residentpyromaniac

Magical Girl show or comic where the girls transform into their fursonas.

In terms of thinking of characters with vaguely D&D framing because I find that super convenient for any "team of people fighting Evil" setup:

There's two heavy hitter/tank type characters on the team. The more barbarian/berserker style has a bear fursona (because you can't have berserkers without bears, that's got to be breaking some kind of rule). The paladin style is either an elephant or a rhino. The paladin in regular human girl form is small and unassuming. The barbarian (Bearbarian) is probably still pretty loud & brash even while regular girl form.

The rogue-type character's fursona is a mouse. Because I greatly enjoyed Narnia as a child and I will 100% be self-indulgent and find a way to include Basically Reepicheep in my story thoughts that may or may not ever find some kind of fruition.

Team Leader is probably a really common/expected fursona. Maybe a wolf - cats are popular too but it seems thematically fitting for the team leader to be a pack animal. That or the Elephant-Paladin is the team leader. But maybe not, I don't usually like putting Lawful Good in charge because I am not good at writing Lawful Good unless the villain is a Lawful Evil, which doesn't feel super fitting with a magical girl concept, especially not one that would probably have a monster of the week format.

There's one (1) scalie in the group. Not sure what kind of reptile, exactly, but I Gotta. Maybe a bearded dragon, those are cute. They're the wizard.

Well they're all kind of wizards, since it's MAGICAL girls, but in terms of what kind of magic they wield, I guess. Maybe the scalie is the only one that doesn't have some sort of elemental connection. Or something else.

hm.

I may actually put effort into developing this as a full story, but I would want it to be a very visual medium and I do not currently have the skills to do what's in my brain justice.

Sometimes you just gotta unhinge your jaw and eat an unholy quantity of zucchini.

Shazam. Was. Good.

And not just good in the "This is one of the lesser-known characters I grew up reading and I would have been happy with any halfway decent adaptation" kind of way.

It was straight up GOOD. The casting was absolutely perfect, the overall tone was exactly what I hoped for from my boy, and they didn't go too hogwild with cameos that only the huge-ass nerds would get to the point where it could distract from the whole thing - but boy howdy, those cameos were THERE and I was delighted.

Incidentally, this also means my fiance's artist owes him a free tattoo because they literally had a bet with those terms over whether a Shazam Captain Marvel I don't CARE what Marvel's lawyers have to say, he existed first, fight me movie would be good.

...Would buying owl pellets be a decent way of getting small animal bones? It's easy to get them with how often they're dissected in classrooms, and I could think of several projects where rodent/bird/whatever bones could be useful. I'm not sure where that would stand on the legality of reselling things using the bones, though...


...Heh. Owl pellets are basically blind boxes for bones.

Right now, my laptop's at a point where if it's unplugged, it will IMMEDIATELY shut off completely with that angry 'beep' noise that computers do if you lean on the power button.

I suspect it's a problem with the battery just crapping out, but there's also a chance it's an issue with the battery connection and not the battery itself.

I'm trying to decide if I should take it to a computer repair place first to see if it's an issue with the connection, or if I should just buy a new battery and hope for the best.

Because right now, I can't exactly afford unexpected expenses since I'm trying to wrangle my credit, and I don't want to spend the money on a battery if it's the connection, but I also don't want to spend the money at a repair place if it's the battery and I could have guessed that, dammit.

I might just check with my man to see if he knows anyone in the area who knows how to handle computer hardware situations who could help me out. He knows a lot of people. It's helped me out with stuff in the past.

I hit a major slump with my FMVs over the past year or so, and I only just recently got my video workspace cleared up enough to actually use it.

Only to find out that 1) at some point in the past year, Premier has updated its codecs to the point where all of my WIPs have been nuked

and 2) at least 2 series' have been wiped from the drive and USB thingy I was keeping it on

Among the 2 series that were wiped was one I had an idea for that I'm still pretty hyped to do, but I literally need to get the footage by playing through the episodes normally with a screen capture program, because there is Absolutely no easy HQ download that isn't watermarked to hell and back out there.

Which is some bullshit, because last I heard it was a pretty popular series?

Either way. That's a lot of time that's been lost and needs to be redone.

Part of my "Let's clean up and organize my craft room so it's useable" plan has been to basically take an inventory of everything I have - props, materials, everything, with the idea that if I have a list of what I already have as far as crafts and costuming goes, I'm less likely to buy something I don't need, and I'd have a better shot at working out what I can do with what I have.

I have absolutely no idea how well that idea's going to work, but I'm also making notes of where I'm keeping things so even containers that aren't clearly labeled will have a convenient "what's in this?" list so I can find what I'm looking for and avoid issues like the last LARP I did where I ended up not bringing my character's delightful hat because I couldn't find it.

Which brings the question: Would anyone here be interested in seeing the list of stuff I have (even if it's just complete props and not all the materials) when it's done? I'm half tempted to share it out anyway, even if it's just to have someone corroborate my suspicion that I have a Metric Fucktonne of costuming stuff scattered wildly across genres.

I would learn how to do readmores on this site, of course, so anyone who doesn't care wouldn't have to scroll through miles upon miles of bullet points.

Sometimes I wish I was better at words

Because once in a while, I'll be watching something where the visuals are so ASTOUNDINGLY my jam, and I want to lavish prasie on it

But then I'm just stuck going "I want to eat it"

...which doesn't make sense when it's, say, a tv show.

A game I've rolled with for... a while recently had a pretty catastrophic Fiasco between a lot of the longer-running players/plot writers and other staff. Which basically all started, from what I can tell and what I've heard from people involved in said Fiasco, from a joking comment that fell flat due to tone being nigh impossible to read on the internet and accidentally hitting a touchy subject for the person being joked to*.

*A "Is this a thing that's allowed?" type of question, responded with a goofy "NOOOO" which was intended as a "No shit Sherlock, that was a very dumb question" but got interpreted by the asker as "No, we don't want you here". It snowballed from there. Especially because the asker's response to that, which was intended to be a "polite reference to an article that explains better how this felt than I can articulate" was then interpreted by the answer-er as "Passive Aggressive Public Post Of Why You Are Specifically The Worst Kind Of Asshole."

Which eventually exploded in a few different low-level peeves being brought up, because of COURSE when something happens every unrelated thing gets pulled up as well as evidence of how this side or that side is wrong.

Which snowballed even further into conflicts between people who like x kinds of plots and people who like y kinds of plots, the people who wanted PVP options and the people who held that PVP is Always Bad, this qualm about the disorganization inside the writer/NPC circle, how bad an idea it is to have one of the writers doing the plots for her own PC, so on and so forth.

SHORT VERSION, a lot of the people from my personal friends group ended up saying "Fuck this" and leaving that particular game. Which means I'm probably going to be bailing on the game too, since the number of personal friends was one of the main things anchoring me there, because it's a roughly 3 hour drive each way to that one and that shit gets 1) tiring and 2) expensive.

I didn't do the big "I'm leaving" announcement because I wasn't involved at all in the underlying Fiasco and I've got people I'm good friends with on both sides of it, so I don't want to burn any bridges.

...But man, it's pretty damn funny to me to see the group of people who stayed (which was largely the "Knee-jerk read bad faith into every comment, PVP options should NEVER HAPPEN because it's BAD, What do you mean there might be an issue with writing your own plot?" section) suddenly panicking about next month's game because about 2/3 of their usual NPC group left.

Welp. Yesterday I found out raised are indeed a real thing that can happen in the world. I don't know when it's going to be implemented (our payroll goes Wednesday to Wednesday, so finding out on a Wednesday could mean in this next cycle, or it could mean nothing and it'll happen in March when I've been here a full year) but still, right now that is a Huge load off my shoulders.

I'm definitely going to spend the first month or several getting my credit card account back under control, but from there I can focus on saving for down payment on a house...