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The new screen works. After practicing taking the old screen off and on to mitigate its issues, I was able to put on the new 1 with the only problem being almost losing 3 screws. I had to really crawl on the carpet and use my phone light to track each of them down. I needed to shut off and restart my laptop but after turning off the touch-screen which I never use and some resizing since the screen was wider, I don’t have to deal with freezing or discoloration again. Other than text and icons being a bit bigger, the experience is not that different from my previous screen. I won’t move the screen if I can help it and if I do, I’ll move it with hands on both sides so I don’t get those issues again. I’ve had this laptop for over a decade and I hope I can make it last as long as I’m able to.

Speaking of new things, I got a new chair from a relative who passed away. I was comfortable with the old chair but it had holes and stains, so I was persuaded to switch it out. So far the new chair is comfortable and the only downside is the armrests being too wide to put my headphones on. This happened a few days after I was suddenly asked with helping bring and reorganize said relative’s items and furniture into a storage container. Dad seemed to indicate it would be quick but if I knew it was going to last a couple of hours, I would have been more hesitant. I also brought my coat because the weather was on the borderline between cool and warm but all the hard work made me sweat a lot by the time it was done. I did wonder if I’d have to skip writing that day but I managed to squeeze it in. On the bright side, I had my exercise. Dad had me help him with a few other things following that and fortunately they weren’t quite as long. If they interrupted my writing, I extended my writing block by the amount of time I was occupied by the other task.

( Review and spoilers for Suzume )

That’s all for now. I had a dentist cleaning and will need to go back again at the end of next month to have some of my fillings redone. I’ve done additional vacuuming yesterday to finish it today because Mom and I are going to a film someone she knows voiced a role in Sunday and I didn’t want to juggle too much tomorrow. Free Palestine and release hostages on all sides. May Trump fall and conservatism be seen as the threat to democracy it is and might have always been. Until the end of the June, see you!

Our rabbit passed away. She was not eating but otherwise acted normal. Then there was a day where she increasingly moved less and less. We tried our best and I did some massages to her I saw on youtube, but she was gone by the morning. It was a shock. My parents cried and were wracked with guilt. I wondered if we wouldn’t get anymore pets but Dad after a week wanted another rabbit and he tracked down shelter with one specific rabbit he liked. I was concerned he would be upset if someone else nabbed her first but it turned out she was at the shelter for a while and she’s a lot bigger than our previous rabbit or the photos implied. She’s still skittish with being petted but I’ve been laying near her with my hand out and talking to her, getting her used to my presence. She’ll nudge and sniff me now, which is great, but it’s still a work in progress.

On Friday, my laptop’s screen issues got even more aggravating. I had to type this paragraph 1 handed that day while another hand pressed the bottom strip below the screen. The constant screen discoloring and even freezing even when I touched other parts of the laptop was frustrating and I tried all combinations of pressing and moving the screen up and down. I’m afraid that might have exasperated the problems. I asked dad to get the screwdriver he used for taking apart the laptop to see if pulling the screen off and back on helped. I lost a screw 3 separate times, the last time I thought I lost it for good. Still, pulling it off and putting it back on seems to alleviate the problem somewhat, so I’ve been keeping the screwdriver nearby. Before I ran across that solution, this problem finally made me go on Ebay and order another screen but when it arrived today, its video cable port was smaller and so have to send it back tomorrow. I didn’t learn from last time that I should look up the model number of a part I want to replace. I did that earlier and it’ll be here within 2-5 days. Hopefully I chose the right 1. Maybe finally I’ll at last get rid of the screen freezing and flickering I’ve been dealing with for nearly a decade. It’s been severely cutting into my time writing, and reading and watching things I like.

( Review and spoilers for Weathering with You )

That’s all for now. Down with Trump and down with apartheid in Gaza and the West Bank. May hostages on all sides be free. Until the end of May, see you!

Dad helped repair my laptop twice this month. I found I actually got the correct hinges and back cover from ebay, complete with wifi wires along with the latter so I didn’t need to order the other wifi wires to be begin with, which mightn’t have been the right 1s and never seemed arrived to my home. I did express to Dad interest in helping take the laptop apart, so he taught me how to remove the screws but not much more than that because we’re dealing with delicate parts and don’t want to take all day to accomplish the task. But I found I ordered the wrong screen cable, which only connect to 2 out of 3 places. Dad had me take a close up picture of the names and numbers on the original video cable to find a replacement. I found 1 on another site aside from ebay and ordered it. When it arrived, Dad confirmed it was the right 1 and a few days later we installed it. Dad tried to put back the cover around the screen but the back cover seemed to be of a different size. That didn’t fix the screen freezing and strange colors, though they’ve lessened. Dad thinks it might be the screen that’s the issue, probably from me closing the screen only from 1 side long ago. I heard the advice that you should move the screen from both sides to prevent that but I’m not going to move it unless it’s necessary. I’m not going to buy another screen yet, wanting a break from taking the laptop apart and replacing parts. Hopefully if the issue the screen persists, ordering 1 will fix the screen issues.
( Review and spoilers for Mamoru Hosoda's Belle )

That’s all for now. May Trump be stopped and fail utterly and Palestine and all hostages be free. Until the end of April, see you!

After some fits and starts, I finally restarted writing. Though I’m not completely out of the woods yet, my cough has calmed so much that I can maintain a decent sleep schedule and can write without much distraction. I let myself re-listen to youtube videos at night which threw off my sleep schedule but I finally got that out of my system and am back to normal. I’m already inputting changes to the second to last chapter for my mon-inspired story. The last chapter might be difficult, since it involves dropping in moments of characters from 2 different groups coming to like each other without extending the chapter’s length drastically. Writing freeform fanfic has experienced similar delays but it has its pleasant and frustrating moments. I plan to resume making up missed writing days starting next month with Tuesday for fanfic missed days and Wednesday for original fic missed days, though I’ll skip if those days are too busy for any reason. I might finish these missed days within half a year but I’ll try not to stress myself sticking to the schedule.

I’m getting more screen freeze issues, so after some digging, I found the model number for my laptop and was able to track down and order the exact screen wire for it. I didn’t order the other parts yet because I didn’t want to have another situation like last month where they didn’t fit after all. If it works, I’ll order more parts in the future. While dealing with the screen issue, the white wire of the 2 wires for the wifi antenna broke. It still allowed me to use to the Internet but it was inconvenient. Dad fixed it last Friday but when bending the screen up and down to make the screen unfreeze, the white wire broke again. I think I found a replacement but I’ll have to double-check if it’s the super-exact right model. Maybe I should ask Dad to show me how to take apart the laptop myself. He’s getting on in years and I want to be able to deal with more of these technical problems at my own discretion.

( Review and spoilers for The Boy and the Heron )

That’s all for now. Free Palestine and the hostages on all sides. May Trump and Musk fail utterly in their goals. See you at the end of March!

So, yeah, hopefully my ending message last month didn’t jinx the current election results. It’s scary and frustrating this country voted for a fascist yet again. It’s also frustrating the opposition thought the best way to deal with that is to go to the right. Few want diet Republicans when they can get the horrible real deal! Harris refusing to deviate from Biden’s more negative policies probably also played some role but also too many are tuned into misinformed right wing media. I’m aware people like me will be down the list of being harmed but I’m nervous about the services we rely on that might be cut. Moreover, people of all sorts shouldn’t have to deal with bigotry and having resources taken away! At any rate, I hope there’ll be maximum resistance against Trump and his presidency be an unqualified failure that brings his ilk down for good.

At any rate, still keeping up with my writing. I’m getting to the end of the fanfic plot outlines I want to change and I have the feeling after I finish the first draft of the final 1 done, I might try to write out 1 of the stories for fun. I have 10 make-up days left where I double up on writing. With the end in sight unless I get sick again, I’m wondering if I should double-up to also write the next entry in my mon-inspired book series as I’m a few chapters away from finishing the 3^rd draft. In preparation, I’ve finished a last rewrite of the plot outline for the next entry. Hopefully I can get to writing it soon.

( Review and spoilers for The Batman )

That’s all for now. I came back from a dentist cleaning Tuesday and had pulled back wearing the retainers to 3 times a night over the weekends. Apparently I’m taking care of my teeth well. Hopefully no political machinations make me lose my insurance. Free Palestine, Lebanon, and free hostages on all sides. Until the end of the year, see you!

My family decided to vote early last Wednesday. Early voting was conducted at the town hall, in the theater room where my mom apparently did a few plays. It was a long and confusing process, with a line for first confirming who we are and handing us the ballot before going to a line on the other side of the theater where they confirmed our identities again and gave us envelopes. I got the sense more people were coming at the same time as us and the election workers were a bit understaffed. Filling out the ballot took longer than I expected, since the pens didn’t have enough ink to fill the bubbles. My younger brother had to remain behind for a few minutes due to a similar issue. We also had to go somewhere else in the building because we’re getting rid of a car and she wanted to double-check a few details. To my relief, it didn’t take long in the slightest. Apparently, early voting in our town’s a more recent option and when we stopped by to deliver car disposal paperwork later that week, the parking lot was still packed with early voters. I hope early voting and mail-in ballots become the norm in our state, it would make voting easier for everyone. At any rate, we voted for the Democrats. I did it to stop Trump but I’m still unhappy especially about their foreign policy conduct and will definitely still call my representatives every weekday to push them to stop supporting Israel’s genocidal attacks on Gaza, the West Bank, and Lebanon.

We’ll have to deal with having only 1 car at the moment. The other was rarely used and it became too much of a time and cost sink with it repeatedly breaking down. I hope we’ll be able to manage since my younger brother, who can drive, has a weekend job he’ll now need to be dropped off at, and my older brother and I are still looking for jobs and have other appointments that might intersect with events where the car might be used. I guess that means we’ll have to be more diligent in putting our appointments and events on the calendar. I’m glad I decided to get a card for my next lung doctor appointment because when I had mine last week, I only knew I had 1 because I got a 24 hour reminder call. I don’t know if I never got a card or if it got lost but maybe I should write down those dates personally so I can be sure they’ll be there. I hope my insurance won’t force me to go too out of the way to get the care I need, since they’re changing how much they’ll cover and apparently a few providers I go to are going to stop accepting my insurance. Dang it, we need socialized healthcare in this country already!

( Review and spoilers for The Wild Robot )

That’s all for now. Free Palestine. May Trump and his ilk be utter losers in this election and their political clique collapse out of relevancy. Until the end of November, see you!

At last, I’m done with my fanfic We Will Hold On Forever. It has been a long 7 years but earlier this month, I did a last couple reviews of the final 2 chapters and then posted them a week apart. I admit, it didn’t feel anything strong when I posted the last chapter, but I don’t mind that much. I want to thank those who read and especially reviewed the story over the years. It was my first long story that I posted and I learned a lot about editing and writing while doing it. I might post another fanfic eventually but my focus is now on my original fiction.

Editing the third draft for my mon-inspired story is going glacially slow, since there are many sections I want to rewrite from the ground-up. I don’t know if I’ll do NaNoWriMo this year, since I thought it would be useful to complete my other book ideas including sequels. I was going to do it informally anyway since I didn’t want to have to use a website but I definitely won’t use any affiliate websites now if they’re going to continue with this AI nonsense. I would probably do it more than once in a year, since I want to complete more books, which’re around 100,000 words in length. I wonder if I could have breaks to write other stuff on weekends or if that would be too much for me. I would probably have to sacrifice a few other hobbies for those months to continue writing. Ah well, I’ll get to it when I can and see how I fare.

( Review and spoilers for My Father's Dragon )

That’s all for now. I’ve been finishing this entry up after I got back from shopping with Mom. Free Palestine and Lebanon. Free everyone held prisoner in this colonialist war. Until the end of the month of Halloween, see you!

So, I changed some of my writing and reading patterns again. I discovered on 2 days where I read my library book in between writing that I write more or it’s at least not as much of a slog. This also left me more wiggle before bed, so I decided to switch this to everyday. I was losing interest in the other book I read while writing anyway. For fanfic writing, I’ve finished the plot outline rewrite and will wait 6 weeks before touching it again. In the meantime, I’m doing a bit of Digimon Tamers freewriting, doing scenes that have lingered in my head for a few years now. There isn’t exactly a plot – I just follow where my whims take me. I do think of grafting the first few scenes I wrote on an old outline. I don’t know if anything I’ll write here will be posted but I’m enjoying it and I think that’s good with my focus on completing my mon-inspired original story. With around 20 fanfic writing days left to make up, I decided to shift to once a week so when I run out, it won’t be as jarring to just writing fanfic on weekends. I did miss an original fiction writing day, which I could use when I briefly switch to fanfic writing on weekdays to review and post the final chapters of We Will Hold On Forever. That’ll start on 9/10. I found making up for a missed writing day with the same story I just looked over earlier that day overwhelming.

( Review and Spoilers of Over the Moon )

That’s all for now. Free Palestine, and release all hostages and political prisoners. Until the end of September, see you!

I tried going back to reading 24 pages a day of a library book for week. With my huge reading list and noting I was barely putting a dent into the A authors, I thought I should read more than my previous 12 pages a day. From that experiment, I believe I can maintain 24 pages a day but I would have to go to bed 10 minutes earlier and I can’t be distracted too much before I finish reading that number of pages. My brain initially felt like a book was shoved into it the first few nights but that eased by the weekend. Having 10 more minutes to relax without screens will hopefully help with my sleep.

I also finished the final draft for the final chapters of We Will Hold On Forever. It took forever to finish the rewrite notes but when I started, I was going through 5 to 6 pages a day. I’m going to wait 6 weeks before I do a final review of the chapters and post them, since this week I finished reviewing the previous 2 chapters that will close out the conflict of the story. I’ll be interested in seeing how others react to these final chapters. Don’t hold me to it but I believe I’ll be finished with this fanfic September or October at the very latest. I haven’t decided what fanfics I’ll write next, so for now I’m rewriting an outline for a Digimon fic that I changed to make distinct from another story but later wanted to change it back. I don’t know if I’ll ever post it – if anything, I might just post 1-shots.

On other writing news, I decided to change how I rewrite original fiction. I’ve been doing rewrite notes for the whole mon-inspired book but I find I forget the things I want to change as I go along. So now I’ll take rewrite notes a chapter at a time, pausing to implement the changes before taking rewrite notes for the next chapter. Since I did half the rewrite notes already, I’ll reread the following chapters to see if there’s any additional things I want changed before implementing the changes. Since I’m almost done with We Will Hold On Forever, I’m switching to writing original fiction on weekdays (barring when I go to review said fanfic’s final chapters), so I’ll see how helpful this strategy is before long hopefully.

( Review and spoilers about My Oni Girl )

That’s all for. Free Palestine and release the hostages on all sides. If you can, here’s a link to donate to those in need. This is the awful natural conclusion of colonialism. I’ll see you at the end of August.

Already halfway through the year already. I might have said this before but it’s amazing how fast time passes by taking it a day at a time. I’ve been taking walks around sunset since it’s getting so hot but I have to deal with possible rain when I go out. Last Sunday, I checked my weather app and thought there was only a risk of a light sprinkle, so brought an umbrella along. There was a brief shower that came and went but on the last minutes before I began the journey back, it rained and this time came down hard. It was such that I could only look a few feet ahead of my shoes and the wind blew my umbrella about, making me fear it would be blown inside-out – wouldn’t be the first time that happened to me.

Fortunately, my umbrella remained intact and the rain and wind let up somewhat the last 3 to 5 minutes before I returned home. But my shoes, shorts, and parts of my shirt were soaked through. I changed out of most of my day clothes a few hours before bed and then decided to put my soaked t-shirt in the hamper too. My shoes were on their way out anyway, so my Mom used their soaked state as an excuse to toss them and for me to use the new shoes she brought that had been sitting near me for several weeks. They do feel a bit loose when I put them on but I’m quickly getting used to them. Maybe I should be more careful when rain appears in the forecast. Though I took another walk a few days ago without an umbrella only to have to start jogging back when it started drizzling, so I wonder how much I learned from that experience lol. In the meantime, I’ll continue to take walks whenever the temperature’s tolerable.

On Monday, I’ll finish draft 2 of the final We Will Hold On Forever chapters. I completed roughly 2-4 pages of rewrites a day and it was so much faster than doing the rewrite notes themselves. I’m going a bit slower with doing draft 3 rewrite notes for my original mon-inspired story. It’s mostly been thinking of smoother and more elegant replacements of clunky sentences and dialogue. There are times where I wonder if I’m not making enough substantive changes. But I surmise I’ll have that clarified if and when I show this original story to others for feedback.

( Review and spoilers for Ultraman Rising )

That’s all for now. Free Palestine and hostages on all sides. Until the end of July, see you.

I finally got my retainers. After a bit of a wait, I went in admittedly not knowing what was going to happen. After drilling down the hooks they applied on my teeth for the Invisalign, they started stringing floss between some of my teeth and applying gelatinous material on my center front teeth. Mom and I didn’t expect it would be this long involved process. Tools to dry and suck up saliva were shoved in and pulled out of my mouth. At last it was done and I found my front teeth seemed to be glued together. Then I had another mold of my teeth made for my retainers. We paid the last of our bills and a week later, I got the retainer surprisingly fast.

I asked questions about how to deal with the glue-like stuff on my teeth, since it gets in the way of flossing and they said I should get floss threaders, which’ll help in the small gaps between my teeth and gums. We’ll have to order those online, though they were bemused I use both floss picks and water piks, since they thought if I had the latter, that was the only thing I needed. They did mention that after the wearing the retainer nightly for 6 months, I should downgrade it to 2-3 times a week, which I’m considering doing over weekends. I no longer have to go back to the orthodontists’ until something goes wrong with my retainers. In some ways, my teeth treatment’s still ongoing but I’m glad the process that took over a year is over.

I’ve hopped back to the mon-inspired original story after many delays. So far it’s just rewording lines or sentences for the first 60 pages. I’ve started on chapter 3 and I haven’t gotten to more substantial edits so far, though sometimes I think I should, either to add more details or change the events presented. Oh well, I’ll see how I go. I’m also doing rewrite notes for the final chapters of We Will Hold On Forever, albeit very slowly since there’s much I want to change and I keep tempting myself with distractions. Still, I’m over a third of the way through.

( Review and spoilers for Godzilla x Kong A New Empire )

That’s all for now. Had scary family fight near me yesterday and that shook me up. But the parties apparently apologized and settled things, so that’s somewhat assuring. Free Palestine and hostages on all sides. Until the end of June, see you!

Had confusion over a dentist appointment earlier this month. The name of the group was similar to the orthodontist group I go to and I initially crossed it out on the family calendar, only for them to call and after some talking, I realized they were the dentist group I go to have 1 additional cleaning every year. I had to modify the crossed out calendar note that I actually do need to go there. After talking with Mom, I determined I should stop going there and have the additional cleaning at my usual dentist, where it’s a bit cheaper and to keep things consistent. I told them I won’t be appearing here and they took it well, though my paranoid mind thought the high price tag was a slap for announcing that lol.

I’ve finished draft 3 rewrite notes for a couple chapters of We Will Hold On Forever. Taking down the things I want to correct takes a while but actually implementing the corrections doesn’t take as long. I even began edits for posting the next chapter today, which mightn’t take too long, since it’s pretty short. It helps that I’m less distracted while writing and editing. I had to delay writing my original fiction more than a couple times this month, including today, and so I decided to push back returning to draft 3 of my mon-inspired original story. I want to linger on the wrestler story a while longer and yes I’m a bit more detailed about what these stories are about, since otherwise it’s difficult to specify which original story I’m talking about otherwise. I wonder if I should post it somewhere for others to review. I read that after completing the 3^rd draft, you could finally show your story to others for feedback.

( Monkey Man review and spoilers )

That’s all for now. It’s frustrating the genocide in Gaza continues but it’s heartening to see all those protesting and acting to stop it. I’ll speak later at the end of May.

I finished draft 2 of my original story. It took a while since it was often done on weekends but I’m glad of the progress I made, going from 86,169 to 100,953 words and from 305 to 363 pages. For the next 6 weeks, I’ll be concentrating on rewrite notes for a master project I did. I did begin draft 4 edits of it but I wasn’t feeling it, so I decided to start over. I don’t know if this’ll go anywhere since I’ll still be concentrating on the first story but we’ll see. I did experiment with another original story last Sunday since I was undecided over whether to do the master project rewrite or that but the master project rewrite called to me more.

I’ve also been reading the Nanowrimo and other writing advice books that I have in the house. Some of the suggestions I might consider doing and have already done the suggestion of asking about an interesting relative with my therapist. I’m considering doing some Nanowrimo after I’m done writing We Will Hold On Forever, alternating every other month so I can get through first drafts of what I want to write faster. It might be too much for me but I’ll test to find out.

A couple days ago, my Invisalign session technically ended but I still have to wear the last tray until I get retainers made, which can only be started in May. I also have $600 left to pay for it but my mom was able to negotiate breaking it up between April and May.. It’s been over a year since I started and it’s unbelievable the end’s in sight. This method helped organize when and how much I ate, which I might keep around. I might also keep brushing 4 times a day, which’d definitely kept my teeth clean. Hopefully, the retainers won’t be as much of a drain on my wallet when they come up.

( Review and spoilers for Orion and the Dark )

That’s all for now. Ceasefire for Palestine and refund UNRWA. Cutoff military aid to Israel. Free hostages on all sides. Push for reparations for Palestinians. I’ll see you at the end of May.

I can’t believe I only have 4 to 6 chapters left for We Will Hold On Forever. I only finished the first draft for 42 (and 43?) a few days ago. I might need to give more attention to these chapters since they are the final ones but it’s good to know I’m nearing the end. I started posting these chapters in 2017 and thought about and plotted this story even earlier. I don’t know if I’ll finish the fic this year but I’ll be sure to keep going until it’s done. If I write anymore fanfics, they’ll probably be shorter since I’ll be prioritizing writing original fiction.

Had to deal with my father’s car breaking down again on the way back home from am orthodontist appointment. It was tough waiting, so I eventually put on a news program I watch every weekday. Fortunately, the tow truck appeared within 33 minutes of me starting the program but we didn’t know if or when it was coming, since notifications weren’t working. I hope Dad can find the source of the issue.

( Review and spoilers for Everything Everywhere All At Once )

Ceasefire for Gaza. Free the hostages. Prosecute Israel and Hamas for genocide and war crimes. See you at the end of March.

I accidentally stumbled upon a way to speed up my writing in some respects. I decided to read some paperwork in between doing rewrite notes for the latest We Will Hold On Forever chapter and I found that I was able to focus better with fewer distractions by doing this. Only having to text corrections for the paperwork to someone involved in it distracted me yesterday. I've been reading a book a bit lately in brief breaks from writing but now I'm going to expand that. From now on, I’ll read a page of nonfiction book after writing and reviewing every 2 paragraphs or 4 lines or a page of my stories. It doesn’t have to relate to my story but it helps motivate me. I don’t know if I’ll be less distracted from now on but it’s an encouraging development.

( Yes, I'm reviewing a Christmas movie over a month later, don't @ me! Also, a few spoilers )

That’s all for now. Free Palestine. Until next month, see you.

I finally posted the next chapters for We Will Hold On Forever. After a month long break, I’m back to writing and did another draft of upcoming chapters before reviewing and posting the chapters that have just gone up. It’s been nearly half a year but it’s great to have posted more again. I’m working on a brand new chapter three chapters ahead and got through the first draft, distractions contributing to a slow writing pace but I finished it at a record 13 pages, which I only just started making rewrite notes for. There have also been days where my sleep schedule slipped or it was too busy, so I had to skip writing original fiction. I’ll try to get to through this difficult stage and discipline myself to stay focused on writing in the daily 2 hours without distractions in 2024.

I had to move discords but fortunately, most of the people in the previous one migrated and I continue to comment and talk off and on there. I sent out applications for 2 jobs the previous Thursday but I hope to get one, because it would be quite close to home. I’m still waiting for some additional documents so I can submit for that one, but if I don’t get it, I won’t be broken up about it. My treadmill’s got a squeaking problem, which doesn’t bother me too much since I wear headphones but it’s a disturbance to anyone using the room at the moment. My dad found the time to take a look at it a couple weeks ago and I helped him with locating the source. He made the squeak quieter for a time but it rose back up and he’s considering getting the squeaking part replaced. Hopefully that can be dealt with. I need the treadmill to exercise during the cold times.

( Review and spoilers for Godzilla Minus. CW for brief mention of child death )

That’s all for now. I hope next year is better and that Israel’s finally pressured to stop its bombardment of Gaza so the hostages can be freed and Palestinians can finally get out from under apartheid’s boot. Until the end of January, see you!

I think I’m finally on the mend with my cold. I still cough a bit but it’s softer and far less often. It took forever to get the meds I needed and it turned out the usual combo to kill my persistent cough wasn’t working, so my lung doctor prescribed me with cefuroxime and prednisone instead. I’ll be done with the last of my prednisone in a couple days. This had thrown off my sleep schedule big time, even leading me to sleeping through most of Thanksgiving where I was also ill after eating a wrong combination of foods. Due to all these factors, I haven’t written in over a month. Having a break was nice but I’m itching to get back to writing. I had just gotten going with We Will Hold On Forever rewrites and will be writing my original story a bit more often. Oh well, that can be rectified by making up those missed days. ( Review and spoilers for The Shape of Water )

That’s all for now. I hope the ceasefire in Gaza gets extended and all those imprisoned get free. Until the end of the year, see you!

I got sick. My mother caught a cold and though I took some precautions, it spread to the rest of my family. Strangely, it skipped straight to the coughing stage but taking Dayquil, it’s turning into sneezy and wet. I decided to pause writing to give me time to rest and see where it goes. I might need to ask my doctors for prednisone and zpac if it turns into cough variant asthma again.

Kind of annoying, since I just caught with all my missed days of fanfic writing and now I’ll have to double-up again. Ah well, I can fit that in somewhere. It turns out that I won’t be writing double every other Thursday after all but I can do every other Tuesday, which would be helpful to get through the additional missed writing days. I have toyed with the notion of sharing my original fiction writing with the discord I’m part of but I’m still in the middle of the second draft and I want to be done with the third draft before I show it off to anyone.

I saw the first season of the very first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon. It’s very much of the late 80s but I can see the charm of it. The titular turtles all have distinct personalities even if they can still be goofy teenagers. April O’Neil is the exasperated adult in the room, who wants to get the scoop but seems to be gaining some fondness for the turtles. Splinter’s pretty nice so far, though him also being the formerly Japanese human Hamato Yoshi can have some yikes implications. It was only 5 episodes, so there wasn’t a lot of time but I’ll see how the show develops in far longer seasons. In the meantime, I’m hopping back into Dragon Ball’s next arc with the introduction of Krillin.

( Review and spoilers for Sleight )

That’s all for now. I hope Israel’s attack on Gaza stops, Palestine becomes free, and the hostages are freed. Until the end of November, see you!

I wrote double the usual amount 3 days in a row last week. I couldn’t do one of my “once a week, make up a skipped fanfic writing day” sessions earlier this month, so I did it on a Tuesday and Wednesday. Since I also missed an original story day, I tackled that on Thursday. I wasn’t always able to concentrate but it wasn’t a bad experience. I got a lot done. I’m wondering if I should try it more often. I can only do it when I have no other appointments or tasks like shopping or therapy and on weekends I watch science videos in the morning that can take a lot of time to understand. I might do this every other week, especially since I missed some original fiction days and if I plan to publish one day, I probably have to increase my writing time to get drafts out faster, so this might be good practice.

I finished Dragon Quest The Adventures of Dai some weeks ago and it was pretty darn good story. Not without its weaknesses since the original mangaka has issues writing female characters and the usual shonen pervert humor. Still, I loved the characters and the depth many had, and the drama of the battles. No wonder it became a classic. I like how a lot of the villains had depth and even developed but there were some who were still monstrous and had to be taken down.( Vague spoilers about ending )

The original mangaka Riku Sanjo did a prequel manga and still seems to be involved somewhat, so I don’t know if he’ll do a sequel. If not however, I’m fine with how it ended.

I decided to read the Dragon Ball manga. I was just going to watch the anime but the person in the discord I’m part of suggested the manga instead and so I subscribed to Shonen Jump to read it. At the moment, I’m still at the gag phase, where much of the bawdy humor hasn’t aged well but I know it’ll evolve and it’s been awhile since I watched the anime. With it being such a long manga, I’ll probably alternate with watching the first Teenage Mutant Turtles cartoon, a franchise I heard a lot about but never really got into. Would be interesting to see it without nostalgia and only vague second hand pop culture osmosis to work with.

( Review and spoilers for Nimona )

That’s all for now. An annoying insurance thing came up with my therapy but hopefully it’s a misunderstanding and can be resolved by the end of next week. Until the day before Halloween, see you!

Still getting used to a family member that’s been out on vacation being back. He seems chiller but some of that old tension that comes with his behavior is seeping back in. I don’t want to go into detail since he’s still young but how to raise him with his mother has caused a lot of discourse with my parents. I vent about it to my therapist. Things seem fine so far though and I hope they remain so when school starts for him.

Finally, after a long time slowly composing rewrite notes for my fanfic, I’ve reached the actual rewrite part for this chapter’s second draft. I’ve been going at a fair clip at roughly 4 pages a day. I’m happy at this change in pace and surmise I was slow on rewrite notes due to distraction, the chapter being on the longer side and there being so much that needed to be changed. Hopefully I can keep up the momentum but be forgiving of myself when I slow down at times.

( Brief review and spoilers for Blue Beetle )

That’s all for now. Not much to talk about. Until September’s end, see you!

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Pet Passing, Screen Problems, and Weather That Lingers
Part Replacements and Belle
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Unpleasant Election Outcomes and Batman
Early Voting, Vehicles and Schedules, and a Wild Robot
The Conclusion of MY Epic Fanfic and My Writing Future
More Writing and Reading Habit Changes, and Over the Moon
Reading More, Editing Different, and Insert Some Pun About Oni
Caught in the Rain, Twice, and another western crack at Ultraman
Finishing Invisalign and Getting Retainers
Dental Confusion and Writing Delays and Progress
New and Possible Changes and Transitions
Nearing a Fic's End...
Stumbling Upon a Helpful Writing Habit
Last Writing of the Year and Godzilla
On the Mend and Love in Water
Falling Sick, Skipped Writing Days, and Turtles
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Screen Problems Fixed and Moving Family Furniture

Pet Passing, Screen Problems, and Weather That Lingers

Part Replacements and Belle

Restarting writing, Tech Breakthrough(?), and Herons

Unpleasant Election Outcomes and Batman

Early Voting, Vehicles and Schedules, and a Wild Robot

The Conclusion of MY Epic Fanfic and My Writing Future

More Writing and Reading Habit Changes, and Over the Moon

Reading More, Editing Different, and Insert Some Pun About Oni

Caught in the Rain, Twice, and another western crack at Ultraman

Finishing Invisalign and Getting Retainers

Dental Confusion and Writing Delays and Progress

New and Possible Changes and Transitions

Nearing a Fic's End...

Stumbling Upon a Helpful Writing Habit

Last Writing of the Year and Godzilla

On the Mend and Love in Water

Falling Sick, Skipped Writing Days, and Turtles

Writing Pace and New Subscription

A Couple Returns and Blue Beetle