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What I'm Currently Reading/Watching/Playing/Listening To

Last updated: 2025-05-12

  • Books
    • Otherside Picnic: Volume 9
    • Various secondhand atlases I've found on sale
  • Manga
  • Shows
    • The Apothecary Diaries
    • Gundam GQuuuuuuX
    • Mono
  • Games
    • Final Fantasy XIV (Endwalker)
  • Music
    • Various Final Fantasy soundtracks (learning the songs on the piano... and computer keyboard so I can perform them in XIV)

Thoughts

  • 2025-05-12
    • Exploring the First in Shadowbringers was a nice change of pace, and seeing the night return after defeating each Lightwarden was a stunning experience. Also, the dwarves were funny, especially Giott.
    • The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Medieval World gave a good overview of the middle ages, mainly in Europe and the Middle East. It's a bit mind-boggling to think about how much of our modern world was shaped by some monarch or religious faction winning or losing a conflict somewhere centuries ago.
    • The everyday life of Mirai and Liko as roommates raising their magical daughter (and stopping another world-ending threat) in Witchy Pretty Cure Mirai Days was entertaining if short.
  • 2025-02-02
    • Now that I'm off the free trial in FFXIV, the market board is actually pretty fun. It's kind of ridiculous what you can get away with by just going to different worlds for much better prices.
    • The older maps in History of World Trade in Maps were neat to look at. It's interesting how common south-up maps used to be.
    • Acro Trip was a silly, enjoyable magical girl show with some good (non-dark) twists.
    • Season three of Love Live Superstar was a decent send-off for the third years. I still preferred when there were fewer members, even if I did like most of the newer characters.
  • 2024-11-24
    • Stormblood was fine. Much more engaging than A Realm Reborn, at least. I did really enjoy the Omega raid fights even if they were mainly nostalgia bait.
    • I like staring at maps, so The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Rome was a fun read even though it had a number of typos in the dates and labels.