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+ I've been recently enjoying the latest YiH pages (694-699, which is the current as of today). I like Siiri a lot and it's cool to have her in the comic again. ...Plus the stuff actually happening - sneaking in like that, haaaa. And the art in the last few pages has been really nice. I never did get around to that re-read. Maybe I should wait until the end and then do a re-read? But I don't know when Mika will be finished it, though IIRC he has an estimate of how many pages he has before completion.

+ It rained a lot today. That was good; we needed it.

+ I've been reading the manga series Since I Could Die Tomorrow by Sumako Kari. The pretty covers were what drew me in. It's a slice-of-life manga centred around Honna, a 42-year-old woman struggling with a busy work life and the trials of getting older. It's very grounded, down to earth. I don't often come across manga with older female protagonists, so it was surprising to find this at random. It's very earnest.

+ This upcoming weekend, the Ukrainian Cultural Society is having an independence day celebration in the park. I'm thinking about going. Maybe. There will be a performance by the Ukrainian Dance Club, which would be cool to see - it seems like every time they have a public performance, I have some kind of scheduling conflict, so I haven't been able to go to any of their shows. The event is a potluck, so I would have to think of something to bring.

I'm still not 100% sure about going. I won't know anyone there, and I'm not good at social interaction at the best of times. And I don't really consider myself Ukrainian-Canadian because I wasn't raised with the culture, so there's this... weird feeling of "I don't really go here" that probably nobody else would care about but I feel weird about. (Italian would be a better match as far as "stuff I'm more familiar with" since at the very least I was kinda raised with that, but Fort Mac doesn't have any Italian cultural clubs to speak of). But it might be worthwhile to try.

I'd like to at least find out if the cultural society has a mailing list or something; it's really hard to get information about their events and I usually don't know about them until the last minute.

RE: latest Year in Hereafter update -

Yeah, okay, I still ship these two.

Bless.

"Oh? You managed to friend that grump?"
"We went to jail for a night."
"You what?!"

The latest page of Year in Hereafter is great, and I am cracking up. Oh boy.

I should give this a re-read some time soon. There are a lot of bits that I've forgotten, and details that I've probably missed because my comprehension is pants. I've been loving the recent parts, though. (It's so nice to see the brothers reunited, aw.)

☆ Year in Hereafter's break is over. That means: new chapter. Yay! I've been missing the updates, it'll be nice to have new material again.

☆ Speaking of YiH, Mikael is doing an Indiegogo campaign for a printed version of the comic! Previously, he issued them as floppies, but this one is for a compiled version (good choice, it suits a lot better). Details over here; if you like YiH please support him if you can. :D ...I'm going to need to wait a bit before deciding whether to get only the book, or book + extras, because oh boy, once you convert those prices to CAD, it's a lot. (Insert typical grumping about the Canadian dollar here.)

☆ Other crowdfunding: there's a campaign for the second issue of Odie. Like before, Elli and Mikael did the art. :) Only a few days left for this one (it ends evening of Sept 04 NA time) Glad I caught that one before it ended; almost slipped my mind.

☆ Small Trolls updated, yay! The pages for this one are infrequent but I'm always so happy to see them. I should give it a re-read.

☆ Stand Still Stay Silent: I am going to continue to sit here and popcorn.gif all the way. I'm really enjoying all the survival horror stuff that's going on now + for the last little while. Also, I'm really glad that the bodysharing subplot is over, because I'm not really a fan. Might be surprising, considering I love the whole dreamwalking thing (and telepathy in other canons) but eh, what can one say. I prefer Lalli in his own body.

Speaking of SSSS, my attention has kind of wandered away from the shipping side of it. Which is interesting. Not that I dislike any of the pairings I liked before; I still like them. But I'm so much more interested in gen scenarios at the moment. It might be because I just finished drafting a longish genfic, ooorrr maybe the bodysharing turned me off just that much, who knows. I still love my prologue pairs, so there is that. :Va Anyway, 's funny how tastes change.

☆ Also SSSS: I haven't received my book 2 package, but probably will soon. I ordered an extra copy of the book to give away, but I don't know if I want to do a full giveaway. Is there anybody on my Flist who would like to have it? If so, give me a prod! You'll get it, and save me the trouble. xD

☆ Eugh, it's all sloppy and damp out. I'm hoping that the muck on the sidewalks will all melt away very quickly, without staying too long in the "icy as hell in the mornings" stage, but that is wishful thinking....

☆ Started working on a lace scarf, as mentioned in previous entries. This is my first time working with laceweight yarn + lace-style pattern; we'll see how this goes. Sized up the needles because I tend to work tight, hopefully I won't end up regretting that. :T

☆ Work is crazypants and will continue to be until July or so. Typical for this time of year. Prepare for grumping about backlog, lost paperwork, and being overtired. ;p

☆ YiH: I'm thinking about doing a giveaway for one of Mikael's Year in Hereafter prints. Leaning toward "yes", but haven't decided dates yet. This one would be done through a google docs form instead of the previous method - my usual way of doing giveaways works fine for larger fandoms like Hetalia or even SSSS, but YiH is so tiny and spread across multiple platforms, hmm.

☆ Check out this art of Marzanna. Ahhh I can't stop looking at it; I really love it. What an excellent end-of-winter portrayal of her. <3

☆ Someone wrote me a lovely YiH fic for Yuletide! Lost and Found, about Veeti's relationship with Sakari. :) Thank you, nonny!

☆ It has been hovering around -35 to -40C for the last few days. The frost on my bedroom window, let me tell you.... I might wander out tomorrow just because I'm going absolutely stir-crazy, but it certainly isn't fit for anybody out there.

☆ I've been playing the Cupcake version of 2048 practically nonstop for the past couple of days. This game is so brain-sucking... I love it.

☆ My brother received a SNES Classic for Christmas and holy shit, it reminds me how much I miss classic console gaming. I should dig my Genesis out of storage one of these days. ...Then again, do I really need another time-waster? No. ;p

☆ Chocolate Box exchange is starting up again; deets over at chocolateboxcomm. The tag set looks great this year. I've decided to sit this exchange out, but I might treat, who knows. I sure did have fun with it last year, but since I'll be doing FTH, it's best if I concentrate fully on my assignment for that.

☆ There was going to be something else, but for the life of me I can't remember what it was... anyway, I hope you all have a wonderful day.

Okay, so, the second extra chapter for Year in Hereafter is up, and man, did reading that ever make my day.

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Hmmmm, in chat today we were talking about how YiH fic is challenging to write, and that made me want to braindump ideas everywhere....

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(Apologies if this posts twice; DW has been giving me tons of errors this evening.)

* Oh gods. My feet hurt. So. Bad. Not because of ill-fitting shoes; I've just done... so much walking... Damn, it's too bad I didn't take the phone with PokeGo on it; I'd have hatched a million eggs today. Upside: I did some wandering, discovered some new coffee shops away from the busiest part of downtown (and therefore more likely to be reasonably quiet), and also came across a grocery store, which certainly does mean some good things for my wallet. Mmm, fruit and granola for breakfast....

* I went to One Wave Gathering* at the legislature lawn today, and there were dance performances by various indigenous groups from the island, as well as some from the South Pacific, and it was awesome.

* Picked up a tiny cheapass sketchbook and spent some time scribbling (including while I was watching the dancers). Not actual, y'know, drawing; just some scribbly figures. It's nice. I find that if I go into things with the intent of disposing of it/recycling it after I'm finished, I enjoy it more....

* Going to go see Nomadic Tempest tomorrow evening. It's... a rock opera? Performed on a boat? Something like that. Hopefully it'll turn out to be as cool as it sounds. ;p

* I was going to write tonight, but I'm far too tired for it. ...Ordinarily I'd feel a bit bad, but I regret nothing. ;V (Well, okay, MAYBE I feel a TINY bit like a slackass for not writing anything for Synchronised Screaming two weeks in a row, but....) Hopefully I'll be able to do some scribbling tomorrow, though. The Trick or Treat signup list looks so good already, and I want to get started with writing....

* YiH: Karo showed a preview from an extra chapter* and eeeee~ <3 Ahhh Veeti's hair is doing that, you know, fwoosh, wavy thing. Loving the reminder that YiH Veeti actually is very attractive when he doesn't have that "half-dead, or maybe he just got pulled out of a swamp" sort of look goin' on... It's something that I forgot about, to the point where I even told Folie that while I love him to bits, he ain't smoochable, not so much. I CONCEDE, I take it all back, A++ would kiss.

* Imagine what a spider wearing flip flops would sound like. Just think about that for a second.