recap nov 2022

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serials: i watched a little more of gentleman jack, but this month i mostly rediscovered anime. my brain was too dead to watch 60 minutes long episodes but it was fresh enough to read subtitles, i guess!

• boku no hero academia s5-s6: its been years since i watched the first seasons of bnha and i forgot how much of a good time it is. i love these goddamn kids and the adult characters are compelling too. special mention to the movies futari no hero - a lot of all might goodness - and world heroes' mission - these kids were put through the grinder, man, and the new character is adorable.
• blue lock: i keep saying that i don't love spokons and i don't like soccer, but people are watching this and i was curious. it's strangely compelling. the premise isn't the usual stuff. i'm curious to see where it's going.
• chainsaw man: about the anime, studio mappa is always insane and on the flex and we love them for it. the storytelling is tight and the story is fresh. im trying to be normal about it bc when i'll talk about the manga i won't.

games: it was finally time to say goodbye to hades, i played it as much as i could until it turned unfun. i managed to reunite achilles and patroclus so im satisfied. i finally started playing dishonored and as much as im finding the general mood interesting and engaging, i suck so hard at this, you guys. im currently on like, six hours of gameplay and i haven't managed to clear the first mission past the intro. it's bad. shout out to overwatch 2 who is back to owning my ass. i cannot lie, i missed these guys. im not honestly finding much of a difference with the old one, beside the 5-people team and the fact that the battlepass is meh. looking forward to the new character, ramratta. i still love omnics so much.

reading: i only read two books this months, but they were very nice in different ways. pyre at the eyreholme trust is a novella about magic and alternate roaring twenties, with a male on genderfluid romance. dirk gently's holistic detective agency was a struggle for the first half, but by the end i was reminded of what i really loved about the show so im glad. special mention to the webcomic cosmoknights, that was described to me like "same assignment as the locked tomb but different execution" and well, they're not entirely wrong: fighting the system, swords, lesbians. a rude butch with a golden heart. it tracks. and now, for the manga parenthesis.

• boku no hero academia 231-374: holy fucking shit? i got distracted a hot minute there and everything has been happening while i wasn't looking. we're currently in the middle of the final battle and im distraught about a million things--and i must say that following the anime even knowing what its going to happen is a million times worse to see it in motion.
• chainsaw man 001-112: mask off. i won't ever be normal about this. i don't want to spoiler anything but also what the fuck. what the fuck. it's one of the cruelest, rawest things i've ever read, but the continuous, shocking tone shifts also make it one of the stupidest, most ridiculous things i've ever seen.

WRITING

i haven't written much this month, only a couple thousand words of rewriting for the fisting fun with eskel thing i've been dragging around for a couple years now -- but i am starting poking around at my viper witcher oc's backstory. and i've written two book reviews and for the first time im managing to consistently journal every single day. i never really counted it as writing but i should. somehow.

ART+CRAFT

finally finished the poofy shirt project! it took me months but it's finally done. i was much quicker than i thought, in the past week. goes to show that if i put my mind to it and stop panicking i can make stuff... a big help was discovering that i can sew after the sun goes down with a good enough lamp. it sounds stupid but my little brain was blown away. im going to have to think about stuff for the next month... and year. i have plans for a capsule wardrobe and maybe even cosplay?