Tag: ancient magus bride

I need to get some paper bags to put books into for taking to the used book store. Maybe Marith can steal some for me.

Lying with my head on a pillow kind of worked for sleeping, but not very well. I had to take the morning off to recuperate, but my upper torso is feeling a lot better, so I was able to actually do so, and then work in the afternoon. Also, none of us have to stay late on Fridays any more under the new system.

Watched: The Ancient Magus’ Bride 2.24: A little bit of climax, mostly denouement (spellcheck thinks I got that word right on the first try, go me). This is where the latest English volume of the manga ends, so we’re completely in sync and left waiting for more to be translated.

Read: The Witches’ Marriage vol 3 (Studio Headline): Surprisingly, the end! The challenges Melissa and Tanya face in this volume are the Final Trials, and to nobody’s surprise they manage to open the gates by acknowledging their true feelings and enter paradise.

Written: 134.

Also Atheists Solidarity Day.

I did not go into the office today, which is for the best because I was already very slow and coughing.

Watched: The Ancient Magus’ Bride 2.21-23: Finally we get all the backstory and the villainous plan and Chise being blasé about being in people’s memories, and yet still a cliffhanger.

Written: 150 of editing.

 

Really a pretty swell invention, even though I haven’t used one in ages.

Watched: Helluva Boss 2.7½: The Sally Mae-visits-Millie special. A bit of the old ultra-violence.

Watched: Helluva Boss 2.8: Marith is right, the fic writers already watched this episode 377 times in simulation and knew how it was going to go, but that didn’t make it less painful. And Blitz was almost a functional adult for some parts of the episode! (Loona, as usual, was secretly MVP.)

Watched: The Ancient Magus’ Bride 2.17-18: All the pieces of the doom are converging!

Written: 132.

Two great observances that go great together!

Watched: The Ancient Magus’ Bride 2.15-17: That actually seems pretty tame for a bunch of teenagers locked up for weeks on end.

Read: The Ancient Magus’ Bride vol 17 (Kore Yamazaki): Now I’m ahead of where we are in the anime, and yikes!

Written: 268. Am I drawing this scene out too much? Am I summarizing the wrong parts? Am I just an extremely bad writer?

Your private-equity flower bulbs will not save you from the most cursed of all days!

It is also Frog Jumping Day, and D&D needs way more secret frog magic and way fewer 1st-level wizards with the exact same carefully focus-grouped spells as other 1st-level wizards.

Watched: The Ancient Magus’ Bride 2.13-14: Creepy alchemists, creepy alchemy, monster-murdering class.

Written: 300 exactly.

I, myself, drank one or more beverages today!

Also I did a work or something. Whatever.

Watched: The Ancient Magus’ Bride 2.10-12: So many sketchy people (and things) acting sus! Okay, I guess attempted murder isn’t exactly sus, they were very clear on that.

Read: The Ancient Magus’ Bride vol 4 (Kore Yamazaki): Yay, more dragons!

Written: 161. Second drafts are the worst.

I feel like my youth has a slightly higher number than it did on Tuesday, oddly enough.

Did some capitalism, although as usual after two days in a row of going to the office I was not that swift.

Watched: The Ancient Magus’ Bride 2.5-6: More personal drama, of students Chise already knows and ones that are new to her, but so far it has not bubbled over into violence in the halls. Snakes are friends!

Read: “The Chatbot and the Drone” (Geoffrey A Landis): What it says on the tin!

Written: Finally decided that even though my outline isn’t done, the last line is “need better plan” and I can revisit that once I’ve gotten the characters up to that point for real. 275 words of actual text.

A very good day, should come around more often.

I feel like I should say more about work, but… it’s just work. Whatever.

Read: Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou omnibus 3 (Hitoshi Ashinano): Alpha goes for a walk around Japan, because what’s a year when civilization is fading away and you’re an immortal(?) robot? The leftovers of the past seem a little inconsistent, but then that’s what you might expect from a handful of random leftovers.

Read: Sheep Princess in Wolf’s Clothing vol 1 (Mito): Wolf-lady butler discovers that the beautiful sheep-girl princess she serves is smitten with her. Gay hijinks ensue.

Watched: The Ancient Magus’ Bride 2.1-4: Chise goes to magic school, and Elias signs on as a teacher so she won’t be unguarded. So far pretty much the same as the College arc in the manga, but I’m having a slightly easier time keeping track of the new characters. Bug-nurse is even more disturbing in color.

Written: 140 of planning. This seems like a final confrontation, but I don’t see how it can be resolved in a satisfying way. Maybe it’s only the confrontation where it becomes clear that things cannot be resolved peaceably.