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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of shrine dedicated to the pairing of Kim Youngbin and Kim Inseong from SF9 containing video clips and photos, which is no longer updated as of 2022.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.

Since early September of 2025, I've gone back to posting edits on my fanworks Tumblr. I had thought I was done with posting on Tumblr in 2019 until I renewed my appreciation of its features for sharing images and videos. Far more ardently than back in the day, I've shared "original posts" every month for slightly more than a year. That's thanks to having a laptop with better specs than the old one I've held on to for ten years (more out of stubbornness than anything), organising timestamps and canon references with skills gained from my interest in Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) and nurturing obsessions with lesser known Japanese tokusatsu shows with hardly any fanworks of any kind.

Until my obsession in Special Rescue Exceedraft, I've never kept up with steadily posting edits for completed TV shows. But here I am with over 150 posts about the show as a whole and over 100 posts featuring my OTP! I'm having lots of fun creating Exceedraft GIFsets, which has become part of my Monday evening routine once I'm back after an exercise class and have little energy for doing other activities. I still don't use Photoshop or editing software modeled after Photoshop for creating GIFs, and as of now, I'm satisfied with the results of the GIFs created with the free version of PhotoScape X.

Whenever I post a GIFset, I actually ponder about why more people don't create them since it's more accessible and straightforward than other creative arts like writing or drawing. I suppose having to use a computer and having enough storage space would explain a big part of it. Frankly, while I'd gladly share the details behind creating my simple GIFs, I don't think I'm about to go out of my way to encourage others to take up graphic editing as I have occasionally tried to assist or cheer on the writing of fic. If I want a certain edit, I don't mind creating it myself and have a much milder craving to see others' visual fanworks based on the same interest. But of course seeing any would be a remarkable occasion!

Current Mood: nostalgic

Since the start of 2026, I've really got back into photo editing and creating GIFs. Unlike in the past when I've only made GIFs to post on Tumblr, I've also made larger ones in size and dimension for Bluesky. Going from the relatively large allowance for file sizes on Tumblr and Bluesky, I've taken up the challenge to create small GIFs to use as Dreamwidth icons.

The restrictions for DW icons are:

100x100 px
60kb size limit

With my current photo editing tools and methods, I have to limit a maximum of 8 frames for each DW icon GIF. So far I've uploaded 5 Exceedraft Dreamwidth icons which I plan to switch with different icons that'll have the same keywords. That way, I hope to keep up a rotation of Exceedraft icons without getting extra icon slots since my delight in using DW icons lie in posting with them rather than seeing a specific icon attached to a specific post.

Do other Dreamwidth bloggers get icons for posts or create posts to use icons? There's a parallel here with getting new notebooks; you know if you know if you're also a stationery collector.

Current Mood: calm

Arrow bleed

This Nuko is kinda gory but so is the injury on my palm. While practicing front breakfalls during my martial arts class, I scraped some skin off the base of my palm. The plaster that I stuck on it kept peeling off whenever getting water on it during my showers or after I've washed my hands a few times. I think it's best not to leave the injury uncovered since it looks really red like the bodies of the titans in Attack on Titan.

Thinking of that anime reference makes me want to look directly at my injury, but again, I'd better not!

Current Mood: morbidly fascinated

Done with sharing 100 fanworks about Exceedraft E13 for 100 days in a row! All fanworks are posted on BSky. It's great to experience what's it like to have 'fresh' fanworks every day, even if all of it is made by me. And there won't be more unless I make more 🥲

I set out to create not only 100 fanworks in total, but more specifically a greater number of meta or fan essays than I've ever written about any fandom. For the past 15 weeks, I've posted at least one meta per week on BSky and this week, I also shared one meta over on fictional_fans: Creating a GIF or a collage.

Unusually for posts on DW communities, this one has hardly any responses. Perhaps that's because it talks about photo editing, and there might not be many photo editors on DW who like to discuss that creative skill, or perhaps there's less activity overall on a weekday (which was when I shared my meta). In any case, I'd like to keep trying first writing meta based on my unpopular interest, then repurposing it as a prompt for a more general discussion to invite input from others of various fannish backgrounds and influences.

Current Mood: satisfied

What to do:

- Take a phone screenshot of the draft's final portion and set it as the wallpaper.
- After adding more words to the draft, take another screenshot and set that as the new wallpaper.
- Repeat these 2 steps until the project's completed with the changing of the wallpaper as reward and motivation for working on the draft.

I haven't tried this out myself but perhaps I will if I get to leaving too many drafts incomplete. I think a more 'drastic' approach could be energising and amusing for anyone wondering if it even matters to complete a piece of writing or not, when sharing it invites no responses and creates an extra problem of regulating unpleasant emotions on top of trying to advance other projects.

It'd be interesting to have what's written directly change what's visible and concentrate on cutting through obstacles in the way of transforming the draft from being a work in progress to a completed work. The draft in the abstract is like a reflection of the self but unlike with actual reflections, there's the potential to change the self through changing the draft.

Current Mood: geeky

Since last year, I've been drafting my fanworks with my Trello account after leaving it dormant for almost a decade. I never thought that I'd look forward to opening my Trello every day, specifically to my page for fanworks about Exceedraft and the other Rescue Police shows. It's not the first note-taking platform that I've got attached to and it's not one seen as "trendy" in general. My growing attachment to Trello is like falling for a familiar friend who's similar to my flashier ex (other note-taking tool Notion) yet is far more low key and brings me more comfort.

Trello is an online platform for creating kanban boards. The kanban board was first created for the Toyota Production System before becoming integrated into note-taking and Personal Knowledge Management tools as a database for organising data and workflows.

I first signed up for a Trello account to organise my research for my Bachelor's graduation thesis. But I didn't find it useful and inspiring for academic writing, and pretty much abandoned my account soon after creating it.

Fast forward to many years later with me trying out different solutions for saving episode guides, timestamps and other notes for creating different kinds of fanworks. I returned to Trello after becoming dissatisfied with simple checklists for laying out my projects. It's much neater to save text in Trello cards that I could colour-code and label with a big heading like they're paper notecards, then easily drag and drop them into different columns labeled according to a fanwork's stage of completion. My current setup involves a board for a series or franchise with two columns for each show; one for works in progress and for completed fanworks that also double as a detailed episode guide.

I first became familiar with kanban boards while actively using Notion, but I didn't particularly like them until my return to Trello. Perhaps because on its free plan, I could only create a limited number of kanban boards with unlimited cards, which concentrated my attention on developing my projects with the kanban board's features.

From just planning GIFsets with Trello, I've also started to store and draft my meta on it. It's not optimised for drafting long pieces of text, but it has a feature that many digital writing tools lack: separate areas to input the title and the main body of work. I just like the division that appears kind of old school, even if it's unimportant for whatever I want to do with the text saved.

I've created more GIFsets and meta since sticking with Trello, and I'm thinking about turning to it more for creating fanvideos and fanfiction. Yet unlike when using Notion had boosted my creativity, I lack any desire to promote the benefits of Trello to other fanwork creators.

Most seem to pick up tools and methods that they've arrived at on their own with suggestions and advice from others playing a minor role in influencing their decisions. And in my case, what has been valuable isn't the discovery of any brilliant features, but instead a journey in personalising my approach to using what I already know and have for building with what inspires me.

Current Mood: content

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I forgot to pose her with my birthday cake before demolishing it 😅

One of my birthday traditions is to re-read my writing. This year, I reread all the meta that I've posted on my Exceedraft BSky fan account. I'm satisfied with what I've posted precisely because the platform leaves me no way to fix the imperfections of public posts.

Unlike X formerly Twitter, BSky doesn't unleash virtual balloons to mark a user's birthday. But I treated myself on the platform anyway by posting a LJ style picspam collage from my drafts.

Current Mood: pleased

On BSky, I've created an account to share fanworks centred on episode 13 of Exceedraft. I post one fanwork on each day and will continue until I get to 100 fanworks posted over 100 days. My daily posts started since the start of April and I'm currently almost midway through my project. I've shared meta, GIFs of single scenes, collages, memes and screenshots to compare Exceedraft E13 with another creative work.

My BSky account is basically like a Xitter (X formerly Twitter) 'fan account' common in K-Pop fandom. I did run a K-Pop fan account before for my SF9 OTP, which taught me that I dislike posting on Xitter. On the surface, BSky is more or less a Xitter clone, but it has been much better posting there, perhaps more likely due to the kinds of posts I chose to put out rather than BSky's offerings.

Community engagement would be minimal anywhere as I'm posting about an old, obscure and non-English TV show. Most support that I've got so far are from sharing the BSky links of my fanworks on Discord.

I wanted to try sharing new fanworks every day after finding it an energising and inspiring habit during my participation for TokuShipping Week. Like for that fanweek, I created fanworks for my BSky fan account in advance, saved them as drafts to later share one by one. As I share more fanworks and further populate my fan account, I could better pretend that I live in a world with a consistent stream of a variety of appealing and interesting fanworks about my favourite show and character (lol). For edits in particular, as opposed to any kind of writing, it's easier to pretend someone else has made them.

Current Mood: cold

Recently, I got a sketchbook and thought of drawing the design of Ken's apron since it resembles the royalty-free clipart uploaded on irasutoya that seem simple enough to copy. Collecting reference images and creating a gifset of scenes featuring Ken in his apron got me noticing the quirky variety of food, ingredients and cooking utensils in the design of Ken's apron.

collage ken's apron

What's included on Ken's apron, from top to bottom:
- 1 strawberry shortcake
- 2 onigiri
- 1 egg in an egg holder
- 1 omelette rice covered in ketchup
- 1 set of fork, knife and spoon
- 1 small saucepan with three sausages
- 1 carrot
- 2 cucumbers
- 4 strawberries

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I've really been thinking a lot about the clothes and costume design in Exceedraft...I should get on with writing more analyses and gathering images to complement them, but mostly I just want to lie down and spread my arms and legs out in a '大' while letting my thoughts roll around in my head lol.

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

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100 Exceedraft E13 fanworks for 100 consecutive days

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