I always feel like I should announce it in the title when I make art because it happens so rarely, but I’m not that enthused about this one, so it felt weird to draw attention to…

Anyway, I played some more games. I mentioned giving up on Brookhaven Grimoire last time, but I went back to it and ended up finishing the game. There was a frustrating lack of guidance for the player, but I loved the characters, and there are some cute animals and magic!

I also played a short game called Tomorrow for Mar. A nonbinary MC and a bit of magic and romance. It was cute!

I watched Season 2 of Good Omens. I have to be honest, the things my brain is and isn’t able to focus on lately are weird and make no sense, so I didn’t pay the best attention to all the details. But it was still great!

Also I don’t think I’ve seen the last episode yet, but Season 5 of Miraculous Ladybug has had some really good episodes lately!

And I finished Season 1 of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure. As I mentioned on Twitter (yes, I’m still calling it Twitter because someone pointed out Elon deadnames his own child), I actually thought I had watched a whole season at one point only to realize I had watched four episodes. The show is just A LOT, so it felt like a whole season lol. It has a lot of color and noise, which is too much for my chronically ill, headache-ridden body sometimes, but I want to watch it because they talk about it a lot on Drawfee, and the art is so wild, and people I know have said they love it. It was indeed bizarre, but not in the way I thought it would be?

And now the art. This was a super random quickie. And I have mixed feelings about it. But here it is! A moth demon. He’s just a little guy. Also I played around with some stuff, and I feel like the first picture is just Mr. Grumpypants, whereas the second is when you’ve actually pissed him off and now you’re in trouble 😅

Blog/Bookish Updates:

Emojis are working on my blog again! If you were a victim of the question marks, you have my apologies. Unfortunately, old ones that got converted into question marks won’t come back, which ruins anything I said in blog posts where I was trying to convey a certain emotion with the help of an emoji, but at least new ones should work.

Books I Received for Review:

The Hundredth Voice by Caitlin Like, via Edelweiess. New Adult by Timothy Janovsky, via Libro.fm ALC program. Let Me Out by Emmett Nahil & George Williams, via NetGalley. The Death I Gave Him by Em X. Liu, via NetGalley. Gwen and Art Are Not in Love by Lex Croucher (audiobook), via NetGalley. I am on top of things and have already read all of these! So you can see my brief thoughts below.

Books I Finished:

The two books I was most unsure about requesting (I was interested, just not sure they’d be right for me) ended up being standouts! Also, all the comics had art that was just such a pleasure to look at!

If you’re considering buying one of the books below from Amazon, I’d really appreciate if you’d use my affiliate link!

Confetti Realms by Nadia Shammas & Karnessa – The emotional parts of the story were a bit rushed, but overall this was so fun and had beautiful art!

Sorrow’s Blight by Kaitlin Corvus – An atmospheric ending to a duology about a creepy magical forest and queer love.

New Adult by Timothy Janovsky – A lightly sff story with touching character growth and nice romance.

✨The Hundredth Voice by Caitlin Like – This was delightful! Beautiful art and a really cool story with magic, fae, and ghosts.

✨Gwen & Art Are Not in Love by Lex Croucher – I laughed, I teared up, and I just had so much fun while listening to this! It was so chill with just the right amount of emotion.

The Death I Gave Him by Em X. Liu – A Hamlet retelling with scientists and AI and a building on lockdown and found footage vibes. I didn’t super connect with it, but there were some cool ideas and nice writing.

Let Me Out by Emmett Nahil & George Williams – Queer horror that didn’t shy away from the bigotry and struggles, but also friendship. An abrupt ending, but great art!

Mighty Quill by Emmaline Strange – The characters had so much sex, and the mystery was very obvious, but it was a mostly enjoyable paranormal romance with a cute hedgehog shifter.