Tag: kipo and the age of wonderbeasts

It is now very unlikely to get any darker! Could still get a lot rainier, though.

I did make it into the office today, and it was not a lot less crowded than usual. I probably should have skipped the potato salad that came with my cow meat sandwich.

Read: The Girl I Want Is So Handsome! (Yuama): Complete fluff, a cute 1st-year meets a handsome and athletic and stacked 2nd-year and they fall head-over-heels for each other. The only real conflict is “she couldn’t like me that way, it must just be friendship” and even that doesn’t stand in the way very long. Complete in one omnibus of about two tankobon.

Read: Kiss the Scars of the Girls vol 1 (Aya Haruhana): When each vampire girl at Secret Vampire Girl School turns fourteen, she’s assigned an older vampire girl to mentor her in learning all kinds of important things, like how to feed on humans without getting murdered. They don’t seem to be very good at it, even when lesbian drama isn’t getting in the way.

Read: to ask about loyalty (tasara_bokka): Vorkosigan Saga fic, allegedly canon-compliant but a different perspective on Miles and Ekaterin’s wedding. I liked it fine, but probably would have appreciated it even more if I remembered all the books better.

Watched: Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts 3.7-10: The triumphant conclusion, after struggling with principles and also with giant monsters. Random character: “Who would even come up with a plan like that?” Main cast, in unison, “Kipo.”

Watched: Bee and Puppycat: Lazy in Space 1: A young woman who has been fired from every job on her mysterious island encounters a strange creature that gets her temp jobs on Walkr planets. It is more surreal and has a chiller aesthetic than Steven Universe, but reminds me a little.

Written: FAIL, although I did scribble some notes of things that need to be revealed in one project. That’s not quite a plot, since the MC should also have personal development or something, but it’s stuff that would go in an outline.

Crap, they’re ganging up on us!

I meant to go to the office today, but slept poorly and when I woke up it was just not happening. I hope somebody ate my lunch and it didn’t go to waste. Apparently yesterday the office was pretty deserted as people go on holiday, and I can’t imagine today would have been any better, but it would have showed willing or something.

Read: Jack of Hearts (and other parts) (LC Rosen): A high-school boy who sleeps around a lot gets talked into writing a sex advice column for the totally-not-a-student-newspaper and also gets stalked and blackmailed. Definitely the sluttiest and probably the least romantic YA protagonist I have seen, but also one of the more stressed and traumatized ones.

Watched: Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts 3.4-6: Humans kind of ruin everything, don’t they?

Written: Caught up on journal, which is still FAIL.

Unfortunately I am incapable of doing any cooking, but I hope people who don’t suck have many delicious cookies today!

The power went out in the afternoon, taking local cellular with it. I walked up the street a kilometer or so and found a gas station that had both power and open wifi so I could tell work what happened, but it was raining so I went home and bibbled uselessly until the power came back. Fortunately there was not a lot of work.

Watched: Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts 3.1-3: Human-level intelligence apparently includes human inability to cooperate even in the face of extreme danger.

Written: Even more FAIL. Are you maybe getting the idea that I suck?

I like maple syrup, but pretty sure the arm widget doesn’t.

Today’s major event: I thought about going to the other chicken tenders place before grocery shopping, but it was rainy and I remembered their outdoor seating as being uncovered, so I went to the regular place and ended up not sitting outside anyway. So excitement. Much decision. Wow.

I got packages, but they were mostly boring household stuff. Some of them might be presents. Or not.

Watched: Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts 2.5-10: Just because they found another problem doesn’t mean the first problem didn’t need resolving. I’m pretty sure that’s not how that death trap works, though.

Written: Continued , unending FAIL.

 

Darn, I’ve run out of chocolate-covered chocolate.

Somehow I got up and did things today. Not sure how that happened, but here we are, with fresh produce and bao and flu antigens and the return of anime night and everything.

Watched: Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts 2.3-4: Looking for Kipo’s backstory, but getting Wolf’s along the way.

Watched: Sacrificial Princess & The King of Beasts 1-4: Our first show for revived anime night! It’s pretty fluffy, with hardly any humans being devoured on screen, and so far the princess is only being compassionate, not getting into administration like rumor has it she will. It’s a full season, though, so we have plenty of time yet. Probably not enough for the cat princess to redeem herself, though.

Read: My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom vol 8 (Satoru Yamaguchi, Nami Hidaka): More of the same, including a flashback to Katarina’s earlier teen years when other girls were just as unable to deal with her. Apparently next volume they graduate and get jobs, but I can’t imagine it will change Katarina at all.

Written: FAIL.

A good day for Ayse.

This new transit route has worked correctly three times in a row, and only requires getting up ten minutes earlier than the defective route, so I guess I’ll stick with it.

Office lunch was salad with pulled pork, which the arm widget liked much better.

Read: Magical Girl Incident vol 2 (Zero Akabane): As per usual, the explanations given to the MC are woefully incomplete, but at least he knows he isn’t the only one (even if the rest of them are a bunch of loons).

Not Read: Mob Psycho 100 vol 1 (ONE): I liked the anime, but I couldn’t get into the manga. The art style is weird, and I don’t know.

Watched: Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts 1.10-2.2: Kipo and her ever-growing assortment of friends (apparently the favored stat for humans is Charisma) solved the problem they thought they had, which resulted in a much worse problem.

Written: FAIL.

 

Boo, office. Apparently the local COVID admissions are still green, though, so the CDC does not recommend that everybody else in the office mask. Arm widget said my fried chicken sandwich lunch was No Good, I guess it’s okay that all the breakfast carbs were for the capitalist oppressors.

Read: The Skull Dragon’s Precious Daughter vol 1 (Ichi Yukishiro): An elderly dragon adopts a discarded human girl, but finds that even death cannot release him from his parental duties. I’m not sure about the role models that are being provided for this poor girl!

Read: Magical Girl Incident vol 1 (Zero Akabane): An office worker encounters a monster and in a fit of heroism transforms into a bona fide magical girl. WTFery ensues, but there is apparently some rhyme or reason to what’s going on. Not clear why the coworker has such disturbing resources.

Watched: Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts 1.7-9: Almost to the end of the first season, and of course the problem Kipo thought she had is not the real problem.

Written: FAIL.

These cats are very insistent that they are entitled to three gooshy meals a day and a minimum of eight hours of snuggles!

Played: Librarians Errant. The team’s first assignment this session is tracking down the entrepreneur jerk who tried to hoard all copies of an important textbook. This requires beating up her little gang of  undergrad goons, but Thaïs gets to use a second-level spell and anyway the opposition are kind of wimpy. Only Flint gets beat up much before the team returns to the library in triumph. The next day, as they sort books, the library is invaded by bullywugs looking for volume one of the magical series! Every librarian is mobilized, and the team is set guarding a door deep in the lower lower stacks. Bullywugs come from the sewers, so this is not as pointless as it might seem, but it’s still a surprise when a  very senior librarian appears, chased by bullywugs and fire-breathing giant toads. She is definitely authorized, and also the shelves of archaic legal tomes are now on fire, so the team piles through the door after her and tries to lead the bullies off in a different direction through the maze of even more obscure (and now burning) stacks. Then they find the opening to the Elemental Plane of Books, or something, and the magic card catalog. Thaïs was already looking for books on shoggoth-banishing, so she makes a catalog card for it, and everybody follows the card across the walkway of flying books to the book island. The book on the podium tries to bite Thaïs’s hand off, so she zaps it, and we break as the other books flap to attack.

Watched: Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts 4-6: A master villain! Mysterious powers! Metalheads! The shortest romance subplot ever! Probably for the best, as Kipo is way younger than I thought.

Written: FAIL.

Tried to see The Marvels, but there were only two showings a day and neither of them convenient, so I just bought some groceries and went home.

Watched: Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts 1-3: A human girl from a postapocalyptic underground enclave is trapped on the surface where everything is mutated and weird and has picked up random scraps of human culture. Fortunately she falls in with some other humans who are willing to help her find her people, although they don’t like the way she tries to make friends with everything. It’s not up to the level of Steven Universe or She-Ra but it’s pretty entertaining.

Written: FAIL.