what's up gamers it's ya girl iso making a bulletin that isnt like a yearly art fight ad for once. i am also shocked, i know

Not too much to say here other than I'm mayyyyyybe going to be more active possibly maybe? Looking around at freebie layouts that might be good for honestly just pumping out mini bios at this point. I'm not really active enough on the forums or anything to care that much about getting my little stars anymore and it's killing me whenever I go on here and realize I'm missing, like, practically all of the OCs I've been hyperfixating on for the past 2-3 years. You guys don't know about Siderea yet!! It's the big thing!!! And you don't know about all of the hot, horrible Orchid spoilers that've since been revealed!!!!! I am a disgrace!!!!!!

The big thing I'm considering is doing NaProWriMo again. Way too lazy to try and dig around through like 4 years of bulletins, but if you're a true Iso historian you might remember one year I did a thing where instead of writing a novel for NaNoWriMo I instead tried to write one profile per day. I didn't "win", but I did manage to push out a pretty good number of profiles. I do have a few scattered things of novels/short stories I could write but ultimately we're gonna just kinda see what happens. In either case I'll likely at least start getting around to mini bios again pretty soon! Assuming I don't start hyperfixating again next time I look at an Etrian Odyssey game or something!

Another possible thing I'm thinking of doing is trying to do some kind of worldbuilding writeup - or 50k words with of worldbuilding writeups? - for NaNoWriMo, which ideally people would see here eventually but for all my love of storing worldbuilding info I've never gotten around to using worlds. The main obstacle is that all of my writeups are posted on a forum that uses BBCode and I'm honestly just too fuckin lazy to convert things and also reword things to not be heavily reliant on RP knowledge. Someday!!

Other things! I changed my profile layout because every time I looked at it I just got kinda discouraged by the sheer number of things I needed to work on/update. I stumbled on an HTML layout I liked, so it's not quite as fancy but I like it well enough! I have the other one backed up just in case I ever want to switch back, but I'll probably stick with this one for at least a while. The little featured characters thing is easier to swap people in and out of, too, and I'll (ideally) swap it out monthly to match my arbitrary monthly color theming! Bonus spooky emphasis this month for obvious reasons. Also everything has hover text, as per Iso standard.

Last but certainly not least, I've uploaded a "fun" little story from last year's NaNoWriMo! It's called 3 AM at the Event Horizon and is about noted normal person Orchid picking up McRibs for an evil overlord as seen from the perspective of his reluctant girlfriend (who belongs to my somehow not reluctant girlfriend btw stan alison stan memeduchess). I forgot that I could get away with uploading this one since Orchid at least has a profile.

I have two other stories lying around - including what is unquestionably my magnum opus imho - but neither of them have any of the included characters uploaded yet so I'm holding off for now. But, as stated, that'll hopefully change soon!

Or maybe I'll vanish from Toyhou dot se for a year again after posting this! Who knows?