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  <title>Guava Continent Outpost</title>
  <subtitle>Posts on writing, shipping &amp; creating fanworks</subtitle>
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    <name>Guava</name>
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  <updated>2026-05-16T06:30:33Z</updated>
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    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2014-09-06:2313195:29465</id>
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    <title>Extreme method for completing a WIP</title>
    <published>2026-05-16T06:28:13Z</published>
    <updated>2026-05-16T06:30:33Z</updated>
    <category term="tt: fanfic specifically"/>
    <category term="tt: writing"/>
    <dw:mood>geeky</dw:mood>
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    <content type="html">What to do:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;- Take a phone screenshot of the draft's final portion and set it as the wallpaper. &lt;br /&gt;- After adding more words to the draft, take another screenshot and set that as the new wallpaper. &lt;br /&gt;- Repeat these 2 steps until the project's completed with the changing of the wallpaper as reward and motivation for working on the draft. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=g_uava&amp;ditemid=29465" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2014-09-06:2313195:29338</id>
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    <title>My 'Friends to Lovers' arc with Trello</title>
    <published>2026-05-13T10:42:05Z</published>
    <updated>2026-05-13T10:42:05Z</updated>
    <category term="interest: personal knowledge management"/>
    <category term="fandom: exceedraft"/>
    <dw:mood>content</dw:mood>
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    <content type="html">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. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=g_uava&amp;ditemid=29338" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2014-09-06:2313195:29141</id>
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    <title>IT'S MY BIRTHDAY!!</title>
    <published>2026-05-09T13:18:47Z</published>
    <updated>2026-05-09T13:18:47Z</updated>
    <category term="personal"/>
    <category term="fandom: exceedraft"/>
    <dw:mood>pleased</dw:mood>
    <dw:security>public</dw:security>
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    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="https://images.squidge.org/images/2026/05/09/27673.jpg" alt="27673" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I forgot to pose her with my birthday cake before demolishing it 😅&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;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 &lt;a href="https://bsky.app/profile/exceedrafront.bsky.social/post/3mlerr2f46k26"&gt;LJ style picspam collage&lt;/a&gt; from my drafts.&lt;/p&gt;
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    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2014-09-06:2313195:28854</id>
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    <title>100 Exceedraft E13 fanworks for 100 consecutive days</title>
    <published>2026-05-06T09:15:44Z</published>
    <updated>2026-05-06T09:15:44Z</updated>
    <category term="tt: creating graphics"/>
    <category term="fandom: exceedraft"/>
    <dw:mood>cold</dw:mood>
    <dw:security>public</dw:security>
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    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;On BSky, I've created &lt;a href="https://bsky.app/profile/exceedrafront.bsky.social"&gt;an account&lt;/a&gt; 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. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;My BSky account is basically like a Xitter (X formerly Twitter) 'fan account' common in K-Pop fandom. I did run a &lt;a href="https://x.com/guava_otp93"&gt;K-Pop fan account before&lt;/a&gt; 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. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;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. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
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    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2014-09-06:2313195:28483</id>
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    <title>Costume Analysis: Ken's Apron in Exceedraft</title>
    <published>2026-03-16T03:29:06Z</published>
    <updated>2026-03-16T04:48:29Z</updated>
    <category term="fandom: exceedraft"/>
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    <content type="html">Recently, I got a sketchbook and thought of drawing the design of Ken's apron since it resembles the royalty-free clipart uploaded on &lt;a href="https://www.irasutoya.com/"&gt;irasutoya&lt;/a&gt; that seem simple enough to copy. Collecting reference images and creating a gifset of &lt;a href="https://juicedguava.tumblr.com/post/809328578115305473/ken-in-his-apron-exceedraft-e2-e25-e27-e40"&gt;scenes featuring Ken in his apron&lt;/a&gt; got me noticing the quirky variety of food, ingredients and cooking utensils in the design of Ken's apron. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://squidgeimages.s3.us-west-002.backblazeb2.com/2026/03/15/collage---kens-apron.png" alt="collage ken&amp;#39;s apron" border="0"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What's included on Ken's apron, from top to bottom: &lt;br /&gt;- 1 strawberry shortcake&lt;br /&gt;- 2 onigiri&lt;br /&gt;- 1 egg in an egg holder&lt;br /&gt;- 1 omelette rice covered in ketchup&lt;br /&gt;- 1 set of fork, knife and spoon&lt;br /&gt;- 1 small saucepan with three sausages&lt;br /&gt;- 1 carrot&lt;br /&gt;- 2 cucumbers&lt;br /&gt;- 4 strawberries&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="cut-wrapper"&gt;&lt;span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class="cut-open"&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-text"&gt;&lt;a href="https://g-uava.dreamwidth.org/28483.html#cutid1"&gt;Read more...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-close"&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=g_uava&amp;ditemid=28483" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2014-09-06:2313195:28295</id>
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    <title>TokuShipping Week 2026 Complete!</title>
    <published>2026-02-15T22:26:18Z</published>
    <updated>2026-02-15T22:26:18Z</updated>
    <category term="fandom: turboranger"/>
    <category term="fandom: exceedraft"/>
    <category term="shipping and crying"/>
    <category term="fandom: winspector"/>
    <category term="tt: fandom"/>
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    <content type="html">&lt;a href="https://juicedguava.tumblr.com/tagged/tokusmut%20week%202026"&gt;Link to everything I've created for the event&lt;/a&gt;. 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. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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 &lt;a href="https://tokusmutweek.tumblr.com/"&gt;a sideblog for NSFW content&lt;/a&gt;, 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. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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 😍&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=g_uava&amp;ditemid=28295" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2014-09-06:2313195:27996</id>
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    <title>Admittedly threatened over fandom tastes mismatch</title>
    <published>2026-01-30T23:40:16Z</published>
    <updated>2026-01-30T23:40:16Z</updated>
    <category term="fandom: exceedraft"/>
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    <content type="html">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. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=g_uava&amp;ditemid=27996" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2014-09-06:2313195:27808</id>
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    <title>OTP Posting</title>
    <published>2026-01-21T13:13:55Z</published>
    <updated>2026-01-21T13:13:55Z</updated>
    <category term="meta notes: fandom"/>
    <category term="shipping and crying"/>
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    <content type="html">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. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=g_uava&amp;ditemid=27808" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2014-09-06:2313195:27516</id>
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    <title>New reaction GIF just dropped</title>
    <published>2026-01-12T00:29:13Z</published>
    <updated>2026-01-12T00:47:23Z</updated>
    <category term="fandom: exceedraft"/>
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    <content type="html">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. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://g-uava.dreamwidth.org/file/8707.gif"&gt;&lt;img src="https://g-uava.dreamwidth.org/file/8707.gif" title="Reaction | Theorizing - 2" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=g_uava&amp;ditemid=27516" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2014-09-06:2313195:27338</id>
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    <title>LET THERE BE YAOI!!!</title>
    <published>2026-01-08T00:07:12Z</published>
    <updated>2026-01-08T00:07:12Z</updated>
    <category term="my stuff: fanfiction"/>
    <category term="fandom: exceedraft"/>
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    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;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. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The story is available only on &lt;a href="https://squidgeworld.org/works/81292"&gt;Squidgeworld&lt;/a&gt;. 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. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;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).&lt;/p&gt;
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    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2014-09-06:2313195:27028</id>
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    <title>Some ideas for posting more in 2026</title>
    <published>2026-01-07T02:54:24Z</published>
    <updated>2026-01-12T00:52:46Z</updated>
    <category term="tt: creating graphics"/>
    <category term="interest: online life"/>
    <category term="blogging"/>
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    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Last year, I created more than 20 posts on Dreamwidth. I'm pleased as that surpasses my initial aim of 1 post per month. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;To post more in the upcoming months, I'm thinking of: &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;(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. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;(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. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;(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.&lt;/p&gt;
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    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2014-09-06:2313195:26830</id>
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    <title>Interconnected Amusing Camping AU Plots</title>
    <published>2025-12-10T22:59:08Z</published>
    <updated>2025-12-10T23:01:57Z</updated>
    <category term="spitballing"/>
    <category term="tt: fanfic specifically"/>
    <dw:security>public</dw:security>
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    <content type="html">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 😂&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These are the plots I thought up that would perhaps fulfill many of the holiday exchange's open-ended requests: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="cut-wrapper"&gt;&lt;span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class="cut-open"&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-text"&gt;&lt;a href="https://g-uava.dreamwidth.org/26830.html#cutid1"&gt;Read more...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-close"&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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 😌&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=g_uava&amp;ditemid=26830" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2014-09-06:2313195:26551</id>
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    <title>Got Married</title>
    <published>2025-11-28T07:24:28Z</published>
    <updated>2025-11-28T14:42:08Z</updated>
    <category term="personal"/>
    <category term="fandom: turboranger"/>
    <dw:mood>happy</dw:mood>
    <dw:security>public</dw:security>
    <dw:reply-count>4</dw:reply-count>
    <content type="html">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. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=g_uava&amp;ditemid=26551" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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  <entry>
    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2014-09-06:2313195:26190</id>
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    <title>Graphic editing in my obscure corner</title>
    <published>2025-11-24T15:00:27Z</published>
    <updated>2025-11-24T15:01:12Z</updated>
    <category term="fandom: turboranger"/>
    <category term="tt: creating graphics"/>
    <dw:mood>sleepy</dw:mood>
    <dw:security>public</dw:security>
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    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;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 —&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;me: [lists many steps that involve opening different software and looking at different files]&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;me: oh&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Just finished creating Turboranger GIFsets. I've tried to make it a weekly routine since I've returned to once more posting on &lt;a href="https://juicedguava.tumblr.com/"&gt;my Tumblr fanworks blog&lt;/a&gt;. 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.&lt;/p&gt;
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  <entry>
    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2014-09-06:2313195:25893</id>
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    <title>Drinking the polyamory juice for the Turboranger Red Throuple</title>
    <published>2025-11-08T22:51:06Z</published>
    <updated>2025-11-08T22:51:43Z</updated>
    <category term="fandom: turboranger"/>
    <dw:mood>awake</dw:mood>
    <dw:security>public</dw:security>
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    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;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. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;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). &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;What's been fun shipping an OT3 so far: &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Thinking about how the different combinations of the characters influence their overall dynamic as a trio &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Alternating between writing slash and het in one story (all bisexual engines go!) &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;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&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
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    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2014-09-06:2313195:25785</id>
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    <title>🧁‼️Writing a Sentai Pairing in Different Sentai AUs: What I've Tried and Learnt</title>
    <published>2025-10-22T10:05:16Z</published>
    <updated>2025-10-23T13:00:28Z</updated>
    <category term="fandom: ryusoulger"/>
    <category term="fandom: lupin vs pat"/>
    <category term="dtfic diary"/>
    <dw:mood>accomplished</dw:mood>
    <dw:security>public</dw:security>
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    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Commentary for:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href="https://archiveofourown.org/works/72978386?view_full_work=true"&gt;"Drabble Compilation: Melto and Asuna in Different Sentai Teams"&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;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. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;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. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;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. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="cut-wrapper"&gt;&lt;span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class="cut-open"&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-text"&gt;&lt;a href="https://g-uava.dreamwidth.org/25785.html#cutid1"&gt;Read more...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-close"&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2014-09-06:2313195:25591</id>
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    <title>🧁Writing a Pre-Canon Smut One-Shot: What I've Tried and Other Commentary</title>
    <published>2025-09-16T03:14:32Z</published>
    <updated>2025-10-01T02:40:58Z</updated>
    <category term="fandom: ryusoulger"/>
    <category term="dtfic diary"/>
    <dw:music>Lee Moonsae - In the Rain</dw:music>
    <dw:security>public</dw:security>
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    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://archiveofourown.org/works/70874131"&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt;, 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 &lt;em&gt;The Legacy of The Master's Soul&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;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. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;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. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="cut-wrapper"&gt;&lt;span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class="cut-open"&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-text"&gt;&lt;a href="https://g-uava.dreamwidth.org/25591.html#cutid1"&gt;Read more...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-close"&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=g_uava&amp;ditemid=25591" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2014-09-06:2313195:25161</id>
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    <title>Cool Knightly Tunes</title>
    <published>2025-09-13T02:45:49Z</published>
    <updated>2025-09-13T02:46:19Z</updated>
    <category term="fandom: ryusoulger"/>
    <dw:music>Antti Martikainen - Lords of Iron</dw:music>
    <dw:mood>energetic</dw:mood>
    <dw:security>public</dw:security>
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    <content type="html">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"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/U5u9glfqDsc?si=rvXmNtAw_rrxXZgA" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=g_uava&amp;ditemid=25161" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2014-09-06:2313195:24887</id>
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    <title>🧁 Completing a set of Alternate Universe Drabble Prompts: What I've Learnt</title>
    <published>2025-09-08T13:06:21Z</published>
    <updated>2025-09-08T13:28:36Z</updated>
    <category term="tt: fanfic specifically"/>
    <category term="fandom: ryusoulger"/>
    <category term="dtfic diary"/>
    <dw:music>Antti Martikainen - Lords of Iron</dw:music>
    <dw:mood>artistic</dw:mood>
    <dw:security>public</dw:security>
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    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;I've completed a set of Toku100 Challenge's Alternate Universe Drabble Prompts featuring Melto/Asuna from Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger. Here are &lt;a href="https://archiveofourown.org/works/70536436"&gt;my AU drabbles&lt;/a&gt;, and here are &lt;a href="https://toku100challenge.dreamwidth.org/943.html"&gt;the AU prompts&lt;/a&gt;. 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. &lt;/p&gt;

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    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2014-09-06:2313195:24597</id>
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    <title>Nostalgic and Productive Activities</title>
    <published>2025-08-25T12:55:04Z</published>
    <updated>2025-08-25T12:55:04Z</updated>
    <category term="fandom: ryusoulger"/>
    <category term="spitballing"/>
    <category term="interest: studying jp"/>
    <dw:music>Ai (Chuuseishin) a.k.a. Excel Saga Opening</dw:music>
    <dw:mood>peaceful</dw:mood>
    <dw:security>public</dw:security>
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    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Some activities I did lately that I haven't been doing for the past year or so: &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Studying Japanese&lt;/strong&gt; -- 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. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Posting fic on AO3&lt;/strong&gt; -- Today, I've posted my first new work since May 2024. It's a drabble compilation about &lt;em&gt;The Karate Kid&lt;/em&gt; 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. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Watching tokusatsu&lt;/strong&gt; -- 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.&lt;/p&gt;
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  <entry>
    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2014-09-06:2313195:24190</id>
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    <title>Just sticking with Lupin III and gang</title>
    <published>2025-05-02T00:38:48Z</published>
    <updated>2025-05-02T00:40:44Z</updated>
    <category term="fandom: lupin iii"/>
    <category term="interest: anime"/>
    <dw:security>public</dw:security>
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    <content type="html">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. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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 &lt;a href="https://formlessvoidbeast.tumblr.com/post/740642420552761344/list-of-lupin-iii-part-2-episodes-that-i-liked"&gt; this list of recommended episodes&lt;/a&gt; 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. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=g_uava&amp;ditemid=24190" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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    <title>'OCD Reading'</title>
    <published>2025-03-30T00:18:54Z</published>
    <updated>2025-03-30T00:18:54Z</updated>
    <category term="books"/>
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    <content type="html">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. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=g_uava&amp;ditemid=24056" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2014-09-06:2313195:23590</id>
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    <title>Idea: Tokusatsu Golf Fanworks Flashfest</title>
    <published>2025-03-18T06:55:47Z</published>
    <updated>2025-03-18T08:28:06Z</updated>
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    <category term="fandom: ryusoulger"/>
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    <content type="html">&lt;span style='white-space: nowrap;'&gt;&lt;a href='https://linky.dreamwidth.org/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='https://linky.dreamwidth.org/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;linky&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; 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. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fanwork Prompts: Golf&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;04) (AU or Canon Compliant) Undercover Golf Player - Someone has to pretend to be great at playing golf for a mission.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;05) (AU) World of Professional Golf - One character is a professional golf athletes and someone else is their coach/rival/social media manager/fan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=g_uava&amp;ditemid=23590" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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    <title>Sugar, Spice and Everything Nice</title>
    <published>2025-02-24T08:57:08Z</published>
    <updated>2025-02-24T09:01:36Z</updated>
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    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Got the full set of Powerpuff Girls cups from the local Miniso! Both the fronts and backs are really cute. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/14oipjeq10qkkfmj8n66c/25-02-22-18-54-40-949_deco_copy_614x819.jpg?rlkey=fotd2ao3lydntbfdvwt0sld4w&amp;amp;st=eougkj2s&amp;amp;raw=1" alt="Powerpuff Cups" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Got the full set of Powerpuff Girls cups from the local Miniso! Both the fronts and backs are really cute. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
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    <title>Back at printing out my longer stories</title>
    <published>2025-02-22T01:57:41Z</published>
    <updated>2025-02-22T02:04:01Z</updated>
    <category term="tt: writing"/>
    <category term="tt: fanfic specifically"/>
    <category term="fandom: crush gear turbo"/>
    <dw:mood>bouncy</dw:mood>
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    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/xmebnp4r37rsrr0hdpik2/20250221_224336_copy_690x419.jpg?rlkey=ahy86jv9pj0uybmnn3xqvatcs&amp;amp;st=pez4t48x&amp;amp;raw=1" alt="cover" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Monalisa approves. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;For the whole of last year, I continued writing longer stories (10k words and above) but stopped printing them out for re-reading and editing. I had to get rid of my stash of printouts while moving and thought twice about amassing a new pile at my new home. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Reviewing the posted versions of last year's longer stories allowed me to see the advantages of getting a hard copy of my draft. Reading on paper feels slower since there are more words over a larger surface area, yet it allows me to finish editing faster since I could see from the number of physical pages how much story I have. After only editing with a computer, I spotted months after posting some parts of my story that called for refining, bringing up the total rounds of editing for the same story. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Currently I live further away from a shop where I can get my draft printed cheaply, but it's worth it even with some nervousness over someone else glimpsing at the bits of smut in the print preview 😵 My writing appears formal and official when printed out, which is kind of hilarious when I get to the parts that are smutty and in general of a nature commonly seen only in fanfic. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Yesterday, I finished editing and marking up the printout of my latest draft. It took me a month to write and a lot less time to re-read. That's a very good sign! Also I very much cherish the moments when I paused re-reading to laugh or just sit with delightful thoughts about my OTP 😌&lt;/p&gt;
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