Ladies and gentlemen, the Legendary Genesis.
Greetings everyone. I know I kind of ducked out again for a while after asking for help finding a new online venue to post some of my fanfics. Believe me, it wasn't intentional. Because I feel kind of bad for just suddenly vanishing again, I've decided to drop by at least once a month and post about how things are going for me.
I guess the best place to start would be to talk about how my fanfic writing is going. As some of you reading may remember, I started an account on AO3 and have been reposting most of the Sailor Moon fanfics I had previously posted on FFN. I posted the final chapter for the last of those stories yesterday morning. The response those stories have been getting on AO3 has been pretty good. In fact it's been rather surprising.
My most popular story on AO3 right now is a story called Bride of the Yellow King. I've been stunned by the response that story has been getting because I always felt like there was some kind of flaw with it. Just what that flaw is, I can't really say. Meanwhile the two stories that I felt were my best works in the series so far, The Witch of Glenwood Manor and Life After Life: The Saturn Kheperu Saga aren't doing nearly as well. Actually, Life After Life has been pretty well received, just not nearly as well as Bride of the Yellow King has been.
Meanwhile The Witch of Glenwood Manor has sort of bombed. I was really disappointed by this because that was one of the stories I had had the most fun working on. The setting was based loosely on a place my aunt and I visited during a short vacation we took together. When a story of mine is so poorly received like the way The Witch of Glenwood Manor was, I can't help but wonder about what I did wrong with it. Well, at least I apparently did something right with Bride of the Yellow King.
As for other things that have been going on with me this month, I ended up having a lot of my free time sucked away by something unexpected. Sometimes when I go to my local Walmart to get ice cream to celebrate an upcoming day off from work, I like to wander back to their little movie section to see if they have any good movies or T.V. shows on disc. I've found some pretty good gems that way. It's actually where I got the third season of Sailor Moon Crystal. Well during one of my more recent trips there, I discovered they had Batman: The Animated Series on one blu-ray set.
Encountering that series on the store shelves caused me to become overwhelmed with a wave of nostalgia. That was one of my favorite after school shows in the bygone days before I discovered the existence of anime. So during my day off on the fourth or fifth day of this month, after I finished streaming the anime version of a delightful yuri series called I'm in Love with the Villainess, I drove out and bought that blu-ray set. I began to intermittently binge-watch the series later that same night. Most of the series was as good as I remembered, though some of it was goofier than I remembered too. Still, this series has held up pretty well with time, but then we are talking about a show that actually influenced the comic book series it was based on.
Of course the downside to binge-watching this classic installment of the Batman legend is that it took me a little over a week to finish. It also kind of disrupted my plans to watch a couple of other shows during the course of this month. For the last few years I've been putting together lists of anime, manga and light novel titles to watch/read during the course of a certain month, and watching Batman: The Animated Series unfortunately sucked away the time allocated for one of those shows. I've actually had to cancel most of the titles on this month's list because one of those titles is the original Sailor Moon manga. I don't know why, but it's been taking me a while to get through the manga this time around. I think it might just be because there haven't been many good times to read it.
Well, I'm mostly looking forward to next month, mainly because of one thing.
I've a little excited for this game to come out. One thing it has going for it is the fact it was created by the same developers who made an older SAO video game called Fatel Bullet, which was pretty good. The story for Fatal Bullet was pretty weird, but it made the most of its setting. Of course Fractured Daydream's real selling point for me is the fact that Administrator from the Alicization Arc is one of the game's playable characters. I mean she's the Dio Brando of SAO.
All of this being said though, I can't help but have a few reservations about this game. Maybe it won't be as good as all the hype has led me to believe, or maybe it'll be more challenging than I first thought. Believe it or not, I've had pretty bad luck picking new video games to play in the past. Still, I'm choosing to remain optimistic about this one. After all, I've got to play something until the new Pokémon game comes out next year.
That about wraps it up for this post. I'll be back next month with another update, and I'll try not to make it such a long and rambling post like this one. Until next time.
