Previous poll reviewIn
the Obsessions poll, 9.8% of respondents have one current active fandom, 31.4% have a couple, 25.5% have a handful, and 15.7% have none at the moment. The most common response was "it's complicated" with 37.3%. Seven point eight percent have blorbos but no fandom.
In ticky-boxes, goth butterflies and punk moths came second to hugs, 56.9% to 76.5%. Dream parkour came third with 47.1%. Thank you for your votes! <3
ReadingAudio:
Inventing the Renaissance by Ada Palmer, read by Candida Gubbins -- I'm a third of the way through this delightful thirty-hour tour of the Renaissance. No idea how much is lodging in my brain (versus in-one-ear-and-out-the-other-ing), but I'm getting bits here and there. Like, for example, the Renaissance framing of "grace" as heavenly political capital. And theology as it relates to
Hamlet. The general tone is very fun. In progress.
Audio:
Stone and Sky (Rivers of London) by Ben Aaronovich, read by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith and Shvorne Marks. Having settled Peter into married life, Aaronovich is porting all the relationship stuff over to Abigail. I guess that makes sense. (The case isn't coming together for me, but that might be because I keep falling asleep while we're listening.) In progress.
Library book:
A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall. Just a few chapters. Historical romance, and I'm pretty sure all the characters are speaking/behaving anachronistically, but I'm looking forward to the reveal.
Spoiler.
The lady in the title is trans and was best friends with the duke before she went MIA at war and transitioned; he thinks she died, and he's now grieving his friend. In progress.
Guardian by priest. We've finished the main story, just one short story extra to go. Wow, this has been a ride!
Kdramas/CdramasStill rewatching
Nothing But Love (AKA Nothing But You), ahhh, I love them so much.
I've also started
My Girlfriend is the Man, a Kdrama about a woman with a genetic predisposition to sudden-onset sex swap, who does indeed wake up in a male body. I only just finished episode 1, so I don't know yet how well they're going to handle it, but I'm fairly sure the narrative pressure on the boyfriend is to accept that his girlfriend is still his girlfriend, whatever body she's currently wearing. No idea where they'll take it after that.
Pru and I finished
Sell Your Haunted House this week. We're planning to start
Love Scout next (rewatch for me), unless I can think of something good (and Korean) with murders/ghosts/cases of the week. Hmm, maybe I should give
Mystic Pop-Up Bar one more try... I bounced off it before, but I know several people who loved it.
Other TV( Cut for length. )Guardian/FandomIt's the last weekend of the
Guardian novel scheduled readalong, and then we're heading into a
slo-mo rewatch of the drama (half an episode per week). If you've been
Guardian-curious or thinking of revisiting the show, now's your chance. *lures*
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fan_writers is going so well. Love to see so much conversation and interaction over there! If you have thoughts on writing, please feel free to post to the comm, either directly or with a link!
Audio entertainmentLetters from an American (lots, including a great half-hour interview with Gavin Newsom). Half an episode of
Sinica,
Writing Excuses, a couple of episodes of
You Can Learn Chinese, some
Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones, and a couple of episodes of
A Life Indigenous.
Plugged-in lifeThe last few days, I've been experimenting with not spending every waking non-keyboard moment listening to audiobooks and podcasts. I was kind of hoping some silence and/or music would wake up my creative brain, and then ideas would come spilling out my fingertips. So far, it's just created an opening for brain weasels. Pbthpbthpbhtpbhpth!
Writing/making thingsI spent Monday morning writing a political submission and then finished
my meta post about story middles. I spent Tuesday's writers' hour writing most of this. I am working on a fic, but it's slow going. It's veered into one of my DNWs (D/s). I mean, you know how sometimes you can write your own DNWs, because you instinctively avoid the aspects that actively squick you? That part is working. It's just that neither the Shen Wei in my head nor I have any idea what we're doing, lol. Playin' it by ear. *rattles keyboard*
I threw something verrrry last minute together for the
fan_flashworks Twinkle challenge. No idea if that worked.
Life/health/mental state thingsI'm okay, just a bit disconnected. The weather's been so cold I want to stay home all the time. I really hate everything our government is doing (not on the same scale as the US, but terrible in its own libertarian way), so by day I'm a mild manner fangirl, but at night I wake up periodically to scrawl angry letters to politicians and/or newspaper editors in my notebook. I should send more of these; I'm always held back by feeling like I don't know enough and need to fact check.
FoodI made two small batches of vegetable dumplings -- Moosewood's sweet potato recipe, and mushroom & coriander adapted from the Omnivore's Cookbook's chicken recipe. I had to use my dumpling press because of my arms, but that worked okay.
Recently made: enchiladas, crispy orange beef (consistency would have been better if I hadn't shoehorned a ton of vege in there too), plus experimenting with crispy tofu in various dishes. A lot of the sauces make the tofu go slimy, but it's
so good when they don't.
GoalsMy goal for this year is to make goals for next year.
Good thingsGuardian stuff -- the readalong, Wishlist!!, the upcoming rewatch, yay! I'm hoping the latter two will combine to get me writing again. Playing with paint pens (drawing butterflies like a six year-old). Sunshine. Cat. Boy. Assimilating my little-worn 'tidy' clothes into my everyday wardrobe so I don't have to shop.
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Covid in fiction
View AnswersI'm okay reading fiction about Covid and related subjects
22 (50.0%)
I'm okay reading fiction that includes mentions of Covid
22 (50.0%)
There are aspects of the pandemic I avoid
9 (20.5%)
I like it when characters mask sometimes
14 (31.8%)
I prefer my reading matter to avoid the subject entirely
9 (20.5%)
It's better in profic / a novel
3 (6.8%)
It's better in fanfic
2 (4.5%)
other
1 (2.3%)
I don't read much atm
5 (11.4%)
ticky-box of gossimer and thistledown
15 (34.1%)
ticky-box of steel girders
10 (22.7%)
ticky-box of half a bottle of flat champagne
7 (15.9%)
ticky-box of battery acid and protest signs
16 (36.4%)
ticky-box of three wallabies at a 1970s disco
19 (43.2%)
ticky-box full of hugs
32 (72.7%)
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