Also the winter Solstice, so a spiffy solstice and a yahoo yule to all!
I didn’t sleep in as much as yesterday, but I did stay in bed being useless for quite a while before going out to get Pakistani-Indian Fusion lunch. Then I came home and was useless in a chair for the rest of the day.
No gaming, Dave is out of town and most people are busy with holidays.
Watched (anime): Ranma 1/2 (2024) 2.1-2: The return of Mousse, and Ranma’s great weakness to the results of Shampoo’s training accident.
Read (novel): Magica Riot (Kara Buchanan): Trans magical girl in Portland. It has all the standard tropes: the team is a band when they aren’t fighting monsters, they have music-themed powers and transformation phrases, etc, but they come across a lot differently in text than in an anime. I guess the flashy animation really is a crucial part of the experience. But, trans magical girl FTW.
Read (manga): The White Cat’s Revenge as Plotted from the Dragon King’s Lap vol 1 (Aki, KUREHA, Yamigo): Our heroine, a pretty, intelligent, kind anime schoolgirl, nevertheless has a cursed life in the orbit of the Cutest Girl Ever who everyone worships and thinks the heroine should obey at all times. Then they get isekai’d and CGE is hailed as the hero while Heroine is exiled. Without the inimical presence of CGE, Heroine is free to make friends and learn magic and generally prosper.
Written (game design): 646 words of Mage Errant summarization for Kaiju Academy, possibly of no value whatsoever.