Weekly summary: Apr. 26 - May 2, 2026

[alchemicink]

Happy Sunday! I am sleepy, but I have a lot of things to share this week. Here we go:

I've been enjoying Three Weeks for Dreamwidth this year, even though I haven't done as much as I wanted so far. Thankfully I still have time to do things!

I joined some communities: polyamships, vkotd, and voiceinmyear. I'll hopefully join a few more soon. There are also a lot of good community recs in the comments of this post.

Hooray for Dreamwidth! I enjoy being here 😊

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Fic stuff!

intoabar signups will be opening today. It's a fun challenge if you like to write crossovers!

seasonsofdrabbles had fic reveals yesterday! I received three gifts:
☆ Made of Peace (an atla au featuring a good Ozai who is best friends with Bato)
☆ Twenty-Four Hour Anniversary (Star Trek Voyager, B'Elanna/Seven)
☆ Rain Puddles (Star Trek Voyager, Samantha and Naomi)

Check out all of the exchange collection here! Lots of good stuff. I wrote quite a few things this time, so I'm looking forward to author reveals on Tuesday

I have one fic rec this week... actually it's a poetry rec. I don't usually like poetry but this one was really good. It's a Yu-Gi-Oh fic about the Ishtar siblings.

I have decided to crosspost some of my fics to the tokufemslash comm even though I ship stuff no one else there is into 😅 So the first one I did was my Minori/Sakurako fic (from KR Kuuga) from Tokushipping Week earlier this year.

Also, it's a new month, so here's another monthly writing goals post.

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Music stuff! I actually have a bunch of stuff to share this time. Some new releases along with some stuff youtube rec'd me.

I stumbled across this cover of Megalovania by music ensemble Mos. I'd never heard of them before but they were fun to watch.

Yamada from hsj released a new solo song this week: Magic Music. The music video was really cute. (Inspired by old cartoons)

Super eight (formerly Kanjani8) released a concert version of aoppana which was really fun. And I also discovered that Yokoyama has his own side solo project too?? His latest song is pistol.

Another concert video from Band Maid: Super Sunshine

I also enjoyed this post from vkotd because "Muma the Nightmare" is one of my all-time favorite Buck-tick songs. So I am now feeling nostalgic...

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TV stuff!

Trekcore re-shared a 2013 interview with some makeup artists from TNG about a particular episode ("Identity Crisis"). I thought it was pretty neat!

I also enjoyed reading this ANN interview with a producer for the upcoming new Ghost in the Shell anime. I do wish I could watch this show because it sounds like it's gonna be good. Alas.

My usual weekly TV reviews are here.

Also, I finally started watching season 2 of the One Piece live action series yesterday with mom. (Hopefully we'll watch a few more episodes this afternoon! I'm loving it so far.) I decided that I'll add some episode reviews for this series to my weekly reviews next week.

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For my personal reference, I wanted to save the link to this NPR Life Kit episode about taking care of plants

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Offline life was busy with work which sorta burned me out by the end of the week. But I got good food at the Chamber of Commerce banquet, and I also went to a "mock" commissioners meeting where students learned about how local government works. They held a public hearing to debate whether students should use AI. And I'm happy to report that almost all of them argued against AI! It was a fun event to witness.

I was supposed to go places Saturday, but rain canceled all of that. But we're in the midst of pretty terrible drought at the moment, so I was glad for the rain.

And that's it. Wishing everyone a fantastic week ahead!

Comments

[autumninpluto]

OOOH omg I remember seeing this Megalovania cover on Tiktok last year, thank you for sharing it here!! I love how they even have choreography lol.

I hope this week is less hectic for you, and hooray for most people in your meeting agreeing that students should Not use AI! A fraction of hope for humanity has been restored.

[alchemicink]

Their choreo was so fun 😊 but I was afraid at one point the trombonist was gonna hit a light fixture 😅

I expected the kids to be all for AI, so this was a pleasant surprise. Maybe the kids are alright after all!

[vriddy]

*clicks the vkotd link with curiosity* 👀 Nice, not a band I was familiar with! The posts on that comm have been bringing back a lot :D

[alchemicink]

Buck-tick is so good! I highly recommend!! (I'm sure I have some recs in my Buck-tick tag if you are interested in wading through all that)

I was really into visual kei in high school, so the comm has me feeling very nostalgic. I'm enjoying their posts too 😊