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• Liminality EP:Love - Over version
  • my favourite aesthetic-wise, I think
• Liminality EP:Love - Shy version
  
  • this version, inside the sleeve, actually has a cardboard texture on the photobook to match the paper bags that they wear in the photobook! Which is really cool, although the paper bag thing probably sounds really strange if you don't know what I'm talking about with the photobook.
• Face Me - official version
  
  • this is one of my favourite albums from them so I'm excited to finally have the physical version! It also includes a lenticular photocard, which is where pictures are printed on triangles so you see a different picture depending on the angle you look at it from--look it up if you don't understand because I don't know how else to exlpain it! LOL
• Face You - official/normal version
• Liminality EP:Dream - Plan version
  
  • I already have the Play version, which is the other version.
• Veri-Chill - official/normal version
  
  • I can't believe I don't already have this one! This is the coolest, I think--the photos are all really good, and some of them have glitch effects that are totally epic. Plus, there are photocards of the members with transparent backgrounds! I don't know why, but that's pretty cool. This album also makes me nostalgic because this is the first Verivery album where I clearly remember the hype of the buildup, teasers, etc. I was in a KakaoTalk group chat for Verrers (Verivery fans) back at the time and we were all super excited! I wish I could find my old account and see that chat again.
• Liminality EP:Love - platform version (Over concept version)
  
  • This is my first platform album! Basically, for people who don't know what platform albums are, it includes a QR to download the music (instead of a CD), usually through some crappy app instead of something like iTunes. Besides that, it might have a little booklet, but it's mostly just photocards--made so people can collect photocards without generating as much waste through getting a lot of identical CDs, photobooks, posters, etc. In return these are significantly cheaper than normal versions.

• TWS - Sparkling Blue - some platform version
  • I really thought this would have a CD--it's bigger than a CD and the girl working the counter in the store thought it would. Knowing that, I would've bought the official version, especially since me buying the rest of the album besides the one song I already had on iTunes--because if I buy an album, I want the music--cost a good chunk of the difference between this version and the normal version. But oh well.
• The Boyz - Phantasia Part 1 - I think it's the Eric version!
  
  • This was cheaper since it's a member-specific version as opposed to the standard version, but thankfully still had a CD. I just wanted it for the single Lip Gloss and also for the hope that the other songs would be good--I haven't listened to it yet, though.
• Waker - Vanilla Choco Shake - normal version?
  
  • I heard the single on-line and liked it enough that I figured the rest of the album would be good too.
• Zerobaseone - Blue Paradise
  
  • I love the single "Blue"! And I'd like to get more into ZB1. Actually, this album has a board game inside, complete with little cardboard game pieces of a few of the members! You also get random challenge cards for the game from the members, so each album's game is different. Sadly, the non-member-created challenges are mostly boring stuff like "stream the music video five times", "tell three" and similar--which makes it seem like it's just a way, albeit a creative one, to further promote the album that someone's already bought. I think they could've made more creative ways to still promote the album, but in a way that's actually fun and game-like. For example, you could have a challenge be to, instead of doing the normal choreography on Tik-Tok, make up your own dance to the song and put it on Tik-Tok! Or take a picture of the little cardboard game pieces of the members in somewhere blue and post it on-line--bonus points if it's somewhere extra creative or weird. See? It could be so much better!
• The Wind - Hello: My First Love - Love version
  
  • This album is so cute! :) And it includes film strips inside in addition to photocards
• EVNNE - Hot Mess - one of the members' version
  
  • I really like the song! And they're a junior group in the same company as Verivery, so I feel a sort of connection to them. And to their fans, because their company (Jellyfish Entertainment) is arse.
• The Wind - Beginning: The Wind Page - Youth version
  
  • I bought this album on iTunes ages ago and didn't expect this concept for the physical album! It looks way different from the digital album cover. But it's pretty cool in a way! But anyway, this might be my favourite album of theirs musicwise--I'm not sure.
• TWS - Try With Us - Mini-CD edition
  
  • This is insanely cool! I've never seen a mini-CD of a K-pop album before--actually, I don't know if I've ever seen one at all. The retro tech resurgence keeps winning! Although sadly I don't think it'll fit in the CD tray on my computer or in my car, because they're both slot-loading.
• The Wind - Hello: My First Love - Keychain platform version
  
  • This one was so cute I had to buy it! It has pictures of each of the members included that you can out in the little photobook keychain thing. This is dangling off my purse now!
• NCT Wish - poppop
  
  • This was such a cute album design--the bits of confetti move around if you shake the album! And I like the title track pretty well, as well as the b-sides!

• Girls' Generation - 2025 Season's Greetings
  • I kind of bought this on a whim because it was the last one in stock and I wasn't finding any Girls' Generaiton stuff. I like it nonetheless!
• SMTown 30th Anniversary - The Culture, The Future
  
  • This was a pretty cool album overall, although of course Girls' Generation's cover of "My Everything" by The Grace is my favourite song. I actually even managed to pull a photocard of Seohyun from GG! Which made me very happy. :) Although the lady at the store also gave me some sort of bonus photocard--but it seemed to be lost in translation, until she just asked me if I liked Jaehyun from NCT. I said sure, and she gave me an extra photocard of him and bid me on my way--but if I had known she would ask that I would've asked for a member of Girls' Generation, probably Sunny. But oh well!
• Eunhyuk from Super Junior - Explorer - keychain platform version
  
  • I thought this was such a cool version! There's something like four keychains inside, all different kinds, and one of them has the NFC chip you need to load the album digitally--which I'll have to try one day, because apparently it has special behind-the-scenes content or something. I love all these extra inclusions in albums these days! Although I did just end up buying the rest of the album on iTunes anyways, music-wise.
• Then we have a set of three:
  
  • NMIXX - FE304
  • Loossemble - One Of A Kind
  • Viviz - Summer Vibe
  • I got all three of these from a super-cool store in Myeongdong called K-Mecca! They had random album grab boxes for about $15-20 with three albums inside, which is really great pricing! I guess it's probably to get rid of old stock. Sadly, the boy group version was sold out, but I got the girl group version! I would've gotten one of both anyways. I haven't listened to any of these yet, but I like Viviz's title track off the Summer Vibe album--I bought that song on iTunes back when it came out. Anyways, this was a pretty cool box!

In the recent trend of things failing to work as they should, the Internet Annoyance, as I'm dubbing it, has continued. In addition, an entire new annoyance has started. The Touch ID on my iPhone has seemed to become weirdly particular as to exactly how I place my finger and it sometimes take many attempts to log in, to the point where it makes me put my code in instead of my Touch ID. On the other hand, sometimes it works perfectly. Oh well.

Also, I just realized today that I have a Golden Girls themed board/card/whatever game that I got for Christmas and my family and I still haven't played it with my family. Well, it'll have to go on the list of bits and bobs that I want to do this summer. SPeaking of cheesecake (a main theme of the Golden Girls and the game is cheesecake), I really wanna bake some. I have a no-bake cheesecake mix in the pantry, but I'd rather make it from scratch. I have seen a 200-year-old recipe from a video that Ann Reardon did looking at an old cookbook which could work except that I'd rather not manually make cheese. So I'll have to scrounge around the Web for recipes that are made from scratch as in not just using some powder mixes and milk, but not as in literally separating cream and curds to manually make cheese.

Also, I found out today that the Office Depot near my hometown has closed since the last time I went there. Which sucks since that's normally where I got all of my notebooks for school and that kind of stuff, plus it was just a cool store. I guess I'll have to try Walmart or something.

Speaking of school supplies, I was looking through my supply list and found out that we get to know our electives THE DAY BEFORE SCHOOL STARTS. Not a lot of time to go out and buy supplies. Honestly, I wish there was an option for a study hall or something, as most of the electives seemed rather underwhelming. I suppose Astronomy might be nice though. I hope I put it as my first choice.

Also, the new episode of Belbel Land (a chaotic/amazing YouTube series that Verivery make) STILL doesn't have English subtitles last time I checked, only Chinese, plus the Korean subtitles in the video itself. Which is odd, considering that Verivery's team is normally so good with subtitles! But I don't speak Korean or Chinese, so I'll just have to wait. Oh well.

Anyways, that's all that I have to write about for tonight, so I'll talk to you all later. Bye!

These past few days, I've continued my Bob Ross classes (my last one is tomorrow) and I completed another painting (this one took two days as it's rather complicated.) I think the most recent tutorial we've used is the same one Ann Reardon, one of my favourite YouTubers, uses in this video:

Or at least I thought it. It turns out they're just very similar, but the one we did has a trail and the land shape is different, plus it's mistier. But either way, honestly, my finished painting isn't perfect, but I think it's still pretty great! I'd say it's pretty great for my first time painting mountains, and I'm at least glad that I salvaged the snow caps on top of the mountains (there was a moment when I almost completely thought I had ruined it) and that I managed to make the trees in the foreground look somewhat similar to trees instead of just green triangles.

I've also finally felt the inspiration to write again! (Huzzah!) Sadly, I'm not able to write at my old rates yet, though. Somehow, in the springtime, I was normally managing 1000 words a day, whereas right now I'm doing maybe a fifth of that. I suppose I might just be a bit rusty though, as it's my first time in two months or so where I've felt able to write any stories at all. I should also finish a couple unfinished WIPs I have laying on my hard drive sometime.

Also, my school sent out the supply list, which includes the named of the teachers for each class, and apparently the new science teacher who'll be teaching chemistry and biology shares the same last name as my great-grandparents. I wonder if we're related? I hope that said new teacher, as well as the new English teacher, are cool.

Also, I need to read my human geography summer reading book that we've been assigned but honestly, I don't think anyone else in my grade has done any summer reading, and I don't want to think about school yet, especially not the person who's teaching it. (I don't know if I've said this before here, but he will swear up, down, left and right that he won't give us weekend homework and then assigned something on Thursday and makes it due Monday or Friday and makes it due Tuesday because it's apparently not weekend homework if we can work on it during the week.)

Anyways, I want to go write some more instead of griping, even as therapeutic as complaining to my Internet friends may be, so I'll talk to you all later. Bye!
 

So yesterday, I went to a museum with my mother and found some interesting things, which I wanted to show you some of. First, there was this TV that looked like a giraffe.

There was also this horrible map, which excluded not only the entire island of Ireland, but half of Nunavut, as well as Hawaii and some other places.

The last thing I want to show you is this painting, which I thought looked rather like Mrs Bennet from the BBC's Pride and Prejudice.

Finally, I want to leave you on two videos. The first is this video by Count Binface, who ran for mayor in London this year.

The second is this video, which is just amazing!

Anyways, that's all that I have to talk about today, so I'll talk to you all later. Bye!