Whew, IIBB is done. It still feels a little surreal that I finished that project, tbh. Just... aaaaaaaaa for ages and then suddenly, actually done.

I had also entered the project in a tiny gunpla discord's seasonal contest and neither won nor placed and that's fine. The important part was the deadline along with the oft-painful lessons on time & project management.

That said- I can solidly say I'm at the upper end of whelmed with basically all my hobbies. So time to take a short breather and re-evaluate.

Monthly mail has gone out to everyone aside from folks in Canada.

TGS has not been overly exciting. The Xbox presentation was surprisingly strong, and I've watched bits of a few others. I briefly tuned in for the Suikoden one but wasn't awake enough.

Considering that I've not made it past the 'pre-cleaning other areas so I have space to sort' phase of cleaning the utility room, the actual utility room cleaning will be postponed until I get some other spaces under control. Nothing is terrible, just... I can see how this year has been rough in various ways.

I had been considering the cemetery walk this weekend at the big local-ish cemetery but I didn't enjoy last year's and left after an hour (during which the tour had progressed about three stops on a list of about thirty graves to visit) and also my digestive tract has not been thrilled with me for the last couple days, which I suspect is mostly a delayed reaction to the busyness of everything else.

Since starting my Accidental Advent project on the 8th, I've made it through an impressive amount of stuff! This is the animated chunk of the pile; the manga/comics/magazines/etc will come later.

Grimms Notes - could not get into at any point despite some fun gimmicks; turns out this was based on a dead Square-Enix mobile game that never reached global. Basically a wander through fairy tales. Also Joan of Arc is a fairy tale now and I am actually kinda curious why Japan likes her so much.

ClassicaLoid (S1) - this was fun? Composers reconstituted into the present with weird abilities? Like, this was fun and dumb but I cannot imagine watching it again or seeking out the second season. Really good music, and I really liked all the composers but... yeah.

Cars 1-3 - iirc this was a gift, and this is actually the first time I've seen Cars 2 since it came out. It's still bad! 1 & 3 are formulaic and charming, but 2 is bafflingly bad! I think the main problem is that it hangs on Mater and he's not a lead character archetype. Wait, no, that's one of the main problems; the other is the entire plot and wtf. Hilariously, these were packaged in the case as 1, 3, and then 2 in the back. I agree.

Earl & Fairy - this is still charming and since the novels are licensed I should really get them. (eBook only afaik, alas) This was a 'I've seen this multiple times but it got licensed and I guess I bought a copy?' watch.

Monster Musume OVAs - idk why this is a loose disc or where it came from because while I read some of the manga, I've never seen the anime. I legit do not know where this came from. Also since it's OVAs, it's boobies bouncing breastily everywhere.

Fractale - I don't know why I bought this. I mean, the entire creative team suggests I should have really liked it but it was downright awful and I almost turned it off after the second episode but I thought it might get better? Overdone 'everyone prefers VR' + main character gets accidentally pegged as a pervert and the accusations follow him for the whole show for no reason. I feel like this could have and should have been good, but it was terrible.

Anyway, two for the shelf, three for the sale box, will ask M if perhaps he misplaced or would like the Monster Musume disc.