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☆ Getting through my reading list as promised! I hate falling behind even though I always do, though I guess there's not really any rush here compared to other social media. The posts'll still be there when I get to them! I did stumble upon a fic exchange that looked interesting, unsent_letters_exchange. Nominations are still open for a few more days! I've never done an exchange before, but I used to be big into epistolary fic, so I'm kind of tempted. 👀

☆ I've reached chapter 150 in my great Tsubasa RC re-read, which is definitely past the point I had previously read in high school. The amount of shit that has gone down since my previous update... ( + )

☆ I'm making progress in Final Fantasy XVI as well! According to my PS5 I'm about 63% of the way through? ( + )

☆ Does anyone still play Overwatch? Unfortunately I do lmao. I've never been big into first-person shooters but I've always enjoyed Overwatch as a game. Unsurprisingly I'm a healer main with D.Va as my main tank (though tanking has gotten sooo much more annoying since they switched to a 5-person team single-tank setup). This new season they've reset everyone for competitive, idk why but I'm sure there's some explanation that I don't care about, so I was stupidly like eh okay I guess I'll place myself again. BAD IDEA I had to stop because I'm 1:3 and consistently the best player on my team which is not good because I'm average at best jshdfsjkdfs. So I guess I'll just jump back in later after more people get sorted, maybe... Would be nice not to get put into games where my team has zero kills amongst us and the enemy team has 15 elims each. (And this is for my healer ranking, I shudder to think how things would go as the sole tank...)

January's reading round-up! This got too long for the previous post so I saved it for later and then spent several days not writing the like, last two paragraphs needed to finish. Instead I did very important things like *checks notes* playing more FFXVI and making a spreadsheet to keep track of all the pins/charms/stationery/etc I've bought from independent artists. But here we are at last!


( January Reading )

Aside from regular books, I've also been making my way through Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle because one day I was like I should actually finish Tsubasa?? I'm 11 volumes in so far, that's about 110 chapters, but there's 28 volumes total I think so there's still a ways to go. This is a partial re-read since I used to read this back in high school but never finished, but my memory's so shoddy I can't even remember how far I got before quitting, so this is basically all new information to me anyway.

I DO remember how much I loved KuroFai sdhfkjshdf CLAMP always knows how to make the yaoibait really hit. I've been sort of live-tweeting as I go on Twitter and it's basically just a KuroFai update thread lmao. That and the Ashura/Yasha arc RIP my sad gays. But yeah, unsurprisingly Fai is my favorite character, my poor little meow meow, my sweet cheese good time boy, etc. etc.

Tsubasa has also infected me with the CLAMP brainworms in general again so I am bracing for the inevitable full CLAMP catalogue re-read I will be inflicting on myself when next possible.