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yerboypetro) wrote2026-04-19 09:08 pm
yerboypetro) wrote2026-04-19 09:08 pm(no subject)
Oh, it has been a while since.
I wonder if the third-party app still works. Look forward to finding out because I love having a little connected program where I can draft stuff and junk.
Should probably go through the website but I know what I'm about.
I wonder if the third-party app still works. Look forward to finding out because I love having a little connected program where I can draft stuff and junk.
Should probably go through the website but I know what I'm about.
courtney (sonofgodzilla) wrote2026-04-19 05:31 pm
sonofgodzilla) wrote2026-04-19 05:31 pm
Entry tags:
One River Analogy, Used Often
I think that I would like to do a flash prompt event during ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
3weeks4dreamwidth. Now watch as I eventually start planning to do this, and then, when the time comes, refuse to tag it so it turns up on the feed. This is another step in my attempting to do things because I went to see them happen even though I am very self-conscious about the fact that I look like I have no friends when I do this. Case in point: Chemy Card Spring Silly at precuretokupromp. It's fine! Everything's fine! Don't pity me!
Because I've been kind of bummed out about stuff, I've still thinking about the ebb and flow of these little streams within fandoms I enjoy that eventually run into the sea of just general tokusatsu fandom the greater the distance from their airing becomes. I tried to look elsewhere for engagement with the shows I like, I begged people to introduce me to their friends, I even went looking on ao3, and I still came away mostly empty of hand. On fedi recently,kera posted some thoughts on filing the serial numbers off of fandoms you have put a lot of work into developing beyond the context of the original source material. In fact, her account is a treasure trove of this kind of inspiration, and each time the subject is broached, I think about it as I procrastinate on posting a second big Shiori post in which I continue to argue with Hasegawa Keiichi about the way the world he was hired to write works. What would I even call a Shiori expy, I asked myself recently, and the answer came back too quickly: Kotone Shiori. Because コトネ, Kotone in katakana, would be close to sounding like コートニー (Courtney). Get it? It's funny. I'm obsessed.
I'm not doing this, I just want to say. But if I was, I thought it would be funny. I think that the reason I've been even considering it is that I realise that as those rivers run closer to the sea, I'm going to make myself more miserable expecting conversation when the topic I wish to discuss is considered settled by others. I feel like I make this kind of post frequently when what it comes down to is basically: I'm going to look at making things in another way so I don't get sad.
What else is going on? Not much! I'm reading Abarat at the moment, which, for some reason, is one of the few Clive Barker books I didn't read when it came out. I'm properly watching the adaptation of Miyuki by Adachi Mitsuru, which I have been on-off-again watching since 2013 when I was going through a moment where I really wanted to talk about love triangles and first discovered the series. Because I'm watching the adaptation of Yume Senshi Wingman by Katsura Masakazu (sorry, it's tokusatsu related!) at the same time, and because both shows came out within a year of one another, the dynamics between the love triangles in each show are sort of blurring into one huge love hexagon. I'm also steadily and happily reading a variety of yuri manga in the wild and ignoring Rebecca Silverstein's opinion about them all.
That's it. It's spring. I want to keep making things. I'm still watching lonely, livestreamed ice-skating events on youtube at work. Season 2 of The X-Files is on abema but it's sadly not eligible for catch-up. I'm going to start re-watching Kindred: the Embraced again and you can't stop me.
3weeks4dreamwidth. Now watch as I eventually start planning to do this, and then, when the time comes, refuse to tag it so it turns up on the feed. This is another step in my attempting to do things because I went to see them happen even though I am very self-conscious about the fact that I look like I have no friends when I do this. Case in point: Chemy Card Spring Silly at precuretokupromp. It's fine! Everything's fine! Don't pity me!Because I've been kind of bummed out about stuff, I've still thinking about the ebb and flow of these little streams within fandoms I enjoy that eventually run into the sea of just general tokusatsu fandom the greater the distance from their airing becomes. I tried to look elsewhere for engagement with the shows I like, I begged people to introduce me to their friends, I even went looking on ao3, and I still came away mostly empty of hand. On fedi recently,
kera posted some thoughts on filing the serial numbers off of fandoms you have put a lot of work into developing beyond the context of the original source material. In fact, her account is a treasure trove of this kind of inspiration, and each time the subject is broached, I think about it as I procrastinate on posting a second big Shiori post in which I continue to argue with Hasegawa Keiichi about the way the world he was hired to write works. What would I even call a Shiori expy, I asked myself recently, and the answer came back too quickly: Kotone Shiori. Because コトネ, Kotone in katakana, would be close to sounding like コートニー (Courtney). Get it? It's funny. I'm obsessed.I'm not doing this, I just want to say. But if I was, I thought it would be funny. I think that the reason I've been even considering it is that I realise that as those rivers run closer to the sea, I'm going to make myself more miserable expecting conversation when the topic I wish to discuss is considered settled by others. I feel like I make this kind of post frequently when what it comes down to is basically: I'm going to look at making things in another way so I don't get sad.
What else is going on? Not much! I'm reading Abarat at the moment, which, for some reason, is one of the few Clive Barker books I didn't read when it came out. I'm properly watching the adaptation of Miyuki by Adachi Mitsuru, which I have been on-off-again watching since 2013 when I was going through a moment where I really wanted to talk about love triangles and first discovered the series. Because I'm watching the adaptation of Yume Senshi Wingman by Katsura Masakazu (sorry, it's tokusatsu related!) at the same time, and because both shows came out within a year of one another, the dynamics between the love triangles in each show are sort of blurring into one huge love hexagon. I'm also steadily and happily reading a variety of yuri manga in the wild and ignoring Rebecca Silverstein's opinion about them all.
That's it. It's spring. I want to keep making things. I'm still watching lonely, livestreamed ice-skating events on youtube at work. Season 2 of The X-Files is on abema but it's sadly not eligible for catch-up. I'm going to start re-watching Kindred: the Embraced again and you can't stop me.
courtney (sonofgodzilla) wrote2026-04-17 06:20 pm
sonofgodzilla) wrote2026-04-17 06:20 pmEntry tags:
FIC: Kamen Rider Black, Kamen Rider Geats - Black!! Transformation
Title: Black!! Transformation
Universe: Kamen Rider Black, Kamen Rider Geats
Character(s): Minami Kotaro, "Ukiyo Ace", Joe the Haze, Otohime, Kugimiya Licht, Tsurumi, Girori, General Jark, OCs
Rating: U
Warnings: N/A
Summary: “Congratulations! From this day forth, you are a Kamen Rider.” In the calm of the dark night, with the sound of the fairground attractions in the distance, she had held out a small, plastic box towards him, black and white like her dress, the stylised imprint of a grasshopper encircled at its centre.
Length: 8005 words
Author's Notes: external link.
( Black!! Transformation )
Universe: Kamen Rider Black, Kamen Rider Geats
Character(s): Minami Kotaro, "Ukiyo Ace", Joe the Haze, Otohime, Kugimiya Licht, Tsurumi, Girori, General Jark, OCs
Rating: U
Warnings: N/A
Summary: “Congratulations! From this day forth, you are a Kamen Rider.” In the calm of the dark night, with the sound of the fairground attractions in the distance, she had held out a small, plastic box towards him, black and white like her dress, the stylised imprint of a grasshopper encircled at its centre.
Length: 8005 words
Author's Notes: external link.
( Black!! Transformation )
courtney (sonofgodzilla) wrote2026-04-15 05:28 am
sonofgodzilla) wrote2026-04-15 05:28 am
AKC Courtneyyyyyy Culture Festival #217: Takahashi Ayane
We cannot escape talking about Team 8. With Abe Mei, Okabe Rin, Okubora Chinatsu, Nagano Serika, Fujimura Natsuki, Onishi Momoka, Kuranoo Narumi, Shitao Miu, Cho Kurena, Hamamatsu Riona, Fukuchi Rena, Honda Hitomi, Yokomichi Yuri, the other Yokoyama Yui, Yoshino Miyu, Oda Erina, Oguri Yui, Yoshikawa Nanase, Hayasaka Tsumugi, Hirose Natsuki, Iwasaki Moeka, and Yaguchi Moka, Takahashi Ayane joined AKB48 in 2014!
Along with Yui, Erina, and Nanase, Ayane was one of the first Team 8 members to appear on stage, appearing as a backup dancer in early June for the Team A Renai Kinshi Jourei revival before going to appear with the rest of her new team for PARTY ga Hajumaru yo and the later revival of Aitakatta a year later in 2015. Working as part of Team 8 as they toured Japan throughout 2016, and appearing during her time as a member of the team in Kumamoto, Sapporo, Gunma, Aichi, and Niigata, so the wiki tells me, the first big shake up came in 2017 with the announcement of her concurrent membership in Team 4, then under Takahashi Juri, with Murayama Yuiri announced as the next incoming captain. She stayed in the team for what could be considered a long time in AKB years, surviving three further shuffles until, at last, in 2023, she was moved to Team K, the last shuffle of members before the dissolution of the teams came into effect.
Like Iwatate Saho, Ayane was in the line-up for Lion wo Nerae! Also like Sahho, Ayane is one of those girls who have appeared on a lot of B sides—beginning with Theme 8 theme tune, 47 no Suteki na Machi e on Kokoro no Placard, missing out on appearing on B sides for Bokutachi wa Tatakawanai and Halloween Night, and then returning now and then until Nemohamo Rumor, where she has remained ever since. Your time will come, Ayane! You deserve to be in the senbatsu! I hope stupid posts like this will encourage people to... actually, without the general elections, I have to confess that I have no idea how the senbatsu is picked now. I assume it's all just management making choices based on who they feel is popular. Ah, go to the theatre and shout Ayane's name, I guess, you guys!
Ayane has a really cute look and a new haircut for 2026! She has always insisted that despite how young she looks, despite how her younger sister might now be taller than her, she's the dependable one and that one of her strongest features is that she "don't care about how bad things are" [sic]. I really like that! We definitely need more girls like Ayane! Keep fighting, Ayane! You'll be in the senbatsu soon!
Along with Yui, Erina, and Nanase, Ayane was one of the first Team 8 members to appear on stage, appearing as a backup dancer in early June for the Team A Renai Kinshi Jourei revival before going to appear with the rest of her new team for PARTY ga Hajumaru yo and the later revival of Aitakatta a year later in 2015. Working as part of Team 8 as they toured Japan throughout 2016, and appearing during her time as a member of the team in Kumamoto, Sapporo, Gunma, Aichi, and Niigata, so the wiki tells me, the first big shake up came in 2017 with the announcement of her concurrent membership in Team 4, then under Takahashi Juri, with Murayama Yuiri announced as the next incoming captain. She stayed in the team for what could be considered a long time in AKB years, surviving three further shuffles until, at last, in 2023, she was moved to Team K, the last shuffle of members before the dissolution of the teams came into effect.
Like Iwatate Saho, Ayane was in the line-up for Lion wo Nerae! Also like Sahho, Ayane is one of those girls who have appeared on a lot of B sides—beginning with Theme 8 theme tune, 47 no Suteki na Machi e on Kokoro no Placard, missing out on appearing on B sides for Bokutachi wa Tatakawanai and Halloween Night, and then returning now and then until Nemohamo Rumor, where she has remained ever since. Your time will come, Ayane! You deserve to be in the senbatsu! I hope stupid posts like this will encourage people to... actually, without the general elections, I have to confess that I have no idea how the senbatsu is picked now. I assume it's all just management making choices based on who they feel is popular. Ah, go to the theatre and shout Ayane's name, I guess, you guys!
Ayane has a really cute look and a new haircut for 2026! She has always insisted that despite how young she looks, despite how her younger sister might now be taller than her, she's the dependable one and that one of her strongest features is that she "don't care about how bad things are" [sic]. I really like that! We definitely need more girls like Ayane! Keep fighting, Ayane! You'll be in the senbatsu soon!
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denise) wrote in dw_maintenance2026-04-11 11:58 pmThe case of the missing notifications
I keep forgetting to post about this: we've been troubleshooting the "missing notifications" problem for the past few days. (Well, I say "we", really I mean Mark and Robby; I'm just the amanuensis.) It's been one of those annoying loops of "find a logical explanation for what could be causing the problem, fix that thing, observe that the problem gets better for some people but doesn't go away completely, go back to step one and start again", sigh.
Mark is hauling out the heavy debugging ordinance to try to find the root cause. Once he's done building all the extra logging tools he needs, he'll comment to this entry. After he does, if you find a comment that should have gone to your inbox and sent an email notification but didn't, leave him a link to the comment that should have sent the notification, as long as the comment itself was made after Mark says he's collecting them. (I'd wait and post this after he gets the debug code in but I need to go to sleep and he's not sure how long it will take!)
We're sorry about the hassle! Irregular/sporadic issues like this are really hard to troubleshoot because it's impossible to know if they're fixed or if they're just not happening while you're looking. With luck, this will give us enough information to figure out the root cause for real this time.
courtney (sonofgodzilla) wrote2026-04-11 08:55 am
sonofgodzilla) wrote2026-04-11 08:55 am
Entry tags:
FIC: Sekai Ninja Sen Jiraiya - Marianna-sama ga Miteru
Title: Marianna-sama ga Miteru
Universe: Sekai Ninja Sen Jiraiya
Series: Season One | Season Two | Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: The Movie | Ninja Quest (1, 2, 3, 4) | Fourth Down and Long | Stop the Hate Master (1, 2)
Character(s): Yamaji Kei/Murakami Mai
Rating: U
Warnings: N/A
Summary: “St Marianna has a system by which the older girls are expected to take care of the younger girls.”
Length: 1032 words
Author's Notes: external link .
( Marianna-sama ga Miteru )
Universe: Sekai Ninja Sen Jiraiya
Series: Season One | Season Two | Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: The Movie | Ninja Quest (1, 2, 3, 4) | Fourth Down and Long | Stop the Hate Master (1, 2)
Character(s): Yamaji Kei/Murakami Mai
Rating: U
Warnings: N/A
Summary: “St Marianna has a system by which the older girls are expected to take care of the younger girls.”
Length: 1032 words
Author's Notes: external link .
( Marianna-sama ga Miteru )
courtney (sonofgodzilla) wrote2026-04-10 05:24 am
sonofgodzilla) wrote2026-04-10 05:24 amEntry tags:
FIC: Power Rangers Wild Force - Project Red
Title: Project Red
Universe: Power Rangers Wild Force vs Super Sentai
Series: Season One | Season Two | Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: The Movie | Ninja Quest (1, 2, 3, 4) | Fourth Down and Long
Character(s): Cole Evans, Ichikawa Sumino
Rating: U
Warnings: N/A
Summary: The world was so much bigger than he had imagined! All of these people, all of these heroes, and he got to stand alongside each and every one of them!
Length: 661 words
Author's Notes: external link .
( Project Red )
Universe: Power Rangers Wild Force vs Super Sentai
Series: Season One | Season Two | Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: The Movie | Ninja Quest (1, 2, 3, 4) | Fourth Down and Long
Character(s): Cole Evans, Ichikawa Sumino
Rating: U
Warnings: N/A
Summary: The world was so much bigger than he had imagined! All of these people, all of these heroes, and he got to stand alongside each and every one of them!
Length: 661 words
Author's Notes: external link .
( Project Red )
courtney (sonofgodzilla) wrote2026-04-09 05:23 am
sonofgodzilla) wrote2026-04-09 05:23 amAKC Courtneyyyyyy Culture Festival #216: Iwatate Saho
Former Team B captain, Iwatate Saho is the first member up in AKB48's self-cover version, Team AKB Oshi. How does she feel about that? We might never know, but I for one feel kind of awkward about it, not because I haven't been crying about maybe never hearing Team B Oshi performed again, but because the way in which this is happening and the manner in which it has been delivered feels so lacklustre. Being in the eye of the storm, I am inclined to think Sahhoo feels more charitable about it, but here I am trying to clap along and wishing the production of the video and the approach to the song had maybe been just a little better.
Sahho joined as a member of AKB's thirteenth generation in 2011, arriving alongside Aigasa Moe, Mitsumune Kaoru, Murayama Yuiri, Mogi Shinobu, Kitazawa Saki and Okada Ayaka. When she first joined the group, she was 17-years-old, now she's 31 and the last member of her generation still in the group as per Yuiri's graduation last year. In 2013, at Tokyo Dome, she was promoted to Minegishi Team 4 alongside Yuiri, Saki, Shinobu, and Aigasa, and also Shinozaki Ayana, Okada Ayaka, Kojima Mako, Okada Nana, Nishino Miki, and Hashimoto Hikari. I love talking about Team 4, you know this, but the Minegishi and Takahashi incarnations of the team are definitely not my speciality subject, so in many ways I'm learning just as much as I speak to you. I have always known Sahho, I recognise her name often, but I have never really followed her, and now that we are here talking about her and I am conscious of her longstanding presence, I worry that the next time we speak about her it will be in a sentence containing the word "graduation." That, however, is still to come, so let's not worry about it now!
Like Nogizaka's Takayama Kazumi, Sahho was on a Watanabe B side, in this case, Watanabe Miyuki, with the song in question being Harukaze Pianissimo, the theme of the runners-up of the 2014 Janken tournament, all of them having lost to Milky, who very much got the better deal with Yasashiku Suru Yori Kiss wo Shite. Having made it, during various times, to placement in AKB's Upcoming Girls (2014), Future Girls (2016), Next Girls (2017), and Undergirls (2018), Sahho is no stranger to B side appearances, having appeared on the reverse side of every release from Gingham Check (2012) to Kibouteki Refrain (2014), and then every other release almost until Negaigoto no Mochigusare (2017), her place secured from then on and a centre role for Lion wo Nerae! from Kashiwagi Yuki graduation single, Colorcon Wink in 2024.
Sahho is a good person. During the Google+ days, she reached out to a fan who had posted openly about wanting to end his life, and she urged him not to, she talked him down. However way you want to look at interaction on the interaction, Sahho saw someone in distress and she intervened. That makes her a role model in my book. In 2019, she was moved to Team B, and in 2019, she became the captain as Takahashi Juri went to become captain of Team 4. In 2023, she spent a year in Team A before the new system was place and we found ourselves where we are now, with Team B Oshi suddenly resurrected and Sahho as the first member mentioned.
A former classmate of Nogizaka's Nakada Kana, a girl who, as of August of last year, has spent more than 5,000 days in AKB48, I really hope that Iwatate Saho stays with us for another 5,000 days!
Sahho joined as a member of AKB's thirteenth generation in 2011, arriving alongside Aigasa Moe, Mitsumune Kaoru, Murayama Yuiri, Mogi Shinobu, Kitazawa Saki and Okada Ayaka. When she first joined the group, she was 17-years-old, now she's 31 and the last member of her generation still in the group as per Yuiri's graduation last year. In 2013, at Tokyo Dome, she was promoted to Minegishi Team 4 alongside Yuiri, Saki, Shinobu, and Aigasa, and also Shinozaki Ayana, Okada Ayaka, Kojima Mako, Okada Nana, Nishino Miki, and Hashimoto Hikari. I love talking about Team 4, you know this, but the Minegishi and Takahashi incarnations of the team are definitely not my speciality subject, so in many ways I'm learning just as much as I speak to you. I have always known Sahho, I recognise her name often, but I have never really followed her, and now that we are here talking about her and I am conscious of her longstanding presence, I worry that the next time we speak about her it will be in a sentence containing the word "graduation." That, however, is still to come, so let's not worry about it now!
Like Nogizaka's Takayama Kazumi, Sahho was on a Watanabe B side, in this case, Watanabe Miyuki, with the song in question being Harukaze Pianissimo, the theme of the runners-up of the 2014 Janken tournament, all of them having lost to Milky, who very much got the better deal with Yasashiku Suru Yori Kiss wo Shite. Having made it, during various times, to placement in AKB's Upcoming Girls (2014), Future Girls (2016), Next Girls (2017), and Undergirls (2018), Sahho is no stranger to B side appearances, having appeared on the reverse side of every release from Gingham Check (2012) to Kibouteki Refrain (2014), and then every other release almost until Negaigoto no Mochigusare (2017), her place secured from then on and a centre role for Lion wo Nerae! from Kashiwagi Yuki graduation single, Colorcon Wink in 2024.
Sahho is a good person. During the Google+ days, she reached out to a fan who had posted openly about wanting to end his life, and she urged him not to, she talked him down. However way you want to look at interaction on the interaction, Sahho saw someone in distress and she intervened. That makes her a role model in my book. In 2019, she was moved to Team B, and in 2019, she became the captain as Takahashi Juri went to become captain of Team 4. In 2023, she spent a year in Team A before the new system was place and we found ourselves where we are now, with Team B Oshi suddenly resurrected and Sahho as the first member mentioned.
A former classmate of Nogizaka's Nakada Kana, a girl who, as of August of last year, has spent more than 5,000 days in AKB48, I really hope that Iwatate Saho stays with us for another 5,000 days!
courtney (sonofgodzilla) wrote2026-04-08 05:31 am
sonofgodzilla) wrote2026-04-08 05:31 amEntry tags:
FIC: KFC Sauce Rangers - 2872 Punches
Title: 2872 Punches
Universe: KFC Sauce Rangers
Series: Season One | Season Two | Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: The Movie | Ninja Quest (1, 2, 3, 4)
Character(s): Shhh Secret Grill Sauce Ranger, Colonel Sanders
Rating: U
Warnings: N/A
Summary: What had you thought when first you caught sight of yourself after the light had touched you, the white light upon your black armour, the taste of hot sauce on your lips beneath the helm?
Length: 918 words
Author's Notes: external link .
( 2872 Punches )
Universe: KFC Sauce Rangers
Series: Season One | Season Two | Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: The Movie | Ninja Quest (1, 2, 3, 4)
Character(s): Shhh Secret Grill Sauce Ranger, Colonel Sanders
Rating: U
Warnings: N/A
Summary: What had you thought when first you caught sight of yourself after the light had touched you, the white light upon your black armour, the taste of hot sauce on your lips beneath the helm?
Length: 918 words
Author's Notes: external link .
( 2872 Punches )