You can do it, young writers! Don’t listen to the haters! Especially not if the hater is you!

Went to the office, ate a barbecue, did a work. Got an urgent customer call at the end of the day, but was able to make the customer happy by quitting time.

Read: Sheeply Horned Witch Romi vol 1 (Yoichi Abe): Rereading, because I tried to start vol 2 and had no idea what was going on. Depressed high-school girl gets the power to reshape the world into the metaphor of her psyche, the only person who isn’t in a coma is the boy she likes, at the end she’s entering a new instar or something. Right!

Read: Dai Dark vol 1 (Q Hayashida): There’s a teenaged kid in a wacky grim space setting full of disgustingly organic tech and necromancy, he has a skeletal life-support back, everyone is hunting him because they think his bones will grant any wish, ultra-violent space hijinks ensue.

Read: Raven’s Flag (Glynn Stewart): Number 6(?) in the series about trying to put together the remains of the alien empire that was just overthrown, starting a new arc where aliens from far across the old empire have come to ask humanity for help because they are getting their asses handed to them by mysterious attackers.

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