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you're doing what guys

Okie so when I said on

fandom50challenge I probably wouldn't be posting as much this month I didn't actually mean I'd be falling off the trolley altogether, but here we are? It's kind of been a possum scream couple of weeks.

This post is for a different kind of possum scream though!

The fannish kind where I go "Sunrise are you actually seriously putting new canon material for a Gundam setting into a goddamn mobile game?!" -- and honestly the mobile part isn't even what's getting me! If it was a bog standard console G Generation game I'd be just as fucking baffled!

(the timing is dumb as balls because it's for Cosmic Era and SEED Freedom was last year; I blame how delayed G Generation Eternal was)

But yeeeaaaahhhh filling in, apparently-supposedly, what Kira was doing and what Athrun was doing between SEED and SEED Destiny -- as opposed to SEED Eclipse, which is also between series but is about a new cast altogether -- and it's stuffed in a bloody SD G Generation game.

A mobile one at that.

~~I guess arguably being a mobile game actually makes it more accessible to fans ...?~~

Still. What the actual fuck.

Also where is my fucking new Wing material in this 35th anni Banrise where the fuck is it

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A Quick Poll Appears

I finished Transient Gundam (who is quite beautiful, but ugh, I did not do well with the clear-blue plastic; it scarred in weird unexpected ways) and want help picking my next build.

...while I also go through All My Paint because I might get to an actual hobby store next weekend where I can theoretically buy more paint/replace any bad paint. It's so much easier to buy paint in person than try to figure out color swatches on a monitor. ^^;;

I still have some other stuff to sort through, and I think a few other repair projects lingering, I am slowly but surely getting the desk and surrounding area sorted out for the first time in far too many years.

To have clean desks...

Poll #32996 Quick Gunpla Poll

This poll is closed.
This poll is anonymous.
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 11

Oh no, I bought too much gunpla! Which kit should I build next?

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HG Destiny Gundam* (Gundam SEED Destiny)
0 (0.0%)

SDW Heroes Qiongqi Strike Freedom Gundam (SD)
0 (0.0%)

HG Sandrock (Gundam Wing, HGAC)
6 (54.5%)

HG McGillis's Schwalbe Graze (Iron-Blooded Orphans)
3 (27.3%)

HG Gundam Flauros (Ryusei-Go, IBO)
1 (9.1%)

HG ZAKU I (UC)
1 (9.1%)

HG G-Bouncer (AGE)
0 (0.0%)

MG ZAKU II F2** (UC)
0 (0.0%)

HG Denial Gundam (Build Fighters Try)
0 (0.0%)

HG GN Archer (Gundam 00)
3 (27.3%)

*non-custom
**this may be partly built or questionable; I have a couple of UC MGs I got very cheap because someone had started and not finished at least one of them
***I forgot to note that GN Archer is also not the custom-colors I have planned for one to make it into Abulhool

I am totally going to end up getting an airbrush if it ever warms up and stays warmed up.

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Package-Racing and other delights...

(three days of unposted updates again, whoops)

Have had a lot of mail coming in. ^^;; A couple of things were KS/pre-orders that just happened to roll in at the same time as 'must buy all the model kits', but now my living room looks like shipping and receiving. ^^;;

(I am watching a lot of small stores get royally fucked by the tariffs, especially nerd stores and other hobby-related ventures. Just, this sucks not only as a customer but just a person who is genuinely glad that being a nerd selling stuff to other nerds exists as a career choice and would like that to continue.)

Maybe over the weekend I can catch up on some hobby posts? At the rate the weather is going (wtf is the weather doing?), cemetery zine is definitely going to be a #0 with previous years ramblings and photos. On the one hand, alas, but on the other this is fine and maybe a good starting point.

Gundam G Generation Eternal finally released! I smashed through what I could and will attempt to figure out how to pace myself shortly. There are some pretty firm resource walls and no real reason to blast through things other than being ready for the upcoming Astray event.

( writing meme )

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Saturday Night's Alright For Writing

I bought a couple of things from a small gunpla shop and the order confirmation included a link to their discord server. I've been in gunpla/gundam discords before and ran screaming, but I joined anyway and so far it is very chill, they love Providence and Daggers, and I horrified them with my backlog.

Sentai Filmworks Spring Anime Sale, til the 20th iirc. I think I'm good for the moment and need to work on my backlog more. (I mean, I am, but-)

Apparently Hakuouki SSL is getting an English release, which is exciting. I don't think it has an exact date, though, so I'm just going to have to keep it in the back of my mind for later in the year.

I actually wrote and posted a drabble. It's not much, but it's something. Worked a bit on zine stuff. Maybe I can do a bit more later.

Also worked on cleaning in the dining room. I think getting rid of a few more plants will help out A Lot. I'm also going to take a bucket of sand and a bunch of incense out to the garage to burn while working out there. If it ever warms up, I mean, which it hasn't.

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you need to watch this. :: This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like

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This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like | Carole Cadwalladr | TED

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stir-fried random

Have spent the last week with bleary eyes half on the news and half on trying to keep myself some kind of busy-distracted while the world burns and I slide down the glass trying to make some kind of difference. Bleh. Also the federal election is in less than three weeks and I expect an absolute fucking tire fire. Bleeeehhhh.

Mostly I've been reading some things I picked up in a get-now moment and lo and behold, for the first time in way too long I've actually managed to get books that aren't written by absolute fucking idiots. (seriously, if you want me to doubt you know any-fucking-thing-at-all about the history of hand manuscripts/texts/etc make the wtf claim that in Egypt they didn't write on both sides of a papyrus scroll so inventing the codex was so~ brilliant~ of ~~the white folks~~Greco-Roman Christianity blah blah.)

The one on space stations in specfic is looking like it may fall on the 'slog' end of the 50/50 guess, though. But that's fine because Downcrawl has arrived and someday The Perilous Void will join it ...

Other than that it's been mostly hunting up packets of brightly-coloured papers because apparently I'm making little notebooks when I should be making zines >.>;; but I want to make little notebooks. And I haven't decided what fiction to zine first yet >.>;;;

I am not watching the new Gundam because fuck Anno, but I'm happy to rubberneck at it.

And climbing back onto the gaming horse again because what's the point of collecting Marfs if I don't play them -- also, I need to dig through Fire Emblem The Complete because it looks like a wonderful time capsule of pre-remakes Archanea/Valentia stuff ...

Various and Sundry

This is like a week in the making because I fell hard into 'but nobody cares, Kalloway' brainweasels. *sigh*

I have mostly gotten the bathroom back together, though I expect I will be finding drywall dust for~~ever~~ awhile despite my best efforts. I started cleaning in the dining room and spelunked all the way to the one nesting table I have, which is the middle of a trio of which my parents have the largest and smallest. No, I have no idea how this happened. Once we figure out something to replace it, I'll return it.

In an attempt to close some tabs on my phone, I made a ~~short~~ list of a bunch of the tabs that have something I want to buy and am working on just... buying what I reasonably can. ~~Which is not all of it, of course.~~ Quite a bit is stuff like $2 games on itch and whatnot. I also really want all of Kim Hu's Jeweled Saint Prints, which frequently go on sale, but that will require purchasing frames and figuring out where to hang them and I want to at least know where they're going before I order them. I pre-ordered a Code Geass Lancelot kit, which is apparently getting a reprint soon. For some reason, I thought I had one. I have a Vincent, though, and that seems to be it. I still need to make an order from a (new/used) bookstore that has a strong Fediverse presence. They have a few Sharon Shinn books I need, and some Arthuriana.

I have a bunch of packages package-racing from around the world. We'll see how that goes. *sigh*