{"id":5117,"date":"2025-11-29T20:32:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T20:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/?p=5117"},"modified":"2025-11-29T20:32:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T20:32:24","slug":"its-the-final-countdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/2025\/11\/29\/its-the-final-countdown\/","title":{"rendered":"it&#8217;s the final countdown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\">time to consider what the hell i&#8217;m doing here! a bit of spring cleaning for the mind!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><strong>\u208a\u02da\uff61\u22c6\u2746\u22c6\uff61\u02da\u208a<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><strong>what did i like this year for the blog?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"\">i liked my sidebar count going up, and i liked documenting truck-kun. i also liked making my slime pen!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">i liked seeing all the books i&#8217;ve read in one place<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">it really did help my memory about certain pieces of media i wanted to revisit<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">i HAVE checked this blog to see if i&#8217;ve ever read or seen something (the answer was yes)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">superior to goodreads in every way.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">it motivates me to read books and watch movies and play games, which i can forget to do because i forget to relax<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">i find i like blogging and getting these thoughts out<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><strong>what did i dislike this year for the blog?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"\">sometimes it felt like i wanted to avoid it because I read so much manga. \n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"\">a solution: perhaps i do not do writeups when i put down a lot. shrink down the manga sections so it has more in it to display.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">i&#8217;m not married to the layout\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"\">this we can putz with for a while. my main love is my sidebar. keep the sidebar.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">sometimes going thru tropes felt like a chore when i had been avoiding a review too long\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"\">can i cut down tropes? any of them with singles that i have made? can i expand the trope section so it&#8217;s less like scrolling for twenty years?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><strong>\u22c6\u207a\u208a\u2745.<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"606\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-29-093805.png?fit=606%2C375&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-29-093805.png?w=606&amp;ssl=1 606w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-29-093805.png?resize=300%2C186&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 606px) 100vw, 606px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">i only read one of my books during this time because i have started to go to the library again. however, because i am severely limiting how much i am to borrow, i AM reading more instead of just letting the books languish. i&#8217;m walking a fine line here. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">i am considering going through my books and rereading some as well, so I don&#8217;t predict this will change quickly even if I am reading my own books. I want to finish stamping books and perhaps come up with a system of writing in the books, but that isn&#8217;t really relevant to the site itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">\u22c6\ua673\u2022\u0329\u0329\u0359\u2745<em>\u0329\u0329\u0359\u2027\u0359 \u2027\u0359<\/em>\u0329\u0329\u0359\u2746 \u0359\u035b \u02da\u208a\u22c6<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">re: the isekai types. I&#8217;m thinking about it again because i stepped into a revenge isekai after reading some redo and relax isekai. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">re: updating the layout. i think i&#8217;ll start changing it up this month and see how it feels. it&#8217;ll be very nice to do. i like changing things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">re: book count at 59 vs the wanted 100 books. it seemed feasible at my old job until things went completely haywire. i think i am happy with the amount i HAVE read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">re: goodreads. i have given up on goodreads. as much work as i complain about doing here, somehow goodreads feels even MORE laborious just because of how long it takes to do certain things (like even adding a date). it DID fudge my expectations of myself: since i decided to separate manga and books, my novel reading count is way lower than i had thought. if you actually add up all the volumes i read this year we&#8217;d be nearly hitting 400 as of writing and I think that&#8217;s more than okay. i need to adjust my expectations for next year though. i WILL probably make a trophy section for myself. for funsies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">\u0f04 \u22c6\u207a\u208a\u2745.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">well that&#8217;s that for the beginning of december. look for some changes to come! unless you&#8217;re seeing them right now. c&#8217;est la vie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>time to consider what the hell i&#8217;m doing here! a bit of spring cleaning for the mind! \u208a\u02da\uff61\u22c6\u2746\u22c6\uff61\u02da\u208a what did i like this year for the blog? what did i dislike this year for the blog? \u22c6\u207a\u208a\u2745. i only read one of my books during this time because i have started to go to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5118,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_eb_attr":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/canva-is-starting-to-fuckin-suck-bro.png?fit=800%2C200&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5117"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5122,"href":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5117\/revisions\/5122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}