The case of the missing notifications

Apr. 11th, 2026 11:58 pm
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I keep forgetting to post about this: we've been troubleshooting the "missing notifications" problem for the past few days. (Well, I say "we", really I mean Mark and Robby; I'm just the amanuensis.) It's been one of those annoying loops of "find a logical explanation for what could be causing the problem, fix that thing, observe that the problem gets better for some people but doesn't go away completely, go back to step one and start again", sigh.

Mark is hauling out the heavy debugging ordinance to try to find the root cause. Once he's done building all the extra logging tools he needs, he'll comment to this entry. After he does, if you find a comment that should have gone to your inbox and sent an email notification but didn't, leave him a link to the comment that should have sent the notification, as long as the comment itself was made after Mark says he's collecting them. (I'd wait and post this after he gets the debug code in but I need to go to sleep and he's not sure how long it will take!)

We're sorry about the hassle! Irregular/sporadic issues like this are really hard to troubleshoot because it's impossible to know if they're fixed or if they're just not happening while you're looking. With luck, this will give us enough information to figure out the root cause for real this time.

~RED LIGHT ABBNNORMALITY

Apr. 10th, 2026 10:12 pm
zarla: bubble bobble (bubblebobble)
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gfhhhhhhrgghhh THE 16TH IS STILL SO FAR AWAYYY AAAAAAAA

In other waiting news, I accidentally knocked my tablet off my desk and the connecting bit to the cord bent and now my tablet isn't working D: I took it in to get looked at at a local repair place and they can still plug some things into the port on the tablet, but the cord just won't go in. I talked to Wacom about it too and they recommended getting a new cord, so I'm giving that a try but it won't get here until Monday. UGH EVERYTHING IS WAITING LATELY EVERYTHING IS WAAITTINNGGGGGG a real test of patience here

I think I mentioned before that I was playing Miitopia to fend of Tomodachi cravings and it's cute! I've taken some screencaps along the way so why not post them, haha. GOTTA DO SOMETHING

Does my team have a high proportion of old people? yes )

~God, the human body is hideous

Apr. 6th, 2026 12:34 am
zarla: zorn and thorn hopping (yeeezornandthorn)
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TOMODACHI LIFE DROPPING ON THE 16TH AND I CAN'T WAIT I CAN'T WAAAAIIITTT AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
I can't remember the last time I was counting days this intensely, haha. I'm so excited!! I can't wait to make so many Miis with all the great customization tools and the CLOTHES and the PETS and MPREG/FPREG AAAAAAAAA
the lack of a filter is also hilarious lol. I'm a little sad there doesn't seem to be a way to share Miis like with Streetpass back in the original! But who knows, maybe there'll be something, we don't know! It could get updates or something if it's like super popular or something, haha. The hype for it seems real! I don't remember people flipping out about the original but people definitely seem to be flipping out over this one. At least in my circles, haha.

Anyway, I thought the first game also didn't have a filter but it turns out that's not true! The 3DS ITSELF has a filter, but the game itself doesn't! So I was halfway right? It's really easy to get around though if you just stick words together. I tried to find my Tomodachi Life cartridge to test for myself but no matter where I looked I couldn't find it! Then I got curious if maybe it was just a Streetpass thing, since the screencap I had was from a Streetpass I got. Then it turned out there's a way to get Streetpasses over the net called Netpass! I loved getting Streetpasses back in the day, but it's hard when you don't live in a huge city where a lot of people have DS's, and you're definitely not going to get any nowadays, so the idea of Streetpassing again was very appealing! I could play my stupid flower breeding game again!

However, it only works on hacked DSes, but people told me that hacking a DS is actually pretty easy. :O There's a site that lists all the steps in detail, and following that, I actually did it! And all my data's intact and everything. :O I tested out Netpass and I can indeed get Streetpasses again! When my internet connection decides to work anyway, haha. My DS always had shaky wifi... well in general my wifi is always a bit shaky. But I've been having fun trying out new things on my 3DS again! I COULD technically redownload Tomodachi Life if I wanted, apparently my data for it is still on my DS? But I don't want to Tomodachi myself out before the new drop, haha. I HAVE TO SAVOR IT

So instead I've been playing Miitopia, which is also fun! I like the relationship system in it, where each party member has a relationship that goes up or down depending on what you do, and at certain thresholds you get new little abilities, like helping each other with attacks or comforting each other or taking hits for each other. It's cute! My current team is my old lady Mii, Dahlia, Yanni, and Disco. I wanted a team of all olds but I didn't have another old character on my Tomodachi Island, haha. Though if I get a chance at another team member I'm going to make Wickerbottom.


Anyway, in more interesting news, I UPDATED VARGAS!! It hasn't QUITE been five years but it's incredibly close, haha. The longest gap was five years and I MANAGED TO BEAT IT. It's shorter than most chapters but pretty intense, some big things happen in it! A very complicated pivotal scene that went through many iterations, I have tons of scraps from it on the cutting room floor. I don't want to get into more detail since I just posted it and some people might not have read it yet. It's getting the reaction I was hoping for though, hehe. Updating Vargas feels like such a huge momentous deal to me every time I do it and I can only imagine it as another "eh, don't care, what's the big deal" for most people who follow me lol. VARGAS FANS ARE PASSIONATE BUT I DON'T KNOW WHAT PROPORTION OF PEOPLE FOLLOWING ME THEY MAKE

The 16th feels so far awaaaayyyyy

~The encounter rate is busted

Apr. 3rd, 2026 07:52 am
zarla: no one plays with that drifloon. it's too bad. it's a nise drifloon. (nisedrifloon)
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OKAY PRETEND I POSTED THIS HERE ON APRIL FOOLS, I WAS BUSY AND FORGOT


I was playing Leaf Green on the Switch and I was wandering around in Mt. Moon, and I found a ladder behind a rock that led me to this weird area and all these weird Pokemon showed up!







I've never seen any of these before! Maybe Nintendo added them as a secret for the new release...?



This one scared me to death lol, when I ran into it the game crashed! When it loaded back up I tried to find the ladder again but I couldn't, all the caves in FRLG look the same. I should have saved or something! Hindsight...

I took a few more screencaps, I'll put them under here )

into dreamfall

Apr. 2nd, 2026 07:01 pm
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two days til i'm heading to alabamy aaaa its fine its going to be fine

thank you everyone who's been very generous to us lately. finances are still pretty tight but i'm at least not worried that i'll be overdrawn for buying an overpriced airport meal if i must or somethin like that. means a lot.

mostly still doing a demon sushi facelift lately!
-i mean to replace the map on the characters page with something even less coherant and more stringmap soon, dont worry
-recovering writing like the pokemon fanfic from when i was 16 (now half hapazardly spellchecked! lmfao) and my old ff7 fanfiction has rekindled a lot of inspiration and affection for old ideas i'm enthused. i at LEAST want to edit and clean up the old ff7 college fanfic, which is not even there yet gosh

inhuman news

printing for arc 6 is delayed while i research printers and care for family, old printer closed domestic small orders cuz of tariffs a while back. i am doing my best to get the high res files of the art uploaded to itchio but they are so big it is taking a very long time to upload and my time is r u n n i n g o u t .... BOO!

april fools was only a half joke - when i'm back i plan to build a fourth wall mailsot and archive. not on tumblr this time lmfao just on a site.

also intending to split hekshano.com and inhuman apart, into dif websites. maybe im just delaying fixing inhumans site code, maybe NOT. let's see if i remember that when i get back in 2 weeks as well.

i might!! my webbed site made an impression w one of the founders of uh, streaming horror service found.tv without even meaning to!! it was a happy mistake!!! i accidentally got emailed instead of an intended business recipient (i sent a question about koji shiraishi films)& let em know cuz it seemed important- next thing i know im getting complimented on my site and asked if i wanna join an artist roster lmfao hey maybe when i get a handle on whats goin on with my dad i guess!! very nice ppl with great taste in horror genres if i DO say so MYSELF hahaahaha

closing in on the end of Dreamfall which is the 3rd cat book by joan d vinge. have i at this point written her fanmail i am assured will reach her by her spouse? yes. am i still really fixated on this character as if ive known him and been away from him my whole life? yes. is this incredibly pulpy and probably a shallow coping mechanism? i dunno youll have to read Catspaw and tell me wont you

cant have MY copy tho, im taking it with me to bama.

watched little shop of horrors w alph last night and we could hardly believe rick moranis is 33 there. like jeez hes my dads age and im older than he is in this movie weehoo brain does a loop de loop how weird the meat only moves one direction in time

ren is snoring, sky is raining, files uploading...
see you when i see you

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