Tag: Supernatural – TV Series

Happy Late Halloween

It’s been another week, friends. Happy late Halloween and sorry this is late. For me it was a mix of slow and fast, but there weren’t any big issues. I managed to (barely) finish my goal for my quest this month, which was to finish one of the longest S fanfics I had that has over 200 chapters. This was a little harder as I wanted to do it within the current rules of the quest.

For a bit of explanation, at first, I was going in alphabetical order. However, then I split up the ones I wanted to read from the ones to listen to. That continued for a bit before I realized there were ones that would take a while to get through and even I can get tired of a story. At some point around Books from the Future (I think), I decided to I needed to change between stories to keep myself interested. So, if there were many fics that had the same story (like Harry Potter) as a main component in it, I would put a story that didn’t have that one in it in-between. Then, I changed that to 15 or 30 chapters depending on how long they were. Eventually after a few small changes, I decided on what I’m using now, which is 400 pages of the current main story (based on length or number of stories) and then 400 of the next non-main story fic. I call the 800 total pages, one cycle.

So, I’m sure many of you are asking, but Matt, how to you know how many pages a Fanfic is? That’s easy, friends. It’s what I have fichub for! I have a large database of fanfic’s that I’ve downloaded for my reading pleasure. I also have the 2015 fanfic archive zip you can find if you look for it, but that thing’s huge and I only mess with it when I’m looking for a specific fic. For the last 5ish cycles I’ve been stuck between the 200ish chap fic that had been my main story and the next main one (that’s a Chinese webnovel that has over 3,000 shortish chapters). My goal for the November is to reach the T’s in the non-main stories. December is to read to the Th’s. Next year is to finally finish this quest (which even I’m not sure will happen because some of the ones left are really long). As for what I’ll do after that, I’m still thinking on it.

So, the first change in my listening is that I finished By the Grace of the Gods Vol 3 and started In Another World With My Smartphone Vol 2. In this one Touya spends time with the girls in his party and ends up traveling to the beastman kingdom. Who will he meet and what adventures will he and his party have? Read to find out! This is a trope-y story, but fun none-the-less.

The only other change I had was that I reached the point where I had read to in A Young Reaper’s Afterlife by L4 of the West and decided to change stories. I decided on The Irregular in Magic High School by Tsutomu Satō. This is because it’s on the list and I wanted to get what I had already read out of the way before I get to it so there’s less to read when I get there.

So, this web novel, turned light novel and anime is about Tatsuya Shiba and his sister Miyuki. This is set in future where magic has been proven to be real and now can be manipulated by technology. The siblings get the coveted First Magic High School, but are separated into different groups based on their test scores. Miyuki gets the highest overall school and is an Honor Student, while Tatsuya has high classroom scores, but low magic scores and is an Irregular Student.

Miyuki is unhappy with this as she knows he’s a great magician, but the tests don’t account for his strengths. Tatsuya is ambivalent to it, but has to deal with the harassment of the honor students. However, both hold secrets that will shake up not only the school, but the world. Fair warning to those who read this, the siblings are closer than siblings normally are and Miyuki has a habit of leaning her thoughts about him to the sexual (but nothing actually happens so far as I’ve read). This is explained later, but I’m not going to spoil an important plot point. If this isn’t something you can deal with, don’t read. Moving on, the anime is fine visually, but there are issues in explaining things (especially about magic), so if you don’t read the novel or manga you might be confused on some things.

Moving on to the quest, first is Changing the Future 1-3 by an unknown author (as in I don’t know currently). This is another one of the reading Harry Potter fanfics that was deleted a while back for actually having the book’s text in them. This one has Harry, Hermione and the Weasleys reading the books at some point before the books start. Remus joins them for the third book, but that one only goes through the chapter, The Knight Bus. It was fine, but I don’t think you’ll really be able to find it.

Second is Chaos Hunter by sakurademonalchemist. It’s a Slayers and Supernatural crossover that I’ve talked about here. In it, Lina Inverse is sent to the Supernatural universe and falls in love with Sam while they’re at college. This won’t change anything, will it? It’s fun, but sadly only has 11 chapters and hasn’t been updated since 2015.

Third is a bit farther in the series that started with An Unexpected Christmas Miracle by goodtobealunatic, a Doctor Who AU that I mentioned here. The second fic in the series is Weathering the Storm. This is a Season 3 rewrite where Rose managed to stay with the Doctor. They’re together, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t going to be rough patches. Especially when someone keeps taking the new companion on new adventures.

Third is Of Cruises and Christmas a Time Crash and Voyage of the Doctor rewrite. After leaving Martha behind after dealing with the Master, Rose and the The Doctor have to deal with their own scars from the Year That Never Was. On their way out, they manage to meet a previous Doctor and end up on The Titanic. No, not the Earth one, but a spaceship touring Earth. I mean, just because it has the same name, doesn’t mean that things will turn out the same way, right?

Chasing the Starlight is the actual next one and is the fourth fic in the series and the last of the main stories. It’s a Season 4 rewrite, but as we know with Rose. How will things change with her around? And what’s this, Torchwood even shows up as well!

Fourth is Cheat Code: Support Strategist by Clouds (myheadinthecoudsnotcomingdown). This is a My Hero Academia fic where, Izuku doesn’t get One-For-All. Instead, he decides to become a support student at UA. While preparing for it, he meets Mei and they help each other out. However, after he gets in, he intervenes in the USJ incident and takes the name Cheat Code. Now the villains are after him, what will he do? Also, think you know the UA spy, well think again! This is a great completed fic and part of set of fics were Izuku does different things after being told off by All Might under the series, For Want of a Nail.

The final fic for today is Ranma Saotome, Chi Master by SeerKing. This one is here, because I have the fic under Chi Master on my list and I’ve talked about it before here. It’s a Ranma AU where he’s trained by someone else for a year before going to the cursed springs. This changes his attitude and makes it easier for him to get along with Tendos. There are other changes, but you should read to find out. It’s only 24 chapters, but sadly hasn’t been updated since 2018.

Other than the last Mabel Quest I’m working on is the battle 1,000 trainers, that’s it for the week. I hope you have a great week and I’ll see you later this week. May Your Heart Be Your Guiding Key.

Go From Z to A!

Hello readers, it’s been another week. I’ve been playing Pokémon: Legends Z-A since Wednesday night, but I’ll talk about that later. I took Thursday and Friday off to play, so I only worked Monday thru Wednesday. It was a normal week, except that Monday was raining and we had so many leaks that we spent most of the day moving items, checking shipments and dealing with the aftermath.

The two days off were repurposed holiday days so it wasn’t a big deal taking them off. I even still have another day to take at some point. Pokémon: Legends Z-A has been interesting. I’ve finished the main game and am now doing the after story. I haven’t gotten Zygarde yet, but I do have Xernas and Yvetal. My pokédex is at 202 of 230, so only 24 left. It’s mostly evolutions and that includes most of the trade evolutions and the eeveelutions. I also still need to go around the city and get more mega shards to get more Mega Stones, I have all the paid ones.

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So, the story was fine to me. I like that they deal with AZ and finishing his storyline. They let you know the aftermath of X and Y and what happened to the Team Flare remnants. I also liked that there wasn’t really a ‘bad guy’ or evil organization, just dealing with consequences of not cleaning up after ourselves. There were characters who were hard to deal with, but they all stepped up to help at the end.

The battle system is meh. It’s not bad, but it’s hard with platforming to send attacks sometimes. Especially in cramped spaces during the Z-A Battle Royal. I also don’t like the fact that you only get the chance for one ball to catch after you knock them out. Like if they Pokémon you want wanders in while you’re battling an Alpha and you knock it out, you have to give up a second to throw one ball, then bail or finish the battle. At least in Arceus, the battle was limited to one on one once you started the battle.

The Mega battles were interesting, but took skill and timing. Most of the new Mega Evolutions I’ve seen are fine, but I agree that Mega Starmie is creepy. I’m also glad that the missing Pokémon are finally in the game and I can eventually add them to my Living Dex, especially the Furfrou forms (that I don’t have in game as I was focusing on finishing the pokédex first) as they didn’t keep when I transferred all of the Living Dex to the Switch.

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I’ll talk about what I’m listening to next time because I want to finish and work a bit more on the dex. So onto the quest, first is Carpentry by LegendDairy. It’s a Harry Potter three-shot. In it, the Weasley’s never went to Hogwarts and start a renovation business. Harry and Ginny meet when they’re brought in to work on Grimwald Place, sparks fly.

Second is, Castielle by sakurademonalchemist. It’s a Supernational fic that I’ve talked about before here. In the future that Dean is sent to where Lucifer has taken over Sam, it is done for. Chuck sends Castiel back in a female body to help stop that future. It’s 6 chapters and imcomplete, but still interesting.

Third is, Caught by Epeefencer. It’s a Harry Potter one-shot. Harry and Ginny got back together after the war, but no one noticed. So, they made it a game. Finally, some has noticed and they can take the next step, marriage. [Content Warning] There is a slight sex scene and it’s labelled M for a reason. [Content Warning] It’s a fun little story.

Fourth is Centrifugal Force by Melindaleo. It’s another Harry Potter one-shot. The trio and Ginny go to a Carnival and have fun. Harry and Ginny get closer and Ginny knows they’ll get together eventually. It’s a cute story.

Fifth and Final is Champion by White Angel of Auralon. It’s a smart Harry Potter story. Harry gets good grades, screw the Dursleys and responds to his Hogwarts letter asking for more information. This leads to a different experience. This one is complete and there is a sequel.

I’ll do more next time. I hope everyone who’s playing Z-A is having fun. May Your Heart Be Your Guiding Key!

A Short One This Week

This week and particularly Thursday and Friday have been super boring. I’ve started having a slight physical problem, but I’m working on it. Also, my dog has apparently been causing issues at his doggy day care (he’s there because others who would look after him during the day are temporarily unavailable), mostly messing with the puppies.

I’ll start off with more of the anime I’m watching this season. The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity has been as great as I thought, though Netflix being stupid about releasing it is annoying. Secrets of the Silent Witch has also been a great watch.

I’ve also been watching Private Tutor to the Duke’s Daughter. I reread and caught up to the current manga chapter (the anime has gone past it) but haven’t read the light novels (because there’s 16ish volumes). The MC, Allen, has finished magic academy, but failed under mysterious circumstances to become a court magician. His teacher recommends him to help a Duke’s daughter in the country that’s having issues with magic but wants to go to the academy. It’s been pretty interesting, but I like the previous two better.  

There’s also The Water Magician. I read the manga for the first time and the anime is worth a read/watch, but also not interesting. Its anime is also past the manga. It’s about Ryo who gets reincarnated with the ability to control water magic. He trains in the middle of no-where because he didn’t want to be around people. When he saves someone who was shipwrecked, he decides to follow them to learn more about the new world he’s in. I’ll talk about a few more next time.

Onto the listening changes; first is that I finished The Rabbitverse by ShadowedSword13. Next in my listening order was Hands Off (My Hero). It’s a one-shot about Rabbit confronting the newly caught Shiggy about attacking Ochaco. Then is another one-shot also set when they’re still at UA and before Rabbit leaves, Not Your CI (But I Might as Well Be). In it Rabbit is trying to make a deal with a villain group, but then Froppy calls asking for information on them … Yeah, that doesn’t go down well.

The main fic in the series is next, Down the Rabbit Hole. This takes place after Rabbit comes back to Japan and Ochaco has been a hero for a while. Rabbit decides the best time to seduce her is when she’s in the middle of a stake out on him. It gets better from there and it’s a fun fic. Finally is Mannerisms. It’s got a few chapters that about what mannerisms Ochaco finds that Rabbit has after the ending of Down the Rabbit Hole. After I finished it, I decided to listen to Ataraxia by a1lvera5hley that I mentioned last week.

I also finished Using the Force Made Easy by Fencer22 and decided to listen to Pick Up The Pieces and Take Stock by Umei no Mai. It a Katekyo Himan Reborn fanfic set after the end of the series. I’ve talked about it here. Finally, I finished Poor SAP Gohan’s Secret’s Revealed by dragonprincess3 and decided not to add an new one for it, so now I’m down a story and that’s fine. I can add and subtract as many as I want.

Now onto the B’s for the quest; First is Back in Black by sakurademonalchemist. It’s a Harry Potter and Supernatural crossover. I’ve talked about it before here. It has 44 chapter, but (as always) is incomplete.

Second is Back to the Beginning by Aliandris. It’s a My Hero Academia fanfic where things change during the Jaku City attack. Ochaco is killed by Shigaraki and Izuku goes after him and dies. But there’s also another timeline where Izuku and then Ochaco is killed by Toga during the same conflict. The main difference? Izuku had One-for-All in the first and Ochaco had it in the second. The Second user had a slight time travel quirk (instead of the canon one) and both timelines activate it at the same time. They’re sent back in time together to before they both would have gotten the quirk. They have to try and save the future while deciding who gets the quirk. It’s an awesome fic and has 92 chapters, but sadly hasn’t updated since Oct 2024.

Third is Backwards with a Purpose Part 1: Always and Always by deadwoodpecker. It’s another time travel fic, but this time with Harry Potter. Harry, Ginny and Ron are the last survivors of the war and they find a way to go back to save everyone. However, things are not as they once were and things have been changed in a way to make it harder for them. It’s finished and even has a sequel, that’s not on this list.

Next is Bandit King by Night Raydes. It’s a Harry Potter with a slight crossover with the King of Bandit (manga) fanfic where Harry is abandoned by his parents for his younger sister. He’s taken by the King of Bandit and learns his craft. Fast forward to 16, he returns to England and decides to help his younger sisters, in spite of his parents. Sadly, the author (formerly many names but I have them as Myrddin de Celestis on the site) has run out of inspiration and after many bad (or no) reviews decided to stop writing in Nov 2024.

I’ll finish with Bank Account by White Angel of Auralon. It’s a Harry Potter one-shot. In it a neighbor who works the Dursley’s bank sees how Harry is treated and forced to work without pay. She decides to set it up discreetly to have some money set aside from their account into one for Harry to pay him for his work.

I would write more, but I didn’t set more time to write this week. So, as always, May Your Heart Be Your Guiding Key.

Glad It’s the End of Week

So, here we are again. And wouldn’t you know it, it’s time for Matt talk about how great of week I’ve had, NOT. Work was fine on Monday. But on Tuesday, after a delivery I wouldn’t usually do, I got back to the office around mid-day and things started to go downhill, physically. I left work early and was out of commission the rest of that day and Wednesday. Thursday, things were starting to get better, but because I still hadn’t slept that well, I didn’t go back to work until today (Friday).

Well, Matt, was that the last of the problems this week? Nope, I keep my work phone with me at home, even though I don’t need to. One of things I do with it is keep track of emails in case I need to know something. So, Wednesday, I finally saw that the previously mentioned person who got the job over me had officially left the position. I was happy and thought that maybe once I was better that I would be approached to see if I still wanted the position. That was dashed on Thursday as one of the emails that day was someone getting that position.

I wasn’t happy about that as no-one has even reached out and said, hey sorry, you weren’t even second choice even though we know you can do the work. I honestly think someone is intentionally keeping me in my position. Or maybe that they only want women in that position as all three have been, but I’d rather not think like that. It’s not like I didn’t do their work most of the previous week and that the coming month is the most strenuous for that position and the two above it, absolutely the worst time to be teaching someone the position. They don’t even start for another 2 and half weeks.

I don’t even know if this person leaves and they offer me the position as third choice, if I’ll even take the position because it just seems rude to me. I even know my supervisor is going to be off for two months coming up. If I didn’t know better, I would say he’s planning on retiring and wants to use some of the time he can’t get paid for before he leaves. Of course, if something like that was happening, you would think that someone would tell the de-facto second in command (not that he would ever call me that) so that they could learn to do some of his duties, even if it was to teach their replacement. But there’s been nothing.

If so, the secrecy of the whole organization is to blame (well in the case of my supervisor, he just doesn’t like to tell us things if he can help it). Like the fact that a position can’t be officially put up for application until it’s been officially announced that the person is leaving. And if that means that the person is a higher-level position and they’re leaving in a month, if you don’t have someone in position within that time, those below and above them have to do their work. If it’s a completely new person, then those around have to teach them rather than the previous person teaching the new person, even when someone is just retiring. Sometimes, they come back part-time to help teach, but it doesn’t seem reasonable.

Moving on from this page long rant on my week and work, here’s the changes in what I’m listening to. I just finished My Hero School Adventure is All Wrong, As Expected on my way home from work and I’m going to start on My Heroic Drabbles by sakurademonalchemist. If you know of this author’s other drabble fics, then you’ll know it’s a bunch of stories with only a chapter or two that the author wrote with crossovers (or not) with one story in common, which is in case, My Hero Academia. I haven’t listened in a while so next time I’ll talk about which other stories they crossover with and if any really stick out.

Otherwise, I’ve moved onto volume 11 of Reincarnated as a Sword on Audible. Fran goes back to her country to meet up with a friend, but things don’t just work out for her and Teacher, do they? They find themselves in a conspiracy and save the city and find their friend. I’m still on seventeen of Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody. The events are still generally the same, but they’ve still changed the bad guys slightly so the MC can interact with them early but not figure out that they’re the bad guy.

The quest is next, first is, An Angel and a Trickster by sakurademonalchemist. It’s a Harry Potter and Supernatural crossover with a fem. Harry and Loki. I’ve talked about it before here. It’s only 11 chapters and hasn’t updated since 2014.

Second is, An Impossible Task by ashthephoenix. It’s a My Hero Academia fic. In it, at the beginning of the year, UA gives a ‘Hell Test’ that is next to impossible to get much of score on, let alone pass. Izuku, who has been fudging his tests to not get in trouble, makes a mistake in even barely passing the test and catches Nezu’s attention. What secrets will be found? Not many, because it only has 7 chapters and hasn’t updated in three years. Still an interesting premise.

Third is, An Unexpected Christmas Miracle by goodtobealunatic. This is a Doctor Who fic where the 10th Doctor takes Rose Tyler to Noel, a planet where they celebrate Christmas every day. They have all sorts of couple-y fun. It’s the first of the Stars Aligned Series, where Rose doesn’t get forced into another reality. I’ve talked about it before, here. The author changed their name from batistangel15.

After that is, Anakin’s Puzzle by White Angel of Auralon. It’s a Star Wars short story were Anakin uses his head. He sees a lot of inconsistencies and decides to take some time to figure it out. He does and this is how he deals with the issue. An amusing slight fix it fic.

Following that is, Analytics by Jurodan. It’s a MHA fic where Izuku uses his analytical abilities to help his classmates with their quirks. First is Sato where they test which sugars work best for what things. Things go on in that vein. Sadly, only has 7 chapters and is incomplete.

There are two follow on stories, first is Analytics Sidestories by Jurodan. It’s just the continuation of two chapters with things that weren’t important to the main story, but the author wanted to write. Second is Analytics: White Papers by Jurodan. It’s Valentines and all the guys get white papers with ideas to help them with the girls they’re interested in. Complete as it’s only meant to be a single chapter.

Then is And Why the Hell Not by ack1308. It’s an amusing Worm one-shot. Basically, what would happen if the Undersiders used their powers legally. That’s it.

The next fic is a sequel, so the first fic is, Jade Angel by sakurademonalchemist. It’s another fem Harry Potter (Jade) and Supernatural crossover. I’ve talked about it before here. It’s sequel, Angel Avengers by sakurademonalchemist, follows Jade and her family to MCU to fix things. I’ve talked about it before here. The second one is sadly incomplete and hasn’t been updated since 2015.

After that’s Angel’s Horn by sakurademonalchemist. It’s a Magical Nanoha and Supernatural crossover. I’ve talked about it here. It also hasn’t been updated since 2014. Then is Angels Among Us by sakurademonalchemist. It’s a Supernatural and Ghost Rider crossover. I’ve talked about it before here. Another 2014.

Another sakurademonalchemist story is next – Angels and Demons. It’s a FF7 and HP crossover where fem. Harry was summoned from FF7. I’ve talked about it before here. It has 13 chapters and hasn’t updated since 2019.

Next to last we’re away from that author for a second – Angry Harry and the Seven by Sinyk. I only recently re-mentioned this one as I’m almost finished relistening to it, but here is the link to me originally talking about it. Finally, back to sakurademonalchemist is Angry, Angry Wizards. It’s a HP and Sekirei crossover. I’ve talked about it before here. Still 5 chapters and hasn’t updated since 2016.

That’s it, because I haven’t had much time to read, since I’ve been sick and not really wanting to do anything. I hope you’ve had a better week than me and as always. May Your Heart Be Your Guiding Key!

I’m Here Again, And Plan to Stay

Hello, everyone out there. As you can see, I have returned. Thanks to those who are still following! I’m sure you’re wondering, why now? Well, part of it is that I wanted to. But one reason I decided to was that someone messaged me through the website contact about a commenter on another website, telling me I should do something about them, like I had control of that website. I didn’t click on the link, because I’m not stupid, but I did look up the website and honestly the mistake was understandable. The website is mattreadingtranslations.com. Let me be clear here, similar naming aside, I have nothing to do with that website. I don’t have the time, inclination, or skills to translate anything from another language. I have some knowledge of Spanish, French and Japanese and very little German from classes and reading/watching many stories, but definitely not enough to translate. I enjoy the fruits of those who do translate but am not one of them. Now that I know of this website, I might at some point look into what he’s translating, but not currently.

Moving on, things are mostly the same with me. I’m still in the same position at work. The position I didn’t get in my department opened up because the person who got it over me left, for no reason that those of us who weren’t there at the time have been told. Well, Matt, you ask, did you apply again? Yes, yes, I did. And as mentioned I didn’t get it, again. I did a lot better in the interview, and I know because my interviewer, my supervisor’s supervisor, told me so, but I didn’t get it because they ‘decided to go in a different direction’. From my few interactions with the lady who got it, the different direction is that she can speak Spanish fluently and I can’t.

Am I thrilled about this? No, I’m not. I’ve indicated my willingness to learn Spanish, in fact, I had been working with the same supervisor about my work paying for a class so I can relearn Spanish or even get a basic computer proficiency certification. The third option I had, which I’m not going to mention other than I would have been able to teach people a skill, fell apart when I found and mentioned that the paperwork I was filling out said I had to teach 10 people a year or potentially lose my license to teach them. We don’t have 10 people a year to teach this skill, sometimes we don’t even have one. So it was dropped.

After this, I was busy, but a month or so ago I sent an email asking them about the other two and they said they’d look into it, but I haven’t heard anything. Quite frankly, I’m pretty fed up with the lot of them as my supervisor is also being very nitpicky. He gets annoyed when I even seem to be telling my newest coworker (in my same position) information or suggestions because he wants her to make her own mistakes. One day my coworker and I were doing a certain job and similar things showed up near when I was leaving and I jokingly said she could do them if she finished what we were working on after I left. When I was mentioning where certain things were in the next morning, as both me and my supervisor had to be out for the day, he came in and blasted me for what I was saying and for telling her to do more the day before, right in front of her. (To be clear, she knew it was a joke and told me she was the one who told him what I had said as a joke, also in a joking tone, the day before and was very annoyed he took it out on me). I walked away and he and I didn’t talk except about work things for the rest of the day and I’ve never mentioned it again.

He seems to get angry with me whenever I do something that infringes on his position or I use knowledge that I gained when I had to do things for him while he was off to solve issues when he’s doing things away from the office. For example, when doing my job, I found a discrepancy, I knew he would be away for a few hours, so I went to someone who had paperwork that he to given them to see if I could find out what went wrong. As I’ve done this before, she didn’t bat an eye at it and in looking at the paperwork I found he had made the mistake. She gave me the paperwork, so he could fix the issue when he got back. So, I let him know that I found an issue and he told me to put it on his desk and so I put both paperwork on his desk. When he got back, he got angry at me that I had went to the other person and gotten the paperwork. What I got from it was that he was angry that I found a mistake he had made. A relative mentioned that he may be afraid I’m trying to take his job. I don’t want his job, just a better paying position, to not have to be on eggshells to see how he’s feeling that day and to not have to deliberately not do things I can do to make him feel better.

To be frankly honest, I’m getting tired of my treatment there. I’m only even there and not seriously looking for a new job because the summer is the busiest time in my position and I’m not heartless enough to bail on them in the middle of that. My relatives have been pushing for me to get a new job for a while now, but I have my pride, in that I won’t leave until it won’t cause a huge problem. If things get better (as in I actually get a new position I apply for, not that there are currently any available that are worth my time or I am qualified for and/or my supervisor stops being overbearing), I may stay but that’s not likely.

For those of you wondering, but Matt, what if a coworker finds this blog. I laugh and say, not likely, I’m following my work’s Facebook page, but I’m not Facebook friends with any coworker. I’m fairly sure that the link on my profile to this page has always been friends only, but I’ve just made sure it will be from now on and I’m fairly sure none of them is subscribed to the blog. If someone at work already knows about it and comes here to see my rant, then come what may. I’ve only aired my opinions and not said anything indicating my job, position or names of anyone involved.

Okay, moving on from That, I’m still working on my quest and I’ve actually reached the Rs now. Of course, the next three letters will take a while, but I’m close to ¾ths of the way done! However, what I’m listening to is first.

The one I’m currently listening to in my rotation is Reborn as a Space Mercenary: I Woke Up Piloting the Strongest Starship. It’s an audio book and I’m listening to the 11th volume and the last available on Audible. If I haven’t mentioned it before, it’s about Hiro, a Japanese salaryman who loved playing a sci-fi game where he played as a space mercenary. One day he wakes up in the cockpit of his beloved spaceship and has no idea what happened. The universe he finds himself in is similar, but different from the one of the game and he has to figure out how to survive. Space mercenary is the way to he decides to go and it follows the adventures of him and his increasing crew of beauties. It’s an amusing light novel with action and some romance. I definitely recommend it. I’ve read the webnovel too, but that was in the reading quest, so I’ll get to it eventually there.

Next is going to be Angry Harry and the Seven by Sinyk, I’ve talked about it before, here. It’s still good and an interesting Misled Dumbledore story, of course most of Sinyk’s stories have that. After that is the light novels for Death March in a Parallel World Rhapsody. I’m just using text to speech with the novels, not an audiobook. Yes, I’m comparing them as I mentioned it would. It’s, hm, lighter, so far? Like for example, in the webnovel, Satou only saves one homunculi from the Elf made dungeon and can’t save the rest. But, in the light novel, they’re all saved, but the rest go on a journey and don’t even come back up except in passing until 10 or so volumes later. The author also added a few new light novel only stories and introduced a bad guy earlier in a different form. I’m currently on volume 14 of 23 (out in the US), but we’ll see how it turns out.

After that in the rotation is Taylor Varga, an old favorite of mine. I even talk about it in my second post on this blog, here. Unfortunately, it hasn’t updated a chapter in years but I still like to get back to it every once in a while. After that is Super Gene or Super God Gene, a fan translated Korean webstory. There’s a version on Kindle Unlimited, not that I’m sure how that got there, but it exsists, but it’s also on other sites. I’m only listening to a certain point, that I’ve already read to. The rest I’ll read when I get to it on the reading quest. It’s a sci-fi fantasy where humans are interstellar, but when they get transporters working they end up in a parallel dimension (?) where tech doesn’t work other than to get back. In the other dimension, there are monsters that, when you defeat them can give you a monster soul with an ability if you’re lucky. If you eat that animal, you can get geno points and become stronger. Han Sen becomes an outcast right after he gets to his shelter in the other dimension because he attacks a shapeshifted person in the butt. This turns out to be one of the strongest people there and no one likes him after that. He accidentally finds a gem that causes monsters to evolve and manages to become very strong. Then he finds out about the 5th hidden gene, the super gene. Follow him as he becomes stronger and takes revenge on those who wrong him.

Following that is Yesterday’s Tomorrow by Umei no Mai. It’s a completed side story to Black Sky that I’m actually surprised I haven’t mentioned yet. It’s set in the 320s of Black Sky and follows Tsuna when he’s sent to the ‘future’. He immediately realizes it can’t be the future and this changes things drastically. It’s interesting for only being three chapters. Finally, another old favorite, Desperately Seeking Ranma by PixelWriter1. I first mentioned it, here. As before, the author hasn’t updated in years. In my first post I mentioned they hadn’t updated in 2 years, well that was 7 years ago now, so it’s 9 years now. They posted on their profile in 2022 pretty much saying the same thing, so we can only hope they eventually post again.

Moving on to talking about my current quest, this is going to be a longer one because I want to finish off the A’s sooner rather than later. To start off with, is A Day of Boredom also by PixelWriter1. It’s a longer Ranma ½ one-shot set after the series ended. Ranma is left completely to his own devices for a day for the first time in a long time. He heads to a park and meets a guy doing metal detecting. Intrigued, he decides to see if he can do the same thing with a new technique. This sets off a series of events that are very interesting, I definitely recommend.

Second is A Deal Made in Good Faith by sakurademonalchemist. I’ve talked about it before here. An interesting fem Harry with a Supernatural crossover.

Third is A Demon’s Curse and an Angel’s Blessing by Apex Soldier. It’s an older Naruto fic, I mean it came out in 2010 and was last updated in 2017. Yes, unfortunately it’s incomplete. In it, Naruto’s seal malfunctions when he’s young and he becomes more animalistic. Fortunately, Hinata can hm, not tame him, but he’s protective of her. It’s interesting but is unlikely to ever be completed as they haven’t posted anything since 2018.

Next is A Devil’s Bijuu by fg7dragon. It’s a Naruto & High School DxD crossover where in The Last movie Hinata kills Toneri and in his final moments he opens a rip in space that sends all the Konoha Shinobi into the High School DxD universe. They end up becoming devils and the Bijuu get their own bodies too. It’s interesting, but incomplete. It’s only 10 chapters and the author hasn’t posted on any fics since 2018.

After that is A Different Beginning by Breanie. It’s Harry Potter fanfic where the Potters survive and that changes things drastically. James wakes up after the attack and finds Lily is amnesic. Harry still goes to the Dursleys, but James gets him out once he finds out how he’s treated there. It’s a Harry/Ginny stories, but it’s a long time to get there. Oh, and Harry isn’t the only young Potter. It’s a complete 89-chapter story with sequels. A really good long read.

The next one is A Different Course by Aliandris. This is actually a discontinued fic (that wasn’t before I started my quest). It’s a My Hero Academia fic where Himiko Toga is found by Izuku before she’s too far gone and is adopted into the Midoriya family. Izuku still gets One-For-All, but decides to still act like a quirkless hero in mindset and abilities. The author discontinued to rewrite it under a new name with changes. The old fic is still up, but the new one is Family Beyond Blood.

The one after that would have been, A Distant Storm by TheBeardedOne, but I talked about is on my last post because the last fic in a series was up first. Following that is A Dragon’s Prerogative by sakurademonalchemist. This is another story that I’m surprised I haven’t mentioned before, but maybe it was posted after my sakurademonalchemist quest. It’s a crossover between High School DxD and Katekyo Hitman Reborn. Fem Tsuna is the Red Dragon Emperor and she and Vali have a thing. She even manages to help Rias. Like most of this author’s stories, it’s incomplete. There are 9 chapters and it hasn’t been updated since 2019.

Then there is A Dramatic Reading by White Squirrel. It’s a Harry Potter characters reading the books that manages to survive by putting minimal quotations from the books. It’s only the first book, but it’s worth a read. There are three sequels and the most recent was updated earlier this year!

Continuing my mentioning what we were reading for the currently defunct manga club I was in, we starting reading the next two the meeting after the last three. Both were recommend by the club leader. I had already read some of both of them an seen the animes for them. The first one was One Punch Man. Yep, he was a big fan of the background art that the author drew. One Punch Man is about Saitama. He was an ordinary salary man until he tried to defend a young boy from a monster. The defeat and the boy laughing at him he decided to train to become stronger. He did a daily workout of 100 push-ups, 100 sit-ups, 100 squats, and a 10km run for years. Now he’s so strong, he can defeat any enemy with, wouldn’t you know it, one punch. Even though there’s a Hero Association, he is unregistered and is a hero for fun so many people don’t know how strong he is. It’s an action comedy. There are two seasons of anime and I think a third season was recently announced.

The second was Youjo Senki or The Saga of Tanya the Evil. This one was from a light novel and then became a manga and anime. It’s about a Japanese salary man who was murdered by a subordinate that he had fired early that day. He talks with God or as he calls him, “Being X” who berates him for being an unbeliever. They have an argument and Being X sends him to be reborn in a new world to make him into a believer. He is reborn as a girl in world similar to pre-WWI Germany, but with magic. She enlists at young age and becomes an ace by accident in the first battle of the war. She has to deal with Being X and other Godlike beings interfering and her own delusions about things messing things up. It’s amusing. Sadly, there is only one season and a movie. However, a second season is supposedly to be released next year. Looking forward to that!

Finally, I have finally finished my planning out of the capture of all the Sakura Cards in my own fanfic. I’ve started writing again and am on chapter 5 currently. Remember I want a padding of 10 chapters before I post and I want my writing group to edit and I hope to get a little bit looked at in a few weeks.

Also, sadly, Square Enix cancelled Missing Link after months of nothing. I was very sad to hear it, but hopefully it’ll be a regular game eventually instead of a mobile game. I’m still looking forward to Pokemon Legends Z-A and surprised with the October release.

Before I say my ending phrase, I want to add one thing. I have a shirt with this phrase on it and I found it while looking through my clothes. Unfortunately, it was faded so I bought a new one. My current plan is to make sure I wear it once a week and that day I’ll start writing that week’s post. I wore it yesterday and am posting today when I finish this. So, thanks to those who continue to follow and as always – May Your Heart Be Your Guiding Key.

sakurademonalchemist’s Birthday and a New Series

Hello, intrepid readers. As I mentioned last post, from this post onward I will only be posting on Friday. Since last post I’ve mostly been re-listening to Desperately Seeking Ranma and Gamer of the Sword. The new chapters this week are Worm – Justice for All (2 chaps), Heroes Assemble!, Hashtag Believing is Seeing, Another Soldier Reporting, Angels and Demons, Seerking’s Asylum and Mauling Snarks.

Yesterday was apparently sakurademonalchemist’s birthday so they updated the three mentioned fics above and made two new stories that were in one of the compilation fics (it seems, haven’t gotten to them yet).

Dawn of Magic is a Harry Potter and Akatsuki no Yona (Yona of the Dawn) crossover. Akatsuki no Yuna is about a teenager named Yuna who is the daughter of a cowardly king. On her birthday, her cousin (Su-Won, who she loved) kills her father in order to take the throne. She escapes with help to find those who can help her take back her country. It has a manga series still running and had a one season anime.

In the fic, fem Harry has been reincarnated into Yona and finds Su-Won suspicious. When she figures out her father is dead, she escapes without help. It’s only one chapter so far (and I don’t know much about the other story), but it looks interesting.

Corpse Cleaner is a KHR fic, where Tsuna escapes Japan at a young age and somehow becomes a crime scene cleaner for the mafia. He doesn’t know that his dad is in the Vongola, but helps the Varia clean up their messes. He sees Hayato and hires him to help with the disposal. Also only one chapter.

I also read More Short Story Drabbles which is a Naruto version of the Bleach and Kingdom Hearts ones I mentioned last time. It’s 70 chapters long, so I’m not even gonna try and mention all the stories it’s crossovered with, just the ones I haven’t mentioned before. Dream Eater Merry (a manga about a guy who can predict dreams and a dream demon), Frozen (if you don’t know this is, what rock have you been under?) and Okami (a game series about Amaterasu [the Japanese Sun Goddess] saving Japan).

There was also Supernatural Drabbles, once again a compilation fic but for Supernatural.  It’s 42 chapters and the previously unmentioned stories are: Legion (the movie where Angels try and attack humans), The Covenant (a horror movie where the descendants of the Salem witches face their own trials) and Five Nights at Freddy’s (a jump scare game series where you are a security guard that has to survive possessed animatronics).

I also started rereading (though I’ve never read far) and rewatching (same as reading) a series called A Certain Magical Index. It’s a series about Touma Kamijou, a Level 0 esper (0 means no power, or an undetectable power) who lives in Academy City. There they foster esper powers, though he’s a very bad student. He has horrible luck and the only ‘power’ he has is to cancel out any power that touches his right hand (only his hand). He meets a young nun who clams to be a magic user, but he doesn’t believe until he meets the people after her. Follow his and her story. There are also several spin-offs.

I’ve been watching Everglow (on Youtube) play though Kingdom Hearts Chi (x) a game that’s technically before Union x, but most of the scenes have been in Union x because the player is reliving it. The game was only released for PC in Japan and is no longer available. I’m mostly watching for the scenes not yet shown in Union x about the Keyblade War. It’s the last bit of information I don’t have about Kingdom Hearts.

Nothing more this week, I hope you have a great week and I’ll see you next Friday. May Your Heart Be Your Guiding Key!

After the Quest and a Change in the Posting Schedule

Hi everyone! Sorry I didn’t post on Friday, I actually forgot and didn’t really remember until Sunday (or maybe Saturday, but not until late). Thinking about it, I’ve decided that I’ll just post on Fridays, because then I won’t have to worry about staying up late to post (I have very early mornings, not that it matters this week cause I don’t have work for the rest of it cause there’s not currently much work.) Anyway, I’ve been rereading a few of sakurademonalchemist stories (mostly listening to them), but I’ve also been rereading Ichigo Awakens, Prime Directive: Hero, Gamer of the Sword and finished rereading the Pick Up the Pieces series – Rebuild. The new chapters this past week were: Devil Ninja, Zero no Tsukaima: Saito the Onmyoji, Viridescent, Heroes Assemble!, Raptor of the 20th Ward, Titanfall, Taylor Varga (Thurs & Sun) , Unexpected Restart, An Essence of Silver and Steel, Relic of the Future, Gun Bunny, The Unseen Hunt, God Slaying Blade Works, Tsunami, Black Sky, Mauling Snarks (Omake on Wed, Normal on Fri & Mon), Another Soldier Reporting (Mon & Tues), Souls of the Heart and Service with a Smile.

Since the Quest is over, you’d think that I wouldn’t have much to talk about sakurademonalchemist for, right? Well they have another new story. Its called Hashtag Believing is Seeing. It’s a Rise of the Guardians story where Jack discovers that the Internet can allow him to interact with humans and raise the belief in himself. Thus when the Guardians pull him into their fight with Pitch, he’s not very happy. It’s fun and is two chapters now (started yesterday).

I’ve also been reading some of the compilation fics they have, so I’ll go over them. Kingdom Drabbles is a Kingdom Hearts compilation fic where stories with KH as one of the original stories that might eventually be continued are.   So far it’s has crossovers with Fate/Extra, Once Upon a Time, Harry Potter, Star Wars, Nanoha and KHR. They’re interesting, but the nine chapters only contain up to two chapters of the story.

Bleach Drabbles is much the same only for Bleach. It has crossovers for Hell Girl, Nanoha, Naruto, Harry Potter, Natsume’s Book of Friends, Supernatural, My Little Pony (though it’s not very Bleachy) and KHR. Only one of the stories in here has become a fic of its own, Reaping the Cards. It’s also the only one with three chapters.

The Twin Tides is a fic that just got an update that’s by Solvdrage. It’s a Naruto fic where Naruto has a female twin that looks out for him. It’s only three chapters now, but Solvdrage does good fics (though they usually update slowly). It’s only just on when they graduate, but it looks like it won’t be the same old teams!

sbmcneil posted a new one-shot just an hour ago called Of Splendour in the Grass. It’s a Harry Potter fic focused on Harry/Ginny during his fifth year. In it Harry and Ginny are sent on a ‘detention’ date to Hogsmeade by McGonagall. It’s a cute litte fic.

I forgot to mention it, but a little while back, they also posted another one-shot called A Godfather’s Love. It has Sirius never escaping and being killed when Voldemort invades Azkaban. Harry never knew about him until then and when he finds out it was kept from him, he finds his own help to stop Voldie. A sad fic, but not a bad one.

That’s it for the new stories, but I have a few more things to talk about. Next month the new Code Geass Movie, Code Geass: Lelouch of the Re;surrection, is going to be in theaters. It’ll be playing in select theaters on May 5, 7 & 8. The 5th will be subbed and the 7th and 8th will be dubbed. You can buy tickets on the Funimation website – https://www.funimationfilms.com/.

I’ve also been watching a YouTuber – SarahKey play through KH3.   Why because I can and it’s interesting watching someone react to everything for the first time. Here is a link to her channel – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6TF2WuXLVgcP5TZVLuLf4A.

Thanks everyone for putting up with me. See you on Friday and May Your Heart Be Your Guiding Key!

The End of the Quest (Except for the Compilations

Hello everyone! There’s not much new to report on my side of the screen, but I’ve continued rereading Honestly Harry – The Year of the Spares and started reading the Pick Up the Pieces series (Take Stock and Move On). It was also the third anniversary of KHUx on Sunday!  The new chapters this weekend were: Raptor of the 20th Ward (Sat., Sun, Mon & Tues), Relic of the Future, Gun Bunny, The Unseen Hunt, Reincarnation Roulette, Tsunami, Mauling Snarks, A Smile on Your Face and a Song in Your Heart, Archer, Teeth and Claws and Taylor Varga.

I’m pretty much finished with the quest! All I have left are the compilation or sakurademonalchemist‘s ‘drabbles’ stories. Before I get into that though, they posted a new story today called Another Solider Reporting. It’s a Harry Potter and KHR crossover with Lal Mitch once again being a fem. Harry. Sometime after the end of the series, she is sent back to her pre-Hogwarts self and decides to change things. The first thing, get her and Dudley sent to a military boarding school. Only one chapter so far.

I’ll finish off their earlier stories than go onto the ones I skipped. The tale of Luna Mousey is a D.N.Angel fic where Dark’s long lost sister shows up in a friend of Satoshi’s. She’s not happy with Dark because he was the reason she was lost and helps Kard against him. Once again, short chapters and not that interesting. All of the first half of the stories were posted in 2006, unless otherwise stated.

Inuyasha’s major headache, genin from a new world! Is an InuYasha and Naruto crossover where Naruto’s team and Gaara are sent to the InuYasha world. It’s a short six chapters and very uninteresting.

The tale of Norse Deities is a Fullmetal Alchemist and Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok crossover. Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok is about the Norse God Loki being banished by Odin (for a reason he doesn’t know) to the human world in a child’s body. He is stuck that way until he collects enough evil energy (from objects and people) to return the World of the Gods. He starts up a detective agency to do this and teenage Mayura Daidouji (a mystery nut) finds the place. She joins and Loki has to solve the cases while trying not to show her that he’s a God. It doesn’t help when other Gods and Beasts keep trying to kill him on Odin’s orders, what will happen?

In the fic, Loki finds a girl (who is an original character and the daughter of an alchemist) brought to the World of the God’s by accident and in order to save her from Odin, reincarnates her as his daughter. He seals her memories into bottles that will eventually break on their own. The only problem, she ends up liking her new father’s rival, Heimdall.

It’s sequel, Travelers across dimensions is a cross between Hunter x Hunter, Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok and a brief Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles cross (that technically happened at the end of the previous fic). Heimdall and Fen (the OC) end up in the Hunter x Hunter world hunter exam and end up taking with the crew. It doesn’t really finish the hunter exam and was last updated in 2007.

Phantom versus Deity is a sequel to The tale of Luna Mousey about an OC from later on in the fic who goes to the Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok world. His nickname is Phantom Thief Loki, so the actual Loki is annoyed his name is stolen along with art pieces. The two Loki’s meet and it’s chaos. Also not very good and was updated in 2007.

The Kitsune Uchiha is a longer (with blessedly shorter chapters) fic that is a Naruto fic where there’s a middle Uchiha brother. He’s a kitsune and Sasuke follows more after him than Itachi. Things happen mostly like in the series, except the brother and his influence are around.

Kyuubi of the Nine Tails is a side fic to The Kitsune Uchiha. It tells things from the Kyuubi’s point of view. This one is almost worse than the original.

The Cursed Soul Reaper is a Bleach and Fruits Basket crossover that is overly complicated. Basically, Kyo is forced out of his body by a soul reaper and becomes four different personalities: Himself (who is reincarnated as Ichigo’s twin), a cat, a soul reaper and the cursed form becomes a Hollow (who is also in Ichigo’s twin). For some reason, this twin lives with Urahara … and that’s just the start.

Cursed Soul Reaper 2: Return to the Soul Society, Ichigo’s twin goes to the academy sometime before the start of Bleach as Urahara’s son. There’s less of a Fruits Basket crossover, but it’s still overly complicated.

Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok Vs LotR is the stupidest fic that this author has. It’s supposed to be a crossover between Loki Ragnarok and Lord of the Rings, focusing on how Loki Ragnarok characters would do in battle with Lord of the Rings characters. However, all it has are a chapter per Loki Ragnarok character with a few sentences on how they would far against characters and races from LotR. Not worth reading.

Finally, A Chance Meeting is a one-shot crossover between Fruits Basket and Sailor Moon. Kyo goes to the Sailor Moon universe and meets Luna, and two talking cats meeet. That’s literally it.

Enchanted Wizard is a Harry Potter and Enchanter manga series crossover. Enchanters is a manga series about people who make a contract with demons for powers. In the series, Haruhiko Kanou loves his childhood friend Yuka. The demon Eukanaria has just lost her contractor and wants him back. Haruhiko looks like her contractor and she looks like Yuka. The rest of the series is about Eukanaria trying to use his body to bring her contractor back.

In the fic, Harry contracts the demon Mercurio before the World Cup and becomes an Enchanter, giving him adult status in the Wizarding World. How will things change with an Enchanter Harry? It was last updated in 2011

Protector of Avalon is a crossover between Harry Potter and Avalon: Web of Magic. Avalon: Web of Magic is a twelve book series about three girls who are chosen to help save Avalon from dark forces. Emily, Adriane and Kara have to get over their differences and protect Avalon and the Web of Magic from the Dark Sorceress and others.

In the fic, Harry learns that Adriane is his cousin and goes to live with her. He finds out about Avalon and is also chosen to protect it. How will things go with a Protector now around? It was also last updated in 2011.

The Dog Called Hadrian is Beka Cooper book series and Harry Potter crossover.  Beka Cooper is a series of about Beka Cooper, a girl training to be a policewoman (though they’re called Provosts Dog’s because they work for Lord Provost). There are also magical abilities involved. I haven’t read it myself.

In the fic, Harry casts a spell and is connected to a different version of himself in the Beka Cooper world. They can see each other’s lives in dreams and can eventually communicate. How will this change things?

Half Weirn Child is a crossover between Night School and Harry Potter. The Night School manga series is about a school for the supernatural creatures. It’s about Alexius, who’s sister was the night keeper for the school and disappears. She joins to find out what happened to her.

In the fic, Remus Lupin becomes a teacher at the Night School and eventually brings Harry over too. Harry befriends Alex and decides to help her when her sister goes missing.

Arashime, the Princess of Storms is a Mai-HiME and Naruto crossover. MIYU guards Alyssa’s descendants throughout the ages, eventually leading to her saving fem. Naruto. She fakes the girl’s death and teaches her to become a good shinobi (though she has no chara). How will the world deal with a new HiME?

Hadrian Abhorsen is a crossover between the Abhorsen series and Harry Potter. The Abhorsen series is about Sabriel, who is an Abhorsen, the protectors of the living from the Dead. She goes to save her father when he is trapped and has to fight the dead. She is helped by her father’s assistant and a boy she discovers on the way.

In the fic, Lily is also an Abhorsen and thus Harry is half. When Voldie goes to kill them she uses her powers and escapes with Harry to the Old Kingdom. Sabriel is Harry’s younger half sister and he helps her on her quest. However, he is sent to Hogwarts as his younger self. How will they deal with an Abhorsen Harry?

Micheal Sword and Project Lucifer is a Supernatural and Resident Evil series crossover. Resident Evil is a series about Alice, a girl who fights against the Umbrella Company and their zombie making plans. I’ve only just seen the first movie a few days ago and it wasn’t really that interesting (at least to me).

In the fic, Sam and Dean work for the Umbrella Company and Sam is in the Vault when the virus spreads. He is only spared because he has an AI, named Gabriel, that stops him from being killed. Dean goes to save him, but the two leave before the group goes in.

Fate’s Movie Nights is a Walker omake with only one chapter. It has Bree, Dean and Sam going to save a family from a horrible fate. That’s it.

Alpha Queen is a Elfen Lied and Harry Potter crossover. Elfen Lied is a about the interactions between humans and a mutant species called Diclonius. The human’s experiment on them and Lucy escapes and is found by a boy named Kouta and a girl named Yuka. They take her in and protect her from the people after her. The manga and anime are brutal and violent, fair warning.

In the fic, Remus adopts Lucy before the government finds her and protects her from them. She grows up alongside Harry and they’re inseparable. She goes with him to Hogwarts, how will this change things? Updated in 2014.

Lastly is Charmed Daughter, a crossover between Charmed and Harry Potter. Charmed is an American TV series about three sisters who inherit Wiccan powers from their ancestors. They are the Charmed Ones and are destined to protect the world from Warlocks.

In the fic, Fem. Harry learns that the to be Charmed Ones are her cousins and goes to live with them and their Gran. She unlocks her Wiccan powers and learns all she can from Gran before her new sisters powers awaken.

That’s all of the non-drabbles fics. Thanks for putting up with my quest. See you all Friday and May Your Heart Be Your Guiding Key!

The Quest Backtracks a Little Bit

Hello everyone, it’s time for me to inform you of what happened over the weekend and what I’ve read. I participated in the Lotad and Castform event on Saturday and got 2 shiny Lotads and 7 shiny Castforms! I also finished Honestly Harry – Greengrass Days and Paradise Nights. The new chapter this weekend were: Relic of the Future, Gun Bunny, The Unseen Hunt, Broken Dreams, Master Potter of Kamar-Taj (this was an April Fools chapter), Mauling Snarks (an April Fools ‘End’ Chapter, a real chapter and a PHO segment), Deku: The Golden Sayan Hero of Hope and Service with a Smile.

I started reading the latest of the Honestly Harry series, Honestly Harry – The Year of the Spares. It covers the gangs’ fourth year and is still being written. It’s current chapter (64) ends at the beginning of the final task of the Tri-Wizard Tournament. How will Harry and his ladies deal with a (not unexpected) tournament, where things don’t seem to go as planned? How can it be a Tri-Wizard Tournament, when there were more than three schools called in the first place? Find out what’s happening and more!

Moving on to the sakurademonalchemist quest, (still not having ‘first, second, next, then) I decided to go back and read some I had skipped.   Silent Death was skipped because I haven’t played/watch anything to do with Silent Hill, which is crossed over with Supernatural. Silent Hill is a game about an area called Silent Hill where a young girl was almost killed by cultists. In retribution, the cultists are hunted and I didn’t really care to learn much more.

In the fic, Sam ends up there and makes a deal with the supernatural force there to let a girl and her family live. He does this by leaving a part of himself there (he’s young, middle school or high school age). Za’afiel (the force in this story) helps him out as he can and changes his story. It’s four chapters long and was last updated in 2015.

The second one was Redemption and it’s a straight Supernatural fic. I hadn’t decided to read all of them when I skipped this one, because it blatantly says it has gay relationships in it. In the bad future that Dean sees with Lucifer and Sam, the future Sam uses Lucifer’s power to sent himself back in time. He plans to change things, but Heaven notices something’s different. How will this change things? As mentioned, male/male relationships, Don’t Like, Don’t Read! Was also last updated in 2015.

Back to where I was before, Guardian Mage is a Harry Potter and Shugo Chara! Crossover. Harry is taken in by the author of ‘The Heart’s Egg’ at a young age and grows up around Charas. He gets his own and when he’s forced to Hogwarts, helps others get them. This one and all others after it were last updated and unfinished unless otherwise stated.

Shadow of a Gamer is a Yu-Gi-Oh! fic. It turns out Yugi’s real other half was Ba-Ku-Ra’s only friend. What will Yami (the Pharaoh) do when he meets his container’s true other half? Only one chapter.

Cat’s Shadow is a Yu-Gi-Oh! and Harry Potter crossover with a personification of the author as the main character. She changes things by befriending Kaiba and becoming his secretary. When Mokuba is forced to Hogwarts, Sakura follows and finds Harry Potter, who she helps. It’s 13 chapters.

Shadow of a Gundam is a spin-off of Cat’s Shadow where Harry is broken mentally and is de-aged and sent to the Gundam Wing Realm to rebuild himself. Gay pairings, Don’t Like, Don’t Read.

Death’s Daughter is a Hell Girl and Harry Potter crossover. After Ai is ‘killed’ she is saved by the embodiment of Death who takes her on as his daughter. After making sure she can’t return to being controlled, she talks over part of Hell. She ends up in Hogwarts to learn magic. It’s two chapters.

Untainted Wings is a D.N.Angel fic where the children of the character are accidentally forced by in time to the time of the series. In order to protect those who came before them, they decide to change the future.

Nothing more today, have a great week and see everyone on Friday. May Your Heart Be Your Guiding Key!

A Day Late, Yet Again

Sorry this is a day late again everyone. I didn’t sleep well Sunday night and yesterday I apparently conked out right after dinner and didn’t wake up until a little before my alarm this morning. Didn’t even remember about my blog until halfway through the morning. I’ll include today in the post (not that there was anything new today). There wasn’t much this weekend, though I did get 6 shinies for the Swinub Community Day on Saturday. I also got all the Sinnoh Stone evolutions, but no Happiny yet. This weekend there are tasks during the same time as a Community Day that allow you to get Clamperl and its evolutions.

Onto the fanfics, I finished rereading Rising From the Shadows and Hawk-Eyed Charlie. The new chapters were: Black Sky (one last one on Sat), Relic of the Future, Gun Bunny, Ranma: Happenstance Gone Right, The Unseen Hunt, Seerking’s Asylum, Ashes to Flame, Souls of the Heart (not finished, misread an author’s note), Recoil (been waiting for this!), Teeth and Claws, and Mauling Snarks.

First off, I started rereading the third year version of the ‘Last Mage’ saga by TheBeardedOne called A Distant Storm. It follows Kal-El Harry and his adventures. However this time it includes elements from Fantastic Beasts. Still a good series. After that it was mostly sakurademonalchemist, but there were some from sbmcneil too.

The first of sbmcneil was Odyssey to the Orient. It has Harry and Ginny accidentally grabbing a portkey when cleaning Grimmuald Place. It takes them to an Asian country and they have to try and find their way back while their friends and relatives try to find them. It’s a fun little three-chapter story that doubles as a love story. Try it out!

The other one from them was Without a Trace. It’s a five-chapter story that has Harry and Ginny running away from the Wizarding World less than a year after the war ends. It follows two aurors tasked with what finding out why on Arthur’s request after eight years. Read as they reveal what lead to them leaving. Will they be able to find them? Read and find out!

Moving onto sakurademonalchemist, the first one is a purely Harry Potter fanfic called, Time Turned Back. At the beginning of fourth year, Harry finds Draco stealing from Snape’s potion supplies. In the resulting clash, Harry ends up in Hogwarts during his parent’s time. He decides to change things and goes to Slytherin to change things. This is one of the few that this author has finished.

The second one is a Supernatural fanfic called Castielle. In the future that Dean visits where Castiel is addicted to drugs, the world essentially ends and God sends Cas back to help change it. However, in order to do that he needed to make him, a her. Castielle has to help change the future while getting used to being a girl. Not finished and not updated since 2014.

Third is a Harry Potter and My Little Pony crossover caled Dusk and Dawn. My Little Pony is about Twilight Sparkle, a unicorn who spends her days in the library. She is sent to help out Ponyville prepare for a festival, but ends up finding friends and battling an ancient evil. That’s just the start as the story continues through many seasons, several specials set having them as humans and a movie.

In the fanfic, fem Harry is really Twilight’s sister that was stolen by Fawkes as a young foul. When her wand is broken before fifth year, she finds a spell to take her to her home. She leaves, takes Sirius with her to be reunited with her family. Again not finished or updated since 2014.

Next is Howl of the Moon, which is a Howl’s Moving Castle and Harry Potter crossover. Howl’s Moving Castle is a Hayao Miyazaki movie. He was a director for Studio Ghibli for many years and has directed many great movies. Howl’s Moving Castle is about a girl named Sophie who is a normal girl until she meets the mysterious Howl. A witch doesn’t like them getting along so she curses Sophie. Watch Sophie try to break her curse while dealing with Howl and trying to stop a war.

In the fanfic, fem Harry ends up in the Howl world a few years before the events. She takes Sophie’s place as the main character and causes massive changes. Don’t worry however, Sophie has her place in the story. Same as the last two in updates.

Then was Cinnamon and Red, a Pokémon Adventures and Harry Potter crossover. Pokémon Adventures is a comic that follows Red (who is like Ash) and Blue (who is like Gary) on their adventure.

The fic has Cinnamon as Red’s sister, who was kidnapped as a kid to become the girl who lived. It has her joining her brother and Blue on their adventures. There are no elements of HP in currently cause it hasn’t gotten that far yet. Again, same as the last three on updates.

I’ll leave the rest to next time as I want to get this up and I have an early day tomorrow. Sorry again for the late post and I’ll see everyone on Friday. May Your Heart Be Your Guiding Key!