ultimate luck and hope and despair
Mar. 3rd, 2025 07:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
luck4hopei went thrifting today!
i was trying to find a few things for a blood ritual i'm doing (and yes there will be a post on that), and i was feeling pretty good about it because my luck for the past few days was absolutely HORRIBLE!! i also went somewhere else to find a hair mask for my newly-platinum hair, and maybe some new earrings if i could
now that my hair is white, i slapped on some black pants, my green jacket, some platform boots, and a shirt i made for a cosplay. i've been doing what is essentially voice training so with all that, i guess i went out as komaeda for the first time? my fiance went out with his kokichi clothes; he looked really cute. i had a lot of purple clothes that he can have now, lol. i wasn't really sure what i liked in fashion so i just gravitated to purple, since i knew i liked it. well, my stuff looks a whole lot cuter on him!
let's see how i did outside!
so first off-- i did find the hair mask! its like, a 40 dollar hair mask i found for 8 bucks. i haven't tried it yet, but i'll update when i do. also someone complimented my boots!
second off-- at the thrift, i was looking for some shorts and maybe a glass for the drink i'm going to make for the ritual. i didn't find the shorts, which means at some point i'm going to have to order the $20 ones i found online, which is gonna set the ritual date back a bit. but i found these lovely little glasses on a display themed after tropical islands. they're even blue! you'll see why that's important when i do the ritual.
but that's not all.
i found something in the back that had no price tag on it. i took it to the front, asking what the price was... and it was priced right in front of me for five dollars. i quickly bought it and scurried out before anyone realized what a terrible mistake that was
that item? was an audio-technica record player. for people not into vinyls, that thing is worth around a hundred-thirty bucks and the stock parts can be swapped out and upgraded for an even better experience. it needs speakers and stuff, but knowing my luck i'll probably also find those at the thrift. but what luck, to find something so pricey!! i always stared at the players in the record store, hoping that one day i'd have the money to drop on one... well, i guess i do now!
you know, i've always had notably good and notably bad luck, and i even conceptualized it in the form of a luck cycle, before i ever played danganronpa. i think i remember hearing about komaeda's luck cycle and thinking "oh, it's a more extreme version of my thing!"
i don't know if it's confirmation bias or what, but it seems a whole lot more noticeable now that i'm like this. i guess we'll see how my luck develops?
a final note: i finally set up my toughbook to charge (for reference, you know those laptops in ultra despair girls? one of those) so it got me thinking about dumbphones again-- i'm really into vintage tech, lol. and ive been wanting a dumbphone for a while. so i decided to go and see if there's ANY kind of merch out there that features komaeda holding a phone
so... remember the bag i mentioned in this post? i found this standee... notice anything familiar about it?
i really need that fucking bag
i was trying to find a few things for a blood ritual i'm doing (and yes there will be a post on that), and i was feeling pretty good about it because my luck for the past few days was absolutely HORRIBLE!! i also went somewhere else to find a hair mask for my newly-platinum hair, and maybe some new earrings if i could
now that my hair is white, i slapped on some black pants, my green jacket, some platform boots, and a shirt i made for a cosplay. i've been doing what is essentially voice training so with all that, i guess i went out as komaeda for the first time? my fiance went out with his kokichi clothes; he looked really cute. i had a lot of purple clothes that he can have now, lol. i wasn't really sure what i liked in fashion so i just gravitated to purple, since i knew i liked it. well, my stuff looks a whole lot cuter on him!
let's see how i did outside!
so first off-- i did find the hair mask! its like, a 40 dollar hair mask i found for 8 bucks. i haven't tried it yet, but i'll update when i do. also someone complimented my boots!
second off-- at the thrift, i was looking for some shorts and maybe a glass for the drink i'm going to make for the ritual. i didn't find the shorts, which means at some point i'm going to have to order the $20 ones i found online, which is gonna set the ritual date back a bit. but i found these lovely little glasses on a display themed after tropical islands. they're even blue! you'll see why that's important when i do the ritual.
but that's not all.
i found something in the back that had no price tag on it. i took it to the front, asking what the price was... and it was priced right in front of me for five dollars. i quickly bought it and scurried out before anyone realized what a terrible mistake that was
that item? was an audio-technica record player. for people not into vinyls, that thing is worth around a hundred-thirty bucks and the stock parts can be swapped out and upgraded for an even better experience. it needs speakers and stuff, but knowing my luck i'll probably also find those at the thrift. but what luck, to find something so pricey!! i always stared at the players in the record store, hoping that one day i'd have the money to drop on one... well, i guess i do now!
you know, i've always had notably good and notably bad luck, and i even conceptualized it in the form of a luck cycle, before i ever played danganronpa. i think i remember hearing about komaeda's luck cycle and thinking "oh, it's a more extreme version of my thing!"
i don't know if it's confirmation bias or what, but it seems a whole lot more noticeable now that i'm like this. i guess we'll see how my luck develops?
a final note: i finally set up my toughbook to charge (for reference, you know those laptops in ultra despair girls? one of those) so it got me thinking about dumbphones again-- i'm really into vintage tech, lol. and ive been wanting a dumbphone for a while. so i decided to go and see if there's ANY kind of merch out there that features komaeda holding a phone
so... remember the bag i mentioned in this post? i found this standee... notice anything familiar about it?
i really need that fucking bag