Gamer Musings: My 5 Favorite Games in 5 Years of Blogging (about Games)

Gamer Musings: My 5 Favorite Games in 5 Years of Blogging (about Games)

It's my eight year blogiversary! But it's been five years since I started talking about games on the blog, in addition to books. And when my blog turned five years old, I made a post about my five favorite books in five years of blogging. So now I'm doing the same with games. That was a really clunky paragraph, but you get it, right? There are definitely more than five games that I love...
 
Update: Life and Books (June 2023) + Vampire Art

Update: Life and Books (June 2023) + Vampire Art

Making art for Mermay got me back into an art mood, so I set to work on one of the numerous started-and-paused drawings I have. I struggled with it a lot and am not entirely happy with how the drawing came out, but I do like the coloring. It had been a long time since I'd done a portrait with semi-realistic coloring (as in, not cel shading or watercolor splotches). Anyway, it's Jacobin and...
 
Book Review: The Archive Undying (The Downworld Sequence Book 1) by Emma Mieko Candon [Audiobook]

Book Review: The Archive Undying (The Downworld Sequence Book 1) by Emma Mieko Candon [Audiobook]

When his AI god corrupted and died while Sunai was interfacing with them, it changed him, making him immortal and putting a target on his back. So far, he's escaped the notice of the governing body that forces people like him into AI mech bodies to use them for violence. But then he gets entangled with a man who could very well figure out and turn him in for his secret, and his life only gets...
 
Book Recs: 10 Lesser-Known Gay Space Books to Check Out

Book Recs: 10 Lesser-Known Gay Space Books to Check Out

Outer space is, well, scary, if I'm being honest. But also cool! In fiction, at least. So I have compiled a list of books that are set in space and on other planets and also gay. (A term I am using broadly, since these are mostly m/m, but there is one about a nonbinary character.) About half are romance-centric, the other half have some romance but it's small or not the only focus. But I enjoyed...