Author: Trip the Space Parasite

Mostly I only have fondue at New Year’s, although I guess technically there’s nothing but laziness stopping me from getting it at other times. It wouldn’t be the same without friends, though.

Went to the office, ate spicy eggplant (fondue was not on the menu), did a work.

Read (novel): Demon World Boba Shop vol 5 (RC Joshua): Our isekai’d human finally accepts that he has a valid life, he is doing his part in the world, people love him because he deserves love and not out of pity, etc. The end! Owlgirl is still the best.

Read (manga): The Ancient Magus’ Bride: Jack Flash and the Faerie Case Files vol 1-2 (Yu Godai, Mako Oikawa, Kore Yamazaki): Spinoff about two changelings (one in each direction) working as PIs in New York for the supernatural community. Ghosts, maguffins, faerie meddlers, horrible rich people, magical informants, all the important magic detective tropes.

Written (game design): 136. But what if all the ideas I started with are wrong and I should start over?

Sure, why not? Nature already abhors me, I’m sure!

Management wanted everyone in the area to go into the office for the two-hour all-hands, but I did not go. I am pretty sure I got the same +0 to morale over zoom.

Played (Changeling the Lost): 90s Berkeley. Our changelings make it to the flea market, meet fellow changelings Badger and Melanie and hear about how money is used by the fae to track runaways, immediately use all the cash they get from Nicole’s mending business to buy supplies instead of hoarding it– Cheese it! The fuzz!

Read (manga): This Monster Wants to Eat Me vol 1-2 (Sai Naekawa): A high-school girl with pronounced suicidal ideation ever since her tragic past gets accosted by a girl who claims to be a monster who wants to devour her when she’s spiritually ripe, but will keep her safe until then. Based on something that passes without comment in vol 1, I’m guessing every named character in this series is actually a monster, but we’ll see. No sign of yuri yet.

Written (game design): 138.

Huh, didn’t expect that.

Read (manga): Yakuza Reincarnation vol 10-11 (Hiroki Miyashita, Takeshi Natsuhara): Intrigue around the princess, who might be more present than assumed, which might be normal human corruption, and then back to dark kin infiltration with the hot springs episode.

Read (short story): “Stitched to Skin Like Family Is” (Nghi Vo): Magic and racism in Depression-era midwest. White people, manne.

Read (short story): “Three Faces of a Beheading” (Arkady Martine): Near-future SF and scholarship I am pretty sure I would have appreciated this more if I were a historian.

Read (short story): “Happily Ever After Comes Round” (Sarah Rees Brennan): Circular fairy tale yikes!

Written (game design): 193, but at least it’s blathering and not just rearranging. I might be going astray from the genericness of D&D.

 

Also National Pork Rind Appreciation Day, which sadly has more relevance to my life. Where did I go wrong?

Played (D&D5E): Librarians Errant: The room that Grim and Thaïs disappeared into seems dark and quiet… too quiet. When the other reshelvers venture in, they find that the entire sanctuary has been covered by Mordenkainen’s nose exclusion zone to hide the extremely loud and obvious fight going on. Their teammates and Glady’s three henchmen are facing off against a horde of cymbal-banging clockwork crocomonkeys and a giant steam-powered robot crocodile, with the aid of a summoned water elemental! Things immediately get even worse as the Mechacroc blasts Mesoluna with a gout of steam and he loses control of the elemental, but somehow, despite steam and cymbal-banging and gigantic metal teeth and more steam, so much steam, the robots are put down and the contents of the secret temple library can be loaded into the extradimensional bookmobile and taken away for Martin and Gladys to haggle over. The wreckage of the nave and sanctuary are even cleaned up, so hopefully it will be some time before the hypothesized body-swapper figures out exactly what happened and who to come after.

Read (manga): Yakuza Reincarnation vol 9 (Hiroki Miyashita, Takeshi Natsuhara): Huh, looks like the isekai protagonist really is there to save the world!

Written (game design): 339, but mostly questions and not answers.

Also Abolition of Slavery Day, ahahahahaha.

Did my usual shopping, and also went to the hardware store because I had clever idea after the GM approved reskinning cloudkill to do cold damage.

Read (manga): Yakuza Reincarnation vol 8 (Hiroki Miyashita, Takeshi Natsuhara): Another corrupt enterprise unraveled by punching the people who deserve it, and also OP isekai magic.

Watched (anime): Bungo Stray Dogs 3.8-9: Another cunning plan to pit the Port Mafia and Armed Detective Agency against each other, but they have a cunning plan to thwart it! Maybe.

Written (game design): 186, still not making any actual progress. Maybe I should swap back to one of the other projects.

Didn’t drink any hot chocolate, because I’m not smart enough, and considering how easy hot chocolate is…

Watched (live action): Lockwood & Co 4: Surely there is no way this can go wr- oh.

Read (manga): Yakuza Reincarnation vol 5-7 (Hiroki Miyashita, Takeshi Natsuhara): Picked this back up after a long hiatus. Our old-fashioned honorable yakuza reincarnated as a fantasy princess finishes dealing with the numerous problems in the city of the dwarves, which of course are a further escalation of the demonic activity in the previous episodes, and moves on to the walking city to get her minion doctored up, which exposes normal corruption but also more information about skill trees.

Written( game design): 253 of rearranging skill lists on the Titanic.

I have outsourced all my dinosaur drawing to an expert.

Went to the office again, ate beef and gouda dumplings and pickled vegetables, did a small amount of work.

Read (manga): Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! vol 2 (Sumito Oowara): Through making a deal with the Robot Club, and the culture fair and Character Animation Girl’s parents.

Read (manga): Yokai Cats vol 1 (Pandania): Like Monster Cats, but with Japanese monsters instead of European/D&D. I guess this was the original.

Read (novel): Something Extraordinary (Alexis Hall): Third and probably final book in the series, since everyone in the group is partnered off. The runaway fiancé from the first book saves the extremely gay man who was in love with her brother from a terrible marriage mandated by his family by marrying him and not wanting him to sleep with her. People have Ideas about marriage, but not ones that can’t be overcome.

Written (game design): 251 of farting around with skills.

Happy New Year, Moon!

Went to the office, had to mask because Coworker D was there, ate a brisket sandwich and coleslaw, did a work I guess.

Read (manga): Peach Boy Riverside vol 13-14 (coolkyousinnjya, Johanne): Is this not going the way it originally appeared? What are the odds? But at least most of the main characters are back together.

Written (game design): 414 of erasing and rewriting lists of skills. I know I want to have no abilities, only skills, but that means I need a reasonably-sized list of skills that cover everything a PC might do. I started with the list of skills from D&D, and the examples of things that might require a plain ability check from the PHB, made my own list of skills based on verbs a la FitD, made a long list of things adventurers might do, made another skill list based on occupations that do adventuring-type things (soldier, burglar, hunter, hobo, murderer, etc), made another list of skills, etc, and don’t seem to be any closer to making a definitive list of 20ish skills that would fit on a character sheet.

I like Lego, but I always feel like I should like it more.

Played (Changeling): 90s Berkeley. Nicole and Longfingers find a tiny door in the back of the auto body shop the crew is crashing in, which somehow lets changelings pass through into a secret realm of hostile tree-roots. Nicole befriends a mysterious squirrel-guy with sign language, and trades him left-over Chinese food for making a space in the Hedge (which is what this surely must be) where the crew can sleep safely. During the night, Longfingers hears strange noises, climbs around, and finds an exit into library somewhere, but does not make use of it. In the morning, the crew experiments with having Everett swear an oath to take Longfingers’s money from working at the club and use it to get supplies to make a sign for setting up Nicole with a While-U-Wait Mending business at the sketchy swap meet. He is successful in his quest and reaps the rewards of his vow. They also find a copy of the changeling zine by Simple John that they heard about before, which the players receive as an actual, semi-legible, amazing PDF.

Read (manga): Outbride vol 1 (Tohko Tsukinaga): A modern Japanese girl with no romantic experience meets Truck-kun and is awakened in a distant future by four gorgeous men who want her, as the only remaining human, to bear their hybrid super-children. She is not down for this for a variety of reasons, but she does have to make out with them to survive in the alien atmosphere of Earth’s cross-dimensional future and also they are obviously not going to take no for an answer. Not exactly my kink, alas.

Read (manga): Monster Cats vol 2 (Pandania): More of the same cats, some new monster types, still cute.

Written (game design): 105.

Definitely not legal to commemorate any more.

Wasted my time doing low-level crafting in Shop Titans to get the event tasks that only care about how many of something, not tiers.

Watched (live action): Lockwood & Co 3: I thought that plot was going to last longer, but nope!

Read (manga): Dinosaur Sanctuary vol 1 (Itaru Kinoshita, Shin-Ichi Fujiwara): Zookeeping x dinosaurs, with a real paleontologist to make sure the dinosaurs are right. There’s some plot involving the humans and their finances and devotion to dinosaurs, or something, but that’s not really important.

Written (game design): 103.

I like peanut brittle, but See’s is always out of stock of the sugar-free. I hope they haven’t discontinued it

Managed to buy a cat supply, but mostly I was useless and had pizza.

Watched (live action): Lockwood & Co 2: What are the odds that the PCs think there’s a conspiracy and there actually isn’t? Although it’s not like the authorities don’t have perfectly legitimate grounds for quashing them.

Read (manga): Monster Cats vol 1 (Pandania): 4-panel comics about cats crossed with various monsters like gargoyle, slime, sphinx, bedsheet ghost, etc. They are still all adorable cats.

Written (game design): 103.

Another one that’s probably illegal now.

I got up and went shopping slightly earlier than usual, but did not accomplish anything with the extra time. Went to watch anime with peeps, and ended up watching more than usual because Ayse was too busy being an Internet Star to receive hugs.

Watched (anime): Bungo Stray Dogs 3.5-7: What, did you think the Guild was done for just because their giant flying whale crashed?

Read (manga): Dra-Q vol 1 (Chiyo): A vampire girl tries to go to human high school, and immediately falls in love with a total delinquent, breaks every rule of being in human society in the first chapter, runs into rampaging werewolves, etc. Gory and weird, but so far they seem to have a somewhat healthy romance?

Written (game design): 182

I have one of those!

Got up early to go to the sleep doctor, who set me up to get a home sleep study machine in a few weeks when it’s available. Will this help at all? Who knows.

Read (graphic novel): The Ghost and the Stolen Dragon (Svetlana Chmakova): Sequel to Be Wary of the Silent Woods, in which there are more and worse problems for our middle-school Weirns and also snotty girl is still snotty.

Read (manga): Yellow Stringer vol 1 (Goeffrey Jean-Louis, Frederick L Jones): Intrepid tabloid reporters on the trail of monsters, which obviously don’t exist so they get no respect. One is an ex-cop, which was sus, but it turns out that in fact ACAB and he was driven out for not being enough of a bastard. I don’t know why I count this as manga, when it’s not Japanese at all, but I do.

Read (novel): Something Spectacular (Alexis Hall): Another very queer Regency romance thing, following one of the secondary characters from the first book as she completely falls for a nonbinary opera singer and hijinks ensue. Also boinking.

Read (novel): Chimera’s Fall (Glynn Stewart): Eleventy-millionth in the series about magic missiles in space, now with massive logistical undertakings to go with the space battles. No, more massive than that.

Written (game design): 165.

I probably should, but I won’t. Even though my pad theoretically would accept it, if my stylus worked.

Went to the office, ate salt and pepper tofu with onions, did a work.

Read (graphic novel): Be Wary of the Silent Woods (Svetlana Chmakova): MIddle-schoolers in the Weirn setting, going where the adults explicitly told them not to, and finding a whole lot of trouble that they can’t quite get out of on their own, at least not without severe social damage. I liked both the YA Weirn graphic novels and the author’s other middle-school GNs, so this was great.

Read (manga): Marriage Toxin vol 3 (Joumyaku, Mizuki Yoda): Poison Ninja finishes saving another young woman from a rival ninja, getting no dates but another friend in the process, and then gets recruited by a ninja who may be in more trouble than anybody can handle.

Written: 204.

Sage is full of questions, such as “Gooshyfood?” and “Treats?” and “Cuddles?” Fortunately the answer is practically always yes. Nightvale is more taciturn, but does leap quite surprisingly to my shoulders, so that’s okay.

Went to the office, ate some chicken nuggets, enlightened a customer, placated some other customers.

Read (novel): Asunder (Kerstin Hall): A somewhat strange book in a very strange world, where civilization was sustained by divine servants of questionable benevolence until the terrifying things from outside ate them, and now a warlock of the outer things is trying to help the person she accidentally doomed and also avoid her own doom and there is creepy magic everywhere and also a lot of angst, because her life is kind of terrible, honestly. I liked it, because creepy magic everywhere, but it is not a cheerful book.

Read (novel): Death of an Irish Druid (Catie Murphy): Is our cursed driver finally resigning herself to her fate? Her friends from the US aren’t helping with any kind of normality, that’s for sure! Unfortunately this is probably the last book of the series, unless it finds another publisher.

Read (short story): The Body in the Zero Gee Brothel (Cameron Cooper): The mystery was not the point, the setting twist was the point, and I have to admit, I did not see it coming.

Read (manga): Marriage Toxin vol 2 (Joumyaku, Mizuki Yoda): Having failed to get girls through normal socialization, our poison ninja is now (on advice of advisor) rescuing women who are in the kind of trouble a ninja can help with. This plays to his strengths and is much more successful, although he’s too much of a nice guy to pressure a woman into dating him just because he saved her life. He does another friend now, though, which is definitely something. (His friend has a shark. I’m pretty sure this will come up again later.)

Written (game design): 235, although mostly notes on what D&D thinks would call for an ability check, to make sure I’m not missing anything obvious. It’s like research or something.

Now that I know about the vole thing, I’m afraid to not appreciate squirrels (because this is how American works in 2025). However, despite it being National Hugging Day, I am hugging only these kitties.

Played (Changeling the Lost): Ken’s 1990s Berkeley game. Our hapless changelings find a deserted (though not actually abandoned) building to hide out in, but first go to the punk club where they meet some other changelings of varying levels of friendliness and learn how to absorb human emotions as Glamour from a stoned tree. Also Longfingers got a job by the expedient of doing the work and then putting her name on the shift signup sheet.

Read (manga): Mysterious Disappearances vol 4 (Nujima): A supernatural entity that meant well and could be reasoned with! Also flashback to when Sumireko could see her feet.

Written (game design): 191.

I really wish ghostly vengeance was a thing, because if anyone deserved to be dragged into the netherworld as they were declaring their triumph…

I had today off, which I used for important things like shopping and laundry. I went to Shake Shack and tried the chicken nuggets (greasy), Thai iced tea milkshake (horrifyingly sweet), and fries (fine), so that wasn’t successful. Bah. Then I worked on catching up here, which went a little better, as I started two weeks behind.

Watched (live action): Lockwood & Co 1: Teenaged ghost hunters in a modern Britain where the dead have inexplicably haunted the night for fifty years and putting them down is a profession for the psychically sensitive. I’m pretty sure there’s supposed to be chemistry between the male and female lead, but I guess you have to expect some het romance on Netflix.

Read (manga): Komi Can’t Communicate vol 32 (Tomohito Oda): Assorted drama with weird classmates, but Komi is at 81/100 friends, and her speech bubbles just have a slightly lighter font than normal. We must be nearing the triumphant conclusion.

Read (manga): Dandadan vol 10 (Yukinobu Tatsu): Not only are people cursed, but unbeatable aliens are attacking everyone individually! Unfair!

Written: Rearranged some that I will call 184 and added 158 for a total of 342 terrible game design.

I absolutely do not understand quantum chromodynamics, but I hear it’s very important.

Despite confusion due to email failures, we did gather for food and gaming today.

Played (D&D5e): Librarians Errant. Reshelving Squad Upsilon now knows where they want to go, they just need a plan to get there. Several possibilities are discussed, but before implementing any of them, they decide to scout out the sewers for a way into the Temple of Sobek. Although no crocodiles have been seen in the temple for years, there is at least one large one in the sewers beneath, which chomps Grim and Thaïs good before being driven off; nevertheless, they persist in looking for more trouble. There is a manhole into the temple compound, all locks or traps long gone, so with their usual discipline and professionalism, the squad abandon the scouting mission in favor of rushing toward the book. The courtyard clears out while Grumman is being hex-wrenched out of his steam armor, so they make it all the way to the outer hall before running into anybody. There, a colorful bullywug in a revealing harness introduces himself at length as Inigo Frogtoya and declares his vendetta against Grumman for disrespecting the team’s recurring nemesis, Admiral Bigbugs. An extremely swashbuckling and fairly sticky battle ensues, during which Grim disappears to look for the third volume, but although it’s not easy, the rest of the squad manages to defeat Señor Frogtoya and he surrenders with honor. After getting frightened, Thaïs fled into the next room after Grim, but they haven’t come back with the book…

Read (manga): Witch Hat Atelier vol 13 (Kamome Shirahama): Continuing the arc with the city and the disaster and the Brimmed Caps and the ethics of magic that affects people.

Written: Not sure how to count when part of the changes are reorg because my script can’t separate that out, but I’ll call it 223.

Thesauruses are great! Splendid! Glorious! Fantastic!

Monday is a holiday, so that’s when I should do my shopping for the week, but I was not able to break free from habit and ended up going and eating a cheesesteak and buying all the first new volumes of the year in a bunch of series I’m following.

Watched: Bungo Stray Dogs 3.3-4: Finished the flashback to how Dazai and Chuuya became partners, and resumed the aftermath of the Guild plotline, with a terrifying new opponent for the Port Mafia and the Armed Detective Agency.

Read (manga): Spy x Family vol 13 (Tatsuya Endo): Aftermath of last volume’s big fight, and then a bunch of stuff in people’s secret identities.

Written: 275.

I read manga about someone with a fetish, maybe that counts.

Did a work, I guess. Boss K is out, so we reverted to having meetings with no-longer-boss B. I’m almost out of facts!

Read (manga): We Can’t Do Just Plain Love vol 2 (Mafuyu Fukita): The pair of weirdos continue their affair, but there are other people interested in each of them, and also that’s not what the stockroom at work is for. Even smuttier than the first volume, or at least the art is slightly less censored.

Written: 112.

I read a book with a dragon, does that count?

Also National Quinoa Day. Hi Ken!

Went to the office, did a customer call, ate a barbecue pork sandwich, was only minimally functional.

Read (novel): The Hexologists (Josiah Bancroft): A married couple solve mysteries in a quasi-Edwardian world where the Industrial Revolution is powered by feeding wood through a hellish alternate dimension to produce superfuel. Royal intrigue, rich bastard intrigue, necromantic visions, horrible monsters, lost magical arts, tragedy, and marital bliss ensue. I liked it enough that I may go back and try the author’s earlier series that I originally bounced off of.

Read (manga): Dark Gathering vol 1 (Kenichi Kondo): A college student who hid in his room for two years due to a traumatic supernatural encounter starts to socialize again, and ends up tutor to his childhood friend’s small cousin who is extremely creepy and obsessed with hunting evil spirits. Road trips to haunted locations and additional trauma ensue, but the spooky little girl does actually know what she’s doing.

Read (manga): Hello, Melancholic! vol 2 (Yayoi Ohsawa): Trombone Girl and Drums Girl continue to have feelings. Trombone girl finds out about Flute Girl and Bass Girl’s secret relationship and backstory, which is not what I expected from how they’ve been presented so far.

Written: My script says 392 words of changes, but most of that was shuffling stuff around for better(?) organization. Kit says she counts that as half, so I’ll call today 196.

I wore one of those!

Went to the office, had the room to myself because coworker D didn’t make it in, ate some beef and rice that was tasty but sadly lacking in vitamins, did some works.

Read (manga): Hello, Melancholic! vol 1 (Yayoi Ohsawa): An awkward trombone girl gets dragged into playing music by a cute popular girl and somehow ends part of the all-girl band. Probably one of the two has a crush on the other. Jazz ensues.

Written: 327.

More of a weekend thing for me.

No gaming, Kelsey is trapped by life again.

Read (manga): Marriage Toxin vol 1 (Joumyaku, Mizuki Yoda): An assassin from the poison ninja clan decides to get married so that his sister doesn’t have to break up with her girlfriend to produce the next generation. Unfortunately, he has no idea how to romance, or even how to social (actually, humaning might be a bit of a stretch), so he rescues a marriage scammer to give him advice. Terrible lines and weird modern ninja battles ensue.

Written: 197.

But it’s Monday the 13th, so apparently stickers are cursed now.

I guess I did a work today. Kind of.

Watched: Jentry Chau vs the Underworld 10-13: Of course she had to go into Diyu to resolve things, but resolved they did get, although not to everybody’s satisfaction. Lots of work for building contractors, though. The End!

Read (manga): We Can’t Do Just Plain Love vol 1 (Mafuyu Fukita): He has a complex about women, but also he smells delicious and she has a scent fetish, so she suggests helping with exposure therapy, by which she means banging. Am I too old for smut?

Read (novel): Something Fabulous (Alexis Hall): A dutiful duke, a runaway fiancee, an extremely fabulous twin brother, and a whole lot of other queer characters on a chase across Regency England and through the duke’s feelings. (Everybody else is pretty clear on what they do or don’t want.) No one is shot who doesn’t kind of deserve it, and there is a HEA. Also butt stuff.

Written: 147.

Even if I still counted, seems like a terrible idea.

Did some shopping, got one hair cut, went on a stupid walk for my stupid mental and physical health, was otherwise completely useless. Did go to bed (slightly) before midnight for the first time this year, though.

Watched: Jentry Chau vs the Underworld 7-9: Wow, that character just keeps getting more and more untrustworthy. But the truth is coming out, along with more Underworld lore and more boy trouble.

Read (manga): Peach Boy Riverside vol 11-12 (coolkyousinnjya, Johanne): Those guys are everywhere! Also, what is up that one guy? Oh, not what I thought, but still good. Or bad.

Written: 287. Does any of this make any sense? Probably not.

Ew, who wants to hug boys? They have boy germs!

Watched: Bungo Stray Dogs 3.1-2: How Dazai and Chuuya originally teamed up. (Pretty sure it’s because Dazai’s boss ships them.) Also, shantytown in giant crater caused by superpower disaster, sure, whatever, but what is that thing next to it? They’ve mentioned foreigners, but is that a mistranslation?

Read: Katalepsis vol 1 (Hazel Young): This almost certainly deserved many many entries, since it’s allegedly 2.5 megawords, but I was not smart enough to record it earlier, and now it’s done. With this plot arc, anyway. Our heroine did the thing! It wasn’t easy! But it was amazing and non-Euclidian! The thing itself was not gay, but basically everything along the way was.

Read: Peach Boy Riverside vol 10 (coolkyousinnjya, Johanne): Surely there is no way this can turn out poorly.

Written: 123.

I like to think I’m peculiar, but I may actually be just mid and sus.

Read: This Inevitable Ruin (Matt Dinniman): The big conflict on the ninth floor that was established as being crucial for Princess Donut finally arrives, and it’s nuts. Also the the outside world of alien Internet randos and megacorps and fascists is breaking in to the dungeon more and more. I don’t know how many more books there can be before the whole thing explodes, but they haven’t been written yet, so I can stop staying up so late.

Read: Monologue Woven For You vol 2 (Syu Yasaka): The one girl’s backstory is still being danced around.

Written: 382 of terrible game design.

There is a lot of playing god in the “Dungeon Crawler Carl” books, and so far it’s not going that great for them, because fuck alien oligarchs.

Despite staying up too late reading, I went to the office, ate hipster onigiri, and sort of did a work.

Read: Monologue Woven For You vol 1 (Syu Yasaka): One college girl is an actress, the other acted in high school but gave it up for some mysterious reason, they fall in love, but the one girl’s dark past may come between them.

Read: The Eye of the Bedlam Bride (Matt Dinniman): A level designed to give the humans extra trauma, an unwise bargain, and a lot of forces outside the dungeon on the move. Also the dungeon itself seems to be freaking out more and more, which must be a good sign, right?

Read: Kidd Commander vol 1 (Aria Bell): This is Marith’s favorite comic ever (I probably exaggerate), and I have not previously managed to get into it, but I got through the entire first paper volume (which goes up to the waitress’s big reveal), and although it is very Early-Web-Comic, it is also pretty cool.

Written: I felt I wasn’t getting anywhere with the project I had switched to writing in summary form, so I switched again to working on the ideas I had to simplify(?) D&D5. Game design is pointless and stupid, as people barely have time to play games that have already been published, never mind playtest new ones, but arguably not more so than my fiction writing. Anyway, 126 words of that.

That is BY DEFINITION every day!

Went in to the office, didn’t have it to myself because Coworker D is back, ate some crispy chicken bits with coleslaw and pickled veggies, did a work or something.

Read: A Conventional Boy (Charles Stross): A hapless D&D player who was sent up the secret river back in the day finally breaks out of the Laundry internment camp so he can attend a convention. Alarming LARPs ensue.

Read: Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! vol 1 (Sumito Oowara): So far, pretty much like the anime. There’s Backgrounds Girl, Character Girl, and Business Girl, fantasy sequences, the disintegrating clubroom, the screening for the student council, etc. I don’t remember exactly, but I think the end of this first volume of the manga is pretty far through the anime series.

Written: 138.

Somebody once said something nice about a program I wrote, so I’ll take it.

Played: Changeling. Our dazed and confused escapees from Faerie make it back to Oakland and meet a nice gay satyr who trades them some lunch and some information for a promise from Nicole to fix something.

Read: The Butcher’s Masquerade (Matt Dinniman): In which a bunch of alien assholes get severely murdered, and serves them right. A lot of other people get murdered too, though. Also, Princess Donut’s dinosaur gets lucky.

Read: FAIL. I did not manage to make a dent in my oversupply of manga, because I suck.

Written: 127.