Month in Review: May 2022
Jun. 22nd, 2022 04:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elenotharI spent the first half of the month with a miserable cold after all the travelling, but things have been calming down since then, fortunately.
TV and movies
One consequence of being mostly stuck at home for two weeks, was that I got hooked on a drama for the first time in a while. I watched all of Who Rules the World (且试天下) in May, which for me is pretty fast. It was easy, pretty fare and I quite enjoyed it (I will also admit that Yang Yang is something of a draw...).
I also started watching The Long Night with folks on Discord, which so far is very tense and quite dark but also very well done.
I didn't watch any movies I can recall right now. 40 eps of a drama are more than enough watching for me in a month!
Books
I only read one novella - Nghi Vo's When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain, which I enjoyed. Most of my non-fanfiction reading effort goes into academic texts these days (alas).
Fandom activities
The high point of May was the 520 Guardian exchange. I got a lovely fic frommiss_ingno: Keep on Going, which I adore and recommend to anyone who's even a little bit invested in Shen Wei and Dragon City University.
My own offering was this one:
Treaty-Bound (12k of HC fic speculating about the Guardian Treaty and its effects on Shen Wei)
I also wrote two more Guardian fics in May:
Unusual Results (3k, earlier identity reveal via run-in with an aphrodisiac)
of thousands, just the one (1k, angsty time travel)
My longfic (accidental marriage canon divergence) is also coming along - not sure yet whether I'll be done in June, but as of right now I only need to write a couple more scenes for the last chapter.
TV and movies
One consequence of being mostly stuck at home for two weeks, was that I got hooked on a drama for the first time in a while. I watched all of Who Rules the World (且试天下) in May, which for me is pretty fast. It was easy, pretty fare and I quite enjoyed it (I will also admit that Yang Yang is something of a draw...).
I also started watching The Long Night with folks on Discord, which so far is very tense and quite dark but also very well done.
I didn't watch any movies I can recall right now. 40 eps of a drama are more than enough watching for me in a month!
Books
I only read one novella - Nghi Vo's When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain, which I enjoyed. Most of my non-fanfiction reading effort goes into academic texts these days (alas).
Fandom activities
The high point of May was the 520 Guardian exchange. I got a lovely fic from
miss_ingno: Keep on Going, which I adore and recommend to anyone who's even a little bit invested in Shen Wei and Dragon City University.My own offering was this one:
Treaty-Bound (12k of HC fic speculating about the Guardian Treaty and its effects on Shen Wei)
I also wrote two more Guardian fics in May:
Unusual Results (3k, earlier identity reveal via run-in with an aphrodisiac)
of thousands, just the one (1k, angsty time travel)
My longfic (accidental marriage canon divergence) is also coming along - not sure yet whether I'll be done in June, but as of right now I only need to write a couple more scenes for the last chapter.
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Date: 2022-06-26 03:36 pm (UTC)Yay for many fics in a single month! \o/
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Date: 2022-06-26 03:58 pm (UTC)