23rd October 2025

Try to give me meaning, it's a losing game

The second half of October was one bad omen too many.

It mainly started with my bike tire getting a flat, amongst other things... they aren't actually all too important to dwelve into. Just the usual first world problems. Decided to clear out my credit debt and now my wallet isn't as heavy.

Sometime I get too concerned that Ashgahwdnka product isn't working, it's 2,100 mg per serving(3 capsules) and it doesn't feel as effective compared to the original, store one I originally used. I only switched to these since it was still hot around September and I didn't want to walk in 100f heat. It was too risky to gamble walking them since they removed the one local biycle rack nearby. I've suggested the Amazon product I was using to an acquaintance, and he said it was actually way too strong for him because normally the servings per mg is a fraction of that per serving normally is. This is actually a bit of meta future me reading this, but I actually talked with the friend as I was working on this blog update, and that made me realize his experience is similiar to mine, where it is working geniunely some days, but others it feels like nothing.

It's concerning how some days I really will just have serious bad thoughts no matter what I do. Those days are a little too uncommon, but the ashwankda is working, I'm sure of it. Sometimes it feels it is working, and other days it's not doing much to suppress them. I'm trying to force myself to smile, but it's hard. Life is hard, but dying is even harder.

Oh well. There's the trauma dump for this energy, gotta release it somewhere, and it's not like anyone reads this anyway. Save your sympathy and pity for the homeless outside your gas station instead.

I can't remember if I addresed it already, but finally, finally I updated the home page with the finished art commission. Haerge was the artist, they were awesome to work with and really delivered a killer art piece.

I still have two more art commissions in the pipeline; I saw the wip of one (artist gie) and it's just so great. I will share it once its done since it's still in the pre-rendering phase.

After my small break from finishing Iliad, I finally dived into my web novel RR backlog. I read a few of the following:

• Birds of Prey
• The Long Journey: With a Dragon Girl in a Foreign World
• UnderCurrent Saga

Unfortuntely, for one reason or another. I dropped all of them. Birds of Prey was actually so well-written but for all the wrong reasons. It has the usual clichy stuff wrong with sci-fi genre as a whole. Robotic dialogue, overdetailing mechanical stuff. It was a chore, but props to him for making a really polished, well-written story. I hate dropping stuff, I really do. Even with anime over the past 15 years of watching the stuff I nearly never drop them; I have maybe now 40 dropped shows compared to the 738 I finished.

Well, it's a good thing I don't have these as physicals. If there's one thing I dislike about myself, literacy wise, it's I'm extremely picky about what I want to read.

So, moving on.

The Long Journey, this caught my eye from the author on the RR forums. Seems to be a Japanese guy translating his own story—so I figured, hey, why not, it's not often you see a Japanese netizen do that. I gave it a few chapters and I'm just reminded I can't bring myself to read first-person stories. The characters are sort of like middle-school or HS, but for reasons I can't exactly put my finger on it just didn't click with me. The author seems very polite though. It sucks not being able to get into stories like this.

UnderCurrent Saga: I had it in my sloshpile for god knows how long. An actual space opera mecha similar to me in some degree? Count me in. I . . . skipped a lot of the prologue chapters because of the writing, it was in first person and wasn't too well written. I started with Volume 1 itself, and made it as far as Front 2.3 before I realized I'm not engaged or invested in the story. I couldn't care for any of the characters. Maybe it was just the writing style—it's signfinantly hard to explain why I don't like these stories sometimes. I read other works both to broaden my horizon outside of tradpub stuff and to strengthen my writing with others' voices. Whatever the case, I had to drop it.

I didn't just drop stories though, there were a number of others I read and finished, and enjoyed. These are:

• A Fall to Greater Heights
• Enjashek
• Nuclear Spring

Out of these three, Nuclear Spring was just good. I actually found myself a little emotional because its a gut-wrenching story of ai military satellites grappling with their sentiene and what they're accomplishing: Murdering entire cities. It didn't go crazy like Birds of Prey did. It reminded you it had really deadly weapons, but that was it. Impactful ending. It's stories like these that reminds you you don't need a endless sprawling, 500k word epic to tell a story.

I was shocked to my core when people on some writers discord balked at the idea of a story being any less than that. Unfortunte as it, people aren't as interested telling a beginning-to-end full story. It's all about profits, amazon, patreon. It gravely saddens me. Writing really, really makes you disillusioned at times. I talked about this with a acqiutnane I rekindled with and it's hellish trying to crit, or get crit from others. Sometimes, I tell him, I have to bring myself to step away from these spaces because it's just so easy to come off as a snobbish know-it-all or scream into the void, answering the same kind of questions over and over again. It's incredibly tiring.

So not to get off track. I want to move on, because it isn't benefical to scream into my own Disagreeable Zen Interface mkII either.

So on the subject of reading, I updated my Reading List because I felt the retro one's boxes were too big uniformy and the text was squished. There might've been a way to just make each box only expand as needed but I was more interested finding a better layout, and I think this was it. I may look down on using ai, but when it comes to coding it's a life saver. Interestingly enough, chatgpt for example hallunicated some code it referenced that wasn't even there—and this was on gpt-5 too. It was kind of discerning, and even when I told it this it apologized, and did it aain anyway. Meanwhile, since I can't get anyone to read A Game of Cosmic Titans, it actually did a remarkably good job of keeping track of just about eveything. It was only starting to hallunicate later on when I gave it my outline to look at.

I do want to stop and emphasize I'm still not using anything ai-related for the writing itself. I do everything with my own tears, my own spit, my own vomit and blood. It's human; and I used to say Grammarly for punctation and grammar-checking is fine but not so much when it rewrites sentences for you. I've done this method for years with Grammarly, with Saga of the Cosmic Heroes, then Yellow Typoon, chiefly for line edits and explictly just to check for grammar and punctation. Nothing else. With AGOCT, I haven't done that yet and have so far just posted them as they are on its page.

I may still line edit them once I publish on RR. But for now it's all human-made and still has some spelling and grammar errors here and there.

So anyway back to chatgpt, it did start to hallunicate a character that died, not dying, and I told it this character died, and it did seem to acknlowedge at least. It even said my outline was pretty indepth and the thing has its fair share of chronic spelling mistakes that probably made chatgpt difficult to comprehand it. It was actually so long I had to split into 3 messages, so that might've been why it was tripping. It gave me some interesting feedback, but nothing remarkable I'd acknolwedge and apply to my writing.

If only it was this easy to get human feedback on the story so far, however.

So with all this talk about A Game of Comisc Titans, how is it so far, really? My progress pretty much lagged entirely in October. After finishing the YT chapters, I was able to finish writing some of the incomplete chapters, it just left me with finalizing the last two written ones—Zugwang and They Shan't Grow Old. Then... I just sort of stopped writing and haven't touched the current one, Upon The Backs of Broken Men, just yet.

During that timeframe, I took to working up the courage to publishing them on my Writing hub, past chaper 7. It took a lot to do so, a lot of inner fighting because I still thought it could be possible to seek tradpub route, but the more I gloom over the prospect, the more I have to accept it's just not possible. This sotry isn't marketable to any one group. It has no LGBT or PoC characters. There's no strong black woman fighting the big white bad dude. It's just a white guy having a losing cosmic chess match with another white guy and the overall theme of our real-life world on the verge of a third world war.

I just have to accept this only place will be on Royalroad, for free, and maybe if I'm lucky I'll get some  spare change on my ko-fi, but I'm not holding my breath. Even during the original 3-4 year run of Saga of the Cosmic Heroes, I never made a dime on it despite having a paypal donation button, so I know better than even getting 3$ on it.

What can you do, you know? It's not a underdog winning battles, Lawrence practically technially always loses every battle, even though he may see himself as winning because hey, lives were saved to fight another day. That's not fun to read, but it's denoucning the glory of war, and distrust in a corrupt democracy. I'm trying to write him like Yi-Sun-si, or a more proactive Yang Wen'li, but I haven't fleshed out his character just yet.

Recently, I read a article title where Obama said democractic governments who thought they were infalliable to autocracy are facing the risk of just that. Just something I thought was interesting. I consider myself, strongly, emperically, apolitical. So that's about as much I'll say on the matter. 

But anyway, I'm happy with what I have so far. I think I could go back and fix some issues in the YT chapters, like Lawrence's fight with the Black Blitz, or some more nuances with Luke in general. But that's business for another day.

Well, anyway, here's the revised typography I had in mind. I worked on it some more since I couldn't bring myself to write. Original art done by gie.

I think it suits the cover quite well. Gie is such a amazing artist, I may commission him for milestones down the line. He has truly brought my vision to life.

But now, I'm exactly at the junction I needed to be: to capture the emotiomal essence I yearned for all this time with Upon the Backs of Broken Men, but it will be realized, very soon.

 Well, I wanted to keep this writing segment after the anime segment, but here we go.

Fall 2025 First Impressions,

Wow, this season was packed. To be honest, it's going to be a run of my joggin remembering my first impressions I had.

I got around to actually watching the finale of season 2 of Call of the Night. It feels so forgetful now after the dust has settled that maybe my interest in it just kind of weaned. I had to google what the title was every time I had to bring it up. I didn't even remeber if I had watched the second to last episode. Unfortunately, that's how much as as I can wring my memory out of this show.

It was certainly was a show, and it certaintly ended. I'm glad I watched it at least.

So with that out of the way...

One Punch Man season 3

 

The first two episodes anyway. To be honest, I am sort of glad this is back. Way back then, in the distant year of 2018 I watched this with my then-exe in vrchat. This show was always a fun watch with him, but I think after the first season, I started watching it alone.

But this season so far? It's fun. We're reintroduced after how many years since the last season back into this universe (if you're not reading the manga, I guess), so I've seen some pretty valid concerns about the pacing.

But regardless, it's just a fun little satirical action hero anime. That's all anime and media sets out to do, make you smile and forget life sucks and nothing matters, but it's just little slop gems like this that makes you smile.

It has this nice blend of being too overly serious and too comedically over the tope you just can't help but cringe, and sometimes it's more cringe than serious it doesn't clash well. At least for a while, I'm distracted. It was funny seeing Garou made out like a complete clown, and it's cool to see him at least no be comically evil clown that hurts (per the hardcore Jack Ripper guy), we basically kick puppies trope played straight. I like when the show has his serious moments and my favorite was already the Rider Kamen guy. His theme is still the best thing to come out of this at least for the anime. I never really read the manga but I'm familiar with the author because of Mob Psycho, which has gotten a inexplicitably, far better treatment than OPM. But to be fair, you can't just expect all these poor, helpless to be Murata. The story—I mean, it's ONE—it's what you make of his style of writing.

The image slideshow that broke the internet apparently.

The animation classic QUALITY is just the icing on the cake. Sure it's comically bad but it adds to the experience. Sure, they'll probbly fix it in the BDs, but who knows. Sometimes it's pure comedy, other than it's pure sin and irredeemable. A similar show I decided to drop comes up later with this issue, more on that in a bit.

Omg it's Harambe! You've got the wrong guy!

WanDance

I couldn't do it. Watching this with my bf was just us non-stop jumpscared by cgi. Then, you get this amazing treat.

I was making a scat-man joke right as this scene was happenign and then it happens, and they just let it play it out. What was just so diabolical was later in the episode where they animated the protag dancing, but had the girl dancing in cgi. Too diabolicial. Didn't give the 2nd episode a try. Apparently the director was really big on the whole cg thing and it's established he's known as a cg artist or whatever, but I on;y found that out after the fact. I usually don't care about staff or at least it's always a gamble wondering if they're going to be good. Sunrise made a anime a few years back called Back Arrow, most heavy-studded staff assembled, and it was just a comically bad show.

 

Diabolical .

Spy x Family season 3

Well, it's back. It's cute and funny. What more can I say? I felt it was leanign too hard on the SnK homage, but it was nice nonetheless. 

Nohara Hiroshi

This show only has 1080p releases. It also only has MTL translations and half the time it only somewhat made sense. Why, is this show so well quality? Nice, crisp lines but well, it's, I don't know, too overproduction for what it actually is? It's literally just food porn. That's it that's the show it's just food porn! I can't afford to be craving more food when I'm in VR, and after realizing it's just real life food it's like nooo, no thanks. I'm good. It doesn't really have that comedic effect the English Dube of Shin-Chan had, but eh, that dub was dubiously devilish anyway.

Li'l Miss Vampire Can't Suck Right

It's cute and funny vampire game who can't suck right. Woah!

If she just had both eyes covered, she'd be 10/10 thumbs up from me. 

Towa no Yuugure

It's 3 episodes, it's P.A Works, they make good stuff when they feel like it. Is this show one of them? Well, for now we're going to continue giving it a try. Amazing this show has more animation than OPM or Wandance and still flounders around.

Let's Play: Quest-darake no My Life

Woah, some of the characters escaped from Little Witch Academia!

Woah, the mc is a tragic FMC who's going to die by the last second! Well, I hope they don't do that. Apparently this was based on a American Webtoon? The character designs are a little older, and there's more nuance to character development. But I'm not reading it, nor do I care to look, I am enjoying this as a anime-only for the moment. It looks kinda fun.

 

woah it's final fantasy!

Kikaijikake no Marie

Well... it's... something sloppa alright. It's goofy. And it utilizes the same still technique previously seen in the anime Hikari no Ou. We actually thought it was going to be something like Mahoromatic: Automatic Maiden. But apparently not. Still interesting.

Retrospective as I was initially trying to deploy this blog update itself: I forgot about Marie, but here it is nonetheless. I actually thought the still image was an interesting technique and either it's borrowing the same staff, or someone just really liked the style. We may or may not continue watching this.

Debu to Love to Ayamachi to!

Wow, this was unexpedtly fun. I didn't think I was going to enjoy this as much as I nearly did, probably because of the way suicide is treated so nonchalantly. It resonated a lot more than expected, and the ending visuals? Just the cream of the top. I enjoyed it a lot. Here you have a protagonist priming with life, a true madonna, a real positive polly. The kind of positive energy I could hope to be for myself and those around me.

It really is a great show, every episode just makes me smile ear to ear. I love this FMC, this is probably my favorite FMC in a long time, she's just so lovable and endearing; this is a kind of show that really wears its title on its sleeve. Plus-sized Misadventures in Love!

The Perfect Blue segments caught me off-guard. Wow. Maybe the black hair is what she looks like afterall? Kinda horrorish. I'm enjoying this and we're watching forsure.

That about leaves the airing anime segment.

Legend of the Galactic Heroes season 4

We finally did it, after about a year of watching it on and off. Due to some cirmustances I was on borrowed time if I didn't put this on as often, but my bf who only watched up to 80s and only vaguely knew of the ending finally got to see it, and he expressed a lot how sad it is we have never seen a anime since then and possibly never will. I'm really happy I got to finish this with him.

 But now it's joever. The legend begins, and history begins... what a cinematic, timeless ending for such a grand series. He hasn't ever seen Gaiden or Die Neuse, not sure if we'll ever have the time for another titan series like this for a while.

Next up, I'm defintely going to start on us watching Double Z. I skipped over it initially in our Gundamthon to show him CCA so he could undestand the context of GQuack's last 2 episodes(I showed him the original Elmuth fight before CCA and GQuack beforehand asa form of "Machete Order". But now it's due time with LOTGH finally out of the way, and Votoms and all the other crap I neglected to show him.

So that's anime segment out of the way. Games wise, I tried out Cruetly Squad.

I didn't particularly enjoy it much. I refunded it just on the 2.1 hour mark. I got as far as the third mission, spent way too long in the police hallways, took out the boss, took the wrong pills and got stuck. Closed out of the game after that. Too hardcore. I don't do well with games where everything in a run is rendered reset and you have to do the whole level over again. I had hoped it would scratch the same itch The Citadel and Beyond Citadel had, but this wasn't it.

I also tried that one Tarkov extract clone that came out on Steam. Forgot the name of it already... I did the tutorial mission and stopped playing. I unistalled it some time later.

We played out the last of our sub(my bf's particularly) on FF11.

I turned myself into a potato because they introduced the ability to pay up to change your race, against my veteran of the game friend's grumbling, I gave money to support this life-support game. Naturally, he disagreed. 

I regret nothing. The game is funnier this way.

Wow it's a Jojo stand!

We went through this expansion pretty fast but now we finished it, we started on the next chronologicial one where you fight in the war that happened 20 years ago. I guess it's poetic we started on and ended on the one mission where you just mount run everywhere.

Needless to say, I forgot to take a picture of his catgirl with my potatogirl. Unfortunte, because it'll be a long time before I get the next opportunity. All good things come to an end eventually.

I think this is nearing the end of the blog, I've run out of things to go on about. Still strongly eyeing doing yet one more EU3 MEIOU game as ERE. I think it could be fun, I haven't done a European playthrough in Eu3 in a long time.

Well, anyway, so long, space cowboy.

Night of 2nd-3rd October 2025

I Had My Dreams But I Had no Fear.

This is a bit of an mini update.

So despite the last update, I found a template design I think I actually geniunely liked and suited the blog very well. The credits for it is on the side there. Speculator design, and I'm trying to abide by the original creator's request not to edit coding or too much; the only thing I disagreed with are the grayscale on images before you hover over them. It took me a whole gas-station coffee can and a few sips of alcohol to finally make it live—and all the past versions too.

There's a few caveats, really just one. Most of the heading types are scuffed for different categories, like my impressions on each anime. Some aren't highlighted strongly as they should be(Example: Busamen on this page), so I imagine it may be hard for reader's eyes to gravitate to them.

It's not a big deal. It's not like I expect anyone to actually be a stalke and read each update. I wish I knew how to make it so you could click on each blog entry to go to them faster, but oh well. It's a lot of skill grinding for no gain, and even if I decided to be a bloomer and get into coding I'm instantly replaced by clankers and crack coding bunnys, I have no love for coding. I enjoy writing. I can't talk much or talk much in general and when I do I sound stupid, so I kinda like writing instead.

The best part about this new blog layout? I don't have to downsize images as much now. I tried to see how it looks on mobile and it's not too bad. They may remain the same size so who knows.

Beside the blog layout, I also readjusted the Creative Writing page as well, same author as this one. The main index page will also be changed as soon as the art commission for it is finished. I think it will give the site a really crispy, eye-candy cool vibe to it!

So! The finally of CITY.

it was good. I was caught off so guard and did not expect a musical. I think beside Tutu anime, I don't think I've ever seen a anime that's a musical. It was pretty swell. Just leave it to Kyoani to do something lik this, ever. I'm actually kind of curious to check out the blog entry behind this finale specifically. They really are a treat to read; and they're translated into English, too.

We made good progress in FF11.

There was a part where we were suppose to head into a portal in this one area somewhere, and I completely misread the guides. Sometimes we randomly attack enemies out of the blue, and it summoned a NM in one of the areas. We died... but we could've killed it. But we didn't have a healer and my BF wasn't able to do summons because of the NM. I would've done my 2hr special but I died before it could happen. So it was 200 imp standing down the drain. No Biggie.

We went through the area without attackign anyone and....

We realized there was a whole room of apexs! We tried one more time with sneak and invisbility and died. So we grinded for another hour to get extra insurance on IS. Eventually, I glared at the wiki on my 2nd monitor enough and we didn't even have to go into that corridor area. We had to literally go hard left(I realized this watching 2 different youtube videos on this area).

So we progressed a little past that until we got to a mission where you had to wait a full in-game day (like 30 mins irl since it was 8 something in-game) so we called it there.

We watched the first few episodes of season 4 LOTGH. Jst great stuff. We were kinda joking these episodes are going so much faster with the pacing now.

Until next time. I have at least 2 new commissions I look forward to sharing once they're done! Also I forgot to share it, but the new title of A Game of Cosmic Titans! Now with typography by me. The artist isgie. Incredible artist!

There will be some adjustments to the text tile, namely the 'A Game of', seems the stylistic choice with it didn't fly so well. I hope to have a bigger update next time, coupled with the new main page layout. See you soon! Thanks for reading!

1st October 2025

Oh, no, not me. We never lost control.

I left behind my traumatic 20s. And now I'm 30 as of a week ago. My b-day came and went without issue. 

But man... September is already over. 2025 is nearing its end. What a year. But I like to think this year was kinder to me than other years. At least until after I started taking Ashwagandha. I haven't gotten into confrontations much with my family, but I try to avoid them whenever I can, or maybe they avoid me...

Well, anyway. I've been thinking of updating the site again, but I haven't been able to find a theme I like that suits what I wanted. You may remember I brought up the idea of like a classic windows OS startup with a PS1 splashscreen, but now I can't find the site that actually had this as a convenient Neocities template.

I think I had a new idea for the front page, but there won't be any loading splash screens like I hoped. I'll need to find a layout that doesn't block out half the character's face, actually, there's an upcoming art commission I may use as a front-page banner of sorts, but the commission isn't done yet. I tried on a whim to update a newer blog layout, but it keep stretching the text body so it looked offputting, so I'll stick with this for now.

I got a few new commissions! I think they came out lovely. I'm going to put them on the site somewhere. Here they are!

 

ByOursong

Bywoofycakes

Website design is always extremely overwhelming. I say this sometimes, but I peek over the garden fence to look at other's neocities and I always just feel utterly mogged. There's just so many good sites with awesome designs and stuff and here I am being inaweduate even in my own little carved out hobo corner. If there is one thing I need to also fix, is the floating sidebar on the side, since it also covers half the page on mobile. I imagine most people don't actually browse neocities on their PC, so if they stumble across here the sidebar takes up half the screen... a frustrating shame.

I'll figure it all out, there's no rush or race. It's not like I have anything particularly interesting to share on this anyway, right? Nothing's really gained or loss.

So, the airing anime.

This was honestly just a real strong season overall. Some reviews may be brief, or word salads culminating in just that. I'm starting to think, despite my chronic reading, I'm not all that good at actually doing them. So—

Anime Summer 2025 in Review

Starting it off with Nyaight of the Living Cat. A satire parody of every cheap zombie flick there is—except it's cute cuddly little cats. CGI cats aglore! Ahhhh! But I didn't mind and neither did my boyfriend. We enjoyed it for the slop it was. Apparently, the director and his staff never actually adapted a anime before: They only did live-action stuff, so it was interesting this was this debut. For some reason it teased there being a second season, so who knows? It could be fun.

Busamen Gachi Fighter

What a goofy isekai sloppa. It didn't dare try to break new ground or reinvent the steering wheel. It set out what it wanted to do, follow a uglymug around on his shengaginans. I thought the whole God subplot with the blue haired chick was interesting, but it sort of floundered at the end. Could there be a season 2? I don't think so. The LN, it's original source, is finished and it wasn't too long anyway. Just like with every other slop in existence, it'll be forgotten about by next season. I mean, if you're really, really, hurting for a show to turn off your brain and enjoy for 20 mins, this is one of them.

My Dress-Up Darling Season 2

I enjoyed it a lot. In the end, she couldn't bring herself to say it. But the season was still solid. I can't wait to watch season 3 in [x] years.

CITY

We're never getting a show like this ever again. This truly was a spirtual sequel worthy of Nichijou, and maybe even classic pre-fire Kyonai as a whole. I praised them in the mid-season update for the crazy once-a-generation episode but they just never lost steam.

The staff loved working on this. It shows, truly, geniunely. The director I think, took a habit of documenting basiaclly a week-by-week development of CITY on his blog, or somewhere. I only glanced at the interview he did for that episode and it's just mind-blowing the passion and effort he put into both the show and the interviews. It feels so rare for a studio or staff to actually be thrilled to work on something. And now, it's coming to a bittersweet close. We didn't watch the finale just yet, but no doubt it will be a big one.

And lastly, New Panty and Stocking.

Wow, what a show. Trigger was careful to avoid too much toilet humor and opted more for interactions between the characters, and it was just wonderful. The send-off was heartwarming. They mentioned in a interview the season 1 cliffhanger wasn't real, but they went for it anyway, so we have a reverse where they teased season 3 but likely, it's not going to happen. I don't think it needs a season 3. Trigger works better with their pipeline for making standalone works. 

I'm happy for him. I teared up at the ending. Beautiful send-off.

So that mostly wraps up Summer... we drafted up what we're watching next season:

The shows we're going to give a try. We may not watch all of them.

And for me personally: I'm going to watch One Reddit Man season 3. I didn't bring it up with my bf because I dont' think he was big on it or watched s2.

Speaking of stuff watching by myself: I forgot to mention Yofukashi no Uta Season 2. It was interesting. Did I mention last update about the content warning it had for one of the last few episodes? I think I did. It was good. An antagonist I feel they did right. I've been lazy and haven't watched the final episode yet, but it was a decent season.

So moving on with non-airing anime: I've been going all-in getting through our rewatch of Legend of the Galactic Heroes. We just wrapped up episode 86, the last episode of season 3. It's great to revisit this some 7 years later, and right as I'm writing A Game of Cosmic Titans, too.

For him, it was actually right around the time he stopped watching it; in his words, not that he was bored with it or anything but he had life going on at that time. We both watched it around the same time actually, around 2018 or 2019. I stopped around THAT episode for similiar reasons, but I finished it unlike him. But I feel I wasn't really playing much attention the first watch because there was a time I was invested in the super time-sink game Ymir and would have an episode on while I stared at the turbo slow game.

So... I think that about wraps up August. I've been making big progress on A Game of Cosmic Titans!

Chapter 8–9 proved unexpectedly challenging to write, but I finally managed to knock them out of the ballpark, a proper epilogue of sorts to The Yellow Typhoon and the Final Waltz. I can only truly hope my readers will see it that way too. Chapters 10–11 were actually two of the original chapters for A Game of Cosmic Titans I did a year ago now, right as I was wrapping up my reading of God Emperor, or Heretics. So they were really well-written by my standards, except for the obscene amounts of flowery purple prose. I spent about the last two days slaving away, ensuring they were up to date, consistent, and had good flow with the interconnected chapters. I think I did a splendid job.

All that remains now, is to tackle the mother of all obstacles, the original first chapter of A Game of Cosmic Titans that I first wrote. It's challenging, but with everything behind it nice and tidy, I can do it. And then I have to slightly give chapters 13–14 some glanceovers to ensure theres consistency, and then finally, I can progress with the payoff in chapter 15...

For now, I'm not sure I will post the rest on its actual creative writing page here on my neocities. I may just post the rest on RR.... but I'm not sure yet. I'm not even sure if I will post it on RR at all, I may just try selfpub on KU, but who knows really.

So, writing aside, I haven't started on Oydessy yet, still reading and catching up on web novels. Game-wise...  I've been kinda itching to play a ERE game in EU3 with MEIOU. I did one with Japan last year? And it was a fun experience, but I haven't done an ERE one yet in EU3. Or I'll continue Rome1. Time will tell.

Thanks for reading as always!