tofuplusbeast: (chillin)
quickly throws down fanart of BibleBuild as Ataru and Lum from Urusei Yatsura

Fan art of BibleBuild as Ataru and Lum

I have been busy! A lot more than usual, and unfortunately with Twitter mass imploding in real time, this means that I've been spread out across multiple platforms. I would say that Cohost probably is getting the most mileage out of me so far, and Instagram I really just use to upload pictures of food or *aesthetic* to have an excuse to follow the BL actors and pro wrestling fashion accounts I followed on twitter previously--and uhhhhh ironically twitter is still poppin off right now. Until it isn't anymore, I suppose.

There's lots of projects and such coming up this month. Managed to meet up irl with friends and that was nice. Hotpot good.

Ah, also, the volcano is erupting at home. Wild times we're in for sure.
tofuplusbeast: (chillin)
Hello, it's been a while, again.

Been busy, and of course, focusing on outside projects. I have also completely given up and accepted the fact that I am a BBB and FirstKhao stan now, utter, horrible Thai BL drama trash panda that I am. I roll happily in it, I accept it, this is the natural course of being a tokusatsu fan-to-drama-fan.

I'm fairly tired (it's late) and cold (it's getting to be that time of year now) but I wanted to at least throw down something so I have some substantial stuff before Twitter implodes or whatever.

I finished The Eclipse. It's def in my top five of all-time BL shows--it's a thoughtful take on not only politics, mental health and reformation (really!), but also a great depiction of the Asian young queer experience, as well as how generations of queers have different feelings and attitudes in regards to what The Queer Community is, or should be. Highly recommend checking it out, for sure.

FirstKhao (it's KhaoFirst in my mind, tho!) both do a fantastic job, and I really hope that they get to work together on another project.

I had more to talk about in regards to this, but it's really cold right now, so I will turn into a blanket burrito.
tofuplusbeast: (Vegas)
OH MY GOD YAY IT WORKS. Had to search up a tutorial to make sure my boomer ass got this right, but yeehaw.
This means that I can post my VegasPete stuff here well after VP Week ends on twitter, hehe.
Speaking of....

VegasPete fanart

VegasPete fanart detail

..have some VegasPete. This is actually the first piece I've done entirely digitally--everything I do is mixed media, since I was trained traditionally (and I just prefer putting pen to paper. Never could make myself draw with a tablet, even with the technological advances). Color is all done digitally tho, and so! This was all drawn with a mouse.

I've taught myself very simple pixel art, so this is kind of the next step with teaching myself digital art, but in a way that's aggressively different from the way digital art is nowadays. Because I'm stubborn, I guess.

What else, what else. I contributed to the character+mascot design for a good friend of mine's project, along with two highly skilled, very popular tokusatsu artists. I'm the odd one out amongst my design teammates, as I'm the, uh, less skilled queer R18 artist who draws BL--but I'm the one who originally designed this character (visually, writing backstory and whatnot is all Vintage Henshin) and came up with her overall visuals, so I am going to try and take pride in contributing. FeelsGoodMan.



I'm kind of nervous and yet looking forward to attending my friends' wedding. I've been friends with them for over 10+ years now, and they've genuinely helped me out during some rough times. I'm really happy for them, and I can't wait to see all of the rest of my friends there too. It's just, I'm very much more of a hikikomori now thanks to the pandemic, lol lmao, and especially since I've let myself go thanks to that aaaaaa. 



Feels like I gotta speedrun scraping a whole bunch of shit together and pray that getting down there and back isn't too much of a hassle. It'll be fine. Gotta not think too hard...and yet here I am with one outfit put together and another I'm going to try to cobble together for backup just in case. 



Also apparently I'm participating in like, three different major upcoming art projects:
SSBB August Issue (queer historical romance, probably thinking Taisho era or Grand Guigonol related)

NU: Carnivale anthology (I submitted three ideas. Ironically the one I feel like working on the most is the tamest g rated thing.)

VegasPete Week (the one I am looking forward most to. Already have something planned for how the presentation will be. Gotta set up a popiku account though and remember to censor accordingly lmao)

Annnnnnnnd I think that's about it. I've picked up a good amount of roms that I think I might try to play here and there in between streaming and work so I can play vidya not just for streaming. Wanna set up my PS4 though and get back into fighting games tho, thanks EVO.


I should go to sleep now, it's late. I'll see if I can upload more art here soon.

tofuplusbeast: (Vegas)
OH BOY I HAVEN'T POSTED HERE IN A WHILE

I've genuinely been busy, what with work and streaming and a bunch of other stuff. Let's just say that while I've been working really, really hard at my IRL job, I'm happy that my hobby is paying off, and I might be doing my first (on paper) charity stream soon! I've assisted with one before, will be assisting with another soon, and then will be applying for one with my team later this year.

Good stuff. I'll be using it as a sort of test run to see exactly how that works, as I really want to do charity work, but towards a cause that I genuinely feel strongly about. We'll see though. I don't think I exactly fit the "charity" streamer persona most charities who partner with streamers tend to ask for (no swearing, no TOS breaking content, no "questionable" or M rated games, etc...which is uh, everything I do, sort of) but hey, if Jabroni Mike can do it, so can I.

 

Aside from that! I'm still riding the high from the KinnPorsche The Series World Tour livestream concert from this morning. It started at 5:00 AM my time, and ended at 10:00 AM--meaning that I got to watch the sun rise as the concert progressed. Really nice. My sleep schedule is eternally fucked. It's fine, tho--I got to see a really great show, and I gave up and became vaguely kpoppie trash because I now stan BibleBuild. What have I become. I really do believe in this collaborative effort+project team Be On Cloud is doing with their artists--maybe because I'm an outsider to stan culture or live action BL fandom, I don't understand the rabid need to have certain actors "win" or trend or whatever over others, especially when it's clear that the entire cast is in this thing together with their staff and whatnot. Maybe it's because I also come from a "creative background"--while I never worked in the industry outright, I have friends who do, and I've been in the freelance trenches for so long that I have a basic understanding that the sausage is never made the way fans think things are? This is vague rambling, I won't even get into it when I have better things to talk about, like P'Tong and Us just being Queen Hoes and Build apparently entering his slut era

I can't form a coherent sentence. The concert was just a wild ride feat. the entire cast wilding out. Good for them.

UH I'M STILL WATCHING DONBROTHERS. I managed to catch up on that, going to save the newest episode for tomorrow, since my brain is still poisoned from the concert. The ending of KinnPorsche is good, too, and I am really looking forward to seeing what team BOC does next in terms of international filmmaking.

 

What else. Oh, I got a PS4, and got to see my friends IRL recently! I luckily did NOT get covid, but one of my roommates did at her job, and it was a scary few weeks, but she did recover. I'm probably going to lock down for a good while until I have to go outside again for an important event...but for now, it's drinking and chilling time.

tofuplusbeast: (Default)
Very fast updates, rapid fire:

> Went outside for the first time in like, almost two years. Was good to see my friends again and see their adorable cat, and drink w/ good people. I'm only mildly paranoid about attending two grill parties back to back, so right now I'm just waiting it out before I can test and really make sure that I'm negative for COVID. I'll be staying inside again for a good long while until I have to go out again for a wedding.


>KinnPorsche is still devastatingly good. I'm very obnoxious about recommending it to people now. I try not to delve too much into the stan/actor side still, although I'm aware of various goings on with certain castmembers and whatnot. Personally, I'm of the opinion it's best to keep everything at arm's length, and no need to continuously announce my opinions on things to "prove" that I'm "correct".

Also I'm eagerly looking forward to the World Tour livestream. My sleep schedule might be forever ruined, though (I can't believe the show starts at 5 in the morning, I am dying squirtle.) Not even NJPW started their streams that early, jesus christ.

>Cleared my first runthru of Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side: Second Season for the DS! I got one of the secret characters, but like any runthrough where one is just playing via instinct and without purpose, I feel like I've only scratched the surface. Looking forward into deeply delving into this game.

That's where I'm at now! Work's been very busy. I hope I can catch up on sleep, soon...
tofuplusbeast: (su su na)
OH BOY I'VE BEEN BUSY.

This past week, and the week before, has just been nonstop IRL work. Holidays means more work for me, ironically, in regards to the business I work in.

KinnPorsche Episode 11 was fucking amazing. I feel like I keep saying "ok but THIS is my favorite episode" after each episode airs, but Episodes 10 and 11 were just solid tour de forces. I'm amazed at how frankly the show tackled some mature themes about abuse+generational trauma and really, really rounded out the characters, and I'm even more impressed after reading translated excerpts of the big academic lecture that the cast+lead director/producer+acting coach did just the other day.

I genuinely hope the whole lecture gets fully subbed because it goes over not just the thought process of each actor and how they approached the characters, but the structural organization of the set, how they decided to throw out all of the hierarchy that's usually a part of the Thai film industry, and encouraging actors like Apo (Porsche) and Tong (Tankhun) to not suppress the way they are or fit a certain kind of male persona was very interesting. It's something that's new to me, as a newly minted fan of live action BL dramas, especially since I tend to try to hold the idol and showbiz culture elements at arm's length as much as possible (especially on social media, where kpop/stan style fandom is an unrelenting torrent) 

Other things--I'm going to be meeting up IRL for 4th of July with some of my closest friends for the first time in, shit, possibly a year. I'm kind of nervous since I have basically tried to stay as safe as possible, but I'll try to stay calm and do testing before and after I visit. I'm going to be meeting them all again in August when two of my friends are getting married, so this is like a rehearsal, lol.

Come to think of it, these two friends of mine who are getting married, I originally met via LiveJournal. I randomly became friends with another longtime friend of ours thru the Kaiji Community, and then went to Yaoicon to meet the whole gang--and the rest is history. I can't believe that I've been friends with these guys for over ten years now. It's almost fitting that I'm writing about it here on Dreamwidth. Full circle.
tofuplusbeast: (kaito)
This is really just a quick post in between chilling out and watching the Cutie Pie BTS, because apparently when I'm not streaming or doing my IRL job, I'm soaking in BL dramas. This is my life now.

Cut for BL drama rambling and some minor updates )
tofuplusbeast: (topper)
OK I'm tired but it's a good tired! Glad work went well today! Tomorrow, more work! Sleep now.
tofuplusbeast: (Default)
I am very tired and I can just feel it in my bones that this week is going to take a lot out of me already--I'm going to probably have to ask my friend who commissioned me for a character design sheet for an extension, since I've gotten slammed by IRL work (back to back overtime almost every day, baybee! Dear clients, please shut the fuck up and read your emails quietly!)

cut to spare your scrollin'  )

Sleeby

May. 22nd, 2022 10:09 pm
tofuplusbeast: (Ayabe)
My sleeping schedule has been pretty erratic as of late. It's either I go to bed mondo early, or pass out at 2-3 AM.

Picked up a commission for a friend that I'm looking forward to working on. I have a doujinshi that I need to cobble together and have ready to DL for an online event by the 18th of June, too...it's too much of a hassle to think about selling and whatnot, I'm thinking of just slapping up an itch dot io pay as you go DL link. But then that means I gotta set up a separate itch account, too...

Somehow I managed to read through all of SVSS Vol. 2,  but Little Mushroom is slow going. It's not that LM is bad, it's more like I feel like I need to give it my full attention more. I gotta pick a better time to read it than right before bed.

Speaking of books, the friend I'm doing the commission for recommended a novel series for me, Jade City (Fonda Lee).

I'm only writing it down here so I won't forget. I don't leave the house as much as I used to thanks to the pandemic, so normally, I'd borrow the books directly from the library, but I've just been outright purchasing them. I am completely out of space and need an actual bookshelf, though--soon my stack of books is going to be as tall as my gunpla backlog stack.

KinnPorsche still excellent, holy shit it keeps just getting better and better. Genuinely look forward to it every Saturday. Also looking forward to the adaptation of Old Fashioned Cupcake, which is starring the actor who played Kamen Rider Grease/Otoya in Kiva. That's all three Build leads in BL, now, w.

I've got a collab stream tomorrow that I agreed to at the last minute. Probably was a gamble to kneejerk agree to a Monday stream, but I'll try not to tire myself out before the middle of the week again.

This kind of devolved into a full stream of conscious ramble. Def time for me to go to bed.
 

tofuplusbeast: (gehehe)
So I've got some projects that I can't talk too much about, but I'm really excited for those. I just hope that I don't exhaust myself too much. I love collaborating with people and playing around in this new medium of expression, but being a performer/entertainer does take a lot out of you.

I feel like I haven't seriously drawn in a while, outside of assets work for other side project thing. KinnPorsche The Series has made me want to draw some fan art, but I feel like I need to study anatomy again...

I'm almost finished with the Kaito Files DLC for Lost Judgement! I'm going to try to 100% it. I'll maybe platinum Lost Judgement when I have more time, but for now, I'm taking it at a steady pace. Apparently Kaito Files was very divisive among certain shippers (and I ship the same pairing, but I didn't feel as angry or hurt as others did in regards to the story?) and so a good handful of people I know have renounced the entire Judgement Dualogy (which I think is silly) or wrote Lost Judgement off as "not canon" (come on, guys...) and some others fought each other over it.

I know at this time, especially right now, in the grand scheme of things, it's a real big non-issue, but I feel kind of weird that somehow I was like "eh" and was the only one to just be strong and go "it don't matter, I really like this and enjoyed this and think it added some good things overall to the story and world AND QOL in gameplay, so maybe I'm the weird one out when it comes to fandoms. Or maybe it's because I'm an old Fujin. Or maybe it's because I genuinely care about gaming first over like, fandom shit? IDK. Rambling. Tired. Trying to get out fifty million words out here because I don't want to pick fights with a twitter rando about fandom shit when the rights in my country are literally disappearing and I'm worried abt people I give a shit about.

Aside from that--I'm looking forward to the side projects scheduled, I'm enjoying some games here and there, and I need to really kick my ass and get ready to put together something for an upcoming doujin event, jesus christ June is coming up too fast

AH THAT'S RIGHT ALSO I GOTTA FIGURE SOMETHING OUT FOR TERRANOVA RP. I haven't done rp shit since like, centuries ago. I'm looking forward to this new exercise!

Also KinnPorsche episode 5 was good. OK bye.
 


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