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[public post] Sunday Sundry: 01/19
2019-Jan-06, Sunday 23:38(Taking a leaf out of ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
isis's book. I'm hoping I'll be able to keep this up weekly!)
Sunday Sundry:
Week 01/2019
Reading
Watching
Playing
Listening
Studying
isis's book. I'm hoping I'll be able to keep this up weekly!)Sunday Sundry:
Week 01/2019
Reading
- Currently reading:
- I started Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones. This is a reread, but since I hadn't read it in nearly a decade, it's as fresh as new. I think I remembered it as funnier than I'm finding it now, though.
- The Oathbound by Mercedes Lackey is still on my Currently Reading pile on GR; I'll get back to it at some point.
- I'm thinking of going through the Valdemar series (Mercedes Lackey) by chronological order rather than publication order; I know it would result in uneven writing style across the novels, but ... I dunno. Anybody has any recommendations as for either publication or chronological order?
- Finished/DNF:
- I decided to put down The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson after reading only half of it; for some reason the second half is not clicking with me at all, which is especially jarring after how much I liked the first half. It feels -- cruder? Colder? I can't quite put my finger on it. Technically it's written very well, it's me that's the problem.
- Anything else?
- I signed up for the 2019 Goodreads challenge for 52 books. I doubt I'll manage it, but I'm sure planning on trying. That does mean, however, that I should be quicker abandoning books I'm finding hard to go through, for whatever reason.
Watching
- Currently watching:
- The Rise of Phoenixes, a Chinese drama (abbreviated as TRoP). I'm at about episode 30? It's ... really interesting, and the characters. The characters are amazing.
- Ningyi is this Mysterious Prince Who Is Smart And Calculating But Actually Really Kind, except he does this thing where he turns his kindness and empathy into weapons. He will do the right thing time after time -- but it'll be right in the grand order of things, and not always towards the average citizen. I love -- love! -- how comfortable his guards and servants are with him, how they joke around, and how he plays along. Contrast that with how Ningchuan was whipping his own servants whenever he was in a bad mood.
- Zhiwei is terrifying. She's also kind, and quiet, but she has this uneasy, quicksilver playfulness to her. She will correct the wrongs she perceives in the world, but at the same time she will ruthlessly stamp down the people who stand in her way.
- My favouritest character though, is probably Ningyi's father, the emperor. He's smart and cunning, and you can tell he actually cares for his subjects. He is efficient, and ruthless, and so, so lonely. He loves very deeply, but doesn't dare to show it. His actor brings him to life beautifully, and I'm just ... in awe.
- Downside: I managed to spoil myself. I know what's coming. But I don't know how it happens, or why. That said, I Am Unhappy with that ending, and I gather that the last 20 episodes get progressively worse until all that's left is the plotholes, so I'm not sure whether I'll keep watching. I probably will.
- Finished/DNF:
- Caught up on and finished Banana Fish, and I am SO MAD. SO MAD!!! Was that really necessary? Other than That, I really enjoyed it. It was solid storytelling with some surprisingly gentle and touching scenes, but you can bet I will be gobbling down all the fix-it things.
- The Rise of Phoenixes, a Chinese drama (abbreviated as TRoP). I'm at about episode 30? It's ... really interesting, and the characters. The characters are amazing.
Playing
- Currently playing:
- Love Live, the bane of my life, how I
hatelove you so. The Honoka/Rin event is ending tomorrow morning, and I managed to farm enough love gems to do the Aquors step-up scouting. I'll be glad to have a few days of regular gameplay. - Subnautica has officially joined the unfortunate group of games that give me motion sickness if I play them more than 15 minutes at a time. It's not as bad as Bioshock 1, but it sure it rather bad. Other than that, I love the graphics and the atmosphere. I'm still at the shallows and the vine forest thingie, and I already like it.
- Started playing the daily Meditations games [link]. They are, surprisingly, calming. Bite-sized thought-provoking, too, especially when you know they're there in order to make you think deep thoughts.
- Love Live, the bane of my life, how I
Listening
- Currently listening:
- Lingthusiasm; I'm at the tail end of episode 3. It's nice to listen to, but I really wish the hosts used better microphones. (That said, I do not regret learning about space pidgin!)
Studying
- Japanese:
- Wanikani: Level 04 || Lesson queue: empty 🎉 || Review queue: empty 🎉 || Leeches: 4
- Kaniwani: Lesson queue: empty 🎉|| Review queue: empty 🎉
- Bunpro: Learnt lessons: (N5: 36) || Review queue: empty 🎉
- Textbook: Genki 1 textbook 1 chapter 6; reviewing the grammar points without doing the exercises in the workbook because I do actually know all these things. This time I'm adding the grammar points to Bunpro after reading about them more in depth in Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar.
- 国語－文法: Watched part 1 [link to playlist]
- キキ: Kindle location 181
- 十二国記・月の影・下: Page 64
- Currently working on:
- Statistics for extra dummies
- Introduction to micro economics
- Python and Excel (note to self: watch these)
- Other things probably ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Coming up next:
- Finals season (aka 'semester holiday', my ass) starts in a couple of weeks, and I am unhappy. That's ... 8 whole finals in a month. And 2 papers. And a programming assignment.
- Things I read:
- [Bad science alert] Economists are doing linguistics again 🙄 (twitter thread 1) & economist posing as linguist edition! (twitter thread 2). The actual paper is infuriating, but the twitter threads were a source for much snickering.
- [Bad science alert] Subaltern linguistics: A call for action - "Ahmar, my friend, you live in Western civilization, speak and teach the language you see as highly oppressive, yet enjoy the benefits of the freedom it affords you to do so, to criticize it publically" [by Ahmar Mahboob]. It starts out being correct. And then takes a sharp nosedive in the incorrect direction. How can you have PhD in linguistics and yet still mess it up this bad, I have no idea.
- [Bad science alert; not safe for work or life or sanity] The dolphin who loved me: the Nasa-funded project that went wrong - In the 1960s, Margaret Lovatt was part of a Nasa-funded project to communicate with dolphins. Soon she was living with ‘Peter’ 24 hours a day in a converted house [by Christopher Riley]. I'm just ... ... ... ... I have no words.
- Things I want to read:
- SCIENCE’S PIRATE QUEEN - Alexandra Elbakyan is plundering the academic publishing establishment [by Ian Graber-Stiehl]
- BACK FROM YET ANOTHER GLOBETROTTING ADVENTURE, INDIANA JONES CHECKS HIS MAIL AND DISCOVERS THAT HIS BID FOR TENURE HAS BEEN DENIED [by Andy Bryan]
- BrainNet: A Multi-Person Brain-to-Brain Interface for Direct Collaboration Between Brains [by Linxing Jiang, Andrea Stocco, Darby M. Losey, & co]
- 5 AO3 tags I saw and liked:
- The Mimosas are Kinda Sentient - Mimosa Hivemind Mentions (freeform; Harry Potter)
- please do not read if this will make you a frowny face (freeform; Boku no Hero Academia)
- Obligatory Reverse Harem Skeleton Fic (freeform; Undertale)
- she is hard and cold but so are swords (freeform; Greek & Roman Mythology)
- knaifu waifu (freeform; Doki Doki Literature Club!)
Friends only.
2015-Apr-05, Sunday 01:52This journal is mostly f-locked. This is a Blog, in which I am emo/happy. Take that to heart. :) You'll be able to find most of my fics {fanfiction and original}, poetry and essays at ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
sevenmes.
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Jewish New Year
2012-Sep-17, Monday 05:31Happy New Year, Jewish folk! :D May you have an EXCELLENT one!
For everybody else, have a great year without any religious or cultural undertones!
For everybody else, have a great year without any religious or cultural undertones!
Empire vs Colonies [public post, lol, history]
2012-Jun-07, Thursday 21:22Snagged from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
maderr here, who snagged it from tumblr. Too good not to share!
*
BRITISH EMPIRE: All right, fine, your stupid embargo worked. We won’t levy any more taxes-
AMERICAN COLONIES: Huzzah! Time to get drunk!
BRITISH EMPIRE: Except on tea.
AMERICAN COLONIES: What?
BRITISH EMPIRE: Get over it, it’s just tea. Seriously, where do you get this idea that you’re special and should never have to pay taxes? We hope that idea doesn’t go on to infect your political discourse centuries from now.
AMERICAN COLONIES: We’re not buying your stupid tea.
BRITISH EMPIRE: Are you being serious right now? What are you going to do, just stop drinking tea?
AMERICAN COLONIES: Yes. We’ll drink coffee.
BRITISH EMPIRE: Do you even know what that is?
AMERICAN COLONIES: No, but we’ve heard it’s good and we’re feeling surly.
BRITISH EMPIRE: Fine, whatever, we don’t even care what you do anymore.
BRITISH EAST INDIA COMPANY: Actually, we are pretty much bankrupt, so you need to make them drink the tea.
BRITISH EMPIRE: Oh, for—just drink the tea.
AMERICAN COLONIES: No.
BRITISH EMPIRE: Do it.
AMERICAN COLONIES: NO.
BRITISH EMPIRE: Drink it.
AMERICAN COLONIES: Fuck you.
BRITISH EMPIRE: Drink it or we’ll punch you in the face.
AMERICAN COLONIES: *Boston Tea Party*
BRITISH EMPIRE: What the hell?
AMERICAN COLONIES: We heard it was Indians.
BRITISH EMPIRE: That’s interesting, because we heard it was a bunch of colonists wearing paint and dressed in costumes that were remarkably similar to what a crowd of drunks who wanted to look like Indians would assemble if the only supplies they had were found in an alley behind a bar.
AMERICAN COLONIES: You get all types in Boston.
BRITISH EMPIRE: ... *Coercive Acts*
AMERICAN COLONIES: Oh, it is ON.
maderr here, who snagged it from tumblr. Too good not to share!*
BRITISH EMPIRE: All right, fine, your stupid embargo worked. We won’t levy any more taxes-
AMERICAN COLONIES: Huzzah! Time to get drunk!
BRITISH EMPIRE: Except on tea.
AMERICAN COLONIES: What?
BRITISH EMPIRE: Get over it, it’s just tea. Seriously, where do you get this idea that you’re special and should never have to pay taxes? We hope that idea doesn’t go on to infect your political discourse centuries from now.
AMERICAN COLONIES: We’re not buying your stupid tea.
BRITISH EMPIRE: Are you being serious right now? What are you going to do, just stop drinking tea?
AMERICAN COLONIES: Yes. We’ll drink coffee.
BRITISH EMPIRE: Do you even know what that is?
AMERICAN COLONIES: No, but we’ve heard it’s good and we’re feeling surly.
BRITISH EMPIRE: Fine, whatever, we don’t even care what you do anymore.
BRITISH EAST INDIA COMPANY: Actually, we are pretty much bankrupt, so you need to make them drink the tea.
BRITISH EMPIRE: Oh, for—just drink the tea.
AMERICAN COLONIES: No.
BRITISH EMPIRE: Do it.
AMERICAN COLONIES: NO.
BRITISH EMPIRE: Drink it.
AMERICAN COLONIES: Fuck you.
BRITISH EMPIRE: Drink it or we’ll punch you in the face.
AMERICAN COLONIES: *Boston Tea Party*
BRITISH EMPIRE: What the hell?
AMERICAN COLONIES: We heard it was Indians.
BRITISH EMPIRE: That’s interesting, because we heard it was a bunch of colonists wearing paint and dressed in costumes that were remarkably similar to what a crowd of drunks who wanted to look like Indians would assemble if the only supplies they had were found in an alley behind a bar.
AMERICAN COLONIES: You get all types in Boston.
BRITISH EMPIRE: ... *Coercive Acts*
AMERICAN COLONIES: Oh, it is ON.
[italy, politics, public post]
2011-Oct-16, Sunday 06:01So today I went out to get a bra and I walked into a riot.
Today also sported a silhouetted!peen, street fires, and pubnapping/clubnapping.
No bra was acquired, but I saw a man peeing in the street and I drank some beer.
Go figure.
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Today also sported a silhouetted!peen, street fires, and pubnapping/clubnapping.
No bra was acquired, but I saw a man peeing in the street and I drank some beer.
Go figure.
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Postcards! [italy, public post]
2011-Oct-08, Saturday 20:24If anyone's interested in a postcard from Italy, comment here with your address {comments are screened}, PM it to me, or email me at konekush on gmail.
Those who've already sent me your addresses, no need to do it again!
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Those who've already sent me your addresses, no need to do it again!
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A rec! [12 kingdoms, anime, rec, public post]
2011-Jul-07, Thursday 03:56The Twelve Kingdoms
Juuni Kokuki / Juuni Kokki / The Record of the Twelve Kingdoms
Youko Nakajima is a 16 year old high school student in Japan and the main character. She's a good and gentle girl -- she's a good student obeys her teachers and parents, and hates disappointing people.
But then a strange man calling himself Keiki comes to her school and pledges his allegiance to her, dragging her into circumstances where she must kill or be killed, and all without an explanation. To top it all, he takes her to another world against her wishes, and then doesn't seek her out when they get separated, leaving Youko to fend for herself in a world she knows nothing about and wants nothing to do with: The Twelve Kingdoms.
Youko finds herself in a difficult situation: she's alone in a strange world, in a country where people "of her kind" that were born in our world are hunted down by the authorities and executed. Not only that, but there are demons who seem to seek her out and try to kill her. It's all very confusing, and Youko wants to go back home.
Sadly, the only one she knows who can send her back is Keiki, the man who's brought her there in the first place, and whom no one seems to know. . . .
( More information )
But mostly it's about people doing whatever they can, and learning from it.
Other recommendations of 12K: 1, 2
Watch The Twelve Kingdoms
I need some 12K icons.
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Juuni Kokuki / Juuni Kokki / The Record of the Twelve Kingdoms
Youko Nakajima is a 16 year old high school student in Japan and the main character. She's a good and gentle girl -- she's a good student obeys her teachers and parents, and hates disappointing people.
But then a strange man calling himself Keiki comes to her school and pledges his allegiance to her, dragging her into circumstances where she must kill or be killed, and all without an explanation. To top it all, he takes her to another world against her wishes, and then doesn't seek her out when they get separated, leaving Youko to fend for herself in a world she knows nothing about and wants nothing to do with: The Twelve Kingdoms.
Youko finds herself in a difficult situation: she's alone in a strange world, in a country where people "of her kind" that were born in our world are hunted down by the authorities and executed. Not only that, but there are demons who seem to seek her out and try to kill her. It's all very confusing, and Youko wants to go back home.
Sadly, the only one she knows who can send her back is Keiki, the man who's brought her there in the first place, and whom no one seems to know. . . .
( More information )
But mostly it's about people doing whatever they can, and learning from it.
Other recommendations of 12K: 1, 2
Watch The Twelve Kingdoms
I need some 12K icons.
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{I was supposed to post this, uh, about seven hours ago. OOPS.}
Dead friendly neighbourhood assbutts: I get it that it's Lag Ba'Omer and therefore a reason to party for no reason as well as party for all explicable reasons. However -- today was still a workday. Was it really necessary to party through dawn with loud music and fireworks when other people were trying to sleep?
No love,
me.
---
[right before a group watch of 6.21 and 6.22, on which way is best to hurt Dean]
[after watching 6.21-6.22; this is only a spoiler if you tilt your body sideways while standing on your head and squint]
[from a conversation withzeitheist about the Eurovision; this is the person I talked to when we discussed the hats at the Royal Wedding]
ETA:
ETA 2:
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Dead friendly neighbourhood assbutts: I get it that it's Lag Ba'Omer and therefore a reason to party for no reason as well as party for all explicable reasons. However -- today was still a workday. Was it really necessary to party through dawn with loud music and fireworks when other people were trying to sleep?
No love,
me.
---
[right before a group watch of 6.21 and 6.22, on which way is best to hurt Dean]
[after watching 6.21-6.22; this is only a spoiler if you tilt your body sideways while standing on your head and squint]
Wanna know something EVEN BETTER?
APOCALYPSE TOMORROW.
IT'S CASTIEL'S APOCALYPSE, NETTA.
And then the news was like, "lol harbor seals."
So now Castiel has Apocalyptic harbor seals, alongside his garrison of otters.
[from a conversation with
zeitheist about the Eurovision; this is the person I talked to when we discussed the hats at the Royal Wedding]
ETA:
ETA 2:
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[meme, spn, public post]
2011-May-20, Friday 06:09/peeks out
Because I am whipped:
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Because I am whipped:
Calling all fandom! With ~24 hours to go before the Supernatural Season 6 Finale, I think it's time for a...
CLICK ME
Now's the time to think about what makes your Supernatural heart tick, and put those reasons out in the open. Maybe these things come up in obscure comment threads, or AIM windows, but there really isn't a collective place for them on LJ.
So let's get psyched for the S6 finale, spazz over it when it happens, and keep the energy strong. Join the fun by posting SIMPLE STATEMENTS OF LOVE. More details on the meme post, but think PICS. MACROS. GIFS. FICLETS. FIC RECS. ICONS. SKETCHES. VIDS. VID RECS. CANON VIDEO CLIPS. Start the love off with any kind of multimedia expression, or comment back to deck out someone else's with glorious pretties!
This is the place to connect. To open yourself. To archive. To express. To reawaken. To find kindred spirits. To come out of the closet. To bask in the (un)holy wonder that is OUR EPIC FANDOM.
Spread the love, peace out, and pluck those heartstrings! ♥
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[eurovision, public post]
2011-May-13, Friday 00:16Someone please tell me how Estonia has made it to the finals with a song like this?:
Europe, I am very disappoint in you.
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Europe, I am very disappoint in you.
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Some Pressing Questions About Gaming.
1) Assassin's Creed 1 takes place during the middle ages in the middle east. Why is the modern Turkish flag all over the countryside?
2) What's with the random saddled horses that are untended all over the countryside? There's too many fully-saddled, fully-trained horses in this game.
3) Why is Jerusalem so buggy? I mean, I understand that it's Jerusalem and Jerusalem in every single incarnation is always buggy, but why is it buggy after it's taken me a couple of hours to get there because the guards keep chasing me away from it and therefore crashes?
4) Speaking of, why do the guards keep chasing me? I haven't done anything! I'm just riding around on my horse, trying to get to Jerusalem, just like every other person that's going to Jerusalem/Damascus/Acre/Masyaf/whatever. WHY CHASE ME??
5) Why is Altair such an ass?
6) Speaking of Altair, shouldn't his name be Attair? Al+Tair = Attair.
7) Why do I need to get to AC: Brotherhood in order to get my baby assassins? :(
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Now, on to Dragon Age 2:
1) The hell did I manage to get into an accidental romance with Anders?? Man, the guy's pushy. I wanted Merrill. She's really sweet.
2) If I ever have a she-cat, I will call her Flemeth. If I ever have a he-cat, I will name him Pounce-a-Lot.
3) My party has got to be the most awkward party possible in the game. It consists of me, Merrill, Anders and Fenris.
Fenris is terrified of mages and despises them, and thinks they should be Safely Contained -- something neither Merrill or Anders agree with, since they're mages.
Anders is a hypocritical abomination who chews Merrill out for doing something more taboo than he has, but with less disastrous results. Merrill thinks Fenris should appreciate his elfish heritage more than he does. Fenris thinks that Merrill is a clueless snob. Anders thinks that Merrill is clueless. Merrill KNOWS Anders is clueless.
The party banter at this point feels more like the prelude to this huge fight instead of something entertaining. /o\
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1) Assassin's Creed 1 takes place during the middle ages in the middle east. Why is the modern Turkish flag all over the countryside?
2) What's with the random saddled horses that are untended all over the countryside? There's too many fully-saddled, fully-trained horses in this game.
3) Why is Jerusalem so buggy? I mean, I understand that it's Jerusalem and Jerusalem in every single incarnation is always buggy, but why is it buggy after it's taken me a couple of hours to get there because the guards keep chasing me away from it and therefore crashes?
4) Speaking of, why do the guards keep chasing me? I haven't done anything! I'm just riding around on my horse, trying to get to Jerusalem, just like every other person that's going to Jerusalem/Damascus/Acre/Masyaf/whatever. WHY CHASE ME??
5) Why is Altair such an ass?
6) Speaking of Altair, shouldn't his name be Attair? Al+Tair = Attair.
7) Why do I need to get to AC: Brotherhood in order to get my baby assassins? :(
---
Now, on to Dragon Age 2:
1) The hell did I manage to get into an accidental romance with Anders?? Man, the guy's pushy. I wanted Merrill. She's really sweet.
2) If I ever have a she-cat, I will call her Flemeth. If I ever have a he-cat, I will name him Pounce-a-Lot.
3) My party has got to be the most awkward party possible in the game. It consists of me, Merrill, Anders and Fenris.
Fenris is terrified of mages and despises them, and thinks they should be Safely Contained -- something neither Merrill or Anders agree with, since they're mages.
Anders is a hypocritical abomination who chews Merrill out for doing something more taboo than he has, but with less disastrous results. Merrill thinks Fenris should appreciate his elfish heritage more than he does. Fenris thinks that Merrill is a clueless snob. Anders thinks that Merrill is clueless. Merrill KNOWS Anders is clueless.
The party banter at this point feels more like the prelude to this huge fight instead of something entertaining. /o\
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How did I not know about this until someone had to tell me? {Hint: it was someone who does not live in Israel and therefore had no reason to know.}
The first same-sex couple on Dancing with the Stars ("Strictly Come Dancing") Israel: Gili Shem Tov & Dorit Milman:
Sadly, they got voted out after three episodes or so.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2mlGfp1pFE - first dance
{second dance -- embedded}
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHy02KjgFFw - third dance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwHIksas6U0 - rehearsals
Also, this is the song Israel sent to the Eurovision:
{For those tuning in for the first time: Dana International has already won the Eurovision once, back in the late '90s: methinks Israel is trying to win again. This might be of special interest because she's transexual.}
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The first same-sex couple on Dancing with the Stars ("Strictly Come Dancing") Israel: Gili Shem Tov & Dorit Milman:
Sadly, they got voted out after three episodes or so.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2mlGfp1pFE - first dance
{second dance -- embedded}
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHy02KjgFFw - third dance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwHIksas6U0 - rehearsals
Also, this is the song Israel sent to the Eurovision:
{For those tuning in for the first time: Dana International has already won the Eurovision once, back in the late '90s: methinks Israel is trying to win again. This might be of special interest because she's transexual.}
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SPN fandom beginner's kit [fandom, spn, public post]
2011-Feb-24, Thursday 21:09I've been asked to give somebody SPN fic slash recs {which then later became "ALL THE THINGS"}. I don't him, I don't know what he likes, I don't know what his past fandoms/ships are, so I'm just collecting ALL THE RESOURCES and putting them in one place. I know I've missed quite a bit, seeing as how I'm still a newbie {lol} myself here, so any additions would be appreciated.
Also, any recs from the f-list for specific fics, communities or people are welcome -- especially the art and vid sections. Feel free to link here from wherever.
Mystery!friend, I hope this helps. You can find my individual recommendations here, even though it's extremely out of date.
This post is a WIP -- I'm continuously adding to it.
( Follow the cut for a lot of links! )
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Also, any recs from the f-list for specific fics, communities or people are welcome -- especially the art and vid sections. Feel free to link here from wherever.
Mystery!friend, I hope this helps. You can find my individual recommendations here, even though it's extremely out of date.
This post is a WIP -- I'm continuously adding to it.
( Follow the cut for a lot of links! )
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I am boycotting English.
No, wait, that came out wrong; I am boycotting prose in English for a while, because obviously if you read this it means I wrote it in the first place. In English. I also suppose I should add poetry to that, even though I don't read a lot of it.
It started like this: I started getting annoyed by everything I read. It started small -- nitpick here, nitpick there. I tried reading the berserker!verse, and you know that something is wrong when you laugh in the face of angsty prose. So I tried Chash! . . . and got even grouchier.
That was clues number one and two that something wasn't right.
Clue number three was when I tried reading Diana Wynne Jones, one of my most favourite authors ever -- and failed.
Clue number four was when I thought of rereading Warchild in English, and felt nothing but dread.
I keep forgetting that English doesn't come naturally to me. That it takes special effort that Hebrew never does. I usually don't notice the strain when everything is fine, but when something is off {like, say, my sleep patterns -- I slept 3.5 hours at night and an extra 5 in the afternoon, and I'm feeling that}, or when I'm grouchy or grumpy or ill, trying to read in English breaks my brain. Then I keep translating things directly that shouldn't be, such as idioms, or tenses {Hebrew only has about three and a very slippery conditional -- try converting those to English's, uh, at-least-9-tenses-that-I-can't-be-bothered-to-count-right-now}, or prepositions, pronouns -- hell, I slipped the other day and referred to water as plural. "The water are warm", self? Really?
Strangely, writing is easier than reading at those phases. I know what I mean to say, after all, so it's easier for me to understand my own thought process. Reading others is far tricker -- I pass anything of substance. You could write the most fascinating thing and unless it's cracky, I won't be able to follow it.
Long paragraphs are exhausting, unfamiliar words take time and energy, and right now all I want to do is curl in bed with a book and read until whatever happens {the most likely is that I'll fall asleep}. Reading in English makes me grouchy.
The obvious solution is to go back to my native tongue for a while and revel in it -- something I haven't done in a long, long, time.
Far too long.
|Meduza|
No, wait, that came out wrong; I am boycotting prose in English for a while, because obviously if you read this it means I wrote it in the first place. In English. I also suppose I should add poetry to that, even though I don't read a lot of it.
It started like this: I started getting annoyed by everything I read. It started small -- nitpick here, nitpick there. I tried reading the berserker!verse, and you know that something is wrong when you laugh in the face of angsty prose. So I tried Chash! . . . and got even grouchier.
That was clues number one and two that something wasn't right.
Clue number three was when I tried reading Diana Wynne Jones, one of my most favourite authors ever -- and failed.
Clue number four was when I thought of rereading Warchild in English, and felt nothing but dread.
I keep forgetting that English doesn't come naturally to me. That it takes special effort that Hebrew never does. I usually don't notice the strain when everything is fine, but when something is off {like, say, my sleep patterns -- I slept 3.5 hours at night and an extra 5 in the afternoon, and I'm feeling that}, or when I'm grouchy or grumpy or ill, trying to read in English breaks my brain. Then I keep translating things directly that shouldn't be, such as idioms, or tenses {Hebrew only has about three and a very slippery conditional -- try converting those to English's, uh, at-least-9-tenses-that-I-can't-be-bothered-to-count-right-now}, or prepositions, pronouns -- hell, I slipped the other day and referred to water as plural. "The water are warm", self? Really?
Strangely, writing is easier than reading at those phases. I know what I mean to say, after all, so it's easier for me to understand my own thought process. Reading others is far tricker -- I pass anything of substance. You could write the most fascinating thing and unless it's cracky, I won't be able to follow it.
Long paragraphs are exhausting, unfamiliar words take time and energy, and right now all I want to do is curl in bed with a book and read until whatever happens {the most likely is that I'll fall asleep}. Reading in English makes me grouchy.
The obvious solution is to go back to my native tongue for a while and revel in it -- something I haven't done in a long, long, time.
Far too long.
|Meduza|
SPN 6.07 [episode reaction, spn, tv, public post]
2010-Nov-06, Saturday 19:06( SPN 6.07: Family Matters. 'Answer my question.' 'You first.' )
The entirety of my screencaps can be found here: [CLICK]
I didn't watch the promo for next week -- I consider it a spoiler, so please don't talk about it here. :)
|Meduza|
The entirety of my screencaps can be found here: [CLICK]
I didn't watch the promo for next week -- I consider it a spoiler, so please don't talk about it here. :)
|Meduza|
( SPN 6.03: When Sam calls, you answer. )
Last but not least: omfg Misha's eyelashes.
That is all.
|Meduza!lardy|
FOOD!FIC MEME [writing, meme, public post]
2010-Sep-07, Tuesday 20:18
+ Kinkmeme FFA!
+ ONE RULE: One partner in any pairing must be food. Crossover!fic (potato/robotic dog) is okay, as are OCs (potato/shark) are okay, but ONLY if a canon character features (no shark/robotic dog, unless either a potato is watching them, or the shark is the food).
+ Fills can be written, drawn, filmed, photographed, sculpted, sung or composed.
+ Multiple fills are encouraged.
+ Anonymous commenting is enabled and IP logging is off, for those interested in anonymity.
+ PLAY NICE, HAVE FUN, AND TELL YOUR FRIENDS.
Sorry, DW! Only available at LJ.
|Melafefon|
Nothing from this post will make it to my writing journal. Ever. I'm just sharing it here for the lulz.
And linking to whatkalliel has to say about it, which is basically linking people here. xP
( in which Naatz and Kalliel are pathetic )
doughtier .......
dude
my first porn ever was food porn.
kalliel: LITERAL LOLOLOLOLOLOLLOLOLOL FOREVER.
doughtier At least my first was CHOCOLATE porn.
My second is, um.
Tomato porn.
*
( in which Naatz and Kalliel write food porn )
*
karit Wait... LITERALLY?!
doughtier ......yes.
karit I thought you meant porn where people were idek, eating tomatoes!
Not--NETTA
::cracking up::
*
And then, I wrote Snarry forabbigail_cross, who'd prompted me a while back with 'experimenting'. I just needed an extra prompt to get going, and it was, um, 'broom closet'.
Um, crack. Bad crack. I tried. It was a bit difficult to write through my tears of mirth.
( Here be Snarry! Rated R, I think. )
. . . xP
|Meduza|
And linking to what
kalliel has to say about it, which is basically linking people here. xP( in which Naatz and Kalliel are pathetic )
doughtier .......dude
my first porn ever was food porn.
kalliel: LITERAL LOLOLOLOLOLOLLOLOLOL FOREVER.doughtier At least my first was CHOCOLATE porn.My second is, um.
Tomato porn.
*
( in which Naatz and Kalliel write food porn )
*
karit Wait... LITERALLY?!doughtier ......yes.karit I thought you meant porn where people were idek, eating tomatoes!Not--NETTA
::cracking up::
*
And then, I wrote Snarry for
abbigail_cross, who'd prompted me a while back with 'experimenting'. I just needed an extra prompt to get going, and it was, um, 'broom closet'.Um, crack. Bad crack. I tried. It was a bit difficult to write through my tears of mirth.
( Here be Snarry! Rated R, I think. )
. . . xP
|Meduza|
