since there's no place to go

Small list post, because.

# There is snow outside! Only about 2cm of it at the deepest, but it is there!

Also it's been minus temps for a lot of the days recently (only peaking at +1°C during the day), so it's properly felt like winter recently. Which is nice, because it feels like the last several years have been wet and miserable.

# I am continuing with P5R! I am currently in the third semester, and I have Thoughts about it, but I will leave talking about them until I finish the game. Partly because I also have things I want to say about the game as a whole, so I might as well put it all in one post.

# I decided a little while ago that, as a treat, I would buy myself a tin of Polychromos coloured pencils for Xmas. Except then I watched this one video by someone, and they said an artist they follow said that when you're buying supplies you're unfamiliar with, it's generally better to get a few open stock in colours you like/will use as opposed to a set, as then you may not feel like you wasted money if you don't like them.

And I think this is actually a good idea! The problem I'm going to have is choosing a limited palette that is not all greens and blues. I like all colours, but they're the ones I gravitate towards the most.

I also thought what I would do is divide the money I would have spent between several things I want to try - e.g. get four Polychromos, and then get maybe a couple of Poscas (since I only have black and white), and possibly four Neocolor IIs*.

Well, that's what I've decided for now. Who knows what I'll think in a couple of weeks' time.

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*I have three sets of the Neocolor Is that were my mum's, but I'd like to see what the IIs are like as several artists I follow seem to rate them.