Hey all, Sam and David here.
Our more frequent posting schedule will be back at the beginning of October. We’re working on getting the posts prepped now, particularly when it comes to book and manga and tabletop reviews, because those can be done ahead of time.
Each week we do this post to help ourselves keep track of everything we’ve done in the past week. That’s everything we read and watch and write and paint and craft and do. Some weeks we do more than other weeks, but it’s still always nice to have a place where we can keep track of everything.
This is also a place where you can share the cool things you’ve been up to as well, so let us know in the comments. Let’s celebrate our daily or weekly or monthly achievements with each other.
Let’s get started.
Sam
Reading: I think I’ll be finishing up Godkiller by Hannah Kaner today…possibly tomorrow, but I’ll go ahead and count it as a finished read. This book is incredible, and I think I’m going to have to get the UK versions, because the UK edition of the sequel will be out in January 2024, and I haven’t even seen a date for the US sequel, but I imagine it will be September 2024 and I don’t want to wait that long.
I am so close to finishing The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan. I should definitely have it finished by next week’s post. I need to get back to reading a little bit more, but I’ve been distracted by other stuff…which you’ll be able to tell in the next sections. I have read exactly zero of my NetGalley September releases…so hopefully I can at least get Mammoths at the Gates by Nghi Vo and Heart of Night and Fire by Nisha J Tuli read by the end of the month.
Watching: Am I watching things still? Yes, absolutely. And I’m hopeful that I’ll be doing a big recap of the last couple months of watches soon enough, but until both the WGA and SAG-AFTRA have successfully concluded their negotiations and the strike ends, I’m not talking about any of it here.
Writing: I have been re-reading through Project Death: Resurrection and have been taking a lot of notes about things that need expanded on or clarified. Basically I’m doing two reads of my book, the first for the big picture, for general plot and characterization and world-building, and then the second one will be more technical, looking for spelling and grammar and the smaller pictures that help build up the bigger picture.
So a lot of my time has actually been spent either actively reading or passively dreaming of and thinking about my book.
I should also probably start doing more prep-work for NaNoWriMo, because that is coming up too. My goal right now is to get through the two reads of my book before November, and then after reaching my NaNo goal, then I’ll get back to work and actually adding in all the new content to Project Death: Resurrection.
Other: First up, Cincinnati Comic Expo was last weekend (Sept 22-24) and we teamed up with our friend at Mousai Crafts to help with her booth in Crafters Alley, and were able to set up a few of our own things as well….and by that I mean that David had some of his stuff set up. Since I didn’t have my book revised and re-released, I had nothing on the table.
I did pick up a copy of my friends 10th Anniversary Edition of her book, Farther Side of Away, and it is basically the story of Adam and Eve from the Bible but if Adam was a werewolf and Eve was a vampire, and a lot of the issues through them and their descendants are because of those differences. I’m definitely due for a re-read of the book, because it has been years.
I also picked up a set of dice that I didn’t necessarily need because we haven’t really been playing much (or at all) recently, but the dice spoke to me. And then I bought a Fairy Tail headband because it has my favorite character, Levy, on it.
Other purchases included some adorable new desk buddies from our booth neighbor, KrystalineStudios, and she makes amazing 1:12 scale foods and other items for dollhouses and such, but she also makes so much more. Finally I picked up a fantasy romance series by Allison Rook: Stone of War, Dance of Dragons, and Crystal of Memory.
The last thing to mention for this other category is that I started playing “Fae Farm” and so far I’m really enjoying it. I guess I’ve realized that I’m more of a cozy gamer. Don’t get me wrong. I enjoy playing the Diablo series and just tanking up combat encounters and reveling in a big ol’ kill streak…but for the most part I’d rather do a cozy build, grow, collect, craft type of game. If it has the option for romance then cool, and in some plays I will go the romance route, but for others I just enjoy playing.
David
Printing: Been trying to smooth out the seams of the Green Goblin mask and having no luck. So instead I decided to focus on the Infinity Mjolnir I got the stl of from Hex3d’s Patreon. I got that done and I am super happy about it. I was finally able to print enough parts to get some of the PaintPal shelves done and am almost ready to start migrating my dropper bottle paints to said shelves.
Painting: So I got a lot of painting done while we were at Cincinnati Comic Expo. Decided to start painting all of the figures from the Warhammer Undergrounds Beastgrave box set I have. I was a little disappointed I wasn’t able to sell any of my painted Warhammer but its okay we made some friends, got to hang with some old ones, and had a good old time just being at the convention.
I also am almost done with putting finishing touches on some Ultramarine Bike Squad figures from the Warhammer 40k Elite Set. Started to fall out of my urge to paint so much which I am hoping doesnt go back to ‘I don’t want to paint anything at all right now.’
Watching: Well finally finished my rewatch of DBZ and got to say some of it was forgotten by me until now. Vegeta is still my favorite though with Gohan and Piccolo tied at second. I don’t know what I am going to watch next but I am not in the mood to start back up on One Piece just yet I feel. Maybe I should take up playing some video games for a bit. Sam has us playing a bit of Fae Farm and it’s been fun so far lol. I do still have to finish Tears of the Kingdom.
All right, well that is all from us for today. Thank you so much for stopping by, and we’ll be back soon with more geeky content.
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