Space Vixen's Log

Stardate 2024.09.26

Don't mind me, I'm just gonna use some cartoony gifs to vicariously experience what it's like having a nice juicy jiggly ass for a change during this month's blog entry.

I can feel it.

I can feel the crushing weight of summer finally lifting its burdensome bulk from my shoulders, and I feel the tingling energy of the solstice welling up from deep inside. The superior part of the year is finally fast approaching, and I can already taste my power levels rising, elevating my mood along with it.

In case that didn't make it readily apparent, things have really gone uphill for me since all these previous sad sack entries! Work has finally settled the hell down, allowing me to kick back and slack off while on the clock and do such productive things as watch classic movies I've somehow never seen and doodle some new post-it pinups and comic panels again. I'm extremely fucking lucky to have a decent-paying job with such a chill boss who is basically never on-site, and I don't take that for granted. I'm a professional slacker! You can bet your ass I'm only goofin' on the job when you know I can get away with it!

Speaking of slacking off, I've actually been super hard at work on the final track for Bimbo In Limbo, and it's really shaping up nicely. Considering it's already about 10 minutes in length (possibly longer by the time it's finished!), it's the longest, most convoluted thing I've ever tried to create, and I want it to be as good as I can possibly make it, which is why it's taking so goddamn long. But you know who IS slacking off? That cover artist I commissioned, who seems to have dropped off the face of the planet. In all honestly, I hope they're alright, but seriously, it's been like a month and a half since I've gotten any correspondence, so I'm gearing up to bite the bullet and shop around for a new artist.

Pretend I'm not here, just keep reading.

Well, aside from that, in other music news, I've been kicking around the idea of expanding the Reviews section (yes, again) to also include music reviews for some of my favorite albums. Much like the existing Reviews, it wouldn't be an exhaustive retrospective of everything I listen to (oh god, could you even imagine how fucking LONG that would take?!), just a sort of "highlights" section for my all-time personal picks with a little write-up lavishing them with various praises, insisting why readers should check them out. Much like with the "game reviews" and "movie reviews" ideas I had before, I'm thoroughly undecided on whether I'll pursue this or not, but it's been on my mind. In the meantime, I'll just keep scattering random links to songs in the text of the blog entries that I'm sure no one bothers to ever click on!

On that note, Reviews have been chugging along as usual. I've all but wiped out my slate of current shows to review (still need to make time for a proper Girls Band Cry review...), so I've been gearing up for my next big rewatch. When revisiting a show I know I loved but haven't watched in a long time, I have to steel myself with the knowledge that it's going to inevitably end up being one HELL of a write-up. I probably shouldn't spoil the surprise, but let's just say the next one in the queue is extremely gender, and rewatching this show has deeply reignited my appreciation for it, to the point that I would not hesitate to now call it one of the goddamn coolest cartoons to ever exist.

And as usual, I've also been combing back through the old Reviews and slowly but surely re-optimizing the gifs to help stabilize page load times. I know, I could just replace them with static HD screenshots like all the other Big Review Sites use, but come on. I fucking love gifs way too much to NOT use them!

Nothing to see here, move along.

There's also one other major, long-overdue fundamental site-wide change I finally got around to implementing. All this time, I've been copy-pasting the code I used to create the sidebars to every single new page of the site. I should have done this a long time ago, but I finally forced myself to learn how to make them into standalone HTML files with modular iframes instead of hard-coding them on every page as table cells. I was a fool to wait this long to do this, because now I have to manually fix a few hundred pages, but on the plus side, the navigation buttons will finally stop breaking every time I create a new sub-page, and it also allows the "Now Watching" section to be made into clickable links that will correctly update site-wide any time I start something new! Nice!

Additionally, with the unexpected closure of Cohost coming later this year, Musk continuing to shit the Twitter bed, and my Tumblr queue slowly drying up, I'm working myself back down to having only ONE Social Media site to keep tabs on, which means I'll likely end up channeling even more time into THIS site, just like I said I would back at the start of the year. I've also been joining the ranks of Cohost refugees in a sort of collective here on Neocities, which means I'm joining webrings and various communities of like-minded folks vying to bring back the era of the personal website! I'm betting this is gonna make the next few years pretty damn interesting around here!

...which also means I really need to get off my ass and start shaping up the Links page like I keep saying I will, especially now that people are bringing back 88 x 31 site buttons and such. Sigh, no rest for the sexy.

This is more for me than it is for you.

Anyway, before I sign off, I gotta tell you about some meatspace stuff. My partner and I are chomping at the bit for a local Garlic Festival this weekend, which promises to be a wild food adventure. In addition to delicious-sounding hot food truck food like empanadas and curry, there's also an infamous vendor who apparently makes garlic ice cream, which sounds like one of those awful novelty gimmicks you just have to try once in your life to say you did. It's an hour away from where we live, so we'll likely be drop-dead tired afterward, but I'm thinking it'll be a worthwhile pilgrimage!

I also took a peek at the upcoming Fall 2024 anime lineup and there's a lot that looks appealing this season. I have a hard rule about loading up on too many new series at a time, and I also tried to mix it up genre-wise to keep things fresh, but let's just say that Dandadan (my fingers really wanted to type it as "Dana Dan") isn't the only one that caught my eye. Here's hoping this season is more consistently interesting than my Summer picks turned out to be.

Oh yeah, and I also decided (against my better judgement?) to go back and give Love Death + Robots another chance. I got about halfway through the first season and tapped out a few years ago because it just didn't live up to the hype. Every episode felt like it had the same exact twist ending and relied too much on shock violence to carry what would otherwise have made an extremely cool and stylized animated spectacle. But alas, I hate leaving shows unfinished, so I'm giving it the benefit of the doubt and keeping my eyes peeled for the better episodes.

Also really wasn't keen on the constant kinda jingoistic depictions of the military across multiple episodes. The fucking middle eastern werewolves one in particular was super tone deaf. I'd really like more shows to decouple their science fiction from the military - you CAN write good sci-fi without it being military or government-based - but as you can tell from the lack of commas in the show's title, it's not about "Love, Death, and Robots", it's a show that Loves "Death and Robots".

Alright, that's more than enough rigmarole for this month's entry. I've got lots of important big girl business matters to attend to, all of which most definitely do not involve making more gifs of jiggly butts or playing Nier: Automata or posting out of context clips from the 1985 reboot of The Twilight Zone over on Bluesky. Never you fear, there will of course be plenty more words posted on this site again in the Nier future.

Stay sexy, you beautiful space cadets!

Uh, yeah, I'm probably gonna be at this for a while. You go on, I'll catch up with you again later!