Fannish Fifty #24: Quick Boonboomger Taiya/Ishiro/Mira/Jou/Genba/Sakito Fanart Recs
May. 8th, 2026 10:39 pm
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malyminThe three major food groups of Norns are "food," "fruit," and "seeds."
- "Seeds" are primarily associated with starch, secondarily with fat. This food group consists of nuts and other seeds.
- "Fruit" is primarily associated with protein, secondarily with starch. This food group consists of fruits, berries, and mushrooms.
- "Food" is primarily associated with fat, secondarily with protein. This group is a bit of a wastebasket, and consists of both artisanal processed products, like cheese, and any food vegetation that isn't fruit or seeds, like carrots.
Native harvestible (not exclusive to dispensers) foods are the following. Italics are for injectible official agent plants.
Norn Meso:
- Seeds: Explodonut, Popping Pappus seed
- Fruit: Bramboo Berry
- Food: Carrot, Tuba Plant, Awkwood Creeper
Norn Terrarium:
- Seeds: Grass seed, Foxglove seed, Pumperspickel seed, Popping Pappus seed
- Fruit: Apple
- Food: Carrot
Jungle Terrarium:
- Seeds: Fungi spore, Tendril seed
- Fruit: Fungi, Chili Pepper
- Food: Awkwood Creeper
Desert Terrarium:
- Seeds: Cactus seed, Desert Grass seed
What Len'en means to me
May. 8th, 2026 06:54 ammagicalmelancholyFor my first Dreamwidth post, I figured I would talk about the thing that has consumed my life ever since 2019, Len'en Project.
I was a wee lad of 14 when I first downloaded it (in September 2018 according to my old laptop), after seeing MegamanOmega upload a part of a Len'en playthrough. You see, like many Len'en fans (especially back in those days), I had discovered it through Touhou. I loved dodging things and all I wanted was more things to dodge (my Steam wishlist still feels the effects of this even now). So I downloaded it, played it for a bit, had some fun while being very confused about why the dialogue kept going off of the screen, and then proceeded to move on with my life.
However, like most young teenagers (do young teens still frame all of their media discussion around tvtropes page titles?), I was obsessed with tvtropes, and eventually came across the Len'en tvtropes page. Now, it was and probably still is very incorrect, but the broad strokes of "There is someone named Suzumi who wants to kill Tsubakura and the narrative has not revealed why" were enough to captivate me. This danmaku game had an overarching narrative?
I became obsessed, and was eventually forced to use my discord to join the Unreal World of Mugenri. Now, I have a lot of complaints about my time in that server, especially with the retrospect of one of the major players there at the time having been a predator, but I also made a lot of precious friends there and in other Len'en servers. I'd say I'm still making precious friends, though I am no longer in uwom itself.
There are a lot of things that, while I wouldn't say would've never happened if it weren't for Len'en, Len'en definitely encouraged me to do.
Len'en encouraged me to explore my gender. It has a cast of genderless characters that you're free to interpret at will, so what do you expect? Counting off of memory, I've met at least three other people who had Tsubakura to thank for their gender crisis. I really wanted to have a flat chest like them, though ironically I no longer headcanon them with one (a long time ago I kept having intrusive thoughts about misgendering a transmasc Tsubakura so I flipped the headcanon to transfemme so it wouldn't be misgendering anymore and now that's just my headcanon).
Len'en encouraged me to draw more. What can I say? I couldn't draw men well, and I couldn't draw boobs well, so Len'en was perfect for me. Though nowadays, I don't care that much if I don't know how to draw something.
Len'en encouraged me to write more. When I got here there were exactly four fanfics in the AO3 tag, and two of them weren't in English (by the time I posted my first fanfic, a fifth one had appeared, making mine the sixth). I was maddened by the lack of fanfic in this series with a lot of fanfic potential, so I started writing my own. I even created a whole server dedicated to Len'en fanfiction, though I stepped down from moderation at some point once I realized I was not up to the task (by which I mean the hubris of being a teenager wore off). It still exists though, in a semi-private capacity.
It's really funny comparing my earlier fanfiction to now. I was so obsessed with Tsubakura, and escapism was my primary goal. Nowadays I'm an Iyozane and Fumikado fan and I'm working through a lot of shit. Actually, to tell the truth, I'm currently splitting my writing time between original stories (that will not be attached to this username if I do post them) and a crossover fic for another series. But when I do go back to Len'en it's about Iyozane. I love Iyozane <3
I was a wee lad of 14 when I first downloaded it (in September 2018 according to my old laptop), after seeing MegamanOmega upload a part of a Len'en playthrough. You see, like many Len'en fans (especially back in those days), I had discovered it through Touhou. I loved dodging things and all I wanted was more things to dodge (my Steam wishlist still feels the effects of this even now). So I downloaded it, played it for a bit, had some fun while being very confused about why the dialogue kept going off of the screen, and then proceeded to move on with my life.
However, like most young teenagers (do young teens still frame all of their media discussion around tvtropes page titles?), I was obsessed with tvtropes, and eventually came across the Len'en tvtropes page. Now, it was and probably still is very incorrect, but the broad strokes of "There is someone named Suzumi who wants to kill Tsubakura and the narrative has not revealed why" were enough to captivate me. This danmaku game had an overarching narrative?
I became obsessed, and was eventually forced to use my discord to join the Unreal World of Mugenri. Now, I have a lot of complaints about my time in that server, especially with the retrospect of one of the major players there at the time having been a predator, but I also made a lot of precious friends there and in other Len'en servers. I'd say I'm still making precious friends, though I am no longer in uwom itself.
There are a lot of things that, while I wouldn't say would've never happened if it weren't for Len'en, Len'en definitely encouraged me to do.
Len'en encouraged me to explore my gender. It has a cast of genderless characters that you're free to interpret at will, so what do you expect? Counting off of memory, I've met at least three other people who had Tsubakura to thank for their gender crisis. I really wanted to have a flat chest like them, though ironically I no longer headcanon them with one (a long time ago I kept having intrusive thoughts about misgendering a transmasc Tsubakura so I flipped the headcanon to transfemme so it wouldn't be misgendering anymore and now that's just my headcanon).
Len'en encouraged me to draw more. What can I say? I couldn't draw men well, and I couldn't draw boobs well, so Len'en was perfect for me. Though nowadays, I don't care that much if I don't know how to draw something.
Len'en encouraged me to write more. When I got here there were exactly four fanfics in the AO3 tag, and two of them weren't in English (by the time I posted my first fanfic, a fifth one had appeared, making mine the sixth). I was maddened by the lack of fanfic in this series with a lot of fanfic potential, so I started writing my own. I even created a whole server dedicated to Len'en fanfiction, though I stepped down from moderation at some point once I realized I was not up to the task (by which I mean the hubris of being a teenager wore off). It still exists though, in a semi-private capacity.
It's really funny comparing my earlier fanfiction to now. I was so obsessed with Tsubakura, and escapism was my primary goal. Nowadays I'm an Iyozane and Fumikado fan and I'm working through a lot of shit. Actually, to tell the truth, I'm currently splitting my writing time between original stories (that will not be attached to this username if I do post them) and a crossover fic for another series. But when I do go back to Len'en it's about Iyozane. I love Iyozane <3
DW Community Meme: Fill
May. 8th, 2026 12:11 ami_like_the_stars#Snatched from maevedarcy
DW community meme
A comm I check frequently:![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
vsynthrecs
A comm I would like to see more active:asexual_fandom
A comm I find useful:dreamwidthlayouts
A comm that makes me smile:indie_games
A comm that fills a very specific niche:shes_awesome
A comm I wish I had discovered earlier:journalsandplanners
maevedarcyDW community meme
A comm I check frequently:
vsynthrecsA comm I would like to see more active:
asexual_fandomA comm I find useful:
dreamwidthlayoutsA comm that makes me smile:
indie_gamesA comm that fills a very specific niche:
shes_awesomeA comm I wish I had discovered earlier:
journalsandplanners
Mid-Week Community Posts Round Up: 2026 May 04
May. 6th, 2026 07:18 pmi_like_the_starsTrying something new here. I want to be able to keep track of all my comm posts, so I'm keeping them in a writing doc and just copy and pasting here on Wednesdays. It makes an easy post.
Here’s all the posts I made in communities this week:
Song rec: magnet -recall- by Minato in beautifulmechanical and vsynthrecs. This was cross-posted to my journal.
Song recs invsynthrecs
I've Been Told
SWAY!
Sonic fic rec ingensplosion
Indie Games in My Steam Library I Need to Play inindie_games
Fan art recs infanart_recs
Sonic art
Blazamy Art
Here’s all the posts I made in communities this week:
Song rec: magnet -recall- by Minato in beautifulmechanical and vsynthrecs. This was cross-posted to my journal.
Song recs in
vsynthrecsI've Been Told
SWAY!
Sonic fic rec in
gensplosionIndie Games in My Steam Library I Need to Play in
indie_gamesFan art recs in
fanart_recsSonic art
Blazamy Art
my internet was out hai guyzzzz
May. 6th, 2026 04:42 pmelyusionbut this entry isn't about that.
can someone who is invkotd tell me if next week's challenge should be "I Can't Believe It's Not VKei" or some other thing i dont have a name for yet, but it's sharing songs that you think are classics or hits or whatever you're withholding because you think you won't look cool with unique superior music taste for sharing it?
i think sharing things that aren't vk but could be if you're working with a very faulty definition is funny, but on the other hand i could see someone getting irked that they subbed to a vkei comm and theyre not getting vkei, even if temporarily. but the funny.....
if the funny wins then the classics challenge can happen later, but if funny loses then i'm not sure if i'll ever just run it later 😓 since it's a little off-topic
can someone who is in
vkotd tell me if next week's challenge should be "I Can't Believe It's Not VKei" or some other thing i dont have a name for yet, but it's sharing songs that you think are classics or hits or whatever you're withholding because you think you won't look cool with unique superior music taste for sharing it?i think sharing things that aren't vk but could be if you're working with a very faulty definition is funny, but on the other hand i could see someone getting irked that they subbed to a vkei comm and theyre not getting vkei, even if temporarily. but the funny.....
if the funny wins then the classics challenge can happen later, but if funny loses then i'm not sure if i'll ever just run it later 😓 since it's a little off-topic
#28 - Let's do another! Song shuffle poem!
May. 6th, 2026 02:51 pmmirrorteruFrom 3weeks4dreamwidth !!
Put your mp3 player/phone/streaming collection on shuffle, and write down the first line of the first twenty songs.
Post the poem that results.
At a small harbor on the outskirts of town, a young girl stands alone
The whirlwinds become stronger, so the blue sky is laughing a bit
I tried to hide but something broke
Nothing's ever changed
At a small harbor on the outskirts of town, a young girl stands alone
There’s nothing wrong, yet I cry.
Lost wings
Come, come, everyone, all together now!
In this world, for one person alone,
I watch your face in profile
Just another brain on the campus, just another man in the field
The sky is grey and it's threatening to rain.
I dreamed I was missing
I turn and I see there’s nothing behind me
Innocent motion, tension breaking free
“Come, shall we dance?”
(come on, everybody! move your body!)
I'd rather live alone than live a lie
Think you're so clever
King and Queens of the Pelicans we
Regret Message Ballad version came up first, and then the one sung by the Kagamine's voice provider, laughs, so that's why that's there twice. ......what a fun combination, though.
3weeks4dreamwidth !!Put your mp3 player/phone/streaming collection on shuffle, and write down the first line of the first twenty songs.
Post the poem that results.
At a small harbor on the outskirts of town, a young girl stands alone
The whirlwinds become stronger, so the blue sky is laughing a bit
I tried to hide but something broke
Nothing's ever changed
At a small harbor on the outskirts of town, a young girl stands alone
There’s nothing wrong, yet I cry.
Lost wings
Come, come, everyone, all together now!
In this world, for one person alone,
I watch your face in profile
Just another brain on the campus, just another man in the field
The sky is grey and it's threatening to rain.
I dreamed I was missing
I turn and I see there’s nothing behind me
Innocent motion, tension breaking free
“Come, shall we dance?”
(come on, everybody! move your body!)
I'd rather live alone than live a lie
Think you're so clever
King and Queens of the Pelicans we
Regret Message Ballad version came up first, and then the one sung by the Kagamine's voice provider, laughs, so that's why that's there twice. ......what a fun combination, though.
Lions, Tigers, and Housecats
May. 6th, 2026 02:30 pmmalyminCurrent C3DS save is named "Cat's Cradle." I started with six norn eggs: siamese norns, bengal norns, and the tawny, maned hardmans. Two of each species, one of each sex.
So far, the Hardman Norns have killed seven grendels.
Prior to writing this, one norn has died: Sassy, the female siamese norn. She was an adolescent, and 28 minutes old. She was killed by a grendel in the Jungle Terrarium.
Bengal and siamese norns are both pretty "normal" norns. Bengals belong to the base genome type that shipped with the game. Siamese norns use the same genome that chichi norms use - a little more resilient to disease/poison/injury than the non-dlc norns, and an innate desire to use warp portals (the online feature that no longer functions, lol).
Hardmans are tougher still than chichi reskins, and are assholes. I kind of love them for it, though? It's charming when a virtual pet is an asshole. Part of the appeal of some of my favorite Catz breeds. Although Hardmans being assholes often has more...lethal consequences.
The underlying mechanic, as I understand, is that they get scared (including of things that don't scare other norns), instantly metabolize their fear into anger, and then want to hit other creatures (mainly grendel, but also other norns) in order to release that pent-up rage. Deep down, their anger management issues stem from them being scaredy-cats!
The first norn to get pregnant and lay an egg has been Tigress, the female bengal, after mating with Sophistico the male siamese, and she laid her egg in the treehouse of the Norn Terrarium. I've named the daughter Tabby. The second norn to get pregnant has been Lioness, the female hardman, after mating with Tyger the male bengal, and she laid her egg near the door to the Jungle Terrarium. I've named the daugher Tigone.
Lionel, the male hardman, is the first norn I've successfully taught Handish this run. For whatever reason, he'd decided to wander into the Norn Meso, guarding the entrance from any grendels who might come nearby (even though the door is locked for grendels...). After some time of Lionel being alone, Tyger joined him.
Tigone has been taught words. This will make it easier for her to communicate her needs with me. And she's killed her first grendel. She's also learning that hitting the mecha-grendel helps alieviate her boiling, hereditary rage. She got some toxins in her, and I fed her a potion to help her recover from them. When that wasn't enough, I took her back to the jungle to eat some peppers to boost her immune system.
Lioness is pregnant again. I think it's with Tyger again. A second liger (this one male) has been born, named... Liger.
Tigone has grown old enough to have sex, and did so with... her father... it's fine, Norns are like that. o_o; She laid her egg in the jungle. Lioness is also having a second child. Tigone has had a second pregnancy with Sophistico.
The plants provided with the Hardman Norn Pack, which grow natively in the terrarium once injected, make the Jungle an interesting place to raise norns. It's not as kind a place as the Norn Meso or Norn Terrarium - it's still full of diseases and the haunt of grendels. But with the Awkwood vines, food is even easier to find than in the terrarium for a starving norn - the pellets it leave behinds seem to never decay the way most edibles do. And the peppers provide more vitamin C than other fruits, which helps norns recover from injuries they get from being slapped by grendels. (Or each other...) I feel like "high risk, high nutrients" is a realistic trade-off for living in the rainforest compared to the typical norn regions.
Lioness is hungry, but seems to have forgotten how to eat. Her attention is focused on the food in front of her, she just can't... pick it up? I think she may die soon. Ok, nevermind, she remembered how.
I terraformed the Desert, aka the Ettin Home, some, by planting tubas ("food" plant) and bramboo ("fruit") in the soil. I hope this is at least part of the reason my ettins are still alive after... two hours. I think they're the first ettins the game spawned. I always feel bad for the ettins dying, I wanted them to live a little more comfortably.
The tigers have had an egg together, laid in the Norn Terrarium.
Omnikitty (the siamese/hardman/bengal) died in the desert. She was a child, and 18 minutes old. Most likely, she died to the grendel that was also in the desert.
EDIT: An ettin has died. Most likely, it was to disease and toxins from a grendel, considering the hover-doc autopsy. She was two hours and sixteen minutes old.
EDIT: An second ettin has died. Most likely, it was to violence from a grendel, considering the hover-doc autopsy. She was seven minutes old, and an adolescent.
#27 - Three Weeks for Dreamwidth.... ...5 books meme!
May. 5th, 2026 04:32 pmmirrorteruGolly. You know, I really need to explore around here more...! I want to know the sort of general Dreamwidth community more, I had no idea something like this was going on? A celebration of Dreamwidth?
Uhm, uhm!! I'm late, but I kind of want to join in, too...! And immediately seeing a meme... oh, there's so much to look into!
But this one seems fun. Seeing it in the feed from
spiralicious ... from goodbyebird at 3weeks4dreamwidth ...!1. Take five books off your bookshelf.
2. Book #1 -- first sentence
3. Book #2 -- last sentence on page fifty
4. Book #3 -- second sentence on page one hundred
5. Book #4 -- next to the last sentence on page one hundred fifty
6. Book #5 -- final sentence of the book
7. Make the five sentences into a paragraph
This is not for you. He appeared to be destitute alike of the ambition which urged, and of the passionate energy of a mind which enabled me to excel. They went out all day long to their work, seeking for gold and silver in the mountains. Cats, rats, and druddums slunk and scuttled along the passages. Send me word that he has come back.
unless I'm meant to change around the order for that BUT......
3 Weeks for Dreamwdith -- Day Eleven
May. 5th, 2026 11:41 ami_like_the_starsToday's song from my backlog is...
come undone by suzie Ft. Yun Quan
It really isn't like me to // Blow up, I'm not the person you once knew.
This is suzie's first ever original song completely written and produced by themself! It's like a laid back, modern take on city-pop. Dreamtonics' voicebanks are always incredible at cross-language synthesis; Quan sounds very clear. The animation is simple, but suzie has always had a talent for animating lip-syncing, which makes the video very fun to watch. It also has very pleasing colors and is going for that retro 90s VHS look. The melody is very catchy and will probably be stuck in my head for the next week in and out.
It really isn't like me to // Blow up, I'm not the person you once knew.
This is suzie's first ever original song completely written and produced by themself! It's like a laid back, modern take on city-pop. Dreamtonics' voicebanks are always incredible at cross-language synthesis; Quan sounds very clear. The animation is simple, but suzie has always had a talent for animating lip-syncing, which makes the video very fun to watch. It also has very pleasing colors and is going for that retro 90s VHS look. The melody is very catchy and will probably be stuck in my head for the next week in and out.