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VaguelyRoses @rose.armfelloff.net · 09/10/2026

My AYN Thor showed up the other day :)

My AYN Thor Pro running "Legend of the Heroes: Trails in the Sky FC"

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VaguelyRoses @rose.armfelloff.net · 19/07/2026

here's the art I did for the let's play separately cause I really like how it turned out :3

drawing of me and my gf lele dressed as Jill Valentine and Rebecca Chambers respectively

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VaguelyRoses @rose.armfelloff.net · 16/02/2026

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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VaguelyRoses @rose.armfelloff.net · 09/02/2026

Game progress update: Been away for a while, but I finally got the Donkey Cong Country style follower system set up, with an emergency "bat recovery" for when the characters get separated. Time to get enemy pathfinding and stuff set up #gamedev

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VaguelyRoses @rose.armfelloff.net · 04/02/2026

Doodle I did the other day with an old design from an on-hiatus project of mine

black and white drawing of a tired female knight walking along a dilapidated bridge

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VaguelyRoses @rose.armfelloff.net · 27/11/2025

Finally got a Vita!! The 13 year old me who would sneak away during trips to the supermarket to stare at all the anime slop in the vita games shelf of GameStop can finally rest easy

Photo of a plushie of Penny from Endless Monday holding a used PS Vita that I jut bought

Photo of the same vita in the process of being modded with custom firmware

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VaguelyRoses @rose.armfelloff.net · 04/11/2025

Rip my halloween pfp, see you next year maybe

Rose but she's obviously been bitten and drained by a vampire as there's blood splattered all around her neck

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VaguelyRoses @rose.armfelloff.net · 22/10/2025

Finally started a new little project I've been thinking about for a while :> It's a little action sidescroller that may or may not include vampire girlfriends... Sprites subject to change as I work out the art style #gamedev #godot

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VaguelyRoses @rose.armfelloff.net · 01/07/2025

The month in which I was chronically behind on reviews the whole time and watched way more shorts than features cause time is evil

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VaguelyRoses @rose.armfelloff.net · 01/07/2025

I AM UNSTOPPABLE!!!!!! Clip Studio Paint working on Pop! OS seamlessly through Bottles. Shitty doodle to celebrate (more info in replies)

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VaguelyRoses @rose.armfelloff.net · 22/06/2025

finally made an attack animation for the gameee one down two to go

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VaguelyRoses @rose.armfelloff.net · 19/06/2025

Never really brought it up here but I've been chipping away at a videogamee Just started blocking out a more definitive level layout

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VaguelyRoses @rose.armfelloff.net · 16/06/2025

Daily watches for May oops I forgot to post

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VaguelyRoses @rose.armfelloff.net · 10/06/2025

Miku picks a fight she can't win warm up scribble

Miku points a gun at Pearto, who stretches an arm off screen that loops around to the other side, pointing a gun at miku's back in kind

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VaguelyRoses @rose.armfelloff.net · 02/05/2025

Still going strong on the daily watches. Here's the ones for April

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VaguelyRoses @rose.armfelloff.net · 22/04/2025

She's 2.20$ over the limit anyway

Screenshot of "never pay more than 20$ for a computer game" from Monkey Island, except it's been adjusted for inflation so now the price is $47.80

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VaguelyRoses @rose.armfelloff.net · 14/04/2025

Just finished watching Mandela Catalogue. It was fun, though I don't think I'm much of an anlogue horror girly

the cover of American Football's self titled album with a red square crudely drawn on it, like the red squares drawn over windows of houses in Mandela Catalogue

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VaguelyRoses @rose.armfelloff.net · 07/04/2025

Forgot to post my March movie list

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VaguelyRoses @rose.armfelloff.net · 19/03/2025

Yokohama Kidaishi Kikou: Quiet Country Cafe (2003), along with the previous OVAs of course, is one of my favourite things that exists

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VaguelyRoses @rose.armfelloff.net · 24/02/2025

Survive Style 5+ was really good

My review of Survive Style 5+:
"This movie hits heights of hyper-reallist set design I haven't seen since Mike Myers' "The Cat In The Hat".
Fucking insane shit.
Can we get some more of this please??

I started scrubbing through the movie after I finished watching it to take some cool screenshots to send to friends and EVERY. SINGLE. SHOT. is absolutely stacked with punchy colours, the backgrounds so rich with unique set dressing you'll still be picking new, weird stuff out in your 10th viewing. It's so good!

The cast is just as vibrant and fun to watch, each character up to their own surrealist antics in their own corner of town, occasionally stepping on each others toes. Characters wardrobes are impeccable, I especially loved the trio of boys who are all always wearing their signature colours, their very presence in the shot seemingly demanding the rest of the scene change colours to match.

Shout out crow girl and her friend!
Shout out my favourite thief boys!
Shout out gay people!!!

The OST is killer too.
Any movie that uses a drum break to punctuate a dramatic camera move WILL live on forever in my heart

I love the song they used, but Free Bird would have been fucking wild for the ending"

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VaguelyRoses @rose.armfelloff.net · 23/02/2025

I forgot to say anything about the Monster Hunter Wilds demo on here but I DID play it and it was very cool. It has my favourite character creator I think I've ever used, like, I don't think I've ever been able to have anything this close to my IRL hair texture in a game before

my monster hunter wilds character an palico chilling in the tent

a screenshot of my Monster Hunter Wilds character and palico from within the character creation menu

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VaguelyRoses @rose.armfelloff.net · 23/02/2025

Watched Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person(2023) last night ant it was great :)

my review of Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person:
"Sasha is 100% who I would have been if life came with a character creator. I unfortunately grew up more alike a paul.
Such is life...

I have such a weak spot for low-key slice of life-ish vampire movies, and I vibe with this one especially hard.
I'll be tricky to really talk about it without showing my hand a bit too much, and I almost certainly will.

This movie has a kind of friendliness with death I think, or is at least sympathetic to those that feel it.
I think like there's a certain clarity on the value of human life that a friendliness with death affords you, and this movie gets it.
The fact that every person is special, that we all impact others' lives casting ripples so far it's impossible to know how many places they've touched or how meaninfully, isn't just a nice thought,an aspirational sentiment. It can be an infuriating, suffocating and irrefutable fact to those of a certain disposition.
Despite how inconvenient it can be, it's so true.
Everyone is special.
It would be very hard to be a humanist vampire. It is also hard to be a consenting suicidal person. Nobody can be removed so easily.

It's interesting to see a film with this kind of premise that doesn't really question humans' position as prey very much. All the focus is on how characters deal with it.

I think where we might have expected to see a return to vampires as allegory for the rich and powerful with how current events are going, I think I'm instead seeing a stronger trend of vampires as aspirational escape for the weirdos and shut-ins of the world developing?
Maybe that's not really a surprise with how vampires have been a used to tell queer stories or generally represent the socially ostracised and misunderstood for ages, but either way I am absolutely here for it.

Seriously tho I AM the dumbest girl on the planet but what do I have to do to actually meet one of these beautiful, long dark haired, moody vampire women..."

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VaguelyRoses @rose.armfelloff.net · 17/02/2025

Cool Boku, my greatest achievement

Boku from Boku No Natsuyasumi 2 wearing iced out jewelry and sunglasses

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VaguelyRoses @rose.armfelloff.net · 04/02/2025

Someone said "simpsons panopticon" and I blacked out and when I came to I had made this

A panopticon with a clone of bart simpson pulling his shorts down to show his ass in every cell, and a screaming homer simpson in the guard tower

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VaguelyRoses @rose.armfelloff.net · 31/01/2025

My second 1986 OVA in a row this week, Girl Detective Club was great fun

My review of Girl Detective Club (1986):
"I watched this randomy cause it was called Girl Detective Club and I like every part of that name, but I was not expecting it to be absolutely bursting at the seams with fun ideas! It has to move at a pretty breakneck pace just to get to everything, and the end result is a ridiculous and wonderful little OVA. It's got random plotting evil headmasters, it's got fun evil-girl lackeys, it's got inexplicable super weapons and massive property damage. The door sound effects are the videogameiest shit I've ever heard and the OP song does the same song-ending "la la la"s as Elton Johns Crocodile Rock. The story follows a couple of rulebreaking schoolgirls trying trying to find their friend who was kidnapped in the night. And these girls, omg, bimbo levels off the charts. I love them. At one point they come across an enormous gun collection and one of them decides to steal one and stash it in her panties without seemingly even knowing herself why she wants it, only for it to be immediately useful 10 seconds later, and that's one of the more reasonable things that happens in this OVA. This thing was non-sequetar fun in the best way. Such a good time, and cherry of all cherries on the cake, we get honest to god non-subtextual yuri!!! Amazing shit, no notes, 10/10"

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VaguelyRoses @rose.armfelloff.net · 31/01/2025

Watched Call Me Tonight last night and it was adorable

My review of Call Me Tonight (1986):

"Man this thing is suuuper cute! Horny monsters, cute confident call girls, weird biker butches with inexplicable access to bazookas? What's not to love? It's packed with charm, and despite being ostensibly a comedy they even have one really effective horror scene, the diner nosebleed. I think that's probably my favourite part. Considering how much they had to pack into 30 minutes they did a great job selling the romance between the main characters too, I wish we got to see a little more of them together in the ending wrap-up. Big recommend. I do give thee one content warning for sexual assault though."

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VaguelyRoses @rose.armfelloff.net · 29/01/2025

Female Prisoner Scorpion #701! Rough movie, not for the feint of heart, viewer discretion advised, but highly recommended

My review of Female Prisoner Scorpion #701

"I've been trying to write down my thoughts about this movie for an hour. I have killed many darlings, this is my best try for now. If any one true crime exists, it's forgetting your empathy for others. At least I believe this to be true. Subject to constant torture at the hands of an institution so vile that no words satisfy my vitriol, these prisoners' desire for a scapegoat in the face of total disempowerment may be understandable, but cruelty is still cruelty no matter the source Prisoner 701 is a mirror. "Treat others as you would have them treat you" would be good to keep in mind."

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VaguelyRoses @rose.armfelloff.net · 28/01/2025

Tonkatsu DJ Agetarou is love and sincerity. I respect it immensely. We are siblings. I love music too :)

My Tonkatsu DJ Agetarou review

"TONKATSU DJ FUCKING GETS IT!!!!
Tonkatau DJ Agetarou loves music so much!
It loves food so much!
It loves DJ-ing so much!
And I can FEEL IT.
I FEEL IT RUNNING THROUGH MY VEINS!!!
Such love deserves nothing but the utmost respect!
Such love can warm us all, it can bring us all together!
Food and Music, humanity's greatest inventions, will save us all if we let them, if not our lives then our souls.
Dedicate your life to them!
it could never be wrong!!!

If you need me, you better yell cause I'm playing my music LOUD TONIGHT!!!"

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VaguelyRoses @rose.armfelloff.net · 27/01/2025

Never felt so seen in my need to use many alarm clocks to wake up in the morning

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VaguelyRoses @rose.armfelloff.net · 27/01/2025

Just finished watching Yuugen Kaisha!! Good ghost hunting fun :)

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VaguelyRoses @rose.armfelloff.net · 26/01/2025

"Man, Gundam 0079 is relentless, I hope these kids get a break soon. I hope things can chill out a little" A thought I actually had after watching episode 20. Next Episode: