Derek
@astralcitymini
Senior Editor at MARVELOUS USA. Chicagoan. 📖✍🏻🏃🏼♂️🚴🏻♂️👨🏼🍳🎮🎧💿☕️🐈🪴🏳️🌈 FFXIV: Serph Embryon (Hyperion) Read my gaming blog: astralcitymini.com
Anyone here a big YOASOBI fan living in Japan who’d like my serial code to enter the ticket lottery for their upcoming 2026-2027 Asia tour?
New music day! 💿 Coolest part of YOASOBI’s latest is the binder-style package. Inside are lyrics & stories with bespoke design elements for each track. Of special note is the limited-ed divider tab for Players feat. a hip illustration for Project MEMORY CARD—even if it hits a little differently rn.
After a couple weeks of delirious questing, I've at last earned 100% achievements for Granblue Fantasy Relink: Endless Ragnarok. Every time you think you've reached its zenith, the game reveals another mountain in the distance, and another, and another still. This is my 10/10 "Hunter"-style game.
I'm feeling sentimental over @felicia.day's The Guild returning for a movie next year. Checked to see if the old episodes are up on YouTube—they are—and ended up clicking on the holiday carol, only to discover that I still have it 100% memorized...and my comment from 18 years ago endures. 👴🏻🫶🏻
If you’ve seen me logged into Steam playing Granblue Relink for 12 hours a day over the last week, no you haven’t* *yes you have 😔 I’m AFK farming Mastery Points while I work. The path to power is paved with Celestial Slimes.
Incredible #VGM find at a secondhand store today: the Panzer Dragoon Orta soundtrack in excellent condition. I gasped when I pulled it off the shelf. I’d never even seen this cover. The old rip I have uses a closeup of the dragon’s eye, & the Apple Music uses a slightly more generic piece of CG art.
Having the coziest #SGDQ finale night with @homoagogo.bsky.social and @soulcatcher02.bsky.social. I’m preemptively sad the event is ending, but I’m happier it’s happened at all.
Cleared The Final Vision in GBF Relink for the first time today! Amazingly cool fight. Thank you @colonelcactuar.bsky.social and @rayaeronaile.bsky.social for being my ride-or-dies. Y'all are babes. 💜
Fun fact: Moonlight Peaks has two distinct styles for character portraits! The default is a more cartoonish style, while the alternate is a brighter, anime-inspired style. One might speak to you more than the other! Oh, and… #TeamSamael 🖤
This week has already been an avalanche of awful, awful news, so any glimmer of good news makes me feel disproportionately relieved. Case in point: CDJapan made its customs fees more affordable and I almost cried. Normal times!
This morning I achieved my first sub-9-minute run since I injured my back last year! 🥳 Shout-out to KT tape for keeping my bad knee in line.
Now I’m home and thinking about Etrian Odyssey Untold 2: The Fafnir Knight
At the leather bar with three drinks in me and thinking about Sin and Punishment: Star Successor
That said, the first SQ Relax is among my most played albums of the year so far. Such warm, cozy remixes.
Hyperion finally completed the Cosmic Exploration development of Auxesia. It makes me a little sad to think this gorgeous area—which probably took a ton of manpower to craft—will only be seen by a portion of the playerbase. I don't want to leave it behind! The views are stunning. #FFXIV
Alisaie will stop whatever she’s doing if it means she can climb on my shoulder. Even without me calling her, she does this unprompted several times a day. 😆🧡 My sweet and needy baby.
Couldn’t decide which adorable @starsalts.bsky.social microfiber cloth patterns I liked best…so I treated myself to a whole bunch! One for every room and every bag. 😋