January 7th - 9th 2026 - Call of The Night

// January 7th, 2026 // - Call of the Night Pt.1

A true nothing of a day. I went to work and did my job. I went to the gym, did my workout and then knocked out when I came home. I think the only things of note are that I texted Jenny asking if she wanted to hangout. She said yea!!! Yippie!!! Also!!! I AM A FOOLISH LITTLE MAN!!!! RENEE WAS OVER HERE ASKING TO BE MY NEW YEARS KISS AND I DIDNT SEE ITTTTT!!!!! WAGHHHHHHH.

Shoutout to Call Of The Night being surprisingly peak. I know that sounds terrible but hear me out. I thought this ish was so slice of life especially in the first season, but this second season? Took everything I enjoyed about the first, built off that frame and is giving me nothing but the most well crafted thought out HUMAN stories possible. I was ready to weep for Akkun those first episodes, and they give me that Kabura is (Basically) Nazuna's mom? That entire plot had me weeping, I found it so beautiful. (We love doomed yuri) I am so excited to see what else this story has to offer. Aw man, they just used one of the greatest story's ever told as a punchline. Are we fr?

Ugh! Okay and on this tangent, the author has perfectly crafted a villain in the detective. I WANT HER DEAD, I DONT WANT HER BACKSTORY I NEED HER DEAD IN A DITCH. I HATE THIS WOMAN SO MUCH I WANTED TO KILL HER. I know as soon as her backstory drops I'll renege on this topic and it'll be the most soul wrenching story ever told but for now... I HATE HER. The author told such a nice story last season about Akkun, and then has the villain immedietly go for him?? GRrr. I also really like that we're getting all the vamps stories and not hers. It's a cool way of humanizing the "Monsters" and having the human be the monster. No more glaze I swear, I just think this show is really good, might have to pick it up.

// January 8th, 2026 // - Call of the Night Pt.2

I am going in circles. With every rotation of the sun I fear I follow the same patterns, the same plot lines reused with different characters. I go through the same fears as I did years ago. Doesn't that mean nothing has changed? What a terrifying thought. I know I am not the same man as I was when I was 23, so why then do I still hold the same problems? Trouble with my love life, the fear of being forgotten, of never achieving what it was I was put on this Earth to do. Drez at work, isn't that just reusing the Dennis plot line? God I pray the story isn't the same. We're even bringing back some of the old characters, I asked Jenny to hang out and she said "yes."

I cannot be the same man. I can't. I won't. I'll kill this version of myself if I need to. Twenty Six has been a good version but if I see too much regression I'll force 27 out of me early.

I'm watching Call of the Night, peak as always. With the new revalation that Nazuna and the detective were once friends. That because Nazuna was responsible for the detective's heart breaking origin, she's sworn to exact revenge. But! What an interesting conflict. What side of the coin does this fall under? "The world hurt me so I'm going to hurt it back." Could be true! She was felled by the vampires so she is set to fell all the vampires back. The inverse, "The world hurt me, so I'm going to make sure no one get's hurt the same way ever again." is also true! By taking out the vampire "threat" she'd eliminate any chance of someone being hurt the same way. Phenomanal stuff.

I uh- I related to some of it too... I didn't want to. But that part of my life is such a defining part of who I am. I don't owe myself to it, but I am certainly a byproduct of it. Nazuna wished that her friend spent the last ten years somewhere being happy, in place of that she squandered her one chance at life trying to get revenge for something that happened ten years ago. The scene where she wants to kill herself felt so powerful. Like she doesn't want to fight anymore, like every inch of doubt that ever slipped into her mind in the past decade was too much to bear, like it'd be so easy to just give up.

I remember felling that. So fueled by rage that I just became tired, I just wanted to stop, all of it. The sadness, the pain, the numbness, the rage, every emotion given a voice just for them to scream. The world was too loud. I just wanted peace. God what a scene.

Uhm- So anyway I really wanna hang out with my friends as much as possible and create lots of art and- and- and-!!! PLEASE JUST DO IT OH MY GOD STOP TYPING AND PICK UP THE PEN!!! WRITE THE HEART TRANSPLANT NOVEL, DRAW THE PIRATE REVENGE COMIC!! COME UP WITH MORE CMC CHARACTERS!!! SOMETHING!!! PLEASE MAKE ART!!! FINISH THAT SONG ABOUT THE BLADE!!!! GAHHHHHHH

All the peace and love in the world,

 - Dyl

// Addendum //

OH MY GOD FALLOUT WAS SO FUCKING PEAK, I LOVE EVERY DIRECTION THEY'RE TAKING THIS SEASON. MAXIMUS, I LOVE YOU SO MUCH. LUCY I LOVE YOU SO MUCH. COOPER HOWARD I LOVE YOU SO MUCH. But Maximus especially. I love all the wasteland stuff with Lucy and Coop, her getting addicted is very entertaining stuff, but Maximus? 

"I don’t choose to do the things I have to do. They just keep happening." I cannot wait to see what he and Thaddeus get up to, and shout out to the GOAT Dane, surprise carry.

Percy on the other hand... Egh

// Double Addendum //

OH MY GOD THESE MFS ARE SUCH COMPLEX CHARACTERS!!! I HOPE ONE DAY I CAN CREATE AND CRAFT CHARACTERS AND STORIES THAT RESEMBLE HALF THE ONES THIS AUTHOR PUTS TO PAGE!!! THEYRE SO GREY!!! THERE IS NO BLACK AND WHITE (In reference to Call of The Night)

// January 9th, 2026 // - Welcome Back to Saltmarsh

lowkey a shit day at work. Too many things happening, too much going on. I just feel like I’m drowning. Even for a Friday. It was so taxing I sat in my car when I got home and doomscrolled for two hours. What the fuck.

At the very least I was able to finish my “Previously On” video for dungeons. I played it for my party when 830 rolled around and they loved it. It was a good session too. Everyone came in at the same time which I thought was funny. Especially when it was just me and Tito Phil yapping about Fallout for like 30 minutes.

Briar and friends are just progressing through the mega dungeon right now. I’m hoping that this brings in new interest in this new year. I just need to make sure to keep it fast and captivating. No dragging.