Wednesday, November 26, 2025

Precure ideas

I have two Precure names that I may use in the future, both relating to transportation and the innate human experience.

Passion Express Pretty Cure! (パッションエクスプレスプリキュア!)

About trains (mainly shinkansen) and expressing yourself. The main Cures are nerds and punks, and the lead Cure is red, and a "nihilist" (there's no such thing as nihilism because if there's no meaning then why are you telling me). There are five Cures.

Lost Air♥Precure (ロストエア♥プリキュア)

A new name for Stitched Essence Pretty Cure. About planes and expressing creativity. The Cures have a flight attendant motif and the main art expressed in the series is handicrafts, especially sewing and knitting, to differentiate it from Arc-En-Ciel. The name is a bad pun on "lost art". 

Talking about "innate human experience" when I complained about the term in and out of this blog. 💀 It's like if humanity in general is sacred or something. 

Monday, November 10, 2025

Finally continuing Dandadan

I watched Dandadan Season 2! It didn't get as much hype as Dandadan Season 1. It could be for a few reasons: The opening was not done by Creepy Nuts this time and they're known for making viral songs (like in Mashle). People know more about... the scene in S1E1. The incident where someone edited Momo and Okarun to be Black got viral and people didn't like racist Dandadan fans berating the artist. Or, perhaps, anime hype may or may not last as long as their first season airs.

But yeah, I watched episodes 10-12 of season 1 and episodes 1-5 of season 2. Probably the most episodes of any anime I watched in 1 day, 8, though I'm not sure if that's actually true.

I am watching the manga as I read along with the manga and I stopped at episode 5 because it seems that we have reached the point where our volumes might be synced up! I stopped somewhere near volume seven. I have volumes 8 and 9, but none after that. I predict Dandadan season 2 doesn't cover anything beyond volume 9. A character who I believe will only have a "last scene of the anime" role in season 2 is the primary cover character of volume 10. I believe volumes 11, 12, and 13 are available internationally, while volumes 14-18 only have official Japanese copies for now.

Spoilers for Dandadan (manga and anime) below: 

Saturday, November 1, 2025

Life update and, unrelatedly, dopamine

I got my wisdom teeth removed recently!

I don't think it counts as a surgery because the teeth just popped out and didn't need to be broken. 

I wasn't able to keep them (I think I was allowed to but I wasn't given the time to ask), which was notably the only thing I talked about while on anesthesia. Two comments about keeping wisdom teeth, and nothing more.

So far, I had mashed potatoes, applesauce, macaroni and cheese, and a banana. It would be a BRAT diet if I were allowed to have rice and toast, however, the BRAT diet is a bland foods diet and right now I can only have mushy foods. So no chewy cookies, that leaves crumbs. And no popcorn - crunchy food that leave kernels in your teeth, butter in your mouth, and most of all isn't mushy. I only note these two foods because they're the only foods so far I craved after my surgery. Luckily, I could have vanilla pudding, I tried flan for the first time recently and it was great, but that would be my first actual sweet (the applesauce is unsweetened) since the removal and I don't want to risk that so soon.

Ooh, I made breadstick knots in the oven without help a few weeks ago, maybe when I fully recover, we can celebrate with cinnamon rolls? I found this awesome tutorial which included making brown sugar. And shokupan! Oh, how I'd love to make that.

Okay. Dopamine.

This is how dopamine obsession looks in women. /ref

There's different types of ways to find dopamine. In the least medical most pseudo-health terms possible, there's short-term dopamine, which leads to immediate but very short gratification, notably scrolling and most gambling, and long-term dopamine, like climbing mountains and actually earning things.

I found a type of dopamine that's in the middle of that: crediting artists on Pinterest and finding the sources of certain things. I found some Winx fanart that I was like "wow that looks cool but no artist is credited" so I googled it and I found the artist (innocenceclub) and I added it on that.

Here's a big thing to note: it's pretty hard to get a pin off of Pinterest. I don't think you can delete your own pins, and to copyright claim your work and have it deleted, I believe you have to give your full name to Pinterest and be comfortable with your name being shown to the email inboxes of everyone who saved your pin. So if your real name is Song Kyungmi, it's going to show "Reporter's Name: Song Kyungmi", regardless of if you put your pen name or not.

So that's one unfortunate thing about Pinterest, but if this system wasn't there, Pinterest would either have been a DIY crafting baking site like it seemed to be directly aiming for in the 2010s, or it would have died.

But yeah, that's it. Maybe instead of just scrolling on Pinterest I can just comment "hey this is the original artist". And/or follow the original artist.

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