hey you! yeah, you! got any tasty star bits?

I am still awake due to having to experiment on an ingredient and my body losing its collective marbles from what can be described as a splatter of sauce that was not even an amount. The pain is not too bad because it was so practically nothing, so I should escape it within a day (here's hoping). Having this reaction to chives was kind of expected but still, annoying!!

Whilst I'm awake though, Stadium recap. Season 17 ended on Tuesday evening, as did Drives. I did almost the entirety of Drives in Stadium bar a half dozen games in normal competitive, because the score thresholds were incredibly over generous in Stadium - two consecutive wins would clear a threshold, same if you had a singular loss in the middle, whereas standard could take you four to six wins per. The fact duo and I had a win streak helped for sure, but I was done in three days and returned to my side goal of maybe also getting Ashe into all star, which I was not planning to do. Then I hit Pro 2 just before Drives and was like, hngh, maybe I will try...



And I did it ♥ it was TOUGH. I switched my build up significantly after discovering how devastatingly impactful couch gun being able to set people on fire was, particularly in the first two rounds when the bonus flat damage to burning targets could instantly win you fights; the best way to do it with your baby dynamites later on is to toss the first in, detonate, coach gun them into the baby dynamites which also detonates them immediately and watch the kill feed fill up. I was winning rounds by myself... but unfortunately dps is not a role you can carry on in stadium. Truly the games I won I was seemingly underperforming purely because the rest of my team was competent.

It took 73 games/38 wins to get her into all star, a great deal more than the 50 games/30 wins both tank and support took, but as the love and light of my life, she was worth it. As you can tell... I played a hell of a lot of stadium this season. I kept a running tally of games played and competitive currency earned, and I played 226 games, won 121 of them, and accrued 5,120 competitive points for weapons over the course of the season, excluding the 3,000 point drive bonus - 8,120 overall. 3k is the cost of a weapon, and with Juno's as well, I got three out of this season and am a third of the way to the next already. It really was the season of stadium for me.

And as a reward for all star, of course Ashe had to get her galactic. And Brigitte, she is my goat.






Season 18 has kicked off but unfortunately they added something into competitive stadium that nobody asked for, which will dramatically reduce my time in the mode until they maybe remove it (and if they don't, i doubt I'll play tank or dps again in it for a while). (ETA: no mirror picks was disabled. Total time in the game: 49 hours. lmao.) In the meantime, I'm building myself a Brigitte build as she was just added in, and hopefully one for Moira whilst I'm at it...

Next time I really will sit down and talk builds. And also about undercoverfic. I went through C1-6 again and posted C1-3, C4-6 are ready to go and 4 will go up this week (6 I added in something at the start, so maybe a bit more work later on) and dove in to rewriting C7-10. C7 has been mostly rewritten except for some Cassidy aligned things I have not had the Cassidy inner train of thought epiphanies for yet, but likely an introspective for that soon before I move on to rewriting C8.

I have played enough stadium this season to have racked up another 3k comp points... the day before drives. ( stadium tl;dr. Ashe galactic IMMINENT )

Furniture update! Doors went on my bookcases this week. This... was more complicated than it needed to be: whilst I was moving shelves around myself (which is actually very simple and easy and shockingly a delight that I can capably do it physically, a 1/100 thing tbqh), I tried to add in some additional shelves I bought only to discover the pins to hold the shelves in place did not fit. My Billy's are, it turns out, pre-2014 Billy's, despite being bought in summer 2014. Ikea does warn this, but it says spring 2014, and July is, y'know, not spring. So, lol.

This was not only a pins not fitting problem but the pre-2014 Billy's have less holes than current Billy's do, so attaching doors isn't possible unless you do the diy and manually make them. Fortunately my dad could do the diy, but it took many more hours than initially expected, so new bookcases to replace my desk are going to have to be next time.

I put all my books back in Monday night. Very speedy without having to clean or move things in the way first. I'm waiting on shelf pins for the remainder, when I can slowly go through returning everything else and reorganising the cupboard parts for hygiene stuff. Once I've emptied out the 4x4 kallax and sent everything back to its Billy home, it'll be time to tackle cleaning everything on the original 5x5 kallax, in anticipation of the inserts that'll be getting... slowly getting there. The bookcases were arguably hardest and they look so much better now. And the best part is they're ✨dust free✨.

Also we're getting Tales of Xillia (but not 2, boo) in October and I am SO READY FOR MILLA THAT'S MY GODDESS GIRL she's perfect I love her. To celebrate I got her alter out after probably ten years and put it on my shelf. :3 she is free from her PS3 jail.

Not Ludger though. He has to stay in the box.