Yay, Smartphone!
Mar. 3rd, 2019 09:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
insaneladybugDad got a phone upgrade thanks to a friend, and I inherited the old phone. I have a Smartphone for the first time, lol. Last year I kept trying to figure out about getting a phone so I could play Duel Links and finally determined that phone shopping was a headache because of how expensive they tend to be and having to lock them to a provider and that getting a tablet compatible with Duel Links would be better and cheaper (which it was). I definitely don't think I'd want to play Duel Links on a phone. The screen would be too small.
Smartphones confuse the heck out of me. I was always baffled by the phone when Dad had me use it for one reason or another. Now that it's mine, I have to keep looking up things on the Internet for tasks like deleting pictures, as it's not the same as on a tablet. I think I'm figuring it out at last, though. I have a YGO ringtone and wallpaper, which delights me. One of the things I thought would be the most fun about owning a Smartphone would be having a custom ringtone of something I really loved. The ringtone is part of the English YGO opening. I also think I'll want a case for the phone. I told Dad he should get one, but he never did. I wish I could find a cute custom case for the phone with a picture of something I love, but that's not looking too likely.
I have Gansley's and Nesbitt's shirts done. Crump's is cut out, and I may get a chance to work on it tonight. I also wanted to make a Marik plush and I got a base this week, but I can't find material to make the hair. The only thing I liked was almost $10 a yard, and even though I wouldn't want that much, I'd want enough that the price would likely be more than I'd feel I could pay right now. Maybe I'd better just make Serenity or David instead, since I still have the materials here for them. Of course, first priority is to finish the Big Four's shirts. I do think I'll want to make suitcoats too, but I may or may not wait a bit on that. So many sleeves....
Then I have the problem that I've been getting the urge to get that Marik figure by Kotobukiya. It's so gorgeous! And expensive, sigh. Oh, if I'd only known about those when they first came out. It's amazing I could get my Yami Bakura figure. I doubt I'd ever be able to get another, but I'm longing so much for Marik that I'm looking for a way to make it work. One option would be earning gift cards for Amazon and buying him there, but it will take a while to gather enough, and I'm not sure they're going to keep having him. At least if I never can make it work, I have both of the Marik figures Mattel made back in the day, and love them dearly.
I'm almost finished with my twisted kidnap fic; it was always meant to be short. I think one more chapter should wrap it up. I ended up doing a lesser mind-screw where Lector is sometimes not sure whether he's been mutilated or not and only imagining he's whole. The fic seems to be largely about Lector and Mokuba interaction, as I wasn't always sure what to write for the Big Four after just doing a lot of them agonizing over things in the New Orleans fic. I think I have some good scenes with them here, though.
Next, it's on to the Manga Yami Bakura fic, and I'm going to do the Bendy and the Ink Machine stuff in it, thanks to an intriguing dream I had about Gansley and Nesbitt working for the bad guys in that and Gansley not being able to bear killing the others when the time comes, so he sacrifices himself for Lector instead. In the fic, Gansley will be brainwashed and Nesbitt joins undercover trying to break through the mind-control. Gansley will still sacrifice himself for Lector, but the act will save him, much to Manga Yami Bakura's consternation. I also think I may not reveal immediately who he is; I think I'll do a prologue that's vague about him falling through dimensions, and then the story proper will open with everyone waking up in a life-size game world. So they're trying to get out and trying to figure out who the Game Master is.
Smartphones confuse the heck out of me. I was always baffled by the phone when Dad had me use it for one reason or another. Now that it's mine, I have to keep looking up things on the Internet for tasks like deleting pictures, as it's not the same as on a tablet. I think I'm figuring it out at last, though. I have a YGO ringtone and wallpaper, which delights me. One of the things I thought would be the most fun about owning a Smartphone would be having a custom ringtone of something I really loved. The ringtone is part of the English YGO opening. I also think I'll want a case for the phone. I told Dad he should get one, but he never did. I wish I could find a cute custom case for the phone with a picture of something I love, but that's not looking too likely.
I have Gansley's and Nesbitt's shirts done. Crump's is cut out, and I may get a chance to work on it tonight. I also wanted to make a Marik plush and I got a base this week, but I can't find material to make the hair. The only thing I liked was almost $10 a yard, and even though I wouldn't want that much, I'd want enough that the price would likely be more than I'd feel I could pay right now. Maybe I'd better just make Serenity or David instead, since I still have the materials here for them. Of course, first priority is to finish the Big Four's shirts. I do think I'll want to make suitcoats too, but I may or may not wait a bit on that. So many sleeves....
Then I have the problem that I've been getting the urge to get that Marik figure by Kotobukiya. It's so gorgeous! And expensive, sigh. Oh, if I'd only known about those when they first came out. It's amazing I could get my Yami Bakura figure. I doubt I'd ever be able to get another, but I'm longing so much for Marik that I'm looking for a way to make it work. One option would be earning gift cards for Amazon and buying him there, but it will take a while to gather enough, and I'm not sure they're going to keep having him. At least if I never can make it work, I have both of the Marik figures Mattel made back in the day, and love them dearly.
I'm almost finished with my twisted kidnap fic; it was always meant to be short. I think one more chapter should wrap it up. I ended up doing a lesser mind-screw where Lector is sometimes not sure whether he's been mutilated or not and only imagining he's whole. The fic seems to be largely about Lector and Mokuba interaction, as I wasn't always sure what to write for the Big Four after just doing a lot of them agonizing over things in the New Orleans fic. I think I have some good scenes with them here, though.
Next, it's on to the Manga Yami Bakura fic, and I'm going to do the Bendy and the Ink Machine stuff in it, thanks to an intriguing dream I had about Gansley and Nesbitt working for the bad guys in that and Gansley not being able to bear killing the others when the time comes, so he sacrifices himself for Lector instead. In the fic, Gansley will be brainwashed and Nesbitt joins undercover trying to break through the mind-control. Gansley will still sacrifice himself for Lector, but the act will save him, much to Manga Yami Bakura's consternation. I also think I may not reveal immediately who he is; I think I'll do a prologue that's vague about him falling through dimensions, and then the story proper will open with everyone waking up in a life-size game world. So they're trying to get out and trying to figure out who the Game Master is.
