2026-06-02
- About a week ago I caught up with Tongari Boushi no Atelier (the manga), which I hadn’t touched since 2024 and I wanted to re-visit before the first season of the anime ended. It’s a story that takes a while to take off, and the premise of “normal girl goes to magical school” didn’t compel me, but everyone said it would push the right buttons for me and… they were right, I just had to stick with it a little longer. I love a story where the relationship of each character to power is monumental to the driving of the plot, stories about memory and identity, stories that center disability and stories where characters of all backgrounds and ages get to have depth. The cast is huge, so this is no small feat. I’ve found a couple of good longfics but I think it’s one of those things where I’m more attached to canon than any of its reimaginings, so all I have to do is wait for the next chapter to come out. I also got baited into considering a white haired anime dude a favorite character, which I thought I was immune to [shakes my fist in frustration]
- Work this past weekend was nightmarish, I don’t like working a public facing job in the heat, it makes everyone very angry and very prone to violence. I’ve had to call security and at some point the police (someone brought weapons to the place I work at) and they kept threatening the people I oversee, and they’re scared and worried and I’m stressed that nobody’s going to be able to keep this job if the tension keeps escalating and we’re not able to adequately face it. I’m weary, and I feel the anxiety in my stomach, my thighs, my throat.
- I haven’t been able to cook through the exhaustion on the weekends and I’m rather disappointed, it’s still a thing that brings me joy and that I’d like to perfect, but the only time I’m on cooking duty I’m physically drained to the point of needing 12 hours of sleep and horizontality to be able to keep up with my job the next day.
- I watched The Drama yesterday, went in blind because everyone told me the twist was very important but I didn’t care much for it; it happens early and keeps you tense, the performances were good, but I thought I’d be more emotionally riled up by it.