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I hit 400 hours of BG3 this afternoon. The game continues to be excellent.

I continue to love how well it simulates IRL D&D. Case in point: the 3+ hours I spent fighting Raphael in the House of Hope yesterday. No save scumming was involved; I did the entire battle in my first(!) try, and it took 3+ hours to do. What a freaking fun battle. So much space for tactics. So much fun.

I'm quickly depleting the number of unfinished major and minor quests in my journal: currently, I have about four of each left. And omg I am already mourning the end of this game. I love it so much, and I don't know what's going to occupy my imagination once I've finished it.

In part to postpone the inevitable, I've already started a replay from one of my earliest saves (approximately 2 hours into my initial playthrough).( Cut for shop talk. )

Non BG3 Items of Suckage:( Read more... )

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The new season of Dragon Prince is coming in November.

YAAAAAAAAS.

I am so ready.


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...but am I going to post that today? I am not. Instead, I offer this meme from luthien in which I still manage to talk a lot about books. I may or may not post the actual reading meme tomorrow.

1. Your main fandom of the year?
I consumed a lot of stuff, but this was a bad year for me as far as producing anything went. Aside from my Yuletide fic, I think I only wrote one drabble.

2. Your favourite film you watched this year?
Black Widow was a lot of fun. (That said, I watched a total of four films this year, so it’s not a populous field.)

3. Your favourite book read this year?
The House on Vesper Sands by Paraic O’Donnell, which narrowly edged out Eve Laure’s The Curses.

4. Your favourite album or song to listen to this year?
Kyla LaGrange’s Cut Your Teeth, with my favorite song being “I’ll Call For You” off of the same. That entire album is sonic perfection.

5. Your favourite TV show of the year?
WandaVision, which I didn’t even think I was going to like. But holy crap, I loved it. Pastiche, humor, social commentary—it had it all, even before it delivered the searing character studies.

6. Your best new fandom discovery of the year?
Although it’s currently a fandom of one (i.e., me), The House on Vesper Sands. That book was written for me.

7. Your biggest fandom disappointment of the year?
That I’m still waiting for the next seasons of The Dragon Prince.

8. Your fandom boyfriend of the year?
The House on Vesper Sands’ Inspector Cutter, by a healthy margin.

9. Your fandom girlfriend of the year?
Summer Grace from Laure Eve’s The Curses, also by a healthy margin.

10. Your biggest squee moment of the year?
Finally, finally, finally obtaining Minsc, Beloved Ranger as literally the final card in the final MtG booster pack I purchased this year, after I’d all but given up hope of ever doing so.

Runners up: CM Punk and Bryan Danielson debuting on AEW.

11. The most missed of your old fandoms?
Not a fandom per se, but I’m still hearbroken that Sugiura Shiho retired as a mangaka. I need another of her immersive, brilliantly populated fantasy worlds in my life.

12. The fandom you haven't tried yet, but want to?
So I did in fact get the MXTX novels for Giftmas. I am ambivalent about reading any of these in (English) translation, but you’re far more likely to snare me with a book than with a television series, so here I find myself.

13. Your biggest fan anticipations for the coming year?
At the moment, I can’t think of fan anticipations that aren’t books, so here we are:

Katherine Addison’s The Grief of Stones (sequel to The Witness for the Dead in the Goblin Emperor universe) is set to publish in June. It’s going to be too expensive and too short and I will still buy it the day it comes out.

Naomi Novik’s The Golden Enclaves will publish in September, and I am on tenterhooks waiting to see if my theories on malia and what it is that actually powers all of the institutions in El’s world is borne out.

Melissa Albert’s fourth book is set to publish as well, and I’m very excited about that.


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...did the New York Times just name AEW's very own MJF as one of its best performances of 2020?

( OH YES THEY DID. )

It is consistently some of the best stuff going on TV.

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...and so they are here. I wrote a big tl:dr post outlining the decade of WWE storylines that culimated in Tuesday's squee, but realising that that was a little much to inflict on the unsuspecting, ( here are the Cliff's Notes. )

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