So, gather up your jackets, move it to the exits

I hope you have found a friend

Closing time, every new beginning

Comes from some other beginning's end

~ Closing Time – Semisonic

So, this is the inaugural entry of what will hopefully be many! I figured it’d be nice to have a place to ramble about what I’m working on, how life’s been, and just whatever comes to mind. I’ll may the layout look a little fancier eventually—unfortunately, I got a bit sidelined working on everything else for my site—but for now, this’ll do. So, what have I been up to?

Projects

Right now, I’ve been divvying my project time up between outlining CHS’s third installment, Chihiro Hatsuki’s Skylanders: Return of the Trap Masters, starting the first installment in the Spiteverse trilogy, Skylanders: Kaos’s Spite, setting up my Neocities art gallery (you may have gotten some previews if you check my activity feed regularly), and lastly, cleaning up the older chapters of CHS’s second installment, Chihiro Hatsuki’s Skylanders: Here Come the Giants and mirroring them here to Neocities. As for how that’s been going…

• I’ve gotten the outlines done for the first four chapters of RotTM, and I’m very close to finishing chapter five’s. Once I get the outlines done for the first seven chapters, I’m going to start working on actually writing them so I can hopefully have a decent backlog set up. My internal deadline for its release was no later than early 2025, but uh, we’ll see how that goes :p

• I’m outlining the third chapter of Kaos’s Spite right now. Since it’s done in script format and will be a lot “lighter” in terms of plot compared to CHS, I’m not planning to do the formal launch until the first thirteen chapters are completed, after which I’ll release them in batches of thirteen. I’ll note that this one doesn’t have any set deadlines because it’s more so my “mental crop rotation” project that I did because I realized I was burnt out on CHS and needed a quick breather. But, since RotTM is going to be pretty demanding in terms of plot and I’ve already fried my brain and had multiple mental breakdowns working on it, I get the feeling I’ll be revisiting my mental crop rotation project a bit more…

• The art gallery is about halfway done! I just need to set up the stuff from 2020 and 2021, get one last graphic done, and it should be ready to launch!

• And mirroring HCTG is… Well. Sidelined a lot because of the sudden need to make an art gallery, but I am closing in on my next milestone: mirroring 2/5ths of the story. I’ve set up Chapter 10’s doc, and just need to go through and do the actual editing.

All in all, pretty good, all things considered. I want to try and get chapter five’s outline finished if not today, sometime this week. Chapters six and seven have wholesale original stories instead of adapting an existing chapter, so we’ll see how that pans out for me lol.

How’ve you been, Tilde?

Eh. The site that was my main social media haven is gradually shutting down over the rest of the year and the void of loneliness is increasing once more. Does not entirely help that on top of that, plans I was looking forward to ended up not panning out because of sudden complications, which isn’t that big of a deal… But then, I spent three days unable to get proper sleep thanks to a mixture of my family refusing to let me sleep properly and be as loud as humanly possible/wake me up at every opportune, and then having a guy who fetish mined me under my nose for the entire year we were in touch and turned out to be a grade-a asshole in general try to worm his way back into my life and act all buddy-buddy with me again. God.

Okay, I’m gonna rant about that last bit because I’m still pissed. The guy refuses to apologizes or acknowledge any wrongdoing, at most he might give a half-hearted “I’m sorry” to get off the hook just to do the same thing when he thinks you’ve forgotten about it. He acts like because some people were willing to take him at face value, I’m being totally irrational for not wanting to forgive him. I already had to cut ties with one person because he pitched a fit over me not wanting anything to do with him (even going so far as to make a fake apology letter pretending to be me to get him to come back to our shared social circles, and then ripping off my stuff as a “gift” for him which got me to block this person outright), and straight-up? Seeing this guy trying to act like everything’s fine, especially when I’m already mourning the loss of my main social media watering hole, sent me over the edge. The one good I got out of this was that when I warned my actual friends there of what was going on, they were like “Christ, yeah that guy sucks, I’ll keep an eye out” which was very validating, I’ll admit.

That being said, stuff like this makes me feel the void even more. It’s hard to find other social avenues when I can’t stand most new socmed sites everyone’s fleeing too and all the others ones probably won’t make it to the end of the decade in one piece, and the ones I do have are where I get shit like “Guy who won’t stop forcing his foot fetish on me no matter how many times I say it makes me uncomfortable, but whines and cries about forcing diversity when I don’t conform specifically to his headcanons and want to include more marginalized characters in my own stories tries to worm his way back into my life and pretend he never did anything wrong”. Add that to how utterly impossible it is to have a life outside of my shitty family because of my inability to drive and their insistence on having me stay home and watch the house all the time because my siblings are more important than me, I guess, and UGHHHHHHHHHH.

Hey, on the bright side, Magilumiere and Acro Trip both started this week! I really need to sit down and watch them—I have the first few volumes of Magilumiere, so I’m really excited to see how the anime adapted them! I also drove down a road this week that I’ve never driven down and didn’t die! I actually did pretty well for my first time! I’m actually starting to shake my writer’s block! I’m doing more and more Neocities site work! Hopefully maybe I’ll feel a little less empty and lonely next week.