I’m writing this while watching Kazuha’s trailer on the Genshin youtube.
The music is different than I expected.
Also they used Gunyun Stone Forest as the stage which is a bit of a let down. I was hoping that Inazuma would be sort of teased.
There is a bit that could be in Inazuma but it’s deniably Liyue in style too.

Annoying.
But not a bad trailer. Not gonna roll for him though.

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» Vol. 4: Chapter 21 «

There was another spider today.
I think they’re coming in from my house’s loft or something because my room is warmer?
I don’t know.
It climbed on my keyboard!

Luckily I caught it and flushed it down the toilet.
Vengeance was mine.

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» Vol. 4: Chapter 20 «

This chapter was rather interesting to edit because the author sort of addressed a complaint I made a few chapters ago.
This is a really good example of writing, because it validates the readers suspension of suspension of disbelief.
It sounds a bit counter intuitive but it actually encourages the reader to be critical of what they are reading and make their own judgements.

That kind of writing style is really good at preventing plot holes, because if you encourage the readers to do it then you yourself have to make sure you’re keeping things in mind.
Of course, I don’t expect this to be perfect since it’s a web novel and things slip out of memory much easier in something you’re writing on the go.

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» Vol. 4: Chapter 19 «

I’m watching someone do art on twitch, and they’re drawing Lena Tally.
For a very long time I was watching this thinking it was an OC.
And then only when it started to be coloured and detailed did I realise it was a fecking DanMachi character.

It is a strange world we live in.
There is someone who is actually a big enough fan of a background character to pay for art of them.

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» Vol. 4: Chapter 18 «

My Apreggio of Blue steel collection now has 18 volumes.
It’s crazy to think how long this manga has been going now even when it doesn’t feel like one of the big ancient franchises.
Which just goes to show how massive the really old ongoing ones actually are.

And then there’s ones like Raildex that are just ridiculous for how recent they feel in comparison too.

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» Vol. 4: Chapter 17 «

I’m catching up on the story content for Genshin now.
Finished all the main story and the character stories (except Xiao which I’ll do today) as well as all of Noelle’s hangouts.

I get that they couldn’t have solid continuity for the hangouts given all the alternate endings, but it was a bit of a shame that the second one didn’t reference the first much other than acknowledge that you have met before.
Noelle is cute though, I really need to work out a priority order for the characters I want to build.

I’m doing Mona currently because she’s a 5 star and would react with Keqing.
But I also need to do Fischl, Xiangling, Noelle, Albedo, Barbara and Jean… and some others…

Also I want Eula. I managed to stop myself playing to roll for her because I knew I’d spend money but now I regret not playing and spending money.

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» Vol. 4: Chapter 16 «

I bought and started reading the 86 novels last night.
I read through the first three in a few hours.
They had me hooked.
Also it was really hot and I couldn’t sleep so I thought why not do that since I had nothing better to do haha.

You can tell it was originally meant to be a oneshot because Volume 3 sort of retcons the epilogue of Volume 1 ever so slightly but it’s nitpicky levels.

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» Vol. 4: Chapter 15 «