Started Monstrous Regiment. It’s really nice to have Vimes back, even for just one book. I’ll be going through more standalones to break up the Wizards books. Waiting on Pyramids and Small Gods from the library #booksky

Eric was definitely the best Rincewind Discworld book so far. It was short. The setup for the standard Rincewind plot was more fun. The bit with the Aztecs was yikes, but there was also the actually really fun time in French existentialist hell #booksky

So those new raid fights in #FFXIV were really fun, and the music was great We got a butt rock vampire, Blink-182 surfer bros, and Tom Morello writing the WOL’s wrestling intro theme Also in the story, we fought another train, as you do, so that was fun #gaming

The Discworld’s coming fast recently, moving on to Eric. It’s more Rincewind, but at least it’s short. Next one will probably be Pyramids #booksky

Bought a book while Christmas shopping #booksky

So I just had a thought about the Discworld books on my shelf and how it’s actually fine they’re inconsistent editions and sizes, but really that with a series like Discworld, it’s actually better that way because it fits the vibes #booksky

I just heard someone call Expedition 33 the Neon Genesis Evangelion of JRPGs, and… wow that’s startlingly accurate and succinct #gaming

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Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

So I started AI Somnium Files expecting basically another Danganronpa. I was pleasantly surprised to find it feels closer to Ace Attorney. Hopefully the mystery writing is good #gaming

So Sourcery is so far really frustrating about a pretty consistent problem with Discworld. When the playing up stereotypes extends outside of Europe, it really punches down hard. And it’s made worse here because the Wizards books are so light on plot, themes, and characterization #booksky

So in this book I’m reading, they just made a makeshift distillation column using the heat of desert sand to remove the water from urine to supplement their water supply… Points for creativity I guess #booksky

It’s Discworld time again! I hope Rincewind gets more interesting this book than he was in the last two. I’m not expecting Vimes level writing, but… #booksky

I wrote a short story about a week ago, and I’m still really liking the final line, “The internet is dead, and humans have killed it.” The readers seem to like it too, so happy that turned out well #writingcommunity

So that’s $15, hopefully good decisions. Both of these were recommended by friends, so hopefully my friends have good taste #gaming

So I just ran across the take that you’re a class traitor if you ever pay full price for a video game… just…

I have a common criticism of religions in fantasy books (that other people who studied history and religion usually share) that they make too much sense. I don’t have this criticism for Ken Liu’s Dandelion Dynasty. The gods there (based on ancient Chinese deities) feel more real #booksky

So another fun Japanese thing I learned. When you hear someone say “nameru na” or a similar conjugation, it’s usually translated as don’t underestimate me (which is the meaning in context), but the literal translation of the verb 舐める is to lick, so they’re literally saying don’t lick me

In a world where corporations can kill gods, and life is lived through implants, Sophia just wants answers. Answers for her parents’ death, for the voice calling itself god. With the help of strange allies, she seeks to infiltrate the entertainment world to find them #WIPPIT #A #SF #DS

So with the Pokédex now complete in Pokémon Z-A… they need to rework player incentives around trading so badly. Unless you have friends to trade with, it’s actually impossible to get your trade evolutions because the only thing anyone online cares about is shinies #gaming

Starting book 3 of the Dandelion Dynasty by Ken Liu That is definitely the longest dramatis personae I’ve ever seen. It really shows how many characters are involved when your story is retelling history It takes 15 minutes for the audiobook narrator to read a list of major characters #booksky

So genuinely why is Tales of Berseria getting a remaster at this point? It looks the same as the original, and there wasn’t a ton of qol changes the original needed #gaming

All art is political, and my art’s politics are humanism

It ran away before I could take a picture, but there was a squirrel hanging from a post to stretch, and it was really cute

Why is it whenever neurodivergent people talk about their problems that neurotypical people feel entitled to immediately jump in and dismiss them? “Oh we have problems too” shut the fuck up

If anyone was thinking #ADHD was all positives for some reason, I just missed the deadline for the JET program to teach English in Japan next year because rejection sensitivity made me not want to contact teachers I had positive experiences with for letters of recommendation, so I’m stuck in the US

#ADHD has me in a weird space right now where I could theoretically be free of the U.S. for a year, but executive dysfunction and anxiety have me procrastinating emailing professors I got on well with for the required letters of resignation What you want is never really the thing in the way

It’s crazy the pace the New York Times speedran the transition from paper of record to toilet rag

Wrote a bit for the freelance assassin in my cyberpunk story #writingcommunity #writingsnips

Has YouTube been forcing more and longer ads into everything? Because it feels like they have. Watching YouTube on my phone now is just suffering

So I finally started the new Pokémon game. The new battle system is fun, but I don’t love the structure of laddering in the tournament. It makes trainer battles feel like a grind instead of obstacles I hope there are new mons/forms and not just new megas, but please mega flygon, exist #gaming

Lovely to get good news for once

So next on the reading list while I wait for the library to give me the next Discworld book is Promise of Blood by Brian McClellan. My fantasy writing ideas tend to fall into settings with guns, so it seemed like a good idea to read. First 2 chapters give me FF Tactics vibes #booksky

Finished the last ending of Silent Hill f. Lost in the fog difficulty was a mistake, but that was a really cool final boss tying together really strong character arcs for a really satisfying conclusion. Definitely my game of the year. Ryukishi07 has done it again #gaming

So it’s been a bit since I finished The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, but this bit won’t leave my head #booksky

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Only 2 endings left in Silent Hill f, and I think I saved the good ones for last. I think it’s safe to call this my game of the year at this point #gaming

I think an underrated bit of writing advice is museums are amazing for inspiration. Every time I go to one, I leave with new ideas I might get to eventually #writingcommunity

The absolute insanity talking to older family where they’re all like “well I can retire without learning AI, but you need to learn it or you have no chance in the workplace” As someone whose degree was in history, their lack of understanding of both basic research and the plagiarism machine… fuck

Having finished Final Fantasy Tactics in time, I do in a way get to play Silent Hill f as a Halloween game with 4 endings left to do in ng+ #gaming

So I finished Final Fantasy Tactics… is it a hot take to say the Final Fantasy story kinda got in the way of the class struggle story? I liked the story, but the lucavi part didn’t do a lot for me #gaming

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Quote with 2 female video game characters you like Well damn, guess I can’t choose Zelda… so

Ok Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green might be the most powerful book I’ve read this year #booksky

Finished Leviathan Falls. I never thought the Expanse was an amazing series, but this last book was terrible. The last three books really drag it down, and the final book is easily the worst in the series Well… onto the next book on my list, Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green #booksky

Everyone should get to see themself in fiction. But I often can't find as much neurodiverse rep as I'd like, especially in SFF. So for ADHD Awareness Month, I've gathered 22 mainly ADHD authors & their fantasy/ other books with main/significant ADHD chars in this bundle 🪐📚💙 itch.io/b/3300/adhd-...

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There’s something surreal about doom scrolling social media news in 3 languages at once