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<b>Name:</b>
<b>Collective/Main site:</b>

<b>Latest finished project(s):</b> (site-related)
<b>Next project(s):</b> (outside of this event)

<b>Currents:</b> (any web stuff, a fandom you’re active in, a book you’re reading, things you’re trying out, recent life events etc.)

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[evenstar]

Name: Rin (Kirryn Lia more properly~ also known on the Wired as Arwen, Evenstar, September, depending where I am at the time)
Collective/Main site: Wings

Latest finished project(s): "Tokyo BABYLON Fan Soundtrack: BOX", a Tokyo Babylon FST consisting of all the songs performed or mentioned in TyoBABI 5's "VOL 7/BOX" chapter, plus a 'disc' (so to speak, heh) full of extra songs. I also put together Disremembrance, an FST for Sailor Lethe and Sailor Mnemosyne late of Sailor Moon. (Can you tell I bleed music? ^^;)

Next project(s): Torn between doing a new layout and coughing up some opinion pieces for my 20+-year-old Arwen Evenstar shrine, and working on a massive, massive encyclopædia, essentially, of Tokyo BABYLON music -- mp3s and whole album downloads (seeing as the soundtracks are so out of print they're practically ghosts), scans, lyric translations, translation of CLAMP's commentary, etc etc. I want to turn the meagre fanlisting into an actually interesting place. I'd like to ultimately do the same thing for Weiß Kreuz music, on a smaller scale (again: albums out of print!). I know no one really cares about two obscure series' soundtracks, but...I do! ♥ So why not!

Currents: I've recently been diagnosed with moderate-severe ME/CFS, so everything at the moment is kinda mixed up and on its head -- life post-diagnosis is way harder to adjust to than I foolishly thought it would be, so I'm kind of all over the place between naps. I'm re-reading "The Secret Commonwealth", book 2 of The Book of Dust series by Philip Pullman, in anticipation of my copy of book 3, "The Rose Field", arriving. (It was delayed in shipment, so I didn't get it on release day, like I was hoping. Bother. I'm terrified it's gonna break my heart, just like book 3 of His Dark Materials did back when I was small. Terrified. Adult pain and disappointment can be so much sharper and unhealable than adolescent pain... ...am I going to devour the book the moment it arrived? Oh yes.) Otherwise it's just general hobbies when I'm able to move -- gaming (I have a horrible burning need to replay FFVI, dfjsklfda), nail varnish collecting, amigurumi, journalling in general, occasionally creeping outside into the blazing heat to attempt some wildlife photography (I currently live in the hottest city in Australia, and summer is upon us two months early, because lol, everyone loves hot weather, amirite? Excuse me while I dissolve...)

I'm really shy and weird so if I come off as awkward, I really apologise -- it's not intentional, I promise ^^;; Also ME/CFS means sometimes there are days-long gaps between replies etc, so please also forgive that. I'm a flaky correspondent, but only due to illness, not laziness ^^;;

[larissa]

Oh, I can't wait to dive into your Tokyo Babylon FST! I've never done the legwork to look up all the songs mentioned in that chapter, so I'm excited to finally hear them. (Have you picked up the new edition of the manga? I got some of the volumes a few months ago, but have been waiting to get the rest before I reread...) Would love to see new content on your Arwen site as well, especially as I mostly know her from the movies.

Sorry to hear about your diagnosis; I know it's a very difficult condition to live with. Wishing you the best with everything.

[evenstar]

Have you picked up the new edition of the manga?
Yes!! I got my hands on it a couple of months back, and...hm. I have some mixed feelings about the new translation; overall it's more accurate in some places, less so in others, but I don't think any differences really take away from the heartbreak story at all, and that's what really matters, imho.

And thank you! ♥

[requiems]

Rin, my heart goes out to you - I also have severe ME, nine full years as of this December, and ironically enough my own flares and PEM have stopped me from replying to this sooner. It's such a world shattering diagnosis to get, particularly when that's where the non-existent treatment ends and you're just kind of left to manage and navigate it yourself forevermore; I am so sorry.

I cannot offer much more than brain-on-fire, exhausted solidarity rn but I see you. ❤️

[spyderstar]

Rem, I wanted to reply to you too (as I have done with Rim) in expressing my sympathy of your diagnosis while also empathizing (given that there may be a chance that I may be diagnosed with the same thing, but am still going through testing to exclude other possibilities).

I'm here for both of you, if any of you need a soul in solidarity to confide in. Sending you both gentle thoughts and quiet strength.

[evenstar]

Oh no, I'm so sorry! This disease is the absolute worst and I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy; it's both encouraging and kind of heartbreaking to meet fellow sufferers ♥ (And amusingly, PEM is the same precise reason why this reply is late on my end, because of course it is. Sigh. XD)

I see you, too! And I offer the same brainfired solidarity...usually from a prone position, but still. ♥

[spyderstar]

Rin, I'm sorry to hear about your diagnosis. I can empathize because ME/CFS is also on my physicians' differential list for diagnosing my current chronic illness; we are just still going through testing to make sure since ME/CFS is usually a diagnosis of exclusion.

Take things one step at a time — you’re doing your best. A diagnosis of ME/CFS is very complex to navigate, especially when it comes to explaining the condition and its impacts on you to other people who may not grasp just how overwhelmingly exhausting it is.

I live in one of the hottest and humid states in the US, and I can assure you that I am not at all a fan of hot weather haha. It rarely gets below 70 degrees F where I live. Ah, what I would do for cool breezes...

[evenstar]

Ahhh, oh no -- FWIW, I hope it's not ME/CFS for you (...not that that would change a lot of the overlapping symptoms with about a million other things, but still ;.;). And thank you so much for your kind words -- they're sorely needed; so many people just don't get the absolute and utter exhaustion that it comes with! Fingers crossed for you ♥

Ugh, humidity. My mortal enemy, I swear ¬.¬; Heat is bad enough on its own, but when you add the OTHER h-word? You're measuring the air quality in wet towels and it's a minor form of hell. All the commiserations -.-;;