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WIPs

Recently I’ve been posting The Amnesia Tonic, but I had to put that a little to the side for a while. I’ve gotten back to a little bit, but I’ve had to focus on other matters, which has resulted in the posting being temporarily halted. I hope to get the sixth chapter up before the end of the month. I also need to rewrite some chapter to combine them, and shorten the story slightly and remove some details. I might go back and do the same for older chapter too, but I’m not entire sure if I will. I don’t want it to be too long, after all. I might put 25k to 30k words as the roof, although I wanted to be around 15k.

I have also written on Blood of Destinies Rewritten and a scene with U’il-šanad being the age of 15, near the New Year celebrations. I wanted to worldbuild some instruments and because I couldn’t draw any at the time when I wanted to, I wrote instead. For context, The New Year is according to the Fubaž the first full moon after the March equinox. I haven’t decided if the story is a side story or a story part of the flashbacks in the main story yet. I’m leaning toward the former.

Related to this, I’ve been working on conlanging for the language the speak in Zuladiar at the time of Blood of Destinies Rewritten. I’ve been working on the vocabulary some, as well as developing the syntax, mophology, and phonology. I have made decisions about how morphemes are used as well. A feature in my document that I’m making is actually including things like etymology. An example of this is the word ažerlü, which is the name of the First Blood Prince and U’il’-šanad’s eldest brother, which developed from morphemes that make the meaning of the word literally translate to “limbed sky fish”. That’s what they see a dragon as, a limbed sky fish. I thought things like this would be a lot of fun. I’ll likely, eventually, make the document public, in a distant future. Or “Soon” ™.

In terms of my Mahou Shoujo Guide, I’ve worked on transferring data from my old spreadsheets to my Notion-based database. It’s taking a lot of time, especially since I have nearly 10 years of updating to do as well, and so I need to add entires that have appeared since I last worked on the research project in 2015, which is quite a lot of new entries. I’d be more than happy to hear if there are any magical girl titles (Japanese or otherwise) that have appeared ins 2015 that you’d like to mention. But god, I’ll need to catch up to a whole decade in my research. The genre can very well have changed massived in this time.

I posted the review of Da Feng Gua Guo’s Peach Blossom Debt yesterday! Finally! I needed to rewrite a lot of it because I had only read half of the book when i wrote the review originally. then I read the rest, and needed to change some things.

In the time I kept procrastinating that review, I finished priest’s Guardian Vol. 2 and that post will be available tomorrow. I didn’t write in the review, but I think it’s already a given that I will be reading the final book of Guardian. I mean, I read all of The Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System, and Guardian is easier to digest. I don’t want to throw the volumes of Guardian on the ground, stomp on the  and set them on fire after all.

But on the topic of priest novels, I’m stoked about Silent Reading being licensed. I’m curious about who the translator will be. I’m slowly developing preference of danmei translators, so some are more exciting than other. Well, I’ll see who it is, eventually.

WIP Quote

The prince raised his sleeve to chuckle behind it. “I only know a few notes. It is nothing to pride myself upon.”

Çetžak knew better than to try to say otherwise, so he played along, saying, “Even these handful of notes are enough to make the most beautiful performance for any one person’s eyes and ears.”

The prince smiles behind his sleeve. “You flatter me, Züčan; I am not that good-looking.”

“If Your Highness says so,” Çetžak replied conscientiously, even though he was inclined to disagree. He then changed subjects, given the price another once-over. “Are you not cold?”

Before the prince had even responded the guard removed his own wool cloak and stood up. He had to bow in front of U’il-šanad to properly fasten it around the prince’s shoulders.

“Do not catch a cold, Your Highness. Your servants will be held accountable for the offense if it is a severe illness.”

From Blood of Destinies Rewritten

Behind the Scenes

Recently, the kids went back to school and naturally… I got sick. However, my doctor updated my medical leave during these past few weeks, so for a few more months I can be sick a lot without too many worries, I hope. I’ve also applied for disability benefits. I expect just about nothing coming out of that, but it’s worth trying anyway, especially as my husband and I have plans on moving together as soon as physically and financially possible, and the benefits would help the household a little bit.

On a more pleasant note, it’s what I call chocolate season! That means autumn is here. I might drink hot chocolate all-year-round, but autumn and winter seem to be the best seasons for it. In fact, I would say that it’s more akin to winter being around the corner where I live. As soon as we go into October, it’s like everyone changes wardrobes from warmer season to colder season overnight. It’s always interesting to see. This year September was unusually warm, but October hasn’t been very warm. Just very rainy. And rain, of course, fits perfectly together with chocolate! Does anyone else have a specific winter half of the year kind of drink?

Something I’ve been trying to do is post daily on Twitter. The idea is to post on my art account, my author account or my blog’s account at least once. It’s been going so-so, but I’m doing my best. Some habits take extra effort and time to get into. I hope to expand it to posting more on Instagram in the future as well.

Books arriving from group order: Rosmei order through Happibess at Twitter, comment on Nan Chan vol 1 (fav novel) and How to Survive as a Villain vol 1( reviewed manhua twice already), and Do You Love Me vol 1 (new) if I have the book, otherwise share about waiting and Happibess experience.

Finally and most importantly! Earlier this year I made an order of some books from Rosmei. As they’re based in Singapore and have a license to distribute in Singapore, I needed to be part of a group order or use this one Polish store. The Polish store didn’t feel like a viable option, while the group order manager that Rosmei would ship to has a lot of positive feedback on Twitter, so naturally I picked Happibess! It was really pleasant, not gonna lie. I pre-ordered How to Survive as a Villain Vol. 1 because I’ve reviewed the manhua not once but twice and it makes sense to review at least the first volume of the original novel, Nan Chan Vol. 1 as it’s one of my favourite novels, and, as a wild card, Don’t You Like Me Vol. 1.

While I was still waiting for my order, I also took the opportunity to buy a café set that Happibess put up for sale, and had it waiting until my books could be shipped. They arrived last week, and there was so much stuff with the bonuses and everything!

I took the above picture for Twitter, which I also used on Instagram. To take it, I had to steal the bedside lamp because I don’t have great light at my workspace in the evening, but you can see everything I fit into my workspace. By the time this post is up (it’s the Sunday before at the time of writing), I’ve probably already started writing on my Nan Chan review, regardless of whether I finished it yet. I haven’t decided which of the others to read after Nan Chan, so if you have a preference, let me know!

Currently…

Reading

• Nan Chan Vol. 1
• Case File Compendium Vol. 1
• Case File Compendium (JJWXC)
• The Husky and His White Cat Shizun Vol. 1
• Remnants of Filth Vol. 1
• Case Files of Jeweler Richard Vol. 1
• Hello, I am a Witch and My Crush Wants Me to Make a Love Potion Vol. 1
• Magi (VIZ Manga)
• My Special One (VIZ Manga)
• Komi Can’t Communicate (VIZ Manga)
• 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
• Tiger and Bunny
• Dead Boy Detectives
• Ojamajo Doremi
• Wonderful Precure!

Playing

• Tales of Zestiria
• Persona 5
• DRAMAtical Murder
• Boyfriend Dungeon

Recently dropped

 N/A

Recently finished

• Peach Blossom Debt
• Guardian Vol. 2