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[got_quiet]

Reading:

 Gave up on the Linguist Mages book. I would just get a few pages in and put it down again. I can't really complain about it being a bad book or anything. There are some entertaining tidbits, but sometimes a book just doesn't grab you I guess. I'm reading some nonfiction related to work now and it's actually holding my attention better, but it is the sort of nerdery I enjoy. I picked up the third Jhereg book while visiting the local fantasy bookshop a few weeks ago, so that's on the pile now, and my friend wants to run a one-shot set in the Thieves' World universe so I'm going to revisit that whole series. It's one of my favorite old school fantasy series, but it's also a series I can't really recommend because although a number of its stories are excellent, a number are super bad and a few of the authors on the project are some of the worst I've read. It's definitely one of those titles that I love largely because it caught me at a young, impressionable age.

I'm back on the horse with the Japanese reading group, which has been a lot of fun. We're just finishing up a sort of autobiography of ROLAND, and are going to go on to a little jokey short story volume next.
 

 Games:

 Lost Ark is basically entirely quit at this point. I log in once every couple of weeks or so but I'm off the treadmill. I've been playing a handful of Overwatch because soon it will literally be impossible to play OW, in Blizzard's infinite wisdom. I enjoyed playing offtank the most, which is the role that they are straight up deleting, so basically these next couple of weeks are my last chance to play ever. I'm sure I'll enjoy 2 but I'm still annoyed at Blizzard, which I suppose is the normal state of things. I had 70k+ gold in game, so went on a spending spree. It wasn't enough to get me every single skin in the game, but I got close. And that system is going away in favor of more coercive season models, so the days of getting all the skins I want are also going to be over.

Since it's almost October and I've been lazy about it for a while, I'm trying to get through these VNs in the BLM bundle a little more. But I haven't really hit one that I really enjoy in a while. None of them are particularly awful, just not quite my thing, or not very polished, etc. It's still been an interesting little challenge, and since I'm still dealing with some extremely low energy, this is easy enough for me to do without too much stress.

And I've been slowly but steadily progressing in my solo Valheim game. The little valley town is coming together, but will likely need to receive a complete rebuild in the future.

 

 

Watching:

While in the throes of some extreme executive dysfunction I ended up picking up Schitt's Creek again, which I had gotten a few episodes into before and enjoyed but then dropped because most live actions shows don't hold my interest. So I've seen maybe five or six more episodes of that and enjoyed it a whole lot.

And I've been watching a bunch of Kimono videos on youtube. I have a small pile of kimono hand me downs for the purposes of tea events with my club, and so now I'm working on understanding them more, learning to identify them, style them, etc. I like kimono a lot, oddly enough, because I'm allergic to every other form of feminine dress and wear female kimono without a problem.

In semi-related news a sweet teller in training asked me for my pronouns the other day, which is the first time that's happened in the wild. It took me like 30 seconds to figure out how to answer because I was taken aback, and then had to figure out how I wanted to answer lol. Usually people just guess and then correct themselves when they hear my voice (fucking voices, man, hate em.)

 

Comments

[autumndaze]

I feel that on giving up on books. Been doing that a lot lately too :/ It sucks. It's good to move on and try something else! I hope you like whichever Vlad Taltos book you're reading, since it could be either "Dragon" or "Teckla" depending on your reading order lol "Teckla" was one I remember enjoying but one I hesitate to go back to these days, so your mileage may vary. "Dragon" is one I really enjoyed, though. Good luck with your reading!

I also have at least one charity bundle on itch.io and I think Humble that I haven't touched at all. I look at it every now and then and move onto something else. It's cool you're at least getting through it!

That's pretty great for the pronoun stuff!

[got_quiet]

I've got Teckla next. I just sort of guestimated that that was next in the order.

I'm getting much more than my money's worth out of this bundle, for sure. The sheer number of files in it can be a little bit of a pain just cause there's so much to filter through, which is why I'm sticking to VNs right now.