Hector 2.0 build thread! I originally make this cosplay in 2018 and now I’m remaking it completely from scratch with a deadline of Momocon 2026.

New pickups! Adding Hokuto Musou 2 to the list for the Musou retrospective

Friendly reminder that content creators are not your friends. You are NOT entitled to know what is going on in their personal lives. You cannot “express your concern” for a stranger and then complain that they have the audacity to go A WHOLE MONTH without streaming. 😩

Recent pickups for the game collection. PS4 collection is almost finished! Only a few titles left which are mostly asian English imports of games that were digital exclusive in the west.

The Transformers Devastation video is finished and along with it, the TF video game retrospective I’ve been working on for the past 3 and a half years. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mitt...

@auramimi.bsky.social and I finally started the Tales of Arise Expansion, Beyond the Dawn. I’m not completely sold on what they’re doing with the world building but I will take any excuse to play more of one of my favorite games of the last few years.

Man I miss cosplaying Archer, I need to lose the weight I gained during Covid to be able to fit into the old version again but I also want to make a new one from scratch. The 3rd ascension version never properly fit me anyway so this was one of the only decent photos of it.

Decided I’m probably going to play RDA for Genesys this week since I’m playing the other 5Ds decks for the sealed event on Saturday. I’m probably wearing Jack next at Kami con and hopefully will meet new YGO fans there

I will be hosting the Fate/ and Fire Emblem photoshoots at AWA again this year but Brave Alm is probably the only cosplay I’m bringing because we’re just driving back and forth Friday and Saturday. Here’s one of the only good shots of us from Dragoncon

Chapter 6 of the 5Ds continuation fanfic has been posted archiveofourown.org/works/679981...

Finally got my hands on these things. I am SO excited to play them sealed. Apparently the manufacturing issue they were trying to fix was the glue on the box failing and uh…that is not fixed at all. Half of them are coming open on their own on the shelf.

Yummy-chord deck I played last night for the Neuron event

Not my opponent with the AI Lava Golem waifu mat 🤢 🤢 🤢

Shark list I played for Genesys this week. It’s super fun and I did pretty well, my only loss was to Branded

10 cards to get to know me

11 games to get to know me in no particular order

@auramimi.bsky.social and I celebrating our 5th wedding anniversary by going to the beach thread

Celebrating our 5th anniversary with my super awesome husband @starcrossedsouls.bsky.social I love him so much 🥰💚❤️

One of my best friends wanted to do ceramic painting for her birthday so I painted a Swap Frog. Looking forward to seeing if he comes out okay after he gets cooked

I love going through a binder and finding an $80 card I didn’t know I had

The Genesys deck I brought tonight is missing a bunch of stuff but honestly it’s going super hard

This is what I was cooking for the first Genesys tournament but nobody showed 🙃 it’s even under 100 points by mistake XD

I cannot stop thinking about Genesys format dude. I’m trying to think of as many deck cores that cost zero points. So far I have RDA, Spriggans, Time Thief, Punk, Zombie Synchro, Eldlich Earth Machine (trains and Machina mostly) Kozmo, Volcanic, Suship, Amazoness, Gate Guardian

Writing chapter 4 of the 5Ds continuation fanfic with chapter 5 already ready to go. Had to find the right inspiration for the Jack and Carly NSFW scene and I think I finally found it

Chapter 3 of the 5Ds continuation fanfic has been posted archiveofourown.org/works/679981...

Happy 4th anniversary to my favorite RPG of the 2020s so far! #TOARISE #talesofarise

Will be at Dragoncon in the morning. I’m packing SO much for this con

I need some feedback on something regarding the structure of a fanfic. If anyone is interested in helping me answer this question let me know or DM me

Hoping for as many Yummy URs as possible

God, seeing how well they did Shuraig in the animation reminds me I need to cosplay the sleepy bird man

The first proper chapter of the 5Ds continuation fanfic has been posted! archiveofourown.org/works/679981...

New video on the YGO Channel on the Paleo cube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOtW...

One of my locals has this. I kinda want it but it’s pretty expensive for how sun faded it is

Going to play the dogshit out of the new Lunalight cards this week. Entering 3 different tournaments at 3 different stores back to back and then playing the Paleo cube with friends over the weekend.

Well uh, I finally did it. I posted the intro to the 5Ds continuation/ post-canon fanfic. I can't believe I'm doing this XD chapter 1 will be up soon. archiveofourown.org/works/679981...

And my video on the second game and its expansion #sengokubasara Sengoku Basara 2 and 2 Heroes: Musou Retrospective Series youtu.be/u9VVjLXyobI

Also, this is my first time sharing it on this site. Here’s my video on Sengoku Basara as part of the Musou retrospective #sengokubasara Sengoku Basara : Musou Game Retrospective Part 2 youtu.be/6NKaOLI5kYs

Happy 20th anniversary to one of my favorite series Sengoku Basara! Been a fan of the series since 2011, I’ve cosplayed Kojuro since 2015 and I’m still working on a series of video essays that will include a retrospective on the series! #sengokubasara

Finally got the invite email back from AO3 meaning it might be finally time to post chapter 1 of the 5Ds continuation fanfic

Happy Sengoku Basara day! One of my favorite cosplays with my lovely husband @starcrossedsouls.bsky.social being my right eye. #sengokubasara

I just finished writing a text review for James Gunn's Superman! starcrossedsouls12.blogspot.com/2025/07/jame...

RIP to Michael Madsen, among his many great roles, the voice of Daud in #Dishonored. 💔

Really wish I could make this happen but I know it’s very unlikely

Happy 25th Birthday to Deus Ex! I’m coincidentally playing through the original right now on the Steam Deck. It’s insane how much this game still holds all these years later especially in the writing, level design and mechanical complexity.

Finished Vol 2 of the 5Ds manga and damn they are so adorable. I need to continue working on the fanfic.

Game pickups at SFGE

Made a Vlog about our trip to SFGE yesterday. Pretty happy with how this turned out even though Im just using the little bit of B roll that we took, it only took about like 3 total hours to make this. youtu.be/z9HwWiUpoxo

Can’t believe I’ve been forgetting to post this but my best friends all banded together for my birthday to pitch in and get me a steam deck 😭 I am so blown away by their generosity. I’ve been playing the original Deus Ex.

Finished this, what a WILD read this was. I was definitely very engaged the entire time. Highly recommend. Just do not look up anything about it before reading it. If you’ve never heard of it before, go in blind.

Pictures are starting to come back from Momocon. Debuted my Alphen cosplay from #talesofarise. It went over super well and was overall not too uncomfortable or cumbersome to wear. Months of hard work paid off 😪