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elenotharSays a lot that I managed to do one monthly review post at an appropriate time before crashing and burning. Figured it'd make more sense to just shove the two months together, particularly since March was... not a great month (read: busy at work, health issues, and a death in the family), so I didn't do a lot.
First off, thanks to the kind soul who paid for an account upgrade! <3 I'm having a lot of fun with the increased icon count and am eyeing that Guardian mood theme...
TV and movies
Three movies this time (I think? The problem with doing these review posts too late is that my memory is already going again): the new Dune film (pretty and some good acting from mostly side-characters, but otherwise un-engaging), Embrace Again (surprisingly good, and to no one's surprise I liked Zhu Yilong in it), and Drum Youth, which is Zhu Yilong's first movie (? possibly? He's very baby-faced anyway) and pretty decent, though I don't much care for high school settings.
On the TV front, I'm still bouncing off of things, but I did watch Wheel of Time, which was largely enjoyable, kept up with all my watchalongs and re-watched Our Song, the Chinese music competition show of Qingshenshen fame (a comfort watch, basically).
Books
Most of Seven Years in Tibet until I got distracted, a good chunk of the Chinese classic Journey to the West (translated by Anthony C. Yu, the unabridged version), Ursula K. LeGuin's Left Hand of Darkness, which was a very interesting read, and Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies, which was very vivid and well-written, but generally reminded me of why I don't often read 'literary' novels, i.e. why do they always have to be so grim. I also re-read one of my favourites, Tanya Huff's Sing the Four Quarters
Fandom activities
I signed up for the Guardian 520 exchange, which I'm very excited for. Assignments will go out next week, so hopefully I'll jive with mine and get writing on that. Guardian Bingo is proceeding apace - I have strong doubts I'll be able to fill all the squares, even in a year, but I'm giving it a good go.
I posted four fics in February and March, two in each month (which seems a fairly standard rate for me these days - Guardian continues to be very good to my writing muse).
Variable (Guardian, 7.5k, my take on tiny dragon Shen Wei)
Gilded (Lost Tomb Reboot, 5.5k, part of a series of us stabbing poor Wu Xie)
Delusions of Universality (Guardian, 1.5k, Dixingren & gender & Shen Wei)
what the weave tells you (Guardian, 4k, intimate Weilan featuring non-sexual dark energy bondage (no, I don't know what I was doing there either...))
Here's to hoping April is a better month overall. Hope everyone is keeping well!
First off, thanks to the kind soul who paid for an account upgrade! <3 I'm having a lot of fun with the increased icon count and am eyeing that Guardian mood theme...
TV and movies
Three movies this time (I think? The problem with doing these review posts too late is that my memory is already going again): the new Dune film (pretty and some good acting from mostly side-characters, but otherwise un-engaging), Embrace Again (surprisingly good, and to no one's surprise I liked Zhu Yilong in it), and Drum Youth, which is Zhu Yilong's first movie (? possibly? He's very baby-faced anyway) and pretty decent, though I don't much care for high school settings.
On the TV front, I'm still bouncing off of things, but I did watch Wheel of Time, which was largely enjoyable, kept up with all my watchalongs and re-watched Our Song, the Chinese music competition show of Qingshenshen fame (a comfort watch, basically).
Books
Most of Seven Years in Tibet until I got distracted, a good chunk of the Chinese classic Journey to the West (translated by Anthony C. Yu, the unabridged version), Ursula K. LeGuin's Left Hand of Darkness, which was a very interesting read, and Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies, which was very vivid and well-written, but generally reminded me of why I don't often read 'literary' novels, i.e. why do they always have to be so grim. I also re-read one of my favourites, Tanya Huff's Sing the Four Quarters
Fandom activities
I signed up for the Guardian 520 exchange, which I'm very excited for. Assignments will go out next week, so hopefully I'll jive with mine and get writing on that. Guardian Bingo is proceeding apace - I have strong doubts I'll be able to fill all the squares, even in a year, but I'm giving it a good go.
I posted four fics in February and March, two in each month (which seems a fairly standard rate for me these days - Guardian continues to be very good to my writing muse).
Variable (Guardian, 7.5k, my take on tiny dragon Shen Wei)
Gilded (Lost Tomb Reboot, 5.5k, part of a series of us stabbing poor Wu Xie)
Delusions of Universality (Guardian, 1.5k, Dixingren & gender & Shen Wei)
what the weave tells you (Guardian, 4k, intimate Weilan featuring non-sexual dark energy bondage (no, I don't know what I was doing there either...))
Here's to hoping April is a better month overall. Hope everyone is keeping well!
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Date: 2022-04-03 10:14 am (UTC)Ha! <3 people wise in social media say it's better to make many small posts than one big one. I just can't do that somehow, so I just make few long aggregation posts and am happy I post anything at all. :) But if waiting until the end of the month isn't good for you, maybe just making smaller posts works better? (I find Hils's tv show and movie roundup posts a very good solution. They're short but good, and they have a routine to them.)
Drum Youth, which is Zhu Yilong's first movie (? possibly? He's very baby-faced anyway) and pretty decent, though I don't much care for high school settings.
It's not his first, I think? But one of the first, definitely. I still haven't watched it! /o\ I also don't really feel drawn to the subject matter, so it's been languishing for a long time.
Here's to hoping April is a better month overall.
YES!
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Date: 2022-04-03 03:20 pm (UTC)I guess that makes sense? Except for how me the effort is primarily in sitting down and actually doing it (and honestly, I wouldn't say this is a long post as such, either), which wouldn't be helped at all by doing smaller ones more often. I do like Hils' TV show roundups, but I don't really feel I watch enough for that to be worth it, and I'd start worrying at which point the post gets too unwieldy if you do have quite a few entries. Idk. I overthinkg DW a lot, it seems.
It's not his first, I think? But one of the first, definitely. I still haven't watched it! /o\ I also don't really feel drawn to the subject matter, so it's been languishing for a long time.
I liked the drum bits, but as I said, highschool settings are generally a no thanks from me. Z1L being an exception, and I wasn't looking for anything to get really stuck in when I watched that. I was somewhated amused though because (spoiler, if you care) he apparently started his career of tragic backstory and dramatic fainting early