I have a habit of making, like, 97-Point Plans for the day and then managing two things and calling it good. That's fine. Though eventually I do need to get some stuff done. But also, my to-do lists end up long because I can't just, like, clean the kitchen. It needs to be doing dishes, cleaning out the fridge, taking trash, etc.

It is not quite the end of the month but I think it's close enough to report in!

( May Intentions )

Okay, I'm actually more used to either hand-carried or cross-body bags, but I can deal with a shoulder bag for this. Look at this absolute joy of a bag:



I don't think last night was the absolute worst post-Memorial Day startup in the history of post-Memorial Day startups, but it was definitely in the top five. IIRC I took last year off and it was pretty quiet, so maybe I'll take next year's off so everyone else has a better night?

For reasons unknown they're sexy, I've ended up kinda obsessed with Orange Cat Industry's Super Robot Heroes model kits, the the Estailevs in particular. (Estailev Neamhain Warcrow for reference) There are four kits so far in the line: the Warcrow, Cassowary, and two versions of the first unit in both blue and a "Roll Out" white-n-grey option that is HHHNNGGGHH. I've managed to snag both Warcrow and Cassowary, and have hopefully managed the Roll Out, fingers-crossed on that order. Still looking for the blue, but it's early-days. There are also a bunch of kinda SD kits that I haven't looked at too closely but there's a black and purple one I may track down at some point. (But seriously, I think half my phone searches are variations on 'Estailev'...)

Fandom : Eyeshield 21 / アイシールド21Author : Yui_Miyamoto
Story Title : Keeper.
Rating : G
Genre(s) : Romance, General
Main Character(s) : Hiruma Youichi, Anezaki Mamori
Summary : After Eyeshield reveals himself, Mamori confronts Hiruma.
MFG…Warning(s) : None.
Disclaimer : Eyeshield 21 isn’t mine and belongs to Inagaki Riichirou and Production I.G.

Livejournal / Fanfiction.net / AO3

Ah, the weekend is over. It was mostly quiet and very nice, overall.

Saturday, we did the multi-cemetery run/ancestor worship. I only took a couple of photos and of those, the best one is unfortunately a little too distinctive to post publicly online. My one Suruga-ya package (not model kits or Lucifers) basically teleported but still arrived after we got back, thankfully. (I will have to share a picture later... it is a Roy Focker bag and it is amaaaaaaazing. No, it's better than that, lol. I have ended up on a weird low-grade Roy bender and this is satisfying me for now. Though I probably also need an icon, hmm...)

Sunday and Monday were much the same. Worked on Gunpla (Alto done, Flauros started, desk cleaned up a bit, SD Strike Freedom almost done), worked on archiving, did more house-cleaning than anticipated, watched a chunk of SEED Destiny and just... discovered things I'd memory-holed or something. I do need to get back to Battle Destiny, too. It feels like Neverending Tomorrow, control-wise, so it'll take some time to learn combat. I also really want to replay Gundam Musou 3 and maybe 2 (but definitely 3)...

Back to the grind! (At least it's a short week?)

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I mailed out the monthly mail yesterday, including to Canada since CanadaPost is still running (for now). Fingers crossed.

Would any Star Trek friends like a couple of brochures from Riverside Trekfest XXVIII? These turned up while sorting stuff at the 'rents and given some of their travels and stopping at every tourist trap they could in the past, they must've ended up in Riverside, Iowa once. (I'll post anywhere in the world. First come.)

Got almost all my physical zine stuff organized and made a post about it on makezines. I think the only thing missing is The Home for Unwanted Robots and that might take some digging. But this was one of the goals for the weekend, so yay.

I also did a bunch more painting on my SD Heroes Strike Freedom, and then built like 2/3 of the white Alto. He'll get finished up today, surely, and then have his wings added on tonight? I don't know if I'll get to Plutone over the weekend, but I'll definitely get started on Flauros.

I had really ambitious plans for the year re: zines and while I'm sure I'll fall a little short, I feel like there is still plenty of hope.

The original plan was one zine per month, while also basically doing updated/edited versions of all my old zines at the rate of also ~one per month. This sounds like a lot and it both is and isn't. (Right now it sure is!)

At some point, I'll probably take an extra long weekend or two and do some more catch up. (I have no real vacation plans again this year because look at the world on fire; I might as well make zines.)

Anyway- so far for 2025:
Dragon Stories (Jan) - done, copies available
Rimokon #2 (Feb) - partly done
Tiniest Tales #1 (March) - done, copies available? (might have to print more)
Cemetery Zine #0 (April) - partly done
Lost Dawn & The Box of Dreams (May) - partly done
Chic Musique #9 (June) - I know I had some vague notes for this but ???

Reprints:
Gods of Agassia (Jan) - from 2023, done, copies available
No Creature With Wings (Feb) - from 2007, needs edit + fix art/covers
Chic Musique #1 (March) - from 1998, will need to be retyped and reformatted, graphics might be tricky/will do my best
Chic Musique #2 (April) - haven't even looked at
Rimokon #1 (May) - haven't even looked at
Knocking Boots (June) - haven't even looked at, will probably just need an edit?
The Small Fandom Survival Guide (Unassigned) - from 2009, eight-page Yaoi-con panel extra, probably just needs a quick edit

Weekend plans include catching myself up through February, which just means an edit + fixing art on No Creature and, uh, writing like ten six more pages of a twelve page zine. Not actually impossible! (Big pictures, the secret is big pictures!)