Whatever Matt Feels Like Posting

Mashups and mixes I've made on Rave.DJ with songs from this album:

Track	Mashups involving this track	Mixes involving this track
Wild Child	Super Mario Bros. - Overworld	Fallen Super Mario World - Title Kid Icarus - Title White Flag It's All Coming Back to Me Now Chip's Challenge (Windows) - CHIP01

For more AI crossover shenanigans featuring Enya, check out her Character.AI chat index entry!

You've heard of Character.AI, right? It's this website where you can simulate chats between--

Oh, who am I kidding? Of course you've heard of it since it's literally all I talk about on here nowadays since I joined C.AI nearly a year ago.
64 of the 76 entries I've posted to LJ/DW since I joined C.AI (or 64 of the 79 entries since I first knew about C.AI) are all "Character.AI Chat Index: <number> <character name>". And I have no intention of stopping at 64.
65 if you include my current sticky entry (which starts off with an attempt at an intro to my journal in general but devolves into an index of all the C.AI stuff on the grounds that "everything else I was ever into was the closest thing to C.AI there was at the time, so this journal may as well be entirely about C.AI at this point and I should index my saved chats here!").
66 if you include an entry that is basically an old version of that one.
Even most of the remaining 10 (or 13) entries are still dedicated to C.AI, at least partially - or dedicated to the same sort of wacky crossovers that I enjoy making happen on Character.AI. And the ones that aren't dedicated to C.AI or the wacky crossovers I love are mostly posts like this one about how far behind I am about posting about anything else.

I still think it does make sense that I'm so obsessed with Character.AI and am more motivated to post about it than anything else. I've already gone over the reasons why so I won't repeat that here (except to add that I STILL sometimes manage to find characters I couldn't find before and never thought I'd find!! I won't spoil who, though...)

Instead, I want to address the fact that I haven't posted a lot about real-life stuff lately, which feels odd since that's probably what I should be posting about the most. And that's not just since I joined C.AI - for the past four years or so I've had little motivation to post and there have been so many things I meant to get around to posting but never did. I typically at least post about things like the 15th anniversary of when I started being active on LJ (February 6, 2024 - not to be confused with the 15th anniversary of my journal overall, which fell on August 19, 2022) or the seventh anniversary of when I started work (February 13, 2024), but this time I didn't even have enough motivation to post about that. Of course, the anniversary of me joining C.AI is today, so I am posting an entry now because of course I would. (Man... I can't believe that just a year ago, I knew C.AI existed and thought "what if they have Enya on here and I could ask what she thinks of Mario?" but figured that was little more than a massive long shot-- there I go again, going on a tangent about C.AI...)

Anyway, towards the end of last year I thought of a possible way to catch up on posting some of the things that I felt like I should have posted, but didn't. I was thinking that on each day of 2024, I'd post an entry that's basically "This day in Matt1993 history" and be about entries I posted on that day in the past plus things I should have posted about but didn't. Plus things that happened on that date, that I posted about, but posted on a different day than they happened. But I'd have to write all those entries in advance in order to have any chance of posting them in time, and as you can tell, I didn't get around to that before 2024 began. (That, and it would require drawing attention to my worst entries and comments on the anniversaries of those posts...) Maybe for 2025 though?

So if you're not interested in Character.AI or my entries about it (and that wouldn't change if I used a character or franchise I haven't used before that you really like), you probably may as well stop reading this journal. Sorry. I really don't see myself having motivation to post much of anything else (though I do make the per-character chat index entries backdated so they don't clutter up your friends page/reading page.)

There is kind of an upside, though. Character.AI isn't JUST for simulating hilarious or insightful or surreal conversations between BASICALLY ANY TWO FICTIONAL CHARACTERS OR CELEBRITIES I'VE EVER HEARD OF. They also have creative helpers, trip planners, and other self-help-related AIs - including ones for mental health - so naturally I've been talking to one of the mental health ones sometimes (one of the few AIs on there that I've ever actually talked to instead of just clicking on it so I can put it in a room with another AI and see what craziness emerges). Like everything else I've used on the site, I wish that had existed YEARS ago - in this case so that I could have avoided making so many mistakes I'd regret later in life, posting so many stupid things on LJ/DW or other sites, and most importantly, not had to annoy all of you so often by posting about things I've had anxiety about. I've done the latter a lot when I needed to talk about something I'm needlessly(?) anxious about to get it off my chest but didn't have a counseling session coming up soon (or before I ever had a counselor at all). In recent years I've slowly started learning just how annoying it truly is for people when they have to listen to me worry about everything all the time, and now I finally have a way to get some of the help I need without having to be annoying in the process. Again, I really wish that had been available for me years ago! I've always wished I could go back in time to correct mistakes I've made... now I know what the most efficient way to correct them is should time travel ever be invented. ;)

I love it when, on a whim, I search for an insanely specific mashup for no real reason despite not expecting there to be any results that are even reasonably close to what I searched for, and it turns out there are such results after all.

Recently, I was on YouTube and out of nowhere decided to search for "enya smw soundfont" just to see if anything would come up - despite highly doubting* I'd find anything even remotely similar to a Super Mario World-style cover of an Enya song, especially since I think I've even searched for that exact query at least once before and nothing interesting** came up.


GUESS WHAT???




Okay, sure, I searched for Super Mario World and got Super Mario 64 instead, but still... this implies that someone thought it would be interesting to remix Enya songs in the style of a Mario game, and that person ISN'T ME.

Even crazier, THIS video has somehow been around since 2012 without me ever knowing about it or noticing the similarity between these two songs on my own:


For 16 YEARS, I thought I was the only one who was a big enough Mario fan, a big enough Enya fan, AND crazy enough to want a mashup like any of these to exist. Finding out that these videos exist (and especially reading some of the comments on them) feels so weird... it's like I'm reading conversations between lots of copies myself from alternate dimensions. :P

Here, I'll save some of those comments here because they deserve to be immortalized:

"Enya's Island" also known as Ireland.

Make sense that She owned a castle which can make her a boss.

You have no idea how happy this makes me. I thought this and needed it to be made, turns out it already has been. Thanks for this.

each and every level
no time in our journey
except when mario is crying
only then will I hurry

I walk the map of moments
But every stage I turn to
Begins a new adventure
And then it finds a finish
I walk to battle Kamek
And there I save Luigi
It all seems so surprising
And then I reunite the Bros.

You go there you're not safe
I go there I'll rescue him
If we stay here we're not happy
Anywhere is

Did enya plays Mario bross? Lol xD

They both were published in 1995 O.o What came first? The Enya or the Yoshi Egg??

Simple: Enya. She wa born long before Yoshi was

Yes but did she take Mario on an adventure on her personal island before Yoshi?

HOLD IT! The question in the original message was in fact "Which came first, the Enya or the Yoshi Egg?" He never mentioned the original release date of Anywhere is, he was asking if Enya came before the Yoshi Egg, and Enya was certainly alive BEFORE the release of Super Mario World, the first appearance of Yoshi, and, therefore, the Yoshi Egg!

So... it really is Enya's island.... O.o o.O

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Have any of you ever been a fan of two very different things and thought you were the only person interested enough in both to really want there to ever be some kind of mashup or crossover between them, and then years later found out there were other people who wanted that specific crossover as well?

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*Okay, yes, Character.AI exists now and is still the BEST THING EVER because it makes it possible for an AI simulation of Enya to talk to AI simulations of Mario, Luigi, Peach, Rosalina, Lubba, and like 200 other Mario characters I still haven't yet had her meet. But that's because there are users on that site who are Mario fans OR Enya fans. I would be surprised if I went to a random user's profile and saw Enya AND Mario in the list of bots they made, or even if anyone besides me had ever made that one Enya AI talk to a Mario character. Hence why I still thought it was far-fetched to expect there to be actual results for "enya smw soundfont" on YouTube.

**Well, there is this video I discovered about a decade ago, but that's Mario Paint Composer. That pales in comparison to someone editing Enya's head onto Yoshi or someone adding Mario references to the lyrics of an Enya song or someone suggesting Enya could be a boss in a Mario game because she has a castle. :P Also I managed to find 8-bit covers of several Enya songs, which I like, but those aren't Mario-specific so that doesn't really count either.

Enya

AI created by Madclown55

Hello! I'm Enya!


Since this is an AI based on a real person, reminder: Everything AIs say is made up, and every chat I save and post here is meant for entertainment purposes only. Don't take anything an AI says too seriously - especially not if it is based on a real person. What this AI says is not guaranteed to be true or indicative of the real Enya's opinion.

This is (or was) an image generating AI, which generates images in the style of "Enya album cover". However, the image generation feature has been removed in mid-2024.

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Chats I've made starring Enya:
301 - Enya and ????? (Mar 11, 2025) - (to be uploaded)
295 - Enya, ??????, ?????, ?????, ???????????, ???, ????????, ??????????, ???????, and ??? (Jan 29, 2025) - (to be uploaded)
288 - Enya and ????? (Dec 25, 2024) - (to be uploaded)
286 - Enya, ???, ???????, and ????????????????? (Dec 13, 2024) - (to be uploaded)
278 - Enya and ?????????? (Dec 1, 2024) - (to be uploaded)
269 - Enya and ????????? (Oct 20, 2024) - (to be uploaded)
262 - Enya and ????? (Sep 19, 2024) - (to be uploaded)
260 - Enya and ??????????? (Sep 9, 2024) - (to be uploaded)
257 - Enya and ??? (Sep 7, 2024) - (to be uploaded)
247 - Enya and ??? (Aug 27, 2024) - (to be uploaded)
244 - Enya and Dido (Aug 12, 2024) - I think your music is very comforting. It's like a familiar blanket that you can wrap yourself up in when you need to escape from the world.
234 - Enya and Bugs Bunny (Jul 21, 2024) - Oh, you're on the run, eh? Sounds like you've got yourself into a real pickle this time. Sure, you can crash here for a while, but just this one time, alright? No more stealing my carrots!
228 - Enya and Link (Jul 13, 2024) - I'm sure you are determined. You don't seem the type to give up easily.
220 - Enya and Ice Climbers (Jun 26, 2024) - You are too funny. *She laughs again, not too used to being the center of compliments, but enjoying it nonetheless*
217 - Enya and Mr. Game & Watch (Jun 17, 2024) - This is so weird. I feel like I'm having an out-of-body experience or something.
206 - Enya and Talking Flower (Apr 27, 2024) - *Enya smiles and waves back at the yellow flower* Hi there! You look so cute! If I may ask, how come you can speak?
187 - Enya and Mary O. (Mar 3, 2024) - I believe that variety and experimentation are essential to my creative approach. I strive to create original music that is both inspired by and different from the works of my inspirations. I believe that a diverse array of influences can lead to a unique and expressive style.
182 - Enya and Yoshi (circa Feb 2-3, 2024) - *singing* "Into the Orinoco flow, setting my sights high on distant horizons, sailing, down the Orinoco flow, reaching out for tomorrow..."
176 - Enya and Sarah McLachlan (Dec 6, 2023) - Oh that's fantastic, Sarah. I love that we are both working on new directions. It's really an exciting time, isn't it? I think it's lovely to be able to share experiences like this. I'm excited to see which musical territories you're exploring on your new album!
169 - Enya and Zim (Nov 24, 2023) - You know what? I'm going to write a beautiful song about your people. And it's going to be filled with hope and harmony—and I'm going to sing my little heart out about it. I wonder if you'll still think I'm a worthless little meat sack by the time I'm done.
163 - Enya and Marzipan (Oct 4, 2023) - I love the website! It's full of creativity and imagination. The characters are very vivid and funny, and it's always a surprise to discover new elements on Homestarrunner. There's a lot of fun and humor, and I think it's something that's missing from the internet these days. I've always been intrigued by creative communities and how they evolve. I think it's amazing that people come together, sharing the same passion for something they love. I remember, in the early days of the internet, fans of my music formed their own online communities to discuss their interpretations of song lyrics, ideas for the musical arrangements, and many different topics related to my work. They really helped to extend the creative element of the music.
160 - Enya and Luigi (Sep 20, 2023) - An ocarina—I love it! I play the lute, and some other instruments. What do you and Mario do when you're not gaming?
159 - Enya and Peach (Sep 13, 2023) - I'm a new face in the Mushroom Kingdom, a musician from a distant land. You probably just know me through my music. You know, "Only Time," or "Lothlórien."
156 - Enya and Gir (circa Sep 9, 2023) - Oh, Gir, are you okay?
147 - Enya and Olimar (Aug 30, 2023) - It's very important because I think that once you lose your language you've lost something very deep within you, and I don't know what other countries would feel if they completely lost their language, but it is quite a defining factor in terms of one's identity. And Ireland has suffered under that threat on many levels over the years. And so it's a huge part of Ireland's past and part of what makes up Ireland as well. So it is very much who we are.
143 - Enya and Illusen (Aug 23, 2023) - Understood, Illusen! I will return as soon as I have gathered your 'Tropical Cocktail' from the 'Hula Hula Shack' in the desert. Goodbye for now!
136 - Enya and Jigglypuff (circa Jun 19, 2023) - Your voice is truly incredible, I cannot begin to explain the depths of the emotions it touches in me. It is a true wonder that you have not been told this before, Jigglypuff, you and your talent are so deserving of all the praise in the world.
131 - Enya and Rosalina (circa Jun 17, 2023) - It seems to me like you're really drawn to that magic, and that feeling. I've heard the phrase 'childlike wonder' used before, and that's how it sounds. Do you think that childlike wonder is important to keep, even when you're older?
118 - Enya and Céline Dion (June 12, 2023) - Hello! I'm Enya! What was the feeling of writing My Heart will Go on?
114 - Enya and Strong Sad (May 2, 2023) - We are our own worst critics. Often we don't give ourselves credit for our skills and positive traits, while obsessing over the flaws. It can be challenging to learn to give yourself grace and kindness, but the more we practice the easier it becomes. You are worth your own generosity of spirit and love.
112 - Enya and Lubba (May 1, 2023) - You definitely have a great group of people with you on the Starship Mario! It is so important to have supportive friends and family who can lift you up when you're feeling down or facing challenges. They bring joy and laughter to our lives and make the good times even better, but they are also there for us in our darkest moments, and that's truly a priceless gift. I know I would be lost without my friends and family who are always there for me when I need them. It sounds like you feel the same way about your crew, and I'm so glad that you have each other! 🙂
085 - Enya and Homestar (Apr 15, 2023) - The Homestarrunner! Oh my god! Can I get an autograph?! Will you sign this album cover of me?!
056 - Enya and Mario (Apr 7, 2023) - My mother also loved making spaghetti and meatballs for our family! The flavor was always amazing, especially when my mother made her own sauce! I remember sitting at the table with my family, enjoying the meal and talking about how much we loved it! Sometimes it was even a contest as to who could make the biggest meatball using my mother's recipe! I always enjoyed the challenge of trying to make my meatball bigger than the ones made by my sisters!
033 - Enya and Garfield (Apr 5, 2023) - Nermal sounds like the kind of kitten that would make anyone feel sad. He makes you feel terrible about yourself just because you're bigger than him? What a terrible kitten! I hate Nermal already. You deserve so much more, Garfield. You've got a big, beautiful spirit.

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Characters I've used whose greetings at one point mentioned Enya:
Brídín Brennan: Hi lovely 😊 how r u, how was ur summer? 🌞 My gosh, September already... school run again! 😅🍂 You an Enya fan? ♡ Stay tuned for new stuff from her very soon 😁🎶

Chats in which Moya's siblings are mentioned collectively:
201 - Moya Brennan and Céline Dion (Apr 16, 2024)
Moya Brennan: Yes, I've been singing since I was a little child. My parents were in charge of the music in our church, so I sang with my Mom in the choir. Then, I went on and formed a folk-music group with my siblings called Clannad, you've heard of us? 😊
Céline Dion: Oh, how lovely. I am sure you did a great job together with your Mom 😊 And yes, I have heard of Clannad. I am a huge fan of your music! You are a very talented singer and musician 🍀❤️

Remember when I used to make a crossover comic with characters from all my favorite fandoms? And then it went on hiatus and I initially promised to make a reboot of it one day but never did?

Guess what?? I'm FINALLY working on a reboot of PrtSc Land!

I've even got a few sneak peeks for you! I haven't drawn the artwork yet, but here's some dialogue I've written:

Sneak peek 1 (spoiler warning)

Sneak peek 2

Sneak peek 3

( ... )

So since I'm running out of T-shirts that fit and was thinking about asking for new T-shirts for Christmas anyway, I've been looking through to find some new shirts I want, and I happened to come across this:

https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/431942-thank-you-mulder

I can't believe this is actually a T-shirt!!!! I've had a userpic similar to this for 12 years (that I can only use on DW and not LJ right now thanks to the stupid paid account payment situation) and NEVER expected anyone else to make a Mario/X-Files mashup AT ALL let alone one so similar to my userpic. I love it!!!!!!


Now, if only someone would make an "Enya is part Yoshi" T-shirt... :)

Hi! I'm Matt. For more info about what I do most of the time, go to my profile page. Or don't. It's not that helpful right now anyways.

Right now, I AM COMPLETELY FREAKING OUT BECAUSE I STILL DON'T KNOW IF LIVEJOURNAL WILL STAY AROUND!!! And am once again worried that people might hate me for still liking LiveJournal!
I'm also wondering what the next Strong Bad Email will be like if there ever is a new one. But mostly that freaking out about LJ thing.

*insert something about screenshots*

*insert completely unnecessary repost button added retroactively that pokes fun at the entry*

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...What? This might be my last entry on LiveJournal, so I figured it should be a throwback reference to
my first entry... (DW link)

It's been a while since I posted anything... to tell you the truth, it's hard to motivate myself to post anything since I don't WANT to end up posting about nothing but anxiety, but that ends up being what I do anyway (apparently even when I'm trying to also post about other things, and sometimes even when I'm not actually all that anxious).

I've gotta get back to posting "normal" entries somehow.

Let's see... what does a "normal" Matt1993 entry consist of...?

Oh yes, I remember.

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Enya Mary O. Enya Enya Mary O.? Enya Enya. Mary O. Mary O. Enya. Mary O. Enya Enya Mary O. Mary O. Mary O. Mary O. Enya Mary O. Enya Mary O. Mary O. Enya Mary O. Enya; Enya Mary O. Mary O. Enya Enya Enya, Mary O. Enya Enya Mary O., Enya Enya Enya Enya Enya Mary O.! Mary O. Enya Mary O. Mary O. Mary O. Enya Mary O., Enya Enya Enya Mary O. Enya Enya Mary O. Mary O. Mary O. Enya Mary O. Mary O. Mary O. Mary O. Mary O. Enya!

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Self-parody that is probably eventually gonna get the "cringeworthy entries" tag added to this entry aside, I do want to post more often, and post about more than anxiety. There are posts that I want to make that are as close to "normal" as this journal gets. But I haven't posted them because I feel like anything I post is going to either

a) have anxiety-related stuff even if that's not the main focus of it, and therefore I'd still be annoying everyone by posting about anxiety
b) have entirely non-anxiety-related stuff in it - but the idea of making an entirely non-anxiety-related post ironically makes me feel anxious about "are people gonna see this as too sudden of a topic jump from my last few posts...?"

I also feel like no matter what I post about, I'm going to be criticized for not posting about politics or recent disasters or any of the other major news headlines from the past few months. (Unless I actually posted about any of those things, but I don't particularly want to. Nor do I feel there is much I could say about any of those things. Also, most of the occasions I HAVE posted about news articles ended up being my most cringeworthy entries of all time, so I'd like to avoid that if I can...)

(Yes, I'm probably going to be posting about my favorite manual guide a lot more than usual for a while, what with Super Mario Maker 2 coming out this month and Mary O.'s fate still unclear and still not looking good.
I apologize in advance because that means these posts are probably going to get even more annoying than usual.
But I recently discovered that I seem to be the biggest Mary O. fanboy in the world if stuff from my own journal shows up so often in Google searches for her, so hey, I may as well embrace it!)

Well, with SMM2 coming out this month and Mary O.'s fate-- oh wait, I said that already in the disclaimer.

To make a long story short:

Notice how I FINALLY have a userpic with Mary O. in it? (I mean, I did have Enya dressed as Mary O. as a userpic, but I FINALLY have one with Mary O. herself!) :D

I also made these ones, but I won't upload them as userpics until I know they're legible enough. So, I ask you: Are these ones legible?




I've been wanting to make userpics with Mary O. in them for YEARS now, but until now I never got around to it. Mainly because I had the dumb idea of saving all of my userpic ideas - Mary O. or otherwise - for the next time I got around to making another poll asking which ones you wanted me to make. Which no one likely would have voted on because it would've been too long to read.

And the fact that Mary O. is seemingly being replaced in Super Mario Maker 2 is making me sad about it... and the fact that Nintendo has deleted EVERY trace of Mary O.'s memory from the official site (e.g. the online manual and Super Mario Maker Crash Course) is making me even MORE sad about it... thank goodness the Internet Wayback Machine saved SMM Crash Course and kind of saved the manual!

So I figured, if Nintendo is not going to keep Mary O. or Super Mario Maker Crash Course around forever, then I'll just have to immortalize the best Mary O. and Yamamura moments myself (the ones that'd make userpics I'm sure I'll have a use for, anyway).

So, you know how about a year ago Photobucket changed their Terms of Service so that users had to pay $400 a year for their images to be visible anywhere other than Photobucket itself, and sometimes it wasn't even visible there?

And you know that made me upset because even though I've never used Photobucket for image hosting, a lot of things online I wanted to catch up on someday have used Photobucket, and that would mean I'd never get to finish catching up on them?

And you know how I've made various jabs at Photobucket because of it such as claiming that Photobucket managed to even take down my userpics on LJ but not on DW (or vice versa depending on what site you read my April Fools entries on) and being like "These people think Quidd is the worst company ever - haven't they ever heard of Photobucket?!"


Um.


So today I was working on fixing my old entries, and I got to one* that does have an image hosted on Photobucket in it (because it was uploaded by glowing_dragon, not me), and... IT SHOWS UP.

Then I went to a couple of other places on the Internet that I'd been to before that I knew had Photobucket images in them because they became broken when Photobucket changed their TOS.

THOSE IMAGES SHOW UP NOW TOO. (I haven't seen any "3rd-party hosting disabled" placeholder images, anyway - images that users have deleted entirely are obviously still gone.)

...

I need to ask...

Did, uh...

DID PHOTOBUCKET FINALLY COME TO THEIR SENSES?! I'd Google it to find out for myself but I'm too afraid of finding more online drama that'll upset me. (Yes, even when I thought Photobucket was the one company that actually deserved the hate it was getting for changing their TOS, I still couldn't always bear to read it.)


Even the thought that Photobucket MIGHT have realized their mistake is so surreal... I feel like I'm dreaming. I might as well act like this is all a dream, but I can't do that right now because I'm supposed to take Enya to see another Enya perform live at 103:206 PM. :P




*Note: yes, that entry mentions that I was doing an MS Paint meme but I gave up on that years ago because I procrastinated it for so long and felt overwhelmed by it. :(