Three bug bites in

Ooh boy, time to write about my day as Democrats yell at each other in the background again. Last night I mentioned going to swim in the pool today. I made good on that promise, because how could I not? It's a beaut. The water was also perfect today. Just cool enough to counteract the …

The Bachelor in Florida

Hey. Been a while, huh? I've been enjoying my "book writing sabbatical" perhaps a little too much. A lot of my novel has gotten done, but there have been plenty of things over the last month I easily could have blogged about. I was almost completely by myself for three weeks as Mom and Aly …

Not at all refreshing

When the last summer banner came out, I was convinced it was the only one we'd see this year. That 50-day period was incredibly deceiving, because here we are staring down a Binding/Blazing Blade summer banner. Featuring our sixth variant of Lyndis. Sigh. Let's break my anti-Summer Initiative for the second time this week and talk …

Eliwood rides again

We already have a Legendary alt for Lyndis and Hector, so it only makes sense that we'd be filling out the Blazing Blade's lordly roster with the father of the Lion: It's Eliwood's time to shine. Eliwood — Blazing Knight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9M9OV5ZPgYE I rolled my eyes when first watching this video. "ANOTHER Legendary sword cavalier?" I …

Summer returns in Fire Emblem Heroes

Hard to believe it has been two years since I joked about using Fire Emblem Heroes as a surrogate for not going to the beach despite living in Southern California. Even harder to believe I still don't go to the beach nearly as often as I should. But at least Fire Emblem is still here …

My thoughts on Nintendo’s 2019 E3 Direct

I haven't paid a lot of attention to 2019's E3 outside of the surprise Keanu Reeves appearance, but today was Nintendo's time to shine. That's all the introduction you need. Here's the 40-minute video. Let's talk about it. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Kicking off the Direct was a flashy cinematic of Ultimate's World of Light in …

Fire Emblem: Days of Future Past

Within a few days, Intelligent Systems announced the 3.6.0 Update to Fire Emblem Heroes — which includes "revival banners" for discontinued 5 Star heroes — and this Awakening child unit banner. Considering the 2019 summer-themed heroes are right around the corner, I have come to the conclusion that the developers just desperately want our wallets. …

She’s Mythic and divine

In Fire Emblem, some of Humanity's greatest heroes wield a legendary weapon known as the Falchion that is imbued with the power to cut through dark forces and the dragons who often wreck havoc. Alm, the Saint-King of Valentia, bore Falchion when he struck down a being of pure chaotic power. Marth, the Hero-King of Archanea, …

No love for these bridal heroes

Good afternoon, world! Been a while. I took the last few days off because I was spending extra time with my grandparents and... https://twitter.com/jdrochlin/status/1130184130459721729?s=21 That. After one whole day doing absolutely nothing post-Graduation, it's about time I jump back into the saddle for my daily writing exercises! What better catalyst for that writing resurgence than …

Heroes be damned

I'm going to keep this intro brief because the banner is pretty exciting. Just so you know, this is the first time I'm going to try culling my word count by pivoting away from self-generated skill sets to showing off the official video. It'll be a little less fun for me personally, but it should …