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winecupwars · 3 years

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progress report: i missed a month, oops!

august was quite a month, and it looks like september is going to be just as eventful :)

OK - TO RECAP. since we last spoke, i:

got a nintendo switch lite!!!

got fully vaccinated!!! hooray! it’s just with sinovac but fuck, i’ll take what i can get. i also just got the flu shot, so i really hope i don’t get sick any time soon

tried (and failed) to do outfit august :( i only managed to draw the bases for five of my ocs, plus one outfit each for only two of them. it was a worthy endeavour; just one that i wasn’t up to last month

almost got tricked by a fucking phishing scam

got my qc permit at work, which means that i graduated from training and can now edit live documents

spent wayyy too much money on mugs and makeup and earrings and loose leaf tea and stickers and wall decorations on shopee

began christmas shopping hehe

shaved all my hair off again, waited a few weeks, and then bleached it all to hell

reread my thesis, cringed, then reread it again with an open mind, and found something that could be further developed :) i will elaborate in a bit

that’s all, basically! that’s the tl;dr. if you don’t mind, i am going to ramble on.

listened: my uncle bought me and my cousin a couple of mcr vinyls and i found a vinyl of bullets on shopee (which i bought, yes) so yeah it’s just been mcr nonstop for a bit, and then it was mitski, again, and then hozier, and right now, frank ocean.

i realized that listening to music on analog devices like turntables, cd players, casette players, etc, is much more... involved? listening to music like that feels like a Happening, an Event, an Action that requires your full attention, as opposed to listening on spotify or wherever, which makes the music feel more ephemeral, more like a fleeting thing that you can have in the background while you’re doing something else.

i think it’s because, with streaming, you have a vast library of music that you can access at the tap of a finger, and you can switch songs so easily. with analog, you’re on a journey with the album you’re listening to. you’re there from the first track to the last. plus, you’re limited to the albums that you’re listening to, to the albums that you have on hand. the process is more solid, somehow? more tangible. i don't know.

watched: honestly, i mostly watched hour-long video essays on youtube about the randomest shit. the one that stuck the most was the sadism of class by james somerton, which began as an analysis of painter of the night (a very very nsfw manhwa which i read just to understand what this vid was talking about) and ended as a criticism of capitalism and class struggle. it’s a good video. the manhwa’s alright, but whoo trigger warnings for sexual abuse, emotional manipulation, emotional abuse, gaslighting, etc etc.

other than that, i watched how to be a tyrant, the suicide squad (2021), and the green knight - all of which i enjoyed, to an extent. the second suicide squad was miles miles miles better than the first one and i hope it’s the start of a streak of good dc movies bc honestly i’m tired of the mcu. the green knight was... hoo boy... dev patel 😍😍😍😍😍😍! like a lot of a24 movies, it was lush, gorgeous, and fucking incomprehensible. i loved it. i might watch it again.

played: i played a bunch of games!

animal crossing - i absolutely understand why people are so obsessed with it! it’s so adorable and relaxing; it’s truly an escape from the shitstorm that is life in the philippines

hades - at first i didn’t think i would like it because it’s a rogue-like, but surprisingly, i enjoy it! the character designs are top-notch, chef’s kiss, stunning. the writing is impeccable too. and while i still haven’t escaped the underworld after about 39 tries, i’m fully having fun playing it!

i also bought vampire the masquerade: shadows of new york, which i haven’t started yet, little nightmares, which freaks me out so haven’t progressed much, and the outer worlds, which i am excited to play once i have the gaming bug

made: i made a cream cheese tomato galette and a millionaire’s shortbread! both were pretty good. here’s some pics.

misc: ok ok ok this is what im excited about!

so since i was a creative writing major, my thesis was supposed to be a creative work, so i made a graphic novel! this was in 2015/2016. lots of shit happened while i was making it, including a pretty intense depressive episode and my advisor dropping me, but i got a flat uno (the highest grade you can get hehe) so it was all good, in the end!

my thesis was about kapitan kwek kwek, a superhero with kwek kwek powers. this guy:

he is my orange son and i love him so much. i first made a comic with him in 2014 for a class and sold it at komikon, where it sold out :) so there were people asking me about the graphic novel when i graduated. unfortunately i fell into the worst depressive episode i've ever had and all i wanted to do was die, so the kapitan kwek kwek graphic novel got shelved for years and years.

...until now!

yes yes even though there are parts of my thesis that's cringey (god, the panelling was horrendous), there's parts that are still entertaining and could be developed into something better than it was. so i'm remaking the comics and while it's still in its planning stages, i'm super super excited! i even made a twitter and an instagram and a tumblr for this project!! this is the most excited that i've been since.... well, since a long long time ago :) so i'm hype! and i hope my hype for this doesn't die down lol

#this got really really long #shh peri shhh #progress report

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