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Shining Nikki, the 3D game of the Nikki series is released in the US. I've been seeing a lot of ads for it lately. However, looking at my spending and time investment on my existing dressup games, I'm gonna pass on it.

I'll stick with Time Princess for my 3D dressup needs. Speaking of which...


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So the Love Nikki event for Garden of Spiral Staircase is starting tomorrow.

I am definitely planning to get at least two of the major suits, with Night Banquet being a certainty. For the other one, I'm being torn between World in a Game for its foreground piece, or Fleeting Dream for the butterfly fairies. I mean, the giant weqi board is awesome, though I do have a less awesome weiqi-themed suit. The butterfly fairies are pretteh, but I also have other butterfly themed pieces. Uhn...

Also, want to double check, but for the minor set Moon in Mist, both versions are based on wintersweet flowers, right?



Then again, looking further at suit breakdowns, Night Banquet seems to have some clipping issues. So maybe I should instead drop that and get the other two?

EDIT: Alternatively... since it looks like you can buy individual pieces out of the suits instead of being forced to unlock an entire suit at a time, I could pick and choose the individual pieces out of all four sets. I do lose out on the posed versions and backgrounds though. Hrm.

Still having fun with Love Nikki.

Some Halloween costumes:


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Two of the recent event suits. The robo-kitty is adorable! The men's style wuxia outfit is cool too.

Ignore the hole in my wallet getting these. Though actually, I suppose the spending is for other stuff, and the side effect is the gems I received for the other stuff was then put into getting these. >.>



Just realized both are green colored suits. There seems to be an abundance of red, pink, blue, green colored suits. Not a lot of purple ones compared to blue or black. I think I only have like...3 purplish dresses, and that's including the 2 orchid sets.

OK! So I finished the Ink Orchid set required to move past Chapter 7 (and am now stopped at the suit for Chapter 8 XD). Though, I think I like the dress from Orchid's Chant better aesthetically speaking. And of course, they look even better mix-matched. ^_^



Hair/Dress from Orchid's Chant, Fan/Shoes from Ink Orchid (not that you can see the shoes). The rest of the decoration are separate from the suits.

More cosplay outfits on the Dawn Skyfire facebook account.

Items I'm currently working on...
Northern Soldier shirt/pants in order to unlock Vol.1 Chapter 7 side quest stage 3
Light Fairy suit to unlock Chapter 9
Convallaria Bud coat/dress to unlock Volum 2 Stage 1-2
Fluffy Lop suit to progress in the Dreamland:Yvette special questline
Sword Girl suit
Spring Camellia dress and coat
Polychrome dress

http://kissmanga.com/Manga/Pokemon-Dating-a-Team-Magma-Grunt-Doujinshi

This is kinda adorable. Game continuity based, looks like.

Crossposted with complete image set on Tumblr



My favorite deity in Chinese myth - Erlang Shen (二郎神).

Erlang is very often hailed nowadays as a god of war. But I’m not sure I agree with that role. The more traditional war gods in Chinese myth are actually Xing Tian (邢天) and Chi You (蚩尤), and I’d even argue that deities like Nezha (哪吒) is a more proper diety of war/battles than he is. Erlang is probably more accurately a martial god/sage (武圣). He’s less about the leading armies part of war and more about the kicking of butts. =P Hence, why he was called in to fight the Monkey King in “Journey to the West” when nobody else in the Heavens could match the monkey. But he was not often shown as a front line army/squad leader during the Shang-Zhou war in “Canonization of the Gods”.

More traditionally, he’s the patron deity of the Shu (蜀) region of China, which more or less encompasses the modern Sichuan region. (Kinda like how Athena was patron deity of Athens and so forth.) He’s also a god of the waterways (possibly civil engineering?), credited with helping the historical figure of Li Bing (李冰) build the Dujiangyan (都江堰) Irrigation System.

On a less serious vein, I also think he should be a deity of domestication (or Pokemon trainers XD). IIRC he’s the only major mythical figure who is associated with a varied retinue of pets. The most famous is the celestial hound Xiaotianquan (啸天犬), and he’s also known to have a hunting hawk and a silver horse. Fun fact - in “Canonization of the Gods”, all the other gods have a tendency to have one or a few major arcane artifacts which they would often use in during battle as their ‘ultimate attack’, in an RPG sense. Erlang, on the otherhand, never bothered with any artifacts. Instead, in the middle of battle, he would fling his dog out of his sleeve to maul his opponents face - to great effect. Now remember, in ancient China, the only pure breed of dogs is the ancestor of the modern Pekingese (and not the large bloodhound/german shepherd type dog that is depicted in more modern art). I have to admit, the mental image of a fluffy pekingese assassin puppy getting tossed out of a god’s sleeve made for a very hilarious mental image.

In Which I Watch Sailor Moon is an insightful and funny review-slash-parody of the Sailor Moon anime. The link here is to the index page so you don't have to slog through all 7 threads of digressions and discussion. The author also does some really nice comic art to go with his parody/review.

一醉方休...

Album here

OK, so some of the pics and albums are a little racy, and some of the pics look like cosplay. But still, there are some pretty ones.

Also, there are other albums on the side, some of which contain powder art.

^^

So what do you think?



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Should I rename Felline's chaos weapon? Or should I rename a sommersword so that anyone who can use a 2nd hand weapon (Meri or Aba) can use it?