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☆ A brand new start! I got it into my head to try and start journaling again because I missed the good old days of LJ and DW and such, spent several days crafting a username and layout and browsing for comms to join...and then didn't post anything for ages lmao. So we're off to a good start. Most of my time is split between going to work and chilling at home, nothing particularly exciting, but here's what I've been into lately.
☆ With the second season of Shadow and Bone imminent I had decided I wanted to do a re-read of the whole series and got my friend to do a buddy read with me since she'd never read any of the books before. We're on Crooked Kingdom right now and thankfully the Six of Crows duology is just as good as I remembered, I love all my weird little fucked up children. Even Matthias grew on me and I'm not as annoyed at Matthias/Nina as I was last time, like okay they made some points I can admit it...
What surprised me is that I actually liked the original trilogy better than I thought I would. In my memory SaB wasn't really that good? Like it was okay but certainly not SoC level. And while that's true of course it was a lot of fun doing the buddy read and I was way more sympathetic to Mal and the Mal/Alina/Darkling drama than I remembered lol. Absolutely truly love that Bardugo went above and beyond and gave Alina THREE love interests to show that she's better than all the other YA teen girl protags. Like take that Twilight.
But yeah as much as I wish we could have had a proper SoC show adaptation, I actually really like what they've done with the Shadow and Bone show, I think the majority of the changes are fine and I've enjoyed how they worked the non-SaB characters into the plot. Most of the casting is great (looove Ben Barnes and Lewis Tan especially but everyone is really good.....except still :/ about Nikolai not being hot lmao) and I really hope they get a third season because I want to see where they go with it now that they ended it so differently from the book ending. The biggest complaint I'd say is they obviously have left out a lot of character backstory/development but I'm not surprised given that they've shoved so much into only 8 episodes a season.
☆ I'm also finally going to finish Persona 5!! But P5 Royal this time lmao. Back when the game first came out I got it and played up to the pyramid palace, died in an incredibly annoying way after not saving for a long time, rage quit, and then literally didn't pick the game up again. So after *checks watch* six years I will finally beat Persona 5. I'm enjoying it a lot though, there's a lot more stuff added to P5 Royal than I realized. Maruki and Yoshizawa are fun new additions, I'd already gotten a little spoiled on Yoshizawa's story over the years but there's still a lot I don't know. I've only just finished Madarame's palace so I've still got a bit to go before I reach where I left off.
☆ I've been getting back into watching more anime/reading manga again too, so that's been most of my media time other than gaming. I finally watched The Witch from Mercury which was really good, I love the characters and the school setting. I didn't realize that it wasn't complete though which is both great and a bummer because I want to know what's going to happen next but now I have to wait!! Suletta and Miorine are so cute, let them be lesbians or else...
So currently I'm working on the other recent lesbian fan anime lmao Lycoris Recoil. I'm only about 4 episodes in, personally the plot isn't as, idk, gripping to me yet? But I'm enjoying the interactions between the main girls (they went on an aquarium date....), Chisato especially is super cute and I love her personality. But yeah hopefully the plot will pick up now that the establishing eps have happened.
☆ Manga-wise I'm working my way through both Oresama Teacher and Bloom into You. OT is very stupid lmao but it's by the creator of Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun (which I love) so the art is pretty and it's definitely funny. The characters are even wackier than the ones in GSNK but they're a lot of fun. Meanwhile Bloom is much more subdued haha I've only finished 4 volumes so far and honestly I'm not super into the main pair yet? Like there's nothing wrong with them, the setup is interesting, but I'm a sucker for the pining best friend trope so I'm just sad for Sayaka most of the time. Find someone who appreciates you that way girl!!
☆ ANYWAY that's enough of that for now, I'm just rambling into the void at the moment about fandom stuff no one's going to read, so. I'm going to attempt to look for some friending memes and stuff if those still exist, see who's active on DW to follow these days. If anyone does see this, stop by and say hi \o/
☆ With the second season of Shadow and Bone imminent I had decided I wanted to do a re-read of the whole series and got my friend to do a buddy read with me since she'd never read any of the books before. We're on Crooked Kingdom right now and thankfully the Six of Crows duology is just as good as I remembered, I love all my weird little fucked up children. Even Matthias grew on me and I'm not as annoyed at Matthias/Nina as I was last time, like okay they made some points I can admit it...
What surprised me is that I actually liked the original trilogy better than I thought I would. In my memory SaB wasn't really that good? Like it was okay but certainly not SoC level. And while that's true of course it was a lot of fun doing the buddy read and I was way more sympathetic to Mal and the Mal/Alina/Darkling drama than I remembered lol. Absolutely truly love that Bardugo went above and beyond and gave Alina THREE love interests to show that she's better than all the other YA teen girl protags. Like take that Twilight.
But yeah as much as I wish we could have had a proper SoC show adaptation, I actually really like what they've done with the Shadow and Bone show, I think the majority of the changes are fine and I've enjoyed how they worked the non-SaB characters into the plot. Most of the casting is great (looove Ben Barnes and Lewis Tan especially but everyone is really good.....except still :/ about Nikolai not being hot lmao) and I really hope they get a third season because I want to see where they go with it now that they ended it so differently from the book ending. The biggest complaint I'd say is they obviously have left out a lot of character backstory/development but I'm not surprised given that they've shoved so much into only 8 episodes a season.
☆ I'm also finally going to finish Persona 5!! But P5 Royal this time lmao. Back when the game first came out I got it and played up to the pyramid palace, died in an incredibly annoying way after not saving for a long time, rage quit, and then literally didn't pick the game up again. So after *checks watch* six years I will finally beat Persona 5. I'm enjoying it a lot though, there's a lot more stuff added to P5 Royal than I realized. Maruki and Yoshizawa are fun new additions, I'd already gotten a little spoiled on Yoshizawa's story over the years but there's still a lot I don't know. I've only just finished Madarame's palace so I've still got a bit to go before I reach where I left off.
☆ I've been getting back into watching more anime/reading manga again too, so that's been most of my media time other than gaming. I finally watched The Witch from Mercury which was really good, I love the characters and the school setting. I didn't realize that it wasn't complete though which is both great and a bummer because I want to know what's going to happen next but now I have to wait!! Suletta and Miorine are so cute, let them be lesbians or else...
So currently I'm working on the other recent lesbian fan anime lmao Lycoris Recoil. I'm only about 4 episodes in, personally the plot isn't as, idk, gripping to me yet? But I'm enjoying the interactions between the main girls (they went on an aquarium date....), Chisato especially is super cute and I love her personality. But yeah hopefully the plot will pick up now that the establishing eps have happened.
☆ Manga-wise I'm working my way through both Oresama Teacher and Bloom into You. OT is very stupid lmao but it's by the creator of Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun (which I love) so the art is pretty and it's definitely funny. The characters are even wackier than the ones in GSNK but they're a lot of fun. Meanwhile Bloom is much more subdued haha I've only finished 4 volumes so far and honestly I'm not super into the main pair yet? Like there's nothing wrong with them, the setup is interesting, but I'm a sucker for the pining best friend trope so I'm just sad for Sayaka most of the time. Find someone who appreciates you that way girl!!
☆ ANYWAY that's enough of that for now, I'm just rambling into the void at the moment about fandom stuff no one's going to read, so. I'm going to attempt to look for some friending memes and stuff if those still exist, see who's active on DW to follow these days. If anyone does see this, stop by and say hi \o/
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I really hope it gets a S3 as well. It NEEDS a S3!
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At this point we NEED a third season because they can't just leave us on that ending!! (I mean they can but I won't like it >:C ) Teasing the Ice Court heist, the King of Scars stuff, and the totally different ending for Mal/Alina plus Inej going off with the pirates.... like that's way too much to shove into one season yet again but I'll take it if that's all we'll get.
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