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1/17/2025
I have a mini article today! I thought I had missed my weekly date by a lot, but it's actually only been five days...hm. I got really sick yesterday, so now my whole sense of weekend is messed up. Thankfully, I'm a lot better now. So much that I did my first HRT shot today! I'm really happy about that. Oh, yes, today I bring a new installment of Life Advice, where I offer a few of my thoughts and strategies on the difficulty of getting started. I linked to an actual psychologist's work, so even if I'm useless, hopefully I've pointed you in the right direction. Regardless, I believe in you! Good luck with whatever you're working on this weekend!
Now, I'm going to employ a strategy that works for me, but probably shouldn't be encouraged. A little treat for updating the site. Hehehe...come to Jane, little ice cream.
1/12/2025
I'm back! Work and my transition have kept me busy, but I've been a very happy girl! At last, the the Yu Yu Hakusho retrospective continues! I guess it'll be an eight part series if we do Three Kings as two parts, which feels pretty great!
I'm almost ready to start HRT...I actually have the medicine with me, but I'm waiting on supplies in the mail. It was all really cheap and I'm super excited! Plume has been great for me, if anyone was wondering what I've been using.
This is unimportant, but last night Dr. Mario 64 was reintroduced back into the Saturday night game rotation with friends. I love that game! It's a real gem if you have some friends and like puzzle games. It's much less complex than Puyo Puyo, which I love but have remained a beginner for years.
1/1/2025
Happy New Deer everyone! Feliz 2008! I've got a fresh new mini article for you all, about my own transition and World of Warcraft. There are some cute personal tidbits about me in here, and also I yap about Classic vs Retail. I'm really hungry, so I'm gonna post this and grab some lunch. We will link up again soon!
12/24/2024
I've got a special Christmas Eve gift for you all! Our first ever guest article! This one is by a friend of mine, Ashe, who wanted to come on and talk about Sonic Adventure.
Maybe I'll talk about it more later, but I had an epic coming out scene right out of a movie. I sang karaoke and then made my special announcement to my workplace. It went amazingly, I'm so happy and lucky to have an amazing support network all around me.
12/15/2024
I'm so proud that we made it to the second awards show. What? No, not that one. It's the Jane of the Year Awards 2024! That's right, my year in review is back. I nicknamed it 'Jane Wrapped' this year. And just as before, no commercials or advertisements!
I'm all signed up with Plume for hormones, which is awesome. That will be in January. I'm fighting the American health"care" system on some other things, but I'm hoping I'll have plenty of budget for new girl clothes, hair, and doctor copays. I'm really stressed about it, too...but I think I have a lot to look forward to in 2025. Thank you all for reading the site this year.
12/4/2024
My vacation was great! I started playing World of Warcraft again, because I'm a fool. I've kind of shifted into video game mode, which I haven't for quite some time. Not that I'm ignoring my manga and other readings, mind you! I can't recommend Jason Schrier's books enough. Please check out the Blizzard one. It's a serious page turner.
As I return to being A Gamer (yikes!) I present to you my Half-Life 2 20th Anniversary review. I ended up with a lot more to say than I originally thought, but at least it's not as long as the last Pokémon article, haha. It's hard not to get sentimental about it. I'm supposed to be getting dressed for work now, so, see ya!
11/25/2024
Thanksgiving and Christmas are just around the corner! That usually means a lot of relaxing for me, and I've now overloaded on fun stuff to do. One of those fun things is Webfishing! Yes, I've hopped on it and I love it. A shortie post for today.
It's been two weeks now that I've gone by the name Jane and identified as transgender. I think I like it. I've even looked into hormones and stuff. We shall see what happens to me!
11/16/2024
This week, I got really inspired because someone made the mistake (a blessing) of asking me about how Pokemon is played now, vs how it was played a very long time ago. I answered all of their questions. Consider it a kind of 'catch up' if you're unfamiliar with the game. Unfortunately for me, there's a ton of depth to the game, so it's hard to go over briefly, but I did my best to explain without throwing too much in. Some questions are tough for even me to answer!
I still have the Jane name on today. To be honest, I like it, but that's all I'll say right this moment. I don't think anyone is waiting with baited breath to see if I'm trans, which is a nice feeling.
11/11/2024
My retrospective through Yu Yu Hakusho returns as the Chapter Black saga beings! Come see what this arc is a lot of people's favorites and what it brings to the table from the series' early days.
Also, I am trying out a new name for a few days, Jane! You will still see the boy name on some parts of the site, but that's just how it is. I may stick with it, and I may not. That's all for now! Thanksgiving approaches!
11/6/2024
I don't have a new article today. I've been swamped with work, but I am making progress on Posts. I still wanted to take a moment to talk about the American election. The result is very upsetting, and I've kept 99% of my thoughts to myself. Everyone's reacting differently, and I won't tell you what to do. Today, I only offer some encouraging words.
If you are a queer and/or POC friend in distress, here are some phone resources that don't call the police. I saw this going around on Bluesky. Many of the lines are very busy today, unfortunately, but it is something to remember. People have also shared this DIY HRT wiki. Gender affirming care is very likely to be much less accessible (if at all) through 'official' means, so this is one to bookmark. I didn't know about this site until last week, but I'm glad I do now.
Things are scary, and not without reason. We all knew a second term would be more dangerous than the first. I also think that the fight against fascist ideas and general capitalism was going to have to continue under Harris anyway. The plan has always been to stick together, be ava;oan;e resources and support for each other, and live as best we can. Make no mistake, just like 2016, him being in power enables and validates the absolute shittiest attitudes that people might hold in your everyday life, regardless of what legislation does or doesn't make it through. This is something that extends beyond America, sadly.
I promise that people care about you. I care about you. I want to see you tomorrow, and next week, and in a few years. I'm gonna spit in the face of those exit polls and say you're not an afterthought. Let's stick together, do what we can together. We'll donate, we talk, we'll give each other rides and food, and make sure our voices can't be ignored.
Never give up!
10/28/2024
Well, the scope of the next post got a little out of hand, but the HeartGold review is here! It was fantastic, of course. So read all about it! I still felt like I left a few things out, but hopefully I painted the picture.
Dizzy comes out in Guilty Gear Strive very soon! So I'm really excited about that. I was surprised that they gave her Michael Sword and Gamma Ray (sorta). It's almost November now, so I really should get started on my James Of The Year Awards. It's gonna be a fun one! I've got lots to do!
As of writing this, I have exactly 420 followers on Bluesky. LMAO.
10/16/2024
I'm almost done with HeartGold! I think, at least. It depends on when I can take down Red. I've got a Tyranitar on my side, so we'll see how much additional training my 'mons will need. It's a great game though, can't wait to talk about that.
I somehow managed to get this one done early, but welcome to Part 4 of the Yu Yu Hakusho retrospective! I'm really excited to talk about the next two arcs, so these might be coming out sooner. On the other hand, they've been taking up a lot of the posts lately, so maybe a short break before we continue? We'll see.
There's been a bit of commotion about Neocities and AI after this post by owner Kyle Drake went around. We have no reason to believe our NC sites are being fed into an AI, outside of the possibility that all our websites are online for some kind of scraping anyway. So I don't plan to use another host yet. I would miss you all and have to pay more! Sob! I am definitely against generative AI, so if something comes up with that and NC, I may dip. But that would require new things on NC to be developed, wouldn't it? Ha-ha.
Do you like the new animation of Lum? A lot of your sites inspire me to get a little more motion and artistic qualities on my. So I finally tried implementing a CSS animation. I like it, but I'm always tweaking things just a little.
10/11/2024
I'm back to write about comics again! Sorry, if you were eagerly awaiting the next YYH installment. This time I bravely decided to share something personal! You can read one of MY comic scripts! Yes, really. It was one of the first ones I ever did, but you can read all about that and even read it for yourself. I actually had a lot of fun talking about it, even if the script is rough, but you might learn a thing or two about comics with some of my tips and resources!
Last night, I barely beat Lance in Pokemon HeartGold. Who gave one of his Dragonite OUTRAGE? That is outrageous! But, with items and heart, I persevered. I'd like to review the game soon, but I've got a lot to do in the Kanto portion, which I hear is expanded from the GBC originals. Excited about that! Oh, and I started playing Fate Samurai/Remnant this week. I'm enjoying it, so that's on the review list, but it also seems like a pretty long game.
10/2/2024
Tis the haunting season! The first thing I think about with Halloween are those little Pillsbury sugar cookies with pumpkins on them. Nobody comes trick or treating around here, so I've neglected the Halloween spirit for a while. Still, I do have something with spirits and demons for you, the next installment of my Yu Yu Hakusho retrospective! I've been reading a lot of stuff lately! I'm still rereading the last few volumes of YYH, so I'm hoping it'll be more fresh in my mind when it's time to write about Chapter Black.
The Ranma 1/2 remake starts airing on October 5th. I didn't watch the leaks, and I am looking forward to that. I've also been playing Marvel vs Capcom 2 a bit, and I got really into Gas Station Simulator for a week. And Pokémon HeartGold. So any of those could be next, but we'll see! Have fun out there, digital ghosties!
9/22/2024
It's a big day of celebration! Well, September 20th is the site's birthday, but me finishing the post I wanted to make is a few days late. First off, let's welcome Patamon to the homepage! Pichu is using some PTO from being one of the site mascots. He looks great, don't you think?
Next, we have reached our FIRST ANNIVERSARY! This marks the 50th article on the site AND, fittingly, we crossed 50,000 views! Thanks everyone! In my anniversary post, I recap some of my experience, what I've learned, and a few tips for any aspiring web people out there! I'm probably not totally qualified, but you don't have to be to host a few webpages! That's the beauty of the web.
9/14/2024
You've waited patiently, and here it is! THE MOTHER 3 REVIEW IS HERE! Phew! Sorry it took so long. I have indeed been very busy with real life work. Sad, so I worked all night to get this post wrapped up!
This site's 1st anniversary is next weekend! I'm so pleased, but I haven't decided what to do to celebrate, exactly. There will be a special post about it, kind of, and I'd like that to be one of my next projects, if not the next project. I'm still swamped with work, so, I would say right now it's not likely to be in seven days. But I will do my best! The YuYu Hakusho retrospective will return as soon as I can get that aforementioned anniversary post done. I appreciate all your support over the past year!
9/2/2024
A surprise article today! I've been spending all weekend playing Gundam Breaker 4, and the story certainly had a twist that left a poor taste. The Mother 3 review/thought-dump is still on the way! It was probably gonna be published pretty soon, but I had to write about Gundam Breaker as soon as possible. If you see playingps2.xyz out there, that's me! I'm on the Nintendo Switch version, naturally.
I really enjoy when I get to play journalist or reporter on something somewhat new, so I hope this article gets a few eyeballs that it otherwise wouldn't. Speaking of a few new eyes, I've gotten some new followers on Neocities, and positive comments on the site. To that I say, thank you very much!
