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21st of Nov. 2020: *checks watch* nope still not dead!

But wow man this place sure is a shadow of its former self *whistles*

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20th of Nov. 2016: I'm not dead!

I'm doing OK, working and dealing with my mental health as well as I can. I won't be back here, though. I've started creating content for The Sims 3. As for anime, I've left it behind mostly.

If any of my old friends end up reading this - the years together have been great, and I still get nostalgic about them sometimes. Hope life is treating you well!~

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8th of Nov. 2015: For anyone wondering what's happened to me

Simply put, I grew distant from TheO. The fine folks here have nothing to do with it, you all are still amazing (and I feel awful for missing so many birthdays >_<). Tagging on Minitokyo took up a lot of my time, and I gradually found myself visiting TheO less and less, until it got to literally months between visits. Hell, I don't even think I can remember my password, thank God Firefox has the option to save them.

I'm also not that interested in anime anymore - I mean, I like the style and still add to my collection of eye candy, but I don't feel the need to keep up with new releases. I've got my gigs of old manga and am pretty much satisfied with that. Art-wise, the same: haven't felt the drive to pick up or finish a work in months, probably as a result of my passion for anime fizzling out. I'm still playing The Sims 3, and have picked up Doom too (love them custom WADs!).

Anyway, if you made it this far, thanks for the visit. Drop me a line on Minitokyo if you feel like it.
Hope all is well with you, and a huge thanks for the support. Take care.

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Quick update: uni drama, life in general

Hey guys, sorry for the lack of updates lately. I haven't even updated the manga challenge I set for myself - I haven't read anything new either, though, just re-reading old favorites now and then. Lately I feel like I can't focus on anything unless it's for uni and, well, I probably shouldn't since I still have the theses to write, but that can get tiring. Sometimes I feel like time's going by so freaking fast, it's like not even two days pass for me after I reply to someone's message but I realize it's actually been 4-5 days when I look at the time! Time's the same for everyone but, yeah, sometimes I feel like I get less of it XD

So what I do to relax is play Wolfenstein 3D, Quake or Sims (which has been crashing so often it's become a source of stress instead, yay). Not even opening Photoshop, save for editing scans of courses and texts for seminars. I'll have to read some tutorials to get back on track after all this is over XD But I still visit TheO fairly often and read posts and I'm really enjoying the high quality wallpapers that have been posted lately!

Aside from that, I've had a serious argument with a few friends from uni. Don't know if I've mentioned it before, but one of them left for Holland last year on a 6-month scholarship and, naturally, we had to adjust in order to fill that gap in our group. When she returned, well, she kept saying that she made lots of friends there, loved it more over there and that she felt "trapped" here. Things had been pretty shaky since then, but it all blew up about a week ago, and all because of a trivial reason (she misinterpreted a reaction of mine that wasn't aimed at her anyway). Thankfully, it didn't get too nasty (we're still kind of civilized), but she refused to talk it over in person and settled for the internet ._. There're lots of background details I won't go into since I don't want to appear overly subjective, but her behavior left me speechless at first because I couldn't understand her and, honestly, expected more of her and considered her more mature.

Bottom line is the big group was split in two; my group has two more other people whom, frankly, I consider awesome and whom I'd love to keep in touch with after uni. The others...not to much. And it hurt a bit when this girl said she wasn't interested for "a shoulder to cry on" and just wanted "someone to have fun with"...after complaining that we weren't paying enough attention to her ._.
The drama was kind of fun to observe, though XD And a fitting example of this:
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50 Manga Series Challenge (2013 edition)

I was inspired by the many folk here who decided to challenge themselves by reading so many books in 2013, but added my own little twist to it since I won't be able to read many books this year (though I've already finished one *cough*). I'm aimin...

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Thank youuu~

Thank you very much for the birthday wishes, you guys made my day~ ^__^ Sorry to say I haven't finished replying to them yet, but that's prolly 'cause I've been going to bed at 2 a.m. every day since Friday "thanks" to a project that's waaay overdue (psht, doing things on time is for uncool people ;____;) I love all the gifts I got, and I promise to thank each and every one of you properly as soon as I can get more than 5 minutes of breathing time c:

Warning: Fringe fanaticism and rant ahead (spoiler-free)
Oh, and Fringe ended. Holy crap thanks for making me curse, laugh, frown in confusion and bawl my eyes out all in the span of 43 minutes. The water works were used to their full potential that day.

So, overall, the day was like this:
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It's my birthday! But Fringe ended! But people are saying Happy birthday! But no more Saturday night Fringe! (I downloaded it and watched it on Saturday) And I've got two projects to do and a shitload of exams to study for! But I wanna rewatch Fringe! ;______; And it's still my birthday!

Oh hell, I got two people to love this show and I swear I'm gonna bag another one after exams and rewatch this wonderful creation again.

Edit: HOLY CRAP THERE'S A FRINGE CATEGORY ON THEO.

Hiatus notice (seen coming a mile away)

You all knew it had to happen. It was inevitable, so all that was left for me to do was go online and announce it XP I'm afraid I don't know when I'll be able to come here, so I'm leaving this notice in case you don't see or hear anything from me for months (I'll try to reply to messages and comments ASAP, though). I'm busy with uni most of the time, and when I get home I have a tiny hour to relieve some of the stress by playing Sims 3, then it's off to bed. Art projects are on indefinite hold as well, I don't feel inspired to work on anything ATM and if I started something new I'd probably delete my entire WIP folder out of frustration by the end of the day XD

On the plus side, I've been working on my thesis on American film posters in 2000-2012; I'm currently writing about Horror films and I'm having a lot of fun with it! Though I don't know how others can write whole sections, one day I'm working on one section and the next I put it aside and start another one XD I've set the rule of writing one page per day so I'll be done in about two months, give or take a few days (I have to write around 60 pages in total, though by the looks of it I'll end up writing more XD) Depending on how much nausea the sight of it gives me after finishing it, I may translate it into English too (I hate struggling with translating certain terms, the whole thing is gonna be full of italics and quotation marks anyway~).

So what have you all been up to? Any theses, projects or other school-related woes in your lives?

P.S. Fringe is ending next week. The feels. *cries*

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