If I had 10,000 dollars...

 I would probably conduct a SynthV chorus where I made all the women sing whatever I want. And I would also buy music production material and learn music theory.

What happened to Make a Wish?

If you noticed... Make a Wish Pretty Cure is gone! Why?

It's a racist series, short and simple! My sources for that series is "just be a regular human being and do extensive research and not do what Aladdin did" and I took that... and made a series with a genie that's lazy and sings about the bazaar of miracles and a fox named Sahara.

Also, I just realized the name is much too similar to the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

I think I may need to write an apology about that series on the discussion board.

But you may notice that the series is replaced. What is Mushi Deka Pretty Cure!? Well, that's Maboroshi Detective Pretty Cure's new name! I hope you're excited for it!

I didn't do much changes to Maboroshi Detective since I made it. Besides the title change...

• I changed Ichika's Cure name from Cure Honey to Cure Abeille (bee in French) so she isn't confused with Cure Honey. However, in the Euphonia Timeline, Cure Honey has been renamed to Cure Tender, so... should I change it back? My ignorance made the Cure Abeille name public...
•  I changed Soyogi's surname from Sakurai to Kocho because Sakurai was later taken by Sayaka Sakurai from Pretty Cure WORLDWIDE!, which I'm not sure if I introduced it to the blog yet. The surname "Kocho" is more closely related to Soyogi's motif, the butterfly.
• Note, however, because of Soyogi Soyogi (as well as Soyoka Soyokaze and Soyo Ibara from other Haruka Hibino series), I may have to change Soyogi's first name too.'
• Mirage Akashi's real name is Tsutsuji Akashi. Why hide her first name but not the more incriminating last name? I don't know. I'll have to figure that out. 
•  I changed the names of the Gokiburuze to Gokibururu. I don't know, I just that sounded better to me. It's a pun on "gokiburi" for cockroach, and "brrrrrr". I was on Google translate and typed that in and I thought it sounded cooler.

I may do some more political correctness for the Euphonia Timeline. I know people say "don't let the haters get to you" but... haters? Who's hating on Aurima being Eimi's "brown best friend" more than myself?

Oh, I changed Takara Tsukuda's name to Eimi Manaka. I don't know if I told you. I want to update Coralie and Jade Yukimura's pages, too, but not for name changes.

• I don't know if I will actually change her name but I will admit it, Kokoro Akamine's name is as such because I wanted her to have a Japanese name like the other three. While Iori and Rei's counterparts, Egon and Ray, are Jewish, they are also white so I can just make Iori and Rei Japanese and Jewish (which I have done for Reine but that's another regret, not pointing out Iori, Rei, Kimi, and Itaru are Jewish), Kokoro's counterpart,Winston, is 100% Black so it's not my place to make her 25% Japanese.
• But what WILL change about Chojo Gensho is episode 2 (or 3?). It has Rei being accepted into the Heavenly Kingdom by two rhino guards because she is blonde, but Konatsu and Iori are denied because they were brunette, which was supposed to lead to an episode where Kokoro is unaccepted because she is Black. Yeah, no. Fuck that. Not only is Rei a redhead and Iori is blonde now, but in what way is this storyline... okay?
• And what I also hope to change about Chojo Gensho is Meili Lei's ethnicity. She is based on a Hispanic character, Melanie Ortiz. And just because Meili's name is Meili Lei doesn't mean she can't be Hispanic. The reason why I made Meili Chinese is because the way the Ghostbusters found Melanie in canon was on a trip across America, so I wanted Meili to be close to where the Chojo Gensho girls lived, but not too close, so I chose China. The thing is... Japan is an island. I don't think you can go from Japan to China by foot in any capacity. Also the Chojo Gensho girls don't meet Meili via a road trip! Konatsu first meets Meili while the latter is on duty as a police officer... in Japan. And while I brought up that just because Meili is Chinese and born in China doesn't mean she's not Hispanic, I made Meili when I was 14-15 and didn't know Hispanic wasn't a race 🤦. So yeah. That was to be changed.

Other things that could be considered problematic:

• Ophiuchus being inspired by George Kurai and thus they both share weird relationships with their respective protagonists. I think I toned it down for Ophiuchus years ago but I need to reread the page... I'm just scared.
• Heavy metal being antagonized in Pretty Cure La La La! despite it being a very positive genre... when you're not looking at it in a vacuum. Princess Carnage, and by proxy Kotone, are inspired by Barb, and thus they get redeemed, but I need to make it obvious neither are pure evil.
• The whole concept of La La La. It's like a Let's Go Luna style show where the girls go all over the world to meet others. But I feel like that reinforces overtourism.
• Kumiko Konoe, especially her relationship towards Hoshi Nijihara, is probably ageist and sexist.
• Again, I feel like Aurima is just the Indian best friend of Eimi. I gave her a fatal flaw... defending others problematic actions. What, does her life not matter?
• Miwa Aizawa's faceclaim is Yuzu Aihara from Citrus. Why does that anime have such a pretty art style?
• I was gonna make Kureha Mizuki Romani at some point. But after seeing feedback from Romani people, I figured it's a really bad idea, as the Romani culture is a closed culture.
• The Lunar Pretty Cure being Japanese is a bit more forgivable but the Dragon's Book cast? I got away with it at first because Kung Fu Panda was loose inspiration, but now, it's a closer adaptation and the kung fu master's name is Tatsu? How come all nine characters, including Syun's brother, are Japanese in a story  is not shy to take place in China? I don't care that Jack Black is not Chinese.
• Most of the twins in the Euphonia Timeline are not good representations of twins. The most obvious case is Cat and Kat from Nightmare Fantasy, who I may or may not remove, seeing neither of them have pages. Renata and Tosca, with their whole personalities being "yin and yang", fall into this, too. I feel like I avoided this with the fraternal twins Junko and Sayuri, though. And I hope I can avoid it with Hitomi and Futaba with Fruity Girls.
• Some may claim the Amitié cures are whitewashed. I say, technically not when they're voiced by four white women and one of them is sometimes voiced by who I'm guessing is a half-Asian half-white woman when she sings (Kazumi Evans - it seems clear cut but it's better to be safe than sorry). Except there is some concept art of Twilight Sparkle as a human with dark skin. Idk she'd probably still be voiced by Tara Strong 😐. But also they technically are whitewashed because I imagined Aira to be brown, especially when her name was still Sumiko, but the Picrew I used only had pale skin so I took advantage of the fact nobody saw Sumiko's appearance before and made Aira pale.
• Pollulu being unconsciously named after "delulu", short for "delusional", which is considered to be a slur.
• The ethics of the Merm4id girls being aged down but Michiru remaining the same age.
• The New Dreams Pretty Cure acronym being "NDPC", like "neuro-divergent pretty cure", and the lead Cure being interested in trains.
• Natsumi Isaki can be considered an antisemitic character, or at least her fantasy creature can be. The alternatives are not much better, she'd have to be an elf to fix that problem.
• How are Miwa Aizawa and Keiko Hibiki supposed to work in a kid's show?
• Removing Hinata and Tsumugi's blood relation to each other as Zeus and Hera.
• The villains from Carnival Kind are based on characters pretty much transphobic and homophobic but the movie's such a cult classic it warped itself around to being "woooooosh". I ended up calling the Rocky Horror characters "transexual transvestites" (I'm genderfluid but uhhh) like Frankenfurter did to himself (and himself only iirc).
• Charcoal Jones will either be fine or not fine. Same with Jaya.
• Brownie from Reverie Rainbow. Brownie is named after a fairy but you know that it's gross to call any brown person that. 

TIL... oh my god...

Today I learned I was spelling Seulgi's name wrong the whole time... I've been spelling it Selugi and thus I was pronouncing it wrong too.

😱😱😱😱

This is embarassing. Seulgi is my favorite idol in my favorite girl group and I've just been... spelling her name wrong (in my mind) for years.

Bad PC news

I started up my PC today and opened up a bunch of things at once. I opened on Firefox, which has a tab restored to show a video. It had a lot of extensions, namely one that is not on the Firefox store. I also opened up Spotify, which was modded with Spicetify to look cool (which sometimes can be glitchy). If relevant, Windhawk and Sticky Notes were two startup apps but considering I opened them up dozens of times, what happened as described in the following paragraph is likely not their fault.

So I started up the PC specifically because I wanted to go on the AI Dungeon website to read all my AI stories one last time before I deleted them one by one and I deleted one story on the iPad before realizing it'd be easier to do on PC like with Character.ai. However, the video that was playing on the screen stopped loading and went to a green screen. Shit. Then random artifacts showed up, not just on the video screen but outside of it. It was scary. My computer started lagging and the PC made the sound it makes when it overheats. So I closed Firefox, and maybe a few other things, but closing Firefox stopped it.

I knew I had to do something fast. I checked if I had a system restore point. I did not. So I provided 1% of my storage to system restore points but I'll have to check if that's even enough because that's 18 GB. I also installed MalwareBytes and did a system scan (which accidentally got cancelled).

I then opened Google Chrome on guest mode. Nothing bad happened. So, since I didn't install pretty much anything on either Windows or Firefox besides the GAOMON app I have to keep uninstalling and reinstalling for every restart, I assumed the problem was that I opened the AI Dungeon website, a site I haven't visited on PC in years. So, because my settings have Firefox's tabs open as usual every time I open it up, I thought I had to find a way to open Firefox without those tabs starting. It was hard to understand.

I opened up Firefox again. Bad mistake. The same stuff happened, and the screen flashed to black sometimes, and I heard beeping noises. Shit. Luckily, spamming the close button on Firefox actually worked and Firefox closed. I scanned with MalwareBytes again and it found 101 PUPs (potentially unwanted programs)... all in the Chrome local data folder(s). Huh. I deleted those, scanned again, and it found nothing else.

I opened up Firefox a third time, and luckily, nothing weird happened before I closed the AI Dungeon tab for good. Didn't even have to restart, which, now that I think about it, maybe I should.

After that, I uninstalled the aforementioned app not in the Firefox store in fear the app has been hacked, disabled all but three extensions on Firefox, and added AI Dungeon to a list of blocked websites on the PC. The three extensions are Website Blocker, uBlock Origin, and OneTab.

I'll have to restart the PC, or at least shut it down when I go to sleep. But idk if this error is gonna pop up again, considering it happened so early in startup. Perhaps the PC was overwhelmed? Or maybe it overheated too much? (I've been hearing the overheating sound in places where it shouldn't be making that sound). Might have to back up some stuff.

Best case scenario, that was a fluke and I should be fine for the foreseeable future.

Medium case scenario, the PC needs a cleanup. I know it needs it. But I don't know how and I don't trust myself or anyone I know to do it (the tech people in my family live out of state) and my house is definitely not ready to have a PC being cleaned by someone. My safest bet is Geek Squad.

Worst case scenario, even with a cleanup, the PC is doomed.

Duo news (not that serious)

Trending on the news: 49,000 Cybertrucks (I believe all the Cybertrucks sold before February 27) were recalled because the panels can come off. Apparently only 1% of vehicles have the problem but they're doing a total recall "just to be sure". Good.

Trending on TikTok: It's trending to call "NYC influencers" boring? "NYC influencers" is not an umbrella term for all influencers in NYC. It refers to morning routine/unboxing/haul influencers in NYC (or perhaps another major city?), they're female, they're almost exclusively white and blonde, they dress the same (don't shoot the messenger it's not my opinion), and there's really nothing informative around their video besides "I'm beautiful look at me pouring cereal set to 'Moonlight' by Kali Uchis" and "here's a new thing to consume - I mean purchase - thank you sponsor". Based on minimal research, the only reason it's trending is because apparently said NYC influencers don't have thick skin.

I think that's it.

Severance's season finale aired. I never watched Severance but it seems to be the big thing.

AI addiction

I finally deleted character.ai. I had a lot of messages with it but you'll be surprised to hear that's not the AI I've been having an addiction to.

I switched around from AI to AI for the past six years. Those weird AI-generated text predictors in 2019. AI Dungeon. Dreamily. ChatGPT. Character.ai. Copilot when it wasn't called Copilot. Gemini. Back to ChatGPT. DeepSeek if I'm not careful.

Luckily nothing of note was in Character.ai so I just deleted the entire account.

I preach about not using AI but I am a hypocrite to the 10th degree.

AI writing even bled into my public work. But that's gone now, too.

Yesterday I learned...

Yesterday I learned that there is an experimental feature that allows Firefox to group tabs together. And I am ecstatic.

However, have you ever heard that the phrase "don't look a gift horse in the mouth" was so popular that when it first became popular people have disregarded gift horses' dental hygiene? I don't know if that's true but it comes to show:

Just because you are so ecstatic about how you have this new thing doesn't mean you shouldn't examine, critique, or repair/take care of it. In this case, Firefox's tab groups are currently an experimental feature. It is not ready for the public. So... if anything happens to my Firefox before the tab group feature becomes non-experimental, I am liable because I enabled the experimental feature in the first place.

Also, deleting a group seems to mean that you're not getting it back unless for some reason you're editing something on there and that's the only equivalent you get of "are you sure you want to delete this group?"