Mar 29: What did I do this and last week?
2026-03-29
Song of the week: Kenji Kawai - M01 Utai I-Making of Cyborg
Emoji of the moment: 🪞
Got too busy to write last week's post
I decided to do laundry last Sunday and it all just got to be a bit much, so this post is for both weeks instead.
Finished the 250 boxes part of Drawabox
They said it was impossible. They said no one in human history has ever drawn 250 boxes and no one ever will. They said that if I tried it, I would lose everything. But I did it. And I'm going to start drawing plants tomorrow! Drawing actual real-world objects is going to be fun.
Got a Real Camera
A Canon EOS 2000D. I decided to get it in like mid-January, and then I had to wait until February to post Freja's February Fundraiser for it on social media, and then I had to wait until this week to get the last bit of money to actually buy it. It's been so long! But it's here now, and I like it. It takes sharper pictures with better colors than my phone, and it's just fun and satisfying to use.
Got a ridiculous lamp and a pair of teacups
I haven't been able to hang the lamp up properly because I need to get a hook in my ceiling, which I don't know why this apartment doesn't have, but it's this big feathery thing. I love it.
The teacups (and saucers) aren't quite as pretty as the ones I already had, but they are bigger. Nice to have.
Looked through a box of old comics
I took it over from my father when he was clearing out his storage space. Most of the comics weren't very noteworthy, but there were a bunch of the Tintin comic albums, which I gave to the thrift store I got the lamp and teacups from, and, surprising me, some translated manga. I didn't know it was that big here in 1991.
Here's Usagi Yojimbo teaching readers about samurai.
Finished reading Titus Groan
Fascinating world, quite funny here and there, humor marred by the way it seems to expect you to love to laugh at fat people for being fat. I want to see what happens later, but I'm going to read some sci-fi first. Started on Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie.
When Flay judged the silhouette a good twelve paces distant he began to follow, and then there began the first of the episodes— that of the stalk. If ever man stalked man, Flay stalked Swelter. It is to be doubted whether, when compared with the angular motions of Mr. Flay, any man on earth could claim to stalk at all. He would have to do it with another word.
Read a fun (two-part) post
ACOUP: Collections: Warfare in Dune, Part I: Fighting Faufreluches
... which reminded me of Mussolini: Son of the Century, a TV show about that guy's early political career. It's worth watching for the music and editing, which make watching it feel like being swept up in a movement. It manages to show you both the attraction of such a movement and how hideous and awful it is at the same time, without directly saying so, unless you count that one scene where Mussolini looks into the camera and says "Make Italy great again".
I've read Frank Herbert's six Dune books, and people are right when they say you should read them but stop when you're no longer enjoying them because they don't get better. God Emperor has a woman orgasm from seeing a cool guy climb a big wall, and then I think it's Heretics of Dune that contains the word "whore" 40+ times, and then there's the faction of evil women who mind control men by having sex with them real good. But the setting keeps being cool and fun. I think it's the most flawed series I've finished reading, but I don't regret it. But the sex stuff really does just get worse and worse and worse.
Read a good article about GDQ
Games Done Quick's Long, Difficult Journey To A Better Gaming Future
I've been watching GDQ's marathons since the first or second one, and what this article says tracks with what I know. It is really nice that they take such clear stances for queer people in such big events when they could just be safe and "neutral", even if the organization has made mistakes and been slow to act on things along the way.
