niconicorose

niconicorose, 3 months ago to random

I've enjoyed my time running my own single-woman instance, but it's not been great for me meeting and engaging with new folks, so I decided it's time for me to rejoin the greater world and hang up my admin hat.

So, time for an #introduction . Hi! I'm Kara, a 41-year-old trans lesbian. I'm a fiction author, infrequent video creator, musician & songwriter in indie band The Crystal Furs, sometimes creator of fan works, occasional photographer. I love lesbians, music, anime girls, yuri, science fiction, video games, and girly kei fashion. And above all, Love Live!

I run a decently-followed Love Live-centric account on Tumblr. Moreover, I'm the author of "Love Live! New Melody Project!!" on AO3, a long-form ongoing Love Live fan fic series (currently over 300,000 words) centered around µ's over a decade later as adults, plus a whole cast of new teen school idol OCs. Those are here: https://archiveofourown.org/users/niconicorose/series

I'm also currently working on my first original novel, a trans & lesbian magical girl story.

I love other anime, especially yuri and slice-of-life, as well as single-player story-centric games (RPGs especially) and sci-fi (especially Star Trek).

It's nice to meet y'all, and I look forward to getting to know more of you! ☺️

niconicorose, 2 months ago to LoveLive

#lovelive

niconicorose, 1 month ago to LoveLive

#lovelive #nozomitojo

niconicorose, 3 months ago to LoveLive

Well, I've done it 😅
#lovelive

niconicorose, 2 months ago to LoveLive

I finished Yohane the Parhelion: Numazu in the Mirage yesterday! I quite enjoyed it* both in terms of gameplay and story (which was sweet and appropriately emotional at the end). Despite not being a regular player of deckbuilding roguelites, I had a good time!

*other that not needing to ever hear Evil Ruby talk about Dia's toes ever again

This and the Yohane Metroidvania do make me long for a world where Love Live does more games on consoles & PC instead of the mobile world. These two are full-on console games with solid design and no scummy gacha microtransactions. Imagine if we got a story-centric Love Live non-AU game like that? (Like that idol RPG I daydreamed about on Tumblr once...)

(This is to say nothing about the Playstation port of the arcade rhythm game which, while definitely being old and only having µ's and Aqours and having its own monetization issues, is a ton of fun to play - I'd argue much more than SIF or SIFAS - and is still truckin' at least for now. Hopefully Squeenix would allow it to exist offline when they inevitably stop supporting it.)

I hope for a day when we'll have more games about the gals that let you play them on consoles and PC and not have to tap away at glass and put up with all the free-to-play mechanics to try to enjoy them.

#lovelive #longpost

niconicorose, 1 month ago to random

the tendency of a segment of the Love Live fandom to become upset or angry when new characters join an established group is so weird to me

niconicorose, 3 months ago to LoveLive

My fan fic series "Love Live! New Melody Project!!" isn't just canon Love Live characters. There's also quite a few important original characters, including a whole set of teens being school idols alongside the stories of the adult Love Live women. It's easy enough to picture older versions of canon characters, but I've always wished that you could see the OC girls as I imagined them.

Well, now you can, thanks to the incredible work of artist Amber Dill. She reached out to me about bringing the New Melody Project teens to life, and I was very excited to make it happen! I've been keeping this under wraps until it was done, and now, I can share with you her amazing work!

Say hello to the girls of New Melody Project - Saeko, Narumi, Hikari, and Miyuki!

#lovelivenewmelodyproject #lovelivefanart #lovelive

Artwork of a curvy girl with reddish brown hair wearing a black eye mask, a red biker jacket, red skirt, and red knee-high punk boots, standing in front of a black field with a white and black icon of a storm cloud and lightning bolt behind her.
Artwork of a girl with short purple hair and glasses dressed entirely in drapey black clothes - a long black jacket, black shirt, and black skirt - standing in front of a purple field with a purple and white icon of a circuit board behind her.
Art of a tall, chubby girl with light orange hair wearing black and white girly kei - a frilly white blouse and black skirt, black and white hair bows, and black shoes with white ankle socks - standing in front of a red field with a white and red icon of cotton candy behind her.

niconicorose, 3 months ago to random

hey, don't feel bad. remember Kinako Love Live exists

niconicorose, 3 months ago to random

Mood Music Monday, and the mood is achy, so…

I get heartache from just hearing this song start. I loooove it, and it just wrecks me and tweaks my emotions so directly.

#MoodMusicMonday #Roselia #BanGDream #Bandori

https://youtu.be/q9g4jk1-XCs?si=NjrO8htO-2Rkhyil

niconicorose, 2 months ago to LoveLive

Putting the #lovelive in #granturismo

A Gran Turismo photo of a purple Mazda Miata covered in Nico Yazawa decals and the number 69, parked in Akihabara.

niconicorose, 2 months ago to LoveLive

I’m so glad that YYY’s first music video is such pure chaos
#lovelive

https://youtu.be/FV36aGHP6WE?si=BaYaV6TFy80GQcth

niconicorose, 2 months ago to random

I haven't baked this as An Thought seriously but I think what all social media is finally proving is that communities can't be a profit center. None of these things make money. The Fediverse only works because it's most like old forums, i.e. somebody with nerd love and some amount of money pays to keep the lights on because they want to

niconicorose, 2 months ago to LoveLive

First thing about Unit Koushien: it’s my first real major exposure to the music of the vtuber girls, and they’re great! The Cerise Bouquet, Dollchestra, and Mira-cra Park sets were so good! And they’re super good on stage. I’m impressed by how solid they already are live.
#lovelive

niconicorose, 3 months ago to random

Happy Cat Day!

niconicorose, 2 months ago to random

If Lucky Star was a current anime, I think Kagami would be a queer swag icon for this outfit alone

Kagami Hiiragi from Lucky Star, in a pink striped button-down shirt, red tie, yellow suspender shorts, and brown thigh-highs

niconicorose, 1 month ago to LoveLive

okay I have to do a LL anime ranking or I'll burst I guess

1. School Idol Project Season Two
2. The School Idol Movie
3. Sunshine Season One
4. School Idol Project Season One
5. Sunshine Season Two
6. Superstar Season Two
7. Superstar Season One
8. Yohane the Parhelion
9. Sunshine Movie
10. Nijigasaki Season One
11. Nijigasaki Season Two
12. Nijigasaki OVA

#lovelive

niconicorose, 2 months ago to random

it is genuinely darkly amusing to me that Tumblr is probably going to outlast Cohost given the latest Cohost financial update, i.e., the "our one investor won't pick up the phone and we will run out of money in three weeks" one

niconicorose, 2 months ago to random

I have ordered an Analogue Pocket, partly because I own my childhood Atari Lynx and a bunch of game carts for it and the one thing you should never do with Lynx games is suffer through playing them on a real, unmodified Lynx 😅

niconicorose, 3 months ago to random

As somebody in both a marginalized community and somebody who makes things I'd really like for people to see/read/hear, I gotta say I really hate this cycle of finding a place to be online -> building up a circle of friends and followers -> place inevitably shits the bed through either transphobia or tech industry garbage or both -> community is broken apart -> start over somewhere else with a fraction of the circle you used to have.

niconicorose, 2 months ago to random

There's a funny thing involved re: Nico drinking Red Akumas in #newmelodyproject . She, canonically, does not like spicy stuff. Her drinking a drink made partly of whiskey and jalapeno is all about how, when we catch up to her at the start of the series, she's got this kind of vaguely "more mature" image as an idol (she has been doing it for a decade at that point). It's why she's wearing her hair down and, begrudgingly, not doing "Nico-Nico-Nii" at first.

In her brain, she latched on to this drink - whiskey, jalapeno, blood orange juice, agave - as part of being "mature." Over time, the sweet part kind of smuggled the spicy in and she actually develops a fondness for the drink in spite of the spiciness.

(Also, subconsciously, a drink with "red" in the name probably reminds her a bit of the girl that isn't in her life anymore at the start of the series...)

Literally none of this really comes up but it's a part of her characterization. I just got super hyper nerdy about it in a way that most people will never care about 😅 #lovelivenewmelodyproject