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6.29.2025

The classpecting essay is finally published. Keep an eye out for changes as I get the program that lets me do some finer analyses. I'm publishing it now because the data thats of use to most people is done. I'm not sure when it will be finished finished but hopefully soon!

I do want to say that the raw data is a mess and I need to go back and reformat it all to remove spelling errors and properly archive all the links, but I'm tired of this project and I'll probably hit it when I need busywork to do. Snessay editing is going good, I'm taking it slowly to not overwhelm myself with the sheer amount of citations I have to fix and pretty up. Eugh, what was I thinking, formatting them like this? This is ridiculous, and I know it was worse than that because some of my beta readers pointed out how terrible my citations were formatted then.

You may have noticed a bunch of non-linked essays. These are essays I plan to write and I'm putting them there to remind myself to write them.

Also: I've finally gestated a story for the necessary one whole year, and I'll finally get around to writing it sometime in July. I wish it didn't take me so damn long and I don't know what my issue is in taking so damn long. If I feel like it I'll publish it here.

6.28.2025

The classpecting essay is done. I'm currently formatting it, but I will say, it will be published without data, as I'm waiting for my programmer friends to get back to me on a script to do the hard work for me in comparing what systems are similar/divergent. Expect me to publish it tomorrow and to update it when I'm able to organise.

This means a pivot to the "magical girl hell project" now that time's been freed up. I'm thinking I can get the data collection done in a handful of days, but the actual hard part is going to be watching all of the MR game's story cutscenes to see what decisions the MR anime changed. It's like a days worth of footage just for the first arc, which is all I care about for this essay, but I will need to watch more (or at least skip around more) for the essay I plan to do on Alina.

6.27.2025

The classpecting essay is nearly complete. I've decided to go through my written essays and insert roughly when I started working on them since I think it would be interesting to see how long I spend on each. Because it's almost done, I'll be working more on Portrait, which I am dreading.

If anyone can give me a PDF scan of all seven Harry Potter books so I can refine my citations down to page and paragraph, I will kiss you on the mouth. I'm fine not citing that specifically right now, but eventually I would like to. It might be something I hit up the library for.

I'll also start working on the "magical girl hell project" again now that I've taken a break from having to do it. At least I'll be tracking less characters with PMMM, and there's only 12 episodes to cut up.

6.13.2025

Vvivvisection is finally done and about 1k shorter. I'm pleased that I could cut that much out of it. The shorter the better! This means I can focus on rewriting Portrait of a Potions Master, which is going to take so much longer. Though I will say, Vvivvisection only took me as long as it did because I was making the citations more clear. I don't own physical copies of the HP books so I won't be able to do that for Portrait, though I would like to eventually. However, the citations on Portrait are kinda gross as they are and I anticipate unspaghettifying them to be a paaaain.

Oh well. I'm chunking away at my seasonal essay and the classpect essay. The former will be easy to write once all the data is organised.

6.10.2025

Still working on Vvivvisection, but I'm transferring some very old articles from an old metaphysics site over to the new format. There's one on geomancy that I've already published, and there's one on starseeds and crystal healing that I'm working on transferring over. Please note that, unless otherwise stated, these articles are unedited, and are not up to quality. I'm publishing them now so I can get them transferred and not have to worry about losing them, NOT because they're good. When I rewrite them, I'll treat them as though they are new articles - because they essentially will be.

Beyond Vvivvisection I have a bunch of small, forgotten projects I'd like to clean up and publish. These include supplemental material for Portrait of a Potions Master which will come out after I finish cleaning that essay up, an analysis of Alina Gray from MR, a map-making tutorial, an essay on Glarthir from Oblivion, an essay on bases/recolours (blast from the past, I know), an essay about classpects from Homestuck, and a Halloween project I ought to start now before school starts. Aren't I busy!

Aside from this, I'll be cleaning up the geomancy JavaScript program I wrote years ago and adding my Snape chatbot on my page. I don't know why its taken this long to add either, but here we are.

6.7.2025

I lied. Crystalline Capitalism was updated first because it was a much smaller essay. I'll probably hit Playing Mother Grub next since its similarly contained, and then How The Emoji Movie Failed since its the most recent essay that I don't anticipate having to edit that much.

6pm edit: Playing Mother Grub is done. Vvvivvisection is next, but not today, my head hurts.

6.6.2025

Such Vvulgarity! has been updated to the new format. It has also been rewritten to an extent to make it easier to read. The citations have also gotten a slight update; hopefully they're easier to navigate now! I will probably be doing Vvvivvisection next.

While I do this, I'm also working on rewriting the whole of Portrait of a Potions Master since I don't like the philosophy of writing I had at that time. The information is still good, but the writing is poor and the citations are gross (why are they inside of punctuation???). But I am tired so I will start tomorrow.

6.1.2025

In an effort to make this website more accessible, I'm trying to move away from PDFs and to more screen-reader friendly documents. However, GDocs is being fussy with its publishing feature, so I'll have to redo the formatting of all of my documents. I'm not sure if I want to keep the PDFs, but I'm happy to prettify my documents while making them easier to read.

In other news, I'm going to split up my "creations" tab into subpages, since it's getting too long for my liking. I've also merged the updates page with this one since I use this page to update anyways.

Also: I've finished crunching numbers for half of what I've been calling the "magical girl hell project" (the Magia Record thing I mentioned last) but I need to take a break from it. It was hard work, and I've not even gotten to making sense of it all, nor started on the original Madoka. Being meguca really IS suffering!

5.17.2025

It's finally out! My Emoji Movie essay is finally out!

I'm working on a Magia Record essay next, along with an MLP: FiM and High Guardian Spice. Can't tell you which will be out first (but its not HGS since I've not started on it). I may revisit my Snape essay and build out more Snape essay content. There is truly so much to talk about with him.

5.7.2025

Expect The Emoji Movie essay to drop in the next week.

5.6.2025

The Emoji Movie essay is almost done but I'm torn between wasting energy on it and finishing an outline for a fic. Extenuating circumstances mean I have to devote a lot of time to other things to make sure I'm alive so I'm not sure how much I'll be able to upload here. I like having my little website in the chaos.

I feel like video essays have displaced classic essays. I'm Quinton Reviewsing characters and media, but my reach is limited because I'm fully text-based. I'm aware that accessibility to my writing is an issue given that I use GDocs and PDFs, and I'm not sure how to fix that without compromising on parity, but I am considering making audio versions of all my documents that are Done done, and the same if I ever publish any fics. I'm also considering making the transition to video for both accessibility and fun, but this site and its text are paramount.

4.17.2025

Added about 50 links, going to add 10 more when I sort them properly. One day I'll have over 600 links.

Anyways, the essay on The Emoji Movie is coming along well. I finally saw The LEGO Movie and holy hell. I feel like I drank water after a lifetime of drinking soda. I watched a bunch of other movies too. I forgot how sexual Foodfight is, and for what? Nothing here looks good enough to fuck. When I'm done with The Emoji Movie essay, I'll probably pivot into High Guardian Spice or maybe Magia Record. The latter would be a shorter essay because my issues with the MR anime all come from one thing, but if I do the former, expect it to be structured like The Emoji Movie essay.

That thing will come out soon! Maybe by the end of the month or beginning of the next? I don't know yet. Life's been hell, school's been hard, I've not got a lot of time to spend on it and I need to watch The LEGO Movie again. Protip: Don't watch 5 movies in one day, they all run together.

4.6.2025

The Emoji Movie essay is 2/3rds done, I just need to talk about the actual movie now and not just its production and reception. This means I get to watch a bunch of good movies too... and Foodfight. I'll probably be adding more links today, and if not today, probably next week. I'll also be cleaning up some of my past essays too. The context won't change, but the formatting will be a little nicer to look at.

I'm also considering publishing some fanfics here. I have a short one that I could probably write in a week or two, and then once I've edited it down, I may put it here. I don't know, though.

2.19.2025

All I'm gonna say is that I'm working on something Emoji Movie related.

2.16.2025

Added more links as well as a random link picker.

1.22.2025

School started so I'm probably not going to update the website substantially. I've discovered what jangle pop is because I only want to listen to The Smiths and artists like The Smiths right now. I've already listened to all of The Smiths. Jangle pop is the closest genre to that, and dipping into shoegaze because why not.

I'm trying to get better at drawing too. I don't know if I'll post anything yet, but I'm barely into this course. It's working well though!

1.6.2025

Snow cancelled my psych appointment unfortunately. Collecting some links that should go live whenever. I found a cool music player I'd like to add but I'd need songs to put on it, so if I do add it, it'll later.

Can someone whip me into finishing a writing thing I have to get done.

1.3.2025

The library-links merge is done. Stars should render on some iframes, at least the important ones. I have also added in custom cursors as well as a custom favourite icon for the links section. A custom favicon for links has been added too.

1.2.2025

Removed the library section and and am currently merging it with links. It felt redundant. Currently in the process of doing that so the pages might look weird. Organising the links further: favourites, normal, and other. Favourites are marked with a temporary GIF, normal are below and are unmarked, and other are under a details tab. I thought the links were getting too unruly to use so I thought this would be the best way of preserving information while making it easier to navigate. I have also decided to mark when links have been added. New links will have proper dates, older links are marked with "2024" since I don't remember when they were added.

Woke up at 4pm again. This time it is because I have COVID. But COVID didn't stop me from cleaning the fuck out of my room. It looks pretty good! New year, new room. I bought some things to hang up pictures too, so I can reorganise my wall.

The bank is still giving me trouble paying off three whole dollars on my credit card. Why do I need a checking account if I have a savings account? Can't I just pay from there? My partner can do that, so why can't I? I'll call tomorrow about it.

12.29.2024

I accidentally pulled an all nighter last night and it meant I forgot my medicine. Went a little manic but I weaponised it for good rather than evil. Decided enough was enough after about 30 hours because I kept seeing my cat on my shelf when he wasn't actually there. Woke up today at 4pm which is upsetting but I'll get things done.

12.21.2024

I got home yesterday. Finished Evangelion.

I want to redo some articles I did on another account, so expect articles on a particular satanic group and on rocks eventually.

12.19.2024

I've decided to make a blog feature on my site so I can talk about things more.

An update for a roadmap. I am crunching numbers for Mother Grub because I feel like my "just take my word for it" approach reflects badly on me. No idea when it will be done. As for other essays, I am working on a thorough thrashing of Good Flag, Bad Flag, as well as a review of classpecting. I am considering doing a character analysis on another character, but I won't say who! It's a secret! It isn't if you know me, but if you don't, you'll never guess! Speaking of Elder Scrolls, I might write something about how Skyrim is narratively biased towards the Stormcloaks.

I've been reading a lot of books recently. I liked Jekyll and Hyde when I was in high school, but I was bored by it, since everyone knows the twist. Without the twist, there's no gripping plot, no real mystery, and Jekyll is the only character that sticks out, and only barely. I then read The Picture of Dorian Gray. I liked that a lot more. The interplay between Henry, Basil, and Dorian makes the book for me. I feel like Dorian's fall from grace was rushed, but the culmination did hit, and the ending was solid. I would reccommend it! Finally, I read Carmilla, and it was okay. I liked it better than Jekyll and Hyde, and I liked Carmilla (manic pixie dream vamp?), but I think it suffered from the same issue as Jekyll and Hyde. The characters were not fleshed out, but the twist was better executed, likely because I didn't know it beforehand.

I will read The Vampyre next, and then either Jane Eyre or The Woman In White.

I get to look forward to a 12hr train ride tomorrow. I watched half of Evangelion on the first train ride, and I expect to finish it. I love Evangelion!