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2018-11-24: "Re: Useful and important" by Trip
2018-11-24: "Useful and important" by marithlizard
2018-11-03: "Re: what's wrong with liking routine?" by Trip
2018-11-03: "what's wrong with liking routine?" by marithlizard
2018-10-25: "Re: Road to El Dorado" by Trip
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16 January 2019 - Wednesday
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15 January 2019 - Tuesday
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14 January 2019 - Monday
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13 January 2019 - Sunday
After being a slug all morning, I went to see Aquaman
because Dave said it was good. It wasn't bad! Nothing had a sensible
design, but I liked the riding mosasaurs anyway, and, well, it was a
comic-book movie. The realities of water resistance are not what people
were there for.
I often say, "What is even the point of male characters?", but I
would accept "Jason Momoa" as an answer.
When Marith was no longer dead, we finished She-Ra. I
continued to like it a lot, even though it is for a young audience, and
hope there will be a second season soon!
Speaking of princesses, I read volume 1-3 of Raven: The Pirate Princess (Jeremy Whitley, Rosy Higgins, Ted Brandt),
a spinoff of volume 3 of Princeless because I guess
everyone liked the martial arts pirate princess. Now she has a crew of
lady pirates, and they are going to stomp some people who need
stomping!
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12 January 2019 - Saturday
In the morning, cleaners. In the afternoon, trying to go over to
Monkeycat Mountain to game with Jus, but Marith did not make a plan, so
instead we went over at the regular time and ate burritos.
- Steven Universe 5.27-28: "Together Alone" and "Escapism"!
Gems are completely dysfunctional! Connie and Steven function in
heretical ways! Watermelons!
- Non Non Biyori 11:
- Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju 7: I don't know if it's
actually mandatory for the narrator of a story about storytelling to be
unreliable, but I lack counterevidence.
- BBK/BRNK 4: The promise of worldbuilding has not been
followed up, and nothing else is any good, so we are dropping this one.
- Hibike! Euphonium 4: I think they got the skeptics on
their side? Or at least promoted some unit integrity?
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11 January 2019 - Friday
Marith made fancy grilled cheese sandwiches. They were good. But they
did not make my brain larger.
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10 January 2019 - Thursday
The finale of Ancient Magus' Bride! Hm, that's kind of
dark, although not as bad as it could be. I hope there is a second
season!
I have finally caught up enough to
calculate the yearly total for 2018, which was not that great. I should
probably increase my daily quota, but I keep having things that take up
almost my entire evening. I blame Ken for moving a long ways away and
then refusing to game until late in the evening, but if we had more
evening, we'd probably just game more.
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9 January 2019 - Wednesday
Once again, it's
13th Age
and
Indian food!
Vaatu pulling the mysterious lever causes the cube to go rocketing
around the cavern while the Secret Master inside summons up hook demons
in French maid outfits, but they're not actually very impressive demons
and the fight is won by the time the cube lands in something explosive
and everyone has to bail out.
In the confusion, the PCs sneak into the secret chamber of disgusting
magical power, which is probably adjacent to the place they need to
reach to complete the entire campaign, but of course there are
guardians.
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8 January 2019 - Tuesday
I failed to escape from work at a reasonable time (mostly because I was
too stupid to stand up from my desk, not because of terrible customers or
anything), so instead of watching the end of Ancient Magus'
Bride, we watched a bit of She-Ra while feeding.
Tuxedo! Dancing! Rescues! Let the Catradora shipping
commence intensify greatly!
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7 January 2019 - Monday
What, work again?
All
Tomorrows (Nemo Ramjet) is a future history of human biology over the
next 100 million years or so (including a long stretch under the rule of
aliens who like to genetically engineer their subject species for having
the temerity to object to being conquered). It features many pictures of
creatures that obviously derive from humanity and yet are not human, which
is pretty cool. I'm not sure about the timescales of some bits, but
whatever.
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6 January 2019 - Sunday
Apparently Sunday is still the day for staying in bed and reading
comics until 23489562394659024 o'clock in the morning.
I'm now up to volume 6 of
Princeless (which is all that's out so far), and it is full
of obnoxious princesses, dragon-back fistfights, family drama, utterly mad
dwarves, queer representation, pirates, and other good things. I like the
art style less as it goes on, but I blame Rumiko Takahashi for my weird
old-fashioned tastes.
We're almost to the end of Ancient Magus' Bride, and things
are definitely even darker and scarier and more doomed. How is Chise going
to survive this one? How is Elias's sapience going to survive?
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5 January 2019 - Saturday
Yay, it's Saturday! That work week was much too long!
- Sailor Moon Super S 137: Finally, Fisheye gets a chance!
But is still evil and not romantic.
- Steven Universe 5.26: I mean, SU is pretty
much always great, but this episode had less greatness than usual.
Setup for the next super-great episode? Steven did change clothes,
after all!
- Non Non Biyori 10: Flashback episode! Yes, apparently
Renge has always been like that.
- Hibike! Euphonium 3: And there's the obstacles internal
to the
team orchestra that they have to overcome to
get VICTORY!
- Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju 5-6: Meep!
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4 January 2019 - Friday
More AMB! Chise makes a friend, fairies cause problems,
Elias discovers a new emotion, Chise takes damage from doing magic
(again).
Hex Vet: Witches in Training (Sam Davies, of Stutterhug fame)
is an adorable comic about apprentice magical veterinarians and magical
creatures in need of care. It does have dialog, but that's okay,
really!
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3 January 2019 - Thursday
More Ancient Magus' Bride. All about love, and also taking
lethal damage as a side-effect of doing magic (or having half-naked fairy
chicks living in your garden). Plus, changelings, Silver's backstory,
shopping, and kisses.
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2 January 2019 - Wednesday
Yuck, work. Although the really bad part is how early in the day it
happens!
First 13th
Age of the new year! Also, Mexican food not actually made of either iguanas or kaiju.
Really, what did Xian think was going to happen when she pointed out a
mysterious and enticing lever to Vaatu? (Answer: not what actually
happened!)
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1 January 2019 - Tuesday
Hey, look, it's 2019! This year better suck less, or I will shake my puny
fist at the uncaring sky.
"Begin as you mean to go on", so I did um absolutely nothing today.
Except lie in bed and read manga.
(I actually read this last year, but whatever.) Made in
Abyss vol 1-3 (Akihito Tsukushi) is the story of a girl and this
robot she found, on a one-way descent into a vast pit full of strange
creatures and ancient artifacts, in search of her mom and also knowledge.
It has some problematic elements, but also a lot of pretty cool stuff and
plot twists and such. I think there's an anime, maybe we should watch it on
Saturdays. (It might even leave out some of the more problematic bits.)
Going beyond imaginative into cracktastic, we have Dr.STONE
vol 1-2 (Riichiro Inagaki, Boichi). One day, all humans and sparrows on
Earth are turned to stone! 3700 years later, the two high-school students
we've been introduced to recover, one because he kept conscious by counting
seconds (which is how he knows how long it's been) and the other because he
kept conscious thinking of the girl he had been about to confess to. One
has maxed his Int and Science stats, and is working on recreating all of
C21 civilization single-handedly, the other has maxed Strength and Stamina
and is doing all the grunt work. Things start going wrong when they revive
the high-school student who can punch lions to death and he has different
ideas about the future of the humanity. It is so ridiculously over-the-top!
But it fails at female characters.
My Pretty Vampire (Katie Skelly) is meh, probably mostly
because the art style didn't grab me.
I read volume 1 of Princeless (Jeremy Whitley, M Goodwin)
before, but now I am set to read the next 5 volumes that my local indie bookstore has
delivered to me. Because if we must have princesses, they shouldn't need
rescuing!/p>
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31 December 2018 - Monday
This time Marith and I successfully saw Into the Spider-Verse, and
it was pretty good! Now I understand Miles's powers in MPQ.
I wonder if we'll get this version of [SPOILER]?
In the evening, Earl fondue (not made out of real Earls), as is the
New Year's Eve tradition. This time we broiled the meat portion, which
was logistically much better, and we still had the cheese and chocolate
death courses for dipping with brain forks. There was some discussion of
watching things, but mostly we searched for the lost art of conversation
until it was time for toasting and then home-going.
We are so old and sedate that there was almost no one on the roads
yet by the time Marith andI drove home.
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Yearly total: 91474. That's actually not completely dreadful. These are
all first-draft words, and not very good ones at that, so it's a long way
from being anything even if they were all the same things, but there are
probably published books that are not much longer than that. I probably
need to increase my quota for the new year, though.
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30 December 2018 - Sunday
Marith and I tried to go to a movie, but failed because the only
seats were in the front row, which is not workable. (But apparently
other people paid for those seats. Necks, how do they work?) We got
better tickets for tomorrow.
In the evening, I went over to Ken's and even though we had no Dave,
we had Mike and Brooks to play
Gloomhaven.
Splitting the party worked, mostly, and I got my murder rat up to 3rd
level, so I can have even better cards that slowly trickle out of my
hand, never to be seen again.
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29 December 2018 - Saturday
I was too lethargic to let the cleaners in, but we eventually got
things sorted out and do not have to live in squalor.
We thought about doing board games because Dave isn't available to
watch anime, but no one had enough brain.
- Non Non Biyori 8-9: Poor Komori. Someone should tell
her that being an adult isn't worth it.
- Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju 4: Aw, rakugo for kids! (It's
probably not a dead art form if kids like it!)
- Love, Chuunibyo, & Other Delusions 2.12: Rewatch
for Ken and Marith. Still cute.
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28 December 2018 - Friday
Today, I got out of the house and did some things! Like getting my
hair cut for the first time in approximately my entire life, and
ordering new glasses.
More
Ancient Magus' Bride, more doom! I mean, Chise seems to
mostly come out okay in the end, but there's still a lot of doom.
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27 December 2018 - Thursday
In a possibly futile attempt to seem like we didn't spend the entire holiday
season as somnolent lumps in our separate caves, Marith and I went to
the
big library downtown. It is
certainly very large, but not prosperous in fiction. I did get a library
card (because the librarian was more helpful than the one at my local
branch) and check out Step Aside, Pops (Kate Beaton). Kate
Beaton rocks.
New She-Ra 5-7: soggy princess, terrifying princess, and
magical aunt.
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26 December 2018 - Wednesday
It's Boxing Day, which I guess is the day when Santa goes to
Australia in his sleigh drawn by pugilist kangaroos?
More The Ancient Magus's Bride. Every girl needs a giant
terrifying black dog with a tail longer than its entire body!
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25 December 2018 - Tuesday
A nifty Newtonmas to all!
Ayse and Ken fed us many tasty foods (yay duck!) and also there was
great sloth.
The Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle (Kagiji Kumanomata) is
there because the demons have kidnapped her to hold hostage and now have
no idea what to do with her as she runs roughshod over them in her
pursuit of a good night's sleep. She cuts up the living rugs of smothering to
make bedsheets, steals priceless magical artifacts to adjust the
temperature of her quarters, breaks through walls to get better
ventilation, and generally crushes the demons underfoot without even
realizing. There is little if any ongoing plot, just one ridiculous
scheme per chapter, so it may eventually get old, but after three
volumes it's still pretty amusing.
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24 December 2018 - Monday
Watched some more She-Ra, otherwise hid from the
capitalist frenzy of Newtonmas Eve.
Ran and the Gray World (Aki Irie) is about a young girl
(upper end of elementary school, maybe?) who is sad because her mom, a
glamorous sorceress (possibly the glamorous sorceress) is
always away on important sorcery business, leaving her stuck with her
dad and big brother. She has a pair of magic sneakers that turn her into
a grownup. Adventure ensues!
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23 December 2018 - Sunday
Marith and I started watching the new She-Ra, which is
actually pretty good! It is definitely for kids, so very simple in some
ways, but none of it makes me want to fling things. Also I see why there
is so much Adora/Catra shipping.
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22 December 2018 - Saturday
Ayse has decided to learn to make Swiss rolls. There may be imperfect
attempts that need to be disposed of.
- Sailor Moon Super S 135-136: More monster-of-the-week,
but the villains have plans. I don't think Jus understood the jealousy
over Mamoru, which is good. That's a trope that can die with this
generation!
- My Hero Academia 61-63: Rewatch for Ken, since he
missed the end of season 3 the first time around.
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21 December 2018 - Friday
Last day of work for the year! We got free food, as well as backpacks
of a somewhat strange design, and company logo socks. I actually did
some work for a change.
Now Marith is caught up on Hibike! Euphonium.
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productivity, but it has no italics, so it didn't work for me. Maybe
sometime I will try using bold instead.
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20 December 2018 - Thursday
Marith is still full of Connecticut germs. It is very sad.
Avalon does not have germs, but does have work. However, there is a
puppy at work.
I believe
the Cruel Empire of Tsan Chan
is only mentioned once in a single Lovecraft story, but that limited
source material didn't stop someone from fleshing it out for
Call of Cthulhu!
It's 5000AD. Cthulhu has risen, and taught humanity new ways to shout
and kill and revel and enjoy themselves. All the earth is aflame with a
holocaust of ecstasy and freedom, except for the Empire of Tsan Chan, which
keeps that kind of madness at bay with massive magical wards, brutal
repression, and unwholesome bargains. It's not a pleasant life, even for
the mutants and cyborgs and liches at the top, but at least most of the
population still have their own minds. Mechanically, the
philosophy/religion/indoctrination gives you a second Sanity track: as long
as either SAN or the Way is above 0, you can be a functional human being,
and the Way isn't reduced by the horrors you encounter in day-to-day life
in Tsan Chan.
There are plot hooks/campaign seeds for every stratum of society:
commoners, military, the travelling magistrates of the judiciary run by the
liches that founded the empire, the divine hybrid nobility, the eunuchs who
have been ritually mutilated and modified to be able to survive the
Empress's presence, even the allied Serpent People or ghouls. They would
all be extremely grim, but what are you playing CoC for?
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19 December 2018 - Wednesday
13th Age
extra Thai food!
Without Mike's strong vision of what we should be doing, we had to
resort to simple measures like disguising ourselves with stolen cultist
robes and sneaking back to scout around some more. Sadly, the cultist
robes did not grant darkvision, or the ability to pass through the
labyrinth unhindered by assorted horrible monsters. Ow.
No gaming until next year!
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18 December 2018 - Tuesday
Avalon is busy being oppressed by aunts and work, so instead of a date
I spent the evening watching anime with Marith.
- The Ancient Magus' Bride 5: Chise really should not be
surprised about that, since the entire show about is about the
bittersweetness of transient things. Also, splendid cat king is splendid.
- BBK/BRNK 3: Rewatch to get Marith caught up.
Also I returned to tumblr, which really is mostly still there, but has
a very desolate feeling anyway.
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17 December 2018 - Monday
Hurray, Marith made it back! With pictures!
We celebrated by ordering pizza and watching two more episodes (3-4) of
The Ancient Magus' Bride. Yikes, that is quite a
cliffhanger!
I avoided tumblr completely today, and anecdotally, my notifications of
people I follow posting stuff or my posts getting reblogged, were way
down. I wonder if Oath (can you get any more obvious that corporations are
an invention of Nyarlathotep, guys?) will notice.
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201. Maybe I should stop writing and just die in a pit forever.
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