Waiting so Long

6/2/2025

May goes, June comes.

I've been busy, but also not busy since the last update. My representional creative work heading into 2024-2025 was finally completed with The Yellow Typhoon and the Final Waltz.

The Yellow Typhoon and The Final Waltz The Imperium's Fourth Chevauchee into the Confederacy of Independent Planets has ended in unmitigated disaster. The Imperium, trapped in a bubble of byzantine squabbling, scrambles to reorganize what remains of its theater forces in the face of an impending counteroffensive, though incompetent civilian-military leadership plagues the Confederacy all the same. Emperor Mikhail V von Barbarossa has appointed his most trusted military commander, Jonathan Churchill the Black Prince, to lead a diversion using the mobile asteroid fortress Zeta to bide time for the Imperium. The Black Prince succeeds in dropping an orbital colony on the Confederate planet of Ben Nevis, and makes a mad dash to capitalize on his true objective: the penetration of the Confederacy's halo Maginot Line protecting the Confederacy's planet-capital of Fasnakyle! Confederate high command acts swiftly in assembling a strike team ahead of the main naval force gathering at Maginot Line Point Farragaig. One such member is Victoria Schwarzenberger, a Mobile Trooper ace pilot who is Neo sapiens: a next step in humanity's evolution exhibiting sharp spatial awareness. As Victoria and her team race against time to the unfolding flashpoint, the stage is set for the beginning of the end of the hundred-and-fifty-year galactic war between the two entities.

It's finally been done and out in the world. It's only been a week since its serialization completed and as I expected, there wasn't much fare for it across platforms.

Oh well.

I'm been taking a nice little break from writing since it's completion—I essentially fulfilled a childhood dream of writing a cool mech story and I hope it's a good indicative of what to expect from this universe I've been cooking. In a way the title is a double entree for my writing. Although it is a little discouraging to get neither feedback nor reactions to the ending, I'm still ahead with rewriting the outline for A Game of Cosmic Titans. What few first draft chapters I have already written (from back in ~November) will be rewritten in this voice and new canon. There's a number of interesting things I learned from writing the lore of this that would benefit a lot for the main story, as a sort of thing to look back on and account for things that could be explained away easier, make the story plausible, that kind of thing.

To be honest, I want to add some of the first draft chapters as an epilogue to the story, which would've served as the sequel hook into the main book. but I can't decide what timeframe the epilogue chapter would be in. It's pretty tricky but for now I will hold off on the epilogue because it's a lot more flowery in description and I can't be bothered line editing them. The chapters I read were first written in October/November/December last year right before and during my extensive first playthrough of Elin that time, and they feel outdated, very purple prosey in a Frank Herbert post God Emperor kind of way to me already.

There is not much to say this June update. My mental state has been good and I was killing it in Mahjong earlier this week.

Though I lost it all in the end that hanchan...

I felt so felted, 2nd place by only 600 points—man!

This week marks the 3rd anniversary of being together with my boyfriend. I love him so much.

I saw this white china dress outfit and I knew I had the immediate instinct to make a C.C. In the past, I avoided remaking established characters with character makers, but I felt making C.C was easier than expected. Really, I just wanted a excuse to post more of her.

 I still like my pink haired elf OC (who I aptly named Shammy) and will still use her though. I just think C.C is sexy.

Not much to say on anime. We finished Z Gundam and I'm going through with bingeing a number of our other shows: namely, the reset of Monogatari, Higurashi, and Samurai Flamenco.

Personally, I've been musing rewatching G-Reco Gundam and Turn A on my own time. Maybe even Cross Ange, because it's a series that has a special place in my heart.

In Iliad, just finished the rest of book 13 and started on the 14th: Hera Outflanks Zeus. Very great stuff so far, I couldn't help myself but copy a few lines for use in Yellow Typhoon, namely, the last chapter.

For vidya... I just really haven't been in the appetite for anything because I was using so much energy on writing, and now I've finished one story I've been pin balling between TF2 and CSS sometimes. Maybe I might revisit my Elin game? Oh, I have been putting off the Zeta campaign so I will get on that eventually.

This all depends if I don't die of heat exhaustion however. Just kidding.

So, next time I can be bothered making a post will probably be when Guacks ends. Oh boy, we're finally getting Lala Sune, but maybe it's kinda early for it? Guess I'll find out after tonight on Machu Tuesday.

Until next time, topping it off with more sexy C.C.