Venezia in Fortuny.

Back in one of my favourite cities at the Orient Express Venezia.

Tipsy on champagne before an international holiday is the best feeling.

I had wanted to get a short TereDio fic written before leaving. Maybe I’ll write one tomorrow.

My Hildegard mystic visions dress finally shipped. Unfortunately I don’t think it’ll arrive before my trip. I was hoping to have it to wear while visiting medieval towns.

Thank you for all the feedback. I am going to keep this form active until I get back from holiday, so if you have any requests or input get those in before July 31st.

I said fiction isn't real.

Somehow this ended up being the colours of my favourite summer palette. It reminds me of the sea.

Perceval Pounce.

Not Sam Neill.

The way wig companies are just using AI product photos makes me completely disinclined to order from them.

I am releasing a collaborative TereDio fanbook with @maegraeth.bsky.social. It will feature a compilation of our art and writing, alongside exclusive new pieces. There’s a form in the post below with a few questions if you’re interested. Thanks! #TereDio #FFXVI #FinalFantasy16

It seems the grim reaper has been culling some old racist fucks. It always comes in 3s.

Also helping spread interest check for an Alien Stage cupsleeve event in West LA! x.com/lattelovecse...

You think?

Some people need to accept they’re the problem. Yes, you, it’s you. You’re the reason you aren’t liked, you’re the reason you’re unhappy. No one is working against you, you’re working against yourself.

And the bathrooms without proper doors. Who the fuck thought that was a good idea? I don’t want a frosted glass sliding door without a lock that barely even closes. The amount of luxury boutique hotels that do this. An epidemic. There’s actually a list now of hotels with proper bathroom doors.

I used to be the master of writing papers that were 40% of my grade in a night, having skimmed the source material, and was still getting grades that were 98 or higher. These children are weak. I passed an entire college class once not cracking the book b/c I had a prior interest in the subject.

Catching up on the LADS drama and it makes me glad that aside from a few fans who need to chill the fuck out, FFXVI’s fandom is very tame.

I was thinking in the shower just now how I write the same scenarios & settings over & over. Political intrigue over a dinner table, war, strategy, some freaky ass shit happens, a lot of sex. And was kind of worried it’s repetitive. And then I think of how that’s exactly HotD.

Four Seasons really gutted the Danieli. I know it had to be renovated b/c it was sinking into the canal, but they stripped that hotel of everything in the rooms that made it unique. Soulless beige everywhere.

I wanted to say that I very much appreciate all the lovely words left on that TereDio interest form for me and @maegraeth.bsky.social. I am very fortunate to have a friend to collaborate with.

Realizing I wrote Dion as pointing out a cluster of stars in The Place Where Wild Wyvern Tails Bloom when he and Terence are 18. It slipped into this current fic, but Dion is a bit tipsy so I’m just going to choose to say he forgot about it.

I kind of hate admitting that having the dying cat situation no longer looming has made me feel better. The cat I knew passed sometime last year, the cat that remained did not like me b/c she didn’t like Sibylla. And we all know Sibylla is my goth daughter who follows me around the house.

I finished 4 TereDio fics last year. I thought I would write more this year, but it is July and I have finished one. I‘m getting comments asking if I intend to continue writing them, and yes, I do. I just have had a lot of things going on in my life this past year and a half.

I do not even understand why someone would post a fic they didn’t write. I can understand the appeal of boring people privately using it to get something tailored to their exact preferences, no twists, no nuance. But posting it? And letting people comment like they actually did something. Why?

The Sanbreque Stare.

Our hotel in Venice sent me a curated list of experiences they can arrange and they offer a private after-hours tour of St Mark’s Basilica and the Doge’s Palace. I have spent about 2 weeks collectively in Venice, but I have never seen the interior of either of these due to crowds.

I am debating if I should do a small companion fanbook with all the freaky deaky Ultima fic & the Sylvestre centric one. I know not everyone into TereDio is down w/ Ultima/Dion—though I guess if you enjoy my writings, you probably are.

I am back to my pre-Covid size. Which is a reminder to not donate or resell the designer clothes again that my ass couldn’t fit into for the past 2 years. I’d accepted I was an IT42 & never going to fit into IT38s again. I am happiest when I am around 50 kg. Any smaller & I start looking too thin.

Mom of the year.

Seeing photos of my Dion cosplay makes me happy I made it. I don’t cosplay often any longer & I was worried about how I’d look in the costume because I’m very small. I made the costume to have an internal foundation to create the illusion of being taller, broader through the shoulders, & it worked.

I was always going to fail at selecting only 6 shots from our FFXVI shoot, so I’m ordering 3 extras. There were too many good group shots of us.

One of my friends is posting videos from Croatia and I cannot wait to return to that beautiful water. We’re doing 2 nights in Venice, 7 on the Adriatic along the Dalmatian coast, and then 3 in Dubrovnik. Look at that water, photos don’t do it justice.

I have received Yeticon FFXVI cosplay group proofs and some of these are going to look so good.

Managed to write 2000 words of TereDio fic tonight for the first time in months. Cosplay consumed my creative life for a while.

I had booked a custom spray tan at this local place except I found a photo of the owner at that gauche party at Mar-a-Lago and I think I’m going to do the tanning myself.

I need to start packing for our holiday. I cannot believe it’s almost here.

I need to revise these first few fics to adjust Sylvestre from emperor to acting regent. I started this series of fics before anything aside from the game was released & never felt compelled to change things. But now I’m writing a fic that requires those revisions.

Managed to write 2000 words of TereDio fic tonight for the first time in months. Cosplay consumed my creative life for a while.

I am releasing a collaborative TereDio fanbook with @maegraeth.bsky.social. It will feature a compilation of our art and writing, alongside exclusive new pieces. There’s a form in the post below with a few questions if you’re interested. Thanks! #TereDio #FFXVI #FinalFantasy16

Someone please tell these people they are none of these things.

Dion and Terence visit the LCBO.

Dion and Joshua find the R18 TereDio fanbooks.

Dion and Joshua find the R18 TereDio fanbooks.

A bit late for FFXVI’s third anniversary, but the digital water colour of Dion Lesage I’ve been working on is complete. I like my men looking like they’re from a Castlevania game. #FFXVI #FinalFantasy16 #DionLesage

A bit late for FFXVI’s third anniversary, but the digital water colour of Dion Lesage I’ve been working on is complete. I like my men looking like they’re from a Castlevania game. #FFXVI #FinalFantasy16 #DionLesage

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Has anyone worked with Mixam printing for fanbooks and zines? I’ve primarily used Gorham but I’m looking at alternatives as well, especially as I know Mixam will definitely do NSFW.

I have a problem. I bought several high end swimsuits for this yacht trip months ago and they’re now too large. Time to see what I can alter on them. I may be bringing my tiny bikinis now, though.