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Everyone's been refunded for this month plus job updates that are hopefully good news!!

I messed up again and forgot to freeze payments before the first, and most of y'alls payments went through, but I refunded all of you just now. If you didn't get refunded please let me know.

Stuff like this hopefully won't happen in the futu...

January Monthly Liveblog

Time to poll for the monthly liveblog!

January Bonus Liveblog Poll

Time to poll for the bonus liveblog!

First Look: Fall 2025 Anime Overview: This Monster Wants to Eat Me

Premise: Hinako is an extremely depressed girl who’s been searching for death ever since the loss of her family. It seems like she’s going to ge...

First Look: Fall 2025 Anime Overview: Sanda

Premise: In a dystopian future, because of the declining birth rate in Japan, there have been a series of policies made to “protect” youth: for ...

First Look: Summer 2025 Anime Overview: The Summer Hikaru Died, Anne Shirley, Dandadan and Toilet Bound Hanako-kun

Better late than never, here's a short breakdown of what I watched last anime season-- it was mostly sequels. Noting that I dropped There's No Freakin' Way I'll Be Your Lover! Unless...due to the main love interest, but I have started on Bad Girl ...

June Bonus Liveblog

Time to vote for the bonus liveblog!

June Monthly Liveblog

A little late, but time to poll for the monthly liveblog to make up for not having one last month!

We will be freezing next month.

General update: so as y'all have probably noticed, I've had no time for any sort of liveblogging-- but I still want to try to get a couple done this month, so we'll try for that and then freeze the Patreon next month and see if we can get the rest...

First Look: Winter 2025 Anime Quickies: The Apothecary Diaries Season 2 and My Happy Marriage Season 2

The Apothecary Diaries Season 2 (1-12)

What can I say about The Apothecary Diaries that hasn't been said? (But if you're...

I got a new job! (The future of this Patreon)

After months of searching, I've scored a new job--and it's full time! I'll be leaving the Writing Center and likely putting teaching MFA classes on hold. The job is to be an Administrative/Marketing/General Assistant for my town's independent news...

First Look: Winter 2025 Anime Overview: ZENSHU

Premise: Natsuko Hirose is an animator and director lauded as a genius, but she’s struggling with her newest movie, insisting on doing everythin...

First Look: Winter 2025 Anime Overview: Toilet Bound Hanako-kun Season 2

After a five year wait, one of my all time problematic fave anime is back, and the anime about a hopeless romantic and her weird little ghost friend con...

First Look: Winter 2025 Anime Overview: Bureaucrat to Villainess: Dad’s Been Reincarnated

Premise: Kenzaburo is a middle-aged otaku dad to an otaku daughter, and she plays an otome game in the living room a lot, so he’s vaguely familiar wit...

Thesis Writing II MFA Lessons 6 -8

Synopsis

It can be hard to sum up your story, but there's a lot of support out there to help you write your synopsis.  Ammi-Joan Paquette offers some great tips in her Writer's Digest Article  "2025-04-05 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post

Thesis Writing II MFA Lessons #1-5

Time for more MFA lessons! My original content in this class or generally shorter, since I had to use most of the announcements focused on assignments.

Lesson 1: Revision

Every writer struggles with revision, but that ...

Pics From Japan 2: Hedgehog Cafe and Other Fun Things

Here's part two of the pics from Japan. Still have so many I can post after this:

We went to an absoulutely adorable 'hedgehog cafe' that also had chinchillas and guinea pigs, but I'm picturing the hedgehogs here:

2025-03-31 15:17:50 +0000 UTC View Post

Pics From Japan: Pokemon Art Museum Exhibit in Tokyo

Some pictures from Japan I'm finally posting! I'll probably put some of them on Tumblr eventually but it'll be a while.

There was this amazing Pokemon exhibit at a museum where there were all these incredible art pieces. It was the POKEMON x...

MFA Lessons: Thesis Writing I

More MFA lessons! These are very short, since the thesis class is very assigned reading oriented, and I spent most of the announcement discussing that, and I'm not including it because I'm not really allowed to show the assigned stuff.

2025-03-28 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post

Romance Writing II MFA Lessons #4-8

Here's the final batch of MFA lessons from my Romance Writing II class!

The Antagonist and Secondary Characters

Welcome to M...

Romance Writing II MFA Lessons #1-3

A while back, I posted the (non-assignment related) parts of the little lessons/announcements I've done while teaching grad school. Since I've done a bunch of little lessons since then, I thought I'd continue doing that. Here are the first three m...

March Bonus Liveblog Poll

Time to vote for the bonus liveblog! I apologize for the delay, I've been having some medical issues.

Some Announcements

I hope to have time to go into these more in depth later!

The monthly update is (hopefully) back on I'm going to devote the first one to posting the goods I got in Japan for it when I'm able.

But here's a few other things:

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