I made a little progress on Simona’s Chapter 3 of TTWC3, but something funny happened. I’ve looked into it a few times, but I wanted to look again into the kinds of city gates you’d actually find in the 6th Century (the rough equivalent in Earth time to when the Trident War Chronicles take place), but by Googling “gate”, I instead got results for the anime series GATE: Jieitai Kanochi nite Kaku Tatakaeri. I followed up on it, was intrigued by the premise, then proceeded to marathon all seven eps currently available. It’s really good stuff. It’s not the first to pit the modern military against a more primitive enemy, but that doesn’t hurt it any. Actually, I have my own story that fits into the basic subgenre, The End of Times, which is intended as the final novel in the Tellus Arc. Without spoiling too much for a story that’s years away from entering full development, I will say that the Jieitai runs a much more successful campaign.

I also started watching Overlord, which I’m enjoying as well. I’m noticing a disturbing trend, though. You’re seeing more and more of these series about listless Japanese young people being transported into these alternate worlds and almost immediately refusing to return. Alternate world stories are nothing new, but even if the character develops these new powers, finds love, etc., the goal is always to get back. The fact that the real world is being rejected so definitively in more recent stories of this type points to an unsettling malaise. I can understand it, of course. I certainly know both the general circumstances of the world and in Japan particularly that makes this trend appealing, but I find it a sad commentary on the state of the world all the same.

I wrapped up Rowland’s epilogue and with it, his section. Now I can move on to Simona and resume that. Stay tuned.

I finished up Rowland’s Chapter 5 and did some writing on his epilogue. It’ll be nice to have one section done. If I can get a couple more down, I’ll have a good head start once TTWC2 ends. Stay tuned.

I think I may finally be losing some steam in my FE14 playing, which is a good thing for my writing. I did manage to make a little progress in TTWC3, pretty well wrapping up Rowland’s Chapter 4 and adding a bit to his Chapter 5. I’ve been telling myself for a while that I would get back in the habit of meeting quota and I may finally be moving forward in that regard. Stay tuned.

Thanks to my no video games on Sunday policy, I was able to mostly finish Chapter 1 of EM and make some progress on Chapter 2 as well. It doesn’t make up for the days I didn’t get any writing done at all, but progress is progress. I think I’ll continue to stick with EM this week and maybe play around with JJ a bit as well. Stay tuned.