Messrs and Mesdames, I do formally convey my presence.

By day I take on the disguise of a 41-year-old systems tester at an investment firm. I consider myself a veteran anime lover, having been watching the stuff since I was 5 years old. Whether or not I was always aware of it is another story...

Actually, I am a fan of animation as a whole, not just anime. In that broader sense, my first love remains the Golden Age Looney Tunes and Tom and Jerry shorts. I'm also a major fan of animation from the '80s and '90s, where character development seemed for the norm than the exception.

Besides that, I also enjoy watching movies, reading comics (favorite character: The Punisher), listening to music and tinkering with my home theatre system. Which isn’t to say that I live a sedentary lifestyle; I am active at the gym and also practice kickboxing where I hold a Third Dan Black Belt.

How I manage to accommodate all of this within a twenty-four hour day remains a mystery, even to me.

Edit: 08/13/2019 - 22:01 (South African Standard Time)

In Her Honor might be my main project, but I do find the need to write the shorter, sweeter tales firstly for a change of pace and secondly, as an occasional literary palate cleanser after a particularly heady chapter. Now that the latest addition to He's Not Into You, Lucy van Pelt is done, it's all systems go with the main project!

Edit: 08/07/2019 - 00:55 (South African Standard Time)

Woo-hoo! Chapter 15 of In Her Honor is done, now on to the editing and the Author's Notes! Expect it to go live within the next 48 hours.

Edit: 07/28/2019 - 19:04 (South African Standard Time)

So I'm kinda in-between chapters right now for In Her Honor. I've taken to some R&R with Nickelodeon Kart Racers, which I've entered as Exhibit 1452 for not putting much all my stock in game reviews and metascores. The one obvious downer is the lack o voice acting (Not having Helga being able to speak in such a free-for-all environment is such a missed opportunity!) but at least it's not a deal-breaker since the characters' personalities expressed through their animations.

The reviews also mention severely unfair AI, but is that necessarily a bad thing? They keep spamming with the attacks and that being in the lead is not always best for you, but isn't that true also for when you're engaged in multiplayer and the special attacks come thick, fast and cheap? Essentially you're getting the full multiplayer experience in single-player mode!

Finally, it can truthfully be said that NKR is not a patch on the Super Mario Kart series, but at the same time, it can be said with equal truthfulness that Super Mario Kart doesn't offer you the chance to play as either Arnold Shortman or Helga Pataki. And for me, that is the deciding factor.