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Hello! I'm Lea/GQ. I am mostly into Video Games, but also watch Anime sometimes, and read books. Fandomwise I am chilling deep in m/m land.

My fandom coming of age was anime fandom in like 2003. Expect old otaku behavior here.

Here is stuff I love and want to talk about! Bold is stuff I'm more fannishly active about. Links are to reading lists for that fandom.

Anime/Cartoons: Gungrave, Gankutsuou, Chiharafuru, Demon Hunters, Haikyuu, Ghibli, Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki Kun, Arcane, Metalocalypse

Video Games: Overwatch (including the esports scene), Hades, Dragon Age, Nu:Carnival, Honkai Star Rail, Against the Storm, Disco Elysium, Long Gone Days, Banner Saga, interactive fiction, and lots of indy games! I post visual novel reviews on a community sideblog playingstory

Books: The Tarot Sequence, Johnathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, Les Mis, Whyborne and Griffin, Italo Calvino, Natsume Soseki, and lots of M/M

Movies: Inception, Thor's part of the MCU

Find me @

• alliwantisallofthis or my fanart spam sideblog vidyamen(I can't draw though T_T).
• gotquiet or xelamz for the spicier stuff.

Other hobbies I like to write about: Japanese learning, Japanese tea ceremony, collecting ephemera like book plates, and worldbuilding.

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I write almost exclusively about fandom and not too much about real life things. I do flock personal posts but if you ask for access I will probably give it to you.

if you don't like typos, I am so, so sorry.

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December fucked me up. In a good way, but god damn. I had like a single week home and not a single weekend free due to work travel and holiday chaos.

I had my last business trip of the year and it was a doozy. First was Hong Kong, which I was visiting for the very first time, and then I took a quick trip to Japan to do some work, but only for like 3 days.

It's been a long time since I've been somewhere completely new to me. Hong Kong gave me an opportunity to engage with a place with fresh eyes again, which is something I haven't really gotten to do in over a decade, as my work takes me to the same places over and over again, typically. A few quick observations:

 

( Hong Kong Musing )

 

Japan was a super short trip. I tried to get a day in Osaka to see a friend, but fucked up the schedule and had only less than 24 hours. I did get to see my friend but had to jump on the Shinkansen immediately after and get to work, which was exhausting after having just flown in from Hong Kong and spent half a week working. When these trips happen I lose not just a week+ of my time, but I also usually get no weekend. Sometimes I'm out two weekends. This trip I didn't really have a free day outside of work until right before Christmas, at which point I was with family, so actually last weekend was the first time since November that I wasn't traveling or working or both.

 

( Japan Travel and Goods )

 

Other stuff has been going on. For example Jayvik has grabbed me by the neck and is choking me out atm, but this post is long enough so I'll post a more fannish update later.

Meanwhile, the Snowflake Challenge is starting up again. I am very much not ready. Time needs to slow the fuck down. But Challenge 2 is an old one about my fan origin story, which never really changes, so I'll just link the post I made last year about that.