Day: July 30, 2021

Marith brought over pork chops and vegetables and garlic bread and it was all much better than anything I’ve been eating for the past however long.

Watched: Avatar: The Last Airbender 3.16-17: Katara’s field trip with Zuko, and the Ember Island Players

Watched: The Case Study of Vanitas 2: The vampire establishment doesn’t believe in the book, so now the odd couple are on a quest to save the maiden they already saved.

Read: Curses (Lish McBride): Starts as gender-swapped magitech-Victorian Beauty and the Beast, but then con artists and support groups and intrigue and terrible parents and daring raids. I quite liked it even though the main romance is het.

Read: Awkward and Brave (Svetlana Chmakova): Middle-school slice of life about friendship and courage and bullying and teamwork and competition and awkwardness and unnecessary STEM-humanities conflict and sunspots. I really liked it even though (or perhaps because) the digression I got started on during the writing challenge this spring and still haven’t finished editing is also about 8th-graders but is um not as realistic.

Words: check.

I made it home in plenty of time to game because the bus was just late enough that I could catch it instead of sadly watching it pull away, but I would have been in time even without.

Played: Eclipse Phase 2. Well, at least we found out what happened to the crew? That’s something, right?

Read: Project Hail Mary (Andy Weir): It was very much what it was, which I guess it not a surprise to anyone who’s heard of The Martian, but I liked where it went with the fundamental idea.

Read: Devil’s Candy vol 1 (Rem, Bikkuri): Many magic high-school manga leave me meh, but I liked this one. Possibly because although the characters are mostly doofuses, they’re sincere doofuses, or because the world-building notes are pro-knowledge/anti-superstition, or because eldritch horrors are definitely the best judges for a fashion show. Apparently it’s a webcomic, so I can read more without waiting for paper to happen.

Words: FAIL.