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Hello! I'm Mrs. Luigi Vargas; you can call me Dami if you want!

On this blog, I generally make posts about fanfiction I've written or read, posts about media I'm thinking about, and some posts about my own life.

Speaking of stuff I've written and read, you can click here for the fics I've written and click here for fics I've recced. There's also an other recs tag, too, for non-fanfic recs. I'm on AO3 as

mrsluigivargas, if you'd rather read my works there or peruse my many bookmarks. My transformative works policy is on my AO3 profile; the tl;dr is that blanket permission is granted to make all transformative works with proper credit as long as there's no AI involved in making it.

My current passions are writing fanfic (mostly for the Super Mario fandom), playing video games (mostly Nintendo), and singing (choral and a cappella music). I am also getting back into reading, with the Murderbot Diaries to start out, and I'm attempting to code my own Neocities website.

I'm also on Tumblr as

mrs-luigi-vargas and less so on Pillowfort as mrsluigivargas.

99% of my posts are public; only a few are locked because they contain too many clues as to where I live for comfort. Nonetheless, you're welcome to comment on anything you see, no matter how old it is!

Best Friend's Brother came on shuffle the other day and I suddenly started thinking about how this song could apply to Luigi/Peach. With the best friend in question being Mario, of course, in light of recent events. Sure, Luigi's not a "punk rock drummer and he's 6 foot 3," but liberties are generally taken with these things so its fine!

But honestly I think it's fun. Mario would love to be the stepping stone someone uses as an in with Luigi, for a change, instead of the opposite. Though he'd probably quickly get exasperated at Peach's inaction, haha. And meanwhile Luigi would have no idea about Peach's crush until Mario spells it out for him, mostly because he registered "pretty girl" and immediately ruled himself out, not knowing Peach was totally Down Bad. And even then he wouldn't believe it until Peach said it herself. And it would take a few moments longer for him to realize nobody's joking.

Ultimately, this reminds me that I need to write more Luigi/Peach sometime. They're super underrated!

Listening to: Best Friend's Brother

To celebrate me having written the Royal Plumbing Polycule ship for a year (Mario/Bowser/Luigi/Peach, if you didn't know) here are some ship charts! I found 3 good ones and I couldn't decide which to fill out so I did them all, lol. Below is my favorite one!

I really liked this ship chart the most because it was the one that had the most room for asymmetrical/nuanced relationship like those in my interpretation of this polycule. And the modules weren't too meme-y; a lot of other templates got disqualified for that, haha. I'm especially proud of the 1-word descriptors, tbh; once I hit the theme of them all starting with the letter S I knew I had to try and run with it~ Oh, and I did edit the chart itself a little; originally the blue on the Individual Relationships module stood for "unlabeled", but that didn't suit my needs so I renamed it to "sexual".

I think I drew this relationship chart in like late Dec/early Jan? I dunno; I threw the original one away! I didn't think I'd need it! But anyway "Sex and Shenanigans" is a very apt description of Bowser and Luigi's relationship and I'm a genius for coming up with it, lol. And those (tm)s are important! This chart uses the same color coding as the ship chart, btw (so red for romance, yellow for queerplatonic, green for platonic, blue for sexual).

( Ship Chart #2 )

( Ship Chart #3 )
Here are the sources for the charts: [X][X][X]

And also if anyone has any music that would suit this polycule then I'm all ears for hearing it! My brain doesn't quite work that way, regarding assigning music to characters.

Doing these charts was fun, though. Even if I started to get self-conscious about how complex I made these relationships ^^; Other people just have a perfectly symmetrical, allosexual/alloromantic view for them, and here I am, being a weirdo no one can relate to, lol. Oh, well!

Bowser/Luigi AU where Luigi's committed whatever crimes and offenses are necessary for a Mario fandom twitter user to unironically write "DNI if you ship Peach with Luigi or Bowser" in their bio.

(I know it was meant to be a "defend my OTP against the icky yucky multishippers" kind of thing but. It was still really funny to wonder wtf Luigi did to Peach to be written up there with BOWSER 😂)

So it would probably be something stupid, like maybe he ate the last of the ice cream that Peach was saving to eat after the bulk of her workday. Or maybe they were racing and he knocked her off the track at the last minute with a red shell. Or maybe he accidentally smacked her while gestulating with his hands while talking one time XD

Got the last of the 8-heart cutscenes! So now I've bonded with all the date-able NPCs! Here are some brief thoughts on the last three I needed:

( Boyfriend Rhys )

( Best Friend Valen )

( Best Friend Hayden )

I think my favorite 8-heart cutscenes are...Rhys, Adeline, and March (I really regret not dating Adeline, btw). There will be 10-heart cutscenes in the full release of the game, so whoever's personal stories didn't really get spotlighted will be spotlighted there, I hope! And to everyone else who's cross-heart event goals were accomplished in their 8-heart cutscenes, I'm curious as to what their 10-heart cutscenes will be like. Especially for the best friend tracks; the romance tracks have to obviously steer you into maybe proposing, after all.

I hope they'll add some heart cutscenes to some of the NPCs, too. I don't remember if Stardew Valley has them, but regardless the lack of them here makes things seem quite lopsided. I wanna hand out with Elsie and Terithia! They're so cool!

( Assorted Final Thoughts )

I''m a little bit tired of the game now, lol. 48 hours is a lot of hours! I left off on Winter 1, so i might put it down for a while until the full game is out (2026?) Would super recommend this game if you like farming sims (or whatever this genre is) though. Despite my minor complaints, its a very lively experience, even still in early access~

Here's a random unordered list of things I like about the game, if you need more convincing, hehe~( List of random positives! )

SUNDAY

The last day of DC-Slash Con! My main goal was to attend the Vid Review panel, because I wanted to see the type of feedback vidders get, and thus what’s important in making a vid. It was all very informative! Not only for the aforementioned, but I also learned that one of the sources, Unbelievable Space Love, is 9 minutes long and available for free on Youtube. And that source that had the spies doing awesome action scenes (I think Shah Rukh Khan is a character or actor?) is some kind of Bollywood movie universe, or something. I’ll have to verify the details later. And then yes, Thunderbolt Fantasy really is all puppets. Which is super hecking cool.

So overall, DC-Slash con was a lot of fun! I’m excited for next year!!!

In the meantime, I finally got around to cleaning my room a little, and playing some more Fields of Mistria. Got 2 more 8-heart events under my belt!

MONDAY

I worked on my website! Made a skeleton of the structure and learned about relative links. I'm going to have to combine the CSS files I have of my two templates together, and also figure out how mail merging works to make compiling the masterlist of my fic easier, lol.

I also worked on filling out some ship templates for the Royal Plumbing Polycule, since its just past the anniversary of me posting the first fic in the series. Couldn't decide which template, so I'm filling all 3 for now. And I'll have to redraw my old relationship graph, too~

I also went back and listened to some of the songs from Saturday’s Vid Show again. Salute by Little Mix is a fun enough song. But it's also like “heck yeah, let's theme our Girl Power anthem around military-esque music and language for reasons we refuse to examine! Wahoo!” You know?

TUESDAY

I realized, with my new and improved hair washing and styling workflow, I am now That Bitch that takes literally an hour to take a shower. I should count myself lucky that I don't have roommates anymore to bother with this. (Well, there’s my brother. But in college I roomed with 5 people so that would have been worse.) The extra time was worth it though. It's been like a week since I styled my hair, and I've forgotten how cute it looked when I did~

Kept working on the website. I wanted to combine the CSS of the alphabet-soup template with the CSS of the fic masterlist template. After fighting with it all evening, I finally reached a compromise that I’m happy with! All there’s left to do now is 1) consolidate the root variables 2) adjust the colors for the dark/light modes, and 3) move on to testing the alphabet-soup fic reading template, which should go way smoother because I won't have to adjust any CSS files hardly at all! I also wanna maybe figure out how to get the footer text from the masterlist CSS onto the other pages, because I really like it!

WEDNESDAY

I was thinking of leaving the office at noon to avoid the heat but it turns out noon is one of the hottest parts of the day, go figure. Actually, it was a little cooler at 5pm, even! So it worked out!

…And it turns out while I was gone Dad drove up, and he and my brother had gone to the mythical tax-free land of New Hampshire to buy a TV and TV stand before the tariffs hit. Unexpected, but certainly welcome!

Spent all evening working on my Royal Plumbing Polycule ship charts. Figured out rather quickly that Google Drawings was the best, easiest to use, and most accessible tool I had for this (GIMP, the first option I’d thought of, was too confusing). I spent most of my time setting up one chart, but now that I had them all as documents and all the colors chosen and decided on the formatting, the rest should be smooth sailing. In fact, I got about 80% of the way done by the time bedtime rolled around!

THURSDAY

My brother spent the day assembling the TV stand (he put the back on backwards, but it’s okay!), and after work I set up the TV. Apparently both my parents had insisted to my brother that we don't use our email addresses for it, so I made up a whole new one, haha. It’s a Google TV, after all.

But it’s working great! My brother found a streaming service that was playing a big block of The Super Mario Bros Super Show, somehow. I’m interested to see if that programming block is a 24/7 thing, tomorrow. I’d love to start my mornings watching that…

I finished the ship charts! Shout out to this SVG to PNG converter for coming in clutch; the text would have been all blurry, otherwise!

FRIDAY

Messed with the TV some more. It turns out that yes, there is a channel just for playing the Super Mario Bros Super Show. I also installed S0undTV and SmartTubeNext! So hopefully no ads~!

And actually you know what I'm still not done about the Mareach friendship thing. It's crazy how many baseline assumptions people have about the series that causes them to say whatever. “Mario rescues Peach, which implies a romantic link” this, “Mario's been rescuing Peach for 40 years” that. Honestly.

Went home to do laundry, and watched some WNBA games on my parents’ TV! The LA vs Seattle one went into double overtime!!! Apparently triple overtime was an option, which is crazy.

SATURDAY

I was looking for stuff to watch on TV this morning and found How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift? It's an anime where a bunch of schoolgirls are trying to lose weight/tone up, so they all are at the same gym to do so. Of course, all of them are skinny as twigs. Except for the muscle guy, I suppose. But anyway, obviously not worth watching, lmao. I landed on Xena: Warrior Princess, instead, as my background noise while waiting for breakfast. Even with the little I saw, I could see that it's a solid show! I really liked the physical effects and stuff, haha.

Also Season 5 Bubble Guppies episodes are listed as Season 1 and that pains me so much. And then later in the day I find out that Amazon Prime lists the Super Mario Bros Super Show episodes in the complete wrong order. So that's also fun!

Dabbled in some of my game backlog; I started with Cassette Beasts! Played through the first little tutorial section, and it didn't really hook me like I'd hoped. It also is one of many games that decides it wants to be a little scary by using glitching effects to represent breaks in reality. I swear every cute-ish game has that shit now…Regardless, I really wanna try again at some point because I'd wanted to play the game after hearing how non-amatonormative it is, haha. I also played Arranger: A Role-Puzzling Adventure. It's a puzzle game. Everything was going fine, until I got stuck on a puzzle in the first area after the tutorial world. And no, there's no hint system or anything. So, you know. I turned the game off XD

Spent the evening watching a pickleball tournament match, and then Women's 3x3 basketball. Because apparently 3x3 basketball has an international competitive tournament structure — rules, referees and all. And everyone else knew about it but me.

I saw a really good post [X] criticizing the response of the shippers in all this and it made me realize something. 'Cause in the post they say that Mareach is "99% crumbs and vibes" and like — I'd complained a few months ago [X] [X] about a picture compilation of Mareach Moments(tm) that included two quite shitty Word of God quotes, and I'd wondered why the shippers were willing to proudly hold up such garbage when surely they had better material to work with? But what if they didn't, actually? What if they were just as, if not only marginally less, starved for content as the rest of us? It would certainly explain those quotes; that's all they have to work with! I almost feel bad, but I don't — I have this incredibly uncharitable working theory that the Mareach shippers really like acting oppressed or something like that despite being one of the biggest ships in the fandom. Example: the referenced reaction to the official statement about Mario and Peach being "really good friends". But maybe that's rarepair ship energy being applied to a (formerly) pseudo-canon ship, and thus a larger scale? Its a similar set of insecurities, I feel, so maybe...🤔

In other news, I just about half-understand that follower I got a few weeks ago that had "DNI if you ship Bowuigi" in their bio; I was literally scrolling through my dash and saw some untagged Mareach and was like "I should just block eveyone who ships Mareach" completely unironically. Its only a half-understanding, though, because I'm not about to advertise that im piss-awful at vetting people and/or the type of person to push the responsibility of curating my own space onto others, and also Mareach operates on a different level than Bowuigi does. More widespread and normalized, imo.

Also, new annoyance unlocked: when people were reacting to the news they were saying things like "there's no way they don't have feelings for each other after 40 years of Mario rescuing Peach!" Which first of all, holy heteronormativity Batman, and second of all why the hell are we treating the Mario canon as a linear timeline that happens in real time? Are you fucking stupid? Hello?????

SUNDAY
I was scrolling through Tumblr this morning and I came across someone who announced their intention to ship Bowser and Bowser Jr. All I can say is godspeed, friend. o7 Stay strong and don't let anyone take your joys from you…! (Their blog proudly states that their a fan of incest ships, so they'll probably be alright, hehe)

Made a foray into using the ao3downloader to get the html files of all my fics for my site. Had a bit of trouble, but this GitHub post solved my issue. This program is really neat! Worked like a charm~

Last night I found a Murderbot Diaries fic where the narrative is told via you playing a game of Minesweeper. It’s really cool. The code also goes nuts, lmao (I peeked at it to see all the different endings).

Also I finally finished cleaning up my Dreamwidth blog!!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 Everything I want to be up here is posted here now! So now I can turn my attention to Phase 2 of this project: Making my Neocities website.

…After I play my fill of Fields of Mistria. The new update is tomorrow! 😀

MONDAY - TUESDAY
Fields of Mistria update dropped! It’s fun to get back into the game~ You can date people now! Multiple people! Apparently! (I haven’t gotten there yet)

Played it through Tuesday, although on that day I got like a bunch of messages from people I know in a bunch of different channels. A high school friend on Discord, a mutual on Tumblr, a former coworker on LinkedIn, someone I'd been chatting with late last year on Pillowfort. Nothing bad; it was just a bit overwhelming ^^;

I also took a break to go shopping today because our water's being shut off tomorrow morning/afternoon so I wanted to make sure water was in the house for the duration. I also bought snacks :D

WEDNESDAY - THURSDAY
On Wednesday Dad came with a couch! We’ve been trying to convert the spare room to a living room (because my brother claimed the living room as a bedroom, and we’re finally getting started on that process. The couch can convert into a relatively firm bed, just in case we ever have guests.

I also went out to sing at an event with some other a cappella folks. It was fun! We got ramen after~

And then I played more Fields of Mistria into Thursday. I wanna try to complete Year 2 before putting it down again.

FRIDAY
Apparently Nintendo officially declared that Princess Peach and Mario are “good friends”. Platonic Mareach FTW!!!!! Everyone else is super crashing out about it tho 🤭 (Everyone loves the power of friendship until it interferes with a ship they like, lol) (also by god the casual misogyny about it all! Yikes!)

DC-Slash Con starts today! It's not about DC comics; it’s ‘cause the con originally was tied to Washington DC. I’m glad that cleared up for me, because otherwise I wouldn't have thought to go XD. There are lots of good panels! I especially enjoyed the Building Inclusive Fandom one.

SATURDAY
More DC-Slash Con! I’d meant to blitz the creation of pages for my website, but ended up distracted by the con, haha.

There was a panel about vidding and now I wanna get into vidding but i dont have anything to vid! Mario cutscenes? Probably not that viable! Weh! Maybe if it was a very short vid…

Also during the meal break they streamed the first 2 episodes of the Murderbot TV show in the Discord and I had to check it out. People weren't wrong in saying its fanfic of the books. They handled the inner monologues and the awkwardness very well, though!. Makes me wanna reread the first book again. And apparently in the Discord someone shared a link to their treasure trove of a bunch of TV show rips. One of those was Murderbot. Another was Ted Lasso, which is a show I want to watch sometime. I have both on my hard drive now 🙂

They had Buddy Daddies playing in one of the con rooms and I watched a little of that, too. Couldn't get into it, though. A shame, ‘cause that was another show that was on my watch list. But the character dynamic of the main leads (to start off, anyway) isn't very compelling to me. I didn’t like it 🙁

The Vid Show was AMAZING! There was an Ace attorney vid set to I’m Blue that was fun. Also there was a Thunderbolt Fantasy vid that was intriguing! It had puppets and 3d animation and 2d sprites and LEGO and is this all the same source??? And the action scenes were super cool, too…! There was also a vid about Ted Lasso that made me really wanna watch the show more than I already did. And there was a multifandom vid starring a whole bunch of F/F couples, and hopefully the vid will be released somewhere because I’m super curious about the Black couple that kept being shown and the fandoms list scrolled too fast to clock it. 🙁 Also there was a vid about New Life Begins and another about a universe of Bollywood spies(?) that looked really cool as well. One of the vids had Frog and Toad in it and another was like a minute long so truly you can vid anything if you try hard enough…🤔 Vids are cool and I’m adding vidding to my ever-growing list of hobbies I don't have time for.

I've been playing the game again, 'cause the new update added a bunch of stuff. One of those things is dating, and with it, the bachelors and bachelorettes have 8-heart cutscenes! Got to dive into that aspect of the game last week. Assorted thoughts about each of the cutscenes I've seen so far:

( Best Friend Celine )

( Best Friend Caldarus )

( Boyfriend Balor )

( Best Friend Adeline )

( Best Friend Eiland )

( Girlfriend Reina )

( Best Friend March )

( Best Friend Juniper )

( Final Thoughts )

I've got Hayden, Valen, and Rhys left! Of them, Rhys is the one I'm planning to date. We'll see how that goes! Also there's a mechanic where you go on weekend dates with your romance partners (one at a time) but I'm waiting until I get everyone eligible to 8-hearts before I venture into that.

Current Mood: pleased

SUNDAY
Didn’t play Fields of Mistria today! Instead I cleaned my room 😀 I also finished all the Dreamwidth crossposting I wanted to do, except for this blog. Gotta get on that…!

I also need to change some tags around, like the fic vs fandom Mario tags. But then I can say I’m totally done, and can move on to the Neocities phase of this project! I found an awesome template for it too, a few days ago, so that will help considerably. I want to make as much progress as I can in this because my evening activities start back up again and I lose most of my free time.

In the meantime, Word Play comes out tomorrow 😀

MONDAY - TUESDAY
Really locked in on cleaning up my Dreamwidth blog. All I have left right now is posting all the weekly blogs on there and adding the fic text of most of my one-shots to the DW posts themselves. Then I’ll be finished!!!

Also played Word Play! It’s a good game, even if I’m a little bad at it! But still, I don't have to cheat as much as I thought I would!

WEDENSDAY
I had so many plans to be productive tonight and then I read Wanted and In Desire by Ready4This. I know Bowser/Starlow was a thing that existed, but oh my fucking god I was not prepared for these fics. They’re amazing. Please read them for the love of god you won’t regret it!

Even still I worked on converting these blogs away from bullet point format, because trying to cajole bullet point lists to play nice with readmores on DW is a pain in the ass. So I’m not going to bother anymore. Disjointed thoughts it is.

THURSDAY
Worked hard on trying to catch up with posting these blogs. But also I had a terrible headache and was so so tired. So that didn't progress quite as much as I wanted it to :(

FRIDAY
Spent the afternoon and evening cleaning! I swept and mopped the kitchen and hallway floors, cleaned the counters, cleaned the fridge, and took a shower and washed my hair!

I also tried to replace one of the outlet covers in my room; I’d broken it last month. I bought a fancy one from Etsy, but it doesn't exactly fit. Oh well. I’ll get a normal one soon.

I listened to Rogue Protocol the whole time, though. I’ve got 40 mins of the audiobook left! The Miki character was so annoying in the beginning and also I was so stressed about whether he’d keep Murderbot’s secret or not that I had to go look up the plot summary to figure it out XD So I spoiled myself! But it’s fine; I’m still enjoying the book~

Regardless, with all this productivity, I didn't get to work on the blog nor play Fields of Mistria. 🙁

SATURDAY
Went to my eye doctor appointment, and apparently my vision is very stable. And also last week's eye scare was an ocular migraine. Had a hunch, but it's nice to have it confirmed.

My chorale director is music directing an opera, so I decided to go. The website says that it's an hour long. On one hand, we love a shorter experience. On the other hand, the only 2 operas I've seen so far have been 2 and a half and 3 hours long, respectively. So I'm a little bit confused. I'm betting the opera is actually an hour and half, maybe? We’ll see!

Oh never mind; the program given out says the performance is 1 hour. I certainly did pay $45 for an hour of opera 😐. Well. Alright, then. (The other operas were $35-ish). Thomas & Sally do be like that, I guess. To quote the program:

“Opening in 1760 when Arne was already well-known, THOMAS & SALLY was an afterpiece, a short work performed after a stage play. It was the first through-sung English opera - no spoken dialogue. [...] Thomas & Sally is in the English music hall tradition, a forerunner of vaudeville and the social mocking of upper-class British life we see in Gilbert & Sullivan operettas.”

The opera was really fun, though! Low-stakes comedy FTW! Loved all the visual and background gags, hehe. They changed the setting to Boston modern-ish day so they had bits like Thomas excessively taking selfies with Sally and the sailors entering a scene takeout and bibs with lobsters on them from presumably a seafood restaurant. Also some of the visual gags were a little gay, re: the antagonist and his little entourage. Which was very cute, lol. Also they still had supertitles even though the opera was in ENGLISH! which was very appreciated.. I even said hi to my director before I left! It was very awkward. But I did it!

And guess who caught up on the backlog of blogs to post~? 😃 What I might do next is get all my fic oneshots in the bodies of their posts, and maybe go through the blog entries to see if other organizational tags can be applied to them, like if there’s a fic rec in there or a show mentioned or something like that.

Listening to: Through the Void 2 - AvidMC

I need to integrate Peach being a trans woman into my fics at some point...I've been thinking about it a lot lately and I'm finding myself liking that headcanon quite a lot. It's just pretty neat.

Personally I also think it would be interesting if Peach deciding to begin transitioning sparked a wave of Toads who also decide to present more femininely/be women, like Toadette maybe! Though I recognize that that sort of thing probably doesn't fit the "timeline", as it were. But still, it's certainly an idea to chew on!

I have this fic idea that refuses to coalesce in which Peach, who hasn't transition and is just presenting femininely, ends up revealing she's trans to Kamek somehow, who then offers to help her transition with magic, if she wants ('cause that's what he did for himself). She refuses at first, sure that she's fine with the measures she's taken already, but the more time passes the more the idea of having a woman's body 'for real' gets more and more appealing. If it's happening with magic, then I dunno if she (discreetly) goes back to Kamek for it or if someone more local like Merlon does it, but either way she feels more like herself, now!

Somebody tell me why when I make a note saying that I'm a big fan of dom!Luigi in Bowuigi works, two separate people chime in like "oh yeah I love sub!Bowser! It's awesome! 😄" Like that's not what I fucking said!!! I thought I had a hot take but it was more scalding than I could have ever imagined! Noooo!!!!!! 😭😭😭😭😭 This fandom is so BORING!!!!

(I should have known, though. Fandom in general is weird about doms to begin with... *grumble grumble grumble*)

Current Mood: distressed

Worry [Part 2]
A few days after the events of the previous chapter, there's a belated-birthday breakfast to have.

Fandom: Super Mario
Rating: General Audiences
Characters: Toadsworth, Luigi, Mario, Peach
Relationships: Toadsworth & Peach
Additional Tags: Quadruple Drabble
Length: 400 words

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( Here's the fic! )
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House cleaning! I've had this extension in my WIP folder for a while. I think it was originally going to fill a Feveruary prompt, but it's way too late now XD But here it is anyway!

I dunno if this fic is good or not; I just wanted to posit the idea of Peach making Toadsworth handmade birthday cards ever since she was a toddler. It’s a fun concept!

Also Mario’s gift was breakfast and Luigi’s was one of his old books that he wanted to share. They had to cobble together things at the last minute because they didn’t know Toadsworth’s birthday was today until just recently.

SUNDAY
The return flight has Flow but not The Wild Robot :( Flow was fun though! A bit boring, kinda, but I really appreciated a no dialogue movie~ got me a little bit at the end, emotionally, too. Can't believe it just ends like that, lmao. It was poignant, though.

Got back in time to watch baseball on Discord! We won!!!! And it’s nice to be home with my Alarmo :) I missed her :)

MONDAY - THURSDAY
Literally sat all day Monday in my chair and played Fields of Mistria. To the point where my eyes got tired and started showing my frizzy squiggly rings and I got scared of an impending Retina Detachment Event. But it wasn't that! If it was, I'd be going blind suddenly 🙂

I also played Fields of Mistria Tuesday and Wednesday and Thursday almost every hour I could, because I was having fun and also as a coping mechanism for getting Covid in Denver :)

FRIDAY
Took a break from the fields to go shopping. I also went to an opera, Rigoletto. It was kind of a bummer, but I guess that's opera for you? It was also three hours long, and one of the train lines was closed so I had to take a mildly-hectic and convoluted set of busses to and from the venue. It was good though!

Also I posted a fic tonight~!

SATURDAY
Posted another fic today! It's just a little thing I've had in my WIP folder for a little too long, for how simple and nothing it is. Although I did make it a little more complex than necessary by making it a quadruple drabble, lol

And then I went right back to Fields of Mistria! …for probably the last time until the update. I'm finding myself at a loss on what to do in-game, now that I've finished the mines, and what's left is grindy and boring (finding artifacts, increasing heart levels, chopping wood). So I'll wait!

Listening to: La donna e mobile

Sometimes I wonder whether or not I'm autistic and then I go "no, probably not" and then some nonsense from my childhood appears and is like "...are you sure about that?"

...Anyway here's a poem I wrote in 8th grade. Can you believe I read this aloud to the other kids in the class? I think I had to shorten it, as per open mike requirements, lol.

Gears
I sit there,
Eyes staring into the distance
Gears turning in my head
Painting pictures
Linking them
Creating vivid movies
That are always changing
Every second.

But then you come
Demand the movies to be an essay.
You sprinkle rules and requirements
Like colorful confetti
On top of the gears
That are grinding together
Screeching, grinding
Creaking to a halt.

Do you think
Converting this is hard?
If you don’t, I do.
But I try
And the gears struggle
To right themselves
To backtrack.

Slowly, surely,
They start to return to normal.
But imperfections arise,
Confusing them:
Skip ahead to the movie
(The easier route)
Or backwards for the essay?

At the end of class,
The gears are strained.
Accelerating forward multiple times,
Reversing too few.
Half the page may be done,
Probably most of it,
But I leave anyway, to start the process over again
In the next class.

Adv. — Love
Near the end of a group date, Mario and Bowser spotted an empty tennis court nearby. Before Luigi and Peach could stop them they were gearing up to play; Luigi and Peach exchanged an exasperated look, both knowing that they could be here a while. And a while it was. But who won?

Fandom: Super Mario
Rating: General Audiences
Characters: Mario, Peach, Bowser
Relationships: Bowser/Luigi/Mario/Princess Peach
Additional Tags: Luigi is also here but he's sleeping the whole time so, Fluff
Length: 756 words

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It's been so long since writing this WIP idea down that I don’t quite remember what inspired it, but I’m 90% sure it was that 6 hour long Bowser vs. Mario tennis match from Same Man I Was Before. I remember googling if tennis matches could last that long, when I’d read that, lmao; apparently they can, but very rarely and there’s a whole Wikipedia page about the longest tennis matches ever. So that’s neat.

Anyway, if anyone was going to engage in an hours-long tennis match, it would be Mario and Bowser. Competing against each other is a major pillar of their relationship, after all. It’s practically how they flirt, lol.

Also, I’ve said this before but one of the main draws of this polycule for me is Bowser and Peach becoming friends. Like, Peach obviously doesn’t usually appreciate being randomly picked up by Bowser without permission, given their history, but at this point their relationship and also with how tired Peach is, she’ll allow it. This time.

SUNDAY
Alcina show #3, and the last one! I miss Barbara already… 🥺

I implemented the techniques I gleaned from my salon visit and they worked pretty well, it looks like! The front of my hair isnt weird anymore! \o/ Hopefully now I only need to go back there every 6 months, max, for a trim~

MONDAY
Getting to the airport was way more nerve-wracking than I thought it be ^^; I was too full of nerves to even eat breakfast. But also God was paying enough attention to me that my Uber driver arrived literally an hour early, so I was able to get to the airport early, too :D Our flight is even delayed! 🙃 'Till 3pm…at least they gave me a complementary meal voucher! 15 whole dollars!

Thinking about how to better plan for food for flights…I'd meant to bring a banana or two from home but forgot. I bought a $6 almond croissant from one of the airport stores and it wasn't even that good. I'm probably gonna end up eating a meal on the plane. And all this preparation and charging my electronics and stuffing my bag full just for the in-flight entertainment to have both Flow and The Wild Robot XD That takes care of that, then!

…Never mind the in flight entertainment isn't working 😭😭😭 Maybe on the return flight 😭😭😭

Made it to the hotel before dark, which in the end was the real goal, I suppose. Way too late to do a Target run, though.

Also the hotel room TV lets you cast to it but I can't because of the type of YT app I have (one from the seas). Oh well! I watched the San Francisco Giants lose a game and then went to bed early.

TUESDAY
Adjusting to Denver: dry throat, dry mouth, dry nose, mucus production, slight headache. I dunno which of these are from just waking up and being hungry. I also seem to be constipated and I almost passed out on the way to lunch XD

Cool Quartets I Saw Today (most notable ones are starred):

The Vagabonds (from Japan!)
Lady A Cappella*
Smoke Ring*
The Light Fantastic
Extra Credit
Verse
Fifth Element
First Take*
Party of Four
Lemon Squeezy
Gimme Four*
The Newfangled Four (I guess) (They'll always be a try-hard Daily Special to me, though)
Also I missed Rooftop Records but I should check them out at some point… apparently they had really good masculine energy, to pair with Smoke Ring’s really good feminine energy

WEDNESDAY
I pooped! 🎉

Daily Special performed!!! They were awesome!!! YEAH!!!!! Also GQ sang for us during our rehearsal and they were AMAZING

Had some Ramen for dinner and it was good! The restaurant was very small and cute, lol

I’ll probably go to the Comedy Quartet competition later tonight. Even if it's late, there are women in there so I don't mind going XD I can just bow out when they're done and gain that extra half hour XD Likewise, I probably won't go to the AIC show like I was considering because it's all (except for one maybe?) white men, lmao. No thanks!

…and actually I didn't end up going to the comedy quartet festival because casting YouTube videos to the TV was way more entertaining 😅 me and my roommates watched a hysterical video from OnADock about the MarioKart World NPCs, and then I got to show them Defying Gravity but it's rollercoasters :D

THURSDAY
Washed my hair this morning but I think it came out worse. It dried way faster than I expected!

There's FanExpo happening and people in cosplay are wandering around. We saw civilian!Joker and his friend and Hinata and Maka and etc etc. Godspeed to the kid in the Hufflepuff coat, though XD

We did a set swap with Parkside Melody and they were so good!!!!!!!! Love to see a good treble chorus~

Quartet Semis:

SMOKE RING KILLED IT AGAIN!!!!
AND GQ!!!!!
Secret Best Friends
Gimme Four and Clutch also performed well
First Take’s running gag in their second song was HYSTERICAL)

FRIDAY
We performed!!! It was awesome!!!! So much fun!!!

Chorus Contest session 1 and 2 notable choruses:

Parkside Melody slayed, obvs
Music City Chorus definitely earned the standing ovation they got, woah
Voices of Gotham!!!!!
SmorgasChorus
Forward Motion had a lovely lovely themed set, with a throughline and everything
Pacific Connection. Brown people are fucking awesome, man. I literally cried. If you don't watch another barbershop a cappella please listen to this one when it comes out.

Also I wanna give a big shoutout to my roommates for letting me yap at them about Mario lore over dinner, lol. They seemed enthused! We even got to watch the American Revolution episode of the Super Mario Bros. Super Show! :D

SATURDAY
Chorus session 3 notable choruses:

Sirens of Gotham
City Lights Chorus was pretty good!
East Coast Sound ha a really cute uptune XD
Northern Stars Chorus!!!!!! Their performance was so good!!!!!
Stockholm City Voices!!!! The foreign choruses are running circles around the USAmericans, lol
Central Standard was pretty cool 🙂
Amersham A Cappella
Masters of Harmony Actually Danced on stage, it was great.
The Sound of the Rockies had a really funny skit; they had a Set! A Saloon! Physical comedy!!!

And as for the chorus contest results: Pacific Connection got 3rd place!!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 And that’s all that matters to me!!!

Quartet Finals:

Full Effect did a wonderful job!
Newfangled Four played ONE song straight and they HAD me. And then the next song was a bunch of jokes and yapping and they lost me, lol.
First Take's songs were very cute~
Saturday Night Social sang “Coffee in a Cardboard Cup” and it was so fun!
GQ KILLED IT!!!!! YEAAAAAHHHHH!!!!! (they won in my heart if they don't actually win)
Lemon Squeezy was actually honest to God funny! In a way that was actually funny and made me smile instead of raise my eyebrows a mile high, lmaoooo
Smoke Ring was even funnier! Even when they yapping! Their yapping was funny! Some people should take notes…👀
Apparently the SAI Queens of Harmony Quartet has a Black lady in it~ They're Clever Girl and they rickrolled us 🤣
Also to be fair Three and a Half Men also has a Black man in there. I just always forget XD (I wonder if there's a black person in a Quartet that isn't a bass…🤔)

Quartet contest results:

GQ in 5th (bronze)! Not bad! I'm glad they medaled~
Lemon Squeezy won!!!!! (I won't be mad about non-Americans winning~)

Listening to: Bridge Over Troubled Water

SUNDAY
Saw the Alcina cover performance! They couldn’t get the supertitles working :( On the bright side though, there’s a part where the nobleboy character looks at Alcina and says “Barbara” with extreme venom, and I’d been assuming it was something like “Fuck you!” given the context but I managed to look it up on my phone and it’s more like “You bitch!” (Well. I think it actually means “barbarian”? But you know, same vibe!) Holding out hope for a recording of the performance with the captions so I can go back and look at what all the Italian means…!

MONDAY
My A/C doesn't work and it’ll be 102 degrees tomorrow! 🙃

Noodled around with a grand piano today before opera rehearsal and reflected on how I've forgotten a lot of the piano sheet music I used to know offhand. Especially this one arrangement of Wish of the Princess from Paper Mario. I have to reconstruct it every time I wanna play it, lol; I always forget the chords. I used to have a big binder of printed sheet music but I lost it ages ago, unfortunately.

TUESDAY
Birthday!!!!! 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳

I posted my fic! I really love it a lot; I knocked it out of the park! Too bad my talent continues to be unrecognized by the fandom! Woohoo!

Anyway I got to play Cult of the Lamb on my new Switch 2! With the new Pro Controller! It's not nearly as mad that I've got 30 cultists anymore, haha.

Dad brought a new A/C!!! And bought me cake :) and I had my Drunken Noodles for dinner!

“Barbara” might be murderer, according to the official supertitles 🤔

Another supertitles W: there's a song near the end of Act 1 that I've mentally decided is Bradamante going “fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you” to Ruggiero, and according to the text its…basically that XD with an interlude of “you know what this is stupid and youre mean just kill me, please i’d rather that, tbh”

WEDNESDAY
The service I bought to export my playlists to csv files doesn't hook up to my YouTube :( it throws up an error every time…waste of my 5 dollars…

Nonetheless I downloaded/bought all the songs needed to fill out my music library on the Spotify side. Now I just gotta manually do the YouTube side! There's a lot of overlap between them, so it shouldn't be so bad.

THURSDAY
Got my hair styled~ it'll go a little to waste because of the opera costume but it's fine! Just wanted it trimmed~ Also learned some new techniques to use while washing and styling my hair at home 👍🏾

Made a list of stuff I want to pack for Denver. Haven't cross-referenced it with normal “what to pack” lists yet, but I think I've hit all the major stuff. I also put all the major convention activities into my calendar! It'll make things easier, hopefully, when I get there.

And I took the time to refresh a bunch of my passwords; apparently there was a really big data leak recently? It was very mind-numbing work, haha. But I set up some passkeys, too!

FRIDAY - SATURDAY
Did more mind-numbing work in downloading songs from YT, now. Managed to finish! Glad it’s over…

Alcina show #1 and #2, complete! My parents came to the first one and said they liked it 😊 also my mask broke a little but hopefully it'll hold up, haha.

Listening to: Train Song - sakai asuka

On the Subject of Normal
After weeks of a settled friends with benefits relationship with him, Bowser gets it in his head that he and Luigi should try going out on a date. Here’s how that ends.

Fandom: Super Mario
Rating: Teen and Up Audiences
Characters: Bowser, Luigi
Relationships:Bowser/Luigi
Additional Tags: Fluff, Humor, Hurt/Comfort, Friends With Benefits, Mild Sexual Content, Aromantic Allosexual Luigi, Aromantic Allosexual Bowser
Length: 1,632 words

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SUNDAY
Apparently I won a raffle from Friday’s concert 😯 I get a $100 gift card for a local restaurant! Whoo!

Dad came over, so I got to wish him a happy Father’s Day in person 😀

In the meantime, I spent a solid chunk of the day going through and blocking people who had stupid DNIs in their bios/pinned. Gotta say, there's kind of a rush to it! Now everything I click on a blog and it doesn't have a blockade offense on it I get sad XD

MONDAY
The first of many Room Run and Tech week rehearsals today for the opera. Was a little late, getting there, but it didn't matter because they started late, anyway. All the performers were amazing, and this was just the cover cast!

Also, I brought my new tablet to test out how it feels in the wild. And it was a resounding success! Sure, I'll have to download a bunch of pdfs and google docs because I underestimated how annoying being without wifi would be, but that's a very fixable problem. The keyboard worked great (even though the fact it didn't have a trackpad was disorienting), and I got a lot typed and drawn up!

:( I’ve made a miscalculation with the new canvas painting I bought…I ordered a frame so I could frame it, but it turns out poster frames can't hold canvases! So I gotta find a canvas frame now. Whoopsies!

TUESDAY
My Nintendo Switch email arrived!!! I also bought a pro controller and a Yunobo amiibo, because I was already spending so much money so why not XD in hindsight I should have paid for express shipping so i could guarantee it came for my birthday, but whatever. Setting up an NS2 probably isn't the ideal birthday activity anyway, from what I've heard XD

Also there's definitely a God up there somewhere because this is the second time I ran late to the 6 o'clock opera rehearsal only to find they hadn't even started yet. I'm so glad I have the rest of the rehearsal days off work 😅

Also I went to the pizza place across the street for dinner between cues. This was a mistake. One slice and I was trapped in the bathroom for at least an aria and a half. Horrendous.

WEDNESDAY
My Switch 2 is on its way! It'll get here by the 23rd, USPS says, so crossing my fingers I'll get to open it on my birthday!

When coming home from work I decided to make a stop at Trader Joe's, because I realized that I don't eat very many sweets yet I'm always wandering around like “Man I wish I had a sweet treat right about now”. In returning home I found an alternate path that takes me past a nearby baseball field and a little bit around a nearby lake! I looked out on the water for a while, because I can. There was also a kid with a drone, and man now I suddenly understand why people don't want drones flying around. The noise sounded like angry bees, and it flew so far away, clean to the other side of the lake! That should be illegal!

THURSDAY
Needed to do laundry, so I drove back to my parent’s house!

Checked their smart TV and there were TWO Asterix movies! Asterix and Obelix: Mansion of the Gods and Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion.

The Mansion of the Gods one was the first one I watched, and it bored me so bad in the first two acts XD Definitely took a while to ramp up. But that third act! Wow!!!! It was so funny! I would personally die and kill for Mischiveus and his family, for real. I love that his dad's name is Anonymous, lmaoooo

The Secret of the Magic Potion wasn't as funny, but it flew by much faster. I don't know if it's because I quickly got used to the pacing of these movies in general or not. There's a tendency to drag jokes out just a liiiitle too long, and you could say I got better at recognizing when it was happening and fast forwarding through it. Again, that little girl, Pectin? So cute. And I loved the Roman shield mech at the end, lol.

FRIDAY
Sat criss-cross applesauce for a while and now my hips hurt :( I'm getting old and inflexible :(

Got to talk with Dad about the internet drama I've been surrounded by the past few weeks. I've probably already said this before, but I think that in order to have a safe space, you have to make it yourself. If fandom is a big bustling city, you have to chart it on your map, walk out a few miles, and then build a little cabin out there. Go back into the city once in a while to buy groceries or catch up with friends - and some of those friends may follow you back to your cabin! - and attend the community events you hear about via mail. But if you live in the city, then it'll suck the life right out of you. I've been seeing it happen more and more lately.

In other news, my Switch 2 is here!!!!! I rush-ordered a screen protector for it, so that should be here tomorrow. Then I can get started setting it up tomorrow or Sunday!!!

Having watched this production of Alcina play out a few times now, all I have to say is that they hate seeing a beautiful butch woman winning. If the lady wants her boytoy, then she should get her boytoy! So what if he's someone else's fiance? Not Alcina's fault she caught Bradamente slipping!!!

SATURDAY
I was supposed to put in my A/C for the upcoming heatwave and I didn't, lol. I've got all of tomorrow, though! Also I cleaned my room, and put the clothes I'm defo bringing to Denver in the suitcase!

And I set up my NS2! It was way less painful than people online made it sound, haha. I'll get to test it out tomorrow~

Also I finished the first draft of my birthday fic, which is NOT Beach Vacation, but is instead an aroallo!Bowuigi fic. Which will be the 69th fic I post to AO3 🤭

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