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Everyone's been refunded for this month plus job updates that are hopefully good news!!

I messed up again and forgot to freeze payments before the first, and most of y'alls payments went through, but I refunded all of you just now. If you didn't get refunded please let me know.

Stuff like this hopefully won't happen in the future-- in fact I might be able to go back to covering all the liveblogs in a month because as you might know if you read my tumblr....I finally got my dream job at the library! And got laid off from the stressful job I hated on the same day, w...

January Monthly Liveblog

Time to poll for the monthly liveblog!

January Bonus Liveblog Poll

Time to poll for the bonus liveblog!

First Look: Fall 2025 Anime Overview: This Monster Wants to Eat Me

Premise: Hinako is an extremely depressed girl who’s been searching for death ever since the loss of her family. It seems like she’s going to get her wish when she runs into Shiori, a mermaid who wants to eat her…but Shiori is a gourmet who wants her meal to be as delicious as possible. So she declares she’s going to help Hinako be happy before she eats her, since happiness apparently en...

First Look: Fall 2025 Anime Overview: Sanda

Premise: In a dystopian future, because of the declining birth rate in Japan, there have been a series of policies made to “protect” youth: for example, children all have arranged marriages set up from birth, they can get away with killing adults without being jailed and various things have been enforced to slow down the aging process.

Santa Claus has been forgotten by society…that i...

First Look: Summer 2025 Anime Overview: The Summer Hikaru Died, Anne Shirley, Dandadan and Toilet Bound Hanako-kun

Better late than never, here's a short breakdown of what I watched last anime season-- it was mostly sequels. Noting that I dropped There's No Freakin' Way I'll Be Your Lover! Unless...due to the main love interest, but I have started on Bad Girl and intend to watch CITY the Animation. So without further ado...

The Summer Hikaru Died

A story about a teenage boy, Yoshi...

June Bonus Liveblog

Time to vote for the bonus liveblog!

June Monthly Liveblog

A little late, but time to poll for the monthly liveblog to make up for not having one last month!

We will be freezing next month.

General update: so as y'all have probably noticed, I've had no time for any sort of liveblogging-- but I still want to try to get a couple done this month, so we'll try for that and then freeze the Patreon next month and see if we can get the rest done then.

The new job situation (and if I'll be able to keep it up or need to find something else) is still shaky, so I want to keep this going until I can figure out what the schedule will be for my forseeable future. Just try and be patient...

First Look: Winter 2025 Anime Quickies: The Apothecary Diaries Season 2 and My Happy Marriage Season 2

The Apothecary Diaries Season 2 (1-12)

What can I say about The Apothecary Diaries that hasn't been said? (But if you're interested in what I HAVE said read my reviews here and 2025-04-28 15:37:51 +0000 UTC View Post

I got a new job! (The future of this Patreon)

After months of searching, I've scored a new job--and it's full time! I'll be leaving the Writing Center and likely putting teaching MFA classes on hold. The job is to be an Administrative/Marketing/General Assistant for my town's independent newspaper. I'm a little worried, admittedly, the job sounds a little chaotic and it means I'll have so much less downtime, which I'm kind of mourning. But I had to take a step forward in my career path eventually, and this will make it easier to...

First Look: Winter 2025 Anime Overview: ZENSHU

Premise: Natsuko Hirose is an animator and director lauded as a genius, but she’s struggling with her newest movie, insisting on doing everything herself. Then she dies from food poisoning and is transported to the world of her favorite anime movie, the one that inspired her career. Natsuko finds she has the power to literally draw and animate beings that will then fight the monsters attacki...

First Look: Winter 2025 Anime Overview: Toilet Bound Hanako-kun Season 2

After a five year wait, one of my all time problematic fave anime is back, and the anime about a hopeless romantic and her weird little ghost friend continues! I basically wrote a gushing novel when the first season of Hanako-kun hooked me, so you ca...

First Look: Winter 2025 Anime Overview: Bureaucrat to Villainess: Dad’s Been Reincarnated

Premise: Kenzaburo is a middle-aged otaku dad to an otaku daughter, and she plays an otome game in the living room a lot, so he’s vaguely familiar with it. Then one day he finds himself in the world of the game, and he’s turned into the game’s villainess. He decides he’ll play his role as villainess well and give the main character, Anna, a chance to shine, but unfortunately for him, he just...

Thesis Writing II MFA Lessons 6 -8

Synopsis

It can be hard to sum up your story, but there's a lot of support out there to help you write your synopsis.  Ammi-Joan Paquette offers some great tips in her Writer's Digest Article  "Taming the Synopsis: 4 Steps for Perfecting One-Page and Long Form Synopses".

I've attached the synop...

Thesis Writing II MFA Lessons #1-5

Time for more MFA lessons! My original content in this class or generally shorter, since I had to use most of the announcements focused on assignments.

Lesson 1: Revision

Every writer struggles with revision, but that just means there's a lot of revision advice out there. In Lisa Preston's article "7 Strategies for Revising Your Novel",  she ...

Pics From Japan 2: Hedgehog Cafe and Other Fun Things

Here's part two of the pics from Japan. Still have so many I can post after this:

We went to an absoulutely adorable 'hedgehog cafe' that also had chinchillas and guinea pigs, but I'm picturing the hedgehogs here:

  I can't remember which shrine this is from whoops. It was in Kyoto though.2025-03-31 15:17:50 +0000 UTC View Post

Pics From Japan: Pokemon Art Museum Exhibit in Tokyo

Some pictures from Japan I'm finally posting! I'll probably put some of them on Tumblr eventually but it'll be a while.

There was this amazing Pokemon exhibit at a museum where there were all these incredible art pieces. It was the POKEMON x KOGEI event at the Azubudai Hills Gallery, and it's apparently over now, so I was really lucky to be there while it was going. Here's just a sample of all that was there

2025-03-31 14:22:38 +0000 UTC View Post

MFA Lessons: Thesis Writing I

More MFA lessons! These are very short, since the thesis class is very assigned reading oriented, and I spent most of the announcement discussing that, and I'm not including it because I'm not really allowed to show the assigned stuff.

Writing Myths

One writing myth I've encountered is the idea you need to write every single day. Some people are fine writing every day, but for some people, it will just lead to burnout. For myself, I write on the days I have time, ...

Romance Writing II MFA Lessons #4-8

Here's the final batch of MFA lessons from my Romance Writing II class!

The Antagonist and Secondary Characters

Welcome to Module Five! This week we will be discussing antagonists and secondary characters and how they relate to your thesis.

Let's take a look at one of the most well-known classic romance novels: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. While...

Romance Writing II MFA Lessons #1-3

A while back, I posted the (non-assignment related) parts of the little lessons/announcements I've done while teaching grad school. Since I've done a bunch of little lessons since then, I thought I'd continue doing that. Here are the first three mini-lessons from my Romance Writing II. A lot of the curriculum is pre-written by the school, but we do get to add a little of our own content. These are lessons #1-#3, and I'll post more later

Action and Setting

2025-03-20 14:07:17 +0000 UTC View Post

March Bonus Liveblog Poll

Time to vote for the bonus liveblog! I apologize for the delay, I've been having some medical issues.

Some Announcements

I hope to have time to go into these more in depth later!

The monthly update is (hopefully) back on I'm going to devote the first one to posting the goods I got in Japan for it when I'm able.

But here's a few other things:

--I've now capped the more expensive tiers. $1 and $3 are still infinitely open, but no one else can join the more expensive ones (unless someone currently using it drops out)

I'm wanting to keep these liveblogs up, but I think I've reached my m...