i finally get to properly celebrate the day i realized i was trans (march 7th) cause i have adult money now :Blobhaj_Heart_Trans:

also!! my banner is sigewinne’s name card from genshin. i don’t really care for sigewinne as a character, but her name card is very cute and it fits the aesthetic of my pfp very well too :zerotwoheartlove:

finally have a pfp that isn’t a character from oshi no ko…although…i don’t remember much about the anime that this character is from (the girl i like forgot her glasses).

i remember that the animation was very stunning…and that the anime was very cute…but i don’t really remember much else. it was hyped up a lot on instagram at the time, but i never saw anything about it again after a couple of weeks.

before the year end’s, here’s some pictures of my cat.

her name is fiona :ablobcatheart:

(apologies for the length of this post. i poured my everything into it and didn’t hold back)

also, please ignore the fact that the original post is typed…like that. i was 14 at the time and was stuck in my “i’m so cute uwu” phase. i was a very cringy 14 year old at the time :blobcatfearful:

fun fact: my username “polyruna” is based on me being polyamorous. the “poly” part refers to polyamory, and the “runa” part is just the name of a character from kakegurui (one of the animes i watched as i was getting seriously interested in watching anime)

(i originally typed this post last night at 1am, but my post disappeared before i could post it cause i closed mastodon for a bit to try and find this screenshot from 2 years ago. this is a retyped version of that lost post.)

alright, it’s that time of the year again.

on december 31st, 2019 (5 years ago today), after a long week of constant questioning and internal debating, i realized i was polyamorous and took on the label as my own. i even came out that same day (the original post is attached to this post).

as part of a 4 year long tradition, i’m posting about that day today, as a reflection of my progress and relationship with this label currently.

out of every year i’ve spent with this label, this is probably the one year where my relationship to my label began to shift the most. what being polyamorous means to me now is entirely different from what it meant to me back then. i don’t see this as a bad thing, because people grow and change with time. if a label is able to grow and change with you, then it’s the right label for you. and for me to still identify as polyamorous 5 years later? that must mean that the label is right for me.

5 years ago, i never would’ve imagined that i’d still identify as polyamorous, and that the label would mean so much to me. out of every label i have, the only other label i have where i remember the exact day i came out is when i came out as trans (march 7th,2020. exactly one week before covid).

considering that i share this day with new years eve, it’s a fairly easy day to remember (and i often look forward to this day around the last quarter of the year). i can comfortably celebrate today as both my coming out and the end of a year.

also, between my post last year and this post, the character limit for posts went from 500 to 10,000. i can comfortably say as much as i want to without having to cut anything out, which is nice, since none of my posts years prior had that kind of luxury. (especially back when i used twitter, which had an even lower character limit than mastodon ever did).

anyway, a lot changes in 5 years. i had my first job interview today, so i’m celebrating my progress in that regard too. today’s a good way to end the year.

that’s all i have to say for now. happy new year’s eve :BlobhajTinyHeart:

going to be reposting (the correct word is boosting, i haven’t boosted any posts since 9 months ago so i forgot that that was the correct term) some stuff from my lgbt account (it’s @polyruna@lgbtqia.space)

i first watched it three years ago, and it was my third anime (my first was sailor moon, and then i watched 5 episodes of mha so that’s technically my second anime). if i didn’t watch saiki k, i don’t think i’d like anime as much as i do right now. i got so attached to the show that it made me want to watch more anime, so it’s been my favorite anime of all time ever since. saiki k will always be near and dear to my heart, no matter how many other shows i’ve seen since then :meguminheart:

i’ve got the common cold rn, so i’m not feeling too well. i rewatched my favorite anime today and it made me feel a lot better :ds_giyuu_love:

since i’m only watching 3 animes rn (bloom into you, frieren, and oshi no ko), i think that it’s helped me appreciate the beauty of frieren a lot more than i did when i watched it the first time around (i was watching a lot of seasonal stuff at the time, and fall 2023 was a very packed season). there’s something so…comforting about it. i was so invested in it this time around that it almost felt like the episodes were only 5 minutes long :fernhappy:

definitely recommend it, it’s very good at being both a relaxing show and one with a lot of thought and emotion behind it!

after looking through all the shows i was watching before my 10 month break, one of the first ones to catch my attention was frieren, and it was one of the shows that i wanted to pick up again the most. so far, i’ve rewatched the first two episodes and…wow, i forgot how beautiful this anime really is! frieren so far is a really well written character, and i love that the show highlights just how different time flows for her vs the people around her. it’s not just visually stunning, it’s storytelling and execution are really stunning as well. :frierenheart:

it’s been about two weeks since i started watching anime again, and i’m so glad that i picked link click as my first show to watch after a long hiatus.

it’s an insanely good show with crazy plot twists and cliffhangers after almost every episode. i definitely recommend it if you’re looking for a really good mystery anime!!

anyway, i started watching link click today. it’s been on my radar for a while, and i never really got to watch it before because of the over saturation of everything else in my anime list. so now that everything’s clear, i can finally watch it!!

the first episode is really good, and the concept is super interesting to me. definitely excited to see what direction they take the story into :ferncheer:

i’m not abandoning all the stuff i was watching before, but i’m keeping it in the stasis of “do i really want to watch this?” and if the answer is yes, i’ll start over from the beginning, cause i don’t wanna just jump into an old show again while also not remembering much of the previous episodes.

i just don’t want to go through every single show yet because i don’t wanna overwhelm myself too soon. burn out again, yk? so i’m just…going to take things at my own pace.

oof…it’s been 10 months since i started feeling burnt out on anime, to the point that i was only watching 1-2 episodes every 2-3 months.

i was watching 30+ shows at the time and i think that i got so exhausted just trying to keep up with everything, but i think i’m back now. starting a clean slate, just watching what i want whenever i want without the pressure of “keeping up”. so far it feels a lot better

i think it’s an issue with the app. it’s happened before on mobile but never when i use web 😓

finally got the new layout set up. i had some technical difficulties when setting it up cause everything in my about section suddenly disappeared once i applied the new changes, but it should be fixed now :btr_bocchi_trash_lurk: