be shown, lots of explicit images can be found under the hashtag #bodypositivity, despite the NSFW (not-safe-for-work) content being banned on Tumblr. This means that many users, with high probability being young girls, are affected with the idea of self-oversexualization to reach self-acceptance, which is also the content of many bloggers, rather than self-improvement. 

References:

Anne Reif, Insa Miller & Monika Taddicken (2022) “Love the Skin You‘re In”: An Analysis of Women’s Self-Presentation and User Reactions to Selfies Using the Tumblr Hashtag #bodypositive, Mass Communication and Society, DOI: 10.1080/15205436.2022.2138442

Chang, Y., Tang, L., Inagaki, Y. and Liu, Y., 2014. What is tumblr: A statistical overview and comparison. ACM SIGKDD explorations newsletter, 16(1), pp.21-29.

David Correll 2023, Social Media Statistics Australia – February 2023, SocialMediaNews.com.au, viewed 1st April 2023 <https://www.socialmedianews.com.au/social-media-statistics-australia-february-2023/>   

Dvir, T., D. Eden and M. L. Banjo: 1995, ‘Self-Fulfilling Prophecy and Gender: Can Women be Pygmalion and Galatea?’, The Journal of Applied Psychology 80(2), 253– 270. doi:10.1037/0021-9010.80.2.253.

Habermas, Jurgen. 1997. “The Public Sphere.” Pp. 105–08 in Contemporary Political Philosophy, edited by R. E. Goodin and P. Petit. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers 

Hartley, J. (1992). The Politics of Pictures: The Creation of the Public in the Age of the Popular Media (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315002095

Kruse, L.M., Norris, D.R. and Flinchum, J.R., 2018. Social media as a public sphere? Politics on social media. The Sociological Quarterly, 59(1), pp.62-84.

Lin, C.L. and Yeh, J.T., 2009. Comparing society’s awareness of women: Media-portrayed idealized images and physical attractiveness. Journal of Business Ethics, 90, pp.61-79.

Pilipets, E., & Paasonen, S. (2022). 'Nipples, memes, and algorithmic failure: NSFW critique of Tumblr censorship'. New Media & Society, 24(6), 1459–1480. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444820979280

Rayburn, C. A., I. S. Hansen, M. A. Siderits, P. Burson and L. J. Richmond: 1999, Life Choice Inventory (U.S. Copyright Office, Washington, DC).

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[morticiafattymshasabeard]

No Fooling: Dark Force Fest Saturday, April 1st, 2023 Review

(Hi, few days later Morticia here! I'm transferring the original Blogger post to Tumblr, and am fleshing out more of the content with links and anything new I've learned in the days following the event.)

I know I have other posts I really should have written and posted long before this one, but it is what it is. I'm just a girl with a cellphone and a passion to talk about this festival Right NOW.

Why am I only writing about Saturday? Because it was the only day I could go.  I had an Amazing time and wouldn't trade a single second of it for anything.  

Dark Force Fest is a 3-Day Alternative Music and Lifestyle Festival in New Jersey. Formerly a convention known as "Dark Side of the Con", Dark Force Fest has an amazingly Passionate and Prolific Organizer, Jet, and is presented through his company, former Social Media site now Gothic Retail store, VampireFreaks. VampireFreaks is a topic for another post and maybe a full video deep dive.  There's so much to cover, there was so much to do! I chose to check out the Swap Meet, the Live Bat Exhibit, The Super Smash Bros Tournament (I lost), and the Goth Dad Q&A. While  I could have walked into any number of bands, I specifically saw Carnivore A.D.'s Tribute to Type O Negative. For all my fan-girling about Vision Video with my friends, I couldn't stay for their show.  A quick note: While there was the banner on the outside of the Sheraton, there wasn't anything telling you where registration was. The few people milling around outside were talking in groups that seemed to be attendees. There was one Security guard inside of the Main hotel entrance to tell us to "go out and around". Signs, Please! Let's start this wordy tour of DFF2023 with the first thing we encounter after registration: the Vendors. Gathering the creative, dark minded Artisans that build our community via Clothes, Jewelry, Housewares, Cosmetics, and Consumables, Dark Force Fest gives a physical location to many vendors that would otherwise not have as targeted an audience at their local Farmer's Markets on Sunday mornings. It also gives prospective buyers, and online followers, the opportunity to meet the artists, and make the decisions they need in order to ensure they make a great purchase they'll brag about for years to come. There is nothing more satisfying than saying "This was handmade by_____ !" and knowing you're helping directly keep our community thriving. In some cases, you're literally saving lives.  A few of the Artists that I interacted with mentioned how they traveled a few Hours to vend at the festival, but felt it was worth it to be more immersed in their culture. A few lucky vendors would share the concert rooms with the shows, getting themselves some pretty comfortable seats to a plethora of bands. One such vendor was the effervescent Shirley, The Tragic Doll. She creates deeply personal works of art about living with Scleroderma, an autoimmune disease that she describes as feeling trapped in her own skin. Incorporating Skeletal imagery and the color Red, representing Blood, to symbolize the effects of her condition, Shirley hand makes every piece of her Horror Art with passion, and anatomically correct hearts, because her motto is "Live My Heart Out".  Thanks to the map and a few kind Vendors, I was able to find the Swap Meet in the Skyland room. This was my first Swap Meet and I was surprised to find a few items in my size, or near enough I can modify them in future content. Everyone there was so helpful and wonderful, suggesting items they think would fit me or suit my style, and I'm so thrilled to say they were absolutely correct! (Thank you Rainbow Fairy; you took my hat in return for your snake skull dress.) The kindness and sense of community in that one room was so awesome, it really made me love being a part of this culture. Swap Meets are a great way to clear some unused clothes/boots/accessories from your closet and pick up something you might love forever. The Swap Meet at Dark Force Fest was Free with registration. While looking for the Batcave and taking some photos of the overall hallways, I passed Dusty Gannon of Vision Video without noticing. So, behold this glorious shot of Goth Dad being a Goth Rock Daddy.

The Star Wars cosplay group, the 501st stormtroopers, were raising money for charity.  There was an interesting skeletal capital(ism) M mouse sculpture by Jasin Cadic in the main lobby of the hotel. "The Batcave" was an ongoing  Live Bats Exhibit w/ Joseph D’Angeli (NJ Batman). Joseph D’Angeli’s “Bat-Cave” is the only facility specializing in bat conservation in the NY/NJ area. These cuties were pretty shy, but so was I.

 Feeling a little worn out, we wandered out to the food trucks and picked up poutine to snack on while determining if we had the energy for a band. I believe it was the hotel that provided extensive options for more food inside of the event, in front of the Main Ballroom. I'm really glad there was free Water stations and clean Restrooms tucked around the venue. There was a water station in the Batcave, and a private bathroom in the Gaming rooms that I knowingly used, there was most likely more. 

Deciding we needed to rest from the sensory overload, we found the Super Smash Bros Tournament, and we're incredibly thankful for this respite. There were a handful of other people so we all took turns warming up. As I had planned around seeing Carnivore A.D. and Goth Dad, I did leave immediately after I lost my bracket.

Carnivore A.D. is the closest to Type O Negative live as you can possibly get in 2023. No joke, they're Peter Steele's former Carnivore bandmates! I wanted to see this show because 1. I like TON. 2. My bestie loves TON and I miss her a lot. 3. They pair well with The 69 Eyes. I definitely fucked up by headbanging,  but it's irresistible! 

We had a little time left and found Goth Dad's Q&A still going back in the Skyland room. People had some great questions, and it was powerful to hear him speak on the horrors of active combat. Dusty Gannon, the internet's "Goth Dad", has made a huge impact on how Goths and Goth Culture is seen and accepted online through Tiktok and Instagram. The Goth Dad persona is a Gentle, Kind, and Accepting person that you want to have call you sport and pat you on the head. Embracing the gender breaking styles of Post Punk influences, Dusty creates intense and stunning eye makeup looks and can be caught performing in torn tights, skirts, Fishnets and Lace tops, alongside his bandmate, Emily, as Vision Video.

We had to leave to make a dinner reservation with some friends from the area. My paper wristband didn't hold up, it frayed from being too tight and handwashing, and popped right off in the car while on our way to dinner. I didn't want to push my luck trying to get in later with a broken band.

Needless to say, I'm super excited for the next Dark Force Fest, and will be doing a whole lot more planning and managing to get to enjoy even more of it to share with you all. 

Somethings I wish I had checked out (limiting to Saturday Only events: this list would get too long for the whole weekend):

-Custom fit Fangs -The Costume Contest hosted by Electronic Saviors: Industrial Music to Cure Cancer -Write a Song with Bella Morte -Nightmare Before Christmas Shadowcast -V is for Villains -Leathers - Vision Video  -Actors

Thanks for Reading all this!  Reach out to me on my socials: Linktree

Jet, if you read this, DM me on Instagram, please. I'd love to talk. 

#Goth #Goth Events #Dark Force Fest 2023 #VampireFreaks #GothDad #VisionVideo #Leathersband #Actorsband #type o negative #Alternative Music #Industrial Musaic #Electronic Music #EDM #gothic #goth girl

[tnerb90]

01 March 2023

Here we go. 

In my last post (same day), I talked about lessons learned. Now I want to review where I stand. 

Okay. As I alluded to, I left my job at PV around April 2021. And started at Conquest in May 2021. Stress-wise it’s night and day. It’s still a new field for me and there are times I get queries and feedback, which is stressful, especially since I’m a harsh critic of myself to begin with. But on the whole, it’s not even close how much better this job is. For many reasons. Okay, so the underlying stress has been much better. However, I guess I got pretty lax over the last year too. I stopped “dieting”. Stopped exercising. There was a long stretch between like June and December where I barely moved at all. I would sit at my desk all day, go home and smoke, sit on the couch until I went to bed. A few things happened that pushed me to make a change yet again. 

1. We went on a cruise in July and had this excursion to hike up a waterfall. I barely made it. I was panting, sweating, legs were dead. It was embarassing really. Same with just walking around in general. I felt like it was too much. Not cool. Also, felt uncomfortable in my clothes. Belly sticking out. Suit was tight etc. I just didn’t like it. At all. 

2. In September, I worked up some courage (or maybe it was arrogance) thinking I could roll out of bed and start roller hockey. It honestly scared the F out of me, because I couldn’t skate anymore. My balance, my leg strength, my heaviness. It just wasn’t working...  I could barely tie my skates 1st of all. Then when I did start skating, I had about 45 seconds before my feet were in so much pain that I had to stop. I played 1 game (maybe 4 shifts) and stopped after that. I also had knee pain from pickleball with Ashton. 

3. In December, we had a company holiday party, where we went to IoA. I had been dreading it because I still hadn’t been back since the Harry Potter thing way back in 2019 when this started. And I was even heavier at that point. I know in Nov, I had reached 327.5 at one point. And that was before Ash and I went on another cruise together, so I’m sure by then it was even higher than that. Anyway. Walking around the park on its own was nervewracking because I didn’t want to seem like a fat loser sweating and out of breath from walking around. I went on my own for a while, due to fear of not fitting onto the Velocicoaster so I ghosted my group. Tried another couple of rides. Couldn’t go on Hagrids. I rode flight of the hippogrif and thats it....alone. It was a low point. I ended up running into my coworkers (as I was trying to leave the park alone and go back to the hotel) but ended up being convinced to sit for lunch with them. A few wanted to go ride the Hulk. I figured I  could fit on that one at least, since I had ridden a coaster at Seaworld a year back and it was fine. But I didnt fit. We got the front. I had to walk of shame. It was bad. I chatted with Dr. Patel a bit and told him I needed to lose weight. He asked me what my plan was? That was a big moment for me. I was honest with him. I had no plan... I didn’t even know what to do anymore. He encouraged me to start walking, just 10 mins at a time. He invited me to go to his crossfit gym at 5am’s but of course there was no chance in hell I would take him up on that. But just the fact that he was so encouraging and cool about it. Just start walking. What’s my plan? He’s available if I need help. 

So I guess those 3 things did it for me. Not being able to hang with my fam or fit into my clothes on a vacation. Not being able to play hockey. Not fitting on rides again and isolating myself from coworkers because of my weight/ lack of fitness.  Enough was enough. I had to do something. But not yet...of course I waited until January. And even Jan. 3 technically. I smoked all my weed. Commit to going for walks. Etc. Came up with a new plan for my diet and exercise. 

Jan 1, I was 324.5. I had a regular session with Ritta until the end where she got kind of real with me. Made me lay out the plan I had. Encouraged me to get support. It’s cheesy, but it really meant a lot that she didn’t just let me get away with “I got this, don’t worry.” Between her and Dr. P, I think I connected the dots there and realized support would really benefit me. 

I got down to about 318 in early February. That’s when I started seeing a personal trainer and a therapist. Yes, it’s true. I sought help.  It’s been a few weeks now since that, and I’m down to 310 today. So it’s on again. But this time I have help. In Jan, I actually started IF again. Keto again. I’m such a dummy. Ok be nice. I’m such a.... silly goose...? Anyway. I read a ton and listened to podcasts, and read about binge eating etc. And here we are. When I started IF and Keto again, I realized how much irritability and anxiety etc.  I was having again. I realized I had a lot of underlying shit I hadn’t worked through yet. And this is the most honest, productive in therapy I’ve been in a long time. Maybe the pressure being off that I’m not a counselor who needs to know it all and could just be a a human. Also, started working with JS. He’s been great too. Encouraging, patient, but firm and he is working me hard. I’m working with him 2x per week and at first it was hell. It was so much, squats etc. But I’m getting to a point where I’m recovering faster and feeling better while doing the work. He’s teaching me a lot of new exercises and proper form. It’s a challenge for sure. But I’m so happy I’m doing it. My energy has been good, especially when I sleep. My anxiety is getting better. But again, 2x per week. I know I can do more. It was perfect for the first 3 weeks because it gave me enough time to rest and recover and so far, I haven’t gotten hurt. If I can build up to cardio and another strength day or 2, I’ll be buzzing. Dietwise, I’m counting cals again, which I’m undecided on. But I know I have to control my eating somehow to lose weight at a rate i’m happy with. And this time, I’m wayyyyyyyyyyy more lenient with myself if I “slip” e.g. got ice cream on Vday. Got pizza several days for lunch at work, etc. and this time around I have a much better mindset. I just finish out the day normally. If I go over on cals, I go over. I’m focused on nutrition mostly. Protein, fiber, healthy fats, whole grains, fruits, veggies. Essentially I’m making those things the bulk of my diet and going from there. If I have cheese, white flour, halushki, etc. so be it. Don’t get me wrong, I do kind of guilt myself about it, but not nearly as bad. It’s not as dire anymore to be perfect. I just need to be consistent. Ok. I have to shit and it’s 15 mins left in the work day and I have a tx session right after. So g2g. Thanks for listening. Peace. 

[pure1024]

How do Wii create the means to celebrate & share solutions you could help do, 2 degrees from you? It's True?

Reality is created by intention most of the time, not necessarily yours, particularly if your life operate by distraction instead. Ready to communicate solutions, doors of opportunity today?

Tiny Texas Houses Newsletter

Who dares to share, or even gets to as it seems so often people ask me to make it sharable. Please feel free to copy what you see, click on it, and copy the URL as some platforms censor and hide things good for you. Please consider someone close to you will benefit if you do help others see. Not 6 degrees of separation, but I believe in 2, one is you!

Business seems to be that way, for if I do not always pay for you to see what I put up, then they leave it in a cyber box, dark and cold; please help me out. It's nasty in such holes they carve to tuck us in, Wii who speak out and offer you the rope, and shout, "This is the way you climb out of the pit of hopelessness and doubt!"

Truly this should not be in doubt, the empowerment that comes from such treasures out, but to get this to grow, Please, open up the Box! Once upon Wii created and delivered examples of all that I could should could now be done to create these tiny houses, 95% Pure salvage: Everyone.

I have created more than 75 examples that were shipped around our lands. Now it's your turn to go on and create so many others from the materials on hand and the gifts of doors and windows, tin for roofs, and more to grow this around the world for all who could still build more before I'm gone.

Given FB, or the platform you will see this on, will not send out posts that might take you to other places where they can not put ads in front of your face. So here is a post that could change your life and give your daydreams a path to thrive. How many tiny houses can you fit into a 40' long semi-truck trailer or container? 1-10 Dream Oms? What size houses? How many windows, doors, or decors for yours? At least four, but easily more w/ SpaceMagic design, the right intentions for the community, and miracles combined: Dreams come true. My son created music for an epic poem as I created these houses, then left before I could ever let the world know what he accomplished. I will until I die, share the reason why wii live to give. I am coming up on 12 year anniversary of the Song of Salvage being released in both its forms. My son created one, and the other is attributed to a ghostly apparition known as Johnny B and the Apostle of Salvage or (WUB). All part of a series of pieces that help create the Quantum Story of Wibblry and WUB manifested decades after its first words were written down. Sometimes it takes a few lifetimes to understand the one you live, as it did to understand Mii. How many "I"s came before the One I have become. Thanks for your support through the transitions.

was created after but put out to the universe before. I had to learn how to create videos to produce the amateur but for mii, a heartfelt miracle from my epic poem. His only song was a true-to-the-word version as his only gift ever to the world in music form, completed and recorded, self-taught in 2008. He passed in April 2011. Adam Brad Kittel. The second version where I take down a house to music as a seminar in 7 days, the last for mii, the 1st anniversary of his death as with this incredible house wii took down to save and give new life to, a stairway to Heaven that had to fall in the end... yes... the last few seconds of the video. To music, 150 years of stairs climbed to reach dreamland, on a1 1/2 inch thick wall falls, stalls in mid-air, and then rests softly down to never be climbed again. Just like the body and our gift of life... created with a purpose, a beginning, and an end. Miracles in a box that I will send around the world to bring new life to a vision for many communities that can come to be with the right windows, floors, and more practically free. Yes, doors of opportunity that will bring much joy, but also seeds of what Wii can do if wii just Unite Beings One and All. First, to share the treasures of the past that are abundant here and show how this can create a clear and easy path for all. In the processing of the past into a future wii can show what can be created from the salvage of what our ancestors did grow. This is to prove that wii waste too much; the best of treasures go unseen or touched into a dumpster, landfill, or much worse, burnt down to ashes for some new construction, road, or parking lot, for a highrise being all wii got with the best stuff thrown away.

If I can help a thousand people start the villages to keep this thought that wii can save the world’s past to put into new forms that honor it instead of killing the lifetimes of work that are instilled in statues, art forms throughout houses, buildings, barns, and thus give us a chance to create from the past a future with parts that will last. NO outgassing chemicals, killing new trees, or the pollution that goes with making new parts to create our homes; use the great parts more than once. This was the way it once was done, to take the parts of what was to form the future so the kids would know through stories that would always go with them. A corbel from a mansion, a railing from a train, and a ladder from a firetruck all combined to soon create an amazing house for a master suite from all salvage sweet. Stained glass windows, Indian Teak cabinets, and so much more can be combined, so all adore the structure; though it is Art, it is more; it’s a home you can live on for a lifetime in store, in fact, many more. Why not consider becoming a daydreamer and forming the future today? Take what you envision and write down everything you need to create a good start. Shall wii create one or three examples to be what you need to get it off the ground? Can you find the good friends and the people this depends on to be the successes I choose? If you can, just send me the ideas to see if Wii could unite in the end to get this to you through the loopholes that rule what can ship and get past all the hoops. The cost of the shipping, the loading, and giving $1,000 to pay for the last that it takes to get this sent from my warehouses to you is the thing that must be figured out to be sure that you can do the part that you need. Just to get it there with a plan you can share and the proof you are truthful, thus freed. Please let me know soon if this is a plan you can use for the people you have close to you who are dreaming and willing to do the work, giving money and support to help you to do what will benefit all. Help mii send out the seed for many gardens of dreams where the future can thrive with the housing for the life that you envision and soon not just dream, but build and fulfill the calling if you will, and thus help mii get these gifts to those I find.

This is what I offer to some dreamers far and wide. These metal boxes will contain the parts it takes to start again, salvaged from the dreams of men who lived a hundred years in them. Windows that have seen a few lifetimes of people who looked out through sand melted to glass by kids who dug the coal from mines and melted it to form the finds that wii will send to you, the windows to the world that keep the weather out it’s true, are still good for a few hundred years if you can, to be the homes for many to begin, to build from trees cut way-back-when, a future for the dreams they have and work on actively to form the future for the kids who will be born while this gift is crossing the seas. I pray the message reaches those from whom I hear the pleas; this is the best empowerment I can offer what they need the means to create houses and chapels where the people meet to build a future salvaged from the past with their human energy. Please share, get involved, and find the places to create so that one day this quantum story will be shared far and wide as fate would have us do this soon, or I fear it is too late to reverse the trends of technology and waste the best to date. Thank you for your time and help. Your sharing could be quite great for a writer who will celebrate a story that won’t be erased by anyone who knows that it is the product of our thoughts that lives and always grows. Dialogue and helping others see where they are blind give them the resources they may not easily find and empower them to create the solutions they need to find happiness through the unity that communication brings. Let us share with open hearts and honor truth above all things so that wii, the “I”s that make up the world, can finally agree. Wii, as One great World of Beings who care for the best for all, will find a balance in which Wii can share the middle road. Simpler living with respect for all who share the Earth will get us more by far than any war and finally set us free to find peace on a planet that has been cursed due to hate and greed. Can that be put to bed at last? I suspect Wii will soon See. Wii, Trinity, and Mii, hope to hear from you and perhaps even see you on our world tour to help design, build, and create from seeds a quantum story that includes you too. Thanks for your help, reading these long posts, and helping us by getting a subscription for a little bit to thus create the solutions for us all. Please contact us at [email protected] to get more information or make a contribution through such paths as wii may have for friends who wish to show support but also get some benefits. Lots of plans and house parts at discounts that help us and you to do the thing each has to do to help make all our dreams come true. Share it with the people just one degree away, and that is who I seek to reach. Please understand he way that the word will reach around the world is just one person away. Once there was a saying that most people are connected by 6 degrees of separation: meaning they are linked 6 people away. Now that wii can reach around the world to those wii know who are beyond the reach of people yet, connected by the internet. With the speed of light, it seems, viruses can take a meme and put it out to all the peeps who have a phone while billions sleep. The meaning may be hard for those who monitor the words that go across cyberspace so the people do not know for the best of what wii still may find is the paths down which to go. Narratives are like traffic cops who direct you to the way they want you to go even though you know there are better paths to take. So if you want more, like to create a flow where you truly may not need all the things some find when they are going blind from the lights that stay bright in the big cities. Nature is soon lost, and green leaves are very seldom seen in so many cities around the world that it has become extreme. Who can deny greenery is part of what our bodies need to find the peace that comes for free from the frequencies that nature brings into our life? Sounds refresh us from a waterfall or singing birds. Crickets and frogs sing a song that lays your head to rest. Grounding and the benefits of the strong high infra-red energy that flows from the Earth through your toes that can heal you from being sick. Mother Nature's gift of ions flows into your bare feet, so you know when looking at the trees, the power flowing through your knees into your heart will benefit your brain as it is pumped: this is natural healing that will balance ions free. Stop the pain of inflammation. Stop the fear from lack of touch, whether people or the planet; you need grounding very much if you plan to heal and help others who need this knowledge too. Why not be the anomaly that goes off to the woods, off into the mountains like the aged Tibetans would? Return rejuvenated to the point of youthing to the point of where your body was when you were 32. If you doubt the possible life, dare to question, not just believe, you will find elders at 118 doing what few of you young bucks could. Do you deny what is possible or be an example so that others who doubt have proof of what good intentions can still do even though you think you are too old to contribute what is true? Wisdom comes from experience, with knowledge and life lived fully so that when wii reach our peak in life, Wii can do what wii came to do. Once some realize that they wii can surmise that the calling they now hear is clear, it is because when it’s time, this will not be a rhyme, but the dialogue Wii need to use as the people then can see what Truth is for mii and you.

Who awakes that I prefer over all the plans inferred by the WHO that has for sure, though the people of the world that do not have vote that's pure. Suppose you are thinking that those who are seeking to empower and communicate the truth, not the fake news, once again, have a chance to still defend our sacred Right to Free Speech. Look about across the Web, and become a Webbler with intent instead of just a sucker on a line of ads that seem to track your life. Become a Wubber spreading WUB, a World Union of Beings (WUB) that all the "I"s make up. The Wii can communicate through touch, our minds, and what wii make. Words of Wibblry in rhyme are zipped files that will unwind in the minds of all who seek to know the path to freedoms that will grow. Wubbling to touch and say that you love and share a way to communicate that few will know, like a secret handshake that will show unity and family around the world, that’s what Wii Be.

Wibbling, sending thoughts that bring images and more to the ones wii love and the Source above that fuels all life Earth may give. This is how wii live. For those awake that give more than words to reality, wii give the seeds and the energy they need to grow trees in the future of our lives.

Wibblizing is creating in a way that also states in an artful form that’s true, full of evidence that there is more than chance that forms what mankind will do. Its a plan that Wii, all the “I”s can see and create all the Lights Wii need to enlighten others to the wonderful powers that the kids being born today can express through life, to one day lead right, and help keep the peace one day.

I create through words and cartoons, Wibblizing to create for you, to express what I mean, and by drawing too, I have hopes I can create with Truth. Inspiration is my goal through Webbling out to the world. I know on a keyboard that I can unfurl a package to be unzipped by you around the world. Unless you share, few will know, few will care or grow these seeds that I planted in your sight. What is in a cartoon now? A picture or a single word, or a combo that will stick in those who see? Wub is an energy of the soul, Spiritual indeed, transmitted, once in the body. It forms WIBs as proofs “I” Be! Wub In Body (WIBs) are Beings that incarnate form a lobby, here to help our species to be part of the Cosmic growth and community that you will see is living all around.

Humans linked with sentient Beings all United for the Freedoms that Wii believe across the Cosmos for the planet Wii all love so. Please accept the poems of Wub and Wibblry a short language for the memes of freedom wii can share to get the pieces all out there. Where oh where do the Wubbers go? Oh, where oh where can they be? Are they hidden now, but will all come out if the communities all start to grow? I suspect and believe that the part I perceive will lead to the dreams that come true when our gift of doors that will open more than most think. It will fire up and inspire like a deeply sought desire for a path to make visions come true, for the seeds of the dream are the gifts I offer to anyone with the faith and friends to manifest and populate the communities it takes to nurture this ethos with you. Pure Salvage Living is all about giving our planet a break from the destruction it takes for progress to pay off. It is true. Some would prefer to live simpler and be sure that nature is not lost in the test of the takings by man until there is no more left and the future is bleak. Let us work to create paradises and lakes, islands that promise to keep some balance for all of the Beings that share our dear planet, give it time to get better after what will be coming, our fate.

[goboymusic]

“#StarWars is like pizza. I like good pizza, and I like bad pizza.” I can’t remember who originally said this, but I love it.

Knowing “#Ayla” would be the last song on GoBoy 5, the prospect of finishing it was far more exciting than most songs.

While most of the names that I use for song titles are arbitrarily selected, some of them are named after people from my past, like this one. Normally impatience gets the best of me when I reach the end of an album and I begin to cut corners to speed up the production process, but since this song was named after a person that I always had a healthy connection with, and that I’m fond of, I made sure to take my time and not half ass anything. I was going to release the song when it was worthy of being heard by that person, and not before then. Is the song amazing? No, but it’s pretty alright.

After about one week of recording and mixing vocals, I began experimenting with different genres for the instrument tracks, from EDM to rock to hip hop. After a few days of trying to come up with instruments for the “oh she got everything I want” chorus, I opted to leave it as an a cappella, because no matter what instruments I added, they weren’t meshing with the vocals. Loud rock drums were added to the post-chorus vocal skippy segment, because that’s the best thing that I could come up with, and were subsequently added to a portion of the 1st chorus because it sounded cool.

The verse vocals were an ordeal. I wanted to add the same loud rock drums from the post-chorus vocal skippy segment to the verses, but the original rhythm of the verse vocals didn’t fit, so I deleted and re-recorded them. A few days later, after the new verse vocals were mixed, I discovered that my nasal passages sounded clogged during the latter portions of the verses. Rather than record the verse vocals a 3rd time, I opted to add a transition midway through the verses from loud rock drums to a lofi style that consisted of a rhythmic synth, vocals, and a high-end filter to make the music sound muffled (if you listen to the song you’ll hear exactly what I’m describing). That lofi style hid my vocal blunder sufficiently.

Ever hear of a #McGuffin in the film industry? A “McGuffin” is an object that the plot revolves around, like the ring in Lord of the Rings, or the infinity stones in the Avengers movies. In songwriting, names are like McGuffins. It’s really convenient to pick a name and then write a song that revolves around it (excerpts from post 89).

“Hannah (Song 89)” was the first of many song titles on GoBoy 5, 6 and 7 that were named after girls. Some of them are real, some of them are arbitrarily selected. Gotta admit, I think it’s pretty funny seeing three or more tracks on the same album with different girl names (excerpts from post 89).

Beat + bass + melody. That’s the style of GoBoy 5. While I’ve appreciated this minimalistic style for years, “Tell My Mama (Song 42)” was the first time trying it. I went whole-hog with GoBoy 5, in which most songs primarily consist of a beat, bass and melody (excerpt from post 80).

For GoBoy 5, instead of creating for the sake of creating, like I did for GoBoy 4, I wanted to make poppier songs that would appeal to a larger audience. Was that goal accomplished? Well, maybe, I guess. It resulted in the song “In Love (Song 82),” which everyone and their mother seems to like (excerpt from post 79).

GoBoy 5 ragdolled me. I remember wondering if I’d live to see the completion of the album. While the style is minimalistic, the writing and production processes were chaotic, akin to throwing darts with a blindfold on. Most songs turned into a puzzle once they reached the mixing phase, with a portion of the pieces being destined not to fit. It required constant compromising - discarding segments, restructuring, rewriting, etc. The combination of the difficult production process and temporary chaos at work left a blood-soaked trail behind me (excerpt from post 80).

In April, 2021, almost all of GoBoy 3, 4 and 5‘s songs were restructured to be under 3 minutes (preferably under 2m 30s), including this song. I became okay with releasing songs around the 2 min mark after realizing The Beatles and The Beach Boys had some songs around that length. In an attempt to increase replay value in this streaming era, most of GoBoy’s songs are now purposely around 2m 20s (excerpts from post 37).

A bass boost was added to songs 37-101 in Nov, 2021, while I was stuck at home with covid. As a result, this song feels more powerful. The bass boost isn’t a simple plugin nonchalantly added to each song. It’s a process that took about 3.5 hours per song, or one whole month to complete all songs. Admittedly, I pushed the bass boost a little too far for some of them. The bass in some songs sounds like a freaking earthquake (unnecessarily pronounced low frequencies 20 - 50 Hz). Might dial that back someday. The bass boost was also applied to every song on GoBoy 6 and beyond (excerpt from post 37).

#GoBoy #Ayla #99

[tsuritama10th]

Tsuritama 2020 Blu-Ray Short Story

Since this story is fairly short, I wanted to give it a real line-by-line translation. Please be aware though that this is a cleaned up machine translation. I did try to double-check all of the lines, but my Japanese is beginner level and there is a big margin for error!

Thank you so much to my friend Felix for the scans!

He hadn't seen Haru since yesterday.

Yuki deftly put a small colorful fish on the hook and immediately stopped thinking about it again. There were many other things to think of. Much had happened in the last year and a half.

The Enoshima Boom that was caused by the turmoil a while back had come and gone. Though a few tourists still came by to see the Enoshima Dance, Heihach's shout that "The Era of Enoshima has come!" did not actually come true. The island returned to its original tranquil state.

It was Yuki's second year working at HEMINGWAY now. The store manager (the cat) had gotten fat again. The Tapioca drink that's served on a duck shaped coaster was as popular as ever. Ayumi, who had successfully become Misaki's husband, was currently repairing the roof of the store. The typhoon last week had blown off a part of the roof.

When the typhoon came, Yuki had remembered the turmoil of back then for a little, but he didn't say that out loud.

Ayumi still had a habit of dashing to the shore and shouting, but now he only did it when Misaki gets mad. He releases the screams of his heart to the ocean that way.

Misaki was pregnant but her belly had not grown yet.

"What do you think would be a good name for the baby?" Ayumi asked Yuki every time they met, but Yuki didn't feel like that's his place to decide so he never answered seriously.

The other day Erika, who had started fishing under the influence of her boyfriend, dropped by with him to buy matching lures. Yuki still felt a little swell of pride that he was able to speak to them very naturally.

He had changed from back in the day. By now, it was alright for him to man the store on his own. His customer service was decent. The days of the Hannya-face were a nostalgic memory now.

After that fiasco, Yuki was able to talk to his classmates at school a lot. They asked him many things about fishing. Yuki, Haru and Urara also went fishing every week.

These days, it was only once in a while...

Well, it's probably one of those things...

'It's been a year and a half', Yuki thought to himself. It's been a really long time since Natsuki and Akira left Enoshima... It'd been a lot of fun since, but there was also an indescribable feeling in Yuki's heart.

Boredom? Emptyness? A sense of loss?

Those words came to mind, but none of them seemed to fit.

Every day was fun, but what lies ahead?

Yuki had applied to some universities, but he aimed to high and failed. No, no. Really it was because he'd been fishing when he really would have needed to work harder.

Anyway, Yuki decided to stay in Enoshima.

A year passed quickly as he was studying, working part time and helping out at home. Yuki was getting kind of fidgety. "What are you going to do in the future?" was the question he was most scared of.

Would they ask it, too...?

Tomorrow, on March 31st, Natsuki would temporarily return from studying in the US and Akira will rush in from Finland, where he was currently posted.

Yuki hadn't seen them in a year and a half. That's why he had been reminiscing about what happened in that time.

Why tomorrow? Naturally...

March 31st - Yuki's Birthday April 1st - Haru's Birthday

Around this time, Yuki can't help pulling away from Haru, who was always next to him. That's annoying. He disliked himself for thinking this way sometimes.

While Yuki always got a bit moody around now, Haru was forever like a child. It was impossible to explain that frustration to him. They didn't go fishing these days because they got into fights over the smallest things. Urara had been pretty troubled because of that. He's a really nice guy.

Yuki had been trying hard to think about a birthday present for Haru. He thought of a surprise and then went 'oh, well' and contradicted himself again. It had been like this since yesterday.

But... oh well.

Yuki wasn't sure why, but he had a feeling that all his moodiness will be gone when he sees Natsuki and Akira again tomorrow.

There was something he wants to tell Natsuki.

Yuki recently met up with his real father. He didn't remember how long it had been, but it made him happy. But even though they went fishing together, it wasn't really exciting. They didn't know what to talk about and parted without making any plans for a next time.

Yuki wanted to talk to Natsuki about that.

After finishing up with work, Yuki went back to the empty house and got into the futon alone to remember the last year and a half from the beginning again.

Where should I start...?

Thinking about that, his thoughts got all messy and he fell asleep before he knew it.

And so came March 31st. The day of the memorable four person reunion.

But Haru didn't come back.

Even though he was looking forward to it so much...

Yuki was pissed off, sad, and for some reason lonely, and for the first time in a long time, and only on a day like this, his Hannya face returned!

After Natsuki and Akira laughed at his face and took a lot of pictures with their phones, the group went to the East Promenade of Katase Fishing Port near HEMINGWAY, where he'd fished for the first time, and fished together.

Natsuki was working towards becoming a professional bass fisherman in California under the guidance of an American bass pro. His hair was as shaggy as when Yuki first met him, and Yuki was glad to see that he was concentrating on fishing. For a birthday present Natsuki gave him a dark blue cap "for everyday use or for fishing".

It seemed that Natsuki had learned about more than just bass fishing in California.

"I am in nature every day. Everyone calls it "nature," but it doesn't really have a name. When you are in it every day, it sometimes seems like you don't have a name either." he said and Yuki didn't quite get it, but it was good.

Akira, now twenty-seven years old, currently lives in Finland and seems to be fishing as usual. For a moment Yuki thought he had brought two Tapiocas, but it seems like it was Tapioca with her lover. Yuki was surprised that it was a different one from the one he'd heard about before.

Yuki and Natsuki laughed when they saw Tapioca sharing the ham that Akira had given her with her lover, but Akira didn't laugh, instead he let out a long breath through his nose and looked at the ocean.

Yuki was given a brightly designed apron by Akira. "You've been cooking lately, haven't you?" Akira had a good memory, probably because of his job.

Yuki said, "Thanks," and then added, without looking at the two of them, "Grandma's fine, by the way." He somehow had gotten the feeling they were worried about that.

Ironically, it was Akira who was most worried about Haru's disappearance.

"Sometimes there are aliens. Sometimes there are aliens who suddenly disappear..."

-

But Haru didn't disappear.

Whenever he got into one of those "annoying" situations that are so common these days, he turned into a yellow fish and retreated into his goldfish bowl. His temporary home was in a place Yuki doesn't frequent these days, so he couldn't find him. It's the hospital room where Kate iwas staying.

Kate had been here more often than not lately.

Today, Haru swam in the goldfish bowl on Kate's bedside table and talked.

"Yuki says 'Things are changing, aren't they?'"

Haru felt that Yuki has been cold these days. He was in a bad mood and doesn't hang out with Haru as much as before. But Yuki says "no matter who, no matter what, nobody can avoid changing".

"Yuki has changed! He doesn't come to see you, Kate, and our house is a mess."

"There are also times like this," Kate said, "That isn't all there is to Yuki."

"I know. Yuki makes good food. Urara has also gotten better."

"Haven't you changed as well, Haru?"

"Not at all. I hate change!"

"Oh, but haven't you been saying 'it's such a pain' a lot lately?"

"I... might have been saying something like that..."

A year ago, Haru came back to Enoshima because he didn't want to be without Yuki. He thought they'd be together until they died.

"... but it doesn't look like that's going to be true..."

"Certainly..."

Coco, who had returned to their home planet, had told Haru to come back soon. And definitely, their home planet was pleasant and enjoyable. Haru always told Coco that it also feels really good here, but recently he'd been wondering if that's actually true. He's felt a lot of loneliness and sadness.

That's what he thought when the typhoon shook the house.

"But 'sadness' isn't just sad."

Haru's reply was a tantrum-like whine. "I don't get it!!"

"After all... Even when you feel sad, you eat when you're hungry. You laugh when you hear something funny, right? "

"Yeah."

"Nothing is ever just the one thing. So don't decide it is, Haru. Look, even though I'm alive, I might also have died already."

"Kate is alive!"

"That's right. Surprisingly, I haven't died yet. That's what I mean. Sometimes it feels like it's over, but then surprisingly it's not. I'm always excited to find out what happens."

"Que sera, sera!"

That was something the two of them said in a chorus.

And as Kate said, Haru was sad and still, he laughed.

-

In the end, only Natsuki caught three fish. Yuki and Akira got nothing. Afterwards, they lazed around on the grass in front of HEMMINGWAY and, as if they had agreed on it, fell silent.

As Yuki listened to the soothing sound of the waves, he thought that he had expected everyone to talk much more, about many things.. It was so quiet that he sneaked a glance at the others' profiles.

Natsuki seemed to be looking beyond the sky, while Akira seemed to be looking even beyond that.

After a long silence, the topic of 'what if the world ended tomorrow' came up.

"First I'll ascertain that that's actually the truth," Akira replied.

"Sorry for being boring, but I'l probably be fishing," Natsuki said. "And you, Yuki?"

As he was asked by Natsuki, Yuki pushed a thought of Haru's smiling face out of his mind and replied: "I'd probably be with grandma." He felt like he could hear Haru saying "You haven't visited her at all lately" in the back of his mind, but he pushed that out too.

Haru didn't show up after all.

Giving Haru his presents was postponed until tomorrow and the party broke up much earlier than Yuki had expected.

Natsuki had wanted to go home since they were wishing. Yuki first thought he wanted to see Sakura, but then he remembered little Satsuki was also there and that was probably it. When talking about his youngest sister who couldn't even talk yet, Natsuki smiled so much that he didn't even seem like Natsuki.

"If she cries, what do I do? I see her over smartphone sometimes, but she still doesn't recognize me as her older brother."

Akira seemed to still be in Enoshima tomorrow, but he hadn't said where he was staying.

As they parted, Yuki slipped in the story about going fishing with his father. Natsuki and Akira looked a little surprised, but quickly recovered.

"There's still a lot of stuff," Natsuki said, "It may not work out at first, but I think it will in the future."

"I wonder..."

"I'm sure of it. I feel like you once told me you were jealous of me, but now I'm jealous of you."

"I think so as well," said Akira. He looked straight at Yuki and continued as if he had been prepared for this all along. "Yuki, don't worry too much. You saved the world here, but from now on you'll save yourself. If you start worrying about important things before they've even started, you won't be in charge of your own body and mind."

After all, Akira was an adult.

Yuki wasn't sure what to say or do, but Natsuki gently poked him.

"Get along with Haru." When Yuki didn't know what to say yet again, the other two looked at each other and laughed.

What's with those two...

The three of them parted ways there. They did not make any concrete plans for tomorrow.

After all, the thing Yuki had been afraid of, the question "What are you going to do in the future?" had not come up. Nobody asked it, though they may have wondered in their hearts.

The sun was setting before Yuki knew it.

"No way," Yuki muttered as he looked out to the sea. If he met up with Natsuki and Akira, all this moodiness would surely disappear. That couldn't be true.

When he came to, he was running. It had been a while so he was immediately out of breath.

Pathetic. I'm still only 19.

There was someone waving in the distance and it was Haru, after all.

"Happy Birthday, Yuki!"

"You too..."

"I'm only tomorrow!"

"I know."

"Here, your present!"

They had both gotten each other lures. They're similar at first glance, but if you looked at them closely, they were completely different lures.

Yuki should have been pissed off, but he had to laugh.

"That's a cute lure! Thank you, Yuki!"

"... yeah. Thank you as well."

"Hey Yuki, become my friend again!"

"What's with that..."

"Please! Say it's okay, please, pleeeaaaase!"

Haru was clinging to Yuki's arm in a tantrum. Yuki still didn't like it, but there was nothing he could do about it.

"We'll be friends again." He decided to accept the strange proposal. "I don't really get it, but let's get along."

Haru jumped in joy, just when Urara stepped out to call them for dinner.

"The Miso is read Miso with whitebait today."

Even though Yuki was simply told what's for dinner, his feelings seemed to reset.

Is that what a mother looks like?

Mother? No, that's an alien.

Yuki felt kind of embarrassed and laughed, blaming it on the bright glare of the setting sun.

As he sighed at being dragged inside by the arm by Haru, Yuki thought that tomorrow he should go fishing with Haru, Urara, Natsuki and Akira, and after that he should visit his grandma.

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