november 2024

came and went too quickly.

T/N: my english has gotten rustier and rustier with time and part of me feels that it's very obvious in this post. i might try writting other months in english first and then translating to portuguese afterwards to get into the habit of outputting english regularly instead of just inputting like usual

• i realized i might have some symptoms of seasonal depression, because everything starts to feel a lot easier when the day starts to get longer and the weather starts to get warmer
• even though i hate feeling hot
• went to a music festival and saw a exclusive os cabides and a criolo concert
• really enjoyed the exclusive os cabides concert, criolo's not so much because i got angry due to my hatred of people smoking in crowded spaces
• finally found a new shampoo to replace my beloved discontinued one
• had a momentary urge to buy a hobonichi techo influenced by tiktok
• i already had a hobonichi weeks in 2019, and i used it very little. i bought it at the end of 2018, when i was in my last year of high school and i had defined my personal planning system for that moment in my life very well (physical planners!). when i started college i got in on the second semester (T/N: brazilian schools start the year around february/march and end in november/december. universities split the year in semesters and some of them let in students both around february/march and around july/august), so i spent the first 7 months of the year essentially on vacation and didn't plan at all. when i started college i realized that i needed to organize myself in a completely different way now.
• i eventually realized that the best way to organize myself in college was to use google calendar and doing time blocking. i did this throughout the entire course, even during the pandemic, because it made sense with the schedule of having several classes at different times every semester, and having several different assignments to be handed in for each of these classes.
• when i graduated i tried to continue using time blocking, and it still sort of worked, but i simply don't have as much stuff to do. i felt a bit lost about how to organize myself now because of that and i got infatuated with hobonichi's beautiful design, believing that this agenda that costs half a minimum wage would save me.
• at some point this year i tried using a physical calendar, made on a normal sheet of paper with a ballpoint pen, without time blocking or anything. it worked very well for a while but i left the sheet on my desk and it slowly got crumpled and dirty and suffered mysterious damages that made me stop using this method
• i decided to try recreating this method in a more digital way - instead of a sheet of paper, using a clip studio paint file and saving the image as my desktop wallpaper. it worked very well for a week but i started to feel too lazy to open the file, especially because clip studio has the audacity to be a drawing program with a LAUNCHER
• i decided to dig out my old grid notebook that i used in high school as a bullet journal and draw a calendar with a ballpoint pen again, and recreate the weekly page of the hobonichi techo cousin - a vertical layout with time slots written down, kind of like google calendars weekly view. although it is very similar to what i used to do digitally, the fact that in the notebook i don't need to create an EVENT with a specific time to finish and start everything helps me a lot. and it is much easier to pick up the pen and just write down "do such and such" there.
• a LONG rant about personal organization systems because I love hearing how people organize themselves and what they have to do, and I know there are others like me out there in the world. my november calendar and a weekly page for those who are curious
• for the first time in my life, a cockroach flew into my room. through the window. i live on the 11th floor.
• i tried killing it myself, it was nighttime. i couldn't do it and had to wake my parents up. i felt emasculated by my cowardice but i think my lack of experience with this infernal creature justifies it a little bit
• i'm back to animating cut out again now that i'm no longer in a traditional animation course
• many things are a lot easier in cut out - acting scenes! but action scenes are awful. i'm getting frustrated with many free rigs i find. why did you put a deformer on the outline instead of just putting a simple curve deformer man. sometimes less is more.
• decorated home for christmas
• already bought my gift on black friday - a kindle! i've wanted one for many years now. i've read too many books on my phone already, and i used a borrowed kindle for a while and i enjoyed it very much
• took a test for a job
• player 3 (physical!) commander games and lost all 3. the first game was 4 hours long and the other 2 were 2 hours long
• but i had the pleasure of seeing my opponent's side with 9 creatures with a total of 58 (fifty-eight) +1/+1 markers and using a card that cleans the battlefield. begone foul thing
• finally finished the PUDOWEB 2.0 homepage revamp.
• finally hit 10 million neopoints on neopets, getting to the final bank category - ultimate riches. thanks food club

input

games

• started playing dragon age: the veilguard
• the game gets a few things right - it's visually stunning, it's the best videogame hair i've ever seen, you can make trans characters. but the writing is horrible, the pacing is terrible, the characters are boring, and it often just doesn't feel like a dragon age game at all. i haven't finished it yet and i've heard that the ending is really good. unfortunately, i prefer a good beginning to a good ending in videogames. i still want to finish it, but i've just completely lost the desire to play it for now, unfortunately.
• played a bit of ffxiv
• very little. did the msq, moved stuff around the house. everytime i feel like playing i don't have a sub, everytime i have a sub i don't feel like playing.
• downloaded the mobile pokemon tcg
• its fun. i like opening free card packs
• started playing red dead redemption 2
• the game is so good that i got completly immersed in my two game sessions totalling 15 hours and forgot about the massive spoiler i have for the end of the game. then i remembered out of nowhere when going to bed. i'm completly addicted to it and wish i could spent the whole day playing it

tv shows and movies

• saw a bit more of one piece
• very little this month in comparison to the previous couple, but i cried watching a really sad scene in whole cake island featuring my favorite strawhat
• watched arcane season 2
• really good! i watched the first 3 in person with friends and the other 6 together in discord. i really enjoyed the ending and i find the visual direction stunning
• watched look back
• really good, really beautiful. didn't cry but got emotional
• watched internet: o filme
• brazilian movie with brazilian internet celebrities from the early 2010s. its not good but its funny to watch if youre familiar with the people in it
• watched gladiador ii
• i really like the first movie so i got very disappointed with this one, it's quite mid. if it had more fan service for me specifically i would've forgiven it a little bit there was none

books and etc

• started reading wind and truth by brandon sanderson
• it's not out yet but they're releasing a few chapters every week. i'm enjoying it a lot so far
• watched absurd ammounts of game grumps playing danganronpa
• i really wish they were less bitter about the game but i get it.

output

i also did self portrait day but i didn't like how it looked enough to post it somewhere. also many gesture drawings but those aren't fun to look at. i have two finished cut out scenes this month but i haven't exported them in .gif format but they're done believe me