Month in Review: January 2022

[elenothar]

As part of my attempt to post a little more on here, I've decided I'm going to keep track of my media consumption and fandom activitied in monthly posts. If it's just once a month, maybe I'll a) have things to say and b) not procrastinate too much...

TV & Movies

I watched Blade Runner and Gattaca for teaching reasons - both films were quite well done, but I have zero intention to rewatch either, nor did I much enjoy watching them. Dystopias aren't my thing, and Blade Runner was quite gory (by my whimpy standards) on top of that.

TV-wise, I'm watching two Lost Tomb shows in watchalongs: Lost Tomb Reboot as a rewatch and Lost Tomb 2 for the first time with eirenical. Also the occasional episode of Nirvana in Fire with trickytricky (also a rewatch).

On my own, I spent most of the month bouncing off of various cdramas - I got about four eps into Luoyang before giving up and watched one ep of Rainless Love in a Godless Land. Both good shows, by several people's accounts, but neither gripped me enough to keep watching.

Books

I'm reading much fewer published books than I used to these days, courtesy of fanfic, but I did finish a couple in January. A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr (also for teaching), Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki (very good - might do a rec post for it separately), and I'm most of the way through Nghi Vo's novella Empress of Salt and Fortune, which I'm also enjoying so far.

Fandom activities

I signed up for this year's Guardian Bingo, which netted me a fun card full of prompts that I may or may not ever get to.

I only posted one fic in January:

Intelligible (Guardian, Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan, 11k)

Tags: Character Study, Languages and Linguistics, trying to make sense of 10k years of language development, Friendship, Worldbuilding, an important tree, language teaching, Fluff and Angst, Post-Canon

Summary: Shen Wei's relationship to language has always been complicated, and grows all the more so ten thousand years in the future.

...Basically, it continues my unofficial 'love letters to Shen Wei' series with added 'love letter to linguistics'. Topics quite dear to my heart, what can I say.

Comments

[velithya]

ahahahaha okay okay ^^;;; I'll add it to my list! :D

*saves a document called "SW wakes up late"*

[elenothar]

\o/

*doesn't look at all despairingly at my WIP folder*

[velithya]

hahaha low five!! My WIP folder hasn't moved at all since I posted the last tiny dragon fic weeks ago... when will my words return from the war ^^;;;;;

[elenothar]

I've been bouncing between three different WIPs without significantly adding to any of them for the last week and it's very -_-

[velithya]

ah, that's rough. I've been working (or trying to work) during the days and then in the evenings I'm just very tired and my brain has felt quite scattered so them I'm just... not able to focus on anything? :|

I hope for words for both of us sooner rather than later!!! *crosses fingers*

[elenothar]

To focus and words *crosses fingers*