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346 | my birthday, kpop demon hunter, & anime thoughts
Friday, 27 February 2026 10:49 am► Yesterday was my birthday! I have a soft spot for Thursdays, despite its location within the standard work week—enough so that I actually briefly considered going with “thursday” as a username before settling on “straightforwardly” /lore drop—so it always feels weirdly fitting when my birthday lands on a Thursday. Anyways—I had a pretty great day. Lots of good food, plenty of fun special drinks, good weather, and wandering around my favorite town to visit for a day trip.
Then I went to my mom’s place for cake and tea and presents, and we ended up watching KPop Demon Hunters together—second watch for me, first time for her. That was not at all planned, and in fact I had no plans to rewatch that movie in general. But somehow we got on the topic of kpop while we were eating cake together (she knows nothing about kpop, so I was telling her about what little I do know), which got me thinking about that movie (which she’d also never heard of), and then it occurred to me: my mom might actually really like it? ( more thoughts, including spoilers, beneath the cut )
► Unrelated to the above, but I posted that Lia/Emer ficlet I was talking about in my previous entry. It’s a small thing, but I mention it because—unless I missed something while scrolling through my works page—I believe it’s actually the first fic I’ve posted to AO3 outside of the context of a fandom event since like… summer of 2024 or so. Here’s hoping for more of that energy coming from me in the future, since that is literally one of my goals for this year <3
► Since talking in my previous post about my sudden desire to tackle my crunchyroll watchlist before my subscription runs out, I decided to make a spreadsheet for myself to motivate me and track my progress! Because that is the kind of person I am. ( self-indulgent spreadsheet-related rambling beneath the cut )
And, in fact, I already have dropped a series! I tried out Why Raeliana Ended Up at the Duke's Mansion the day before yesterday, and got most of the way through the first episode. My feelings about it were that it was fine, but I wasn’t feeling particularly excited about it, so I went and looked up episode summaries for the remaining episodes… which in turn had me looking up spoilers for what’s the deal with (vague spoilers incoming) Beatrice, and the answer to that made all my interest in the series die. I think… in a different context, that type of reveal could be interesting, but seeing as the one thing that I did find intriguing was the dynamic between the original Raeliana and Beatrice—specifically, that original Raeliana wasn’t a villainess type of character, and that she was in fact friends with the protagonist before her tragic death kickstarted the plot… it made the twist feel like it was reverting to a more standard, tired scenario instead.
After that, I checked out The Magical Girl and the Evil Lieutenant Used to Be Archenemies, and I’m about two episodes into it so far. And so far, I’m liking it! I do have some qualms—( beneath the cut )
Then I went to my mom’s place for cake and tea and presents, and we ended up watching KPop Demon Hunters together—second watch for me, first time for her. That was not at all planned, and in fact I had no plans to rewatch that movie in general. But somehow we got on the topic of kpop while we were eating cake together (she knows nothing about kpop, so I was telling her about what little I do know), which got me thinking about that movie (which she’d also never heard of), and then it occurred to me: my mom might actually really like it? ( more thoughts, including spoilers, beneath the cut )
► Unrelated to the above, but I posted that Lia/Emer ficlet I was talking about in my previous entry. It’s a small thing, but I mention it because—unless I missed something while scrolling through my works page—I believe it’s actually the first fic I’ve posted to AO3 outside of the context of a fandom event since like… summer of 2024 or so. Here’s hoping for more of that energy coming from me in the future, since that is literally one of my goals for this year <3
► Since talking in my previous post about my sudden desire to tackle my crunchyroll watchlist before my subscription runs out, I decided to make a spreadsheet for myself to motivate me and track my progress! Because that is the kind of person I am. ( self-indulgent spreadsheet-related rambling beneath the cut )
And, in fact, I already have dropped a series! I tried out Why Raeliana Ended Up at the Duke's Mansion the day before yesterday, and got most of the way through the first episode. My feelings about it were that it was fine, but I wasn’t feeling particularly excited about it, so I went and looked up episode summaries for the remaining episodes… which in turn had me looking up spoilers for what’s the deal with (vague spoilers incoming) Beatrice, and the answer to that made all my interest in the series die. I think… in a different context, that type of reveal could be interesting, but seeing as the one thing that I did find intriguing was the dynamic between the original Raeliana and Beatrice—specifically, that original Raeliana wasn’t a villainess type of character, and that she was in fact friends with the protagonist before her tragic death kickstarted the plot… it made the twist feel like it was reverting to a more standard, tired scenario instead.
After that, I checked out The Magical Girl and the Evil Lieutenant Used to Be Archenemies, and I’m about two episodes into it so far. And so far, I’m liking it! I do have some qualms—( beneath the cut )