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Mildly obsessed with the dance practice video of BTOB's "Wow", especially with younger Ilhoon. His visuals don't do it for me in other pictures/videos, but he looks so cute here! 😍 His parts at the start and end of the song has entrapped me into rewatching the dance practice video over and over again -- no one told me he'd be a magnetic centre and his rap is fire 🔥

Actually everyone here looks great. Special shout-out to younger Peniel and Hyunsik too! And what's up with that deliberate zoom to Minhyuk's hip grinding in the video's second half?? (Understandable anyhow since it's Minhyuk lol.) It's also refreshing and a bit surprising to see BTOB perform a typical thirsty boy group concept since their current predominant image is of them being a mature group with powerful vocals.

No idea who else except for me would take dance practice videos over actual MVs. I just prefer seeing attractive guys performing in every day clothes I guess and the simplicity of the looks and location allows me to better appreciate the choreography.

"Wow" has been in my playlist for a while, but I only started listening to it a lot more after thinking that it fits the latest ship I'm into (Daisuke/Takeru from Digimon Adventure 02). Around this time last year I was obsessed with GOT7's "You Calling My Name" since linking it with Edo/Ryo from Yugioh GX. Yay for having multiple obsessions at once!

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Fics are arranged from newest to oldest. Notes for a specific fic can be found in the section labelled with the fic's title.
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What I count as a longfic is a story with a total wordcount of 10, 000 words and above. For every longfic completed, I get the first draft printed as a treat to myself (big dose of serotonin from seeing physical sheets of paper containing my own prose) and to prepare for the editing stage.

The hard copy of my Revice Het AU (for George/Hiromi), neatly packed by the printing service:

Sat in a cafe to read the entire story from first to last page while making light edits with the pink pen (the colour of the shirt we often see George in). The orange pen is for adding my little reactions, just for fun (I also use orange to colour code my George/Hiromi works in my digital and physical notes for Revice fic in order to differentiate them from my Daiji/Hiromi works).

After posting the Het AU, I realised the source of my recent surges of 'Hetspiration' -- inspiration to write het:

I've been gulping at least half a bottle of this Japanese 'straight tea' after jogging, not knowing what it'd do to my fic writing muscles 😂

Fics are posted from newest to oldest except for those in a series which are recommended to be read in chronological order. The title for each drabble is often a prompt from

toku100challenge.
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Community Thursday challenge: Every Thursday, try to make an effort to engage with a community on Dreamwidth, whether that's posting, commenting, promoting, etc.

Posted a SF9 fic rec on

paradisediner based on the theme Canon Compliant.

Discussion post for

anime_manga: Longest anime watched

Many of the members have mentioned the same long-running shows: Inuyasha, Gintama and Bleach. And I found a couple of members who also follow Detective Conan!

Seeing the number of comments in my DW Inbox was a bit overwhelming but it is actually a good problem to have. A nice change of pace compared to my AO3 Inbox lol. Hope to encourage more chatter in more comms!

On finishing my rewatch of Kamen Rider Drive, I only have two words: NICE DRIVE!

Drive is the first tokusatsu show that I managed to follow on a weekly basis for the most part, watching each episode as soon as the subtitled version was uploaded. I only kept it up for about slightly more than half of the show, displeased by some of its developments. Beyond viewing the canon, I was also discouraged from encounters with critical fans, some of whom were unforgiving about my early awkward attempts at sharing Kamen Rider meta and fanfiction, basically fanworks that by nature are more personal than the GIFs and graphics I had at that point been sharing on Tumblr on a regular basis.

Most of the bitterness associated with Drive melted away once I approached it in a way I like. That is, by viewing it whole as a completed show rather than waiting and catching up on new installments. The parts I like seems to come up faster by watching multiple episodes at a time, and those I dislike seem to take up less mental space as compared to when I used to dread the possibility of the next episode dedicating lots of screen time to what's less relevant to my interests.
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Community Thursday challenge: Every Thursday, try to make an effort to engage with a community on Dreamwidth, whether that's posting, commenting, promoting, etc.

For my first week on Dreamwidth in 2023, I've been on a spree creating top-level community posts. It gets less and less nerve-wracking with each new community post published. Also immensely exciting waking up to an inbox full of comments to reply to and reading discussions among other members under a post I've created. Facilitating conversations has brought an enriching sense of accomplishment.

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paradisediner: Cycling in and out of Kpop Fandom

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anime_manga: Pixiv Fanart Recs

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fictional_fans: Staying in touch with friends from past fandoms

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journalsandplanners: Updating journals/planners -- frequency & content

In honour of the freshly launched tokukinkmeme, I took another look at the kink meme for Kamen Rider specifically, right here.

An overview of the period when it was most active with prompts and fills posted:

Post created: 04 Nov 2014
First prompt: 05 Nov 2014
First fill: 05 Nov 2014
Most active period: 05 Nov 2014 - 17 March 2016 (16 months / 1 year 4 months | 12 DW pages | ~300 comment threads)

Also did a quick count to find out:

Dreamwidth comments: 25 comment threads/page

The stories that I can finish the fastest tend to have these common ingredients:

Focus on 2 characters interacting
Set in 1 place
Takes place in-universe under 1 hour

So, to get a story finished sooner I could:

Cut down or eliminate interactions with other characters, even background nameless figures
Start at the place right where the story opens
Minimise the time, and therefore actions taken for character and relationship progression

Mildly obsessed with the Ryo/Edo fanart of Keitsuki and these three pieces are among my favourites. While they're similar in obscuring Ryo and Edo's faces, each expresses a different aspect of the ship's power dynamics. In sum, the first presents Edo as the emotionally stronger one, the second Ryo as the physically more powerful, and the third offers a vision of them as true equals in the post-canon future.

Below, a brief description of each fanart along with my interpretation.

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These are some AUs I had been obsessed with developing without really intending to write and post a complete story. In fact since I've prioritized ideas that I'm more likely to write and post, I've grown out of the habit of fleshing out in my head fic premises that are ambitious in scope and required time and mental energy to do them justice.

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My last update here was in 2019, but what got me actively updating was getting into Timeranger, an old Tokusatsu show that aired in 2000. Technology and culture from that era were on my brain, and my former Livejournal browsing days.

Lately, my current obsession just happens to be another show from the early 2000s. Yugioh GX is an anime that I had been into when I was barely a teen. The peak of its fandom activity had long since passed, or so I thought until I stumbled on the many, many Japanese fanartists on Twitter, posting art and promoting lovingly prepared doujinshi like it's more than a decade ago. So after a total year-long break from fandom, I began creating fanwork for an old show, and thinking back on my younger years.

Which brings me here, back to Dreamwidth. My first attempt to populate and establish this account in December 2018 coincided with the exodus from Tumblr. Quite similar to recent exodus from Twitter. Who knows if many of the new users, or myself, will continue to make an Internet home for ourselves here.

But as the unfolding of history has shown, it's a good idea to stick around for a while.

Here's a compilation of links to videos, organized by era, for everyone interested in getting to know the members of SF9 and how fun/chaotic/dedicated the group can be when they are together <3

My personal criteria for selecting videos:
-Has English subtitles
-Features at least 4 SF9 members
-SF9 does something else besides singing and performing

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READ IT & WEEP

After finishing the first draft of my FIRST EVER 10K FIC, I've got it printed and have edited about a quarter of it. So far, even with minor mistakes and notes on scenes to rework, I'm enjoying the story and can't wait to read more. That may change the deeper I get into this and as the conflict leading to the buttsex heats up.

I've checked my fic records for this fic and it turned out that I spent exactly a month writing the first draft. This means that I need the margin of time in between chapters to think through the plot and that I'm far from capable of completing the NaNoWriMo challenge. I don't have to aim towards that though, especially when I'm deliberately focusing on a project that's not 'time sensitive' and that I have to post asap in order to catch a captive audience.

Taking writing slow and steady also gives me more room to experiment and really think about what I want to have written. In the writing of my draft, taking the 10 days of 30 just to think and sort out my worries enabled me to be better at the aspects of writing I thought I'd be really bad at. For one, I liked the exposition/worldbuilding bits!

Finishing Kyoryuger (8 eps), LuPat (5 eps) & Time Force (7 eps)

On top of that, I started 4 eps of Metalder, yet another Metal Heroes series >_> The toku franchise that's probably the least female fan friendly of them all. Speaking of Metal Heroes, I keep thinking about the latest Space Squad movie (Gavan VS Dekarangers) and its potential for kinkfic. Too bad that there's already a fic in the tag or else I can focus on it to come up with a PWP for the upcoming Be The First Challenge.

Maybe I need to accept that I can do away with the plot of tokusatsu. For shows I'm watching the first time, it might be worth watching the endgame just to know how it unfolds. But for shows I'm rewatching, I might as well skip to the end and over the parts I'm uninterested in.

Binged minutephysics' vids on Youtube & started Philip K. Dick's Ubik

The scifi research continues! I'm engrossed in Ubik and just reached the part where the serious shit goes down (one-third through the book). As per my case with the classics, I don't really like any of the main characters. That may not be a problem for me since I'm mostly into this for the worldbuilding.

Current Mood: weird

HOLY MOTHER EXPOSITION

There's good news and bad news regarding the development of my latest Timeranger fic.

Bad news: INFO DUMP FALLING LIKE ROCKS FROM THE SKY. Sometimes I ask myself if this fic needs this much worldbuilding to connect one sex scene to the next. Then again, I'd have a much harder time portraying the development of Naoto and Tatsuya's relationship if they aren't doing anything else important in their lives. Since they're such driven guys, it'd be more believable for them to have the mental space to work on better relating to each other once they've made a dent on growing in other areas.

So, I'd just have to keep working on pasting up my scifi one day at a time =/ All my years of only skimming the sex scenes of Manna's The Administration series and little of the plot are catching up to me. As I muddle through the expository sentences, I'm amazed at how many ideas I've gathered for this verse since coming up with it in the middle of Meidi-ya.

Good news: ONE MORE PAGE TO GO. Until I complete this draft! I continue to turn my restless mind inside out for a way to end this on an intriguing note and get prepared for the slog of editing.

Karaoke video for TimeFire's Theme nearly done!

New video coming up! I've been planning to make a karaoke video using Powerpoint with each slide containing a screencap + three lines - the Japanese lyric, the Japanese lyric in Hiragana for singing along and the English translation.

What's left for this project is to decide what to put for 20-secs the Instrumental bits. I'm thinking of putting more Japanese info on it and my own translation, but I put it off cause it's nerve-wracking ;_;

With this done, that means I'd have one more Timeranger fanwork prepared for next year's 20th anniversary. By then, I'd have moved on to another show and who knows what it'll be...

Re-watched more than half of Kyoryuger

Randomly decided to rewatch my first Sentai. I still haven't made headway on figuring out my problem with finishing Sentai shows -- only 7 more Time Force episodes to go and the entire LuPat endgame to go through. It's not worth stressing over completing shows, so as with my usual pattern, I shall just play what I need for the day to lift my mood.

Current Mood: restless

Sneezing, scifi & scribbling

About 6 more days to go until I finish this story. This is the longest I have spent on a single fanfiction project.

Writing, more than creating in any other kind of medium, requires much more patience when it comes to creating more than a 100-word drabble which I can now finish in the same amount of time it takes me to complete a simple gifset. Even if I don't make it to the finish line, I'd have cultivated my patience more than if I chose to create more graphics or do something else.

A bout of runny nose and cough got me to slow down and think more about the words I'm putting down. Done with the main action of the fic, I went back to the start to do some scifi-ish worldbuilding. It's trickier than I thought, leading me back to seek out published work for references.

Read Joan Silber's The Art of Time in Fiction

Found this in a rec from this DW post on the problem of transitions. It's a thin little volume that can be finished in a couple of sittings. There's an analysis of a book called Einstein's Dreams on how time works differently in different worlds which I plan to check out next.

7 more episodes of Time Force to go!

I still can't wrap my head around my problem with finishing Sentais, but I don't want to leave more shows unfinished, so I just clicked on the next episode and continued.

Alex, like Ryuuya, is a dick, but at least not one with some kind of latent God Complex. The differences between the two and their direction of the Rangers' actions is what differentiates the Sentai and the adaptation, both in terms of plot points and themes. Fans who attempt to compare the two could hammer home even more the contrasting roles of Red's 30th Century Descendant, but maybe it doesn't really matter since both shows are well-known enough to get new people to watch (and re-watch) each year.

Current Mood: sick

Finished first buttsex scene of 2019!
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15 more episodes for PR Time Force

I'm reaching the arc where Red's descendant appears in present day, which is not my favourite part of Timeranger :/

The endgame in Sentai shows is hard for me to watch, which is one of the reasons why I tend to leave shows unwatched from Ep 40+ onwards. (For the present LuPat, I'm stuck at Ep 41). It's not that I'm too attached and don't want the show to ever end; maybe it's just that I prefer the sitcom premises of the show to having to watch one episode filled with plot after another.

Working on a Sentai recs blog

It'll be a low-commitment one so I won't feel too much pressure about updating. Since I've gotten better at reccing shows that aren't my personal favourites, I'm thinking of giving this project a shot. Whatever will come of it will probably still have a large emphasis on my personal favourites, for if I feel compelled to self-censor myself, I'd probably give up on creating updates.

Making a Twitter account to spread my entries on social media seems necessary, but I don't want to engage with current, fast-paced social media anymore tbh. Still thinking what to do for self-promotion, or if it's necessary at all if the recs serve a dual purpose of logging what I've watched and liked.

Current Mood: peaceful

*Amy and Jake's roleplay sex as the heroine from Die Hard (I think? Not familiar with Die Hard) and the guy who invented the Dewey Decimal System. Amy had the scenario all planned out before their honeymoon and I'm guessing Jake cobbled up the costume--consisting of round glasses, suit and cane--to return the favour.

Amy: "Oh God, this is really doing it for me..."
(2 minutes later)
Amy: "Okay, this is getting difficult, let's just take our clothes off"
--Paraphrased dialogue

*Jake on Holt's joke shirt: "Is the pineapple the slut or is it calling someone a slut?"
Why can't it be both, Jake?

*Rosa (sweetly) imitating Terry's 'top dog' salute. "Awr Awr!"

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Current Mood: awake

One cap for each of these prompts:
01. Fav character
02. Ship
03. Eye-catching shot
04. Badass moment
05. Tearjerker
06. Eye candy
07. Team bonding
08. Reaction image
09. Fav line/episode
10. Funny expression

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Current Mood: exanimate

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