Website Update 8/14/16

Two more doujinshi titles have been added.

Sorry updates are slow right now. When it comes to finding content for the Dark Warlords/Mashou and Kayura, it’s either feast or famine. Lately it seems to be of the famine kind. I will be trying to refocus on getting more fanart up soon. I’m thinking of changing the post titles to use numbers instead of artists’ names, since so many names are in Japanese. Hopefully that will make fanart blog post titles a bit clearer. Either way I’ll be mulling it over and organizing things on my end.

Website Update 7/9/16

Field with a tree and a mountain in the background.The rest of the Unknown Title Doujinshis have been added to their respective pages according to title. A few new doujinshi titles have been added. Some doujinshi images have new cover scans, and some back cover scans were added.

Another Other Book Publications title has been added.

The two Doujinshi pages themselves had become too long and getting a bit unwieldy. So I counted up how many titles I currently have on both of them. 142. That’s too many for two pages. So I tried to break down the titles again into semi nice splits alphabetically. I also wanted to make sure there would be room to grow a bit before they became too large again. As such there are now six doujinshi pages.

That should help with both load times and display. No one could have to keep scrolling and scrolling. Plus the plugin that I use to make the galleries doesn’t like it when I put too many on one page. So this should solve all of that.

The navigation menu has changed to reflect this. Now under Merchandise, there is a Doujinshi category. The six pages are under that.

Boy this wasn’t a problem I was expecting when I started doing this. 😀

I hope you enjoy all the updates!

Website Update 7/4/16

Many thanks to Welcome to Edo again for translating the Unknown Title Doujinshis. I am still going through the email with all of the translations. For now everything has been added to their proper place alphabetically except for the Unknown Group and Unknown Mashou covers. I’ve just run out of time and my eyes are getting very tired.

Welcome to Edo found more things that were official books and non-doujinshi items,  so I added a new page called Other Book Publications. The official Shuten book by Sunrise has been moved to this page, along with 2 other titles. As I said I’m still going through the long email so there may be more things that need to be added to the new page. Either way, at this point a new page was needed to separate these books from doujinshis.

Also some doujinshis have been listed as Confirmed Yaoi and May Contain Yaoi. This does not mean doujinshi titles lacking this note are not Yaoi. I just have noted ones I’ve been able to confirm. (All Death Powder that weren’t officially confirmed have the “may contain” label. This is because Death Powder tends to make Yaoi doujinshi.)

So for now enjoy the new information available until I can get the rest of the information up.

Website Update

Yesterday evening I put up a big update on my fansite Soul of the Seasons. LOTS of doujinshi images were added. Many thanks goes to @samuraireflections​‘s doujinshi cover Flickr album, and for allowing people to share the images. Lots were added to the “Unknown Title Doujinshi” page. Others either had English titles or I was able to translate them. You’ll find them on the appropriate doujinshi page alphabetical by title.

Also via a previous update, the webmaster of Welcome to Edo helped translate more doujinshis for me, and one book I posted was official merchandise. This book has been added to my “Toys, Model Kits, Pencil Boards, etc” page. (Look at the bottom of the page under “Other.”)

All these additions can be found under the Merchandise menu on my site.

Website Update 5/23/16

Doujinshi doujinshi doujinshi! Again!

I finally finished going through Samurai Reflection’s Flickr doujinshi cover album. Some of the doujinshis had English titles, or titles I could translate. So they were added to the appropriate doujinshi page according to title (alphabetical). Others have been added to the Unknown Title Doujinshi page. I hope you enjoy it. Lots of images added.

I’m going on vacation this weekend with my husband. It’s the first vacation that we’ve had in years. I’m thinking it’s been around 8 years or so. We will be gone the long weekend. (For those not in the US, this coming Monday is Memorial Day. Quite a few people have the day off, with the usual exceptions of retail, emergency services, etc.) We will be visiting the Great Smoky Mountains for the first time. I’ve jotted down some places to go, but other than that we plan to buzz around and just enjoy the area. So I’m looking forward to some nice relaxing, unwinding, and stress reduction time. Hopefully I’ll come back rejuvenated!

Also I’ve been lax on uploading those Spring photos I promised a while back. So here they are.

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Anyway I hope you enjoy the updates! 🙂

 

Website Update 5/15/16

Thanks to Welcome To Edo all of the “Unknown Title Doujinshis” I had up have been translated. One of them was actually an official book and I added to the Toys, Model Kits, Pencil Boards, Etc. page.

Otherwise all of the other doujinshis have been added to the appropriate page according to title. So feel free to check those doujinshi pages out to see the updates.

Now I’ll be working on editing some images for some other doujinshis. Some I found info on and so hopefully be able to translate the titles. Others may be added to the unknown page. It’ll be a bit of work as I touch them up and resize them. (I’ll be going through Samurai Reflection’s flickr album of doujinshi cover images.) So there will be more to come!

We also got a new link submission for the Links page!

Website update 3/13/16

Doujinshi, doujinshi, doujinshi. I added more doujinshi. Some known titles, and the unknown title doujinshi page is back. I’ll be adding more doujinshi to the unknown title page soon.

My apologizes for the thumbnails on the unknown title page being all over the place size-wise. I use an add-on/plug-in to do these things and I don’t know how to fix it. Some images I uploaded are to help in translations, so hopefully when the final product (so to speak) moves to its final home, it’ll look better there.

Spring seems to finally be here where I live. Temperatures have been in the 70s for at least a week. ^_^ Cherry trees, dogwoods, and other trees are starting to bloom. This morning I noticed some tiiiny leaves on the trees in our backyard. Yay!

Here’s a quick camera shot I took of a tree on the campus of the college I work at. Hopefully I can find more beautiful trees like this on a walking path so I can snap shots of them. Anyway, I thought I’d share the photo for those of you still waiting for spring in your areas.

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Hope you enjoy the rest of your day!

And for those like me who are dealing with the time shift due to daylight saving, yeah I’m right there with ya. I’ll be tired for at least a week while my body’s internal clock readjusts. (And I’ll be driving to work in the dark again. ;_; )

Minor Website Update 2/14

I added I few more doujinshi to the site. I’m currently going through and organizing doujinshi image files on my hard drive. I’m looking to see if there are some doujinshi I haven’t posted on here yet. I’ll need to bring back the “unknown title doujinshi” page again for those I can’t translate.

Samurai Reflections has made a Flickr gallery for doujinshi cover images. I’ll be adding any Mashou and Kayura ones to my site. (Per their tumblr post: “Everyone is free to take what they want from these pictures to keep for your own archives or use them online if you have a use for them. I don’t care what you do with them.”) Those will definitely be added to an unknown title page. So many thanks for Samurai Reflections for putting these up. Quite a few doujinshi images there that I haven’t seen before.

Finally I wanted to apologize for the lack of updates lately. My husband got notice on January 20th that he would be laid off from his job on February 10th due to basically lack of work. He had been there less than a year and per the agreement/contract he signed, my husband would have to pay back a portion of his sign-on bonus. (To come out of his last paycheck.) He also would not be getting any severance pay. The only income he would get would be $300 a week for unemployment, before taxes.

My husband’s income counts for 75% of our joint income. So I would need to somehow support the both of us on my much lower income. (Mortgage, bills for house, his car payment..) Plus my income would go down as my husband would have to go on my health insurance, unless he qualified for Medicaid or some other low cost insurance. Least to say I naturally went into a stress induced panic mode. If we had no debt we might have been able to manage to make ends meet for both of us on just my income alone. With the debt it’s impossible. I was looking into ways of how to keep our house, work with debtors about our situation, and maybe talk with someone about at what point we would have to declare bankruptcy. And of course the extreme stress made all of my heath issues worse. Quite a few of them were at a level I haven’t experienced in a looong time.

My husband immediately updated his resume upon getting the news and started job hunting. Fortunately for us, he was hired for a job. My husband did have to take a pay cut, which we kind of suspected would happen. However we should still be able to make ends meet. My husband starts his new job tomorrow the 15th.

I’m still concerned about our finances. My husband’s last paycheck will be significantly less. Plus there will most likely be a gap before my husband sees the first paycheck from his new job. Though my husband getting a job has done wonders for most of my stress. Most of my health issues have quieted down, with the exception of one that usually takes weeks to recoup from.

All in all the past month or so has sucked. And I definitely feel like I’ve lost that month’s time in regards to things I wanted to do this year. I’m struggling to get back on track. And sadly this website has been one of those things I had to put aside while I dealt with this crisis. So as I said I’m working on organizing things and hopefully getting more stuff up. Please be patient with me and thank you for supporting me and visiting my site.