games

Anthology of the Killer
Games can look like anything. Hands down some of my favourite comedy writing, I love this collection so much. BB deserves the world but she'd probably settle for an ebay warehouse.

Paradise Killer
I think I just like games with the word killer in the title. I loved what I played of Killer7, so it tracks. I didn't finish that though so it hasn't earnt a place on my faves list. Anyway, I fell for Paradise Killer so hard I've played it about six times over. I even played it through again when they released a tiny drop of new content. What can I say, I love melancholy and cosmic dread. Oh, and the extremely well written and structured murder/espionage stuff is pretty good too. Play it!

Little Goody Two Shoes
I played this game three times to get all the collectibles and I still somehow missed one... I think the switch version is broken (or was, I haven't checked again) 'cuz I definitely followed a guide to find all the stuff. I don't know if I'm strong enough for round 4. It takes one hell of a gorgeous game to get me to replay it that many times when the puzzles make me want to tear my hair out. It's all in good fun. This game is a once-in-a-lifetime combination of stunning art direction and rpgmaker horror bullshit. I don't know if you should play it. Big fan.

Blue Reflection: Second Light
This is the much better sequel to a game about magical girls. It's sad gay summer in game form (but fun). This stupid anime game made my cry about love and friendship and it's gorgeous to boot (if you can put up with the occasional uncomfortable voyeuristic camera angle to take you completely out of the story, I hate fanservice shit in this game specifically). I'm under no illusions about the way this game leers at its characters but I honestly do think the writing shines through. I would play it again but I don't know if anything could live up to the first time. It really hit me right. Ao Hoshizaki is a really good friend and a better protagonist. Out of interest, I tried playing the first game and the fanservice was so laughably bad I just turned it off, sorry gamers. This one's great, though.

podcast

Friends at the Table
I'm a lifelong fan of this show. I was there all the way back in Autumn! I was a baby fan of Streamfriends, a streaming group from way back when that a lot of the cast was a part of. Time really does fly. If you like to laugh and cry and get really serious about crafting fiction, this one's up your alley. I never interacted with the fandom when I was younger but those fan artists practically raised me. It's the best fandom that there is. I'm not biased.

stationery

I'm a big believer in owning one reliable pencil and, in particular, I love a good mechanical pencil. Despite that, I do own two. In my defence, one of them's my bag pencil! It's the pencil that goes in my bag! That one is a Kurutoga pencil, the gimmick being that it's 'self sharpening'. This is done by rotating the lead as you write. Pretty cool pencil! It's my absolute favourite because it's so comfortable in my hand - it's a little smaller and lighter than my other one, a Tombow Monograph pencil.

As all overengineered pencils must have a gimmick, this one's is that you can shake it to dispense more lead. I think that's kinda scary, so I click the clip down to stop that from happening. If you love to shake stuff (perhaps you were big into the Wii and the Kinect), I recommend this pencil. High octane sketching!

You can get a lot of fun mascot themed Kurutogas, mine is covered in encouraging little Pompompurins. A drawing essential, for sure. I got mine on ebay and that's where I would recommend looking if you want one of these. The official website seems to direct to amazon, which you should shun. The Tombows come in a range of very pleasing colours. Mine's a lovely pink. I feel so soothed.

My grandad has one pencil that he uses for crosswords. He sharpens it with a knife. That's how I'm trying to be (maybe when I'm older and wiser).

devices

misc.

Pinky Street
Pinky Street is a brand of mix-and-match dolls created by the artist BABYsue and produced by Vance Project. They've been the subject of a couple DS rhythm games, which is how I knew about them growing up. With how many different styles of cute thing we have going on these days, I'll always think these are the perfect level of silly and cute.

Precure
Cure Sky's my fave!

Pokemon
I love Popplio and Meowth! A friend gave me a meowth plush for my birthday a few years ago and he sits on my desk to make sure I'm not getting too distracted. I think he gets distracted with me.