Tag: amphibia

Oh yeah, I did order Christmas presents for some people. Good job, past me!

Fortunately I was able to reuse the nature fact about tarantulas keeping pet frogs this week, but I definitely need to get some new facts. Maybe dinosaur facts, everybody likes dinosaurs.

Watched: Amphibia 9-10: Apparently there is some structure to this world besides one village surrounded by deadly hazards, and also, there’s clearly going to be doom.

Read: The Tryout (Christina Soontornvat, Joanna Cacao): Semi-autobiographical retelling of the author trying out for middle-school cheerleading squad as a nerdy Thai-American girl in a small Texas town.

Read: “The Difference Between Love and Time” (Catherynne M Valente): The space-time continuum reimagined as a kind of surreal, terrible boyfriend.

Read: Cotton Tales vol 1 (Loputyn): I’m not that familiar with the Gothic genre, but this seems like it: a young boy who has no idea what’s going on or who any of these people are, allegedly because he has amnesia; a huge house with a special tower to keep a mysterious relative in; sinister houseguests; unicorn rabbits that only some people can see, that seem to be at war with each other.

Written: 623 kitten words.

Put a container of precooked vegetables and several sliced-up sausages onto a baking sheet and put it in the over for a while. This counts as cooking N/N?

Read: “Undercover” (Tamsyn Muir): Maybe not necromancy per se, and not space, but lesbians and death and terror and betrayal!

Read: Freestyle (Gale Galligan): Graphic novel about 8th-grade breakdancers in NYC and drama around new friends and school and parents and yo-yos.

Watched: Amphibia 7-8: So basically female frog-people are terrifying. Seems legit.

Written: 670 kitten words.

Back to getting up early, but it was a useful meeting this time.

Watched: Amphibia 5-6: Not really any kind of plot, but who needs a plot when you have snailmobiles?

Read: How To Get A Girlfriend When You’re A Terrifying Monster (Marie Cardno): Apparently the answer is, hang out in your home dimension trying to not get absorbed until an intrepid explorer of fixed yet oddly hot shape shows up and follow her home. Screaming, hiding, and general panic may ensue, but there is a possibility of smooches.

Written: 390 kitten words.

 

Got up earlier than I would like for cleaners, but then managed to take a nap and get up a second time to go grocery shopping at a reasonable hour. Then I was a massive lump.

Watched: Amphibia 1-2: Jus recommended I watch it after finishing The Owl House, but I don’t like it as much. I guess I like a world of giant bones and bile magic better than one of human-sized frogs and giant insects. Maybe if there were more insects.

Written: 569 kitten words.