Weekly writing progress:
I've edited 2 more chapters at the time of writing this. Not a fast pace, but a steady one. The one POV I'm having to revamp is taking quite a bit of extra time. One of my editing sessions was literally two hours working on one page worth of writing. I'm happy with where it ended up, but hot damn did it take a while.
Anyway...
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What I've been up to:
TV
We finished Dead Boy Detectives and guys... the show is so fun. Amazing cast, fun hijinks, excellent humor, a giant spider made out of baby dolls that rips people to shreds. The show has it all.
Delicious in Dungeon is charming and funny in a cute AND macabre sort of way. I'm still enjoying it very much. The party just had to skin frogs and wear the skin to get through some paralyzing vines, and obviously they also ate the frogs. Pretty sure my favorite character is Senshi, his "always down" attitude coupled with his cooking montages and extreme satisfaction with every dish he makes... he's just lovable.
We started X-Men '97 and WOW. That's all I have to say is WOW. It's ridiculously good. The animation style is a reference to 90's cartoons but still updated enough so the action looks better. The storylines are whiplash inducing with their pace, but somehow still find enough moments to get me invested in the characters. I can't say enough good things about it. Watch it. That is all.
Books
*celebratory fireworks* I have finished The Lord of Chaos - As with all of the Wheel of Time books so far, I've really liked it, but I didn't love it. There is something very comfortable about sitting in a world that's so thoroughly thought through. The action sequences for this one were genuinely quite good. Robert Jordan seems to have gotten better at those with time. I'm going to take a break from the series while I read a few books on my TBR, but I'll likely be back at it again in a couple months.
This is How You Lose the Time War is my current read. It's short and I'm a little under halfway through at the time of writing this. I'm sure I'll finish it this weekend. So far it has been phenomenal. The writing is aspirational, the setting and plot are ambitious, and it has some of the most unique and inventive ideas I've ever seen in a book (a letter written in a cipher decoded through age rings in a grove of trees, who thinks of that!?) - This book is hitting me like lightning. I think it may have something to do with coming directly off a Wheel of Time novel with extreme character bloat and directly into a hyper focused, dual-POV book that is only concerned with two people, but that's selling it short. The book is amazing and I love it. I know I'm going to love it even more by the time I finish.
Games
I've played a lot of Granblue Fantasy: Relink in the last week, and it's got its hooks in me. The combat is so smooth and satisfying, and every character has unique mechanics. It's just a ton of fun.
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