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Hi, I'm guava! I'm over 18 years old and live in an Asian time zone. I'm into fandoms based on Asian media, mainly various anime franchies and K-pop. Being a lifelong weeaboo has got me into learning Japanese (since 2014) to better understand the cultural context of my favourite works and to gobble up fanworks by Japanese fans for my rare ships.

As a fanworks creator, I specialize in writing fanfiction. Stories about my OTPs are posted on

guava. Other stories of mine are on my side account

ketchupsauce.

I have created some graphics which are shared on

juicedguava and

tokucastedits. I have also set up RinBin Moments, a sort of shrine dedicated to the pairing of Kim Youngbin and Kim Inseong from SF9 containing video clips and photos, which is no longer updated as of 2022.

On Dreamwidth, I frequent the communities

fictional_fans,

paradisediner,

anime_manga and

journalsandplanners. When I manage to be active here, I compile my community posts in entries for the Community Thursday challenge.

Link to everything I've created for the event. It's the first ever fanweek that I've completed from start to finish! I happened to come across it just when it aligned with my current re-immersion into tokusatsu shows and when I had enough time to think up and create fanworks that fit the prompts.

I started with at least one fanwork to post every day for the entire fanweek. What's a pleasant surprise was getting ideas for new fanworks during the event itself! Perhaps browsing what others made had inspired me even for fanworks about shows I'm unfamiliar with. I ended up posting two meta and two AU drabbles on top of what I had in my drafts, and managed to complete all the prompts for two out of seven days of the fanweek! It was back to the '90s for me with fanworks created for '90s tokusatsu shows Turboranger, Winspector and Exceedraft.

I must say it's been a successful and lively event with the mod's open stance towards fandoms and types of content to include. The mod went as far as creating a sideblog for NSFW content, for which I've submitted a couple of pieces, and even if SFW works far outstripped NSFW ones as usual, it's relaxing to be able to start creating with minimal mental restrictions in place.

For now, I've emptied out my drafts of shippy fanworks to post! And as an unrepentant shipper, it shall always be TokuShipping Week in my heart 😍

Got upset earlier this week after reading a post with negative criticism of Exceedraft. I'm more bothered than I should be about it since I thought the original poster could have appreciated and spread the word to their mutuals about the cute, interesting and spicy parts about the show that most other (seemingly cis male) viewers tend to overlook. It was a little crushing to see the diminishing of my hopes over getting to have others share my Blorbo Vision and analyse minute details of an obscure Japanese kids show from the early '90s in the online fandom spaces that I frequent.

I wrote a reply to the post with my counterpoints, but now I think it was better for me to have just lived and let live. And keep creating posts to share and enhance my Blorbo Vision. As I like to tell myself, tokusatsu shows are long, but life is longer and who knows when others would also get into my lesser known favourites among lesser known shows in English speaking fan spaces.

But I guess I'll remain bummed for a while about fandom awareness being low for my current favourite show. Exceedraft has been fully subbed since 2021, yet few tokusatsu fans have watched it in full or even thought about starting it (for many understandable reasons). And anyway, who'd even sit down to create multiple pages of fanworks for a Metal Hero show older than them? Me, Georgava, who bakes my daily diet of 10,000 spiders into a pie, that's who.

Crying and shipping seem all I do, yet I get through all my fanworks for my favourite ships way too quickly 😣 I always think I've created way more fanworks than I thought since it does amount to quite a lot relative to what's out there for my rare ships. Still too little by my own insatiable standards 😝 Fantasizing to not just board a large and bustling cruise ship but to enter the lost city of Atlantis lmao.

From when I started actively posting about my fannish interests, I wanted my volume and variety of fanworks to more closely reflect the level of my obsession, but I guess I get too self-conscious too soon when there appears to be few others screaming about their ships or just talking about character dynamics or character arcs. While I'm in my obsessive phase, I'm in a frame of mind to steamroll over my self-consciousness, and respond and comment on my own posts if that's what it takes to inspire and entertain myself while absorbing new influences and changing across time.

I've been thinking a lot about various parts of Exceedraft that are interesting, insightful and a little infuriating. The last part is because it's largely a typical episodic '90s toku show which, according to the standards of the cultural period, might not prioritize maintaining consistency in characterisation and backstory across episodes. It's highly questionable how intentional certain choices are for character development, or if various intriguing details are more or less the happy accidents produced by a team of creative professionals running on their honed artistic instincts within the constraints of a tight budget and schedule. I get this sense from spotting both patterns across self-contained episodes and instances of deviation from these patterns, yet finding little that might explain both occurrences of consistency and inconsistency in the show.

What's also 'infuriating' in a sense is my impression of being the only one to pick up on unusual details. The implication is that these details appear normal to others, which gets me to question my perception of what's 'unusual' and 'normal', which introduces an element of doubt while I try to set down my own take on things.

Using Powerpoint, I created the following GIF to sum up my reaction while chewing on details and trying to piece together my theories. The file's full size is pretty small, so I created a smaller version of the reaction GIF to also use it as an icon!

I'm really excited over posting the first a) slash and b) NSFW Special Rescue Exceedraft fanfiction that I want to announce it right away rather than just including it in a future round up of my most recent fanworks.

The story is available only on Squidgeworld. Some day, I'll import to AO3 my fics exclusively posted there once I could better deal with getting hits and nothing else for my rare pair fics of little known fandoms.

Special Rescue Exceedraft, which is the third and final installment of the tokusatsu Metal Heroes Rescue Police trilogy, has been fully subbed for about 4 years but has hardly any fanworks in spaces frequented by English-speak tokusatsu fans. That is, until I started creating and posting my fanworks! Now at least I know it's untrue that 'nobody' watches the show, which for now is a common perception in the larger toku community. ('Nobody' also includes those on Xitter who posted liveblogs and screencaps and encouraged me to marathon the show to get to the episodes that look most interesting).

Last year, I created more than 20 posts on Dreamwidth. I'm pleased as that surpasses my initial aim of 1 post per month.

To post more in the upcoming months, I'm thinking of:

(01) Getting more used to talking about my obscure interests and fandoms as if everyone knows what I'm talking about. I'd like to create a space more representative of my obsessions rather than only creating one post to announce a new one, as I've been doing so far 😬 I want to get out of the digital marketing mindset of chiefly posting for engagement which is different from simply creating a semi-public digital personal space.

(02) Try out solutions/routines for saving, resizing and uploading posts here to complement my written commentaries and the like. I've managed to embed images here in the past, but not often enough to become more efficient in carrying out the steps involving switching between apps and softwares, depending on whether I'm blogging with my phone or computer. It seems too much like a hassle, but I remain motivated anyway to think up posts with images since I like colour and pretty pictures, especially more since I got back into graphic editing last year.

(03) Figure out how to allocate my blogging energy among creating community posts, entering discussions on Dreamwidth and just posting on my own blog. These activities call for different approaches to communicating, yet they seem to deplete the same kind of energy.

In a Discord I'm in, I got inspired to imagine how an author could create a bunch of fics to post as treats for a holiday exchange. I went further to brainstorm the potential fics as Camping AUs of one big larger story taking place at the same time for which the different exchange recips could later piece together like one big Super Sentai mecha 😂

These are the plots I thought up that would perhaps fulfill many of the holiday exchange's open-ended requests:
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Then perhaps each fic could include hyperlinks to other fics in the larger interconnected story. Hopefully the recips and all other readers would not only be extra entertained, but also extra inspired to complete their end of year reviews and reflect on the larger picture of the past year 😌

One moment I'm in my university dorm room posting Takumi/Mari GIFsets on Tumblr, then more than ten years later I'm getting hitched to a guy with 'Kaixa' in his online handle.

Usually I don't post personal news here, and I just wanted to note that I started the first day of my marriage with editing fic for a 1980s Super Sentai show and reactivating my Trello for creating edits of the same show.

Current Mood: happy

me: with all the high quality files of subtitled old shows available, why haven't there been more GIFs and GIFsets made out of them? all anyone has to do is —

me: [lists many steps that involve opening different software and looking at different files]

me: oh

Just finished creating Turboranger GIFsets. I've tried to make it a weekly routine since I've returned to once more posting on my Tumblr fanworks blog. Editing graphics always takes more effort and care than I thought, but immediately after posting, I'd inevitably crave more edits of my obscure favourites.

Current Mood: sleepy

Lately, I've not only got into, but also started creating GIFsets and writing fic for an M/M/F OT3: Nagareboshi Hikaru/Honoo Riki/Tsukikage Sayoko from Turboranger. That's a first for me who had before only created fanworks about mutually exclusive OTPs.

My emoji code for labelling drafts of Red Throuple fanworks: 🩸⚾🩸(Blood drops for the half-human, half-Bouma Nagareboshi and Tsukikage whose blood are red instead of green like the other Bouma, and a baseball for ace pitcher Riki. And when put together, these emoji look like the horns on the helmet that's part of Nagareboshi's upgraded outfit).

What's been fun shipping an OT3 so far:

Thinking about how the different combinations of the characters influence their overall dynamic as a trio
Alternating between writing slash and het in one story (all bisexual engines go!)
Inferring more subtle nuances of Turboranger that I wouldn't have uncovered if I had moved on from the show after finishing it like I thought I would

Off to think of spicy plots for trios! It's a new challenge that has got me starting the day before the rising of the sun.

Current Mood: awake

Commentary for: "Drabble Compilation: Melto and Asuna in Different Sentai Teams"

To complete a set of Ryusoulger drabbles based on Toku100 Challenge's Prompt Set 06, I wrote about Melto and Asuna in different kinds of Sentai teams to finish five out of six 'Writer's Choice' prompts. Each drabble sequence for these prompts feature a specific Sentai AU and the use of dual perspectives with one drabble told from Melto's perspective, then the next from Asuna's perspective or in reverse order.

I had written a Sentai pairing in multiple Sentai AUs before in my Lupinranger VS Patranger story "Parallel Red Strings". It has Kairi and Keiichirou in different police teams and sticking to the same theme for each AU, which matches the theme of the pairing's original show, made the story easier to write than my Ryusoulger Sentai AU drabble sequences. Meaningfully portraying a different theme, along with a pairing's unique dynamic, while sticking to a low word limit turned out more challenging than I thought.

But in taking on the challenge, I got to think through what distinguishes the various official Super Sentai teams and the tropes that inspire the adventures in their respective shows.

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Current Mood: accomplished

Here, the Ryusoulger pre-canon smut one-shot that I've written after about nine weeks of writing drabbles exclusively. Both my story and this post contains spoilers for the show and the show's prequel The Legacy of The Master's Soul.

Before, I wrote only drabbles about Kamen Rider Ex-Aid and when I no longer wanted to write drabbles, I moved on from writing about the show altogether. Finishing my latest one-shot got me out of the rut of writing with a word limit and extend the story for as long as I want.

Having said that, I did keep some constraints in mind to reserve my energy for other non-writing creative projects. I wanted to complete my one-shot within a handful of writing sessions to not have to rearrange my routine around getting it written in a timely fashion, which I would have done for a story that's bound to be 10k words or longer.

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Current Music: Lee Moonsae - In the Rain

To get in the mood for writing about knights back in 2019, I bought from Bandcamp Antti Martikainen's 'Northern Steel'. Out of the Celtic metal tracks, my favourite is "Lords of Iron"

Watch on YouTube

I blasted it again when posting my first Ryusoulger fic in 6 years. The matching of the music with majestic landscapes of acres of forests and rushing water has once more stirred me to capture the awe-inspiring grandeur of nature in my writing.

Current Mood: energetic
Current Music: Antti Martikainen - Lords of Iron

I've completed a set of Toku100 Challenge's Alternate Universe Drabble Prompts featuring Melto/Asuna from Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger. Here are my AU drabbles, and here are the AU prompts. As it's unusual for me to finish more than three AUs for a ship, I'd like to reflect and share what I've learnt through completing this set of AU prompts.

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Current Mood: artistic
Current Music: Antti Martikainen - Lords of Iron

Some activities I did lately that I haven't been doing for the past year or so:

Studying Japanese -- I managed to secure a seat to retake the Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) and have begun revising in earnest! I'm going to sit for the test for level N1, but to be fully prepared I'm going to revise the grammar for level N3 and N2. Currently, I'm almost done with taking notes and completing the quizzes in the JLPT TRY N3 book, which I recommend for its relevant and practical sentence examples.

Posting fic on AO3 -- Today, I've posted my first new work since May 2024. It's a drabble compilation about The Karate Kid and I might as well admit now that I've failed in my resolution that I've stated in a previous post, which is to only watch media related to the Lupin III franchise for the rest of 2025.

Watching tokusatsu -- I've redownloaded Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger and have rewatched up to E8. Back when the show was on the air, I've only watched half of it and so I'll watching many of the latter episodes for the very first time. Most of the show aired during the Reiwa era, yet I can't help but see it as a Heisei show.

Current Mood: peaceful
Current Music: Ai (Chuuseishin) a.k.a. Excel Saga Opening

For some time, I've been orienting myself towards repeated viewings of my favourite media. Taking a second look, a third one and more of the same story, rotating my interpretations over again. Before having a fast Internet connection became widespread, I reread and rewatched a lot, and I'm taking back up the habit while thinking more deeply on its benefits over the more common practise of going through one piece of new work -- new to me, that is -- after another.

While rereading the books I finished before, I've set out on an adjacent challenge to stick to just a) rewatch shows I've completed and b) only watch new shows from one franchise with a view towards rewatching its episodes or movies. That franchise is Lupin III, which is pretty massive with series stretching all the way back to the 70s and covering various animation styles and trends since then.

I started with Part 2/Red Jacket, that is the longest show in the franchise with 155 episodes. Instead of beginning from EP1, I first finished this list of recommended episodes and then returned to the first one. Even when I reach an episode listed in the guide, I watch it again, and am pleased that far from getting bored, I enjoy the episode like during my first watch.

Lots to catch and appreciate in a piece of creative work even for that which is targeted towards a wide audience. I get a better sense of all the layers involved especially after thinking more about my own creations. I'll see just how far I can stay interested in watching and rewatching Lupin III stuff with the exception of rewatching shows and seeing new movies.

For years after graduating from university, I've picked up a habit that's like 'OCD reading'. I read smoothly for a while, then start re-reading a particular paragraph or collection of sentences over and over again. The sentences that snag my attention are usually unremarkable ones, nothing with important details or are written in a way that I'd like to retain.

I'm as if reluctant to move on to the next part of the narrative. It takes less effort and is rather relaxing to stay at one part and get more familiar with it until being stuck wears on my nerves. I'm overly conscious of expending energy to flex the mental muscles for comprehending language, visualizing images and interpreting meaning. I encounter more stuckness when reading fiction rather than non-fiction, and when the words are printed on paper rather than displayed on a screen.

Just pushing through and continuing to read creates a mild discomfort like being in a vehicle cruising too fast down a straight road. Getting stuck slows down my reading, but it doesn't matter as long as I'm reading what I like. I just keep thinking that I've finished lots of great books before without any compulsion to re-read unremarkable parts and I'd like to flip the switch back, if possible.

My latest theory is that my 'OCD reading' has come about as articles and social media posts online take up most of my reading. Maybe it's a slight shock to my brain whenever I turn to paper books with scenarios and ideas that are not broken into smaller chunks and seem less directly relevant to my personal life and thoughts. I'll see how much I can commit to doing without digital devices or screens for my leisure reading and whether it has any effect on my ability to advance through a piece of text.

linky talked about SHT being off the air for a week as it was replaced by a live broadcast of a golf game. Longtime tokusatsu fans know this happens every year which means it's a good excuse to have an annual fanworks flashfest centred on golf that lasts for the weekend of the golf hiatus.

Thought up some golf-themed prompts for a such a fest, many of which are inspired by team-centric modern Super Sentai and Ultraman shows.

Fanwork Prompts: Golf

01) (Canon Compliant) Golf Outing - The gang goes to play golf together as a bonding activity and may or may not run into the villains during their outing.

02) (Canon Compliant) Character is a secret golfer - Someone discovers that character has a secret golf hobby and tries it out to get to know them better.

03) (AU or Canon Compliant) Golf as excuse to cover up a secret relationship - A ship has to hide being together for some reason and pretends to be into golf as a cover up for their secret dates. The rest of the gang might or might not suspect anything and asks to join one of their golf games.

04) (AU or Canon Compliant) Undercover Golf Player - Someone has to pretend to be great at playing golf for a mission.

05) (AU) World of Professional Golf - One character is a professional golf athletes and someone else is their coach/rival/social media manager/fan.

06) (AU) Alien Golf Player - Someone is an alien who visits earth to enter an intergalactic golf tournament. Or they're in the middle of one and one of the holes is located on Earth.

I don't know much about golf but when I was into Ryusoulger, I wanted to write a Bamba/Canalo Golf AU since Bamba's actor is also a professional golf player. I went as far as chatting with an actual golf coach but alas, I was not so practised at writing concise AUs and went the K-pop way.

Got the full set of Powerpuff Girls cups from the local Miniso! Both the fronts and backs are really cute.

Powerpuff Cups

Got the full set of Powerpuff Girls cups from the local Miniso! Both the fronts and backs are really cute.

I liked them a lot and used to know their lore pretty well. One of my geekiest moments was when I corrected a teacher citing Mojo Jojo as a cardboard cutout villain with no motivation, what's with the monkey being Professor Utonium's formet pet, accidentally getting him to create the Powerpuff Girls and having the professor's affections displaced.

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