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I’m back with another WIP update, I suppose. This time, there’s perhaps not too much to share, however. But let’s jump right in.

WIPs

Last time, I wrote about Amarasha which I was working on at the time. I’ve spent most of my time sick in bed, so I’m still working on the research for that. I’m not quite feeling it though, so I might just move on to the next thing on my list. It just says “Amnesia AU”, but it’s an author fic with Çetžak and Prince U’il in which Çetžak has consumed a potion that has made him forget everything that happened from… I think he was sixteen. I haven’t worked on it for a good minute, so I’ve forgotten. It’s in the canon universe, unlike Haunted, so that could be fun. Perhaps I should add the potion to World Anvil too, in case people are curious about it later. Let me know if I should write a WA entry on that.

However, I have worked on a different Çetžak and Prince U’il author fic. I haven’t named it yet, and I rewrote most of it. It’s a tragic one. If someone would like to read it, poke me. I plan on posting it soon, but it hasn’t been edited yet. I wrote the original around the time I wrote Haunted. Or a while afterwards. But that means the original that I rewrote is over a year old. It wasn’t bad though; I just felt it needed some fleshing out, and that fleshing out ended up doubling its length, more or less. It’s a short story of around 2k words.

Finally, I have also been dabbling in yet another project that popped up. This one I want to be very RPG-like in its story pattern, even if there are no visible system or levelling mechanics. It’s there in the background. I’ve been plotting out the story a bit, trying to have something like a quest that starts kinda simple and then snowballs into something larger. I’ll also make an attempt at writing a harem for this, I think. For reasons. There are reasons for everything. I work in a very different way with this one because of the mechanics. But I guess the mechanics have minimal similarities with another story I have, which uses a system and is more in the unlimited flow genre than a single adventure.

WIP Quote

The sun is about to set when Çetžak passes the outer vicinity of one of the ministry buildings. It has already been a full hour since he last saw more than fellow guards, and it’s likely been about half of that since he met another patrol. Nights are very calm in the Imperial City, as long as nothing happens to His Imperial Majesty or one of the Imperial Highnesses.
Yet it’s at this time of day, during the final rays of day, that he catches the subtle movement of fabric fluttering in the breeze at the corner of his eyes.

—from the untitled author fic

Behind the Scenes

I’m still drinking peppermint tea. Now it’s mostly because I’m sick and spend the time in bed. But when I feel up for it and get up to do things, I mostly watch stuff. I spent one day rewatching half of Ouran High School Host Club, and I think it’s a shame I don’t have a review from way back when I first watched it. I might review it soon and give my thoughts on this almost classic shoujo anime.

I’ve also spent a lot of time on YouTube, and while doing so I’ve been crocheting. Ie, I haven’t really needed to check the screen. I would have listened to podcasts or audiobooks, but my phone was out of space forever, so I couldn’t even install anything, even when I tried to make more space on it.

That issue has been resolved now. My phone is from 2019, so it’s been with me for some years. My hubby and I basically looked into a phone I could hold more comfortably than many other models, and I ordered myself a lavender Sony Xperia 10 V. I haven’t used a Sony in a while, but I did some years ago. A black small thing. Not that great, as far as I remember, but it worked. In this case, the reviews of the phone honestly said very little. I saw complaints about it being too narrow, for instance, and for me, that’s just a bonus.

In any case, at the time of writing, I’ve spent the past few hours playing with my new phone, getting it set up, and all that.

Another thing I could mention is that I received my order with three books. I ordered it when Case File Compendium Vol 1 came out, so on February 13. I got so incredibly emotional about the release of that book; you will never understand. But aside from that one, I also got The Husky and His White Cat Shizun Vol 4 and Peach Blossom Debt. So now those are on my backlog too. I started reading Peach Blossom Debt, but I also have Remnants of Filth Vol 1 that I’m reading, so I can’t say which of the two I’ll end up reviewing first.

I can also update that I now have 81 granny squares for Mini’s blanket. I have finished all 25 squares in red, and have 4 green ones, 7 navy ones and 8 pink ones before I hit 100. Mini asked for light blue and yellow to be added as the next two colours I work with after I finish the ones I have, so I’m looking forward to getting to 150 squares, not gonna lie.

Oh, I can share that I had a laugh at how Bilibili Comics took days before it shut down the servers, which meant some stories got updated after the platform should have been taken down. Additionally, there was a notification days after saying goodbye. I feel like Bilibili Comics really clowned themselves, but this is also the level I expected of them. I have some comics stored on my old phone that I’ll read before I possibly get rid of the app. But I might not, since it’s on a phone I won’t use as much.

Currently…

Reading

• Peach Blossom Debt
• Remnants of Filth vol 1
• Case files of Jeweler Richard vol 1
• Heaven Official’s Blessing vol 1 (Re-read)
• Golden Terrace vol 2 (Re-read)
• A lot of fan translations
• No webcomics

Watching

• Ouran High School Host Club

Playing

• Tales of Zestiria
• Persona 5
• DRAMAtical Murder

Recently dropped

Too many to list due to Bilibili Comics’ shutdown.

Recently finished

N/A