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I didn't say it in yesterday's post, but after procrastinating on it for a couple of weeks, I finally finished my post of the Sonic Sunday Strips. I'd ended up turning it into a bigger thing than it needed to be in my head, mostly because I was daunted by how much people seemed to want me to cover them. Given that the post has received less traction than even what my little Sonic blog usually receives, I can't shake the feeling that this post wasn't what people wanted from me, but regardless, it's done now.

When it came down to it, while I liked the Sunday Strips fine, I didn't feel like there was enough in them for me personally that I wanted to turn them into a whole series on the blog instead of a single post giving an overview of them. The thing that I enjoy about Sonic comics is the unique characters each one adds into them in order to carve their own niche into the franchise. The Sonic Sunday Strips didn't have that, instead almost entirely being short, silly Sonic vs. Robotnik antics, with Tails appearing for the final story, but no other characters. I know that for a lot of people, this is exactly what they want from a Sonic comic, but for me it's the total opposite. I was honest about that in the post.

However, I do think that it's wonderful that due to the dedication of fans and one of the artists from the series itself these comics were archived so that I could read them at all. They were regarded largely as lost media until 2016 and two of the comic strips still haven't been found yet. From within the Sonic fanbase I often see a lot of negativity about the fandom, but I think that the efforts this community can go to in order to preserve something that otherwise would've been lost to time should be celebrated, which I also said on the post.

With the Sonic Sunday Strips done, I now only have three more comics to cover before I've met the initial goal that I had for my Sonic blog. I'm hoping that this won't take too long to achieve.

(I had a bit more that I wanted to say here but ack, surprise relative visit again! I'll get to Animorphs next time...)

Current Mood: rushed

It's not Friday here yet, but since this week's

thefridayfive list is already up and I have time, I might as well go ahead and fill it in:

1. Do you enjoy reading?
Yes! I love reading! I spent most of my childhood and teenage years reading, but then in my twenties fell into the trap of casting it to the wayside in favour of other hobbies, though I always kept up reading comics at the very minimum for all that time. Then after moving house about three years back I decided to reclaim reading for myself and have been enjoying it again ever since.

2. What is the first book you remember reading?
I wish I could remember that in any satisfying answer. My mam told me that in nursery, the only complaint she had about me was that I'd get angry at the other kids when they damaged books, but I don't remember specifically the ones that I read. Although I sadly can't remember the title, the first book that I still have some memories of was a one filled with Christmas-themed short-stories about woodland animals.

3. Who is your favourite author?
Terry Pratchett, now and forever. I actually discovered his work via a point-and-click video game when I was somewhere in the range of 8-10 years old and once I realised that there were also books about Discworld, there was no going back. I started reading his work at an age that might be considered "too young" but he taught me so much compassion and humour through his work that I'd never change this.

4. What is your favourite book?
To this day, I cannot pick a favourite Discworld book. At some point I'd like to reread the whole series (if my current reading list ever thins out!) and then I might actually be able to answer this question.

5. What is the last book you read and the first you'll read next?
It's funny how my previous entry on this blog also answered this question, but the last book I read was Mythos by Stephen Fry. I am now currently reading the 40th Animorphs book and after that I'll be reading the 4th Megamorphs book, as well as selecting a new book to casually read while my niece is around, which will probably be another book that a relative gifted me for Christmas, so I don't seem unappreciative.

Current Mood: okay

I'm not sure if this is a general Dreamwidth ask game or one that

yarnofariadne came up with, but it's Wednesday and I realised that I could actually answer all of the questions right now, so decided to steal it:

What have you recently finished reading?

Mythos by Stephen Fry

A relative got me this for Christmas and I was just touched that someone in my family would care enough about me to remember that I like Greek myths. I also like to have a book that I casually read when my toddler niece is around, just so she can see people reading for fun instead of sitting on their phones - whether or not this is a fruitless effort, it is getting me to chip away at my book pile, so there is some benefit to me. This has been a good one to read a little bit at a time over the last few weeks, since it's entirely Stephen Fry describing the various Greek myths focused on the gods themselves. It was easy reading and I enjoyed it enough that I directly said to my relative that he can get me any of the other books in this series for next Christmas if he wants some present ideas.

What are you currently reading?

Animorphs book 40: The Other by K.A. Applegate

I'm just less than halfway through the next Animorphs book on my list. I don't want to talk too much about it before finishing, but it seems that the floodgates have been opened in regards to Andalites appearing on Earth now and I'm certainly not opposed to a centaur-like alien being described as being tall, buff and powerful with the horse part comparable to a Clydesdale.

What will you be reading next?

Megamorphs 4: Back to Before by K.A. Applegate

At this point in my recommended reading order for Animorphs, the series breaks off for another side-story. I have avoided looking up anything about this one, so couldn't remotely guess at what it might be about.

Current Mood: full

I'm back from my weekend away staying with friends at Leeds. As usual, it was a wonderful, chill weekend and it was good to catch up with them to talk about all the many things, since there are a lot of talks that feel better to have in-person than online. We spent a good chunk of the weekend playing the new Tomodachi Life, which I'm pleased to say is a vast improvement over the original game and was actually fun to watch! Though I have to confess that it's probably not a game I'd get myself, purely because I don't have the patience to make the miis look as good as I'd like. It was a lot more fun to watch my two artist friends make brilliant miis based on our pets and favourite characters.

While I was there, I also watched season two of Smoggie Queens with them, which continues to be one of the most entertaining shows I've ever seen. Mostly, I'm amazed that the BBC in this current climate would greenlight a second season for a loud and proud queer comedy about working-class people from Teeside, but I'll keep my fingers crossed that the series will continue to see the luck its gotten so far and gets another season, because there are plot-points that I'm very invested in now, particularly Sal's situation with her crush Mel.

( More Animorphs )

In terms of work, we've all had to do a bit of a shuffle for the next three weeks. We had a new-starter who had clearly bitten off more than she could chew with the job and quit effective immediately, so there were three weeks worth of rotas that the manager needed to cover. I didn't fair too badly in it, just working a bit more than I would've been originally. It's a shame, she seemed like a nice girl, but I could tell the job was a bit much for her. I think some people go for retail assuming it'll be an easy option and don't realise how much manual labour is involved in it in many places. I don't know yet if anyone else will be taken on to replace her though, so I guess we'll see.

Current Mood: okay

After just crawling out the other side of bank holiday during a heatwave, one of my co-workers informed me that this week is apparently also half-term, which I was unaware of now that my mam no longer works in a school and my niece isn't old enough to start school yet. So carry on I must. Spare a thought for people working in customer-facing jobs, well, all the time generally, but particularly during heatwaves when a massive chunk of the country's population are enjoying getting time off and being very vocal about that.

It's not all bad news though, as this weekend I'll be going to stay with my friends and former housemates in Leeds. While I had a pretty dreadful time in Leeds purely because of my work situation there (maybe more on that another time, though that'll definitely be a friend-locked entry...), this had nothing to do with my housemates, who remain two of my closest friends. I usually visit them for birthdays, but this time it's a "no particular reason" visit. They recently got a Switch 2, so I'm looking forward to getting to see the new Tomodachi Life and maybe Pokopia. The former I'm especially keen to see played by people who are into the same silly characters as I am, so we can put them into situations.

So basically, I've just got to make it to the weekend.

( I also finished reading Visser )

Current Mood: okay

I wanted to try to keep this journal somewhat positive, but bank holiday weekends are basically a nightmare for me and have been in every job that I've ever had, so my absence and exhaustion for the last few days stems from that. Of course I know that I'm lucky to have a job at all and I'm certainly a lot luckier than I was in my last job, which was a great many times more stressful than the one I have now, but even knowing all of this, I'm telling myself that it's okay to feel wiped out.

( Of Animorphs and reading guides )

As an unrelated side note, my icon here is of a character from a mobile game called "The Arcana" that I'm not actually very familiar with. I tried it briefly for a friend who liked it, but quickly realised that it wasn't for me. Regardless, the character in my icon, Portia, was the one love interest who I did really like in the game and her annoyed expression here is so fitting for many situations that I continue to use it, despite not caring for the game itself. I should at some point get a version of it where you can see her expression more closely though.

Current Mood: weird
Current Music: Gravity - Hazbin Hotel (unfortunately lol...)

Time for a little update on what I've been reading and writing:

( Talk about Animorphs and European Sonic comics fresh outta the 90s )

For other writing, I wrote two more kinkmeme fills last week. Both of them short, but that's still a little something about their ship that the requester didn't have before. In these cases, neither of them have reached their original requesters so far, but when you're filling older prompts, the dice-roll often does fall on the requester not finding it. Maybe someone someday will read it and enjoy it though.

Current Mood: okay

For the last few days obviously stuff has happened, but not particularly anything worth writing about (unless you want to hear about how my mam and I ended up escorting home a couple of escaped neighbourhood dogs who were running about on the road as we were heading out food shopping, but that's really the extent of that story), so I'm glad that

thefridayfive has given me some more topics to cover instead:

1. How often do you hear live music?
Very infrequently. I don't live near anywhere where live music is performed and I don't particularly seek it out. I can count the number of live music events that I've attended on one finger, though through the power of unfortunate timing, I'll be able to add two more to that number by the end of this year (one of them by the end of next month).

2. What was your favorite live musical performance ever?
Coming in from the previous question, I guess that means the only answer I can give to this is the single one I went to, which was last year when my brother asked me to go with him to an orchestra who were performing songs from Avatar: The Last Airbender in Edinburgh. The orchestra were wonderful and everyone had a sing-along to "Secret Tunnel" at the end, but I was sick as a dog at the time, which marred the experience. Which is a shame, because going to Edinburgh is always wonderful. My brother enjoyed it so much that he has invited our mam and myself to see the same performance in York during autumn this year, so I'm hoping that my health will be better then, so I can properly appreciate their work.

...But okay, I have to confess that I'm much more excited for next month, when I'll be going to London to listen to live music be performed from Hades & Hades II! I usually don't do things like this, but I knew it could be a once-in-a-lifetime chance, so I did end up booking tickets when they became available and even though I'm not a fan of London (it has been a long time since I've gone there though, over a decade), I'll brave it for Ashley Barrett & Darren Korb's performances.

3. Do you play an instrument, or sing?
I don't play an instrument, I've sadly never been able to make my brain figure out how to make an instrument work, but I sing as much as the next person. I love singing, it makes me happy.

4. Have you ever performed music onstage?
Surpringly, yes. Waaay back in middle school I was one half of a duet for the vocals in a school performance. I was told back then that I could sing well, but I don't believe this has endured. These days, I can sing high, but not well. Regardless, I have fun, so what else matters?

5. Who is your favorite musician?
These kind of questions make me nervous. I always feel like there are loaded guns around the room when people ask about music preferences. But I grew up on a steady diet of Fleetwood Mac, Meat Loaf, Queen, generally 80s music and Mika as the outlier on that list, so that's really where my interests lie. I just like songs that feel like they're telling me a story or asking me to come up with one myself.

Tonight I finished watching a longplay of Resident Evil Requiem, which brings me up to date with the main games in that series, at least until the DLC for Requiem comes out sometime in future. I know there are also many other games in the series outside of the main ones and I'm not ruling out that I might watch through those as well at some point, but for the time being I'm happy enough to tick this one off my list and move onto something else.

It feels good to have finally caught up with a series that I enjoyed watching my cousins play on the PS1 back when I was a kid. Certainly there were a few parts of the series that I was less invested in, but for the most part I've really enjoyed the vibes and how much you can tell the people involved in the series really care about it. My friend once told me that the secret sauce to a successful series is that even if you as the audience might think it's silly, the source material takes itself completely seriously and honestly, I think Resident Evil gets that right. Though obviously it's more than prepared to poke fun at itself sometimes, but it doesn't cross that line into irony poisoning that a lot of modern takes on long-running series like this one sometimes do.

( I should probably talk about Requiem specifically before moving on )

Current Mood: content

Last Friday, I learned about

thefridayfive just minutes before I was due to leave for work and I knew that by the time I was next back on my laptop it would no longer be Friday. But this week I am here in good time to fill in the questions while it's still Friday, so let's go:

1. What do you consider your current main fandom? (This can include hobbies and collecting. Anything you feel fannish about!)
It's easily Pokemon right now. It's been on the verge of being Pokemon for most of my life, so I finally just gave in and let that happen.

The long answer is that my best friend and I were wrapping up our long-time RP series based on Hades Game. We had reached the point where we sensibly agreed that all the major plot-points were being wrapped up and while my OC Momus could've continued to make drama forever, we probably shouldn't let him do that. This was back when Hades II was still in production and we thought we'd pick something smaller to focus on, because we didn't want to start anything more in that universe before we knew how Hades II was going to end.

So we picked Pokemon. A few ideas set in the Pokemon universe had been on our list of potential one-shots for a long time. But I think we both knew going in that this was never going to be a one-shot for us. And in our usual fashion, it became a massive RP filled with so many characters and ideas that we want to explore, without any sign of stopping soon.

2. What was your first fandom?
Sonic the Hedgehog.

At the age of eight, another kid introduced me to Sonic the Comic, which was the UK's own Sonic comic. After buying issue 80 for myself and being sucked in by the cliffhanger of Amy Rose about to be attacked by a version of her friend who'd lost himself to some magic power, there was no way I would ever look back and I've been a Sonic fan ever since.

3. Do you have any favorite headcanons or fan theories?
Lots, I can imagine. To think of one for my current fandom, I like the headcanon that both Sada and Turo are Arven's parents (in each version of the game it only specifies the one who's central to that game) and they each went in opposite directions through the time-stream after leaving each other. Neither of them had much interest in poor Arven. :(

4. Have you ever created fanworks?
When am I not creating fanworks would be the question I'd find harder to answer. ;P

5. Are you still active in any old fandoms?
Yes, I am still somewhat active in the Sonic fandom, since I'm currently running a blog talking about Sonic comics there. I am vaguely present in the Hades Game fandom, though I've sort of backed off from making anything in that one for the time-being (I still love the series though). I'm not particularly involved in any other of my older fandoms right now, but you never know what comes around.

Current Mood: indifferent

It's been a rushed few days between work and family obligations, with the rest of my week set to be much the same. But here's a quick round up of some fun stuff:

I began coverage of the French comic on my Sonic blog. This comic ran for two issues back in 1994, though only the first volume was a "proper" comic, while the second volume was a guidebook that contained some short comic strips. I've posted about the first volume today and will move onto the second volume next time I update the blog.

Sticking with Sonic, my weekly update of my Kofi gallery was also some Sonic fanart. I have now almost run out of what I'd regard as recent art to upload there though. So after next week, I need to either draw something new or dig a little deeper into my archives.

Lastly, I was tagged on tumblr to share a snippet from a recent WIP. Because I admittedly don't have much right now, I ended up posting something from an original story that I sometimes tinker with called "Region of Hedone". This story is purely for me to write the odd scenes from to amuse myself and not anything I actually ever intend to write as a full piece. The extert in question sets a scene between two of the villains (who are also my favourite characters) - the goddess Hedone (daughter of Eros and Psyche) and her casual consort Reggie Bamburgh:

When Reggie approaches her on the docks, he strides with that same arrogance that she knows leaves many of her followers saying he has no right to act the way he does around her – as if he’s equal to a goddess. But Hedone is quite literally hedonism. What the others don’t realise is that she would choose Reggie over them and their simpering any day of the week. His confidence in pursuing what he wants is like catnip to her.

Yet she doesn’t turn around to face him just yet, continuing her steady gaze over the ocean. He needs to work for it.

And he will do.

Current Mood: okay

I said last time that I hoped to get two more things knocked off my to-do list this week and I've now managed to achieve both of them!

Today, I posted about the final issue of Sonic the Comic on my Sonic blog. It's not truly the end of my journey, as a couple of the creative team for that comic went on to make other things for the Sonic series (both officially and unofficially) that I'm going to talk about. As well as that, there's a French Sonic comic from the 90s that I've always wanted to read and am going to sneak into my blog coverage under the excuse that it counts as part of the wider European Sonic comics, even if it's not StC. But finishing the main comic itself was the bulk of my work, so it feels good to have that done.

As well as that, last night I finished watching the post-game DLC for Resident Evil 8. I've already started watching Resident Evil Requiem, which is the last game I plan to watch right now for the series before I move onto something else on my list. It's too early for me to say what my thoughts are on Requiem, but I obviously have some thoughts on RE8 after finishing it.

Not least because, after watching through eight games whose creations span over almost three decades, RE8 did something that no other game in the series has managed so far:

It managed to scare me.

( Not all of it was scary of course, but let's talk about that )

Current Mood: accomplished

Yesterday evening, on my break at work, I finished Animorphs #31. Which brings the total of Animorphs books I've read this year up to ten so far, including the longer spin-off books that I've been reading at the places in the series where the reading guide I'm using recommends slotting them. This means that I've now met my minimum target for one of my New Years goals, which was to read 10-15 more Animorphs books this year. I'm feeling positive that I have over half of the year left to increase that number.

As the series is a long one, I'm probably not going to post my thoughts on each individual book as I finish them. I'll do it on an "as I feel like it" basis. This book in particular was focused on Jake, who is admittedly the least-interesting of the main cast to me. While I feel for his situation and sympathise with him, this so far doesn't translate into me finding him to be the most likeable. Though that might have something to do with my wariness of how he treats the other characters, particularly his recently-gotten-together-with girlfriend, Cassie, who he still doesn't show a lot of support towards when she's frequently faced with the entire group disagreeing with her worldviews (I wonder why this might be a bit of a sore spot for me, hmm?)

In terms of meeting other goals, I now both have only two main series comics left to post about on my Sonic blog (both of these entries are already written) and only 20 minutes left to watch of the post-game DLC for Resident Evil 8. Unless something unexpected happens, I'm fairly sure I'll get both of those done this week as well.

On a completely different note, myself and several other family members went to visit one of my mum's friends, whose birthday it was today. This resulted in me getting to meet three black sheep and a large, hairy pig up close as I watched them being fed. We also left off with an open invitation that I can just wander up to where they are and feed them whenever I like, which is a massive win in my books.

All in all, a very good day for my random day off this week. (Working shifts, days off happen whenever they happen and I roll with my lack of routine as best I can haha.)

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: Hollywood - Marina and the Diamonds

I started writing for kinkmemes again. That was actually something that finally made me get my ass into gear about making an account here after putting it off for over a year, since many of the kinkmemes are here and I was suddenly looking at the Dreamwidth logo a lot more regularly.

Honestly, I'd underestimated how much I'd missed it. Writing something anonymously to fulfill the request of a stranger. Years ago, I did that for both the Ace Attorney and Professor Layton fandoms. Which led to me posting fics on my own account for those fandoms, which led to... more than I had the capacity to deal with in the case of Layton, which ultimately killed the drive. But this time around I've put something in place to stop me from doing that, so I can say with reasonable confidence that anything I write for a kinkmeme will be unlikely to appear on SamCyberCat (but don't worry, it's not anything that I think anyone following this username would be all that interested in regardless).

It's funny, because a friend (perhaps unintentionally?) pointed me in the direction of a kinkmeme that I liked the look of and going through it, there were so many inspiring prompts that it made me want to write fanfic again for the first time in a long while. There's a longer reason why I lost heart with it, but perhaps that's another journal for another day.

Because I'm the sort of person who makes invisible rules for myself despite knowing better, I decided to start at the beginning of the kinkmeme and do a "first pass", writing for any prompts that I felt that I could very easily do. If that goes well, the "second pass" will be writing for prompts that I think I can do, but require a bit more effort.

Anyway, obviously with starting at the beginning, I'm writing for older prompts, where the people who made them may have since figured their prompt was never going to be filled and lost interest. But for two of the ones I've posted so far, they both found the original prompter and received delighted comments from them. One of those is the longest comment I've received on a piece of writing for years. You could feel the joy from this person. In both cases, they were fics about rarepairs and in my experience, rarepair fans generally do leave the best comments, because they never take what they get for granted. (For example, back in the Free! fandom, I loved MakoHaru, but knew I'd never get the same feedback for that ship as I would for rarer ships, because there were already so many other MakoHaru fics to choose from out there that were probably better than me dipping my toe in sometimes.)

But it just felt good. Writing should be for yourself. That's the bottom line. But for me personally, sometimes writing something that I know I'll enjoy writing, but it's something that someone else asked for is a great satisfaction as well. Would I be making this journal saying as such if I hadn't got those two nice comments? Perhaps not. But I did get them and their joy gave me joy in turn, so I'm going to celebrate that.

Current Mood: thoughtful

I realised belatedly that in the previous post that was supposed to be about what creative stuff I'm doing this year but actually just turned into what media I'm planning to read/watch this year, I neglected to even mention my Kofi.

To be honest, I'd not really used Kofi for anything other than sending money to other people in the past, but at some point I was clicking around on it and realised that it has a gallery function that's not dissimilar to that of deviantART, so I decided that I might as well throw up the odd drawing there from time to time, since I probably won't be going back to dA anytime soon.

I'll be doing this once a week, if you want to check it out. My original idea was for this to be on tuesdays, but working shifts and having a bad memory has meant that this hasn't always worked out that way. But it will happen on some day once a week. Hopefully even on a tuesday sometimes.

The idea is that it might get me back into drawing for fun. But even if that ends up not happening, I have so much backlog from the years gone by that there'd be enough to keep me able to put something up once a week for quite a while before I run out.

Current Mood: sleepy

I wanted to properly start off by talking about some of my creative aims for this year, starting with New Year's Resolutions and moving on to other stuff that's cropped up as the months have gone on. We're now decently far away from the new year, but I've only made this account on the last day of April, so what can you do?

Generally, I'm very casual about New Year's Resolutions. If I'm ever not feeling it, then I don't make them that year. Some years I only make online ones and other years I only make offline ones. I always aim low to avoid disappointment and generally, by keeping them in the realms of what I know I can achieve, I've had a decent success rate with them.

This year, I started off with two goals:

1. Finishing live-blogging myself rereading Sonic the Comic

As a child of eight years old, this comic was my introduction to the Sonic the Hedgehog series. I was mesmerised by issue 80 and left wondering how the tough-seeming heroine, Amy Rose, could defeat a crazed version of her friend who was powered up by something called chaos energy. I had to know how that story was going to end and I owe it to that cliffhanger that I became a life-long fan of the series. I'd read the comic every second week from then until it ended several years later.

All of that was obviously a long time ago and other than a few stand-out stories that I'd go back to, I hadn't read the comic since I was a kid. Because of that, in November 2023, I did something I'd been wanting to do for a long time and started to live-blog myself rereading it from the start. You can check out my journey in doing this over here on this blog:

https://samobservessonic.tumblr.com/tagged/sam%20observes%20sonic/chrono

I didn't know starting out if this would be anything that anyone else would be interested in, but I was pleasantly surprised when the blog picked up a small following of interested people who'd ask me questions from time to time. What more can someone ask for?

At the start of this year, I was very close to finishing the series and I'm pleased to say that at the time of writing, I actually have now finished! Because I stagger posting updates on that blog, I'm not finished on there yet, but it's all been written out now and could be all posted as early as next week. I'll feel accomplished to tick such a long-lasting project off my list.

2. Read 10-15 more Animorphs books

As a kid, I enjoyed this series, but never finished reading it. Not for any particular reason, I just ended up not keeping up with it. But it always felt like a failure on my part. Then sometime last year, I remembered that I'm an adult who can do what I want. So I decided to read the series through from the beginning and finally be able to say that I finished it.

According to my media list on Bluesky, I've read nine books in the series this year, bringing me up to Book 30 in the series. So literally one book shy of my minimum goal. But I'd like to do better than this. My hope is that once my StC live-blogging has wrapped up, I'll be able to focus on this more. I don't plan to finish the whole series this year, but it'd be nice to get within a stone's throw of that, perhaps.

That's my two goals that I set for myself. But as the year's gone on, I've added something else to it that has spawned into another thing in itself:

Bonus: Watch longplays of video games I never finished as a kid

This is a bucket list one. I've loved video games my whole life, but for the most-part, I'm not very good at actually playing them. As a kid, there were so many times when I was left wondering how a game that was beyond my skills ended. But we're on the Internet now and there are whole communities of people who are good at playing video games who record videos of them doing so to 100% completion without commentary for the likes of me to watch. So once again, I've decided there's no point in leaving myself wondering how many of these games end when the answers are out there. I made a list in my head of games that I wanted to see all the way through and started on that. Which leads me to the next one...

Bonus: Watch longplays of all the mainline Resident Evil games

I picked Resident Evil 2 almost randomly off the list because I felt like watching it at the time. I had seen the first Resident Evil game from start to finish multiple times as a kid, but not any of the others. So, I watched through RE2 and enjoyed it - I swear I'm not trying to sound edgy by saying this, but there's something almost cosy about PS1 horror games, probably the nostalgia. After that, I also had Resident Evil: Code Veronica X on the list. Bwtween those games was Resident Evil 3, which I didn't have as a kid, but I was on a roll and thought that I might as well watch that one before moving onto Code Veronica X, since it had the same PS1 vibes I wanted at the time.

Anyway, after getting through both RE3 and Code Veronica X, I figured that I might as well be in this for the long haul and watch the other games as well. But only the mainline ones. This is a huge series and I'm sure the spin-off games have their merits, I'm not ruling out that I might watch those someday, but the later games are so long that it takes a lot of time for something I accidentally stumbled into doing and am so far just yelling my feelings about into space.

Right now, I'm halfway through watching RE8. Which means that I only have that and one more game to go with this and then it'll be back to my overall list of games to watch. Or probably back to Animorphs. I really should focus on that.

Which just about covers all of the various media I'm working through right now. I do also have the aforementioned Bluesky thread covering everything I end up reading/watching/playing/etc this year that I update when I remember:

https://bsky.app/profile/samcybercat.bsky.social/post/3m4ql3sir7s2k

It was partly that list that made me get myself into gear to make a Dreamwidth account. Because I generally do have more I want to say about stuff I check out than the character space that micro-blogging provides. As you can probably tell from how wordy this got. But! This was catching up with this year so far. Now that's done, hopefully my other posts will be a more regular length. Whatever that turns out to be.

Current Mood: content

Hello, so here I am.

A test entry, I guess. For a while I'd thought about importing my old LJ over before that website one day goes under and a lot of my personal history is lost. I still may do that at some point. But in the end I decided that I wanted a fresh new journal here to begin with and not one weighed down with posts from probably two decades ago now, filled with opinions of a younger me that, while what shaped me today, might not be of interest to anyone other than myself.

Bear with me as I try to figure all of this out. It's been a while.

Mostly, I'm looking forward to having somewhere to post again that isn't micro-blogging. I've tried my best with that over the years, but I've always been too wordy for it. It's a relief to have somewhere that my waffling won't be discouraged.