I got a lot of the graphics and stamps you see from these websites!
Date Out of Space and Time
Weather Chilly
Watching Squid Games
Eating Chicken Tenders
Drinking Iced Tea
Loving Ace Attorney
Thinking bwuh,,,
... Wow, it's been a hot second-
Admittedly? Mostly because it feels silly to treat this like a diary or something. I mean- It is a blog, but still. Coming here to complain about stuff feels so middle school.
... And then I remember that probably nobody is going to actually look at this, soo...
Um, anyways, onto the reason I'm here. I really just need to get my thoughts out somewhere so they're not just stewing around in my head. So, my bestest friend in the entire world, I'll call him Ol I guess? I don't know anyone else with name's that start with an O but, y'know, just in case I ever do. Anyways, not what's important. He's been my best friend since middle school. Like, we met at this family gathering thing (cuz he's also technically my cousin, but he's my bestie first), and have been inseperable ever since. I literally went to the same high school as him so we'd be together more. He only lives ~20min by car away from me (accounting for our traffic).
And um... He's officially moving away! To some rural town an hour away! Cuz he still lives with his mom while he's in school (online, so, that's not affected), and she found that house. And like... I knew the moment she mentioned to us that the loan she asked for the same day we went to see this house got approved, he was going to move. But a little part of me hoped he wouldn't be!
And like, he plans to get a job at one of the nearby college towns, cuz those always have bookstores and coffee shops, places he'd love working at, so he can save up to move back over here. But he's also in school for animation, and if that takes off he plans to move to California. So... How long until he's even further away...? An entire country away...?
I know I'm being so fucking selfish for being upset by that. It's his dream to work in animation, it's his main plan in life! But it won't be the first time that I've lost a best friend to them moving away. I'm so scared of that happening with him.
But I also recognize that it's an inevitable possibility that I need to get used to. He's awesome and passionate and talented, of course he'll move to Cali eventually. And meanwhile I'm destined for shelf stocking in some nowhere town that stays same and plain... Fuck, that makes him sound like I'm jealous of him, I'm not. I know my place in this world, I know I'm just destined to be the small side character in literally everyone else's story. I guess I just don't want to get left behind like always...
What is it with parents treating you like you're stupid when you're an adult? Especially when it's insanely obvious they're kind of out of touch (and it's not even Thursday)?
My dad's really cracking down on me getting a job now that he has a working phone again, which, okay, cool. I'll go search online for job openings, I've made a list of places with job openings on Indeed that I can research further into!... He's constantly pushing me to go out and physically apply to jobs. Which... Okay... But he's making it seem like that's the ONLY option. Which it's not, I literally applied to Cumberland Farms online at the library (it was way easier than I thought it would be). Like I'm not saying I can do everything online, Popeyes has a job opening but I have to contact them directly, meaning I probably do have to go in physically. But I don't know what he thinks walking into somewhere and asking for a job is gonna do outside of the possible embarrassment of being told there's no openings.
And he's constantly telling me what to do like I don't already know. I've never looked for a job before, sure, but I'm not fucking braindead to what to do.
And think the worst he's said so far is "Welcome to being an adult, you have to get used to it" when I said I was tired from walking around so much (it's at least a 30min walk to Cumby's, and the commute isn't the most eye pleasing). Like... Yeah, I fucking know, but I didn't realize I wasn't allowed to complain about it. Alright, I'll suck it up and act like my muscles aren't sore! I'm sure that won't hurt me!
Like I'm 22, I'm not incompetant, but he seems to think that I am and it's so fucking dumb. Honestly, he's just making me more stressed about job hunting cuz it feels like he's constantly breathing down my neck, I'm getting less sleep each night since he started bugging me so the next day doesn't come faster. And yeah, I don't think that's healthy actually. But what do I know, I'm apparently a dumbass who needs his hand held through everything.
Hi, Ashton here to rant about websites adding features/changing the UI with seemingly zero imput from users or an option to remove the feature if a user doesn't want it.
Our target this time? Tumblr and it's god awful change of it's UI!
So, Tumblr, we all know it. Blogging website that everyone thinks is dead when it really isn't (and we'd like to keep that rumor up, thank you very much). It has a pretty simple UI in my opinion. When you reblog a post, you hit... Well, this'll sound crazy, but you hit the reblog button. This then takes you to a post editor where you can add your own text and/or tags. It was so simple! So easy! You click a button, straight to the point.
So how could anyone possibly fuck that up???
Cue today's update! The first obvious change is that the buttons at the bottom of posts (the comments, the reblog button, and the like button) got bigger, and they took away the "notes" button. Which, hey, it's really weird to see, but I personally can't complain too much? Bigger buttons means it'll be easier for people with bad vision to see them, so, pretty cool, I'm just wishing there was an option to make them smaller.
... And then comes their new reblog menu.
Now, instead of just immediately taking you to the reblogged post editor, it opens up a menu, giving you the option to go to that post editor, reblog immediately, or send the reblog to your que.
And I have one simple but very important question... WHY?!
The way reblogs functioned worked perfectly fine before! WHY are we suddenly changing the format?! Now there's an entirely new step to condition myself to using, which I know doesn't sound that hard and I sound like a whiner, but you try using the same format for ~two years only to have it suddenly switched up on you. It's fucked up I tell you!
I would have taken anything that would have let users input their opinion on this before they rolled the feature out, but NOPE! It's just shoved in our faces! I just... Really hope it's simply a test run and I'm one of the unlucky users who got picked to test it out, and when staff sees that people hate it (becuase why WOULDN'T people hate it???) they'll undo it.
But then again I swear people hated the fucking Twitter-ification of the site's UI and I'm pretty sure that hasn't been undone (I wouldn't know, I use an extension to get the old site layout back), so... Fuck man, new stupid menu, how wonderful- (/sarcasm)
Bwugh,,, Okay, after... An entire month, and then some, of letting this sit collecting dust, as you can tell I'm finally deciding to revamp it! And hopefully this'll be the last time I do so, at least until I get a proper laptop and can do even more fun stuff (because as it stands, I'm just working with a Chromebook and the extreme limits that comes with. Heck, maybe someday I'll even understand how to create one of these from complete scratch!)
I'm not entirely sure how often I'll update this specific page. I'm going to try and keep it to much longer posts, like multiparagraph posts, and then my Tumblr can be used for short one to two sentance 3am thoughts. I'm also going to try and not complain as much, like my last blog was, because hi it's 2025 and I've made this year my year of improvement in my arts and silly vibes! Even if it kills me!
Um... I guess some little updates since I last used this site as a blog? I got into Ace Attorney back in February thanks to its anime and it has consumed my life, help me- I started reading Witch Hat Atelier, and I think that that's the greatest piece of fantasy literature I have ever read, just straight up. Go to your local bookstore or library and read Witch Hat Atelier, it's so fucking gorgeous. Um... I finally got my ID in July, which is pretty cool. Which meant that I got my own library card finally, I've been wanting one for ages because of all the cool graphic novels and manga they have.
I've also gotten super into Vocaloid and virtual singers. My favorite is Kasane Teto, she's my GOAT. But I also love Kagamine Rin and Len and, obviously, Hatsune Miku. Vocaloid has majorly inspired one of my fursonas, Kibby, whose playlist is almost entirely full of various Vocaloid songs (there's at least one in there that isn't a virtual singer, but it still has his vibes). Honestly this year has been a big year of me branching out with artists I listen to, it's been very fun :3
Um... I don't know, that feels like a good update? I improved significantly with my art! But I can't really share any here lest they fuck with the formatting, but they're all on my Tumblr if you wanna see any of it. And, well, I guess that's it, see ya :3