Go to the Wikipedia home page and click random article. That is your band's name.
Click random article again; that is your album name.
Click random article 15 more times; those are the tracks on your album.

band: α-Tocotrienol
album: Megachile discolor

1. Faria, California
2. Anand Ahirwar
3. Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie
4. Burrangong Shire
5. Hiyori Sakurada
6. C6H7NO
7. Lacuna crassior
8. PAN Parks
9. Pygmeocossus tonga
10. Jabłoń-Jankowce
11. Novembers Doom
12. Luca Barilla
13. Carver, Oregon
14. Mellisugini
15. Emblem of Jharkhand

I niche'd down hard into my metal subgenre, I guess

sunshine_revival: Life in fandom goes through ups and downs. Reminisce about the "wild ride" of your time in fandom or in other online communities.

'Wild ride' and 'fandom' are hard for me to disconnect from watching the classic fandom_wanks of yore as they unfolded, which was... definitely something lmao. However, I've never been on the frontlines of fandom so I've never actually waded into the swamp and wrestled all crocodiles in there. Or maybe I'm msscribe.

I guess the most fun ride was following the IDW Transformers More Than Meets The Eye series, as it was released. The plot was wild, it was funny, it was sad, and the characters had character. After binge-reading the entire IDW TF backlog (90% boring af), it was so refreshing. Every new issue was a month of everyone talking conspiracy, crying, and screaming haha.

My core memory is the issue that confirmed yes, robots can be in love and these ones are gay, in fact they are probably mostly gay. It was such a big deal. Nowadays I look back and I think... wow I really cried because robots were gay? I really cared that much? But I did, it was genuinely important to me. It felt like I was finally welcome in this place, where the night before I had been doomscrolling a 900 page dicussion about EW GAYS EW WOMEN. From people in a fandom called Transformers.

Also the revelation was at a sad moment. Whatever.

Media was so different back then, it did mean a lot to see LGBTQ rep in toy advert alien car robots. Maybe especially, as car robots were a huge boys club of unsocialised boys.

Nowadays if someone pitches something like 'its got gays and even trans people!!' I don't care, at best I get pissed that you think you can sell me your shit on the back of 'rep' alone. Back then? I would've paid attention. Back then, having it suddenly appear in a comic I was reading anyway, with no expectations of even human relationships? My mind was blown. I was waiting to get slapped again, but they went in for a hug instead.

The ice bath of queer rep did a lot to the fandom, I remember. Suddenly all the people who would shout down the girls, gays, and theys for being there, maybe even having the audacity to ship characters, lost the solid foundation of canon to preach from. The writer of the comic himself wrote fuckin robot mpreg, why are you telling starscreamzgrrrrl89 she can't write three-way fighter-jet yaoi?

It chilled the fandom out, that I saw. For a while the loudest Transformers fans didn't seem to be quite so... 'you can have ONE (1) girl robot and she is PINK, now lets make 300 posts why female robots shouldn't exist (while hitting save as on hilariously sexualised art of her). Also they are all straight. (???? with whomst????)'. They 100% still existed, and they were mad about it, but the fandom that was speedrunning every AO3 trope with two giant robots made of guns became loud and proud.

Though I think the fandom eventually had to hide in their own tag, because of bayformers or something? Hopefully not because of harassment. IDK. I don't know what happened outside my bubble, and it's been years, but I do recall my extended social circle got hugely reshuffled post-gayformers, and it was great.

So yeah, Transformers was delightfully unexpected. It was the most fun I had just hopping on a fandom train and seeing where it would take me. I re-read the comic every few years, it's still gold, and seeing panels or the characters in their MTMTE designs in the wild always lights up my mood. 10/10 experience.

sunshine_revival: What are your favorite summer-associated foods?

I'm basic, I love fruit. Just fruit.

Underwhelming reply. Oh wait,

Draw art of or make graphics of summer foods, or post your favorite summer recipes

I made this in blender lol. it's my first attempt at 3D, so it's jank and I don't know how to export an image or whatever. Strawberries are the best part of summer, and cake because my birthday is in summer.

sunshine_revival: Light up your journal with activity this month. Talk about your goals for July or for the second half of 2025.

This month, my goal is to get groceries and not run completely out of money before I get paid! Yeehaw!!!!!!!

The second half of this year... I would like to share some writing, art, or put my website up. I want to put myself outside my comfort zone, and risk a bit of a judgement for being a cringe hack.

I wanna work a little on my fitness, too. Running, stretching, whatever. It's fun in the moment and good for my health, but ugh I'd rather just sleep haha.

Oh, and I'd like to somehow drag my DnD group together before next year. That will certainly take a miracle.

Hmm. What else. I guess that would be enough, honestly. Six months isn't so long, and life is already busy and complicated.