Tag: daemons of the shadow realm

Happy happy Lizardday!

Did the usual sleeping and shopping and dying in a pit, prepared more for D&D.

Watched (anime): The Apothecary Diaries 3.2: After two whole seasons, Maomao no longer recoils in horror when Jinshi touches her. Truly a romance for the ages!

Watched (anime): Daemons of the Shadow Realm 1.18-19: More daemon fights, people running around all over, Asa being terrifying, Ivan being terrible. I guess really it’s all the same fight, just spread out over the whole warehouse yard.

Written: I know my players are going to immediately head for something I haven’t prepared, but I don’t know what to prepare except everything, so this will have to be good enough.

Also, check your voter reg!

Hurray, the grocery store had the tea I like again!

Watched (anime): The Apothecary Diaries 3.1: Maomao is still outside the palace, but we know she’s going to get dragged back in to Jinshi’s problems and/or arms. Also, although I knew that locusts were edible, I didn’t know grasshoppers were only technically edible (IE, gross).

Watched (anime): Daemons of the Shadow Realm 1.16-17: Schemes and traps all around, but Yuru goes too hard to be taken out like that. Probably.

Written (Geometry for Mutants): 177.

It was tempting to stay in bed forever, but in fact I stayed in bed about the usual amount and then got up to shop and stuff. I even had enough time to catch up this journal through today. It will inevitably fall behind, but at least it’s no longer falling further behind. Yet.

Ayse granted me the boon of leftover pozole. I will eat it for lunch tomorrow.

Watched (anime): Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End 1.28: That turned out better for the others than I would have expected. But now, the end of the mage test arc, and of the season. Will we go straight into S2? Maybe, or maybe we’ll watch something. Only Future Us knows.

Watched (anime): Daemons of the Shadow Realm 1.12-13: Oh right, that guy is really nasty. Also between the mass murders and the escapes, the village is going to be completely depopulated by the end of the season.

Read (novel): Lillith of Endings (Dreamer’s Riot): A militant anarchist is isekai’d into the body of a small girl in a fantasy world with classism and sexism sliders set to max, and combines her advanced Earth physics knowledge with magic to become OP and start dealing with the ruling serial-killer class and their monopoly on magic. Because it is Misogyny World, she is threatened with rape at every turn, but is actually only beaten up a lot.

Written (Geometry for Mutants): 163.

I did not do a good job of getting out of bed, but did manage to shop and stuff in time for anime.

Watched (anime): Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End 1.27: Third phase of the test, completely anticlimactic. But now they have at least one first-class mage for the trip into the northern doomlands. One episode left in the season!

Watched (anime): Daemons of the Shadow Realm 1.10-11: That poor kid, dropped into the middle of these lunatics. He’s not even crazy enough to fit like Yuru was.

Written (Geometry for Mutants): 114, but I had to count it by hand, because my bugfix wasn’t actually a fix.

Only slept in a moderate amount, managed to go shopping and read Maidens of the Fall before lapsing into uselessness again.

Watched (anime): Daemons of the Shadow Realm 1.9: Apparently we’re done with the cute daemons for now; it’s time for mythological horrors.

Watched (anime): Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End 1.25-26: Conclusion of the second test, with cunning plans and terrifying magic. Also Denken was right, they should all have listened to him.

Read (novel): Your Boyfriend Needs an Exorcist (Justine Pucella Winans): A girl who has become a terrible squirrel-eating ghost accidentally possesses the boy her crush is dating, and everything goes downhill from there. Way, way downhill. With murders.

Written (Geometry for Mutants): 246.

I was on call today, but the customers did not call. Good customers. I only slept in a little, and did the usual shopping.

Watched (anime): Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End 1.24: Fern is convinced she could kill Frieren. Is she right?

Watched (anime): Daemons of the Shadow Realm 1.7-8: Big fight is over, time for the recrimination phase! Also cleanup, because these are not the superpowers that avoid collateral damage.

Read (novel): Cattywumpus (Ash Van Otterloo): In a small North Carolina town where witchcraft is frowned upon, two girls who are hereditary rivals are having trouble with their magic for completely different reasons, which means when they interact, they can cause enormous problems, but can’t cooperate enough to fix them.

Written (Geometry for Mutants): 130.

I did not eat any angels, but I did do the usual weekend sleeping and shopping. I did not manage to do any reading.

Watched (anime): Daemons of the Shadow Realm 1.6: Big daemon fight with the sister-stealers!

Watched (anime): Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End 1.22-23: Downtime between the test rounds (Stark knows what he did wrong), and then on to the second round.

Read (from the shelf): FAIL.

Written (Geometry for Mutants): 120.

Today was the last day of Doug, the bookstore guy who has been selling books at (various branches of) the bookstore I go to since before I moved to California. I hope he has a good retirement.

Gaming for tomorrow is definitely cancelled. Freed of worrying about how to spend points, I should have been useful today, but I wasn’t.

Watched (anime): Daemons of the Shadow Realm 1.4-5: Yuru has no time for the “learn about the modern world” subplot, he has supernatural sidekicks and a conspiracy to unravel!

Watched (anime): Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End 1.21: And thus concludes phase one of the mage test. There was not as much murdering as it sounded like going in.

Read (short): Miss Gentle and the Case of the Very Flat Monk (Travis Baldree): That is definitely one of the more unusual detectives I’ve seen, even in fantasy mystery.

Written (Geometry for Mutants): 116.

An extremely blessed day, even if Daleks are trying to steal it with a fiendish plan involving zucchini custard.

I only slept in a couple of hours, but still spent the day being useless.

Watched (anime): Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End 1.20: Lots of fighting, Fern being kind of intimidating even to psychopaths like Übel and Wirbel, Denken’s buddy overpowering Frieren’s teammates, but Denken is the most doomed because he’s facing off with Frieren and she has a plan.

Watched (anime): Daemons of the Shadow Realm 1.3: Yuru doesn’t understand the modern world, but he’s not letting that stop him!

Read (novel): Empire of Light (Gary Gibson): After following the alien breadcrumbs to the alien maguffin, the problem is resolved, mostly by crashing civilization in this arm of the galaxy. A few of the people who died deserved it, though.

Read (from the shelf): FAIL.

Written (Geometry for Mutants): 145. Still kind of stuck.

I was on call today, which did not stop me from going back to bed after logging on. I did eventually get up to try my new shaver (loud!) and go shopping, but then the customers delayed me, and I had to stop shopping and sit on the computer with some other customers for a couple of hours, and it was all somewhat annoying but that’s what I get paid the medium-sized bucks for. And despite everything, I did make it back in time to go to anime.

Watched (anime): Daemons of the Shadow Realm 1.1-2: Mysterious old-timey village! Sudden anachronistic attack! Flee! Flee!

Watched (anime): Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End 1.19: Fortunately, Frieren has a cunning plan for this phase of the First-Class Mage Licensing Exam. Unfortunately (for some), it’s kind of like “all those guys kill each other off and we pick up the pieces”.

Read (from the shelf): FAIL.

Written (Geometry for Mutants): 207.