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Jee-Han Han is a normal high school student until he suddenly develops a skill that turns his world into a role-playing game. He can see the levels of people, effects and status values of items, even level up is possible!

But while Jee-Han is still wondering what that means, the difficulty level of his world increases and he has no choice but to level, learn new skills and slowly learn what his ability The Gamer is all about.

I remember a good amount of this but I've decided to go ahead and reread, not like it'll be a hardship! It looks like I read two seasons? I'm just gonna use what I can find as covers.

Episode 1: Han Jee-Han is suddenly able to see player levels above people's heads. His childhood friend Shin Sun-Il is level 25, whereas his other classmates are only 2-3.

Jee-Han has a special ability called 'The Gamer' that lets him see the world around him in game-like ways - levels, skills, quests etc. His mother's level shows ??.

Episode 2: Kwon Shi-Yun makes her appearance, she's a badass red-head who joins Jee-han's class. She's level 32.

Jee-Han accidentally entered an illusion barrier where a level 46 guy named Hwan Sung-Gon was attacking Shi-Yun.

Chapter 3-4: Jee-Han kills his first monster, a slime.

"He only gets mad and hits us if we do bad things." Yeah that's called abuse. If he can't use his words what good is he as a teacher?

Jee-Han realized Sun-Il must not be a normal human either and feels bummed he kept it secret from him.

Chapter 5-7: Jee-Han got good with a bat and is using it at as a weapon, on the way home he gets caught up in another illusion barrier this time with zombies!

Sung-Gon is there absorbing zombies into a red ball.

Jee-Han has been best friends with Sun-Il since primary school. "He's the only one I can trust right now."

Except Sun-Il thinks someone did something with his friends and attacks him;;

Jee-Han uses a "I am your father" joke to get Sun-Il to stop choking him lol

Jee-Han: 'But giving off such killing intent for me...makes me a bit happy. I was mad that he'd been hiding it 'til now, but he must've had his reasons.'

Chapter 8: Jee-Han is a natural ability user and their gifts are given directly from Gaia.

They can't use their powers to affect real people/the world badly or they get struck down. Illusion barriers let them use their powers without limitation.

Seeing how strong Sun-Il is, Jee-Han gets worried that Sun-Il doesn't need a guy like him. The look Sun-Il sends him screams "are you scared of me now? can you accept this new world/me? I'll try not to cry if the answer is no"

Jee-Han realizes he's the only friend Sun-Il has and how important that is.

whimbrel

Apr. 8th, 2026 08:33 am
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whimbrel (HWIM-bruhl, WIM-bruhl) - n., either of two curlews (Numenius phaeopus and N. hudsonicus), breeding in northern subarctic regions and having a long, downward-curving bill.


whimbrel on the shore
Thanks, WikiMedia!


That one being the Hudsonian whimbrel that breeds in North America, the other being the Eurasian whimbrel, which breeds in, well, Eurasia. The name is attested to the 1530s but its origin is unknown, though the whim- part is speculated to be imitative of its cry (though it's not a close rendering).

---L.

march booklog

Apr. 8th, 2026 04:28 pm
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42. The Return of Fitzroy Angursell - Victoria Goddard ) I really liked this one - both as a view of his history and of his life as he steps away from being emperor. I'd like to re-read it and then follow up with the relevant parts of At the Feet of the Sun to see how they fit together, too.


43. Mountains of Fire - Clive Oppenheimer ) An interesting book; more human-focussed than I was expecting, but not in a bad way.


44. Something Human - AJ Demas ) Not my favourite Demas, but this was still pretty good.


45. Strange Houses - Uketsu ) The first book was weird in a fun way; this was mostly just weird, in the sense that even the characters that weren't supposed to be involved in creepiness are stranger than seemed at all reasonable.


46. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain ) Still relatively fun, though full of more horrible things than I'd remembered.


47. Irresponsible Adult - Lucy Dillon ) I can't quite call this a soothing read when Robyn starts out making so many mistakes, but it was satisfying and enjoyable.


48. Windmaster's Bane - Tom Deitz ) Not a bad example of its kind.


49. The Anglo-Saxons - Marc Morris ) A good survey of what we know about the basic history - kings and whatnot - of the era.


50. The Anthropocene Reviewed - John Green ) A delightful collection of extremely random reviews.


51. A Tempest of Tea - Hafsah Faizal ) Maybe it's just me, but I thought this was terrible.


52. The Raven Scholar - Antonia Hodgson ) I just don't understand why any of the half-decent folk would stay.


53. James - Percival Everett ) I still don't think I really know what Everett wanted to do with this book, but I'm not at all sure it worked.


54. Moonstorm - Yoon Ha Lee ) Normally I love Lee's writing, but this just didn't quite work for me somehow.


55. Slow Horses - Mick Herron ) Well-done, but I'm just not going to be a spy fan.


56. The Republic of Salt - Ariel Kaplan ) I really thought this volume was going to actually finish the immediate story; more fool me.


57. Faerie Queene vol 1 - Edmund Spenser ) The first part of this was genuinely fun, but all of the moral / religious underpinnings are so confused. Interested to see where volume 2 goes.


58. Swordcrossed - Freya Marske ) This does a good job of earning the resolution; I enjoyed it.


59. Chalet School Reunion - Elinor M Brent-Dyer ) A fun chance to see various early pupils twenty years down the line.


60. Couple Goals - Kit Williams ) Cute sports romance! With a sapphic relationship as well as a het one.
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Art of a woman surrounded by stars


My short story “To Defeat Water” has been translated into Spanish as “Derrotar al agua” and published by Microficciones y Cuentos. Lealo aquí/read it here.

The site is run by Sergio Gaut vel Hartman, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is one of the founding fathers of Spanish-language science fiction, and his novels have won major awards.

I often translate other people’s work from Spanish into English, and it’s an honor to have my work published in Spanish, especially by someone as prominent as Sergio. ¡Gracias!

If you want to read the story in English, it was originally published here by The Lorelei Signal.

 


Christ the Lord hath risen

Apr. 8th, 2026 11:16 am
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Christ the Lord hath risen
From His three-day prison;
Read more... )

RIP (Read In Progress) Wednesday

Apr. 8th, 2026 10:53 am
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It's Wednesday! What are you reading?

You are alone on a dark road.....

Apr. 8th, 2026 09:43 pm
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I needed to do the parental wrangling every day over the Easter period, so this week feels most relaxing in comparison. It wasn't otherwise particularly Easterish, no chocolate eggs etcetera. I did get to go boardgaming with some of the Usual Suspects - Leece, Rdm and another friend, don't know if he's on Dreamwidth or not. It was very good to see that Rdm is recovering from his medical ordeal.

I also moved out of my comfort zone by riding Midnight the e-bike 14 kilometres over to Leece and Rdm's house, which is a bit further than I'm used to. I got used to riding 11km to the city on gulag days, though it has been over a year since I did that. This ride was almost as direct, along the side of West Coast Highway on bike paths which were excellent until the neighbourhood of Scarborough Beach Road, which is a nightmare whatever your mode of transport. I had some aches and pains as a result of that, probably just from holding position during the ride. I really needed the hot shower when I got home to ease the aches!  And some parts of the bike path were completely dark except for the bike's own lights. I was very conscious that I was playing that part in the horror movie where you're the object lesson for everyone else.

One thing which makes me wonder if I'm on some sort of spectrum is that I plan for a ride in unknown territory by obsessively reading maps and making my own mud-maps to take with. Yes, I know you can get your phone to give you audio directions, but the way I do it, I will remember that route, probably for ever. Still, done now, can do it again.

What I did today. You're fascinated, right? )
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Has anyone here gotten volume 1 of The Creator's Grace and/or volumes 1 and 2 of At the World's Mercy from Rosmei yet? If so, what do you think of them?

(the ETA for ones ordered via Yiggybean is sometime in May, so it will be a while until I get mine)

what i'm reading wednesday 8/4/2026

Apr. 8th, 2026 09:05 am
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Trying to bring this back!

What I finished:

+ Disciples of White Jesus: The Radicalization of American Boyhood by Angela Denker. This was not exactly what I expected, which was a more sociological exploration of the way that white Christian boys are being taught white supremacist/Christian nationalist beliefs. Instead, it was a very personal journalistic exploration that drew on sociological data. Denker did things like travel to Columbia, SC to meet the pastor of the young man who murdered worshipers at Mother Emanuel church in Charleston, talked to pastor teaching confirmation classes in rural Midwestern communities, and drew on her own work as a pastor to get an angle on what white Christian boys are being taught about masculinity.

This is very much a book for Christians; it is written from a progressive Christian perspective and as such would probably be annoying to people who are progressive but not Christian. Still, I don't regret listening to it and I am glad this resource is out there for Christians who are trying to combat extremism within the church.

What I'm reading:

+ Orlando by Virginia Woolf for book club. I'm about 1/3 of the way through, and I am glad this wasn't my first Woolf. The language and the flashing insights are gorgeous, of course, and I actually love how deeply weird it is with things like time--it's absolutely written on a mythic scale which I think is very cool--but I think if this was my first Woolf I would be more wtf??? about it. The casual racism is a lot!

I don't know that I will ever love this like I do Mrs. Dalloway, but it's certainly an interesting reading experience and I am enjoying myself! We'll see how I feel when I'm done.

+ The Magician's Daughter by H.G. Parry. Despite my intense annoyance at books about female protagonists whose titles frame them in relationship to a man, I checked this one out on a whim. It has the energy of an old-school YA fantasy novel (complimentary) and I'm enjoying it! It doesn't feel formulaic or as simplistic as most YA does today, even if it doesn't quite have the richness of my old faves.

I was taken from the beginning; the story starts out with a teenage girl who's been raised on a magical island in a crumbling castle, knowing nothing about the rest of the world except what she's read through books. Classic Lauren-bait, 11/10, no notes. Once we leave the island, things don't hit quite as hard for me, though I'm reserving my judgement until I finish it.

It turns out it's one of those "magic is disappearing!" books, which I think is an overdone trope, but this is certainly one of the better versions of that story I've read. The worldbuilding is quite fun, even if it isn't very innovative. There's no romance, the main relationship is between the protagonist and the man who raised her, which is well done. Hopefully we'll get some real emotional oomph in the last third of the book and I will be able to unabashedly recommend this to people who are looking for a light but not insubstantial read.

+ "You Just Need to Lose Weight" and 19 Other Myths About Fat People by Aubrey Gordon. I just needed an audiobook to listen to while I was cooking on Sunday, and I was like, "Wait! Aubrey from my beloved Maintenance Phase podcast has books! I can just listen to her read them!"

I knew a lot of this stuff already, but Aubrey is such a great person to hang out with--funny, compassionate, uncompromising when she needs to be. The work of fat advocacy she does must be exhausting considering the everything of our current culture (for a while there in the 2010s I really did think we were making strides on the topic of bodies, and then the one-two punch of Covid and weight loss drugs happened and now we're right back to heroin chic and it's so awful), but I admire her so much for doing it.

April Manga TBR 3

Apr. 8th, 2026 08:12 am
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Used my manga TBR boardgame.

I finished 10/11 on my last board and had a decent time.

I wonder if I should try to aim for at least one from each genre? 🤔 GL gets left out too much.

Avatar:

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Skill:
Choose your own prompt once


Roll #1:

A 5, using skill because I really don't want to read more From Eroica with Love right now. Prompt: published '10-'20 - 45 Seconds.

Roll #2:

A 4, prompt: has only 1 volume - Ace no Kyuujitsu.

Roll #3:

A 2, prompt: witch/sorcerer/etc - Witch Hat Atelier!

Roll #4:

A 6, trap tile, went back and rerolled a 3, prompt: transmigrated into another world - the only option is The Secret Life of Empress Isana .

Roll #5:

A 5, prompt: childhood friends to lovers - 18.44-.

Roll #6:

A 1, prompt: publishing industry - Junjou Romantica.

Roll #7:

A 6, prompt: human/non-human relationship - jimetai hodo Aishiteru .

Roll #8:

A 4, prompt: taboo - Aiteru Door kara Shitsurei Shimasu yo.

Roll #9:

A 4, prompt: contemporary - The Gamer.

Roll #10:

A 6, prompt: sci-fi element - Dr. Stone.

Roll #11

A 4 and the end - reward is Men of the Harem.

~Manga TBR List~


[GL/Romance] 45 Seconds
[BL/Romance] Ace no Kyuujitsu
[Fantasy] Witch Hat Atelier
[Fantasy/Romance] The Secret Life of Empress Isana
[BL/Romance] 18.44-
[BL/Romance] Junjou Romantica
[BL/Romance] Ijimetai hodo Aishiteru
[BL/Romance] Aiteru Door kara Shitsurei Shimasu yo ✔️
[Action/Adventure] The Gamer
[Sci-Fi/Adventure] Dr. Stone
[Politics/Harem] Men of the Harem

x2 shoujoi/josei, x3 shounen/seinen, x5 BL, x1 GL
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Coco and chums have an innovative cure for the monster currently rampaging through town... an innovative cure from which a diligent cop is determined to protect society.

Witch Hat Atelier, volume 14 by Kamome Shirahama

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Apr. 8th, 2026 08:00 am
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clive final fantasy should get railed. reamed, even

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Reading Wednesday

Apr. 8th, 2026 06:58 am
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Well looks like this sorry, battered world is still there, at least this part of the world, so here's what I'm reading I guess.

Just finished: The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones. This whipped. Blood-soaked historical fiction set in the early 1900s as a Pikuni vampire tangles with a Lutheran minister in the wake of a horrific massacre. All of the trigger warnings, obviously as it's quite literally visceral, which is not the most upsetting thing about it. Jones is really quite a brilliant writer.

Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz. This is not the kind of thing that I normally like but works well as a chaser to the previous book, in that it's low-stakes, cozy, and fun. It's about a group of emancipated sentient robots, a car (also sentient), and a human who take over a ghost kitchen in the aftermath of a war between California and the rest of the US. If they don't pay off their debts, they'll be re-sold into slavery, but this is not the kind of book where that happens. It works for me largely because of the descriptions of the biang biang noodles, but it's also about the big theme of the year, which is who counts as a person.

Currently reading: About to start The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar.
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2026/049: The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires — Grady Hendrix

"He thinks we’re what we look like on the outside: nice Southern ladies. Let me tell you something…there’s nothing nice about Southern ladies.”[quote]

This does exactly what it says on the cover, and it is a delight. Patricia Campbell is a stay-at-home mother, married to Carter, who is a patronising git who cheats far from the ideal husband, though he does earn enough to keep Patricia and the kids -- Korey and Blue -- in the style to which they are accustomed. Patricia quits one book club because she'd bounced off Cry the Beloved Country and was encouraged to leave by Grace, the woman who ran the book club: instead, she joins a newly-formed book club that mostly seems to read true crime.

Which is probably why, when the charismatic James moves in next door, her initial liking quickly warps into suspicion. Read more... )

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