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Bit of everything...

The Other World's Books Depend on the Bean Counter 1 (Kazuki Irodori/Yatsuki Wakatsu/Kikka Ohashi) - manga, read before and why I ended up getting the novels. I still have the last novel to finish (or, probably, a re-read of the whole series; it's only three books) and then maybe I'll get back to picking up the manga? BL isekai-gone-wrong series, does start off rather dubious.

Land of the Blindfolded 1-9 (Sakura Tsukuba) - from the box of manga I dragged home to read last November and then, uh, just put in the stacks. This is some vintage shoujo where the leads have supernatural powers. (In this case, being able to see the future/past at times.) A nice romance, and all the side bits with the puppy and turtle are cute. I'm debating keeping this one; I suppose I have a month to decide.

Disgaea 1-3 DVDs - the Disgaea anime is okay. It's certainly an adaptation, and it's enjoyable on its own but it also has moments perpendicular to the game but... (It kinda makes me want to replay the game, really?) I think this was out, originally, because my mother had wanted to watch it back before she decided she did not actually like the Prinny plush she'd adored for more than a decade. Anyway, she also did not like the anime and I suspect that was the beginning of the end for the plush, which I rescued.)

The Perilous Void (Jason Lutes/Keny Widjaja) - this is a TTRPG book to use for generating basically everything you need for Space Adventures. It's a joy to even skim through. I don't really have a dedicated tabletop shelf right now (or shelves, at this point) and need to rectify that somehow.

Mobile Suit Gundam Movie Trilogy - I think this was out because the boycritter isn't actually familiar with much Gundam/Universal Century.

Try Knights - I bounced off this the first time but enjoyed it on try no. 2 (lol). This is a sports anime about rugby, which I have no knowledge of and the series expects that of its audience and does its best to teach along the way. (I cannot say I understand much more, but-) Lots of pretty boys, lots of ship bait.

A pile of keepers this time (and debating for a bit on Land of the Blindfolded), surprisingly.

Still thinking about Astray stuff, and how timeline constraints but an apparent demand for more canon are probably what sent the series down repeated and increasing stupid paths. (And how it has spent a decade and a half constantly kicking one of the best characters and making sure she stays down.) Still didn't need an entire series written with the author's hand down his pants.

(It does, however, make me feel a bit better about my own writing.)

((But Kalloway, you like a lot of incredibly racy stuff- Sure do! And I support every author's right to write with their hand down their pants but it can still also be not what I want/I can still hate it in a long-running series that's been mostly tame otherwise.))

Weekend is going to be all over the place, rather literally. I'm not quite sure what I'll manage other than clawing my way through, but that's okay. (I'm picking up an overtime dayshift in the middle, so some of it is 100% on me. Actually everything is about 80% on me. And that's also fine.)

Apparently it had been more than four years since the last time my father and I meaningfully settled our accounts with one another. I suspect I hadn't pushed for it because I thought I was heavily in debt. Four years covers an entire hot water heater, kitchen cabinet, tablet, and various other gribblies. But in the end, I had started off ahead and ended up still ahead though by about half. I definitely need to pick out some more things to go on eBay, though.

At some point I'll make more Accidental Advent posts. It's been about five weeks now and I can honestly say this is one of my better ideas! I drifted away from the shelf of floppy comics and have been working through piles on the mounded desk in my bedroom but it needs attention more so this is a feature not a bug! Anyway, I have definitely been reading and watching a lot of stuff that I wasn't getting to otherwise and honestly, I think I've been shuffling a third or so to the sale box. (Percentages may change as I go, but at least I'll know what I have even if it's all keepers?)

Built MG Astray Blue Frame D, though she needs a few stickers before I declare her actually done. Built an EG Strike that I found while straightening up, and then built an HG Dagger because of a conversation on discord. The Dagger was a nice build, the EG was good, and Blue Frame was sure a build. ^^;; And this morning built an easier-than-it-looked brick kit called Keiji that M got me about 200 years ago. IDK if it counts as Accidental Advent or just normal backlog clearing, hmm. (It's honestly me avoiding the Throne Zwei and its incredibly poor color separation, more likely.)

Overnight I noticed that the one blog doing the Astray 'translations' (despite claiming to be translations with multiple editors, they are clearly just MTL and have a shitton of errors like basic name and term mistakes) had some chapters of Destiny Astray B up and since I apparently don't know when to stop touching the electric cupcake, read through them. And seriously, I feel gross for having done it. Seriously, they're gross. Where VS Astray is just bad fanfic, D Astray B is gross. Like half a chapter over-describing the female performers in a strip-club and that's after repeated descriptions of Elza naked. WHY. This is not what I want in my giant robot stories dammit.

This all started from quietly Lensing a few things in one of the old black-spine Dengeki books. And finding actually interesting material.