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Showing off some cool stuff I've bought in the last several months. Some pins, a bunch of stationery, and my Last Binding special edition pre-order finally arrived!! Click on the pics to enlarge.

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Despite how this post makes it look I have been very economical this month!! No-buy July for me...if only because I have been saving up for an upcoming anime convention, so really I'm just biding my time in spending too much money sjdhfksjds

I did however drop some dough on this for-charity Jayvik zine. (Pre-orders are still open, go check them out!) I love the merch and art they've shown, and they chose a charity that aims to help people with mobility disabilities to donate the proceeds to. Everything looks awesome, I'm excited to eventually have it in hand.

Been semi-productive with media stuff lately, so a few updates:

▶ I finished playing Split Fiction! It's a two person co-op action/platformer game by the company that made It Takes Two, which was huge fun. I played ITT with my brother so when I heard they were making another game with the same kind of gameplay, I told him we had to play SF together haha. And SF was just as much fun!

The story follows Mio and Zoe, two aspiring authors who become trapped in their stories after a mishap with a VR machine built by a company that is attempting to use the machine to steal creative ideas. The game's levels are either fantasy or sci-fi themed, with different abilities on each level that you have to use to cooperatively solve puzzles and stuff. The story is pretty basic and the writing is kind of cheesy, but there's some really funny moments and it's a ton of fun to actually play. (For example at one point you're in a motorcycle chase and while one player has to drive the motorcycle, the other player has to deactivate the self-destruct using a smart phone lmao. I was laughing so hard while watching my bro try to go through everything I could barely steer the bike.)

The nice thing about SF (and ITT) is that only one person has to buy the game and you can either co-op locally or online! So I highly recommend both games for anyone looking for something to play with a friend. SF is very forgiving difficulty-wise too, I am not very good at platforming and I was dying constantly because I have no patience lmao but we still didn't have any trouble beating the game.

▶ I watched season 2 of Severance! Putting this behind a cut for spoilers. ( + )

▶ I watched Moana 2 and it was okay... I thought the messaging was nice but overall it just felt entirely forgettable. I can't tell if the music in Disney musicals these days is genuinely bad or the nostalgia for the old stuff is just that strong. Like I know we can't all be Alan Menken and Howard Ashman but come on, I watched the movie a couple hours ago and I can't even recall a single tune from it. (Not that all new Disney songs are terrible, I too had "We Don't Talk About Bruno" stuck in my head for weeks lmao. But just like, most of it.)

▶ I don't even play Marvel Rivals but the Emma Frost character reveal trailer omg... The thigh jiggle?? Ma'am... She looks so good lmao Emma's designs are always very hit or miss but I don't hate this one. (I would get rid of the blue lipstick though I have never been a blue lipstick Emma truther!!) Anyway now I'm like shit, do I need to play Marvel Rivals sjhdfkjss

Spent most of last week being sick, so that was fun. I had already scheduled a half day Monday because of an afternoon appointment, and I had taken Tuesday off for working Saturday, and good thing I did because I was already feeling pretty gross by Tuesday afternoon. Ended up taking off the rest of the week, which was nice in that I wasn't working, but also not great because sick. I'd taken a COVID test but it came out negative so god only knows what weird illness I had. I would've guessed the flu but I never had a fever so ??? But I'm feeling better now thankfully! A lot of last week was spent either napping or reading, which was nice if very unproductive lmao.


I've been severely slacking off on playing DAI because I got back into Overwatch aaarrghhh. So much free time now absorbed back into that dumb game... But oh man the new character Juno is very fun!! I sucked hard as Venture (I suck at DPS in general lol) so I'm glad we got a new support. And she's so cute, her VA is great.

I do still want to finish my DAI replay before Veilguard comes out so I need to stop putting so much time into Overwatch again 😑


I finally watched Inside Out 2 with some friends. I really liked the first movie so I didn't have high expectations for this one, but it was actually better than I expected. Not as good as the first, obviously, I feel like they tried to tackle a little too much at once, but they still made me cry lmao so that's a win for them I guess.

I also watched that new show Kaos on Netflix, a dark comedy modern reimagining of Greek myth with Jeff Goldblum as Zeus. It's only one season and of course ends in a bit of a cliffhanger with no confirmed season 2 lmaooo so I'm not expecting a conclusion. (I just found out they cancelled Dead Boy Detectives after one season too, I am coming for these Netflix execs with a gun I swear to god.)

But the story is a mash-up of the Eurydice and Orpheus myth and stuff with Minos and his family, both tied into an overarching plot where Zeus becomes increasingly paranoid about a prophecy that will supposedly see to his downfall. There's a lot of liberty taken with the myths, it's not a straight adaptation of anything, which I don't mind because I like to see what wacky stuff modern adaptations come up with, whether I think it's a good take or not lol. (Kaos writers I'm also coming for you for your one stupid Hera plot decision 🔫)

The casting is fun and there's some gay stuff, thank god because who's doing Greek myth adaptations these days without some gay stuff smh. Dionysus was my favorite because Dio's always my favorite, but I do hope we get a season 2 and we get to see more than the main few Olympians that were in this season. (Yes I am Olympian biased I will not apologize. Though my main man since my youth has always been Charon because I was a very weird child; he exists in this season so I don't have to demand his inclusion.)