serials: more anime! kept following bnha s6, chainsaw man and blue lock as they came out. it's been years since i watched anime while they were airing. tried to do a bit of the community thing but i was too distracted with the end of the year review thingies to be consistent about it. in the last days a friend started making me watch library wars, which was a very good time. since i had a bunch of shit to sew (more news about that further on) i finally finished gentleman jack (i keep not giving a fuck about coal but she's the worst troublemaker), love, death + robots (meh. technically very good but the stories are underwhelming) and what we do in the shadows (just one season in but i'm having a great time)

games: i bought a bunch of stuff taking advantage of the winter sales on steam! townscaper is the cutest shit. im still not touching dishonored, and wasted a lot of time on overwatch 2 once again. ramrattra is still so far away T_T

reading: finished raven boys but got stuck on dream thieves - which is outrageous, it's the ronan book! i should be dying to read this! but i've struggled with Just Words. can't say the same with comics -- i re-discovered some old BL titles ive been reading on lezhin, some trashier than others lmao. my 2023 is looking fun.

• i finally finished my re-read of the locked tomb! i took a bunch of notes about stuff that i want to rotate my brain before next year, before alecto comes out, and i have more questions than ever haha. i finally read the captive prince trilogy, after hearing so much about it, but i can't say i was very much impressed with it. i loved a few scenes but for the most part it wasn't much my thing. i started reading a new trilogy about lesbians called when women were warriors that i was recced by a friend-- i didn't think i was going to like it, because it's in first person and it's not much my genre, but i'm having a great time with it. there's something extremely comforting about the style of narration, and im growing attached to the characters. i only need to finish the third book-- i'll write an update next month.
• didn't watch any movie at all beside rewatching the intern with my dad, lmao. it's always a good one, i love anne hathaway.
• i also didn't watch serials. i started gentleman jack s2 but to be honest i don't care much about the actual plot. i live for anne's looks into the camera though...
• this month i played a lot of games! a blast from the past with overwatch 2: the gameplay is more or less the same as the old one, and it's still pretty fun, but i ended up uninstalling it almost right away. i might re-install it next month bc i have friends who want to play together, though. also, i played ac: revelations: i'm gonna miss ezio a lot, i had loads of fun. i struggled a bit with getting used to Costantinople, but i ended up growing attached to the assassins recruited in the city. i was discouraged to play ac3 so i will see desmond's demise on youtube. next was hades: i never finished the main story, so i did that--and then i started with the sidequests. i finally managed to win thanatos' heart haha. i should've started dishonored but it annoyed me leaving the other game unfinished. i also rediscovered roleplay games: online, i got back to fallen london, with my old account and with a brand new one; offline, i started exploring the world of solo-rpgs, starting with in pitch we're preserved, a game about surviving after a weird apocalypse made of tar. it was a weird experience, i feel like it taught me something about religion and magical thinking and my relationship with material objects. i enjoyed it a lot.

• manage to put together the poofy shirt! but it's not done yet, i need to backstitch all the seams, and then finish them, and then do the buttons... i hoped to finish by the end of the month but i spent most of my afternoons sleeping.
• i didn't do much drawing, but for the first time in forever i did my nails! i made one mani inspired by the sixth house and one more generally inspired to the whole trilogy. i had to cut my nails at some point, but i definitely reached a record in lenght haha.

• the new season of helluvaboss is here! excited about the angst, absolutely heartbroken about the childhood trauma. can't wait to see what's next. the boys s3 was the usual mindbending good time, even if i didn't appreciate how much gorier it was in comparison to the other seasons. heartstopper was cute but it didn't quite hit the spot. i find i struggle with highschool romances lately. i need to chew harder stuff. but please let me tell you how much i fucking loved dirk gently's holistic detective agency! ive getting into puzzle-like media lately and i've missed putting together the pieces so much. i really had an amazing time and the characters are all the best.
• i finally started playing assassin's creed: brotherhood; i think it's the first time i play games where i get to play the same character twice in a row and i was so happy to see ezio again. poor guy, he was so happy to back home and then things went to shit so quickly again lmao. anyway, i'm struggling a little with the storyline but now i got to leonardo again so everything is better haha. friend got me a controller: i'm curious to see if im going to have an easier time with it.
• i read so much this month: i read basically anything by becky chambers i could put my hands on. it's a kind of slice-of-life sci fi that i really appreciate. i really like her writing and the themes she treats in her books. i finally cut my teeth on the locked tomb and now i'm waiting for nona the ninth like everyone else. i knew i was going to like it, which is why i waited so long to read it, but im glad i waited for the right moment. im now full heartedly obsessed with it and gleefully free to do it.

• finally watched venom 2! it was a lot of fun. i usually watch movies in their original audio, but this time the italian dub did an amazing work on the delivery of a certain line lmao. i also watched red notice one night when i was bored, and i didn't dislike it (i liked the twist at the end) but i feel like action movies lately have issues with the pacing of the action sequences. they're too long! the chase and the fight are supposed to give you adrenaline, not "ugh okay tell me when it's over" vibes!
• i've been chewing through the first few seasons of community and im really liking it. a bit relieved i didn't watch it too soon bc i would've absorbed abed's personality wholesale and that would've been an issue. i also watched stranger things vol.2 and well. im gonna have to watch s5 just to be properly disappointed about will's storyline, i guess. im a bit shocked with their decisions for eddie's storyline and it just cemented my suspicions about him being another flavor of billy. questionable choices! i genuinely don't care enough about the rest to be disappointed about it haha but will. dammit.
• im really behind with my goodreads challenge. we finished the simon snow trilogy with anyway the wind blows; my fave book is still the second installment, but it was a good ending and a satisfying read. next for the book club was small gods: i struggled a bit with tpratchett's writing this time for whatever reason, but the book itself was really good and full of little smart things that i enjoyed. a masterclass in reflections about heavy topic but done with good faith and in an entertaining way.
• i finally played disco elysium and well. im heavily compromised. i expected to enjoy it but i didn't expect to find it so interesting! and i absolute would kill and die for kim kitsuragi (like most of the fandom anyway, i know im not special)(im not quite thinking about writing fic for it but, i have a few ideas...)

lots of catching up, this month. this is us s5, which was long overdue lmao. as usual i enjoyed it very much, i think it's the only drama i can stand. dialogue and storytelling is always strong and it never fails to make you shit bricks on the finale. brooklyn nine-nine s8 was another thing that i kept putting off bc i didn't want it to be over. they picked a good time to end it, i think. you can't keep dragging a thing forever, and eight seasons is still a pretty long time. they stopped before it could turn bad and they did it well (winking a little at current times issues. good for them). our flag means death, obviously, bc everyone and their mothers has been talking and giffing and fanarting about it. i enjoyed it very much and it would be silly of me to deny how good it is, but my brain is still wholeheartedly devoted to my other blorbos so it hasn't clicked with me entirely. i thought i was going to be insane about jim but the magic wasn't entirely there (i do love vico ortiz though. call me). if i had to nominate a blorbo from this show (besides ed, who is basically default) i would pick lucius i think. yeah yeah i know. predictable.

in conclusion, bookclub time: we finished magnus chase, which ended on a strong, lovely note, and i finally dug my teeth in my first terry pratchett, pyramids. the general mood was 'what the fuck did i just read' but in the most positive way you could think of. the amount of layers of humour and commentary is astonishing.

on the other hand, i posted a few fics that i wrote during february and march that just needed a bit of formatting:

• a million stars away, a tiny reflective piece about my dnd blorbo and their half-orc boyfriend.
• drought, an old-ass short piece about jaskier being (spoiler) angsty on the beach.
• about those definitions, the royed where they're both suicidal and alcoholic that was missing the ending.
• through the cracks, about jesper touching himself while he thinks of kaz. set in a nebulous canon between the tv show and the books, bc of course.