Night of 2nd-3rd October 2025

I Had My Freams But I Had no Fear.

This is a bit of an mini update.

So despite the last update, I found a template design I think I actually geniunely liked and suited the blog very well. The credits for it is on the side there. Speculator design, and I'm trying to abide by the original creator's request not to edit coding or too much; the only thing I disagreed with are the grayscale on images before you hover over them. It took me a whole gas-station coffee can and a few sips of alcohol to finally make it live—and all the past versions too.

There's a few caveats, really just one. Most of the heading types are scuffed for different categories, like my impressions on each anime. Some aren't highlighted strongly as they should be(Example: Busamen on this page), so I imagine it may be hard for reader's eyes to gravitate to them.

It's not a big deal. It's not like I expect anyone to actually be a stalke and read each update. I wish I knew how to make it so you could click on each blog entry to go to them faster, but oh well. It's a lot of skill grinding for no gain, and even if I decided to be a bloomer and get into coding I'm instantly replaced by clankers and crack coding bunnys, I have no love for coding. I enjoy writing. I can't talk much or talk much in general and when I do I sound stupid, so I kinda like writing instead.

The best part about this new blog layout? I don't have to downsize images as much now. I tried to see how it looks on mobile and it's not too bad. They may remain the same size so who knows.

Beside the blog layout, I also readjusted the Creative Writing page as well, same author as this one. The main index page will also be changed as soon as the art commission for it is finished. I think it will give the site a really crispy, eye-candy cool vibe to it!

So! The finally of CITY.

it was good. I was caught off so guard and did not expect a musical. I think beside Tutu anime, I don't think I've ever seen a anime that's a musical. It was pretty swell. Just leave it to Kyoani to do something lik this, ever. I'm actually kind of curious to check out the blog entry behind this finale specifically. They really are a treat to read; and they're translated into English, too.

We made good progress in FF11.

There was a part where we were suppose to head into a portal in this one area somewhere, and I completely misread the guides. Sometimes we randomly attack enemies out of the blue, and it summoned a NM in one of the areas. We died... but we could've killed it. But we didn't have a healer and my BF wasn't able to do summons because of the NM. I would've done my 2hr special but I died before it could happen. So it was 200 imp standing down the drain. No Biggie.

We went through the area without attackign anyone and....

We realized there was a whole room of apexs! We tried one more time with sneak and invisbility and died. So we grinded for another hour to get extra insurance on IS. Eventually, I glared at the wiki on my 2nd monitor enough and we didn't even have to go into that corridor area. We had to literally go hard left(I realized this watching 2 different youtube videos on this area).

So we progressed a little past that until we got to a mission where you had to wait a full in-game day (like 30 mins irl since it was 8 something in-game) so we called it there.

We watched the first few episodes of season 4 LOTGH. Jst great stuff. We were kinda joking these episodes are going so much faster with the pacing now.

Until next time. I have at least 2 new commissions I look forward to sharing once they're done! Also I forgot to share it, but the new title of A Game of Cosmic Titans! Now with typography by me. The artist isgie. Incredible artist!

There will be some adjustments to the text tile, namely the 'A Game of', seems the stylistic choice with it didn't fly so well. I hope to have a bigger update next time, coupled with the new main page layout. See you soon! Thanks for reading!

1st October 2025

Oh, no, not me. We never lost control.

I left behind my traumatic 20s. And now I'm 30 as of a week ago. My b-day came and went without issue. 

But man... September is already over. 2025 is nearing its end. What a year. But I like to think this year was kinder to me than other years. At least until after I started taking Ashwagandha. I haven't gotten into confrontations much with my family, but I try to avoid them whenever I can, or maybe they avoid me...

Well, anyway. I've been thinking of updating the site again, but I haven't been able to find a theme I like that suits what I wanted. You may remember I brought up the idea of like a classic windows OS startup with a PS1 splashscreen, but now I can't find the site that actually had this as a convenient Neocities template.

I think I had a new idea for the front page, but there won't be any loading splash screens like I hoped. I'll need to find a layout that doesn't block out half the character's face, actually, there's an upcoming art commission I may use as a front-page banner of sorts, but the commission isn't done yet. I tried on a whim to update a newer blog layout, but it keep stretching the text body so it looked offputting, so I'll stick with this for now.

I got a few new commissions! I think they came out lovely. I'm going to put them on the site somewhere. Here they are!

 

ByOursong

Bywoofycakes

Website design is always extremely overwhelming. I say this sometimes, but I peek over the garden fence to look at other's neocities and I always just feel utterly mogged. There's just so many good sites with awesome designs and stuff and here I am being inaweduate even in my own little carved out hobo corner. If there is one thing I need to also fix, is the floating sidebar on the side, since it also covers half the page on mobile. I imagine most people don't actually browse neocities on their PC, so if they stumble across here the sidebar takes up half the screen... a frustrating shame.

I'll figure it all out, there's no rush or race. It's not like I have anything particularly interesting to share on this anyway, right? Nothing's really gained or loss.

So, the airing anime.

This was honestly just a real strong season overall. Some reviews may be brief, or word salads culminating in just that. I'm starting to think, despite my chronic reading, I'm not all that good at actually doing them. So—

Anime Summer 2025 in Review

Starting it off with Nyaight of the Living Cat. A satire parody of every cheap zombie flick there is—except it's cute cuddly little cats. CGI cats aglore! Ahhhh! But I didn't mind and neither did my boyfriend. We enjoyed it for the slop it was. Apparently, the director and his staff never actually adapted a anime before: They only did live-action stuff, so it was interesting this was this debut. For some reason it teased there being a second season, so who knows? It could be fun.

Busamen Gachi Fighter

What a goofy isekai sloppa. It didn't dare try to break new ground or reinvent the steering wheel. It set out what it wanted to do, follow a uglymug around on his shengaginans. I thought the whole God subplot with the blue haired chick was interesting, but it sort of floundered at the end. Could there be a season 2? I don't think so. The LN, it's original source, is finished and it wasn't too long anyway. Just like with every other slop in existence, it'll be forgotten about by next season. I mean, if you're really, really, hurting for a show to turn off your brain and enjoy for 20 mins, this is one of them.

My Dress-Up Darling Season 2

I enjoyed it a lot. In the end, she couldn't bring herself to say it. But the season was still solid. I can't wait to watch season 3 in [x] years.

CITY

We're never getting a show like this ever again. This truly was a spirtual sequel worthy of Nichijou, and maybe even classic pre-fire Kyonai as a whole. I praised them in the mid-season update for the crazy once-a-generation episode but they just never lost steam.

The staff loved working on this. It shows, truly, geniunely. The director I think, took a habit of documenting basiaclly a week-by-week development of CITY on his blog, or somewhere. I only glanced at the interview he did for that episode and it's just mind-blowing the passion and effort he put into both the show and the interviews. It feels so rare for a studio or staff to actually be thrilled to work on something. And now, it's coming to a bittersweet close. We didn't watch the finale just yet, but no doubt it will be a big one.

And lastly, New Panty and Stocking.

Wow, what a show. Trigger was careful to avoid too much toilet humor and opted more for interactions between the characters, and it was just wonderful. The send-off was heartwarming. They mentioned in a interview the season 1 cliffhanger wasn't real, but they went for it anyway, so we have a reverse where they teased season 3 but likely, it's not going to happen. I don't think it needs a season 3. Trigger works better with their pipeline for making standalone works. 

I'm happy for him. I teared up at the ending. Beautiful send-off.

So that mostly wraps up Summer... we drafted up what we're watching next season:

The shows we're going to give a try. We may not watch all of them.

And for me personally: I'm going to watch One Reddit Man season 3. I didn't bring it up with my bf because I dont' think he was big on it or watched s2.

Speaking of stuff watching by myself: I forgot to mention Yofukashi no Uta Season 2. It was interesting. Did I mention last update about the content warning it had for one of the last few episodes? I think I did. It was good. An antagonist I feel they did right. I've been lazy and haven't watched the final episode yet, but it was a decent season.

So moving on with non-airing anime: I've been going all-in getting through our rewatch of Legend of the Galactic Heroes. We just wrapped up episode 86, the last episode of season 3. It's great to revisit this some 7 years later, and right as I'm writing A Game of Cosmic Titans, too.

For him, it was actually right around the time he stopped watching it; in his words, not that he was bored with it or anything but he had life going on at that time. We both watched it around the same time actually, around 2018 or 2019. I stopped around THAT episode for similiar reasons, but I finished it unlike him. But I feel I wasn't really playing much attention the first watch because there was a time I was invested in the super time-sink game Ymir and would have an episode on while I stared at the turbo slow game.

So... I think that about wraps up August. I've been making big progress on A Game of Cosmic Titans!

Chapter 8–9 proved unexpectedly challenging to write, but I finally managed to knock them out of the ballpark, a proper epilogue of sorts to The Yellow Typhoon and the Final Waltz. I can only truly hope my readers will see it that way too. Chapters 10–11 were actually two of the original chapters for A Game of Cosmic Titans I did a year ago now, right as I was wrapping up my reading of God Emperor, or Heretics. So they were really well-written by my standards, except for the obscene amounts of flowery purple prose. I spent about the last two days slaving away, ensuring they were up to date, consistent, and had good flow with the interconnected chapters. I think I did a splendid job.

All that remains now, is to tackle the mother of all obstacles, the original first chapter of A Game of Cosmic Titans that I first wrote. It's challenging, but with everything behind it nice and tidy, I can do it. And then I have to slightly give chapters 13–14 some glanceovers to ensure theres consistency, and then finally, I can progress with the payoff in chapter 15...

For now, I'm not sure I will post the rest on its actual creative writing page here on my neocities. I may just post the rest on RR.... but I'm not sure yet. I'm not even sure if I will post it on RR at all, I may just try selfpub on KU, but who knows really.

So, writing aside, I haven't started on Oydessy yet, still reading and catching up on web novels. Game-wise...  I've been kinda itching to play a ERE game in EU3 with MEIOU. I did one with Japan last year? And it was a fun experience, but I haven't done an ERE one yet in EU3. Or I'll continue Rome1. Time will tell.

Thanks for reading as always!