Lethe @lethe@fandom.ink

#introduction Hi, I'm Lethe! My heart is pledged to manga, JRPGs, VNs, and stories in any shape.

All things dearest to me converge in the creation of shrines, a type of fansite and relict from the web of old; to me, that's where passion and devotion are distilled by way of analysis and interpretation, and take shape in the coalescence of language, poetry, design and code. It's an effort to make the fleeting eternal – snapshots of my feelings and my self preserved in online memory capsules.

My shrines are stationed at https://oubliette.nu/ (main, dated) and https://six-chances.net/ (subproject, current). My latest creation after a break of several years is on the manga "The Top Secret" by Reiko Shimizu: https://shimizu.six-chances.net/secret/ I'd love to get back to working on sites regularly again.

I briefly had a Mastodon account in 2017 and am now giving it another go. Looking forward to interacting with new people here – especially if you're also working on personal sites! ❤

I'm not an impulse buyer, but my weakness is Kirby. I bought myself the Tree of Dreams quite some time ago, assembled it, then realized that no matter where I set it up in the apartment, it looks like a dildo towering above my stuff. (You could say that Revolutionary Girl Utena has trained my eye to see phallic symbols in everything.)

Now I've finally sold it. 😢😢😢 I'm sorry i couldn't love you. 😢😢

Wondering whether to give "even if TEMPEST" a try, considering I haven't played any Voltage game before and have been ignoring their Switch ports of mobile otome games. I didn't even know this one wasn't a port lol.

Currently playing London Detective Mysteria, which has been in my backlog for 3.5 years. 😱 It's charming enough, but doesn't stand out in any way. What an odd localization choice, especially so late into the PS Vita cycle.

#fedihelp When using Tusky on Android, my home feed doesn't display successive/chained toots by the same original poster (including myself). It only displays the first toot, with no indication that there are more (until I click on the first toot itself). Is this intended behaviour or is there a setting I'm missing?

Balancing life with creative time is just a thing that happens, but balancing recovery with creative time tends to leave me with mixed feelings. I keep thinking that if I pushed myself more with writing/designing in the evenings, I'd be more satisfied and progress more quickly...

But writing on my thesis all day is already bleeding me dry. I need to stop thinking that I'm doing a bad job at balancing consuming and creating just because I'm allowing myself to recover by doing something joyful.

Indie games and VNs are a different matter though, since they tend to be on the shorter side!

The sense of joy, wonder and serenity that #chicory and #toem evoked a while ago made me add a bunch of indie games to my Steam wishlist, and they've all been going on sale one after another lately. 🙈 The past week or so, I've been hooked to #inscryption and #SlaytheSpire, and they've allowed me to turn off my brain in the evenings when I'm too exhausted to do anything else.

Haven't done anything related to #shrines since returning from my trip over a week ago, really miss it; there are so many more sites I want to create and remake.

For the first quarter of 2022, I told myself, no JRPGs or other long games so that I can focus on site-making, which worked out well. I'd like to keep it that way for the time being, especially since the next game on the list is ToCS IV, and the #kiseki games are loooong. 🙃