March 2022 Update (Patreon)

This...feature continues! I'll talk about media I'm consuming, my writing progress, and so on.

I'm getting an article published for Anifem again for the first time in a while! It's basically the FMA vs MHA thoughts I had a few months ago turned into a whole article. It's gone through edits and all has been turned in, but I don't know exactly  It's been a couple years since I did an article, so it took a little bit more than I thought to get back in the groove, but this one is at least simple enough (though I still had to resist going off on tangents). The scope is also small enough I hopefully won't invite FMA discourse back into my life. If I do, I'll just ignore it.  I've just been rewatching it for a friend and couldn't resist having Thoughts again.

I didn't give solid numbers on my book writing progress last time, so I'm giving them now! My old draft was around 53,00 words. I'm now currently at about 56,000 in the second draft now (not counting some partially rewritten stuff which would bring it up to about 58/59,000) and we're at about 3/4's of the way there, so things are looking good for increased word count.

I've started preparing for the YA class and did do a short primer on the differences between Middle Grade. YA, New Adult and Adult I'll repost here. 

I finished I May Destroy You, which was hard to watch,  but good. I tried Euphoria and then noped out at the first rape scene (it was way too fucking voyeuristic and the fact it involved a minor...I think you could compare it vs How May I Destroy you in how it was framed and I could easily say why I couldn't continue with one vs the other but I'm not interested in thinking about it). So that was a bust. Hilariously, I tried that show because my cousin was addicted to watching it so I assumed she thought it was good, but when I checked in after trying it she was like "oh no it's not actually good". Whoops.

In fluffier news, I think Sasaki and Miyano is my favorite of the anime of the season so far, it's been pretty cute fluffy romance. Not an especially strong season tbh. I did also watch Orbital Children (directed by the same guy who did Dennoh Coil) and it's a decent scifi romp, though it could have stood to be longer. 

As far as books, I just finished reading The House on the Cerulean Sea, which was very sweet story about meeting magical orphans and accepting yourself and finding love in middle age. As somone who's getting older and has an office job and sometimes feels like my only friend is my cat, I felt a lot for the main character and appreciated the found family aspect. Also one of the kids is a gnome, one is literally the antichrist, and it's gay, so that's fun. Had a pretty laid back quirky narrative voice reminiscent of Good Omens or something, though not quite as pointed or refined . Right now I'm listening to Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik which has that dark fairytale vibe I love and is based on Polish folklore, and I've started Loveless by Alice Oseman (It's about a girl figuring out she's aro-ace)...I'm enjoying it and hope I'll be able to use it as a straightfoward character arc example for my YA class, so gotta finish it quick!

I've finished epilogue of Hades and finished most of the questis maxed most of the relationship (yes, that means I've fixed the major Greek tragedies and I'm living the bi poly dream). I'm taking a break to get started on Pokemon: Arceus and play a few games from the game bundle to help Ukraine. Baba is You is a really cute and creative basic puzzle game so far, and Arcade Spirits is off to a good start.

Workwise, I've been switched back to nearly-full-time-but-not-quite-so-they-don't-have-to-give-me-insurance since my co-admin wants to be with her new baby, so things might be getting busy soon with the teaching job starting up. Which is probably good, because I'm incredibly lonely lately and this will distract me, maybe

That's about it for now! I'll check in next month.