TBF THIS IS HUGE WHEN I LOOK ON MY PHONE LMAO

WTH that sounds awful. My lazy butt would not have the motivation to play long if I have to re-level up each time. That's partly why I can't do dungeon crawlers where if you die you restart your run. Unless there are permanent rewards to it. I also totally didn't read kokoro and was trying to think what pokemon that was for a hot minute. Well I mean that's good. Because I hate when I have to interact with teammates now. It's been years, but just thinking about it makes me not happy.
Yeah I'm better now! Usually would have had it all ate by now or frozen it, but I was busy and didn't eat supper at home for 3 days in a row and I'm stubborn and really hate throwing away that much food. (It was like two servings left, I did throw one of the servings away because of the incident) and doesn't help I couldn't remember what day of the week I made it lol. It was either last sunday or monday, but who knows because lunch meal prep is sundays which means I either make more of what I'm making for supper or I make two meals.

I looked up the characters and I just about downloaded the app again. So many pretty characters again. I don't remember who it was, but I was in love with it. (Honestly looking it up it was probably Steak cuz yeah lol)

LOL I really want to know what that site is, but honestly probably the one I'm thinking of. If I remember to sign up for discord tonight we can trade notes then. I really need to get on either batoto (is it just bato now? I know the old version was batoto) and mangago for chapters on a manga I was reading that hasn't been updated on mangadex since they allowed uploads again. OH have you heard of azuki.co? I feel like it's kind of expensive for what it is rn. I signed up for the free trial but the 4-5 mangas I would have read on there haven't been updated. yet. I should go check. I'm hoping they get more licenses from other publishers. because I see no problem paying the price once they have a bigger selection.

I guess it did take me a while to get a hang of it. OMG Arm knitting is when you use the big roving type yarn to knit those big chunky blankets. It was a big trend in the USA like 5 or so years ago. I remember someone asking me to make one for them and I said sure, you have to supply the yarn because I wasn't paying $20 a pop for a skein of yarn (I looked it up because I wanted to knit one but so pricey)

I know some of the ones I rename don't even have part of the title in it. lol. But that was a long time ago. Now i'ts "that spider one" or "the million lives one" I'm surprised my friend understands when it's even further off. I think YOI was "that one ice skating anime" at some point before I saw people abbreviating it as YoI

I beg to differ as someone who is growing in the USA, anything made out of the USA is cheap and flimsy (mostly the chinese made stuff) and anything made in the USA IS SUPER STRONG NICE LONG LASTING!!!!! I beg to differ. I mostly feel like it's where you purchase it. Because I'm pretty sure most of the iphone parts are made in china? most electronics are. Just because it was assembled in one country doesnt mean all the individual parts aren't. I got these super nice reusable lunch baggies and even though the parent company is based out of California, USA, the baggies are made in China. Plus my mom thinks my generation is ruining everything 9_9

Oh that sounds interesting. My mom is super Christian and when we went to Japan we went to many temples and shrines and at one point she says something along the line of "I am not praying to some other god" I know one place we did the whole cleaning our mouth and hands to go pray. She refused to do any of that. I'm not a whole heck of lot religious, but I find other cultures/religions interesting. Who knows if I should have done that, but the tour guide showed us how to do it and said we could do it and me being me did it.
Oh the wedding I went to over the weekend was an Indian wedding so I was invited to the ceremonies that happened the night before and then went to the temple to see her marriage. I was so confused (since they spoke hindi and another language that is spoken in the part her parents are from), but it was so interesting just how different it is from the weddings I go to for family.

I AM SUPER shy, plus where I live I would have to travel to the nearest major city because that's where most things take place. So that means driving to a big scary city by myself. I am in no place to do that. I do think there was a local one I found out about before covid, but then covid, and I don't remember what it is called. I just know it was really small because I found the event list online and there weren't that many vendors either (I would go more for the merch than anything lol)
DUDE I AM SO READY FOR JAPAN AGAIN! I had a spreadsheet and everything for savings. Then covid. sigh. I'm 100% going by myself if I have too. Everyone I've asked said no because they don't like the food in Japan and I'm like that's no the point (but then again I have became one of those people that will try everything once.) It probably doesn't help the last time I went we went to the only region that served horse so I got to try horse (it tasted like pork btw)

I remember reading a lot of cringey romance novels that made the list for the reading challenge my school librarian had. I was like one of the 5 people that would read the entire list. And let me tell you, I think that's why I can't stand romance that much. I'll probably still read young adult romance if it has the right plot, but meh, I like me fantasy.

Oh...okay...you're older than me, but close in age. I'll be in my 30s next year. Still feel like I should still be 16. lol. Pretty sure I still act like I'm that young.

I've totally read or watched all of those LOL. I just remember there was a part of super lovers that turned me off from it for a while. I watched the anime and I was like "oh yeah, that." Plus the older I get the more I get weirded out by age gaps. (Like underage/minor with adult).
OH YEAH I can't remember but did you say there is a place to read those online?

Oh good, I'm all over bromances lol. I'm totally okay with the hints. I just find live action romance awkward (I don't know why I am so weird).

Oh god that sounds god awful. I am on my mom's netflix account so yeah, I'll be able to watch it. I was supposed to have a movie night on sunday, but I was too sick (literally mostly watched youtube because I could zone out and not care if I missed stuff) so I'll add this to my movie list. I have no problem with subtitles, just because I've been cross stitching more I've been looking for more dubbed stuff.

IKR that's why I should mention DV again. I really need to get back to dailies or something. Oh I messaged that one person I threw potatoes at for an accessory because I saw her posting in her thread (I like how I automatically assume people are girls so maybe they aren't). So maybe I'll get it. I forgot all about it until I was reading the new update with items and the custom accessory copy items.

LOL I will get discord. I just need to sign up and figure out how to use it.
I also get that message too soooo....

Edit: just a note it took me 30 minutes to type this. Totally got paid 30 minutes to type this. I meant to do this during lunch but I worked during my lunch so I guess that evens out.

Edit 2: Made a discord because I was thinking about it again. No clue what I am doing. I advise I be assisted to know what I am doing.

RIGHT!? I gave up the moment I saw it and waited til I was on a larger screen with a larger keyboard. QuQ

I knowwwwwwww, like I remember the few times I played a starter for the tutorials or even in the one Unite match I had, the Unite pass I had had the picture of the fully evolved version of the pokemon. However, when I started playing, I started out in the first evolution. So like I have Charizard's Unite pass.......but I have to start out as Charmander and level up by "jungling".........8U most ANNOYING THING EVER. Hence the reason I haven't actually played the game since I downloaded apart from finishing the tutorials and doing the daily item pick up.
Ahhh I see. I haven't eaten outdoors myself, we do occasionally order take out but we cook everything ourselves.

Food Fantasy? Yeah I haven't looked at the game in soooooooo long. I'll probably get some freebies if I sign back on now though lol.

ARE U THINKIN WHAT IM THINKIN? XD dunno if the site you're thinking about is the same as mine but I think the manga community is small...ish. And its Bato.to now. So I guess the name...hasn't really changed? I dunno. I've never heard of Azuki tbh. The only site I've really been on recently is Bato to check up on updates on my bookmarked stuff and Mangago for Rebirth of the Urban Immortal Cultivator. XD I have a few manga apps as well but I haven't used those in awhile.

Oh. Well then. xD I don't know what's popular anymore. My mom used to knit some but she doesn't do it anymore. I still use the twirly/spinny looking blue/gray/green multicolor scarf my mom made for me every winter.

LOL I think I actually know what you're talking about. I remember reading quite a bit of the "spider" one, the light novel that is. It gets pretty dark once you start understanding what all the "Taboos" were. 8U I stopped reading shortly after that.

LOL well somehow, people in HK think Japanese products are better than their own. Probably knowing that some of their products are flimsy. xD;; I dunno. when my aunt and uncle was choosing our first laptop, they were debating over the options. I could care less, hahahah.

Yeah we only go to temple like.....3 times a year? Once, on the night of Chinese New Year, to get that first prayer in. The second, probably a little bit of time after the Chinese New Year, maybe a week or so after, to do another, more in-depth prayer. The last prayer is shortly before the end of the Chinese New Year, some time before the next Chinese New Year, this prayer is sort of like a "thank you Buddha for blessing me and protecting me this year" kind of prayer. In our family, the first prayer on the night of New Year is done at the closest Buddhist temple in our city; we walk around the night market at the temple where they sell New Years goods and stuff while waiting for midnight; this prayer isn't as in-depth as the other two, its more like a sign of respect and welcoming in the New Year. For the other two, the more in-depth ones where we bring offerings and such, we do them at another temple around 45mins away in another city. And, according to tradition, if you ask for blessings and protection at a particular temple, you have to go back near the end of the Chinese New Year (which is the 3rd temple visit we make in the year) to give thanks for the blessings and protection. So. Yeah. XD

I....haven't been to a lot of weddings. Maybe.....like one? And it was more of the banquet after, not the actual ceremony. I think.........I've been to more funerals than weddings, tbh lol. One each for each of my paternal grandparents, where they had Christian/Catholic ceremonies with a father/priest and excerpts from the Bible and stuff. My grandmother passed away (from natural causes) during COVID so the only ppl in the funeral were my family of four (dad, mom, sister) and my dad's sister's (my aunt) family of four, they had to get special permission to cross the border (they live in the States). My uncle, who lives in HK, had to watch the livestream in the middle of the night, because of time differences.
I've also been to a third funeral, on my mother's side, for her aunt's (my great-aunt I guess? I'm not clear on the naming for family members in English lol) husband's funeral. This ceremony was VERY different, because it was a traditional Buddhist ceremony. We were all given booklets with Chinese prayers and mantras and chants and 3 Buddhist monks came in and started chanting prayers and hitting a Wooden Fish drum in a steady rhythm while we followed along and maybe even chant as well, hence the booklet. At the front, where the coffin was, there was a prayer table set up with offerings like food and stuff and we had to offer incense as well. Members of the main family would have to wear a white ribbon or white flower, according to which position of the family they're in. We didn't have to do that (although the main color we all still wore was black, although traditionally, the color of death and funerals is supposed to be white, hence the white flowers/ribbons) since our family branch was a bit more removed from the main family branch. Also, when we entered, we gave the main family a red packet (more like a white packet) which had something that, when directly translated into English, is called "white gold." Essentially, its paper money which is later burned for the deceased, so that they can use the money in the afterlife. I know that in some, more in-depth/extreme cases of Asian funerals, they would burn other things like paper houses, paper clothes.....anything that would be considered material goods but in paper form, it would be burned for the deceased so that they can use it in the afterlife.

Ah that sucks. I live just outside the city of Toronto and where I live is also right next to a major train/bus terminal. So going to Toronto is as easy as jumping on the train lol. I've been to two particular conventions, namely Anime North and FanExpo. I hear FanExpo is coming back this year since COVID shut it down before, I keep getting mails for it lol.
Wow someone's prepared! What's wrong with food in Japan lol? I'd love to try new foods! Being Asian, I've eaten strange food before lol. Although maybe not horse lol.

I've never been given a reading list. The closest thing to a list that I had was when I was doing the MS Readathon, where you got people to sponsor you to read books and all the money went to MS. There wasn't a list but you did have to write down the title of every book you read lol. I like fantasy myself too. Also, I tend to gravitate sometimes towards the teen fiction as well even though the content is driven towards teens and like.......super simple vocab lol. But as long as the story is good, who cares if its for teens or YA or adults? XD

OH I KNOW. I feel like.........old.......and young........and I'm conflicted and I don't know what I'm doing with my life and......yeah so conflicted lol. I'd rather not talk about it, hahahaha.

Yeaaaaaaaah there's a major gap between the two mains in Super Lovers, and the only good thing is that even though they're brothers, they're not blood related. Because if they were, I'd drop that series like a hot potato because I'm verrrrry leery about incest.....>.> I haven't read it in awhile though, although the last time I had a peek at it, the older brother had gotten amnesia again. @~@ And you could always check out Novelupdates if you want to read the novels. Although, the first translators who translated MDZS is ExiledRebel. You can read it on their site. They also translate alot of yaoi stuff.

https://exiledrebelsscanlations.com/nov ... ltivation/

Yeah its all around good bromance, nothing really romancey lol.

Yeah the dubbed version of "Yin Yang Master: Dream of Eternity" was TERRIBLE. I remember recommending the movie to anyone who cared (and who were yaoi/MDZS fans) and I was laughing over the English dub with one of them because it was just SO BAD AND CRINGEWORTHY. So yesssss go and watch this movie, its reaaaaaally good IMO.......just don't watch it in dub lol.

Well here's hoping you get that accessory! And have you seen the fanceeeeeeh new customs on the front page? I might get the Hime hair because it seems the easiest to get but I need to save up 300k and buy a mirror. BECAUSE THERE ARE MIRRORS NOW. I want to get those custom pets too UGH.

And yeah, it took me WAAAAY too long to type this lol.
Well if you DO get discord, my ID is still Hotarla #4210. c:
Let me know what your account name is!

That sounds like such a hassle. I guess if it's someone cup of tea they will be all over it, but meh, that sounds too tedious to get the reward. I would only be one for the freebies too.
Do you mean outdoors as in takeout? I don't like eating outside tbh because too many bugs and I get hot and sweaty easily. Put me inside with the air conditioner any day.

Yeah food fantasy! I remember login into a different app randomly and I got a TON of free stuff. At least $100 worth of in game currency (this was after a year not playing so I can't abuse that) but sadly that game just never really got updated in that year. I had gotten to the end on the content and got bored with it. I wonder if it had ever gotten an update then since it's been a good 4 years since I last checked.

WHO KNOWS LOLOL I just remember my friend and I talking about this bl site and we were like "I would suggest it but it's kind of sketch" turns out it was the same sketchy bl site loool. True. I remember when a lot of scanlators (do people still use that term?) tried to have their own reader and wouldn't upload to any of the readers. I think then batoto became the place to upload too (this was back when batoto was not what it was and it was a lot more organized and had specific spots for scan groups to have their own page). Now I feel like mangadex took over from the old batoto. I just remember some groups REFUSING to upload to any readers but their own so it was a hassle going around reading chapters. Ah Azuki is a paid reader, but they have everything from one publisher on there, but they are still in the process of uploading all the chapters. Which sucks because they have like 3 series I am reading, but they still haven't uploaded any of the chapters so meeeh, my free trial is going to be out by the time they do and it's $5 a month so rn not really worth it imho. maybe if they get more publishers behind it.
I stopped using apps because meh, it's like, not that bad going through the web page. Well I use the shounen jump app because their web reader SUCKS.

LOL I think it was popular with the older generation lol. Oh I love scarves. One of the easiest things to knit. A nice long rectangle. lol. Blankets are just bigger rectangles. I haven't done like the fancy patterns yet. Socks are as complicated I've gotten.

I've totally looked up stuff for the spider one because I needed to know. I hope it gets second season, but the last 3 or so episodes were...bad...like if you watch it, you'll see. At least the plot was good and made it worth it. loool.

LOL I mean, I don't know about what they think about their own products but I guess it corroborates with what everyone seems to think. I just don't feel like it's fair to judge everything based on a stereotype. tbh. But ya, I feel like Japanese products are better if I had to pick. BUT I would go with brand and them fancy stuff inside than price or where it's made (a long time ago I used to know what to look for in a computer for playing games lol)

Oh that's really interesting. I never knew that about praying and temple visits. I don't even know much about the religion I'm supposed to know a lot about, but I find other religions besides christian a lot more interesting.

I've been to more weddings than funerals, and that's only because I get to wiggle out of going to the funerals because I don't really know the person. I just go to a lot of visitations for people I'm related too even if I don't know I'm a relation to them.
Oh wow I didn't know anything about that. That sounds way more interesting than any of the funerals I've been too. I didn't know anything about the paper money for the after life. I do know that there are religions/cultures that believe in having money for the afterlife so they can pass over (mostly greek mythology). That's especially interesting with the other paper objects. Most funerals I've been to just talk about the person (or a few talk about how god is welcoming them blahblahblah god is king, makes me roll my eyes like stop pushing your religion into everything. It's worse when I know the person wasn't that religious).

....totally didn't think you were over in Europe...I don't know why I thought that lol.
Yeah that's the one thing I hate about the USA and especially rural. No public transport. Like just to get on the train (Amtrak, I used that in uni when I went to school in a major city) I still have to drive to get on to it. I feel like the one I found wasn't too far away from where I live, but me being a chicken, plus covid, I haven't been. I do remember trying to join the anime club in college, but I had such a bad time trying to make friends within the group I spent the majority of it being shy. I stopped going eventually because by that time there was a large friend group in it that was the majority of the club and everyone else that wasn't part of it stopped coming. BUT I do remember they were preparing for the con that was going to happen in the spring in that city and I wanted to go, but like I said, I wasn't really in with that large circle of friends in the club and sounded like they were all going to book a few rooms together to split the cost. It was on the other side of the city iirc.

Yeah, I think they are put off by sushi and sashimi. Like my mom and I went in 2019 as a late graduation present, and she forced me to pick a tour, which was fine. I got to see a lot of sights I would have otherwise never seen. BUT they thought traditional meals for lunch and supper every night was what we wanted. And see, I don't really like fish, like 100% refuse to eat fish, but since I was on vacation I am like YEAH I WILL! I also probably have a sensitive stomach (never really been to a dr for it but I know some foods I should stay away from, but I usually deal with the consequences) and the sashimi and sushi were making my stomach all messed up since we had it sooo often I wasn't able to give my stomach a respite from it. But I still want to go to a conveyer belt sushi restaurant lol I do know some sushi I am okay with from my many experiences.

Oh that sounds like fun! Well the reading list at my school was optional and we got a giftcard and a pizza party if we completed it all. Which is why I only know like 5 of us read it all. I still read teen fantasy for when I need a break from my big thicc fantasy books. Sometimes I'm annoyed by how dumb the YA MCs are written. Like they write the girls so freaking DUMB. I got a perfect example of a dumb main character...if I can remember the title.

If I could time travel and remember everything I know I would do things differently. But meh, here I am acting like I should still be a wee little thing.

DUDE I read a BL a while back, well didn't finish it, but it was so incest. I was like ew no as soon as I realized it was. Like how do people read that stuff? Super lovers just seems so weird tbh.
Oooh. I forgot ExiledRebel did novels. I will have to bookmark that when I get back on my tablet to read. I mostly read ebooks/stuff like this on that.

OMG OKAY JUST GOING TO TALK DAPPERVOLK NOW!

Yes I saaaaawwww! I'm excited. I did. The strawbatty is so cute. The magma dragon just...looks really cartoony for the dappervolk style. Oh I guess I misread about the mirrors? I thought the custom owner had to use it? but I guess that makes sense if the one who purchases the custom has to have it.
Ayyy excited for the market they were talking about for customs because they are going to make it for accessories too!!!

Ay okay hopefully I'll add you right. You'll get a request from Lutyra#8827

Since we've covered some of the stuff, I'll start off from the stuff I haven't gotten to yet.

For knitting, arm knitting being popular with older gens.....maybe its easier for them? Is it easier? Like no need to count stitches or like.....squinting? XD My mom knitted a vest once. I think that was the most difficult thing she every did. I think the reason the scarf was all spirally was because of the yarn used.

What......happened in the last 3 eps lol? Now I'm curious, did they all just start killing each other? Because I do know that some of the reincarnators/transmigrators started separating into two different groups.....at least, according to the LN.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure we all have stereotypes over certain things. My mom still thinks that every black person is evil incarnate loooool because she's always like "whenever you see a crime being committed in the news, its always a black person!" and I'm like "mooooom, that's so RACIST." I think she's also a bit homophobic as well lol. And when I was picking my laptop, I was mainly looking for certain specs and she was looking at brands. XD

I have like........very few friends lol. Online, I'm great. RL? Not so much lol. So no weddings and mostly funerals for people I knew.
I know about the "coins over the eyes to pay the ferryman Charon" for the Greeks. I love mythology and Grecian ones were one of my faves. Also, funeral rituals for some ancient royalty had them being buried with live people and animals as well. At least, that's what I've heard of. I never really paid much attention to what the fathers/priest talked about, tbh. The Chinese chanting during that one Buddhist funeral was interesting though, even though I literally had NO IDEA what they were saying, they chanted so fast and trying to read the English translations from the booklet was........very taxing when they were going so fast lol.

Yeaaaaaaah no, I live in Canada, hahahah. So, if you live in States, we're neighbors! XD sorta.
I live right outside the city of Toronto so I'm in a pretty major city. Hence, lots of public transport. Buses, trains, subways....xD I remember joining the anime club in university but attending cons with them......although I'm sure they probably made plans before, I never really went with them. Except like with this one guy who actually turned out to be a girl but the way she dressed was verrrry boyish and she wore male hanfus and the first time I saw her, she was wearing a very male-ish dress shirt and pants and she was in the Chinese cultural associations and she knew how to do a lot of traditional Asian things like play Go and tea ceremony (I think) and play the quqin (which she showed me once) and I remember she had a wooden sword so she probably did some of that as well. She showed me how to play Go once when it was being publicly played at an anime convention and she cooked for me in her shared dorm room lol. And then I found out she was also very VERY lesbian and I had like this "AHA" moment because she was very touch feely with me LOL. XD So. YEAH.

I looooooove fish. So sushi and sashimi is like DELISH. But there's always cooked options though? Without fish? Like teriyaki is good. And they have lots of noodle and rice options. And tempura.

That's nice. I would've liked a gift card lol. I still remember reading Piers Morgan. Now his books were HILARIOUS. Because his Xanth series were like.......made up of puns and jokes and it was just too good. Like root beer was boot rear and when drunk, it would kick you in the rear. And other silly stuff. Another person I liked to read was Mercedes Lackey. They're all fantasy/sci-fi writers.......I'm not sure if they're considered YA or adult but they're both good. I can't remember any teen fantasys off the top of my head right now......I suppose Harry Potter would be one....unless that's considered YA lol. And.....uh....Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer? I liked that series.

SO incest. Do you remember what it was about? XD But yeah I've read a few incest ones and I'm just......like ICK. And yeah! ExiledRebel did novels, they originally did and probably still do novels. And manga.
And sure, you get your dumb af MCs sometimes, writers sometimes write about dumb MCs so that you can see their progress through the book. And sometimes MCs just stay dumb. And sometimes they stereotype female characters into "damsels in distress" and "wilting violets" or something lol. Or Mary Sues. XD

DV STUFF NAO.

Yeahhhh I want some of the new pets AAAAAH but from what I've read on their profiles, most of them will remain private. And no you didn't misread? From what I read on one profile, they asked people to pay a certain amount of potatoes and include a mirror. So the mirror will be used by the creator who will then send it back to you.
Yesssssss please, do something, we want a customs market or whatever aaaah.

Ayyy I might move something over too so it won't be as long but who knows lol.

WELL I meant more like the style of blanket that was made using the arm knitting. because the yarn is heavy so don't know how older people would fair lol. Ohh. You should show me the scarf because I'm curious.

Well, just bad animation. Like they would talk but it would be one character over the other to show they were talking to each other, but with no distance even though they were apart. lol. it was bad, but still enjoyable.

OHMYGOSH YOUR MOM! It doesn't help the media likes to throw them as the bigger evil than if some white boy, you know, r*ped someone, because white people can do no wrong. (says the white girl). I just don't understand how people can hate someone because of their skin color.

LOL I went to two weddings for people I went to school with. The rest are just relatives that are obligated to invite other relatives.
I love greek mythology. I had a teacher that was passionate about it and we spent a semester learning it. In my class, everyone wanted to be with me when we did group projects. Like I was the only one that cared to learn more about greek myths (I like to thank persona 3 for getting me into mythology lol).
I don't know if I could do a buddhist funeral that sounds confusing with the chanting. BUT if I ever make a friend that was buddhist I would probably go to their funeral.

Yeah you're probably one of the closest people I've met on here, minus the person I found on here that live like an hour away lol. That was wild.
That's the woes of living rural, you gotta drive everywhere. Even the grocery store is a drive sadly.
OMG THAT'S NOT FUNNY but it kind of is. Yeah, I feel like I would be oblivious to that too and just think they were a very good friend. I mean she sounds cool...until that last part. I wouldn't judge her for it, but maybe boundaries. I'm not a very touchy feely person except with family so that would have like put me on the edge if someone was like to me.

I think the problem was is that my mom insisted on doing a tour (I went once in college because it counted as TWO classes and I was really behind so it helped a lot and besides the actually business stuff we got to explore the city ourselves and eat wherever and my mom didn't trust me when I said it was easy to get around...in tokyo at least lol) and the tour is like "here traditional japanese lunch" followed with "here traditional japanese supper" like I think we were really only on our own for meals a few times and believe me when I said I got something katsu each time cuz mmmm, and it was the only chance I had to get it. I do remember we went to this one place on the tour that had tempura lotus root as a side. soooo gooood.

If that is the same Piers Morgan I am thinking of then I probably haven't read his books. I can't stand him.
I have an ebook by Mercedes Lackey but I never read it. I think I only got it because someone recommended it to me, but the one I got seems like romance so never actually read it...yet. I started buying this one edition of harry potty because I liked the covers and they stopped publishing that version when I had 3 left to get =/ I have never ready harry potter. OH I remember a lot of people reading artemis fowl in elementary school looool.

Oh yeah, remind me to send you a link to that bl manga later today. I have to prowl my mangaupdates for the link because I don't remember the title just the cover so you can see it for yourself lol.
I just know them because I read BL...a lot...

Like tbf, I don't mind dumb MCs, but when they are dumb, they are dumb. Like I hate when author use their dumbness to advance the plot. like "let's have them ignore every warning sign to not do this one thing because otherwise the story can't go on if they don't follow these red flags"

OH! I didn't see that they were asking for a mirror as a form of payment to make the pet. I see now. I see the strawbatty one, the owner is doing it limited. Which tbf I don't mind. Just hopes and dreams. If I ever get to design a custom, I'd probably not share...
That would be so nice especially if it cuts out waiting for the designer to grant it.

also didn't move anything over to discord. whoop. I just got excited typing.

AH I see. I didn't think yarn for blankets might be heavier. Maybe quilting would be better lol. Quilts always look so pretty. I'll show you a pic on my scarf on discord.

Ahhhh bad animation. That makes me want to watch it even less lol. And I've only watched like a few eps of that spider anime. Not related to the anime, I had a spider crawl up my leg today while I was sunbathing by a window. Freaked me out lol.

EXACTLY. Media makes them out to be gangsters and stuff and my mom has all her Asian stereotypes as well so it just makes things worse.

Still....more weddings than me lol! XD
I love Greek mythology, used to lap that up. Egyptian mythology too.
Yeah Buddhist funerals are confusing if you don't understand anything. The chanting is very......meditative? I dunno, I couldn't understand it anyway, it just sounds like background droning after awhile lol. Besides, I speak Cantonese, they were probably chanting in Mandarin. The only thing I'd probably be able to say to them is "Amitabha" lol.

LOL I knew some people who live in Canada and a few in America.
Rural sounds nice if you want the peace and quiet. But I dunno if I would sacrifice "easily accessible everything" for "peace and quiet" lol.

LOOOOOL No I found it pretty amusing as well when I first found out, hahaha. She had neither a high or low voice, her physique was a bit more broad and chunkier but not overtly so and I didn't even suspect that she had a chest, probably because of what she wore, and the few times I saw her, she wore very neutral clothes, apart from when I saw her cosplay once in a skirt when I met up with her at an anime convention and even THEN I was utterly CONFUSED still. But, I remember VERY clearly one time during a club meet, she once stroked my face and asked me what I did to make my skin so soft.......@n@ But I played it off as nothing at the time because I seriously didn't KNOW at the time and still thought she was a he. Now, looking back at it, with my knowledge, it made PERFECT SENSE. Of course, I'm not gonna judge, I'm pretty okay with the LGBTQ community and I had a friend or two who were but.......still. XD

AAAAAH yeah if you went with a tour, you probably won't have as much food choices, unless they decide to buffet every meal lol. Restaurants rarely have lotus root tempura I think. It's mainly taro/yam or sweet potato, sometimes some broccoli or zucchini. Or shrimp. Kinda a shame. I love katsudon or whatever dons lol, rice is like staple for Asians lol. And I love teriyaki unagi (eel).

OMG NO NO I MISSPOKE/TYPED. I meant Piers ANTHONY, not Morgan. Gosh, what a MAJOR booboo. No, his name was Piers Anthony and he wrote a lot of punny novels for his Xanth series.
I love Mercedes Lackey. I don't think there's much romance in the Valdemar series which is the one I normally read, there's some but its really slow build and its like a side story more than a main story. If you ever check out Mercedes Lackey again, you should check out her Valdemar series. Cuz TALKING HORSES AND MAGIC YO. I have all the Harry Potter books but I think I'm still missing the last volume of Artemis Fowl. Disney Plus finally came out with the movie this year......? or was it last? Anyways, from what I hear, there were lots of complaints over the movie lol.

Okaaaaay yeah, I might have a problem with such dumb af MCs lol. I'll probably just stop reading entirely.

I know one person who's selling their custom clothing is asking for 300k and a mirror. Because they'll probably use the mirror to give you the custom. It's like how we use a PAM every time we want to use an accessory but we have to buy the PAM ourselves in order to use the acc. The creator isn't about to buy a whole bunch of mirrors just to sell their custom. That's like.........200turnips or around 35k (so far) in the market.

AYYY HERE I AM!

Yeah the type they used for the arm knitting are big chunky "rovings" (google roving yarn. it's like chunky loose yarn, not like twisted little ropes) Quilting is actually really hard to do. Like gotta learn to sew and use a sewing machine. Then fabric and making squares. Like quilts are a labor of love.

It's actually not bad! It's really good animation. Not sure what happened to the studio that all of the sudden they had the last 3 episodes go...bad...the last episode as delayed a few weeks too.
OH GOSH NO SPIDERS! When I first moved into my house, the first fall I after I moved in, my bookdoor has a sliding screen door that's stuck open (which is okay because the amount of time I let the dogs in and out it would be annoying lol just annoying I can't have it open when it's nice out.) an done night I was about to lean my head out to call the dog (didn't have Annie yet so just Viktor) and almost put my face RIGHT INTO A WOLF SPIDER!!! DIS IS A WOLF SPIDER. I freaked out, got Viktor in. The next morning I took the web down thinking it moved on. NOPE! That night it was back! I think the third night I got a giant piece of cardboard and went out around my house to kill it! It was living in the stuck open screen door. THEN next fall a new one showed up. That time I had spider killing spray so I sprayed that in the screen door where it lived (there is a little hole in the door). Luckily none have showed up since then, but rn I have little spider living on the screen door between the screen and my door and it's not bothering me or anyone else. I named it door spider.

Exactly. Honestly it's so bad. I feel bad especially for those who are trying to break the cycle. It's like racism is so embedded in people it's going to take generations before it breaks.

I never got into Egyption Mythology, but I love Japanese mythologies too.
Oh yeah I meant to ask if you spoke another language since your family is asian. I find languages fascinating and I really wish I pursued that instead of something boring like accounting.

Lol Well I guess it's all about what you're used to growing up. My university was in Chicago and let me tell you, I missed rural life so much. So many people. but at least you have easy transportation and major events happen closer to you.

OH GOD I remember once someone touched my face and I was like wtf. She had a girlfriend and we were talking about art at the time. I think we were talking about how I can't draw faces (back when I was trying to get better at arting lol) and she like touched my face and was telling me about how to follow the cheekbone and stuff while running her hand down my face. So I was like, yeah okay, that makes sense. But to just touch my face. I'm not touchy feely.
Yeah she should have been a little more...telling you what she was after maybe? I wonder if she thought if she was more open about it you would freak out? and she wanted to stay friends? Just seems awkward and there would have been better ways?

We had like one buffet. We also ate at an izakaya which had really nice food. Bar food, but it was still good. lol Yeah, I figured. That's what most of the tempura was, but one place had lotus root. Shrimp was common too as tempura. LOL I use rice a lot in my cooking. Like I make a lot of like asian-inspired food I guess (sweet and sour chicken, honey sesame chicken, etc). Probably majorly amercanized, but still good. lol. I think unagi was like the one thing I ate that I was okay with? or that was the one that had a weird texture I couldn't get passed. OMG also the EYES! The first trip I went we stayed at a traditional inn in Kyoto and omg, they had uncooked...shrimp (I have a picture of it if you are interested) and it had eyes attached still so I tried to bit it off right before the eyes and omg it had the texture of slippery snot. So I tried to add rice to help me swallow it and that was worse. I almost puked. I'm making myself gag rn thinking about it.

OKAY THAT MAKES MORE SENSE! I was like he's a douche canoe who would read his work? LOL I googled that and I recognize the covers. Never read them. Oh! I think the ones I got by Mercedes Lackey were romance. The covers look like it's a romance lol. I will! I'm always looking for books to buy and not read loool. Oh I love slow romances too. Like what I usually find in the fantasies I read. Oh I think the Artemis fowl movie was bad. Unless it's a different one because I thought Nickelodeon did it?

I'm stubborn and I will read it. PLUS I'm the person to buy an entire book series before reading the first one. Too lazy for the library and trying to build my own little library. lol. But I read an article they are thinking about building a new library by the park I live by, which means the library would be like a 5 minute walk away if it happens!

Yeah that makes sense. and that's a decent price for the custom. I did read that some of the custom pets, they are waiting for the custom market to open. Yeah I don't blame them. That makes a lot more sense to have the buyer provide the item.
I really like this month's limited items! If only I didn't get 5 of the same item. rip.

Ohhh the yarn looks suuuuuuuuuper thick, I can understand that it might be a biiiiiiiiit heavy. We have a sewing machine.....but my sister was the one who bought it and she's the only one to know how to use it lol.

Ahhh that sucks....D: got lazy in the end with the last few episodes lol.
Holey shiiiiiiiiiitake mushrooms, that's a huge af spider, I'd have freaked too if I saw that monster here. Compared to the one that was crawling on my leg, it could probably eat my little one in one gulp! *shudders*

That's true. Maybe one day, we can all live in peace and love one another and we will no longer have wars between races, cultures and religions. Because wars like that are just pointless. Actually all wars are pointless.....8U

Egyptian mythology is fascinating too. Like Horus and Osiris and Isis and stuff. And they also have a lot of flashy jewelry. XD
Yeah I speak Cantonese (not Mandarin, which is what most Cdramas are in). So when I watch a Cdrama, I still need English subs because I can understand like.....maybe a few sentences out of an entire episode lol. When I speak of Mandarin, I feel like it sounds......a bit slanted when compared to Cantonese. XD That's how I describe it anyway. I mainly speak English or Chinglish with my parents lol. My mom sometimes refuses to talk to me if I speak completely in English lol. She'd scold "I don't understand, speak in Chinese!" But sometimes, when I have a hard time explaining something in Chinese, my mom will relent and ask me to explain it in English lol. I also know a bit of French, I can't speak it but I can recognize a few French words and phrases. It's what remains of me taking French from Grade 3-12....XD Which......isn't much lol.

Yeah I've grown up in this city like all my life. While its not as busy as say Toronto is (because that's just "city never sleeps" kind of city), my city has its own kind of busyness I guess. Not that I've ever really participated in said busyness lol.

I knoooooooow, I didn't think much of it at first, I just thought "Oh, a guy is touching my face.......?" and it was just a light touch but I didn't mind it. Even AFTER I found out, I was like "Ohhh so that's how it was....." but like I wasn't disgusted nor did I feel like cringing or recoiling back.....XD it was just.....a surprise? XD
I dunno, maybe she assumed I knew? At the very least, she probably assumed that I knew she was a girl, when in truth, I was an idiot and had no idea lol. Slow on the uptake and all. It was only after I saw her Facebook that I found out lollll. So it wasn't something she....advertised? She wasn't hiding it but she also wasn't telling everyone about it.

Yeah, tempura lotus root is a bit rarer, at least from what I've seen in restaurants here. Dunno how its like officially, in Japan......XD but I think lotus root would be tad more expensive than cheaper options like sweet potato, yam, taro and zucchini. As you might expect as an Asian person, I eat rice a loooooot. Like......practically every day for dinner. XD The unagi/eel used in Japanese cuisine is mainly cooked so its perfectly safe, safer than all those raw fish options lol. Also, a lot of the time, its doused in teriyaki sauce which is YUM. My mom loves soft-shelled crab sushi. LOL that shrimp sounds disturbing. XD When I eat shrimp (which is rare, I don't really like shrimp all that much lol), its mainly without the heads.....or I automatically yank the heads off lol.

YEAH I WAS LIKE WAIT WRONG NAME. But yeah Piers ANTHONY, he writes a lot of pun-filled novels as part of his Xanth series. It's really really funny......XD I know Mercedes Lackey has another series......an enchanted, kinda fairy-tale series, which I also liked. Like......"The Fairy Godmother" which is, I think, the first book in her.......*looks it up* in her "Five Hundred Kingdoms" series. They're mainly like.....casual rewrites of fairy tales. I liked that series too. But the main series I read from Lackey is her Valdemar series....and I've read a bit of her Elemental Masters series as well.
LOL buy but not read. Don't I know it lol. I have a few of those as well lol.
I heard that the Artemis Fowl movie was a major flop. I don't know if it was done by Nick? All I know was that it released during COVID and it was aired on Disney Plus.

LOL yeah for me though, if a book gets too boring, I skip to the end. XD if the end is good, maybe MAYBE, I'll continue reading it lol. I haven't gone to a library in SO LONG. The closest library here is at LEAST a 15-20 min walk lol.

Ohhh is that right? I didn't know. But I really REALLY hope I can get a custom pet. Which means I'll have to save. Which also means I have to GRIND for potatoes. UGH. I'mma get that hair custom when I save up enough. I really like it!
Yeah this month's items are nice. I've already gotten the set, although like you, I also got 5 of one item........:/ RIP us. Still, I was able to get everything in the end.

I want to learn to sew someday so I can make my own dog bandanas lol! Maybe start a side business for it looool. I keep buying my dogs bandanas lol. The thing is, it's easy to buy Annie bandanas, but to not get super girly ones is hard for Viktor. Like I want spring/summer ones and they are usually floral. He's got some floral ones that are fine, but with Annie I pick the cutest ones lol.

Right? I freaked the effe out when I realized I almost put my FACE in that. I totally did yard work after work on monday and put my face in a ton of spider webs...luckily none were home.

All wars are pointless. I'm just glad I don't live in the fantasy novels I read cuz war over everything in some of them. Like just imagine if real world was like that. There would be so many pointless deaths all the time. Like I don't remember what one I read but this person is like "he insulted me" and went to war. lol.

LOL I probably wouldn't be able to tell the differences if I heard the two (same as when I went to the indian wedding because I knew one place they were speaking hindi and at the reception it was a different one but I don't know enough to differentiate it, just the general "that's an Indian language") LOL YOUR MOM I don't blame her for that. I wish I was a bilingual household. We didn't get a language option until high school and we had French and Spanish. I was forced to take Spanish by my mom. I hated it. I wish we had more options. The french teacher retired and they only had spanish as an option. I have a friend online who is from...I don't know which french province in canada, but then she moved to an english speaking one and she told me she watches french (as in France) shows and she has a hard time following without subtitles because canadian french and france french are different. Kind of like American English and British English are different I guess?

Sounds like the suburb my sister used to live in when she was married. She lived in a suburb outside of Chicago. Like her neighborhood was quiet, but if you go down the road you hit busyness with cars and shopping centers. It was crazy to me who lived in the middle of nowhere.

OH I MISSED THE PART YOU THOUGHT IT WAS A GUY AT FIRST! Like if a guy randomly touched my face I'd be like wtf dude? why? probably get my spidey senses all tingling.
I would totally be oblivious to that fact. Like each to their own? I really don't care how people dress or want to identify as as long as they are happy. It's not like you were treating her any different because of the way she dressed so maybe that's why she wasn't mentioning it?

Oh I don't have any japanese restaurants around here really. Like on hibachi restaurant in the area. We have chinese buffets tho, but those are dwindling in number the past 10 or so years. gosh I could go for some tempura. Maybe I'll make my own I do have everything and the batter is super simple (it's like egg some flour, and water then dipped in some panko) Yeah I was going to say I think the unagi I had was marinated in teriyaki. YEAH MOST SHRIMP OVER HERE IS NORMAL and in japan without the heads. Japan still had the tail attached to their shrimp when I got it. This one tho that I had at the inn. It was served raw, but not cut. Not sure what it was really called tbh in the terms of how I ate it.

Ah maybe the five hundred kingdoms is the one I think is romance? the covers look like romance to me lol.
Maybe it was a reboot of the movie. Maybe it was disney and I'm thinking of another movie. I know Percy Jackson series was done my nick and it sucked soooo hard. I heard that they are remaking the series as a tv series from another company so who knows.

Omg no I can't do that. I just set the book down for months on end until I get motivated to finish it.
Yeah if I walk to the library it's like 40 minutes lol. I mean I've done it before to the general area it was in, but it's always closed when I'm available to go.

GOSH I still have no motivations to do quests and I have no potatoes lol. I should really get on that cuz I still got other things I want.
Still waiting to get the ornate boots. I put in offers 3-4 times and got declined each yesterday and no one has offered on my lot yet sooo. I keep remaking it to get it near the top. sigh.

That would be cool, I would like to learn how to sew too. Too bad my sister probably wouldn't have the patience to teach me lol.

Goddddddddd, I'd be like squealing like a pig and running around like a headless chicken.......XD

LOL yeaaah especially some Chinese light novels, they're all about face slapping their enemies and then they just casually destroy an entire sect because of some slight to them lol. Fiction like that.........should stay fiction........8U

I'm pretty sure I can recognize different types of Asian languages, like I can usually tell when someone is speaking Japanese, Korean, Cantonese, Mandarin and like....Vietnamese? Yeah my mom is pretty strict with our upbringing when it came to that lol. And learning French for us is compulsory until around high school.....at least when I was in school, it was compulsory to learn French, after all, we have Francophones here. My middle school had electives and one of them was Spanish, so I learned a bit of Spanish for like a few weeks or so and my French teacher (who was also my Spanish teacher lol) would get mad when my French sounded like Spanish or vice versa. Nonetheless, I don't remember much French nowadays lol. And there's only like ONE "French province" here and that would be Quebec. But I have heard that Quebecois (which means any person living in Quebec OR it can also refer to Quebec French) is different from France French lol.

Yeah I'm considered living in a major city in Canada but its still pretty burb-y lol. At least, I live in a semi-quiet area and apart from some noisy neighbors, dogs and the train that goes by twice an hour or so, it's quiet-ish.

Well.....I dunno like.........she looked like a he but at the same time, I didn't feel threatened by it? Maybe I subconsciously knew she was alright and she did touch me out of nowhere and it was only a light brush and it wasn't like it lingered or anything. And, apart from anime being something we had in common, we also spoke the same language (both Cantonese) so I felt safer. XD Like.....I hate sound racist but if I had to choose a partner, I'd choose someone who spoke Chinese. Because living all your life with people who speak Chinese, if you start living with someone who wasn't, its like.....there's something missing?
Maybe? I dunno, I treated her pretty normal. And I thought she looked cool in her hanfu robes and everything like something out of a wuxia film lol. She even had her hair up in a bun and stuff. Like, even on a normal day, her hair was done up like she was in a historical Chinese film lol.

Ohhhhhh yeah we have like.........an influx of Asian inspired restaurants, whether they be Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Thai, Vietnamese......you name it, we probably have it lol.
Yeah most unagi I've ever eaten in Japanese restaurants are marinated in teriyaki...like its the only way it can be eaten or something loooooool. I think I've seen raw-ish shrimp before but I don't remember if I ate it or not.

Yeah the covers for the Five Hundred Kingdoms are pretty pastelly and soft so they look very romantic like. Anyways, if you remember what the one you had was called, let me know lol.
A reboot of Artemis Fowl? I don't think so lol. Only that movie was created and it was released like last year. It's been in production/someone has been trying and failing to get that movie off the ground. Like, I was still reading the series and it was still coming out when there was tentative news that someone wanted to make a movie with Artemis Fowl. That was like.....maaaaaaybe 2 decades ago lol. It took 2 decades for it to FINALLY be created.......and then it became a flop lol. I didn't know Percy Jackson got turned into a series? I mean........I think I remember a movie but that's it lol.

You don't know how many times I've done that lol. Just start a book, can't finish it and skip to the end. XD
Yeah my closest library is like.......20mins away at least and its also the local community center with a rink and swimming pool and gym with a splash pad outside.

I only have enough motivation to do my daily bonus stuff and theatre lol. So most of my potatoes come from completing daily bonus stuff and the few npc quests I do.
I hope you can find the boots!