Archive - Icons - Previous 6/14/26 It's been a while since my last update. My wife and I are still watching Mao. We're getting close to a chunk of the core cast finally being introduced. I forgot how long it takes to get certain characters into the story. We still have so many other important characters that haven't even been referenced yet. We've been watching Witch Hat Atelier as well. That was a hard one to start. Those first few episodes are so...ugh, anime kids being fake little anime kids. We had a conversation about why fake kids in shows are annoying when real little kids aren't really. The behaviors get played up too much. Kids are always too juvenile in a lot of things and when it's not even a real kid actor, but some adult voicing over a piece of animation, it takes that up to an even more obnoxious level because no element of it is a real little kid. I've read so much advice about not making kids too mature in writing to the point they're little adults, but let's be real. That almost never actually happens in media. The kids are usually the other way, far far too juvenile for their age. (An exception I can think of to this in anime is Gundam Wing, where it really is "these characters are far too mature for their stated ages", everyone in that show even some of the adults should be aged up at least 5 years. The plot would make more sense that way too, but off topic.) There's still some grating scenes here and there, but it's gotten better since that terrible first couple of episodes of twee sugar nonsense. I think some of the annoyance may also be a bit of uncanny valley at play. The kids are kinda doing kid stuff, but something's not quite right with it. I couldn't get a feel for the kids ages at first either, because the maturity level sometime dips down to these could be five year olds, but they're narratively clearly preteens. (Doesn't help that the girls get carried around a lot, but that's an anime problem in general, who really carries around a twelve year old?? In real life, some 12 year old girls are already their adult height!) I feel like the girls look younger than they are too, but that's another general anime problem. They look 7-8 to me, and the maturity range shifts from 12 to 5 and back up again. The adults and the setting is interesting though, and the girls are growing on me. The art in the manga is amazing though. The anime is such a downgrade, but that's to be expected for a TV series. I'll probably start reading it once the anime finishes. I got a pack of Moterm notebooks to try daily journalling in. They were free. I had some points built up so I just bought them with that. They didn't end up being all that great for fountain pens, but they're okay for gel. I'm still journalling in the Long Book, but it stays being more for abstract/brief thoughts and short notes/quotes. I intend that one to have more of an Urban Diary type of feel to it once it's done. These were intended for more long form, private stuff I wouldn't put on the Denji Log. I haven't been able to regularly finish physical journals since early 2018. I don't know if I'll have nay success with these of if I'll even finish the Long Book, but maybe. If I do finish the journals, I may take some pictures of them and post them here on the site at some point. I did decorate the covers. The Moterm covers are just plain light brown. I really like how the second one I did came out. It was a pain in the ass to do though. If I do post pictures, I won't be showing any of the entries of course, unless it was something really impersonal. It'd mostly just be the covers. Once I'm done with those, if I finish them, I'll get some proper FPF notebooks next time. 6/1/26 June begins. Haha, I have a little update about Rhyme, that Reddit alternative I mentioned last entry. So, they got banned from r/Redditalternatives because the mod is weird and wanky. You can see the post here. I thought it was funny that the site was made in part to try and avoid this exact same shit and themod of that sub that's supposed to be about finding alternatives to Reddit basically proved one of the site's points about why Reddit is so fucking awful. LMAO. I think people should read the Scenarios page honestly. It just perfectly sums up the bullshit of modern social media, but especially Reddit. Anyway, just thought I'd share that little update there. I'll probably update today's post again later. I mostly just wanted to get the archiving of last month out of the way and post that link. EDIT: Fun realization. If I don't put my medicine directly by my laptop, I'll end up forgetting to take it. I was like oh I'll make everything all organized and have all medical things in one place. That will make things so much easier. Nope. So, it goes back to my desk to clutter up things. But I didn't forget to take it this time. I'd been forgetting to either take it at all, or taking it way later than I would normally because of that. Maybe I need to get a pill container so I at least don't have a giant bottle of pills with pharmacy stuff taking up room on my desk. Archive - Icons - Previous