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Go hippos! Eat the humans!

Coworker A who normally covers weekend days is out, so I had to be on call this PM. Only one case, which is a problem for Future Me (or maybe even Future Somebody Else) anyway.

Apparently Jus has dumped her girlfriend and gotten a boyfriend (who sounds very nice). I had to tease her about not being a very good lesbian.

Watched (anime): Bungo Stray Dogs 3.10-11 (35-36): Of course the solution they settle on is to go somewhere and murder each other. Good thing their subordinates are smarter, even if only slightly.

Read (manga): The Evil Secret Society of Cats vol 1 (Pandania): Four-panel comics about sentai supervillain cats plotting to distract and/or charm humans.

Written (game design): 268 somehow.

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.

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

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.

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.

Also World Numbat Day and Practice Being Psychic Day. I, for one, welcome our psychic numbat overlords, especially if they bribe me with deviled eggs.

Sage kept me pinned under the blankets until forever, but finally I managed to wiggle out and feed her and go shopping and stuff. When I got home, I finished journaling the con, so hopefully I can stay more caught up. But mostly, I accomplish nothing.

Watched: Bungo Stray Dogs 25: This was actually an OAV after the end of season 2, which is why it didn’t connect to anything. But now we’re out of BSD.

Watched: Deca-Dence 1: Okay, that’s ridiculous, but no more than many– wait, what?

Read: Wandering Crows (John Lynch): I played this at the con, but of course we didn’t have a chance to read the whole book. 8 1/2 minutes of exposition and then it was time to make characters. That was in fact most of what we needed to know as players, so that was fine, but my uncertainty about Inventory was never really settled, and now I know that it’s very fuzzy. It looks like what’s in your inventory can be used as an excuse to use a different suit than normal for a challenge, but mostly seem to be flavor, which I don’t like. I understand that everything is flavor and only the suits really affect challenges, but meh. I would be happier with narrative permission or something.

Written: 204.

How depressing. Also Dress Like A Dork Day, which is also ouch.

I had an unsatisfactory cheeseburger the other day that was cold from being DoorDashed, so I got a fresh one from the same place while I was shopping, but it was also not that satisfactory (thought much warmer). I dunno, man, it seems like cheeseburgers should always be good. Maybe I’m experiencing them wrong.

Also unsatisfactory, although in a different way: continued my habit of buying more manga than I read in a week, leading to shelf shortages at home.

When we went over to watch anime, Jus and her friend A(?) were all dressed up because they were going to Homecoming together, like real high-schoolers who are old enough to wear cleavage dresses. What is up with that?

Watched: Bungo Stray Dogs 22-24: End of the Guild arc! Tiger and Rashoumon are now frenemies instead of just plain enemies. There’s one more episode in the season, and then apparently next season there’s even bigger doom.

Written: 223.

Cephalopod is aware of you!

Also World Teacher’s Day and World Storytelling Day.

Today was first signups for Big Bad Con events. The first two signups for everybody allegedly went live at noon, so I slept in instead of trying to rush to do shopping and get home. I was ready at noon, but as seems to happen every year, the database would not work for several hours, and I didn’t get to go shopping until late afternoon. I did eventually get signed up for a session of Ryuutama and a session of the Kill 6 Billion Demons RPG, and then made it to the store and back in time to go to anime. Barely. It was not my preferred way to spend an afternoon, even if I did get a bunch of crafting done in Shop Titans.

Watched: Bungo Stray Dogs 18-21: More three-sided conflict among Port Mafia, Obnoxious Americans, and the heroes.

Read: ShipCore 3.0 (Erios909): The protagonist and her best friend make it to civilization, not entirely in one piece, and it becomes a lot more apparent why people don’t like AIs to run around doing their own thing. Even the AIs that are part of the power structure are kind of awful, although possibly redeemable with the power of smooches.

Written: 217.

I never manage to go to museums myself, but I’m still glad they exist and happy to have my tax dollars go to supporting them.

Completely useless today. Do people even like the presents I bring them?

Watched: Bungo Stray Dogs 15-17: End of the extended flashback, where we find out what Dazai’s deal is, and then back to the present where the two newbs are screwing up their mission massively.

Written: 106.

Also National Eat a Hoagie Day, which I did.

Played a little Minecraft after failing to do anything for weeks, checked out Marith’s base which is a maze of lava and villagers and art and now fish, still not sure what if anything I want to do next. I could build another thing now that Dave has told me how to make copper bulbs light up. Marith offered to let me build it in her Cavern of Wonders, but it might actually belong on  top of the ridge of cherry trees. I could try the trial chamber that Ayse and Dave found, but I’m pretty sure that I would just die instantly with my basic enchanted diamond gear and no skillz.

Ayse has been doing lots of writing, because she is smart and talented and her brain has the basic functionality of doing things, which mine doesn’t. Good for her!

Watched: Bungo Stray Dogs 13-14: Extended flashback to when Dazai was a Port Mafia bigwig. Unsurprisingly, this looks like it’s going to end poorly.

Nightvale might have made a small miau? It would be noisy, yet adorable, if he learned that from Sage.

Written: 172, for all that’s worth (which is nothing).

 

Hi Jus!

Still testing negative, although I actually started too early so I should test a couple more times before declaring victory.

Successfully did some shopping, played some Minecraft (blazes suck), visited people for anime and conversation and hugs.

Watched: Bungou Stray Dogs 1.7-9: That’s a very strange condition for a power. How did they even find out about it?

Written: 101.

On the one hand, I feel like this should be a global holiday, and on the other hand, what impact has it had? Humans still suck.

Managed to get up and go shopping not too late, so I could do the other shopping I failed at last weekend and still be at home to sit in front of a fan and go blblblblblblbl. Played a little Minecraft, but the lag was awful so I logged out again.

Watched: Bungo Stray Dogs 4-6: Murder! More murder! Weirdos! More weirdos! Occasional bits of serious plot in between the comedy!

Written: 170. How does writing work? Not like this, apparently.

Technically I was on call today, but only as backup in case the weekend shift (we have that now!) ran into something they couldn’t handle, but they didn’t, so I guess I’m fairly gruntled. I was much less gruntled with my whole endealment yesterday and the day before.

I felt a little queasy so instead of getting a big wad of pastrami and sauerkraut, I had a normal roast beef sandwich while doing my shopping and it worked very well. Good job, me.

I did a little landscaping in Minecraft. A diamond shovel with Efficiency 5 just tears through hills, but it also tears through bees that wander into the line of fire, so I had to take a break to go recruit some bees from another hive and breed them up and stuff. Still haven’t managed to set up a flat place for aging copper.

Shoulders still sore, weather still hotter than I would prefer, but embodied existence not much more unpleasant than usual today.

Holy crap, what happened to Republicans thinking “gun control means being able to hit your target”?

Watched: Bungo Stray Dogs 1-3. I have seen some episodes of this, but did not remember the way [SPOILER] walks in and goes “nice comedy show you got here, let me BLOODILY DISMEMBER it”.

Read: No Man’s Land (Elliott Kay): My reading list says I read all previous books in this series, but I don’t remember any of the new alien threat events that this book follows on from. I was able to figure out what was going on well enough that I didn’t feel a need to immediately go back and reread, although I may at some point. Also, I hadn’t remembered that main character’s original job in his local armed forces was specifically preventing war crimes, but there need to be more people on that duty. Also also, extremely worrying details about aliens. I feel like the humans are not scared enough of the Krokinthians, never mind some of the new guys.

Read: Buck the Halls (Zoe Chant): I thought I had read all of Kit’s “Virtue Shifters” novellas except the latest, but no! I had somehow not read this one! I really liked it, because Inner Stag! Tragic Antlers Incident! Additional, Possibly Even More Tragic Antlers Incident! Also no sex and I didn’t miss it, so I must be old now. (Narrator: What does he mean “now”?)

Written: 368, somehow. I guess it’s easy to write a 13-year-old being dramatically depressed?