I told the pocket friends, so there could be a lizard gif party.

Went to the office, which was full of people including coworker A who is visiting from the UK, ate purple rice wrapped around pork and egg and veggies, went home early so I could do the evening work while Boss K is on vacation.

Read: Pandora Unchained vol 1 (Patrick Laplante): Extremely Westernized cultivation fantasy: mana instead of qi, D&D classes, dungeons are lost temples to the dead Greek gods, etc. Main character is a physician dying from having his cultivation destroyed in an intra-clan spat when he prays to what they have instead of gods now and gets an OP poison-based cultivation path. Intrigue and resource-gathering and assholes and a dungeon labyrinth ensue.

Read: Me and My Beast Boss vol 2 (Shiroinu): Giant terrifying lion boss, human subordinate, corporate intrigue, feelings.

Read: Gokurakugai vol 1 (Yuto Sano): She’s a stoic chain-smoking gunslinger, he’s a young punk with superpowers, they fight anthropophagous undead in a seedy vaguely-Chinese city. The monsters are called “maga”, which pleases me.

Read: Livesuit (James SA Corey): The alien war from The Mercy of Gods seen from the perspective of the main(?) human civilization. Their method of interstellar travel is very unclear except for the time dilation, and in fact a lot of their technology is unclear, but it doesn’t seem like they’re doing a very sensible job of fighting the aliens, or of making supersoldiers. In fact, it seems kind of like their military strategy is to maximize bleakness and futility. Is there an in-world reason for what they’re doing? Shrug emoji.

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