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whew, lotta things happened recently!

* FINISHED THE GUNTERCORRIN DOUJINSHI 8D (technically the official release date is tomorrow but I'm stealth-launching the page to catch any major bugs before the big announcement). i'm also hoping to do a proper post-mortem in a separate post but u can buy this grandpafucking shizz i been working on for the last year! probably the last true "big" fates creative project of mine; still love the characters so very dearly but not "i cannot stop thinking about them for three years straight" hyperfixation levels you know?

* i got laid up briefly this past week by a weird self inflicted case of inflammation when trying out new coffee that disagreed with me (lol). while resting my back, burned through the jakarta method (sobering nonfiction read how the CIA royally fucked up developing nations with a major case study on jakarta) which i had in paperback, as well as trying to finish pleasure activism (ehhh), and thought reform and the psychology of totalitarianism (also solid sobering if academic read on how mao-era interrogation/torture fucks up people, part of my larger "interrogation/censorship" study). DNF'd the diamond eye that a parent's friend gave me (apparently i cannot do "historical fiction" because it wigs me so much how authors insert thoughts into real people that they themselves probably didn't think because said thoughts feel a little uhhhh twitter flavored lol).

* slowly playing through warhammer rogue trader, loving it the more i stick with it ~ for some reason i'm posting more about it on my tumblr inspo sideblog; no essays yet.

* speaking of that, got a long as hell fire emblem tellius meta essay in the works on its symbology (comparing and contrasting branded/laguz/spirit charmer marks, religious marks, heron script.) started off as a fun evening lark and quickly grew into.... uhhh.... something much larger. :D (i had been interested in this topic for ages since i've headcanon'd my self insert as a spirit charmer possessed by a demon so there's a lot of 'how do i connect this with canon in a way that respects the canon' motivation here, as well as a gigantic fondness for the base lore just by itself.)

* there are three art side projects i am REALLY excited about that aren't technically under NDA but i want to wait about a month for when I've made a little more progress before starting to talk/post about here. all of them are collaborations with cool as hell peeps <3 it's the kind of very narrowly defined, very niche collaborations i find i actually like doing (versus a generic anthology SFW call where i'm like 'what's the point of this again' lol.) 

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Date: 2025-06-14 03:55 am (UTC)
karel: (Default)
From: [personal profile] karel
Thank you thank you! Quite glad to be sharing one with Gunter hehe. There's something really fun about sharing a birthday with a character you like. It's been a good day, spent some time in Rogue Trader, having some very normal regular feelings about the companions I've picked up so far (...Abelard... hello, sir... (: ), and enjoying the structure of the combat system. Blade dancer is fun as hell.

(heh! I will take a look, I do love a good meme like that, and I've been wanting to talk more about my summoner outside of just here! EDIT... I have done the thing!)
Edited Date: 2025-06-14 06:00 am (UTC)

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Date: 2025-06-17 02:07 am (UTC)
karel: (baiken ► glow)
From: [personal profile] karel
He is indeed great so far, and you know what I'm rubbing my hands together like a raccoon about? I have a feeling that is not the last time I see my betrayer, and I hope that next time? Look, obligatory caveat, torture doesn't work, whatever - I want to make him squirm. My RT is currently shaping up as "nice to children" and "nice to friends" and "devastatingly cruel to her enemies" so we'll see where the game let me go with that.

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