E. C. Koopa

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How nice that I drop in and I see that people are kind enough to wish me happy birthday. Belated thanks for that.

Anyway, there's even more cool updates in my life besides just that I'm 23 now; last month I got accepted to grad school, and a couple days ago I got notified that my legal name has been changed so even though my mental health is down, good things are happening in my life.

I might also come back and try to be active on more occasions

Popping in to share an achievement I'm extremely proud of.

I just finished writing a novel.

A full length YA novel at 50 chapters and 325 pages, all in under 100 days (98 days, to be exact).

I'm so happy with all the progress I've made and I want to thank all of you for the support I've gotten in my time here.

I know I haven't been here basically at all in like a month so let me just say there's a couple reasons for it. For one, over the course of October, I had a really big dropoff of my actual interest in being here so I decided to just step back for a while.

But then November started with me having to listen to a group of nine people shit on my writing style and be surprisingly ableist about it? All the things they said were bad about my story could just be chalked up to "This is something I struggle with because of my autism" and it hurt a lot because I couldn't defend myself.

And then the election happened and my spirit was completely broken. I'm still trying to come to terms with it because I'm terrified of a nationwide ban on trans rights, even though I still think the states that I'm associated with (Illinois and Massachusetts) will keep protections in place for trans people. Needless to say though, I'm very tired and scared.

I'll just have to see what happens with my life and the world and everything to determine if I'll ever come back fully. I might still drop in from time to time to finish out my term on the Poll Committee but things are pointing toward retirement right now.

If you do want to keep in touch with me, the best way to do that is by sending me a friend request on Discord. My username is multimediacelebritypoker and I have it open basically all the time.

I finally deleted my Twitter account last night. I hadn't been active on there in two years, only returning to retweet the same tweet about Allen Ludden every day on October 5. But now that I'm on Bluesky and they have videos, my Allen Ludden tradition can continue without me having to benefit the horrible owner of the bird app in any way.

Someone submitted to a literary journal using light gray text on a white document.

Genuinely illegible.

Why is the Mario Party DS soundtrack so bassy?

So glad I won the second set with a score of Bowser Jr. to 8.

I'm not a web designer. What do you think I am, a spider?

Downsides of wearing a mask:
-I wear glasses. I think that says everything you need to know about that

Positives of wearing a mask:
-It has a Shy Guy on it and Shy Guys are always a positive
-I don't feel like I'm making other people sick when I start coughing
-I can lip sync and no one will know it

"They found Celebrity Number 6" isn't something I expected to read today.

Recently I've been absolutely obsessed with the em-dash. I've used it so much in my writing -- mostly because it's the punctuation form of getting distracted.

What stories/authors did you look at in your high school English classes? I'm asking this because when I start teaching 101/102 (the introductory composition classes in college), I want to avoid the typical high school readings.

It makes me so happy that we refer to defective cars as "lemons."

Today was actually pretty productive given that I had two classes, hung up two flyers and gave another one to the library to hang up themselves, and lined up two letters of recommendation for grad school.

I don't know why I'm so excited to draw a raffle winner at open mic in a couple weeks.

That surely relatable moment when you invent a character as a shower thought but then you develop a hyperfixation for them.

So I have a modded Wii U but trying to run my mods on it is totally falling apart. Sometimes it doesn't work, sometimes it gets stuck in a loading loop, sometimes the mod software runs but doesn't work, and sometimes it just crashes for no reason. I'm starting to wonder if I should just replace my Wii U or something.

E: If you're wondering, I can run unmodded software (even if it was dumped to the NAND rather than running from a disc) perfectly fine. It's only mods that become incredibly janky and finicky. I also make my own mods and I've been using them for a few years now with no issues. All the mess that's been going on has started within the last week or so.

Is there a term for when you're not an insomniac but your body just really hates being asleep for some reason?

My ex locked me out of our apartment

Time to wait an hour for a meeting that might not even happen because the person I'm trying to meet with is really unreliable about answering his emails.

People who complained about algebra having letters in their math would probably lose their minds at the thought of hexadecimal.

Only on my Spotify playlist could you go from Elvis Presley to Caramelldansen with nothing between them.

I don't remember how the math came out but I think somewhere around this point in time is where I'll be able to say I've been on this website for half my life.

If you ever want to be extremely worn out, I highly recommend taking three 400 level classes and a Theory class all in the span of seven hours in the worst building on campus.