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Reading nook

My scrolling addiction has made reading for pleasure like getting a puppy to sit still for a photo. I’ve been calling it a scrolling addiction now, because even if I have tools to lock myself out of Instagram or YouTube now I still mesmerize myself doing the mindless scroll in…

ダンダダン is funny, gorgeous, and quite possibly epic

I have an anime category on here apparently but haven’t really gotten around to talking about the stuff I’ve loved so far. Surely at some point I can look back at all the anime I’ve watched and loved but for now let me scream about the art in the DANDADAN anime. Look, this hasn’t wrapped […]

Beeping in the stream

Figured the mic issue out after the stream. Ang hirap pala kapag hindi regular nagsi-stream, laging start from scratch! Turns out I’ve been using the webcam mic all along, and the beep is perhaps my mic’s attempt to announce its presence in the world. I hear you, mic, some of us try to be useful […]

Time for the big guns

I got all the achievements in Baldur’s Gate 3, some not so honourably (thanks, No Party Limit mod), but I needed to push it to the max to get a semblance of completion so I can say I’m more or less done with it. I’ll write about the experience at some point, these are busy […]

Metro Tarak Organ Scouts in Washington Square Review 52

Hello, fellow readers! My first speculative fiction short story Metro Tarak Organ Scouts is out now at Washington Square Review. This story is very hustlers be hustling in a future Philippines where selling organs is where it’s at. You’ll meet Kap, who will do anything to achieve “the good life” and Bok, who speaks organ, […]

In which I stream again and finally get somewhere

Story-wise, at least. It’s so gratifying to have that moment where I randomly backread the previous session’s output to reorient myself because I was stuck at one point in the current session only to find out I had already thought about the answer that time except I didn’t remember anything from the previous session! I […]

Scrolling detox update and new stream in which I hemmed and hawed

One hour of writing, by the end of it, feels insufficient, but I swear the first ten to fifteen minutes feel like early morning Mass. I do have to make better plans so I can do 2-hour sprints again (or more). I just haven’t been able to wake up wake up these days. I mean, […]

Bagong sulatin

Went to the doctor today and immediately felt my symptoms settle down a bit, effectively gaslighting myself so it felt like I was exaggerating everything I was feeling. Doctor was able to chalk some of it to post-Covid gland swelling, so we’re just going to wait for a bit for the symptoms to either disappear […]

Free again (from social media)

3 weeks of laundry, vacuuming, garbage bin refresh, returning books to my shelves, cleaning up: I was thinking of doing these during the weekend but none of that happened. Instead, I finished The Saint of Bright Doors (read my Goodreads review on it, I was feeling very strongly when I wrote is as that was […]

Look who’s still streaming

Compelling stuff over here LOL Wednesday night, I got the whole plot lined up for my next (self-imposed) project into the wee hours of the morning while trying to sleep. Kaya ako hindi makatulog e! Matutulog na lang nagpapaka-productive pa. I don’t recommend it, but when it happens, masaya naman. Bwisit ka nga lang the […]