It is Christmas Eve and it is REALLY friggin’ cold outside, but I hoped to sit and write a Saturday Note so that you guys don’t feel as if you’re all alone on this Christmas weekend. Or, more likely, I feel bad if I go a week without doing a Saturday Note.
I didn’t know what to write about, but then I got hit by a blast of cold wind/inspiration and so here we are!
I did not know if I would have time to write this Saturday Note either, but I thought I’d give it a try, so here we go. I had the idea of talking about what a fantasy setting based off of the Italian Renaissance would look like, because I just read the novelization of Assassin’s Creed II, but I think we’ll save that until after I try reading City of Masks (which I got on hold from the library!).
This has been in the news lately so I thought I’d give my two cents.
I recently started watching Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood because I felt like I need something with Plot to watch (most of the stuff I’ve started on streaming services right now is whacky comedy). And so far, so good! I’m having fun.
This Note was written a bit earlier than they usually are, as I don’t think I’ll have the time on Friday to type it out.
Oi, what a week. But you know what? NaNoWriMo is finished, and the final update for Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla came a week before it was scheduled, so I’ve got that to look forward to completing. And if I keep things going smoothly, I should be able to have 200 books logged before the end of the year!
I thought perhaps that this was something I’ve talked about before, but I looked through the blog and couldn’t find it. So maybe it’s come up in different Notes, but if I have a Note on it’s from over three years ago, and therefore we’ll call it fair game!
Also I didn’t mention Iron Druid in this Note, which surprised me a bit. I thought we’d do that. Which reminds me–I need to continue sporking.
I’m a bit confused about time right now, but that’s okay because at least I have a few days of break! Monday is going to hurt though.
So I brought some of this up in my most recent sporking chapter, and I had thoughts about it with the latest God of War game, considering games that came previously in that series, so since I don’t know what else to write I thought I’d give it a go!
I am still doing National Novel Writing Month, and while the result right now isn’t, strictly speaking, good, I’m having some fun. If this draft goes anywhere I’ll need to go back and fill in a lot of gaps, but some people say that’s a fine way to approach writing.
Last week was YALLFest, hence the lack of Saturday Note, and I had a lot of fun! I’m about to talk smack about one of the panels though, but keep that in mind.
And hey, I finished re-watching Spectacular Spider-Man on Netflix! It’s going to be taken down after December 15, but it will be up on Disney+ if you have that, I think? If it’s not already? Something to look for.
I also realize that the word “indoctrination” is being thrown around a lot in regards to books and what children have access to, and I’m not really talking about book banning in the media so I’m (perhaps irresponsibly) kind of sidestepping that entire topic in doing this Note.
Happy Guy Fawkes Day!
This week has been mostly better than the last one, in terms of how I’m feeling by the end, but I STILL need to put up pictures of the trip and I hope to get to that this weekend. That, and a review of Black Adam. Next weekend is YALLFest, so it’s probable that there isn’t a Saturday Note to post.
Thought about this because I re-read Servant of the Underworld this past week.
[Side note: I would really, REALLY like to see one of those “You butcher and slaughter in the name of your god” speeches aimed at like… a Norse warrior in a temple for Odin.]
