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► Sign-ups for the Be the First challenge have opened up! So excited for this one this year—I think I’ll actually post something for it this time, haha. For those who aren’t familiar with it, it’s a challenge where you write a fic for any canon which doesn’t have any English-language stories already written for it. Like I mentioned in my last entry, I’m planning to write for and have already started on a story for oops the web novel Who Dares Slander My Senior Brother. So excited!

► Two more last-minute Chocolate Box fic recs before reveals: ( beneath the cut )

► While I’m at it, have two non-Chocolate Box fic recs—one for a canon that I’m not particularly fannish about but the story itself hit me hard in my time travel-loving id, and one for Scum Villain which made me internally shriek with glee a lot while reading it.
( also beneath the cut )

► I didn’t get around to talking about this last time, but, in the spirit of “finishing visual novels that I started then put indefinitely on-hold for various reasons”, I went and finished playing Hustle Cat not long after I finished OZMAFIA!!. (You can find my initial impressions on it and Finnley’s route over here, for the curious.) It’s… been some weeks since I finished it now, and I didn’t take any notes, so this is going to be short and pretty vague.
( and not super-positive, sorry )

► The Be The First collection has opened up! For those who aren’t familiar with it, Be The First is a fest where people write fic for nonexistent fandoms. Check it out!

Here's a couple of recs: ( beneath the cut )

► I finished reading The Reader and Protagonist Definitely Have to Be in True Love! I’d actually stopped for a while, but then picked it up again and found that the entire translation had been finished in the meantime. ( some brief thoughts beneath the cut )