The little nerd show was good. Never really busy, but steady-ish. Mostly a Pokemon/card-heavy group, didn't move any of my animanga stuff, but sold a few TFs and some random other things. Sold video games, and at the end another vendor offered me half of what I had marked on my 'expensive' PS1 games which was still way more than double? triple? what I'd paid and I said "sure!" because, like, they are out of my sale box and I have cash in hand. Next show is in April and I suppose I'll be best served by picking out more games that I'm never going to play. (Also the vendor beside us kept coming over and looking at a couple of random PSP games but said he hadn't done well enough to justify buying them. He had Pokemon plushies and I said I'd trade for a couple of cool critters. I got a Pikachu and some sort of mushroom with tentacles that made me laugh.)

It's March, so I have communities to do things with and promote in general... I have a lot of stuff to do in general. While it is still chilly at the moment, the end of the week is supposed to be impressively warm and I will be able to hopefully do a quick garage-clean. Yay!

I suppose this week, if it's as quiet as it's looking like it might be, I can work on my Redacted III contest entry. That should be easy-ish to do? Hopefully? Just need to find momentum...

eff_ess_oe

So this past weekend was my third Citruscon, everyone else's fourth. Told y'all last year why I missed the 2025 edition, but now I'm caught up. or so to speak. Here's the roundup.

[PANELS]

I wasn't able to do as many panels for Friday and Saturday because I had Second Job at some of the more peak times. But I was able to make it to a few ones. Friday I saw ones talking about Gengoroh Tagame's body of work, as well as non-fanthology zine culture and how one can go about translating it to BL fandom. Saturday I saw panels on himbos throughout the years, Japanese BL terminology and the specific tags people use to describe tropes/archetypes/etc., yuri manga recs for people who mainly read yaoi (although i was late for that one because Second Job), and one on fanfic etiquette that took a bit of a wild turn into the time one of the panelists got heat from the guinea pig enthusiast community of all things. I also got to do a mini-doujin workshop, which I'll post the end product of later on once I've got it uploaded to Squidge.

Sunday I caught the rest of the JP BL terminology panel on a rebroadcast since I missed the latter half, and then saw a rarepair panel that was probably one of my favorites of the con! A bunch of people were able to submit little videos spreading their rarepair propaganda, and I was sold on at least two of them (ChiboDomon from G Gundam, DonLepo from Don Giovanni -- yes, the opera by Mozart). Also enjoyed the cybersecurity panel and the round of Press Your luck that i didn't sit in on, but did draw a lil bit of quick n dirty yaoiz for (to be posted later). And then I found my second favorite panel of the con, which is a presentation on "Comfort Character Letters" which basically means that people will write to you in character and send you the copy. I feel like that would be a banger exchange idea...

[MEETUPS]

Was a LOT quieter on the meetup front this year because my interests skewed more niche this time rather than having popular interests in 2024. Balanced my time between the Vocaloid meetup, western animation meetup, the post-panel discussion for the doujin making workshop, tempural/Scumsuck's artist alley booth, and the rarepair panel post-discussion. Pretty relaxing, honestly, since these chats were a lil quieter than some of the other meetups that were going on. Special shoutout to those who watched the unabridged version of the fanifesto I was gonna send in but went way over time on after I linked it in that chat. You are the true MVPs ^^

[RECS]

A little less dense than last time because of the combo of Second Job and not being as active in chats, but I still got a tiny list ~~

MANGA/MANHWA/COMICS:
House of Brutes
Yoru to Asa
On A Leash (wlw)
Best Served Cold (wlw)

ANIME:
Mobile Fighter G Gundam (gen)

GAMES/VN:
Hashihime of the Old Book Town

OPERA (yes. thank you rarepair panel):
Don Giovanni (gen)

[ARTIST ALLEY]

Was a lil more focused on commissions this year as opposed to physical merch, even though one of the things I ordered ended up being a combo of both. Once I get the stuff, you'll see it in a separate post. But for now, special shout out to

meganehaven ,

tempural ,

marinehaddock (even though he wasn't promoing his stuff as part of Artist Alley this year), and pepperonccini.com for providing me with The Good Shit.

More to follow once I sort out image hosting. Thanks again to the organizers! Shit was pretty good, even though idk how it's gonna go down next year what with Discord going down the sewer...

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Since there have been some cloudflare outages on ao3 today, we have decided to keep signups open for 24 hours extra.

The new signups closing date will be: 2nd March at 9pm UTC.

rionaleonhart

I'm constantly delighted by how bonkers the dynamic between Chris and Robert is. Robert had a relationship with Chris's mother; Chris had a relationship with Robert's sister; are you two sure you're not just trying to sleep with each other by proxy?

Anyway, here's a fic about that.

Title: By Proxy
Fandom: The Goes Wrong Show (technically the televised version of A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong)
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Robert/Chris, past Chris/Robert's sister, past Robert/Celia
Wordcount: 2,100
Summary: “I wanted to speak to you about your dalliance with my sister.”

( By Proxy )

corpsebrigadier

Candy Hearts Letter for CorpseBrigadier on Ao3

Dear Creator,

Thanks so much for taking the time to make something for me, and kudos on your great taste in the finest of Final Fantasies. I've listed a variety of prompts below that tend to elaborate on angsty/messy/offbeat ships I'd love to see for the installments in question. However, I'm a firm proponent of optional details being optional, so if your heart is set on a concept that isn't quite in alignment with some of the prompts/ideas here, feel free to follow your muse. I'm a big fan of the unconventional, experimental, and weird in fanworks, and I am always happy to be introduced to something new or offbeat. Whatever direction you opt to take, I'm very excited about whatever you choose to create and looking forward to seeing what you come up with.

[NOTE: This letter will be functionally complete at the time it is made public, but it may be tweaked to adjust details/add requests through the end of sign-ups. It will not be altered save to correct grammar/spelling after the end of sign-ups.]

General (DNWs, Likes, Opt-Ins) | Final Fantasy VI | Final Fantasy VIII | Final Fantasy Tactics

General (DNWs, Likes, Opt-Ins, Etc...)

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Final Fantasy VI

[Requesting FIC]

I have a deep and profound nostalgia for the final Final Fantasy before Final Fantasy VII (and all the changes it wrought), and I think it remains one of the strongest installments in the series. I love how well it combines hard-hitting character drama with the complete absurdity of RPGs in general, and I love its sweeping, poignant explorations of human relationships in equal measure to its willingness to embrace that sometimes those relationships are offset by a talking purple octopus.
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Final Fantasy VIII

[Requesting FIC]

I was not as much a fan of this game when it first came out as I should have been, because I was a dweeby teenager who liked Final Fantasy and I could not yet appreciate having a Final Fantasy about dweeby teenagers who would probably like Final Fantasy. I love how goofy, experimental, dreamlike, and weird this game is, and I love how many gorgeous and fun little details are hidden throughout the game if you poke around. I love that its a psychoanalyst's wet dream of intermixed mother/witch/lover/sister figures, chock full of lunar imagery and wrapped up in all sorts of angst about memories and the irretrievable past. I love that I am always allowed to play Triple Triad no matter the degree of crisis. For the one ship I've selected, I'd be very interested in looking into all the ways the game is simultaneously very poignant and very goofy and wrapped up in people who are trying very hard to be cool while being massively vulnerable and dorky.

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Final Fantasy Tactics

[Requesting FIC or ART]

This game has been my major fandom for a few years now. I love how immensely unrepentantly bleak it is, how it's full of Church-flavored horror, and how it is just filled to the brim with unhappy families. I'm entirely here for political backstabbing and endless misery 24/7 in this sad little world of grid-based warfare. I love pretty much everything within it, and I would frankly be happy to receive almost anything for this fandom. In particular, I'm interested in the dynamics between characters who occupy similar narrative niches but never have the opportunity to meet in game.

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kalloway

I feel like I'm having more and more days where I would like to wander off and become an ornamental hermit.

That is probably also a post on its own... This is, thus far, a weekend of feeling very old/turning to dust and blowing away, and general enshittification annoyances.

Beyond that, I have finished the Destiny Astray as far as I'm going to for now. Absolute nightmare, would build again in an instant. Though I suppose I'd much prefer to be able to afford the ridiculously difficult-to-get official version of the kit and build that. (I remain tickled that the not-actually-wrong translated name of the bootleg kit translated back as Heresy of Fate. So I suppose I should be calling it that.)

I will have to get some photos posted because while building it absolutely sucked, it looks gorgeous and absolutely passes the two-foot rule.

I am going to make good on my promise to build a bunch of 30MM kits for the next little bit...

There are no fewer than four gunpla/plamo contests with deadlines in March. One of which I am definitely committed to (Redacted III), another I strongly intend to do (30ML), and the others are if I have a brilliant and fast idea that I can knock out quickly and easily.

I have a lot of other projects I need to get (back) to, but at this point I just need to get myself together to get to the nerd show today and do that. One thing at a time...

(Please go vote in my poll if you haven't.)

raisedbymoogles

First, new Ask Mighty Megatron: On AO3

Also, my self-imposed challenge to do a Transformers drabble for every prompt on

drabble_zone continues apace: here and here. I fully expect the Internet to crash and burn before I get through all these, but I'm having fun and it's a great way to keep my wordcount up on days when I can't get myself to work on anything else.

renegadefolkhero

money

like what even is money?? "Money can be exchanged for goods and services." (only made $350 boo)
eden did not pay me (or a bunch of other people) :( boo
I spent the money on seeds, plants, games, and a stuffed octopus. The octopus, in particular, is delightful. yay

boook

I finished a novella that I genuinely really like, but stalled out on last year because I was stressing about how readers would respond to it. This time, I decided to Ren up and do what I need to do, and I think it worked out pretty okay. I'll sit on it a while, probably until the end of the year, which will hopefully help with publishing anxiety. It's a somewhat personal story, and I'm sure some clueless dumbass will eat me alive on Goodreads and I'll spiral into despair, but whatever.
I picked up an unfinished novel from 2024. After a week poking at it my gut said, there 👏 is 👏 something 👏 wrong 👏 with 👏 this 👏book! And indeed there is something wrong with this book. The book doesn't work as a romance and wants to be more of an urban fantasy, and the midpoint is totally borked. I'm faced with that old dilemma: do I pour my soul and sweat into a thing that may not ever shape up, or let it die and save myself some grief? After hemming and hawing a bit, I decided I would give it one last go. I'm 35k in and normally Let It Go becomes apparent sub 20k. If I've got more than 20k I generally have SOMETHING. Might not be a great something, but it's something.

The dilemma: I have to publish More Book to make money, and I need money for games. Very tricky situation. So I yeeted a book last week, and I did my little ritual dance where I say I'm not gonna look at my sales dash but then obviously I do look because I need to sell at least one copy so I can calm the fuck down. As it happens, I sold 4 copies within several hours, so I released a godless primal scream and collapsed in on myself like a dying star, as one does.

For all my pissing and moaning I'm actually a very simple creature. I just want to sell like... a book, sometimes. Can you imagine if I actually sold lots of books, many times? How terrible would that be for everyone. That would be horrible. I would explode and you'd all die. Good thing I don't know how to market these.

rionaleonhart

Death Note: The Musical is coming to London this summer, which is pretty exciting news if you're me!

'Wow, is Riona posting an entry about something that's not The Goes Wrong Show?' - bad news, I'm afraid.

Tem: Are you looking forward to seeing your boy Light Yagami?
Rei: Played by Robert Grove.
Riona: That would be a bold casting decision, but I'd watch it.
Tem: Death Note Goes Wrong. Their 'prop Death Note' is an actual Death Note. They need to write in it during the show, so they just use the names of the people who bought tickets. At the end, they're going 'wow, this was our most successful performance ever, can't wait for the applause,' and the lights go up to reveal the entire audience dead, with Ryuk sitting in the front row and applauding.
Rei: They consider writing Jonathan's name in the Death Note, because it's the only way he'll be included in the play, but they decide against it because he's not part of the audience. That's the only reason he survives.
Riona: Or they write his name in the Death Note, but he survives because they misspell it.

Robert Grove also cannot be entrusted with a Death Note if he knows it's real, of course. If Robert sees an opportunity to secure the role he desires, he will take that opportunity immediately and think about it later, if at all.

Basically, Robert has no particular desire for anyone's death, but he will one hundred percent kill people if it's a straightforward way to get what he wants. I give it a week before he kills Chris in order to get the lead role and then goes '...hmm, I might regret that later.'

Dennis might actually be the safest member of the Cornley Drama Society to entrust with a Death Note. He wouldn't use it with the intention of killing anyone. He would almost certainly forget it kills people and start using it like a normal notebook, which is risky, but if he writes anyone's name he's probably going to misspell it.

Aaaaand then Robert would wrestle the notebook off him and use it to kill Chris so he can have the lead. Let's just not give the Cornley Drama Society a Death Note at all.

vriddy

First K-9 fic I posted since the tags got wrangled :D Ooooh the delicious luxury of having the ship name auto-complete... 🫦 especially when it's long af XD

I guess I'm celebrating by creating even more character/ship tags haha. Hello hello, Eden cast! Welcome to AO3 ;)

To win your hand | K-9 | Ren/Oboro/Fujimaru/Kagari + one-sided Sasakura/Fujimaru | 2.2k words | rated T

Summary: Jin can sew himself back together, but he can't regrow a missing hand like some kind of lizard. Now, he has a choice: either get used to it, or go search for his missing limb. Easier said than done.

Read it on Dreamwidth or on AO3.

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vriddy

Community Thursday challenge: every Thursday, try to make an effort to engage with a community on Dreamwidth, whether that's posting, commenting, promoting, etc.

Over the last week...

Posted and commented on

bnha_fans.

Commented on

common_nature.

Posted on

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Current Mood: sleepy

rionaleonhart

This post will consist of various silly Goes Wrong Show-related things I've posted to Tumblr recently!

I posted a poll to Tumblr, asking people for their favourite member of the Cornley Drama Society. The poll closed at 149 votes with Trevor firmly in first place (27.5%), followed by Chris (21.5%), Max (13.4%), Vanessa (10.7%), Annie and Dennis (8.7%), Jonathan (3.4%), Robert and Sandra (2.7%), and Lucy (0.7%).

(I don't think Lucy is an official member of the drama society, but I created this poll to see how things had changed in the three years since

personinthepalace asked the same question, so I thought I'd better make sure I had exactly the same options.)

I'm surprised and a little wounded by my beloved Robert's unpopularity! I'm just going to have to love him hard enough for everyone. (This will not satisfy him.)

Anyway, I wrote a little snippet of the characters reacting to the results:

( The Cornley Drama Society react to my character popularity poll. )

Another poll I've contemplated recently was this one from

questions-about-blorbos: Would you let your blorbo tie you up and do whatever they wanted with you?

My immediate reaction to this was 'oh, GOD.' Awful!! I think the only one of my blorbos who I actually find sexually attractive is Robert Grove of The Goes Wrong Show, but any sexual encounter with him is guaranteed to be regrettable, and involving bondage would be catastrophic. He ties me up and then gets distracted by an argument with Chris and then rehearses without rest for several days straight, and I am left tied to his bed for seventy-two hours.

Whilst I currently answer blorbo-related polls with Robert in mind, on account of being actively insane about him, the character I usually call on for these polls is Light Yagami of Death Note. Also a terrible idea to let him tie you up! I'm not sexually interested in him, he's not going to be sexually interested in me, and, perhaps most crucially: if he does want to tie me up, it's going to be because he wants to either kill me or frame me for murder. All things considered, I'd rather he didn't.

Finally: for Valentine's Day, I posted a Valentine's message from Robert Grove.

Please accept this as an extremely belated token of my affection for all of you.

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kalloway

Help me pick my next* build! (*Well, I have the Destiny Astray to finish, whatever I'm making for 30ML Day, the other contest, and possibly some other small decompression builds. Which is fine, it means I can leave this poll open for a bit.)

These kits are all not Gundams, nor are they made by Bandai. There's a frustrating habit in the hobby, both by the folks who build the kits and the folks selling them, to lump all these kits under "Third Party", "Indie Plamo", or just "ChinaPla" even though not all of the makers are Chinese. I haven't decided on a preferred term, but I'm leaning towards just listing the maker or if I need to refer to a larger whole, "Other Kits" or "Non-Bandai".

Poll #34288 It's (Not) A Gundam!

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 12

View Respondents

Which Non-Bandai Kit Should I Build Next?

View Answers

Blue Estailev (Orange Cat/Wave)
4 (33.3%)

Oberon (Mecha Core Industry)
4 (33.3%)

Baphomet Demon Phantom (Cang Toys)
2 (16.7%)

Fire Lord (SNAA)
1 (8.3%)

Apocalypse (Vientiane Fusion)
0 (0.0%)

Mandala (CaesarWorks)
0 (0.0%)

Yunsheng Y-20 (Xiwanshe)
1 (8.3%)

Genesis (Infinite Dimension)
1 (8.3%)

Gus (ZZZA)
1 (8.3%)

Valkyrie (Eddas)
2 (16.7%)

Edelstein II (Moderoid/Good Smile)
2 (16.7%)

Cannon Shadow (Soul Vogue)
1 (8.3%)

Oracle (Zao Workshop)
3 (25.0%)

Star Eternal (Iron Toys)
0 (0.0%)

Frame Arms W2 Spectre:RE (Kotobukiya)
0 (0.0%)

( More info on each kit + links to listings/pictures )

Anyway, there's lots more conversation about non-Bandai and non-Gundam kits to be had, but here's a start. ^_^

rionaleonhart

According to a short in-character promotional video from a while ago, Robert and Chris once got stranded in the Amazon rainforest for several days, and I do love it when characters are stranded together!

Title: Finding the Way
Fandom: The Goes Wrong Show
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: slight Robert/Chris
Wordcount: 3,000
Summary: Chris and Robert are stranded in the Amazon rainforest together. It's not a great experience.

( Finding the Way )

eff_ess_oe

Was first introduced to this game a few months back via Vinesauce. It's a surprisingly well crafted meme game where you try to launch a jpeg of a meme cat into a golf hole while avoiding its evil counterpart. And the soundtrack fucking SLAPS for no good reason at all. Especially this one. It's practically begging for a full-band arrangement with dual guitars. But the synth-only version works too.

Watch on YouTube

Current Music: "The Final Frontier" - Uncanny Cat Golf OST

lagertha_the_warrior

I saw this online and thought it was nice to share.

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