. . . . . it takes two wings to truly fly . . . . .

It looks like I forgot to mention acquiring a pair of tanks from M at comic-con. They're 1/144 scale and were priced right (as in, I would have paid but didn't have to) and I finally got one built and painted with some paint markers I was trying out.

Because I am silly, and the best thing to do with German WWII tanks is be silly, here is Astray Blue Frame 2nd with a tank:





The tank itself needs a bit of glue at some point to not fall apart at the tiniest of movements or drafts, along with a tiny hand-painted snake-mark, but overall it passes the two-foot test and I am pleased. (Blue Frame also needs a bit more work but I misplaced her decals and have gotten varying degrees of annoyed at her color-correction. I'll get there.)

I've done another bit of security-pruning and circle adjustment. Occasionally I just unfollow/un-access accounts that haven't posted for a rather long time. And I saw a few folks that are active again, so re-followed. ^_^ This is also a reminder that you can unfollow/etc. me for any reason and I won't take it personally.

I posted up a holiday_wishes post over here. The most important bits are to tell me what to work on with my website and also send me Gundams, lol. I'm still granting all the wishes I can. This is such a fun time of year.

If you're in the USA (sorry, int'l shipping sucks), you can have some of my stuff over here. I really should make these posts more often as I spelunk.

I need to go through my communities and make/add some sort of No AI guideline to each. I just pulled a drabble from a community because they're allowing AI slop to be posted. It's now crossposted to my spaces and deleted from theirs. I'd always meant to create more for that community but that sure isn't happening now.

I really need to catch up on these...

The Zen Diary - via JFF. It wasn't immediately clear to me at the beginning if this was a drama or a documentary and while it's more like some dramatized memoir, holy shit did it evoke a lot of feelings. Mostly wanting to punch the lead. Very well acted. A very good movie. Hated it.

Have a Song on Your Lips - via JFF. A fairly uplifting 'teaching choir' story with all sorts of complications. Also well acted and enjoyable.

Come Back Anytime - via JFF. Restaurant documentary.

Mottainai Kitchen - via JFF. Documentary about eliminating food waste.

Misc JFF shorts - via JFF and also on YouTube, several about sushi, yokai, music, and art...

The Scoop - via JFF. Hilarious as fuck double-crossing delight about an underground school paper and a writing club.

LOLO Itsukou Series 7: I Can't Hibernate with Books as a Pillow - via JFF, also on Youtube. By a group that writes short modern plays for student productions. Students in the school library on xmas eve. I'd watch more by this group.

Takano Tofu - via JFF. Sort of underwhelming drama about a family that makes Tofu and their complicated lives. Doesn't stick the landing at all but otherwise well acted.

Wizard Barristers - Yep, watched this again and still enjoyed it through the fanservice and whatnot does grate a bit. It's just the right kind of over-the-top that I sometimes need. I feel like the title basically explains the plot? Bonus for Moyo. Always bonus for Moyo.

Super Dimension Century Orguss - aka the one that didn't become part of Robotech and that's incredibly okay because Orguss is... There are some very good ideas in here but a lot that fail spectacularly and also a lot of absolute What The Fuck?! Listen, I watched Orguss so you don't have to.

E's Otherwise - rewatch as well. E's has some bumpy moments but manages to pull itself together by the end. The cross-dressing scenes still hold up incredibly well.