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One thing that one has to accept with Dickens is that his heroines will be long-suffering, and that men will decide what's good for them, for which they will be grateful.

Given that, I think this the best of his books.

It has the fewest Victorian-plot coincidences, and it has the most and best swathes of bitingly funny satire of soi-disant high society. How the Lammle marriage comes about, and how each of them, in becoming a couple, brings the other down from spoken moral rectitude to the barest pretense of it is as horrific in a quiet way as all the rantings, drownings, and so on.

Bradley Headstone is a remarkably believable depiction of the stalker boyfriend who can't seem to stop himself from sinking into obsession--and violence. Eugene Wrayburn is a fascinating, witty guy for an idle dog.

There are some bits of brilliance--the depiction of the riverside society; Mr. Boffins' educational plan; the Veneering parties.

There were signs of actual personality on Bella's part (when we meet her, she is mourning over being forced to wear black because the guy she was engaged to--whom she had never met--had drowned, which pretty much has finished her socially. Why shouldn't she mourn?) even if the machinations behind her romance are quite wince-worthy.

Dickens also tries to make up for comfortably unexamined antisemitism, and the subsidiary characters are wonderfully memorable.

Altogether it's a real page-turner. Glad I reread it.

chickenfeet

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Transcript: So I got this question as an ask on Tumblr, and I have been trying to do the math on it ever since. And the question is, how many ducks have you personally printed?

And that is a really tough question. I think it hinges on “personally” and “printed.” So if you mean, me myself with my own printer, probably a few hundred. I put them on things like address labels and those I print myself. Alternatively, if you don’t get caught up on “printed,” for an event I did a year and a half ago I did cut out roughly 150 construction paper ducks. Those I most definitely made all myself. If you don’t focus on “personally,” in that i’ve paid vendors to print them… thousands. Because of all of the different duck stickers, we’ve got several covers that have ducks, most of our back covers have our logo on it, which as a duck. It’s on, like, all of our title pages, so yeah. If we go with that one, we’re… we’re well into the high thousands I would think.

So, yeah. How many ducks have I personally printed? A whole, whole lot. There are many more ducks in the world than you’re used to be because of me. You’re welcome. Bye.

bluapapilio

Used my manga TBR boardgame.

I finished 12/11 on my last board My dad was in an accident and the only thing I've felt like doing is reading manga through the tiredness and stress so that's why I finished so fast, plus I mostly only read one chapter of non-BLs. Had a mix of a terrible time and good time with the manga lol

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Natsume
Skill: re-draw a prompt once

Roll #1:

A 6, prompt: author/artist collab. It's been a while since I read one! I picked one that I can't just read the webnovel for: Chewy n' Mushy (that title!).

Roll #2:

A 4, prompt: fantasy element - Blue Exorcist.

Roll #3:

Another 4, prompt: BDSM again. Am I tired of BDSM since I've read so many lately? Naah. Hardcore Vanilla.

Roll #4:

A 1, intimidates you. Ehhh I'll be brave. Anything that I haven't read in a while is intimidating honestly. Boku no Hero Academia.

Roll #5:

A 3, prompt: crossdressing! The oneshot 1-nen C-gumi Yoshida Kakari.

Roll #6:

A 4, prompt: cover features blue. Are You Alice?.

Roll #7

Another 4, costume on cover. Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card-hen

Roll #8

A 3 and I got the boot with the trap tile. New roll is a 5, prompt: mythology. Jibaku Shounen: Hanako-kun

Roll #9

A 1, prompt: opposites attract. EniDewi

Roll #10

A 2 and the CR tile. #5, which is more B-Eyes.

Roll #11

A 3, prompt: oneshot. Akanuketa Joshi ga Chiyahoya sareru Manga ga Yurusenai Senpai

Roll #12

Another 2, prompt: angels. Already have EniDewi, using skill. New prompt: Published between '10-20. Nakasete! Doctor which came out in '15.

Roll #13

A 1, prompt: delinquents, Ai ga Love Shite You nanosa

Roll #14

A 6 and another CR tile. Wish I'd gotten the TBR one. #26 Golden Kamuy

Roll #15

A 5 and finally the end. The physical manga this time is one of my faves, Wild Rock. Hope it holds up.

~Manga TBR List~

[BL/Romance] Chewy n' Mushy
[Fantasy/Supernatural] Blue Exorcist
[Romance/Comedy] Hardcore Vanilla
[Superhero/Action] Boku no Hero Academia
[Comedy/School Life] 1-nen C-gumi Yoshida Kakari
[Fantasy/Mystery] Are You Alice?
[Fantasy/Drama] Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card-hen
[Supernatural/Mystery] Jibaku Shounen: Hanako-kun
[Fantasy/Slice of Life] EniDewi
[Action/Comedy] B-Eyes
[GL/School Life] Akanuketa Joshi ga Chiyahoya sareru Manga ga Yurusenai Senpai
[BL/Drama] Nakasete! Doctor
[BL/Romance] Ai ga Love Shite You nanosa
[Action/Adventure] Golden Kamuy
[BL/Romance] Wild Rock

x5 shoujosei, x4 shounen, 1 seinen, x4 BL, x1 GL

Current Mood: exhausted

bluapapilio

For my manga TBR list:

Read geikomi SQUIRM & Entwine, rated them 1/5.

Read the BL Healing Paradox, and rated it 8/10!

And also read the sequel Healing Paradox deeper and rated it 8.5/10!.

Read ep. 9-13 of Men of the Harem.

Read the BL Chou to Hana no Kankeisei and rated it 8/10!

Read ch. 184 of D.Gray-Man.

(Re)read ch. 1 of Slam Dunk.

Read ch. 178-179 of Kimetsu no Yaiba, my kokoro hurts and it's only going to get worrrrse.

Read ch. 216 of Dr. Stone!

Read ch. 1 of Brave 10 S!

Read the BL White Guardian, rated it 4/10. :/

Read ch. 28 of Kuroshitsuji.

Current Mood: drained

liv

There's been a rant I have been meaning to turn into an essay for a while, but Ken White (Popehat) has done it better, so I direct you to his really well-written and referenced (though US-centric) article: The Fashionable Notion of 'Free Speech Culture' Is Justifying State Censorship, Ironically. Criticism. Is. Not. Censorship, and “Free speech culture” has a natural tendency to discount the speech rights and interests of people who criticize speech.

This is important in Europe too, not just in the US, because it's a deliberate, specific Russian infowar tactic to promote far right events at UK universities and claim censorship if anyone objects. A network based at [Cambridge] University and backed by Thiel, which it said was using the issue of free speech to “normalise white nationalism on UK campuses”. Neither Putin nor Thiel has anyone's freedom at heart, and they're all too successful at distracting people with a toddler-like notion of "freedom" where you get to say the naughty words without being told off.

( shorter version of my original opinion, building on White's piece )

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Current Mood: uncomfortable

duckprintspress

1. What are you currently reading?

The Apothecary Diaries light novel vol. 4 by Natsu Hyuuga: this is due on Libby in like 3 days so I gotta read like the wind
盗墓笔记 vol. 2 by 南派三叔: I'm noticing I'm (finally) getting a bit faster, and I feel like I'm understanding most of it. I might yet be able to catch up to my "1 page a day" plan (I should be at page 70; I'm actually on page 66. so close!)

2. What have you recently finished reading?

Lout of Count's Family vol. 7 by Yu Ryeo-Han: this volume was mostly scheming, so had less action than the previous one, but yum, that delicious Cale whump. I love how everyone around him is now very obviously like, "oh. so he's full of shit. well then we'll just have to take matters into our own hands." Like, they were already like that but now it's been dialed up to 11.
Love and Gravity by Ari North: this was fine, but it touched on some heavy stuff (like eating disorders) and then like. didn't actually engage with them at all? It was weird.
SHWD episode 3 by sono.N: this moved on from the previous two main characters to focus on two new people and still had all the same weirdness as the other three in terms of plot jumps and stuff... even tho there's only one episode left I decided I don't care enough to bother.
Imitation Play by Ann Homare: I rather liked this single-volume smutty modern BL.
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime vol. 9 by Fuse
Just Like Mona Lisa vol. 1 by Tsumuji Yoshimura: interesting start to a high school story set in a world where people pick gender and the main character has opted out of that. The reviews are full of people who make me despair for reading comprehension, though, they're all like, "ugh this was so awful for reproducing the same gender essentialism as the real world has" and like THIS IS VOLUME 1 and if you can't see that criticizing that essentialism is clearly going to be the entire point then why did you even pick this book up in the first place uggggh why. "This long series didn't disassemble the thing it's critiquing in volume 1 so it failed" wut.
The Little Bird Sleeps by the Sea by Yuu Minaduki: I don't like kidfic and had low expectations for this modern BL AU but it was surprisingly sweet.
A Tropical Fish Yearns for Snow vol. 6 by Makoto Hagino: I'm dropping this series. This entire volume was zero communication, pointless jealousy. Whyyyyy do so many HS GL manga titles lean in on jealousy this is annoying and exhausting.

3. What will you read next?

Novels: Don't You Like Me vol. 2 by Lv Tian Yi

Graphic Novels (physical): I really need to knuckle down on these books from the library. Sleepless Domain vol. 1 by Oscar Vega and Mary Cagle is still next, oops.

Graphic Novels (Libby): I got through all of last week's "oh no, this is due imminently" titles but now I have new ones: Yuri Espoir vol. 1 by Mai Naoi and How Do We Relationship? vol. 3 by Tamifull.

In general, I'm trying to reduce the number of things I have in loan and lean more into a "I borrow what I feel like reading that day" model, but I have holds and those keep coming through and messing up my intention to change. Oops? You'd think this would lead me to stop putting holds on things, and yet... (but genuinely I do have fewer holds than I have had in the past...)

james_davis_nicoll

Who is stalking the son of the man convicted for causing the Seryong Lake Disaster?

Seven Years of Darkness by You-Jeong Jeong (Translated by Chi-Young Kim)

oursin

Happy birthday,

parthenia!

pattrose

11. How organised are you with household paperwork (or is everything just in one big pile)?

I'm so unorganized, it's not even funny. Hubby is very organized. One of us had to be. However, he has boxes and boxes of things from his job before retiring. He worked for the same company for 44 years. So, it's 44 years of his job memories. I have to start cleaning out my closet. It's a huge walk-in-closet. I'm going to ask him if we can clean it all out this weekend. I hope he says yes. It's too much to tackle on my own. We’ll see who is organized this weekend.

pattrose

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josilverdragon

Finished "You Deserve Good Gelato" by Kacie Rose and I loved it. Now I'm working on "Exquisite Corpse" by Poppy Z Brite. It's a vastly different subject and fiction. A friend I made in the Sleep Token fandom who's friendship has now extended beyond it recommended it. It's very dark and gruesome and gory, so read at your own risk.
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Reading: Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite [Goodreads][Storygraph]

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Current Fanfic: N/A
Last Watched: Natural Science - Mount Rainier
Last song listened to: Sleep Token ~ Infinite Baths

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pattrose

Topics for talk

Ways I Can Be a Better Friend

One word and one word alone. Listen. Don’t give your opinion, listen while he or she vents. Sometimes it’s the best thing you can do. It’s hard to do this, but do it anyhow. They will thank you later.

sonofgodzilla

My favourite subject is Team 4! Takashima Yurina arrived as a member of Minegishi Team 4 in 2013 at Tokyo Dome, joining Aigasa Moe, Kitazawa Saki, Shinozaki Ayana, Murayama Yuiri, Mogi Shinobu, Okada Ayaka, Kojima Mako, Okada Nana, Nishino Miki, Hashimoto Hikari, and others in the lineup of the new team. Having auditioned in 2011, Yuurin had slowly been working up support as a member of the kenkyuusei and a member of the thirteenth generation alongside many of her new Team 4 peers and at last it had started to pay off!

Yuurin!

Yuurin's first performance in the theatre was during a revival of Aitakatta alongside the other members of her generation in 2011. A year later, after she had passed the selection exam then mandatory to fully enter the group, and became an established presence, those early performances resulting in an increased attention that led to her being promoted to Minegishi's new team. Having long been a fan of AKB48, Yuurin had initially tried out for the twelfth generation alongside Hirata Rina, Saeed Yokota Erena, Muto Tomu, Tano Yuka, and Sasaki Yukari, but had failed to pass the test. By the time the next auditions came around, she had apparently doubled down and whatever it was that had been wanting in her earlier was nowhere to be seen when it came time to decide on those selected.

With all this and a year in Team 4 under her belt, when 2014's next big concert took place, it was announced that she was being shuffled into SKE48's Team KII... only it never happened. Following a cancellation announcement, Yuurin informed us in a Google+ post that she had protested, offering the rationale that such a big move would have interfered with her studies. I think it would have been nice to believe that it was her loyalty to Team 4 that motivated her, but sadly less than a year after the abortive transfer, she announced her graduation, suggesting, maybe rightly so, that whilst being on that stage was important to her, graduating well from high school was maybe more so.

During her time in AKB48, Yuurin never managed to rank in the elections or appear in the senbatsu, but she was present on a number of B sides from Gingham Check onwards. Although she described herself as both timid and weak, it is clear that her time in AKB meant a lot to her and that those three years were an important part of her childhood. Our last news of Yuurin comes from 2024, when she posted about her work at an advertising agency, and whether she is still doing that or not, it only remains for us to wish her luck and hope that whatever is happening now, she still finds time to look back on those days between 2011-2014 fondly.

Current Mood: anxious
Current Location: somewhere
Current Music: Krieg - My Wanderings Through The Ancient Mists

pattrose

90 questions

1. What is something that makes you unique?

I have no idea. This one stumped me. Hopefully it’ll spark some interest for someone else. I was thinking, I’m friendly, but that doesn’t make you unique.

pattrose

( ”recipe” )

ride_4ever

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It's time to celebrate the annual due South fandom holiday!

Current Mood: celebratory
Current Location: near the lake they call Michigan

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kaffy_r

Music Meme, Day 22

A song with a long title

It's late, and I'm tired, but I couldn't resist the hunt for a song that had a long title (and Supercalifragilisticexpealidocious doesn't count). My brain is better wired for short titles, although I've more than occasionally indulged in long titles for my stories, so figuring out music that met this requirement took a bit of thought.

The first one I settled on, REM's "How The West Was Won and Where It Got Us" didn't feel right to me, although I love the album it's on, "New Adventures In HI-Fi"

Richard Thompson's "1952 Vincent Black Lightning" was nowhere near as long, but I think it fits my particular bill.

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Then again, I feel rather odd this evening - must be the extreme weather outside earlier this evening, so I just wanted to share this. It isn't a song, nor does it have a lengthy title, or at least not as lengthy as other classical symphonies have, but in my tired mind, it fits the bill again. I have no idea why.

Perhaps I can say that, while the title of this isn't long, the piece itself is satisfactorily un-short. I used to love putting this on on Sunday mornings back when I was younger, and listening to it again might be in my future as well.

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Earlier entries can be found in yesterday's post. I'd include a link, but either my laptop or Dreamwidth isn't allowing me to do so.

Current Mood: odd
Current Location: the home office
Current Music: Henryk Górecki, "Symphony No. 3, Op 36"

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little_details

Okay, I thought I knew science, but after several days of researching this, all I've got is indecision and a headache.

Original fiction, unspecified not-too-far-future time.

My character is the pilot of a small cargo ship in the asteroid belt. (No FTL, no artificial gravity.) Said ship has sufficient radiation shielding to be safe under normal conditions. My idea is that there's an unusually strong solar event (solar flare? coronal mass ejection?), and he has to survive by positioning his ship on the shadowed side of an asteroid (rocks are good shielding), and use his excellent piloting skills to stay there until the storm passes.

1. Does this, theoretically, actually work?

2. I'd like the solar event to be a Coronal Mass Ejection, because some CMEs move relatively slowly, and that gives my character time to make a narratively interesting choice. But is it the CME itself that's hazardous to human life, or a sort of "bow wave" of radiation that precedes it? And if the latter, is that radiation moving at the speed of the CME, or the speed of light? (I keep thinking I have a grasp on this, and then the next source I read contradicts it.)

Guidance appreciated, fellow space enthusiasts!

james_davis_nicoll

NDP MP Lori Idlout crossing floor to Liberals, bringing Carney closer to majority

torachan

1. I fried up some frozen croquettes to go with the leftover curry tonight and they were so good. Nothing like a crispy croquette fresh from the frying oil!

2. I was worried that daylight savings might throw me off my morning schedule, since I did wake up an hour late on Sunday, but yesterday and today I've woken up at my usual time, despite it technically being an hour earlier now, so fingers crossed that it continues. I like the time I wake up now because it gives me plenty of time to take a long morning walk, do all my morning chores, and have breakfast without even feeling the least bit rushed about starting work, and I really don't want to have to be waking up with an alarm in order to do that.

3. The annoying lady at work who recently moved into my office and was at the desk next to mine messaged me Friday that she is leaving the company and Monday would be her last day and she was sorry she wouldn't see me to tell me in person. I don't like, hate her or anything, but she is just low level annoying, and as seen by her text, for some reason thinks that we are closer friends than we are, so I am glad that she will no longer be at the desk next to mine.

4. I haven't seen Tuxie around today, but hopefully he will come around tomorrow like nothing happened and lounge on his cardboard scratcher again.

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My hobbies are: Reading, movies, sport (cricket, F1, hockey (real not ice), australian rules football, and a few others), science, psychology - I like a little bit of all things, realy - history to anthropology, I'm there

My fandoms are: Do dogs count?

I'm looking to meet people who: Kind people, open minded, those who enjoy learning, ahve passions in their lives

My posting schedule tends to be: sporadic

When I add people, my dealbreakers are: racists/sexists/fundamentalist religious nuts who believe their religion is better than others, genocide apologists, ignorant people, those who don't value science and intelligence

Before adding me, you should know: I have a pretty terrible sense of humour (by terrible I mean excellent) and I'm neurodiverse

musesfool

I don't love that Nolan McLean gave up 2 home runs in the same inning in this game, but I do love that Team Italia celebrates with an Armani blazer and an espresso (they literally have an espresso machine in the dugout and if someone hits a homer, he gets a shot) and then the team captain kisses the guy while everyone else does this: 🤌

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Work is currently bananas. Listen, I have a whole document I wrote on how to change/streamline board stuff to foster discussion and engagement, but we were supposed to do it methodically and not implement it until the June meeting, except now we are doing it NOW, and everything got upended in the stupidest way possible. I maybe kind of couldn't control how irritated I am about it because it is basically making me do double the amount of work and is seems to me like it is just going to achieve the exact opposite of what we want it to, but apparently this is coming directly from the new board chair. I told my boss that if I am right, and that this doesn't do what they think it is going to, I might not say it, but I will be thinking the world's biggest "I told you so." And she was like, that's fair. Sigh.

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Current Mood: drained
Current Music: Team US vs Team Italia on tv

hannah

I got invited to my dad's book group meeting tonight in the capacity of caterer. I brought the cake and I helped the host's wife in the kitchen, where she and I ate while the book group sat around the larger table in the dining room. There's no hard feelings - they're friends that wanted to see each other, and I liked catching up with her. We talked about daytime talk shows, MASH and its laugh track, women by themselves, bad books recently read, and a little bit of poetry. She said that the skin on my chest - the dress I wore was modestly low cut and still well below my neck - was an amazing white, pale, smooth, like something in an old poem about describing beautiful women.

She also suggested I'd be good as a special education teacher, and when I said I didn't have the patience for more than one kid, she said I could do one-on-one. I know how hard that work is, and found it deeply touching she thinks so highly of me. It's not something I think I'll actively pursue, and it's still quite touching.

Everyone loved the cake I brought. Two people asked for slices to take home and share, one person asked for a second slice to eat right there, and two more asked for slices for their breakfasts. I was told it was sublime and that I outdid myself; I replied that next time I'd simply have to do myself, which got a chuckle. One of the other members drove there instead of walking or using public transit, so my dad and I got a lift back to our place. A gentle end to a nice night.

Current Mood: calm
Current Music: I've Been to a Marvelous Party - The Divine Comedy

donutsweeper

Another exchange, Battleship, announced it won't be running this year :( It's totally understandable since even before it had so many signups it was so intensive to run but with the #s it had and all the chaos from last year it makes sense they'd want a break but I'm still sad it's skipping this year, I really only do three exchanges a year (h/c ex, battleship and yuletide) with two not running it's such a change for me and leaving me frustrated and wrong footed.

Being totally out of touch with current popular fandoms and fannish trends doesn't really help either. I have tried more popular/commonly found in exchanges canons but either they are very much not my thing or something that I enjoyed enough but have no interest in delving into fanfic/fandom-wise (like Heated Rivalry, I enjoyed the show but was perfectly content with the story it told, I don't have the desire to fill any of the plot holes or explore any other aspects of the sandbox it exists in or AUs of it, etc). And I haven't had a fandom I truly wanted to dive into on my own in a while either, there's been a few where a story idea here or there called to me, but once I wrote it I was good and if there were requests I might treat them but if not I probably won't be engaging with it much outside of reblogging a gifset here or there if I happen to find one.

Oh well.

Crafting babble under the cut (nalbinding babble and a recently completed rug)

I did stick with the nalbinding long enough to figure out a lot of the stitches. It is an interesting craft but I mostly wanted to learn it for making socks and while I liked the coptic stitch (which was how Romans and Egyptians made their socks) I could *not* get the increases to lie flat (apparently this is common according to the vids I watched) and while I could get the york stitch ones to do so, in general working it (and all nalbinding actually) just took so much attention I couldn't really do anything else while crafting and there also was quite a bit of eyestrain. Glad I gave it a serious try, might pick it back up some day, but for the moment it's a done and dusted thing for me.

After that I decided to try to replace the rug we'd had under the rocking chair that the moths got to. It was an old wool round one we'd inherited and while I've gotten pretty good at knotting rugs these past few years I tended to focus on oval ones since my first two attempts at round ones hadn't been great. But, I had a lot of premade strips that actually matched to use up (3 men's button down dress shirts (white, grey, and royal blue) and a bunch of random white strips left from two different sheets I'd previously made into rugs) which I quickly realized wasn't going to be enough so cut up two crappy pillowcases in the to-be-rugged drawer (green and a blue/grey) but then *that* wasn't enough so grabbed 3 more pillowcases (scratchy dark blue ones) and some more random stained white fabric and stripped all of that. (Strip prep actually takes a while, tshirts and sheet fabrics are different enough the method/result isn't all that similar, for sheets it involves cutting measured notches along one edge and then tearing down to the other end and then I roll the strips into discs to make sure they ripped evenly and also collect all the wispy flyaway schmutsy scraps so the strips will be cleaner to work with later - usually I gather it into a little bags and then use that for fillings when making amigurumi later). So it took a lot longer than planned but still, viola! Rug! 39"/100cm ish circle!

Very happy finally figured out how to make a circle rug; I don't think it'll be something I make often due to lack of place to put it and also the amount of space needed to make it but still. Yay, rug!

Here's a few weeks of

recthething recs, all MDZS/Untamed fic recs:

A-Yuan Talks to the Police and Finds His Baba a Friend by fieldofvision (2.5k)
Summary Snippet: Police officer Lan Zhan helps A-Yuan find his Baba at the farmers market, and A-Yuan finds his Baba a friend (cute little ficlet)

Honey, ginger, and the warm flavor of care by by Anaxyat (2.3k)
Summary: Jiang Yanli used to be the first person Wei Wuxian would call whenever something was wrong. After her, it would be Wen Qing. However, she had not received a single call in the past few days that could explain what was now unfolding before her eyes. (cute JYL modern no-powers AU sickfic)

Frame the Halves, and Call Them Brothers by Bodldops (41k)
Summary: Lan Xichen meets the Jiang's new (and terribly young) head disciple. A relationship blooms from there, and though he doesn't mean anything by it in particular, it is the small stone that starts an avalanche involving three of the great sects. (wonderful WWX&LXC friendship no-war AU)

I'd known about The Bibliotheca Fictiva (the world’s largest collection of literary forgeries, maintained now by John Hopkins) for a while now thanks to an NPR article from 2014 but it was very interesting to see this more recent article discussing it and looking at it via an AI and updated lens. Very interesting.

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[x]o9 helena harper

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---RESIDENT EVIL 9 Spoilers for early game
[x]118 grace ashcroft

(Warmth of a new dawn on my face)

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Sticker by "Mythic Management" from their "Transcend" campaign. We did not end up dragging ourselves out of bed to go look at the lunar eclipse, but the celestial theme felt appropriate.

This was a decent week. Various celebrations for Alex's birthday were low-key, but enjoyable. (Aquarium! Indian food! Always good.) Work was fine, and felt fairly... steady. I didn't have to play catch-up at the end of the week to hit my numbers. Finally got my book reviews from February finished. Still slower on reading more than I'd like, but at least still doing it. I feel like I have a lot to catch up on. As a whole, the week was mixed on the responsible stuff that I needed to do, so I will need to knock out more of it next week.

Goals for the week:

Alex's birthday happened <3
I did not clean the frog and toad ponds
I did get crickets
I read quite a bit of Point of Dreams, but did not finish it
I did post my February book reviews
I did post my March writing goals
I did work on my reading page
I did not call my insurance company
I did my March tracking grids
I did not clean my table and drawer
I did not do my plant care
I did see my mom on Saturday night
We did get rent paid
I did pay some of my hospital bill
I did my getyourwordsout check in: 12739 words in February, bringing ytd to 25281
We did successfully navigate the "spring forward" time change (yes, technically early hours of the following Sunday, but tried to be ready before going to bed)

Tracked habits:

Work - 5/7
Household Maintenance - 4/7
Physical Activity - 3/7
Wrote 500/1000+ Words - 0/7
Non-fiction Writing - 3/7 - one over 1000 words, two over 500
Meta Work - 4/7
Personal Writing - 5/7
Other Creative Things - 1/7
Reading - 7/7 - I mostly read Point of Dreams; Alex and I read some The Luminous Dead
Attention to Media - 7/7 - Sunday we watched news coverage (starting new wars...), video game, and book reviews; Monday, more news; Tuesday and Wednesday, news coverage and game reviews; Thursday, news and paranormal videos; Friday was news, storm chasing, and game reviews; Saturday was news and game reviews.
Video Games - 0/7
Social Interaction - 6/7

Total words written: 2763 on book reviews

Current Mood: sleepy
Current Location: my apartment

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++ As always, even though I know it'll soon pass, daylight savings has me all fucked up.

++ Seven Seas Entertainment has been acquired by Media Do, which not only it seems the employees of Seven Seas weren't aware of this acquisition until it was announced but it seems that Media Do is going to be using their own AI translations, specifically for manga, as a means of pushing out more product at a faster rate. Although both Media Do and Seven Seas have made notices regarding the concerns, people are, rightfully, upset by this news. Seven Seas wasn't perfect by any means in regards to translations at times, but at least there were human translators. I don't know what will happen, honestly. Even if there are reassurances by Seven Seas claiming that they will still be hiring human translators there is no guarantee this will remain true further down the line. The best one can do at this point is to keep an eye on the situation. I know I will especially in regards to the upcoming volumes of danmei series that I'm assuming will not be altered since they've had translators already in place. Nevertheless, it just really fucking sucks that AI has taken over a lot of places, particularly in publishing and translations.

Current Mood: blah
Current Music: Flyleaf - I'm So Sick (T-Virus Remix)