kalloway: (Xmas Ornaments 6 Golden)
Kalloway ([personal profile] kalloway) wrote2025-12-14 01:07 am
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Also, The Mangar.

Taking a brief break from building RG Exia to catch up on other things and eat... And I was randomly reminded of a community that I saw advertised the other day. No check-ins, except for needing to fill out a form for every single post. No exclusions except for this stuff that actually excludes a lot of people (and is overly vague)... All these formats allowed, except actually works have to be transformative. (I suspect the mods literally don't know what they're saying there?) Anyway, the initial hook was a good one and perhaps I'll steal it as it's certainly not nailed down.

RG Exia is an interesting build so far. Unlike any kit I have built, ever, the starting point is the legs. But this is also my first RG so perhaps it's a line-specific thing?

I realized earlier that I haven't heard my upstairs neighbor in at least a few days. I can't remember the last time I saw his car, either, so I guess he's headed somewhere warmer for the season. He always used to, and then stopped at one point, and now I can't remember what he's done for the last few years. ^^;;

Combination hangar and manger, the Mangar is a silver manger with colorful LED lights and model Acerby decorating a little Christmas tree while model 00 Gundam attempts to untangle some garland.


I'm working on The Mangar again this year. I've finally got it (mostly) de-mossed and painted, and mounted the first set of little LED lights I found. There is a ways to go, but that's fine.
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Kalloway ([personal profile] kalloway) wrote2025-12-13 08:35 am

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What an incredibly busy week! The year end slide is absolutely in full force. But I have gotten things ordered, gotten things sent, etc.

Yesterday was a day of shoveling the 'rents out a bit, mailing packages, ordering a holiday pie, and picking up my first 3D printed request from the library. It will need some trimming (okay a lot of trimming!) before I even know if it'll work, but it's a conversion head for an HG GINN, to make it into Elijah's GINN. I did in fact tell boycritter that we needed to run to the bookie joint so I could get a little head. It was also their book sale weekend and I ended up with a couple of books, a few CDs, and a half-sized binder of clear-pages that will work great for model decal storage.

The weather was awful midweek. Just absolute snowpocalypse for a couple of days, and the worst was that it warmed up and then the temperature dropped like a rock, so everything is now frozen hell. It's supposed to warm up again next week but idk how much that'll help. I think I burned a lot of my ability to can just driving from place to place. (Also did some untoward things to my shoulders while working under the dash of an old Mustang.)

Really the only interesting thing from my week was a small brightly colored tank, lol. I did have a couple more of my Black Friday purchases finally roll in and I think I've officially crossed the space-to-store-stuff rubicon. ^^; Time to get building.

Also time to catch up on my inbox.
anneapocalypse: Ariane Clairière, an Elezen Warrior of Light with light skin, green eyes, and dark blonde hair. (ffxiv ariane departure)
Anne ([personal profile] anneapocalypse) wrote2025-12-12 09:47 am

[FFXIV Fic] Harsh Light, Chapter 3: Strong Art Thou, Mortal

Fandom: Final Fantasy XIV
Rating: Mature
Archive Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Haurchefant Greystone/Warrior of Light, Alphinaud Leveilleur & Warrior of Light, Unrequited Minfilia Warde/Warrior of Light, Unrequited Aymeric de Borel/Warrior of Light, Pre-Urianger Augurelt/Warrior of Light, Alisaie Leveilleur & Warrior of Light, Warrior of Light & Thancred Waters, Y'shtola Rhul & Warrior of Light, Midgardsormr & Warrior of Light, Hydaelyn & Warrior of Light, Urianger Augurelt & Warrior of Light, Minfilia Warde & Warrior of Light, Ardbert & Warrior of Light
Characters: Warrior of Light, Haurchefant Greystone, Alphinaud Leveilleur, Urianger Augurelt, Y'shtola Rhul, Thancred Waters, Emmanellain de Fortemps, Artoirel de Fortemps, Edmont de Fortemps, Alisaie Leveilleur, Minfilia Warde, Midgardsormr (Final Fantasy XIV), Tataru Taru, Ardbert (Final Fantasy XIV), Warriors of Darkness (Final Fantasy XIV), Scions of the Seventh Dawn, Unukalhai (Final Fantasy XIV)
Additional Tags: Grief/Mourning, Survivor Guilt, Elezen Warrior of Light, Female Warrior of Light, Healer Warrior of Ligh, Angst, Suicidal Thoughts, Religious Angst, Depression, Patch 3.0: Heavensward Spoilers (Final Fantasy XIV), Patch 3.4: Soul Surrender Spoilers (Final Fantasy XIV), Canon-Typical Violence
Series: With Lilies and With Laurel
Length: 14,010 / 82,000
Chapter: 3/15

Summary:

A heartbroken Warrior of Light struggles to come to terms with loss, and the world she has been left to save.

Notes:

If you're new here, please start with Chapter 1!

Final Fantasy XIV is owned by Square Enix. This is a non-commercial work of fanfiction.

( Read on AO3 )

...or below! )

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Kalloway ([personal profile] kalloway) wrote2025-12-10 07:44 am
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Tanks A Lot

It looks like I forgot to mention acquiring a pair of tanks from M at comic-con. (Wait no, I did, it's just buried in commentary, whoops.) They're 1/144 scale and were priced right (as in, I would have paid but didn't have to) and I finally got one built and painted with some paint markers I was trying out.

Because I am silly, and the best thing to do with German WWII tanks is be silly, here is Astray Blue Frame 2nd with a tank:

Blue white and orange model of Gundam Astray Blue Frame Second, a humanoid piloted robot, kneeling beside a matching model tank on a green cutting board.

Blue white and orange model of Gundam Astray Blue Frame Second holding the matching model tank in its hands as if she is offering it to the viewer.

The tank itself needs a bit of glue at some point to not fall apart at the tiniest of movements or drafts, along with a tiny hand-painted snake-mark, but overall it passes the two-foot test and I am pleased. (Blue Frame also needs a bit more work but I misplaced her decals and have gotten varying degrees of annoyed at her color-correction. I'll get there.)
anneapocalypse: Ariane Clairière, an Elezen Warrior of Light with light skin, green eyes, and dark blonde hair. (ffxiv ariane departure)
Anne ([personal profile] anneapocalypse) wrote2024-08-24 12:50 pm

[FFXIV Fic] Of the Depths

Fandom: Final Fantasy XIV
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Fear of Drowning
Relationships: Urianger Augurelt/Warrior of Light, Urianger Augurelt & Moenbryda Wilfsunnwyn
Characters: Urianger Augurelt, Warrior of Light
Additional Tags: Patch 7.0: Dawntrail Spoilers, Beaches, Memories, POV Urianger Augurelt, Backstory, Trust, Fear of Drowning, Introspection, Established Relationship, Patch 5.0: Shadowbringers Spoilers, Wolianger Week 2024
Series: With Lilies and with Laurel
Length: 1278
Chapter: 1/1

Summary:

During a quiet morning on the beach, Urianger reflects.

Notes:

Written for Wolianger Week 2024! I only recently realized I neglected to crosspost this fic, so I am remedying that now (Dec 2025). Backdated for archival purposes.

This is a work of fiction created for entertainment purposes and is not intended to be instructional with regard to relationships, mental health, overseas travel, learning to swim, or anything else.

Final Fantasy XIV is owned by Square Enix. This is a non-commercial work of fanfiction.

( Read on AO3 ) or below! )


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kalloway: a rainbow of christmas lights (Xmas Lights 1 Rainbow)
Kalloway ([personal profile] kalloway) wrote2025-12-06 07:18 pm

Media Roundup, Accidental Advent All-in-One Again

From Far Away 1-14 (Kyoko Hikawa) - for a beautifully-drawn shoujo manga with an interesting plot, this was such a slog that I am absolutely baffled. Like, I have bounced off this multiple times and basically made it through this attempt by skimming towards the end. Absolutely should have been my thing, absolutely was not. Base plot is isekai/portal fantasy, schoolgirl in a world with a bit of magic with a strong romance and good supporting cast.

"Gaiking" - the Force Five version of the series, presented on five DVD-Rs that I picked up many years ago. Despite this being an incomplete version of an already-shaved series, it wasn't difficult to follow and was pretty enjoyable. Had a 'movie version' added at the end.

RahXephon - complete series + movie. This is one of those "I will need to watch this again to fully follow wtf just happened" pseudo-mecha anime from the earlier part of the century. I liked it, and I liked the cast for the most part, though every now and then it felt like it was trying to go the harem route for no reason. I have a full DVD set with all the beautiful liner notes but I apparently also picked up a thin Blu-ray set at some point...

So, From Far Away can go, Gaiking and the thin RahXephon set can stay. Technically I guess this is a 50/50?

Anyway, even though we're into Actual Advent territory, I'm just gonna keep going and probably all through next year?
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jjhunter ([personal profile] jjhunter) wrote2025-12-06 08:25 pm

Poem: "Portrait of the Artist Feeling Liminal"

The pearl at my ear is a lacquered grey seed
My lips strong red from wind's chaffing
I do not feel my middle age as any lessening
Here I am, a portrait of myself more vividly

Among old oaks I am still a hot young thing
Mind like a swallow sketching possibility on the wing
They say uncertainty ferments fear
I feel the old familiar thrill of stepping out of known into becoming

___
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Kalloway ([personal profile] kalloway) wrote2025-12-06 02:53 am

Greetings

I've done another bit of security-pruning and circle adjustment. Occasionally I just unfollow/un-access accounts that haven't posted for a rather long time. And I saw a few folks that are active again, so re-followed. ^_^ This is also a reminder that you can unfollow/etc. me for any reason and I won't take it personally.

I posted up a [community profile] holiday_wishes post over here. The most important bits are to tell me what to work on with my website and also send me Gundams, lol. I'm still granting all the wishes I can. This is such a fun time of year.

If you're in the USA (sorry, int'l shipping sucks), you can have some of my stuff over here. I really should make these posts more often as I spelunk.

I need to go through my communities and make/add some sort of No AI guideline to each. I just pulled a drabble from a community because they're allowing AI slop to be posted. It's now crossposted to my spaces and deleted from theirs. I'd always meant to create more for that community but that sure isn't happening now.
anneapocalypse: Ariane Clairière, an Elezen Warrior of Light with light skin, green eyes, and dark blonde hair. (ffxiv ariane departure)
Anne ([personal profile] anneapocalypse) wrote2025-12-05 12:06 pm

[Music] "Shipping" by the Terrordactyls (and it's Bandcamp Friday!)

I'm posting a musical interlude on top of fic today because it's Bandcamp Friday! If you buy an album from Bandcamp today, the full price of your purchase goes to the artist. If you like having physical media, like me, you can order a CD (and have a digital download available immediately), but you can also just buy an album digitally, or buy individual tracks.

The Terrordactyls' self-titled album is available in either format, if you like the song!

anneapocalypse: Ariane Clairiere, a wildwood elezen FFXIV character. (ffxiv ariane crystarium suite)
Anne ([personal profile] anneapocalypse) wrote2025-12-05 09:44 am

[FFXIV Fic] Gentle Dark, Chapter 2: I Would Speak of Fate

Fandom: Final Fantasy XIV
Rating: Mature
Archive Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Urianger Augurelt/Moenbryda Wilfsunnwyn, Urianger Augurelt & Moenbryda Wilfsunnwyn, Ardbert & Urianger Augurelt, Unrealized Ardbert/Urianger Augurelt, Pre-Urianger Augurelt/Warrior of Light
Characters: Urianger Augurelt, Moenbryda Wilfsunnwyn, Ardbert Hylfyst, Elidibus, Unukalhai, Tataru Taru, Minfilia Warde, Warrior of Light, Dewlala Dewla, Y'shtola Rhul, Yugiri Mistwalker, Thancred Waters, J'Rhoomale, Blanhaerz, Lamimi, Naillebert, Haneko Burneko
Additional Tags: Grief/Mourning, Angst, Religion, Isolation, Loneliness, Patch 3.4: Soul Surrender Spoilers (Final Fantasy XIV), Elezen Warrior of Light, Female Warrior of Light, Canon-Typical Violence, Guilt, Emotional Repression, Child Neglect, Childhood Memories, Unresolved Sexual Tension
Series: With Lilies and With Laurel
Length: 9,043 / 92,000
Chapter: 2/15

Summary:

Heartbroken after the loss of his dearest companion, Urianger labors to save two worlds in which he has never felt more alone.

Notes:

If you're new here, please start with Chapter 1!

Final Fantasy XIV is owned by Square Enix. This is a non-commercial work of fanfiction.

( Read on AO3 )

...or below! )


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cinaed ([personal profile] cinaed) wrote2025-12-02 06:58 am
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November 2025 Monthly Media

  • * = Rewatch/reread

    Anime/Cartoons

    • Bob’s Burgers 16.05-16.06
    • Hazbin Hotel 2.01-2.08
    • The Mighty Nein 1.01-1.04

    Books/Short Stories

    • Bandits and Breadknives by Travis Baldree
    • The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley 
    • Gothic Tales by Elizabeth Gaskell
    • Take Me With You by Andrea Gibson 
    • Breaking the Dark by Lisa Jewell 
    • The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez
    • Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky 
    • The Incandescent by Emily Tesh

    Manga/Comics/Light Novels

    • Oglaf (ongoing webcomic)
    • Order of the Stick (ongoing webcomic)
    • Wilde Life (ongoing webcomic)

    Movies/Documentaries

    • Double Indemnity (1944)
    • Rear Window (1954)* 

    Theater/Concerts

    • Hadestown (National Theater)
    • Some Like It Hot (National Theater)

    TV Shows/Web Series

    • Abbott Elementary 5.01-5.06
    • Critical Role 4.01-4.07
    • Survivor 49.07-49.10 

    Video Games/Board Games

    • The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles