got_quiet: Loki giving a thumbs up (Loki)

I just finished reading Midnight Riot a couple days ago. It's a brisk and humorous little police caper where our hero, a fresh newbie on the London police force, happens to tumble into the supernatural crimes unit (population 1, well, 2 now) after interviewing a ghost as a witness to a gruesome murder. The book is part chasing down the culprit in a series of spontaneous and brutal crimes, learning to negotiate fantasy politics between the spirits of the Thames, learning about magic, and feeling respectfully horny towards the women in his life. There's also a good deal of wry humor, particularly in the way Peter describes the world around him and the odd predicaments he finds himself in. I would say the good-natured tone of the book, and the fun narration carry the plot, which is fine and interesting, but maybe not robust enough to feel like a really good detective novel.

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I finished watching the three part Overwatch shorts and am unimpressed. There wasn't anything there in terms of narrative oomph, and the lore introduced is just begging to be picked apart. Why was Liao only able to make one intelligence, and why'd it have to die to spread consciousness to all the omnics? It's just makes no sense out side of handwavy magic-tech convenience. The general lameness of the writing was to be expected, as it was on par with pretty much everything else that's come out for Overwatch, though I still feel compelled to keep half an eye on it. I still haven't read the Reaper short story to completion, nor the one for Baptiste though, cause I just feel sad about them. I read the Orisa book a while back and felt that a children's book like that was as sophisticated as the writers could get.

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The one thing I'm following that had an update I did enjoy was Nu:Carnival lol. The last event was for summer, and had a nice long story plus included a rhythm game. The game is not particularly well optimized so I have ignore the music to get the timings right but I still enjoyed it. It's also sort of lucky that I don't pull for Edmond, Dante, or Kuya, so I got a big chunk of time to start stocking up contracts for the next event.

 

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It's been a busy few weeks for me so here's a random dump of what I've been reading and watching and never had a chance to post as I was reading and watching it.

 
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I signed up to [community profile] fandomgiftbasket with a handful of fandoms, and included a non-fandom request in the (probably high?) likelihood that no one cares about what I care about. I kind of hemmed and hawed about that one because while I will certainly be happy to get some music recs I also feel like if I request something non-fandom that's definitely what I'm going to get. I'm going through all the baskets as they get posted and looking for anything that I can fill, and there are a few possible hits, but it's so hard for me to write without being driven by some sort of mania, which is why I don't do exchanges! Even the baskets that share canons don't seem to fit quite well into what I like. In particular I noticed that I said that bad ends and tragedy was great and that's like a DNW for 50% of the signups lol. I just like suffering, okay?

 

got_quiet: Zenitsu looking panicked (zenitsu)
The Snowflake Challenge is happening again this year, and I liked doing it last year, so I'm going to try again.

Snowflake Challenge promotional banner with image of snow-covered mushrooms and green moss. Text: Snowflake Challenge January 1-31.

I did challenge one, which I think is pretty much always to spruce up your profile, but the only sprucing up I did was removing interests... kinda sad times tbh.

On that same vein challenge two is to write a little fandom manifesto, and I am just so utterly devoid of fannish feeling, and have been for nearly a year, that I'm struggling to come up with something. I'll keep thinking.

Challenge 3, however...
In your own space, Scream Into the Void. Get it all out.
Overwatch 2 kind of sucks )
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Snowflake Challenge promotional banner with image of gingerbread Christmas trees, a silver ball, a tea light candle and a white confectionary snowflake on a beige falling-snowflakes background. Text: Snowflake Challenge January 1-31.
Rec a fanwork (fic, art, vid, playlist, anything!) you did not create

I'm going to go through and rec all of the great artists that I follow. Some draw fanworks, but some just draw cool stuff so I'm interpreting "fanwork" extremely broadly here.!
Overwatch
[twitter.com profile] Nez__________  - I hope that's all the underscores lol. They draw a lot of Reyes, and also Reaper76 but I don't hold that against them (this is a joke I don't mind Reaper76)

[twitter.com profile] RedlandArt - Nice sketch work of game stuff, mostly Genji, Hanzo, and Cassidy.

[twitter.com profile] buttcheekwizard - Lots of NSFW with a juvenile sense of humor that is very much aligned with my own. I followed him for Overwatch but now he draws a lot of Star Wars clone stuff.

[twitter.com profile] gemsheldrake   - Beautiful and fascinating horror artist. They used to do a lot of Overwatch but they've branched out to more original work now.

Arcane
[twitter.com profile] primaveraart19  - They draw a lot of Viktor!

[twitter.com profile] O04447809O - Jayvik art! Often humorous cartoons but sometimes more serious and complex stuff like this.

Disco Elysium

[twitter.com profile] shutkal - They have a cool intentionally messy style with lots of Harry/Kim content. Often NSFW. And it seems they got a Man from Heimdall tattoo! =o

[twitter.com profile] BaklanDead - They draw a lot of video game stuff. I followed them for Disco. They do fun comics too.

 
Original
[twitter.com profile] IMZeroafterdark - Extremely NSFW straight guro stuff. (uh, not M/F straight, but unequivocally. It's all M/M)

[twitter.com profile] zireaelwow - Horny and very NSFW M/M SFM content.

[twitter.com profile] TFiddlerArt - They do very detailed and realistic pencil work. Kinda furry material? And sometimes NSFW. But look at this (SFW!) fruitbat were!

[twitter.com profile] WillowCreative_  - An amazing cosplayer and fabricator. She does full suits and they blow me away.

Pixel Art

[twitter.com profile] illufinch - lots of cute stuff! Critters and little fantasy scenes. And they contributed to a little Frog Gachapon Game where you can just spam pulls for cute little frog cards.

[twitter.com profile] waneella_ - Pixel landscapes that draw heavily from Japanese city life. Great for vibing.

[twitter.com profile] 16pxl - A big fan of brilliant color. They do skyscapes and other cute stuff.

Ok, I've worn myself out so I guess I stop there.

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I am in Disco Elysium Hellllll right now. My brain has finally come to a concrete decision. Yes, we will be fixated on this shit for as long as it takes to burn out, which in my experience lasts as long as there is a fandom still active so fuck me I'm not getting any rest for at minimum a few months. The good news is I've already burned through like 90% of the fic and all the video and written meta that I can find and am starting to hit redundancies, so that's good. But the bad news is that I have found a fan discord and the discussion there is fascinating and makes burrowing through the lore and picking apart all the possible interactions in the game that much easier, so here I am on play through 3 going at a snails pace because I am now stopping to edit the wiki every time Encyclopedia says  something.

The only other thing that half has my attention right now is Chihayafuru. I'm still sneaking episodes of that in once a week or so, and am mid way through season three. I'm enjoying it a ton and love Chihaya so much! And I'm too invested in the love triangle. I know it's impossible but god damn they would make such a good threesome. There's no way in hell Taichi hasn't had the occasional ~complicated feeling about Arata.

I may have a chance to short circuit my compulsion for Disco with a new/old compulsion in a couple of weeks because the Overwatch League is about to start its fourth season, and I have watched something like 80% percent of every season since one, which is a fuck ton of games, and since the number of games this season is fewer and the season shorter there's a good chance I can get to them all. That's a lot of time out of the day let me tell you, and it allows for no other idleness. With the changes made in the off season I feel like even the Shock aren't a sure thing right now. I'm still riding on the Guanzhou train, but I have no idea what to expect from them. Honestly, I'm just pleasantly surprised that the league has lasted this long. When season one started I told myself I'd get what enjoyment I could out of it until it flopped in maybe three years, and here we are, year four!

Until the League starts I am sitting here stewing in the desire to immerse myself completely in all that is Disco. I've been writing but according to my track record I might get one fic out in one year and it will be pretty milquetoast. I'm not sure why the end result of what I write is always like that, when my tastes can get pretty extreme. Fear of exposure maybe.

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