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+ So.

Night one of trying to go straight to bed: slice myself finger open on my razor in the cabinet as I reach for my toothbrush. Spend 25 minutes applying tissue paper waiting for the bleeding to stop before sullenly getting dressed and going to find a bandaid.

Night two, as I'm clearing supper away, a cheerful announcement in the mess hall: we have an extra GB of Internet each! ...That we have to use before midnight and it rolls over to the next week. Well. I can't let that go to waste but hey, I just bought a bunch of comics, they'll eat that GB for breakfast.
iPad: What is this wifi you speak of? Haven't heard of it, I'm not connecting to that.
Me: *beleaguered sigh* I can't not use it. *goes on YouTube and stays up way too late*

+ Anyways. I comfort bought a bunch of comics? Because the pre-order code for the Mitski tickets did in fact not arrive and so no concert for me *sullenly kicks rocks*. It looks like I could have paired it with the Gentleman Jack ballet, and I think the Marie Antoinette exhibit is still on at the VA? Was starting to slowly form a plan and now it ain't happening.

Comics though!
- pre-ordered vol2 of Absolute Wonder Woman, it was 50% off and that seems so silly to me.
- Vol 5 & 6 of Poison Ivy. The joy of realizing I was that far behind :DDD I'm two thirds through vol5 and it may be my favorite?
- Voyager: Way Home 5 issue mini concluded, I picked those up. omnomnom more Janeway.
- Nice House by the Sea vol1 for my creepy lil alien guy making poor decisions about his blorbos.
- Daredevil & Echo mini bc sale and pretty art.
- Defenders: Beyond bc it looked like silly fun (I should re-read Saladin's Exiles tbh)

+ Things I'd like to do when I'm home:
Post that Top 10 prematurely cancelled series list I wanted to do for Snowflake.
Festivids recs.
Get

intw_amc rolling.
Last masterpost from forsquares.
Play Dune Awakening, they've made it much easier to jump back in thank fuck.
Maybe the ABC of comics I saw on BlueSky that looked fun.
Open laptop. Make shiny squares. Possibly shiny vid.
Work on my layout.

+ it's just TWO MORE DAYS you can do it Self! Let's go lesbians etcetera.

mistressofmuses

I've been trying to take my medically prescribed walks. We've been luckily aided by our weather, which has been so bizarrely warm this season. (It's low-key terrifying, how little snow we've had.)

I didn't end up doing anything this most recent "weekend," as Alex was super sick and didn't want to go anywhere, but on the last bit of time before I returned to work we did at least a few good walks.

Bella got to meet a horse!

Bella loves horses. I tease her that she's a weird horse girl. (I was a weird horse girl.) But she's very enthusiastic every time we drive past horses. She's gotten to see them on trails before, and is always very excited. (I loved one day on a trail where we pulled her to the side to let some horses pass, where we were talking to Bella saying "Oh, do you see the horses?" and as the riders passed, one of them was saying "Oh, do you see the puppy?" Lol.) But while Cy got to be around horses pretty often, back when Alex was riding, Bella hasn't ever gotten to directly meet one.

Until now!

We saw this horse coming up the trail, and then horse and rider went through the Starbucks drive through, haha. Then they came back around and passed us on the trail. The rider said hi to us and to Bella, and Alex said hi and that Bella loves horses. The rider pulled his horse back around and asked if she wanted to say hi.

Bella was utterly starstruck, haha.

And a pair of bald eagles!

We first spotted one out on the ice of the pond, then heard a huge murder of crows throwing an absolute fit over in the trees at the far side. As we continued around, we realized there was a second eagle already in the trees over where the crows were upset.

Eventually the one on the ice flew back up to join the one in the tree, though then made another trip out onto the ice.

By the time we got back around to the tree they'd been in, that one came back, and they both sat there for quite a while! It was very cool.

I am still delighted every time we see an eagle, and especially to see two! But it also makes me happy that it no longer feels like a "once in a lifetime" sighting. While I don't think I'll ever be blase about seeing them (I mean, I get excited every time I see a chickadee, so) but I am glad that it's something that happens multiple times a year, now.

Nine more pictures:

Friday, January 30, a quick walk in a city park:

There were SO MANY geese on the pond, ha. But I liked the ones toward the front there, who were nibbling at the sort of soft, delicate ice at the edge of the pond. It was a very funny noise to hear them nibbling at it. Bella was very interested.

Sunday, February 01, a longer walk at Belmar Lake:

A pair of mallards waddling across the ice. I love the male's bright green head, but am also always amused by their bright orange feet.

This little bird's nest was very cute.

Also a big fallen wasp nest.

Excuse me! What do you think you're doing?? It is February 1st, it is too early for you, little green leaf!

More ducks! Some mallards in front on shore, and northern shovelers in the water.

Thursday, February 05, at Pelican Pond:

The two above-cut pictures are from this day as well, but a few more.

Denver in the distance, but also a sort of fun phenomenon: the angle of the sun meant that the contrail over on the right actually cast a shadow across the sky, which is pretty cool looking.

Eagle! :D

Again with the greenery! It's too soon!

It's harder to take my walks while working, but I've tried to take at least two quick walks each day. It does seem to have helped the bloating a bit. Still not all the way there, but it's improved!

In less good news, I do seem to be getting sick, probably with what Alex has. Terrible! He's been so sick for days! But I had a very slight sore throat this morning, and then around lunch time it started ramping up. Runny nose, lots of that lovely post-nasal drip that is making my throat want to die.
If it follows the same trajectory as Alex's, then I can look forward to hideously awful coughing, moderate fever, and sinus and chest congestion in my near future. (And because I had originally requested this weekend off, but my time off request was denied, I absolutely can't call out; there's no one to cover, and calling out on the same day as a denied leave request is an automatic HR write-up.) Hopefully I end up with a milder version!

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my apartment

hannah

Earlier this week, I learned there's a squirrel nesting on the roof of a nearby empty house. A squirrel on a sidewalk less than a block from a park isn't unusual; a squirrel running away from the park is worth noticing. It ran along the concrete until it got to a tree, and about halfway up the trunk I saw it had some nesting materials in its mouth. Sticks, dried grass, nothing that could be mistaken for food. It went all the way up the trunk, well past where there'd be room to nest inside the tree, and jumped into the thin, empty branches, running along and over and finally making one last jump from the tree onto a row house that's been on the market for more than a few months at this point. Long enough a squirrel would feel safe nesting somewhere on the roof.

Yesterday, I got to feed a few urban pigeons after a couple of grizzled old-school construction workers were generous with the birdseed they'd brought with them that morning; none of the pigeons flew onto my hands, but a particularity bold one kept grabbing at my fingers, possibly to pull my hand closer so it'd be first in the pecking order.

Today, I saw a raven; it was close enough to see every tail feather, and make out the distinctive spade shape. Also to see how utterly gigantic they are compared to a lot of other birds. It was carrying some kind of food item in its beak, but I couldn't make out what it was, just that it'd been opportunistic and scavenged it from a garbage bin.

You've got to keep your eyes open for these things.

Current Mood: contemplative
Current Music: You Are A Tourist - Death Cab For Cutie

taichara

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kradeelav

lowkey considering commissioning a low-poly silver cobra headed cane for myself just to complete the 'haxxor with a pimp stick' aesthetiq i got going right now.

... i'm either going to immediately regret this or be inseparable from it lmao

linky

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Current Mood: tired

rosa_heartlily

A year ago I was meeting a coffee roulette colleague, making order out of chaos, realising a data table wasn't being accessed properly, meeting a former colleague, enjoying a chippy tea, having a successful church meeting, and disappointed by the football.

Today I had another AI-heavy day. Two lots of minutes were polished off in almost no time at all. A colleague asked for some tips on using OneNote for meetings, which they graciously said should count towards my OTJ hours. They're doing a degree apprenticeship, so they understand the struggle!

I also had an input into two documents from House of PMO's service catalogue. If nothing else, this process has shown me how many services it's possible for a PMO to deliver. I'm going to see if AI can help me work out which to offer with all the free time I'm going to have :D

After tea, I came upstairs to settle down to the Free Dance Competition. I watched the bottom two pairs and then... suddenly I was watching last night's game between Sunderland and Liverpool! Colour me NOT impressed. I'm going to have to check all the upcoming recordings to make sure they don't suddenly turn into something else. Annoyed Rosa is annoyed.

But I did get a couple of minor characters sketched out with names and high-level character traits. They will only appear briefly but they are still important people in Nova's life.

Now, I suppose it's bedtime since there's no ice skating to watch.

Current Mood: annoyed
Current Location: bedroom

picori

peter parker after the events of nwh has to be the most self-blaming person in the history of ever. right. because of all the shit that happened in ffh and nwh. and i do think about ffh so often nowadays because i just KNOWWWW he absolutely in his heart believes that he deserved what happened to him (read: being psychologically tortured at age sixteen to the point where he couldn't tell reality from fiction by a grown man who he trusted and also who just straight up tried to put a bullet in his head at point blank range. and also hit him with a train. Y'know). like it's been beaten into his brain at this point. and after nwh? after listening to THIS with the most despondent look on his face????

J. Jonah Jameson: Tragedy. What else can I call it? What more need be said? The damage... The destruction... You saw it with your own eyes. When will people wake up, and realize that everywhere Spider-Man goes... chaos and calamity ensue? Everything Spider-Man touches comes to ruin. And we, the innocents, are left to pick up the pieces.

after aunt may gets killed as a result of his actions even if she insisted until the end that helping the villains was the right thing to do and that sentiment was reaffirmed by the other spider-men as well? Dude. he is so legitimately fucked in the head at this point. especially since he's such a social and affectionate person and he's been on his own for Three Fucking Years (brand new day is going to take place in late 2027, three years after nwh which took place in late 2024). and with the line from the nwh script that read "Peter Parker is no more, but Spider-Man lives on..." he is so wrecked. He's so insanely wrecked. Everything is wrong with him. someone could tell him "hey you didn't deserve what happened to you" and he would just be like "sure man👍" while internally being all "uhhh yes i did because i was stupid and reckless enough to put myself in the position for that to happen to me in the first place. lol" and he's so stubborn that if his broke ass could afford therapy an army of therapists couldn't put a dent in his mindset. and he's ALONEEEEE. and he has to deal with the PUNISHER next movie which is going to be hilarious no matter which way they play their dynamic. i want to put him in a jar and shake him like crazy

Current Mood: devious

queenslayerbee

A bit later in the day but I remembered this time añdlsfj.

Title: bloodless.
Fandom: Monstress.
Pairing: Maika Halfwolf/Tuya.
Summary: written for the prompt: "any, any, i may think of you softly from time to time but i'll cut off my hand before i ever reach for you again" in the Three Sentence Ficathon.
Word count: 100.

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The wool fell off Maika's eyes long ago; she knew Tuya intimately, the way you're bound to when someone cracked open your chest cavity and burrowed a place for themselves within your very bones, blood, and viscera.

Their moves would have an echo, a ripple effect, in your body (in your life); betrayal became an old ache, disappointment a shadow that had long followed her from a tender age. The wounds they left scabbed over, scarred; but for Maika, herself no longer so tender, duplicity grew tedious, predictable, wearying —no longer remarkable, or worth the hurt; let alone the absolution.

Current Mood: cranky
Current Music: Nancy Sinatra - Run for Your Life

picori

i know i talk about mcu spider-man quite a bit but that's literally only because they rebooted his character at the end of no way home and i'm genuinely curious to see what they do with him in brand new day with a new director (destin daniel cretton), right. because i HATED the mcu spider-man trilogy when it came out. i have never seen movies that despise their source material as much as the mcu spider-man movies. it's so blatantly obvious how everything about mcu spider-man was stolen from miles morales (and the director of the movies literally admitted he was jealous of the into the spider-verse movie because THEY got to do miles morales because "the miles story is one of the best stories" like oh you really decided that copying and pasting everything about miles onto peter was the only way you could live out your fantasy didn't you). not only that but mcu spider-man was literally only used as a device to prop iron man up and it's so genuinely awful that i can't even watch certain parts of his movies because of how hard i'm rolling my eyes during them aside from no way home (and the first half of no way home is so incredibly bad. the whole movie is written awfully and is only saved by the acting [they finally gave peter his fucking Rage] and the characters FROM OTHER SPIDER-MAN MOVIES joining the cast. willem dafoe you will always be the no.1 live action green goblin). those movies just DESPISEEEEE peter parker as a character. he had a decent setup when he was introduced in civil war and they fumbled him so so so SO incredibly badly that they had to scramble to be like "ah-ha! we got you! it was a six-movie reverse origin story all along!" when that was never planned and it Shows.

so like. the only reason i'm really interested at all in brand new day this year is to see if they actually give us peter parker as his own actual character instead of Whitewashed Peter Morales, Who Has The Brain Of A Literal Five-Year-Old. and it's so obvious they only really did the soft reboot that was spider-man: no way home after the nightmare of a movie that was spider-man: far from home (let's tie mysterio to iron man. let's turn this universe's mj into a one-dimensional love interest with zero character development. let's have ned remain nothing but a carbon copy of miles morales' best friend ganke lee to the point where the ITSV movie had to cut ganke lee's scenes from the movie for fear of being accused of copying the mcu when the MCU COPIED THE MILES MORALES COMICS. let's have peter parker Leave New York and when he gets stuck in the netherlands, instead of being resourceful and figuring out a way back to london by idk hitching a ride on a plane from an airport or something, all he has to do is make a single call to a guy with a private jet who then picks him up with zero issues and then he makes a new suit in a 3D printer. and they have to do an entire fucking sequence about Tony Fucking Stark, who somehow hangs over the movie ten times more than he did in homecoming despite being Literally Dead And Gone. and far from home happens like eight months after endgame, and peter is still grieving tony for some reason, when homecoming happens roughly ten-ish months after peter was first bitten by the spider, which means ten-ish months after ben parker died (which is IMPLICITLY REFERENCED), and yet peter displays no sign of grieving or even missing him (instead being shown as a happy-go-lucky idiot child) within his own trilogy (once again, CIVIL WAR made him more like An Actual Peter Parker Adaptation From The Comics than ANY movie in his own trilogy) At Fucking All because everything has to be about Tony Fucking Stark, apparently. this got really long but these movies are so incredibly bad and i had to complain about it before i went INSANEEEEE). CAN we have a half-decent spider-man movie in 2026 before the final third movie in an actually good spider-man trilogy (beyond the spider-verse) comes out in 2027. we'll see! my expectations are not high in the slightest.

Current Mood: aggravated

bluapapilio

[A Bikkuriman Guide]

Episode 1: That was pretty interesting!

So there's an Angel Mart and a Devil Mart. In this world, special seals called Bikkuriman are put in with a wafer treat and everyone wants them. The supply truck going to Angel Mart keeps getting attacked, so the truck driver recruits a boy named Yamato (green haired boy) who has a special running power to deliver them.

The bad guys are from Devil Mart and are stopped by the people from Angel Mart. They use the seals on their body to transform into the person on the stamp. The Angel Store manager can turn into Rokoko, a rare seal.

Episode 2: So Demons, Amulets and Angels used to get along, but twin Gods - Child of Light Super Zeus and Child of Shadow Black Zeus descended. They grew up together, but the Devil betrayed the Angel.

Super Zeus ordered the head of the Angels, Phoenix, to go find a new place to live. They took the eight Wakajinshi (literally young-god-children). Phoenix became Head Rokoko. The manager of Angel Mart has the 'Factor' that let's him become Head Rokoko.

I love that while Jack was flustered over Dark Cross's rack, Yamato was disturbed.

Guess Ushikawa is a little prideful.

Episode 3: It's so funny to hear that kind of voice out of a femboy. 😅

So Ushikawa was made to feel weird for liking a set of seals with women saints? Well that sucks, they were powerful women, why shouldn't he admire them? :/

We got to see Ushikawa with his hair down but not Yamato. :(

I am enjoying this anime!

Current Mood: hungry

summerstorm

As of today, and since this weekend, I am caught up on two whole currently airing shows -- 9-1-1 and The Pitt -- and I can't begin to describe what a big deal this is to me. I don't think this has happened at all in the past decade, possibly since 2013. I've always had this... wall keeping me from watching things as they aired, like I was scared of what would happen and wanted spoilers first, but then I wouldn't go back and watch anyway? See: Stranger Things, of which the last episode I saw was 4.07.

The thing is, I would always choose things that I knew wouldn't make feel any feelings at all. I've watched so many Blood on the Clocktower streams. I still do, because it's fun! But the fact that I was able to catch up on 9-1-1 specifically is like, wow, did I make a new neural pathway? Am I really capable of overcoming the restrictions my brain saddles me with? Holy shit.

Anyway, they've both been fun. Hopefully they continue to be fun, and I can ignore spec nonsense on tumblr before it ruins my enjoyment.

pauraque

In the 32nd century, Captain Lorq Von Ray assembles a ragtag crew for a dangerous—some would say crazy—mission to harvest the superheavy element illyrion from a dying star. If they succeed, it would threaten tech megacorp Red-Shift's economic stranglehold on interstellar travel, inaugurating a new era of opportunity for struggling outer colonies. But Captain Von Ray's motives aren't just political, they're also personal, as flashbacks reveal his long history with the psychologically twisted brother-and-sister heirs to the Red-Shift fortune.

I really enjoyed this. The space opera plot is an effective backdrop for some nicely nuanced character work and social commentary. Money and class are still driving forces in this future, and people are shaped by that as much as they are by advancing technology and the cultural changes that have come with it. Besides the Captain and the Reds, the other focal characters are two crew members from Earth, one an emotionally guarded Romani kid who's gone against his people's prohibition on cybernetic implants to access job opportunities in space, and the other a socially awkward Harvard grad who has tens of thousands of notes for a novel (an ancient, dead art form) but hasn't yet written a single page. I love the development of their tentative friendship; it feels very honest about how hard it is to relate across cultural divides, and also very affectionate towards both characters. It's like the author is rooting for them even though he can't truthfully make it easy.

The worldbuilding really worked for me. There are enough surprising details and curious asides to make the galaxy feel lived-in and realistically messy, but not so many that it feels scattered. Delany has a very visual prose style and can convey exactly what he sees in his mind's eye, whether it's the unfurling sail of a glittering space yacht or the uneasy twitch of a character's cheek, and that adds to the vivid atmosphere.

I also appreciated the subtle exploration of disability in the context of a society where many things can be medically "fixed" that can't be in our own world. The author knows that this in itself would not "fix" people's attitudes about their own embodiment and others', and that elimination of bodily differences is not a utopian impulse. Characters are allowed to have complex feelings about their physical abilities—the ones they're born with, the ones they've lost, and the ones they've gained through technology—and aren't required to fully explain themselves just because other people want to know.

Criticisms? I think the book has too many characters; some of the less foregrounded crew members don't get much attention and it might have been better to drop a couple so we could spend more time with the rest. The role of female characters is particularly limited, and when they do appear, sometimes their boobs are mentioned for no reason. (I am of course aware that Delany is gay. Perhaps he was subconsciously influenced by what he was reading from other writers at the time.) Other than that, this was a good read.

Content note: A character's pet is harmed, but recovers.

skygiants

I went into Lessons in Magic and Disaster somewhat trepidatiously due to the degree to which her YA novel Victories Greater Than Death did not work for me. The good news: I do think Lessons in Magic and Disaster is MUCH better than Victories Greater Than Death and actually does some things remarkably well. The bad news: other elements did continue to drive me up a wall ....

Lessons in Magic and Disaster centers on the relationship between Jamie, a trans PhD student struggling to finish her dissertation on 18th-century women writers at a [fictional] small Boston college, and her mother Serena, an abrasive lesbian lawyer who has been sunk deep in depression since her partner died a few years back and her career simultaneously blew up completely.

Jamie does small-scale lower-m magic -- little rituals to make things go a little better in her life, that usually seem to work, as long as she doesn't think about them too hard -- and the book starts when she takes the unprecedented-for-her step of telling her mother about the magic as a sort of mother-daughter bonding ritual to see if her mother can use it to help herself get less depressed! Unfortunately Serena is not looking for a little gentle self-help woo-woo; she would like to UNFUCK her life AND the world in SIGNIFICANT ways that go way beyond what Jamie has ever done with magic and also start blowing back on Jamie in ways that eventually threaten not only Jamie and Serena's relationship but also Jamie's marriage, Jamie's career, and Serena's life.

Serena is an extremely specific, well-observed character, and Serena and Jamie's relationship feels real and messy and complicated in ways that even the book's tendency towards therapy-speak couldn't actually ruin for me, because yeah, okay, I do think Jamie would sometimes talk like an annoying tumblr post, that's just part of the characterization and it doesn't actually fix everything and sometimes even hurts. But the book's strengths -- that it's grounded very much in a world and a community and a type of people that Charlie Jane Anders clearly knows really well and can paint extremely vividly -- are also its weaknesses, in that it's also constantly slipping into ... I guess I'd call it a kind of lazy-progressive writing? The book is full of these sharp, vivid, messy moments whenever it's focused on this particular relationship and Serena in specific, and without that flashpoint, the messiness vanishes. Jamie goes into her grad school classroom and thinks about how the white men are always so annoying but the queer and bipoc students Always pick up what she's putting down. Jamie's partner Ro sets down boundaries in their marriage after a magic incident goes wrong and they are Always right and Jamie is Always humble and respectful about it, because respecting boundaries is Always the Correct thing to do. (Ro is the sort of person who says things like "this is bringing back a lot of trauma for me" while Jamie's mother is actively, in that moment, on the verge of death. I'm all for honesty in relationships but maybe you could give it a minute?)

I don't know. I think there is quite a good book in here, but I also think that good book is kind of fighting its way a little bit to get out from under the conviction that We Progressive Right-Thinking People In The Year 2025 Know What Righteous Behavior Looks Like. You know. But sometimes it does indeed succeed!

I did really enjoy the book's hyper-local Cambridge setting. Yeah, I see you name-checking those favorite restaurants, and yes, I have been to them and they are pretty good. Also, as a b-plot, Jamie is uncovering some lesbian literary drama in her dissertation that gives Charlie Jane Anders a chance to play around with 18thc pastiche and write RPF about Sarah Fielding, Jane Collier, and Charlotte Clarke and sure, fine, I didn't know very much about any of those people and she has very successfully made me want to know more! There were a bunch of times she'd drop something int he book and I'd be like "that's SO unsubtle as pastiche" and then I'd look it up and it was just a real thing that had happened or been published, so point again to Charlie Jane Anders.

meteordust

This year was the third time I made a Noman in Fallen London. I hoped to keep it around long enough for it to achieve enlightenment and pass on an Elemental Secret.

I admit I was probably too casual about it. I just used whatever Pails and Vials I already had on hand, instead of farming them in advance. And I was a bit haphazard about logging in to check for the Noman's Progress card, instead of doing it whenever the deck refilled.

Getting to 12 out of 15 wasn't bad, but it wasn't enough. Maybe next year.

Goodbye, Frostflower. You got so close.

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Current Mood: contemplative

kalloway

Yet Again, Stuff-

First, last quarter's JFF movies!

No Longer Heroine - I was not expecting to like this as much as I did. It's a delightfully meta movie about a high school girl who's always been in love with her friend and how she's always expected to end up with him despite never telling him her interest. There are a few too many subplots, but everyone was a joy.

Teiichi - Battle of Supreme High - this was a good movie but I also didn't really like it, if that makes sense? Basically an over the top story about student council elections.

My Love Story!! - live action version of the manga, makes a few changes for format but overall the same story and a lot of fun.

Handball Strive - about the power of social media in an area still recovering from the 2011 earthquake, and friendship, and ooof, social media.

Bento Harassment - this is the genre of generational conflict movies that turn up a lot, and it even has the required parent getting sick, etc. There is so much delicious food, though and one unresolved subplot that's a little maddening.

Megane Glasses - a slow movie about nothing and the middle of nowhere and just... finding one's own pace. (Also food.)

Restaurant from the Sky - this is about a man and cheese, but also food and mourning and family and community. Peak culture drama, tbh, but I feel like it's a hard genre to recommend movies in because things happen but quietly.

As usual, I am procrastinating on this quarter's movies. ^^;;

School of Rock - haven't seen this since it came out but my father picked up a copy and saw it for the first time and then insisted I watch it. Still good!

Majestic Prince (full series + movie) - this is an anime about giant robots and fighting aliens and it is tropey and ridiculous and Absolutely Understood The Assignment.

Flying Witch 12 & 13 (Chihiro Ishizuka) - I sometimes worry when otherwise chill manga, especially slice of life(ish) series, get past about volume 9... But Flying Witch is still full of ridiculous charm and these volumes were great.

The Dragon Knight's Beloved 8 (Ritsu Aozaki, Asagi Orikawa, Akito Ito) - wraps up an arc and see above, the next volume is going go be make-or-break for the series keeping my interest. The leads are still super-cute though.

Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! - this was recommended and it was pretty good. I like series about fans and media creation, and I liked how the real world blended with what was being created or what could be created. Unsure about hanging onto it, though. (For now?)

carisma_sensei

Lately, I've been craving for my own personal space again. Not just physically, although that too, but on the web. It's been ages since I had my own website, and I totally forget about updating this blog because it feels quite lonely, with all the social networks and apps nowadays (I sound like an old woman despite being 35, blame it on having experienced the 2000's internet hahaha).

Anyway, I thought I might as well just come back at blogging. I plan on creating a new layout for this journal, now that I'm into coding again. Which brings us to the next topic: I finally started studying frontend development by myself, using freeCodeCamp. My goal is to pass all certifications, and finally be able to make a job change. More on this later, I guess.

My current curriculum looks like this, I'm well into the course and I think I will finish the Responsive Web Design Certification this month. Then, it's Javascript time! I'm as excited as I am nervous about it. Or scared. Or both.

Anyway! This seems like a good start for my comeback. Let me use my Roland Orzabal "books" icon, since we are talking about studying hahaha. I love it. I simply love it.

Current Mood: creative
Current Music: Only A Memory - Alternate Resident Evil Save Room Music (Survival Spheres YT)

rogueslayer452

Challenge #06: Top 10 Challenge. The category(ies) you choose are up to you.

( Top Ten OTPs. )

( Top Ten Favorite Pieces of Underrated/Less Talked About Media )

This got way longer than I had intended. I tried to be concise with the second category but, y'know, when you're a fan of something you want to be thorough.

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: XG - ROCK THE BOAT

kalloway

Finally, the long, lingering bitter cold has ended! It is actually supposed to be above freezing basically every day for at least a week. Work was noticeably warmer last night! I will hopefully no longer be spending all my extra energy just trying to stay warm! I do seem to have picked up a mild cold, alas, but so far it just seems to be minor congestion.

I finished up Yoroi Samurai Troopers (though watching the dub as Ronin Warriors, this time around) after many attempts over the years, and then paid up for Crunchyroll to watch the sequel. (Which is amazing so far.) Since I'm going to be paying for CR for the next bit, if anyone has any recommendations for series to watch, I'm all ears. I do want to watch the Apothecary Diaries and there are a couple of Gundam series on there that don't have physical releases.

Aside from trying to stay warm and watching brightly-colored nobs, I'm still working on various models, archiving stuff, and sorting through notebooks and papers. I'm trying to do some notebook consolidation, especially with various notebooks with only a handful of pages left in them that I was keeping for a few rogue notes.

I also found an old organizer that has a bunch of lines pages that I'm using for daily to-do lists. The kicker is that it's a 2019-2020 student organizer, so like July-June, but the blank pages in it start in March 2020 and there's just nothing written after that. Owww... (I mean, I still make March 2020 jokes so... I guess this is fair.)

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Trabia Garden

Reading

I feel conspired against.

Pictures from my walks:

Different places to call home.

actually the curse is BROKEN

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Community Thursday

WTAF?!

this kid does in fact have so much wrong with him it's awesome

FANFIC: bloodless (Monstress)

okay this is an actually mcu-critical cross-post. i'm just complaining in this one

Anime Check-in: "Bikkurimen" ep. 1-3

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Nova by Samuel R. Delany (1968)

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The Third Noman

Media Roundup, Accidental Advent All-in-One

I need to unwind.

Fandom Snowflake Challenge: Top Ten

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Service Yanderes and 24-Hour Lifestyle "It Gets Better" Programs

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