Tag: case study of vanitas

Read: The Night Raven (Sarah Painter): Outlying daughter of one of the four magical crime families of London comes back to wait out fallout from her non-magic-crime job in Scotland and gets sucked right back in with missing cousins and horrible uncles and ghosts and hit men and hot detectives.

Read: Days of Love at Seagull Villa vol 3 (Kodama Naoko): Sorry, [character], you had literally years to ask [other character] out, but all you did was neg her and pretend to be straight, so now you’re stuck with a dumb boy while [other character] gets all the girlsmooches. The end!

Watched: The Case Study of Vanitas 7-10: Lots of backstory, more eccentric characters, and a final, season-ending, terrible reveal. Also vampire bites, which seem to count somewhere between kissing and sex.

Words: FAIL.

Eaten: Balsamic salmon and broccoli, balsamic tomatoes and mozzarella.

Watched: The Case Study of Vanitas 4-6: Who this Domi person is, Noé’s tragic past, and the curse-bringers step up their offensive.

Read: Embers of War (Gareth L Powell): In the aftermath of an interstellar war, veterans (human, AI, and alien) in basically the French Foreign Search & Rescue have to deal with their pasts, the fallout of the past conflict, and the assholes who are happy to start new wars. The ending looks pretty good for all except the last category, but this is apparently the first of a trilogy, so I’m guessing it’s not as great as it looks.

Read: Darling (K Ancrum): A reimagining of Peter Pan, in the modern day and a completely different genre. I think it’s well done, but like all reimaginings, how you like it depends on how attached you are to the original, and I’m not very.

Words: FAIL, but I am getting a lot closer to being able to publish past words!

Friday the 13th? Maybe that’s why my brain is completely nonfunctional today. But Marith came over bearing tomato chicken and broccoli, that’s definitely auspicious.

HR says no change to coming in to the office and putting on a mask three days a week. Fuck the yacht-owning classes.

Watched: Avatar the Last Airbender 3.18-21: The end! Sozin’s Comet, Ozai, Azula, everything! Between Azula and Toph, why hasn’t Jus seen this?

Watched:The Case Study of Vanitas 3: This show is not short of things happening, both murders and smooches, only short of explanations! And apparently next episode is where it starts getting weird.

Read: The Maleficent Seven (Cameron Johnston): Seven extremely high-level fantasy villains (demonologist, necromancer, pirate queen, vampire lord, etc) are drawn back together decades after parting on bad terms to defend a small village against vile monotheists. Plots, plans, schemes, sacrifice, and murder on a massive scale ensue.

Words: FAIL. See above re: brain or lack thereof. But I’m on call all of tomorrow so maybe I’ll sit home and write edit?

Marith brought over pork chops and vegetables and garlic bread and it was all much better than anything I’ve been eating for the past however long.

Watched: Avatar: The Last Airbender 3.16-17: Katara’s field trip with Zuko, and the Ember Island Players

Watched: The Case Study of Vanitas 2: The vampire establishment doesn’t believe in the book, so now the odd couple are on a quest to save the maiden they already saved.

Read: Curses (Lish McBride): Starts as gender-swapped magitech-Victorian Beauty and the Beast, but then con artists and support groups and intrigue and terrible parents and daring raids. I quite liked it even though the main romance is het.

Read: Awkward and Brave (Svetlana Chmakova): Middle-school slice of life about friendship and courage and bullying and teamwork and competition and awkwardness and unnecessary STEM-humanities conflict and sunspots. I really liked it even though (or perhaps because) the digression I got started on during the writing challenge this spring and still haven’t finished editing is also about 8th-graders but is um not as realistic.

Words: check.

Jus’s virtual Shakespeare Camp presented their abridged video of the subplot of Twelfth Night (there are only four of them!), which was extremely cute. Jus played two characters who were distinct (Maria and Olivia), and Malvolio was thoroughly pranked.

After that, I went to a medical facility to have my thyroid ultrasonicated, which involved lying down in a warm, dark room and therefore almost put me to sleep. Later I will find out if my thyroid is mutating uncontrollably.

Watched: Avatar the Last Airbender 3.13-14: Prison break episodes!

Watched: The Case Study of Vanitas 1: Vampires, top hats, airships, mysterious maladies, extreme smugness.

Words: Check.