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Weekly Update

I am a child of the 80s. So when I saw that a Japanese figure company was doing two detailed bishojou (pretty girl) statues of two of the hottest women from GI Joe, I had to buy them.

A year later, the Baroness and Scarlett have arrived.

A sexy redhead with her crossbow is a must-have on my shelf, but the Baroness with her glasses has a playfulness about her body. Especially, in that skin-tight bodysuit she’s wearing. I am glad they arrived today. Love decorating my workspace with pretty girls to look at.

So inspiring!

I finished the rough draft on the (still untitled) sequel to The Fighter Awakens in the Naughty World (Ultimate Harem Fantasy 1). My first LitRPG novel was a huge success, and I am eager to get the second one out. It’s a long one and they take a lot of work to produce, but I’m thrilled to have this finished.

I’ll be launching into editing on this one and get it ready for my editor. I hope I can get this published in the next month before I go on vacation in March.

This busty elf mage is the cover art. This is Kulrigiizhai and we’ll be getting into her past and character in this book.

I started reading Altina, The Sword Princess 2 today. It’s a Light Novel by the same author as How NOT to Summon a Demon Lord. You’d never know it. How NOT to Summon is a harem isekai with sexual antics left and right. Girls in scanty costumes getting naked and throwing themselves at the hero left and right.

Altina is a strategy fantasy series. It’s got hardly any fanservice to it with a story about a young princess’s ambition to take the throne of the empire and relaying on a disgraced strategist who is haunted by guilt for his last lord dying in battle along with much of the army.

It’s a story about redemption and politics. If you didn’t know this was the same author, you’d be surprised. In America, I’d publish these books under two separate pen names, but Japan is such a different place. It’s why my traditional fantasy is published under my real name as opposed to my erotica.

Sigh…

Another fun problem this week. It started when my dropbox on my computer was stuck syncing. It was eating up all the read bandwidth on my hard drive every so often, making anything running off that drive freeze. I couldn’t open even simple .txt files. It happened right after a Windows 10 update.

After a week of trying things with dropbox customer support, they realized that it couldn’t properly read my harddrive. This was why dropbox couldn’t ever finish syncing. My 3 TB storage hard drive is dying.

I ran some diagnosis, but there were no bad sectors and the drive seemed to be working correctly without dropbox running. I started copying files off of it and found files that couldn’t be copied or opened. Nothing major, just files I could redownload but they were big files.

So now I’ve ordered two more 3 TB drives (I was debating upgrading or adding another drive). Fun times! So they’re in the mail from Infotech, a local company I’ve been buying parts from since the 90s.

And, lastly, I need to lose weight. I’ve been losing the fight for a year, gaining all the weight I lost. It’s so frustrating.

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Weekly Update

It’s snowing today. It really doesn’t snow in Tacoma where I live. And when it does, it’s usually a light dusting. This is heavy and thick. it looks like it’s sticking around.

Well, glad I’m not doing my old job of driving around. This would not be a great day, but here’s a photo from my porch. This is the level of snow that makes my city fly into a panic. It’s rather sad, I know. We can go whole winters without seeing the white stuff.

Just lots, and lost of rain.

Anyways, I finally finished listening to the Crippled God, Book Ten of Malazan Book of the Fallen. This epic fantasy series I’d been listening to for over a year now. The books are long and while I really enjoy this series, it’s not one I can listen to for hours on end.

But the series is fantastic. It’s so different from any other fantasy out there. From the characters, the situations, and just the sheer breadth of the world-building. The Crippled God is a great ending to the series. Emotional and resonance and satisfying given how crazy and convoluted the series is and all the plot threads that Erikson brings together at the end.

I like listening to audiobooks when working (not writing or editing) so it’s great to get this series behind me and listen to more bingeable fare. I started An Echo of Things to Come (The Licanius Trilogy Book 2). It’s a fantasy series that just ended and I enjoyed it. Makes good use of time travel and prophecy while discussing some great topics like “Do you have free will if God knows everything you’re going to do.”

Read Saki the Succubus Hungers Tonight Volume 1 this week. What a great, fun manga. A cute and sexy heroine, lots of naughty fun, and a delightful premise. Saki needs men’s essence to survive, but she doesn’t want to be a slut like her older sister.

She wants to feed only off the man she loves.

Will she find that with her new roommate?

This even has some sister-on-sister action in it. Both in fantasies and in big sis giving a very intimate inspection of Saki. I can’t wait for volume two of this manga to come out!

I watched the series finale of The Good Place. I’ve been a big fan of this show. It’s the last TV show I’ve been following. I love the blend of comedy, philosophy, and world-building. The special effects might not be a great show, but the characters and the story make up for it.

It was a bittersweet ending. I’m not sure how I feel about the ultimate solution, but it was still a great farewell to the characters. This is a show that has always known where it was going. It kept changing the status quo as it explored a version of the afterlife.

I recommend this show whole heartily!

Boy, How NOT to Summon Your Demon Lord 12 got real at the ending. I can’t wait for number 13 to come out.

Enjoy your week! If you’ve read or watched anything great, let me know!

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