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BiWeekly Update 11/25

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My friend and editor (for my non-erotica books) flew in from Japan. We spent the day in Seattle and saw Smashing Pumpkins/Jane’s Addiction in concert. Not the biggest Jane’s Addiction fan, but they did have hot strippers dancing on stage for half the songs, so that was fun. Billy Corgan was losing his voice so the Smashing Pumpkins didn’t quite play their full set and ended up cancelling their next show.But we had a good day in Seattle seeing the sights and dealing with parking.

And tonight, I’m heading to my moms for Thanksgiving Dinner. Having it on a Friday for scheduling reasons! Then on Sunday, I am flying to Japan.

Well, High School DxD Vol 9 hit and it hit hard. A trip to Kyoto. A busty nine-tailed fox spirit kidnapped, and the Breast Dragon and the Switch Princess have  a massive level up.

Oh, and some hot action with the Holy Trio in the closest. Asia too pure to handle it, Xenobia just eager to make babies, and the angelic Irina just wanting to watch how it works. And since Issei is still an anime character, will he handle it?

The Kyoto trip is fun. Some great action, unlocking new powers, and letting the new valkyrie Rossweise in action. So this was another great addition.

Can’t wait for part 10!

The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You Vol. 3 was a great read! This time the story focused entirely on Hakari’s relationship with her very young MILF of a mother. Losing the love of her life (and father of Hakari) in junior high, Hakari’s mama is not about to let her daughter suffer heartache.

So Rentaro and his other girlfriends will have to band together to save Hakari and convince mama to set her free.

This was a lot of fun. Only one new girlfriend added, but that’s okay. I honestly don’t know how the manga can even support having a 100 girlfriends. This volume was such a fun addition to the manga.

Can’t wait for part 4!

BERSERK 41 arrived at my house. I opened up the envelop from Amazon not realizing what it held. My stomach dropped at the sight. The last of BERSERK Mirua wrote and drew before his death last year.

I read it. I absorbed it.

The volume was full of many lighthearted scenes of the various characters in Gut’s band as they enjoy themselves on the elf island. Caska, still traumatized by what happened to her, is healing. We get answers on the Skull Knight and the Moon Child.

And those were some beautiful scenes with Guts and Caska interacting with the Moon Child. Their child that was stolen from them by Griffith to be his new body. And then… that final scene.

Mirua was at the finish line. What we had in 41 was the calm before the storm. The last breath before the confrontation between Guts, Caska, and Griffith.

Rest in peace Miura Kentaro.

Just read GUNBURED X SISTERS Vol 2! The busty lesbian dominatrix nun is back with her pet dhampir. This time, a female knight who wants to be the nun’s “prince” is not about to let Maria the dhampir have all of Dorothy’s attention.

All while having over-the-top battles with vampires.

It’s insane action, naughty lesbian fan-service, and Dorothy being a sexy nun that loves flashing her thigh-high stockings and panties. This time, they’re up against a vampire scientist who must be a fan of Basic Instinct because she is flashing her pussy every chance she can get.

It’s over the top in such a fun way. I really enjoy this series. All fluff but that’s fine. Not everything has to be serious and with stakes. Sometimes it’s enough to watch hot chicks fighting each other in skimpy clothing while having impossibly huge tits.

On iStripper there were some hot shows. So many, I’m going with four. Lotte Magne’s Magne-ficent was a hot one with a corset and thigh-highs! Layla Scarlett debut show with Welcome to Teddy’s Life is so hot with her glasses and giant pink teddy bear she grinds on! Milena Ray has a hot parody of Wonder Woman in Ray of Wonder! The fiery redhead Clemence Audiard is looking smoking in Sense of Style!

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BiWeekly Update 10/26

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Hello everyone! We’re heading into Halloween.

Do you like the holiday? You a fan of it?

I’m not the biggest fan of it myself. I don’t like horror movies for the most part (some big exceptions). But I do like sexy girls in sexy outfits. And for that reason I approve of it!

What’s your favorite sexy Halloween outfit? I like the naughty nurse!

I watched the Ladies vs Butler: Undressed Edition anime. That was a fun romantic comedy with lots, and lots, and lots of anime boobies. I mean, they just have random shots of girls bathing for no reason.

It’s about a private school that teaches rich women (and one insane guy) to be proper ladies while also teaching a group of young women (and a few guys) to be maids (and butlers). Our titular character is a butler on his first day where he accidentally sexually harasses the entire female student body.

It settles down into a romcom with the childhood friend who comes off sweet but she’s also a Machiavellian monster not afraid to use blackmail often to just make things more entertaining for her. The other is a stuck up rich girl who is very tsundere. There are other girls that also have their attraction from a hot Arab girl in a full burka (and boy is she lovely beneath that), a loli, a princess who wants to be a magical girl, a cross-dressing girl who pretends to be a butler, and a ditzy maid with her exhibitionist twin-sister.

It honestly felt like a hentai visual novel with all these other girls as harder routes, but it turned out to be based on a light novel series. Shame, I would have liked to play a visual novel based on this. It was fun even without the constantly titties.

That just made it even more fun to watch. Of course, neither of the two main girls got the guy but end with their rivalry for his affection continues as he remains oblivious in the way only an anime protagonist can be.

I had fun reading The Greatest Demon Lord is Reborn as a Typical Nobody Vol 7! I really enjoy this series even if Ard is as thick as a stump. He is an interesting guy who became the most powerful man in the world and just wanted to be normal and have friends.

So he killed hinself with the intention of reincarnating in the future where there’s less magic and he’ll just be a typical nobody. Of course, he is still the most powerful person, just everyone is weaker now.

Oh, and all his zany generals and followers are still alive and have very different ways of handling him coming back. Mostly pissed at him and tyring to kill him.

But he has his beautiful childhood friend, Ireena, a busty elf girl, and a succubus name Ginny who thinks his desire to have a 100 friends mean they should all be girls and in his harem.

It’s an interesting series.

Does a Hot Elf Live Next Door to You? Vol 4 continues to be a fun series. A demoness needs our hero’s sexual energy, and his fiery elf neighbor is not about to let that happen. His cute classmate eager for things to progress and Epona, Goddess of Horses shows up as a biker.

Only she doesn’t realize that the “Yanki” culture has passed in Japan and she’s not going to live her dreams of being an outlaw high school student. But she does want to have a race.

All in all, it’s a fun harem series with some naughty fan service. No movement on our main character’s career as a manga artist. Maybe that was dropped?

I started reading the Spy x Family Vol 1 manga. Been enjoying it. Anya is super cute, Yor is both the blushing virgin and the cold killer, and Twilight is a man on a mission. The premise is fun and I like the art style.

So the fake family, all of them keeping secrets, are embarked on the goal of pretending to be a real family all for their own reason. It’s amusing, the story flows, and has you wandering when Twilight and Yor will come into conflict.

Or how their relationship develops because we’re also doing the classic trope of the newly married couple that don’t know each other and are shy to go farther.

So all in all, I’m enjoying it. Up to Volume 4 now.

On iStripper there were some fun shows. We had Noemi Moon celebrating Oktoberfest with Bavaria, Here We Cum in her sexy dress! Even hotter, we had Freya Mayer cosplaying as a naughty Alice in Deep into My Wonderland!

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BiWeekly Update 10/14

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I think Japan is trolling me. I planned on going early September after they said, we’re totally going to open up in the summer. But they never did. Then I cancel my trip and they’re like. October 11th! That’s the new date. You can come in now!

Thanks, Japan. Just a tad late.

So going at the end of November now.

Divine Raiment Magical Girl Howling Moon Volume 3 is here!

It’s sexy magical girls getting fucked by tentacles and fighting evil. I mean, the plot is complete nonsense, but it’s just full of sexy magical girls fighting each other. Some are good. Others are evil.

Now, it says FINAL VOLUME on the cover, only to end on a cliffhanger and say the END OF PART ONE. So is there more to this coming?

I don’t know. I hope so. Again, don’t care about the story, but it’s fun to watch these sexy magical girls fighting and doing things.

Hitman & Succubus 2 is not fluff. It mighty have sexy succubus wearing nearly nothing and cosplay cuties, but it also has stakes. It has action. It has interrogating the soul of a yakuza murder by introducing him to the joys of sodomy via massive pig.

Two hitmen proxies, who have made pacts with succubi to get a second chance at life and getting their vengeance on those that ruined him. But those yakuza are also into demons.

So things are getting crazy. Can’t wait for part 3!

I decided to give Lazy Dungeon Master 1 Light Novel a try! I had fun with this one as Keima is summoned to another world by a Dungeon Core. She’s opened a loot box, hoping for something good and instead got a regular human from our world and accidentally made her the dungeon master.

Now he just wants to laze around, but Rokuko wants him to get rid of the bandits living in her dungeon. To enjoy sleeping, it looks like he’ll have to figure out the rools so he can have the life of leisure he truly craves.

It was a great deal of fun. I am moving on to part 2!

Fun hotties on iStripper! Some great shows, but Freya Mayer in the hot show Foxy Woxy. She’s a cute fox girl. Great stuff! Then Bogdana is back with Purple Haze. She’s such a cutie!

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BiWeekly Update 9/30

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Hello!

How are you all doing! I’ve been back to busy work, my little vacation over. Work, work, work. But I have a new sexy figure to sit on my bookshelf.

A busty elf named Cecilia. She looking so delicious. You’ll be so distracted by those big melons and not see her sword cleaving you in half.

Had fun reading 2.5 Dimensional Seduction Volume 2 about a lucky guy who only likes his girls 2D. That is until a cosplayer joins the Manga club (membership 1) and is obsessed cosplaying his favorite character.

A sexy yet virginal angel. Now he’s seeing his waifu brought to life. So when the his childhood friend (and famous Gravure model) realizes that she can finally get his attention through cosplay, she joins the sexy photo shoots.

It’s a fun romance comedy with lots of fan service and energy. I really enjoyed the second volume.  Looking forward to the third volume.

I read Failure Frame Volumes 4 & 5. I really like this Light Novel series. After a really bitch of a goddess named Vicous summons a high school class to another world to fight the demon lord, Mimori’s abilities are seen as… sub par.

He has status magic, the worst magic in the world. So she gets rid of him. He was supposed to die. He didn’t. Know he’s on a quest to kill the goddess while proving that Status Magic is good if you bother to level it.

It has a goal. A sexy elf named Seras for a love interest, and a slime for a mascot. It’s a fun series. I really am behind Mimori. He wants revenge, and everything he does is to find the way to get it. He needs to overcome the goddess’s impervious defenses.

I wish him well and am eager for part 6!

I also have been reading the Bofuri light novels. I just finished Volume 6. They’re fun but not much depth. It’s all about people playing a very advanced VR MMORPG. But they’re not trapped in it. They can log out at any time.

It is fun when it cuts to the developers as they realize that once more Maple has broken their game thanks to her ridiculous pure VIT build and how the game has so many secret skills you can unlock in strange ways.

It is an interesting game with some weird tech that can accelerate your brain and make you think you’re playing for a week in the game but only a few hours pass in the real world.

Some hot shows in iStripper! First we had Alika as a naughty, Latina maid in Feather Fantasy! Then we had Josephine Jackson as a slutty & busty stewardess in Cum Get Your Wings!

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BiWeekly Update 9/2

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So Japan has lied to the world. They said they would let tourist in starting this summer. Such liars.

So, this is the fourth trip to Japan I’ve canceled thanks to Corona-chan. One day, I’ll have a vacation. One day.

I read World’s End Harem: Fantasia Academy Vol. 1 which is a spin-off comedy series of World’s End Harem: Fantasia set in a very modern high school.

Arc loves Aurelia like in the original but instead of being married off to someone else, she was enrolled in an elite high school and Arc… failed the etrance exam and has to go to a shcool that used to be all girls but now allows boys. Only he’s one of two boys.

Then it’s pretty tame high school antics. The original is full of sex and nudity and this one… has some girls eating sausages in suggestive ways. It’s okay. Same characters, but… not nearly as naughty save in the bonus chapter where all the girls are topless at the hot spring.

So… it was fine.

And speaking of fine, I read An Archdemon’s Dilemma: How to Love Your Elf Bride: Volume 14. It’s one of my favorite Light Novel series, but this was a short story volume.

I’m not really the biggest fan of short stories. I love the Dresden Files, but I only read one of the short stories because it covered the aftermath to Change (and if you’ve read that one, well, you’d know why I had to read it).

So the last one was fine, but I didn’t need some of these side-stories for other characters or backstory that doesn’t add much to the story. It’s a good spot for it since we just finished a big arc.

But I’d like the next arc to start… So it was fine.

But you know what was better than fine? Tales of the Wedding Ring Volume 10! This was a great volume that really progressed the relationship of Hime and Satou.

But who are Hime and Satou. Well, this is a portal fantasy isekai. Satou is just high school kid from our world who’s best friend is a cute girl named Hime. They’re on that verge of becoming boyfriend/girlfriend when she suddenly has to go home.

To her fantasy world.

She’s one of the five Ring Princesses, destined to marry the Ring King and combine her powers with the other four to help him stop the darkness. Now she has to go back to marry the chosen champion. She loves Satou, but she has her duty.

Only Satou ends up coming along and becomes the Ring King. But as much as that makes Hime happy, she knows she won’t have him all to herself like she dreamed of. She’ll have to share him. She doesn’t want to, and he’s not really keen on having any but her, but…

The world’s in danger. Thus starts our harem story. It’s a lot of fun and this volume was a great addition.

Magika Swordsman and Summoner Vol 15 was a blast to read!

I mean, look at that cover!

It’s full of barely clad girls who all act like maidens if you see their panties but flounce around in clothes like that when they activate their magic.

I won’t talk about the plot, because we’re so deep, but this is the manga that got me back into reading Manga (beside BERSERK) after a long hiatus.

We had some naughty iStripper shows the last two weeks. We had Georgia in Pink Shortcake just looking so gorgeous as she pranced around in her tight jean shorts. The other was Sonya Blaze, always a delight to see dancing. This time, she’s dressed up as Supergirl in Super Sonya! One hot show!

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Biweekly Update 7/8/22

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Hello all!

How’s it been going? I’ve been busy, busy, busy. For Patreon/Subscribe Star Fans, I have Fantasy Harem from Another World well underway.

It’s a Reverse Isekai anime come to life! Also, I have a series of HuCow stories coming up! Boarding House for Lesbian Monster Girls (inspired by a fan who wanted some lezzie monster girl fun) is also in the works! I’m also working toward the conclusion of the long-running Demeter arc in the Aphrodite Sisterhood Universe. And I wrote the last part of the Institute of Apotheosis Research today.

Not much going on in my personal life other than I fell into the tame degenercy of HuniePop. I find the puzzle game so much fun, I really don’t care about seeing these girls naked.

But it is funny seeing the censored Steam version of pictures. One of a girl pulling her pussy lips apart, only she’s wearing panties. Oh, Steam, you bunch of prudes. Why make your users get the patch to uncensor things. (Also, why is uncensor not in the dictionary, WordPress?)

So, I am working on Venus thinking she’s the last but learned there’s two more secret girls to unlock. So I guess I’m not as close to beating it as i thought I was.

Gunbured Sisters Vol 1 is one fun and hot read.

We have two nuns fighting vampires. One is Maria, a dhampir (half-vampire) that when she drinks her partner’s blood, turns into a killing machine wearing dominatrix garb. Then there’s Dorothy, but busty senior nun who also is a depraved lesbian.

She has collared Maria, turned her into her pet, and dresses her in naughty outfits for her own amusement.

Together, they fight against vampires. Dorothy will defy all convention and use a creature of darkness to fight evil. She won’t let anyone stop her from her goal.

And from molesting Maria.

It’s got over-the top action and lots of lezzie fanservice. Great series!

I also found I had let Altina the Sword Princess Pile up. I read Volumes 12, 13, and 14 this week.

They’re great stuff, by the same author that wrote How Not to Summon a Demon Lord, though you never know it since it has hardly any fan service in it. It’s actually all about warfare, politics, and military tactics

With a few zany anime characters thrown in.

While it does have some characters that are unrealistic, the ultimate antagonist isn’t even a “bad” guy, but an ambitious one. The older brother of Altina who she’s been vying to inherit the empire. They both have radically different views on how the Empire should be run.

Which leads to the current wars that are covered. Things had been going smooth these last three volumes, but now Regris, our tactician, has been outmaneuvered. The cliffhanger on 14 was insane.

Eager for the next one. This is a great series. It’s a fictional word that’s making the transition from medieval warfare to gun warfare. No magic, but it’s still a great fantasy series.

Got some hot shows from iStriper for you! We have Mina Van D shaking that booty in Red All Over. Then we have petite Ellie Luna as a wicked maid in Tidy Me Up.

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Biweekly Update 6/24/22

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So, I bought a new computer for my bedroom. I haven’t upgraded in a while.

I might have splurged. Buy a new car that I won’t drive much or a fancy computer? It was an easy choice.

A fan recommended me MASTER BOOT RECORD instrumental prog rock based on old computers. I’ve been listening to all their albums all week. Thanks to C & L for the recommendation!

This music is banging. Great for writing since there’s no vocal tracks (save on a few songs off one album). Listening to HTTP off the album INTERNET PROTOCOL at this very moment of writing.

While I am sharing the bandcamp link where you can get each album for only 1 euro, you can listen to it all for free on YouTube, too. But this guy’s music is worth at least a euro for an album.

I read The Duke of Death and His Maid Volume 1 and loved this manga. It’s about a young man who was cursed so any living creature he touches with any part of his body dies.

His maid is a young that loves to cocktease him. She wears a victorian dress with a long skrit, but she’s always hiking it to show off her fishnet thigh-high stockings or bending over. She gets ridiculously close to him like she’s trying to see how close to death she can get.

She’s a flirty and dark girl all at the same time.

And it’s also a love story where she does tease him, but she does it because she likes how it riles him up, but at the same time, she’s taking big risks so that he has someone in his life. Someone who’s not afraid of him.

All in all, I liked it. The second shota maid manga, though he’s not as much younger than her as in The Maid I Hired Recently Is Mysterious Vol. 1. (And if you’re wondering where Cali and her purple eyes came from, it’s this series here that sparked off Owning a Maid Harem).

I’m Not a Succubus Vol 1 was another fun read. It’s a very naughty story. It’s a monster girl harem story with lots of naughty fun and inadvertent orgasms.

Only the main character is Sakura, the only human going to a monster girl school. To blend in, she tells the lie that she’s a succubus. Now all the monster girls are trying to get close to her and she’s inadvertently getting them off.

Which only makes them believe she’s a succubus even more!

Such a fun and naughty manga!

So far we have a cyclops, a lamia, a harpy, and a centaur who is the uptight class rep who hasn’t gotten naughty yet with Sakura. But I have high hopes for volume 2.

I’ve been reading Protector (Darkblade Book 2) a grimdark novel by my writer friend Andy Peloquin.

The Darkblade series falls the half-demon Hunter. It’s very grimdark series with lots of action and fighting. It’s a great story and he’s revised his original version of it and released it, so it’s been fun reading the modified version of the hunter’s stories.

This one has bandits, a shapechanging queen, a lesbian concubine, and lots of murder and intrigue.

The Hunter is a great character. He can’t remember his past, but he’s been alive for at least fifty years and hasn’t aged. He has an evil dagger that begs him to murder with it all the time.

He’s a great antihero. Give the Darkblade Series a try! Not a short series, though, hence why I haven’t read much of anything but this the last two weeks.

I had some hotties from iStripper! Three hot shows the last week. I just couldn’t choose two!

First, we have Alissa Foxy in I Saw the Wolf! It’s a little red riding hood parody! Yum!

Then Mina Van D has two shows! Two! In one, she’s a naughty schoolgirl dancing in L’Etudiante Ecossaise! In another, she’s cute and cuddly sheep girl in Cuddle Mina!

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Bi-Weekly Update 4/15/2022

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My vacation ended this week. I am back to writing full time!

I had a nice, relaxing break. Slept a lot. Went out to eat in actual restaurants for a few times. I enjoyed not having to wear a mask.

I feel recharged and back to work. So much good stuff in the works!

I have been enjoying Banished From the Hero’s Party, I Decided to Live a Quiet Life in the Countryside Light Novel. Now I’ve picked up the manga adaptation. Volume 1 was great!

Really enjoying how Rit is drawn. She has some great cleavage.

While not a fan service and harem series, it does still have cute girls. It’s nice to see it in manga form. I enjoyed the adaption. Seemed pretty accurate to the first light novel. Even saw a hint of later plot elements that probably went right over my head on the first reading.

Ero Ninja Scrolls Volume 1 and 2 about a kunoichi (female ninja) named Arakusa in the “Ero” Period of Japan. A parody of Edo, it’s a world rampant with sex. European “pornogari” are infiltrating the nation with their depraved ways.

It’s up to Arakusa to stpo them. But she so easily falls into sexual situations where she gets molested repeatedly.

It’s not full hentai, but the softcore stuff. More story than sex, but there’s still some real hot scenes in it.

I devoured Slayers 13! Great to read more about Lina Inverse and Gowry. For the last few light novels, she’s been hanging out with characters I don’t remember from the anime. Luke and Mileena.

But Gowry got himself a new sword in this one. We had ourselves a tsundere elf named Memphy. There are always short and fast reads, which is always good times.

The war against the demons continues. Things are getting crazy. Hoping it goes out on a bang!

Some nice shows in iStripper these last two weeks. I enjoyed Candie Luciana’s Sweet Flogger show where she gets naughty with her ball gag. Lara Lane’s schoolgirl show Cheeky Little Thing definitely lived up to its name!

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Hello all!

It’s been an exciting week for writing. In my RL fantasy writing carrer, I just finished Book 10 of my upcoming series. I also finally managed to get the finale of Ultimate Harem Fantasy published this week.

I really enjoyed writing that series. It started as a lark. A summer of procrastinating back before I had ever heard of COVID.

So last April, I had to retire my trusty Toshiba. I bought her in December of 2010. My first ever laptop. It didn’t get much use. But then in 2013, I started writing. The Devil’s Pact was written on my desktop and this laptop while I did my day job on breaks and what not.

It slowly became the only thing I wrote on until by 2014, I was writing everything on it. The Devil’s Pact, the Battered Lamp, My Fallen Angel, and more. I was a writing machine.

But that sort of heavy use takes a toll on a laptop. It gerw older and older, teh keys started wearing out, then the CPU fan died. It started overheating. The case began cracking so that I had to use duct tape to hold it in place. And then…

It was time to retire the old girl. April of 2021.

So I ordered a used Toshiba off the internet. It arrived. We had a good time until August. The H key came off. It broke. I could no longer write with it. So I broke out my HP. It was a laptop I used for doing office work. Like writing this post. I replaced it in 2020 for a faster laptop. At the same time, I ordered a brand new one. The same model that I’m writing on now. One just for writing. It’s got a great keyboard.

I ordered it August 4th not knowing that it would be end of September before it shipped. They did not say that when I bought it. I started writing on my old HP. It was slow, but it was working out. It lasted a month. A fucking month. Then the C and D key stopped working when I pressed them.

That was a frustrating morning.

So I pulled out my second laptop. A Dell I bought back in 2014. My original “office” laptop. I had bought it to write on, too, but I just kept using that Toshiba.

The Dell had some issues, but it got me through September and into mid-October when finally, my new Windows 10 Laptop showed up. With Windows 11.

They “upgraded” me.

Windows 11 has a garbage task bar. It’s complete trash. Windows took a dump on anyone that uses a lot of programs or multiple documents. Thanks to the internet, I added a simple .dll file to my computer and Voila! Windows 10 taskbar. So it’s usable for writing.

In fact, it’s been great for writing.

Now the reason I don’t use my office laptop is i have extra screens that attach to it. This makes it heavy and bulky. Not convenient for moving about, but when I have to my publishing, my formatting, my editing, making covers, it’s wonderful.

So those are my laptop woes of 2021.

Hope it didn’t bore you.

In reading, I finished Banished From the Hero’s Party 4. This sort of lighthearted story got into some deep ideas about destiny, free will, and more.

This was a tense and exciting light novel that drew me. Some good stakes. Characters in peril. And it was a great wrap up to the first arc. I’m curious to see where things go with the Hero.

Anyways, it’s about Red. He’s the older brother of the Hero. His job was to guide and protect her until she came of age and could fully use his powers. Sadly, his abilities couldn’t keep up with hers and the other heroes she assembled.

He was holding them back, or so Ares the Sage claimed. Red agreed and retired to have a simple life where he runs into Rit. She once was in the hero’s party and they reconnect. A nice, simple love story. Some fun. then…

Story got real!

And speaking of stories getting real, I finished a three-part manga called Strawberry Fields Once Again. It’s some fun, sugary yuri fluff.

Akira is a girl that never wants romance. She thought her parents had the perfect marriage until her father left mom for his pregnant mistress. When Mom died of cancer begging to see the man she lvoed who never came, Akira realized romance was a curse.

Then on her way to school a girl name Pure appears, says she’s Akira’s fiancee from seven years in the future where they’re about to be married, and has traveled back in time to fulfill Akira’s wish.

For them to have met in high school.

What follows is a fairly standard friends to yuri lovers arc until things got real in the final volume. Stakes. Ethics of changing time.

It went from fun to actually engaging. Couldn’t put it down. So thumbs up for it!

Lastly, I’ve been reading In Another World with My Smartphone. I’m on Volume 4. It’s a fun harem series. I mean, at least it’s going for full harem route. Girls are onboard with being his wives even if they’re still going the whole slow, anime route.

It’s fun fluff. Nothing to special. But there are always hidden gems to find in light novels. Really good stories that masquerade under fluffy disguises.

Maybe Another World is one, but I doubt it. Still, I like the characters.

This week, Noah Pink’s A Flower in the Dark was my favorite show released by iStripper. She’s a cute bottle-blonde from Spain. I love her shows. Not a real dirty one, but she is so delicious.

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Quarantine continues, and we all need stuff to distract us!

I finished listening to Word of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson. I’m off to listen to Edgedancer, a novella that bridges Book 2 and 3. It’s far, far shorter. It is buried in a short story collection (that’s really great in of itself).

It’s about Lift, a young and budding Knights Radiant who doesn’t take anything seriously but food. She’s an interesting character. In some ways she’s a lot of fun, in other ways she’s too “charactery.” She doesn’t feel like a real person. An eccentric person. A fun person. But not anyone grounded in reality. But that’s some of her charm. A lot of her is an act, to begin with, someone who wants to be a certain way and doesn’t to change.

I’m reading through Elfen Lied Omnibus Volume 3. There are few manga (or other fiction) where I feel true fear for characters’ lives. This is a strange series mixing a slice of life harem tropes with some of the most violent scenes in the manga. Characters get dismembered. Killed. The diclonious are insane.

The manga is way passed the anime at this point. If you don’t know about Elfen Lied, it’s about Lucy. She’s a mutated human with psychic powers. If you get too close to her, she can rip you apart. She’s being held in a facility under extreme guard when someone brings a pen within range of her power.

She escapes, killing many. When she gets shot in the head on the way out, she gets amnesia and goes from this jaded killing machine to a cute and innocent girl who is in need of help. But at any time, Lucy could come out. This tension pervades the series. It’s was a rather shocking opening back in the day, and the manga continues that.

Things are getting crazy. I have no idea what the end game of the manga is. I just hope it’s a better ending than the anime.

I started reading Altina, the Sword Princess Volume 3. This light novel is such a fun read. It’s a tactical fantasy series with Regris struggles to overcome his own doubts while advising Princess Altina as first her military tactician on the frontier and now in court.

Altina is rising in politics and is a threat to her older brother. I’m intrigued to see how the manga balances the battlefield shifting to court. How will Regris’s cope with this new situation? I’m interested in seeing where it goes.

This is one of the light novels series that I’m always pleased to read.

For this week’s winner on iStrippers is definitely Eva Elfie’s Sweet Smell of Spring. Eva is always a delight to have perform, and she has something whimsical and naughty going on in this show.

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