My Bandori Fic Status

Since it seems I’m still not able to get back to writing Bandori fics, I wanted to do a blog about why, for the ones who don’t follow my twitter, or have simply missed some or all of it. There are some light spoilers for season 2, since that was hard to avoid, but I steer away from anything too specific.

I was looking forward to S2 of the Bandori anime, and I have been enjoying it a lot until the past few weeks. When the drama involving Tae, Popipa, and RAS got started, I had a sinking feeling in my stomach. It ended up hitting me far heavier than I thought it could, and I’ve been struggling with a lot of stress and anxiety while waiting for new episodes where things would hopefully finally resolve themselves. In fact, yesterday’s episode was my big hope for finally putting an end to it. It did not. It took some steps in the right direction (and some in the wrong, imo), but it didn’t end it completely, so I have another week of stress ahead of me.

Anime Hiatus And My General Burnout

I’ve been avoiding and postponing doing this, as if it would somehow make it not true, but it’s time to put in my official notice: I am on indefinite hiatus from writing about anime.

This is probably no surprise to anyone who’s been following along, as I haven’t written anything in close to five months now. Heck, I haven’t even watched anything in about three months. I watched up to the middle of the Spring season, as at the time I was intending to do the mid-season update post as normal, but then it just didn’t happen. My burnout was hitting hard, and at the time I told myself I’d at least do the end of season wrap-up before going on break, but I wasn’t able to do that either.

I didn’t even keep watching the shows. I haven’t completed anything from the Spring season, or even looked at anything from the Summer season. Not even Overlord, which I was so looking forward to after Winter season.

In the end I just had to face the facts, that I was too burned out to keep doing this, and basically took a break from everything. When or if I’ll start back up again, I don’t know. We’ll see how my recovery goes.

For the rest of the post (after the break) I will be getting into more of the reasoning behind this, and talking about what led up to it. It’s been a while since I’ve done any personal blogging, but I just want to get some stuff off my chest. Merely wanted to get the general notice out of the way first, for people who aren’t interested in more than that.

My Life With Bi-Polar Disorder

Hi. My name is Rita, and I am diagnosed with bi-polar disorder type II.

I missed World Mental Health Day on Monday, but since this is relevant every day for me, I might as well do a late addition.

I don’t know how much people know about bi-polar disorder, so I figured I’d talk about the illness in general, as well as what I personally have to do to live with it.

Your Feelings Are Not Wrong

My alternate title for this was simply “It’s okay”, but I figured I’d go for something a little more eye-grabbing.

This is something I’ve been struggling to really put into words for a while, but I’ve been slowly piecing it together.

I Am Not Quite Dead

However, the last six months of 2014 have not been all that good. November and December having been especially busy and leaving me little time for other things, and essentially killing my desire and ability to get any writing done.

But as we are rapidly approaching the end of the year, it has been the time not only to eat myself silly on Yulefoods, but also reflect on the year that has passed. So I am putting together a list of games I found notable this year.

Simultaneously the autumn anime season is currently wrapping up, and I will be writing some final thoughts on that too in the near-future.

When it comes to hopes for 2015, I haven’t really made any major plans, but I do hope to get back to a couple of Let’s Play series, namely Xenonauts and Metroid Prime 2. I might as well just say it here and now, that I don’t plan to try going back to Blood Bowl any longer. Writing the play-by-plays just take too much time, and I no longer have whole days to dedicate just to doing that. Should that change, then maybe, but don’t expect anything.

Since my last update post, I have done a few things over at Battle Screen, so let me just list them here as well.

Parallels

This is far from the usual fare on this blog, but I couldn’t leave this one alone.

Before you start reading, here is a disclaimer: If you have come here looking for reasoned arguments and a calm reflection on the issue of the Isla Vista shooting, MRAs or feminism, you won’t really find that here. This post was written with a lot of anger, grief and pain over several sessions this week.

If you still want to read it, and still want to comment, feel free to go ahead. If you are just going to spout abuse, I probably won’t approve your comment.

Battle Screen Writings

I have not been writing a lot here lately. That’s partially because I haven’t really been writing much at all, due to depression-related things, but also because most of my efforts now go towards stuff on Battle Screen.

Battle Screen is a new games site started by some people I know through Twitter, so I signed on as an occasional contributor. My level of contribution comes and goes in waves, but I’ve been able to do some reviews, and I do some news and stuff as well.

I figured I’d start doing a short post here whenever I put up a review.

Desert Bus 7 2013

This week is going to be Desert Bus For Hope, so I will be doing even less than usual. Don’t expect any blogposts.

If you wanna watch with me, you can do so here.

~Wulf

Construction Time

Okay, time to start the update project. I’ve been thinking about this for a while, and now I’ve started. I’ll be adding more categories to the menu up top, where hopefully it should be easier to find and read all the shit I’ve posted since I started this last year. I would appreciate if you kept feedback and suggestions to the comment section of this post.

~Wulf

PAX Problems – Over The Line

So PAX happened last weekend. And apparently it was a lot of fun with a lot of good stuff. And then a thing happened on the final day, as Mike Krahulik, Jerry Holkins and Robert Khoo were on the stage talking Penny Arcade. I had heard it repeated many times, though I only recently watched it myself to get a ‘first-hand’ account. You can see it here, if you’d like.

The Dickwolves were brought up again, and anyone familiar with Penny Arcade in the slightest might have caught what occurred with this a few years back. That Mike would dredge that up again now shows an astonishing lack of tact and empathy, so let’s try to analyse the situation a bit.