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• I'm not aggressively refreshing the drabble_zone page so that I can start posting all of the drabbles I missed the deadline on in Amnesty week, no one is doing that, that would be Foolish.


• The loft was not in fact cursed and/or full of corpses! Or at least if it was, dude had a really good pokerface about it, so respect to him. But we are theoretically getting things fixed so that we have a less terrible mold problem in the house, and the window that can't close will close and the window that can't open will open. PHEW.


• I'm a little offended that these ADHD memes are actually just photographs of my life. How rude.


• I am attempting to relearn how to paint, because it's the summer and why not? I'm using paint pens and waterbrushes, so these are new tools but a skill I used t have, and that's apparently the middle ground I need for learning things now? I'm currently trying by copying official Pokémon art, because then I'm concentrating on how to do the colours instead of how good my drawing is, if that makes sense?
  
  • I'm discovering that I like blobbing down my paint where the shadows are and squiggling it out from there, although I'm not sure if I'm using the waterbrushes right or if I'm just giving the paint too long to dry before I start moving it around. The Ivysaur is closest to what I'm going for! Not perfect, but honestly that's why I'm practicing.
  
  
  • (Lex is being very kind about me being excited about Pokémon at him whenever he comes downstairs.)
  
  
  • Me: I don't understand why this set of pens doesn't have a green! It's got two shades of blue, a yellow, a red, and an orange, why does it not have green!
    jilliferium: It's for painting sunsets.
    Me: ......................................................................................
  
  
  • I keep catching myself about to do the "Oh man, did I ever tell you about the bullshit [authority figures from my teenage years] said about my drawing skills?" and like... Brain... It's been twelve years. You can let it go.


• I've finally admitted defeat and bought myself a mouth guard, because my anti-anxiety meds make me grind my teeth at night (apparently? I don't know, I'm asleep) and the muscle relaxants my doctor prescribed isn't doing much except letting me go to sleep in the first place. It works! But it turns out that moulds in my mouth still make me retch, so the fitting process is a fun exercise in controlling my reflexes.


• My current game rotation is Animal Crossing, Pokémon Café Mix, and Spyro Reignited. I've finished Spyro the Dragon and Spyro 2: Ripto's Revenge, and made it up to Spyro: Year of the Dragon! It's a weird kind of nostalgia, because Spyro was the first console game I ever played, and Spyro 3 was one of the few that I finished, and it's just... Strange? Kinda strange. (Am I weirded out that they've decided that the kangaroo needed to be made more femme? Kinda! Am I more weirded out that Hunter has Sonic-style human teeth? ... Yep!)


• lexgarrett and I are watching original flavour Fate/Stay Night, because Lex hasn't seen it in years and I've never seen it. The art is... It's sure there. And I think I found the origin of my "Ugh, Shirou, bleh," feelings, which feels very unfair to every other version of him. (WHY IS TOHSAKA NOT THE PROTAGONIST. I KNOW THAT IT WAS ORIGINALLY AN H-GAME BUT TOHSAKA OR AYAKA WOULD BE BETTER PROTAGONISTS AND I DO NOT ACCEPT CRITICISM ABOUT THIS.)


• Managed to not fall victim to the Steam sale by going "Oh I'll check it out tomorrow!" until it ended.


• ... Apart from that, not been doing much! I hope you're all well!

[Fic] Pet Shop of Horrors | Dramatic

It's amnesty week at drabble_zone, so I bring you this thing from last year!

Petshop of Horrors | Dramatic
Teen (swearing) | 100 words | Leon Orcot, Count D | Set post-series, implied spoilers | Written for drabble_zone prompt "End of the road." | He'd expected something more dramatic.

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[FIC] Castlevania | None Forgotten / These are the lives you love to lead

Castlevania | None Forgotten
G | 100 words | Alucard, Sypha, Trevor | Set post-series two; ignores series three | Written for the drabble_zone prompt "Tired." | Friends make for a persistent alarm clock.

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Castlevania | These are the lives you love to lead
G | 200 words | Alucard | Written for the drabble_zone prompt "Dance." | Lisa dragged them to festivals when he was a child.

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