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It’s been a while since I last did anything close to a proper update! A long, long while… ;;;;

Reading: Slowly rereading Mother of Learning. Other than that, I’m actually pretty behind on a lot of the cnovels I’m following… I think the only ones with recent updates that I’ve managed to keep up with are Fantasy Farm, Don’t Pick Up Boyfriends From the Trash Bin, Those Years In Quest Of Honour Mine, and Peerless.
Listening: revisiting TAZ Balance; I just finished the “Pedals to the Metal” arc.
Playing: Pokémon Conquest
Watching: A lot of sewing videos on Youtube.
Writing: Basically nothing, as of late! But I’m determined to start my Relationshipping assignment this weekend, and I also need to start my piece for Iddy Iddy Bang Bang at some point.

► Yesterday afternoon, I read through volume 8 of So I’m A Spider, So What?. ( spoilers beneath the cut )

► Like I said above, I’m slowly rereading Mother of Learning—and I do mean slow; I’m only about nine chapters in. ( brief spoilers beneath the cut )

► I was going to do some gaming talk, but I think I’m going to try to get a bit further in Pokémon Conquest before I start whining about my disappointment in it. I also should really do a summation on my thoughts on Fire Emblem Fates (which I finished playing a few weeks ago) before I forget more than I already have, but I really should go start cooking lunch, so I’m going to cut this off here and hopefully get to it next time.

My The Husky & His White Cat Shizun obsession continues. I actually literally had a dream about it two nights ago, haha. Yesterday, someone over at FFA linked me to a translation that someone on Twitter is doing that’s further along than the one on NovelUpdates, so of course I read it all as soon as I had the time to do so.

My thoughts:
( spoilers beneath the cut )

A part of me is really regretting not waiting until the translation was further along before starting reading this one, because I’m just so hungry for more! Even this unexpected extra deluge of chapters isn’t enough to sate me, haha.

Some thoughts on the latest chapters of a few of the cnovels that I’m following:

► Transmigrator Meets Reincarnator - ( beneath the cut )

► Who Dares Slander My Senior Brother - ( beneath the cut )

► The Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System - ( beneath the cut )

► Speaking of Scum Villain... I’m still very ??? at the thought of twitter for fandom, but I did spend about a week or two poking around it looking for Scum Villain fanart before giving up on it, haha. I dumped links to some of my favorites in the cnovels threads on FFA, but I want to link them here too, if only to make it easier for me to find them later.
( a relatively short list of links beneath the cut )

► 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 )

► anonimanga has been so bad for my productivity as of late—not so much because of the time I actually spend on there, but because people keep mentioning things that sound relevant to my interests or remind me of things that I’d been meaning to check out and then whoops there go a few more hours.

Namely, my manga-to-read list has expanded by something like 4-5 titles. Of those, I’ve now read all the translated chapters of Six Half (which was fun, but not anything particularly noteable), and the first five chapters of Last Game, which is h i l a r i o u s. Especially ( minor spoilers ) I confess that I have no idea how the plot is supposed to last 56 chapters, but I’m willing to be taken along for the ride. The main characters are fantastic.

► I’ve also now started reading light novels because of anonimanga? Two of them, in particular. The discussion about Common Sense of A Duke’s Daughter really intrigued me. ( some brief discussion plus minor spoilers )

► I also got reminded of The Reader and Protagonist Definitely Have to Be in True Love, which I first heard about through FFA, and decided to check it out. This one I’ve been reading a bit more slowly, usually on my phone right before I go to sleep. As of right now, I’m a little less than halfway through the currently translated chapters. ( cut for spoilers + length )