Friday, June 21, 2024

Weekly Update 06/21/24

Weekly writing progress: 

2 more chapters edited. This pace is plodding, but it's consistent, so I'm just gonna ride it out. 

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An Eager God preorder is here. The release date is set to July 5th.

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What I've been up to:

TV

Delicious in Dungeon - Like the mccockatrice sandwich off the dollar menu, I'm still lovin' it. 

We finished X-Men '97 and WOW what a great show. Hot damn. So many good moments and awesome twists. I think the ONLY gripe I could make (and it's very small) is that it can be a bit hard to follow for people who aren't that familiar with X-Men. My husband, bless his simple upbringing, did not froth at the mouth on Saturday mornings in front of the TV waiting for the next episode like the rest of us. I say "us", because I know you were just like me. Weren't you? Glued to the tv on your morning off from school just after eating your Cinnamon Toast Crunch, vibrating in anticipation for all the mutant badassery. Anyway, my husband was a PBS kid, so I had to pause every once in a while and point at characters, name them, and give him a bit of back story. He still managed to quite like the show regardless, and I can't wait for the second season! 

Hey, guess what? We started watching Acolyte, and all the hyper conservative anti-woke babies complaining about it were predictably full of shit. Acolyte's first four episodes have been extremely fun, filled with cool fight scenes, and lots of interesting world building. I think Star Wars fans just hate Star Wars once they realize it's always been "woke". Anyway, without diving into the current online culture BS trend where right wing extremists are finally, FINALLY, realizing they are the bad guys in every show, I'll just say that Acolyte has been delightful. 


Books

I got about 50% of the way through You're Gonna Die Alone (& Other Excellent News) and had to stop. It's very good, very well written, I love the message, it's just not for me or where my headspace is at right now. I think I just need fiction at this moment in time. I do, however, have a friend that will eat it up, and I plan on gifting it to them the next time I see them. 

With that, I'm diving back into The Wheel of Time, I would have stayed away longer, but I don't have any standalones I was super looking forward to at the moment, and I don't want to read a series while I'm in the middle of another series. So I'm diving face first into "the slog", starting with A Crown of Swords. The prologue has been pretty entertaining so far. 


Games

Granblue Fantasy: Relink and Overwatch 2 are the only things I've been playing. It's been a pretty chill week.

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