Hello there, internet sleuths, @ajhalili2006 from the future (2024-09-08) speaking here. While this one is from my Substack publication's later content, I still kept this in the Ghost publication archives here for posterity.

I know I am a bit of procrastinating writing the monthly status updates lately due to autistic burnout and school, among other things, but I'm working on it at the moment. So enjoy reading the back issues while ironing out the kinks post-import and expect more posts from the drafts backburner soon.

Peace out! (I'll be also updating the Firebase Dynamic Link below to its full URL for the plain text version of it before 2025.)

Plaintext email version of this will be available soon at sourcehut: https://ajhalili2006.page.link/status-updatew-2023-02-plaintext

Well hello there! Here's what I have done lately for the months of January and February 2023, between your casual mutlifandom chaos and schoolworks, plus some musings/rambling from my mind to your eyeballs. (sorry for delays on monthly status updates, life had made me busy lately).

Also since the birbsite is on f**king fire (as of time of writing, 2023-03-07, they f**ked up even the webapp), this is your friendly reminder to join the fediverse or even try using Tumblr.

BringBack.Blog Megafeed in [matrix]

As of time of writing, registrations for the January 2023 BringBack.Blog roaster closed 10 days ago as of time of writing (Philippine Standard Time), and I’m in the process of adding them all into one megafeed in the form of a read-only Matrix room with an RSS maubot hosted on ~envs tilde’s homeserver for automation chores. It is still incomplete, but you can track the progress via this todo.sr.ht ticket.

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What's I’m watching rn: Mr. Robot + Yu-Gi-Oh VRAINS

I should just dig Elliot Alderson and Yusaku Fujiki (Editor's note: something gone terribly wrong on Yugipedia’s servers, so some of my golinks pointing to Yugipedia will instead redirect to latest web archive I could find while the sysadmins are trying their best to recover as much data as possible. Please do not harass anyone for this major incident.) on the lorebooks for fun and profit (aka git diff their mental health and stuff), but bloody hell why I got the Yu-Gi-Oh! iceberg and why I take my daily Mr. Robot official YT clips medicine lately? (If you're not watching Sevens + Go Rush as of time of writing yet or stuck in previous anime/manga series in the franchise, then you might feel old right now, and I do too.) Currently, I'm through EP02 on Mr. Robot and EP002 of VRAINS as of time of writing this.

I'm still catching up with the Hermits and other SMPs (currently Empires, with occasional DSMP hellscapes), although I plan on keeping up with other communities too in the future when my free time allows.

On related note: Let's not talk about that egao cult part + Le Scream Ahead

I guess you probably hate Yuya (alongside Yuma for separate reasons, per community sentiments in r/yugioh which you probably want to search along), partially because of the bloody egao (mom, it's not Ahegao hoodie on WilburSoot's Soft Boy) philosophy. But we'll not talk about it for the love of god, so we don't lose more brain cells than the entirety of the manga timeline.

Meanwhile, in spoilerinos hellscape (for those who chose to time skip to EP 135 through the wiki instead of committing digital piracy in a Third World country (content warning: Bing search results)), please enjoy 5 minutes of pain and suffering featuring Yuya Sakaki screaming. (The thumbnail itself is bonkers, and I’ll guess that’s from EP128, but still, SPOILERS BEWARE! If you want to get your eardrums f**ked up too, crank up the volume to maximum levels if you will.)

The Twitter RP multifandom multiverse of madness

Context in tweet below for Substackers: Me after dropping a "<3" to an RP account from the Yu-Gi-Oh! Twitter universe. (Spoiler for those who watching Arc-V right now in Season 3: So Much Pain after discarding Smile World) It's a bloody screenshot (while drafting this) of the embed in private tab since Canva is pain while I draft this.

What could go horribly wrong? At least you don't scream in pain after discarding that card straight to hell (I told you earlier, get fucked (no Linus Sex Tips intended) by spoilers if you’re not prepared for this.)

And now I'm also officially setting up a separate multifandom account on the birdsite + fediverse (spoiler: I may do role-plays there too) at @MFHellscapes@mstdn.social (also same username on the birbsite).

So that’s it, I guess.

See you later this April for more chaos in the multifandom multiverse as #AutisticPrideMonth kicks in full speed while my school’s culminating activity is about to leave the train station (railway.app users, blink twice). I should stop pulling all-nighters until 02:00 (or fucking 03:00) for the sake of my mental health sanity too.

Until then, I’m Andrei Jiroh, and I’m officially signing off.

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