2024.09.06: Got the japanese Rayquaza ex card I bought in the mail.
Cards I'd like to own:
2024.12.10: I bought the Hyper Metal Chain Dialga 19/18 also known as japanese Full Metal Dialga. I spent 85 euro for this card which makes it the most I've spent for a single. Two more cards to go.
2024.12.20: This year marks the third time in my life I started a Pokemon collection. The first time being around 2008 to ~2011 (coinciding with the BW leaks). The second time was around 2014 (gen 6 arrival) to 2016 (annoyance over the youtube scene and the hobby becoming too expensive). But 2016 was pretty tame compared to what happened during COVID. The hoppy is the worst it's ever been. I can't stand most youtube channels, it's just about money price of the cards, price of the boosters. Fuck inversorfags I hope the market crashes (1 week).
Still, I've been able to find a small group of people who are chill about the hobby, which makes me happy. Because english is not my native language and it already costs me to express my thoughts, I tend to never participate in online discussions, but in this place I feel like it's worth it taking +30 minutes te write a small paragraph.
Anyways, I've come to apreciate even more the XY full arts and I'd like to collect a few in 2025. I also have this impossible plan to complete the full Holon extensions in Japanese (Mirage Forest, Holon Research tower, Holon Phantom, Miracle Crystal, Offense and Defense of the Furthest Ends + theme decks). There are also some cards from the Neo that I like a lot and I'm thinking of chansing Full Metal Dialga in other languages. I think Regigigas has become my favorite Pokémon because of the tera leak, a chance it's not that expensive to get all the cards. I hope this new year will be a good one for collecting (never happening because of the Rocket set)
2025.04.15: 4chan has been down for a few hours now and it got me thinking about the site's future. Even though I'm a newfag since I've joined 5 years ago, it's impossible to notice that most boards I go (/a/, /vp/, /ic/, /lit/) have been on a decline in quality and userbase, to the point that you can recognise someone in a different thread from the way their message is written. Removing the thread ip users doesn't help, the site feels more and more empty. But there's some enjoyment too to share a slow general with fewer users.
Anyways, there's been discussion here and there about the end of 4chan, most anons agreeing that it shall happen in the next 10 years and that the site will not go down in a bang but instead know a slow decline.
The current event is just temporary, all boards shall be back to normal in a few days in the worst case scenario. Still, I don't know where'll go when the site will shut down for real. 4chan has been the only place on the internet I felt welcomed and where I found kinship with the userbase. I mostly lurk because of my poor english and the lack of interesting things to say. I like the anonymity there, I like how organized it is in its anarchy. I like that the rudimentary interface and that the mostly english conversation draws off my countrymen. I like its traditions, its collaborations and all its asperities.
7 years ago I used to post my art on Youtube and Instagram. I had a pretty big following for what I drew but felt completely alienated to my audience and foreign to the whole art community. I ended up removing everything without saying goodbye and I found a new home in 4chan.
To have my drawings be called "sovlful" and to see some reposted in the site were my pride and joy. Drawing is a dreadful activity, I don't think I even enjoy it anymore but 4chan made me not want to quit this hobby no matter how awful I am at it. I still refuse to create an archive where I post my art by fear of repeating the same mistakes as 7 years ago so it's the only place I don't mind posting. And while I'm at it, I gave up on Pokemon cards once again, I cannot get back what I used to have, the hobby is a nightmare and both "fans" and TPCI are to blame. I don't even have the interest to collect the few Regigigas cards I'm missing.
When it's all over the internet will feel very lonely. Twitter is a dumpster of interaction bait, Instagram is just TikTok2 filled with ads and no thoughtful conversation, Reddit is a hivemind who doesn't allow criticism and normalfags from my country are more and more aware of its existence. Discord might be the likeliest place where 4chan refugees will go but I loathe this place that encourages spam and has no identity. Even Neocities doesn't have any sense of community, every website is a fancy isolated island. Tumblr might seriously be the least awful of the lot and both sites are more similar that people would imagine.
I guess I'll have to enjoy 4chan everyday as long as it lasts when it comes back and cherish the memories I made there. Then maybe this will be the best moment to log off and start putting more effort in reading.
I was here forever.
2025.04.28: 4chan came back three days ago. I haven't done much in those ten days of it being down besides trying to replace the distraction by using that damned Discord app. I've neglected my involvement in an /ic/ anthology server, one of the mods contacted me because I was gone for two years and he still remembered the crumbs I had posted. I was glad that my art still lingered on his mind after all this time. Because he reminded me about that story I had planned to make and because I left the original storyboards in the house I was kicked out from, I had to rethink it from scratch. It's becoming more simple and lighthearted intead of the overdramatic plan with a pointless plot twist I first had in mind. The mc's character design has mostly stayed consistent because I had concepts with me. A shame I got too lazy to continue after 4chan got ressurected, I abandonned Discord once again. Still, I hope this story can be completed before the end of summer, I want it to stop taking brain space.
Besides that, I have totally given up seeing a certain person live. Not only my chances are slim but I fear that the experience might be tainted, anticlimatic and change my view. I don't really know what to think. I can't help but feel guity for not trying earlier and for continuing in that lazy path. Meeting that person was the reason I kept desiring to "make it" but now that it's almost hopeless I just feel terribly empty. It's like I'm saying goodbye in advance all because my laziness didn't want to race with time.