Tags & design update (and cute magical girls)

Wild Canada geese with chicks at Korkeasaari Zoo.

I'm currently in the middle of organizing my bookshelves and all the stuff in there to prepare for a move this fall (once I get that TOAS apartment), so no planner or room posts just yet. (I have great ideas for them, though!)

While that is still underway, I'm doing small changes here and there on this blog an numerous other platforms. For example, I don't actually turn 20 until Sep 19th, but I might not get to update all my profiles in due time, or visit them too rarely, so I've updated a few places as early as in mid-July (which is... only two months before the actual date!)

I think it's also notable that I'm probably going to stick my fandom related things towards my LJ from now on to leave this blog more space for general life stuff, uni, and planners.
I got obsessed, can you see? I went and added all the nice A5 Filofaxes into my wishlist, along with the metal holepunch. I added mostly pricey ones like Classic and Malden, but also Fusion and Metropol from the lower price range. I know that normal A5 Filos are HUGE and heavy, but I want them nonetheless. Fusion especially seems very nice, as does Malden. So many pockets and loops and...

*deep sigh* This was not supposed to be a planner post, but a meta post.

I mean really cute. (CureWiki)

So I've been reading My Life All in One Place, and his questionnaire posts with screenshots from other blogs made me more conscious about my own blog's looks. I've tried a lot of things over the years (as you can see from the archive, this blog is four and a half years old!), but nothing ever seemed right for me. I'll try to stick with one design for at least a few months from now on, though. This was also the second time I changed the name of this blog. In the beginning it was "The Lost Heroes" since I was really interested in Star Wars at the time and wanted to incorporate it everywhere. Over the time I changed it to "With the Wrong Hand" (minds out of the gutter please), reflecting the fact I was a leftie. The current name ("Shower of Light") comes from the song "Ganbalance de Dance" (Dance the Ganbalance), which is Futari wa Pretty Cure Splash★Star's second ending theme. The exact line is "Hikari no Shower o abite" ("You'll bathe in a shower of light", see the japanese trend for using english words in songs it's actually pronounced sha-waa, not shouwo (I can't phonetically type English, gdi)), which I think is really cute. The whole song is such a great up-beat song, and it's meant for dancing. The franchise has kept these dance endings for ten years (I haven't yet seen the new HaChaPre ending! I think it's name was Party Night, but don't quote me on that. I don't want to google it and spoil myself the visuals.) and it's a really great way to make the kids excited about the comign day. (Yes, PreCure is aimed 6-12 year old girls. I'm watching it pecause it's hella cute and awesome. And has the best songs.)

And really, (she's 14)

really, (dueling a bud guy with a sword made of magic ice)

really badass. (That stone is about the size of a city block.) (Thank you PreCure Screencaps @ Tumblr)

So because of PreCure I thought of pink for a moment, but it didn't seem to fit this bg. Probably I'll next change into rainbow-colored with cat paw print bg, or into an even more ... muted theme so that the content will pop out. Until then, this earthy green will do.
As you can see, I also made all the fonts rather... boring. I used to have TNR, but that was too boring and I really wanted a sans-serif font, so Verdana it was. (Titles are Trebuchet.)
(I'm making this post at night without ant plan of what I'm going to write, so my stuff usually ends up rambly like this.) That one probably didn't mean anything to you unless you need to tackel stuff like this yourself, like if you have a website or do graphical design.

ONA, ANSNLFLENLNFEWRLFNEWLKGNRL (sorry for the keysmash) TRACON TIMETABLE WAS RELEASED
SO MUCH INTERESTING
KILL LA KILL, SHINGEKI NO KYOJIN, TANOSHII MOOMIN IKKA, MIYAZAKI PANEL, etc. etc.
SO MUCH TO SEE, SO LITTLE TIME
(ie. my first con got just hella interesting...)

So anyway, I have yet to talk about the first thing I mentioned in the title: tags. Sinc eI'm now moving away from fandom talk on this blog, I'll probably remove all specific tags and only leave the general ones, eg. fandom, and possibly create another blanket tag for any future MG shenanigans. They will happen, trust me. Also there will be many fandom posts, especially if I get to print stuff for my future planner.... (more about that sometime, I promise!)
Now I gotta go to bed, but see you next time!
~ Amy