[#005] Whoops~
I meant to post at least one more time last month, but see how well that happened. That kind of means I broke one of my resolutions already, but whatever (although, let's be fair, I've been breaking the job searching one pretty badly anyway so MY RECORD IS TARNISHED). That said, still trying to post more, hahaha 5 posts in 3 months though. This is pathetic. Remember those days I used to post so regularly that it almost hurt? I mean, I think one month I did a POST EVERY DAY without fail. I think by the end, it devolved into either a few lines here and there, and I think I was watching a drama at the time so some posts were just live blogs, but still. DEDICATION.
Maybe that's something I need to regain.
i. BUT I HAVE BEEN OBSESSED WITH TWO PERSONAL PROJECTS LATELY, so let me talk about them and bore you all to death. Whoever actually reads this, lol.
a. Let's do Check, Please, because yes. That is the best thing. If you don't know what it is, and don't see me babbling all about it on Twitter, it is a webcomic dedicated to Southern gay baker who's tiny (okay, not that tiny, he's still 5'6"), and adorable and is on the Samwell Hockey team. I actually wrote about it on Tumblr here when I first read it, pimping it out and it has this nice comprehensive list of everything related to the comic, and its fandom. But also, since it's a bit old, there have been new things that have popped up! Like the tumblr OMG Everything Please which has the most complete (up until a certain point) of the comic/extras/AND BITTY'S TWEETS (which has now been privated since it's in real time and it'll have massive spoilers of Year 3 that hasn't started yet).
Now that the background is out of the way, the personal project is that I saw on tumblr (because even though I'm not really "on Tumblr" anymore, I still track the omgcp tag), someone asking the creater of OMG Everything Please if there's some kind of PDF that has everything compiled for easy printing access. ....So obviously, because I have no life and love fucking compiling things, I HAVE STARTED DOING SO SINCE THIS WEEKEND. I've saved all the images, including all the tweets that are up on OMGEP, and placed them in neat folders. I've started recreating Bitty's tweets as best I can, it won't have the accurate favorites and retweets numbers (aka none at all), but it's been going pretty well! I've done two months already and since the tweets basically stop around May, it shouldn't take me more than like a day and a half. I couldn't download InDesign (which I wanted to learn just in my own personal time), so I downloaded a recommended similar-ish program named Scribus. It's still a little iffy in that I cannot easily go from page to page without just scrolling, BUT it's going pretty steady! Here is a sample page of an extra from Year 1.
I'm actually pretty excited about this! I mean, it'll be great once it's done. I want to reach out to Ngozi too, to let her know I'm doing this, and possibly to help me fucking figure out the timeline of the start of Year 2, because the tweets and the comics were starting to make me go slightly cross-eyed. That said, I do still have all of Year 1 to do, so it's not too near in the future. (but hopefully sooner than later?)
b. YOUTUBING. Okay, this was something that I think I briefly mentioned on Twitter, but in a conversation with J, I was talking about how I need some kind of outlet. LJ used to be it. Podcasting used to be another form. And now, Twitter's really the best I got, but just barely of one. IDK how many people actually pay attention to me when I'm live-tweeting (haha probably none), and to be fair, not many people watch the same shows I do. So, I NEED SOMEPLACE TO RANT AND SQUEE AND SPAZ ABOUT SHIT I LOVE. So J recommended Youtubing. Which is so weird to me because if I already hated the sound of my own voice, i cannot imagine filming myself. And I honestly still can't, but I have been going on like it's going to happen. I know what I want to do, I know how to narrow it down. I know my sister has a camcorder, which I want to steal borrow once I find out where the fuck she packed it away in the basement. I want to get a nice sitting microphone (I have a nice headset which wouldn't work so well visually). I just would like a new face. lol And probably some place to film, because my house won't work. I doubt I could go to J's every time to film (although she did say she wants to be involved---and to do my make-up because hahahahahahaha, me). BUT STILL. I am dying for this. I have a new obsession with Youtube, and the idea of being part of that kind of makes me squee (and then scream because lol am i really going to learn a new format again?!?!). That said, it would give me a nice new skill, yay. Which, yes, this is how I think now, god.
SO IDK IF IT'LL ACTUALLY HAPPEN THOUGH, but it's definitely something I'm considering. o.o
ii. Okay, because I want a certain video as #3, this will be a very brief thing on job-searching. You know, that it sucks. I got back into sending my shit out yesterday, and ugh, I hate it so much. Having to convince someone that first, I am a great candidate to second, yes please meet me and then third, hire me hire me hire me is just the worst. And I don't know how to go about it. Sigh. Who knows. We'll see if I get any hits. But really, this whole thing is just exhausting and I need something to hit soon, because I'm so "sick of this same old job."
iii. SO DANCING WITH THE STARS. I don't know if anyone is following it, but I'm fucking obsessed already and the first episode only aired yesterday. Why am I obsessed in particular? (Even though I usually am for one reason or another with this show.) BECAUSE OF NYLE DIMARCO. Nyle is a deaf model who won America's Next Top Model last year, and fucking killed it. Okay, a part of me still thinks that either Lacey or Mame should've won, but fuck that shit. Nyle did amazing, and I was rooting for him from the get-go. Even when he sucked. Hard. (Okay, maybe not then, but he did improve by mid-season.) Anyway, I hadn't watched ANTM in years, but got into it once my sisters told me about him, and I was in loveeeeeeee. So, yes, he won ANTM and now he's on DWTS with Peta, who is an amazing dancer and so I had both high and kind of tentative hopes for him.
AND THEN LAST NIGHT HAPPENED. I cannot even describe the beauty so I'm just embedding the video.
WATCH THIS WATCH THIS WATCHTHISWATCHTHISWATCHTHIS
He did so good. I looped that video about 10 times last night, because holy fuck, he did amazing. I was legitimately worried he wouldn't be on time, because yeah, he can't hear anything and he can't really feel the vibrations. So it's all Peta and constant repetition. And they killed it. I am hoping so hard he continues this streak, because man, he deserves all this attention and I hope it really builds awareness, because fuck the people who have tweeted with:
There have definitely been so much more, but I did a very quick run-through of his photos and left it at that. Like, legit people have associated deafness with apparently incapable of reading, seeing, being hot, able to dance, any fucking basic thing. Probably even breathing. SO I HOPE HE FUCKING WINS. And NOT THE FOOTBALLERS. >.> (Okay, I might have to hold reservation for however the rest of the season goes, but still, FINGERS FUCKING CROSSED, OKAY?)
P.S. I finally saw Yamapi's Dreamer PV from his last album, and I'd forgotten how much I love to hear him sing and how good he can be. And how beautiful he is. He's apparently going on tour again and all I can think is, COME TO NYC COME TO NYC COME PLEASE COME.
P.P.S. Speaking of Japanese acts coming to NYC, I GOT TICKETS TO PERFUME!!!!!!!!!!! SO exciting! I haven't listened to anything they've done in forever, but I will definitely do so... You know, a week before the concert. lol
Maybe that's something I need to regain.
i. BUT I HAVE BEEN OBSESSED WITH TWO PERSONAL PROJECTS LATELY, so let me talk about them and bore you all to death. Whoever actually reads this, lol.
a. Let's do Check, Please, because yes. That is the best thing. If you don't know what it is, and don't see me babbling all about it on Twitter, it is a webcomic dedicated to Southern gay baker who's tiny (okay, not that tiny, he's still 5'6"), and adorable and is on the Samwell Hockey team. I actually wrote about it on Tumblr here when I first read it, pimping it out and it has this nice comprehensive list of everything related to the comic, and its fandom. But also, since it's a bit old, there have been new things that have popped up! Like the tumblr OMG Everything Please which has the most complete (up until a certain point) of the comic/extras/AND BITTY'S TWEETS (which has now been privated since it's in real time and it'll have massive spoilers of Year 3 that hasn't started yet).
Now that the background is out of the way, the personal project is that I saw on tumblr (because even though I'm not really "on Tumblr" anymore, I still track the omgcp tag), someone asking the creater of OMG Everything Please if there's some kind of PDF that has everything compiled for easy printing access. ....So obviously, because I have no life and love fucking compiling things, I HAVE STARTED DOING SO SINCE THIS WEEKEND. I've saved all the images, including all the tweets that are up on OMGEP, and placed them in neat folders. I've started recreating Bitty's tweets as best I can, it won't have the accurate favorites and retweets numbers (aka none at all), but it's been going pretty well! I've done two months already and since the tweets basically stop around May, it shouldn't take me more than like a day and a half. I couldn't download InDesign (which I wanted to learn just in my own personal time), so I downloaded a recommended similar-ish program named Scribus. It's still a little iffy in that I cannot easily go from page to page without just scrolling, BUT it's going pretty steady! Here is a sample page of an extra from Year 1.
I'm actually pretty excited about this! I mean, it'll be great once it's done. I want to reach out to Ngozi too, to let her know I'm doing this, and possibly to help me fucking figure out the timeline of the start of Year 2, because the tweets and the comics were starting to make me go slightly cross-eyed. That said, I do still have all of Year 1 to do, so it's not too near in the future. (but hopefully sooner than later?)
b. YOUTUBING. Okay, this was something that I think I briefly mentioned on Twitter, but in a conversation with J, I was talking about how I need some kind of outlet. LJ used to be it. Podcasting used to be another form. And now, Twitter's really the best I got, but just barely of one. IDK how many people actually pay attention to me when I'm live-tweeting (haha probably none), and to be fair, not many people watch the same shows I do. So, I NEED SOMEPLACE TO RANT AND SQUEE AND SPAZ ABOUT SHIT I LOVE. So J recommended Youtubing. Which is so weird to me because if I already hated the sound of my own voice, i cannot imagine filming myself. And I honestly still can't, but I have been going on like it's going to happen. I know what I want to do, I know how to narrow it down. I know my sister has a camcorder, which I want to steal borrow once I find out where the fuck she packed it away in the basement. I want to get a nice sitting microphone (I have a nice headset which wouldn't work so well visually). I just would like a new face. lol And probably some place to film, because my house won't work. I doubt I could go to J's every time to film (although she did say she wants to be involved---and to do my make-up because hahahahahahaha, me). BUT STILL. I am dying for this. I have a new obsession with Youtube, and the idea of being part of that kind of makes me squee (and then scream because lol am i really going to learn a new format again?!?!). That said, it would give me a nice new skill, yay. Which, yes, this is how I think now, god.
SO IDK IF IT'LL ACTUALLY HAPPEN THOUGH, but it's definitely something I'm considering. o.o
ii. Okay, because I want a certain video as #3, this will be a very brief thing on job-searching. You know, that it sucks. I got back into sending my shit out yesterday, and ugh, I hate it so much. Having to convince someone that first, I am a great candidate to second, yes please meet me and then third, hire me hire me hire me is just the worst. And I don't know how to go about it. Sigh. Who knows. We'll see if I get any hits. But really, this whole thing is just exhausting and I need something to hit soon, because I'm so "sick of this same old job."
iii. SO DANCING WITH THE STARS. I don't know if anyone is following it, but I'm fucking obsessed already and the first episode only aired yesterday. Why am I obsessed in particular? (Even though I usually am for one reason or another with this show.) BECAUSE OF NYLE DIMARCO. Nyle is a deaf model who won America's Next Top Model last year, and fucking killed it. Okay, a part of me still thinks that either Lacey or Mame should've won, but fuck that shit. Nyle did amazing, and I was rooting for him from the get-go. Even when he sucked. Hard. (Okay, maybe not then, but he did improve by mid-season.) Anyway, I hadn't watched ANTM in years, but got into it once my sisters told me about him, and I was in loveeeeeeee. So, yes, he won ANTM and now he's on DWTS with Peta, who is an amazing dancer and so I had both high and kind of tentative hopes for him.
AND THEN LAST NIGHT HAPPENED. I cannot even describe the beauty so I'm just embedding the video.
Click to view
WATCH THIS WATCH THIS WATCHTHISWATCHTHISWATCHTHIS
He did so good. I looped that video about 10 times last night, because holy fuck, he did amazing. I was legitimately worried he wouldn't be on time, because yeah, he can't hear anything and he can't really feel the vibrations. So it's all Peta and constant repetition. And they killed it. I am hoping so hard he continues this streak, because man, he deserves all this attention and I hope it really builds awareness, because fuck the people who have tweeted with:
There have definitely been so much more, but I did a very quick run-through of his photos and left it at that. Like, legit people have associated deafness with apparently incapable of reading, seeing, being hot, able to dance, any fucking basic thing. Probably even breathing. SO I HOPE HE FUCKING WINS. And NOT THE FOOTBALLERS. >.> (Okay, I might have to hold reservation for however the rest of the season goes, but still, FINGERS FUCKING CROSSED, OKAY?)
P.S. I finally saw Yamapi's Dreamer PV from his last album, and I'd forgotten how much I love to hear him sing and how good he can be. And how beautiful he is. He's apparently going on tour again and all I can think is, COME TO NYC COME TO NYC COME PLEASE COME.
P.P.S. Speaking of Japanese acts coming to NYC, I GOT TICKETS TO PERFUME!!!!!!!!!!! SO exciting! I haven't listened to anything they've done in forever, but I will definitely do so... You know, a week before the concert. lol