Me-and-media update
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china_shopPandemic life
I would like to go for a swim today, but the outdoor pool doesn't open till October, boo.
Previous poll review
I really enjoyed everyone's answers to the Youtube poll, thank you! I'd been thinking that I mostly use it for a) tv and movie trailers, b) specific music I'm looking for or that people have linked to, and c) how-tos (especially technical things, now that the search engines are useless, but also random stuff like how to fold dumplings). But the discussion reminded me I also watch essays, usually about story, writing, or film, in particular:![[youtube.com profile]](https://youtube.com/favicon.ico)
HelloFutureMe, heyjameshurst, everyframeapainting, EllenBrock, and so on. And occasionally talk shows, exercise things (yoga, zumba), and other random things. I have my history disabled so I won't spend my whole life algorithm surfing.
In the poll, 48% of respondents said music, 44% said other, and 24% said "instructional videos - practical" and "dramas and tv". Ten percent of respondents don't use Youtube. In ticky-boxes, squishable fur-creatures (46%) came second to hugs (70%). Thank you for your votes and comments!
Reading
Audio: System Collapse (Murderbot) by Martha Wells, read by Kevin R. Free. I enjoyed this, not quite as much as Network Effect but well enough (and it might hit better on a re-read, like Network Effect did for me). I really appreciate that the series is grappling with wider existential issues, rather than opting for "Murderbot is super special" exceptionalism. And the middle section of Saving The World Through [Spoiler] was very fun.
Audio: Waiting for the Flood by Alexis Hall, read by Will Watt. This is a gorgeously written (and brilliantly narrated) m/m & m/m romance -- very close POVs, lovely similes. The perfect-partner wish fulfillment is almost at magic realism levels, and I found the transition from POV1 to POV2 a bit jarring, but I had been wondering how there could still be six hours left at that point, so something had to happen. My fannish brain wanted it to all come together more at the end -- poly, or friend group -- but how it actually played out was more realistic. The gestalt felt kind of genre-breaking: some very romance-novel elements, elevated by the observational detail and dreamy pacing, and complicated by the unorthodox structure. In minor characters, I loved Marius' mother so much.
Continuing on with Meditations for Mortals (thought-provoking and compassionate; the one-short-chapter-a-day really does feel meditative, and I suspect I'll go right back to the beginning once I've finished) and Guardian (just a few weeks to go in the readalong).
I found Carbonel by Barbara Sleigh in a neighbourhood tiny library yesterday, so probably that sometime soon. I haven't read it since I was a kid, and somehow I own the sequel but not the original. Talking cats ftw!
Kdramas/Cdramas
Continuing Nothing But Love and enjoying it tremendously. Both the leads have such a huge amount of heart, and the theme song's chorus ("you will be loved, you will be loved") really is the theme of the whole show. The found-family vibe is slowly coming together.
Other TV
The Secret Genius of Modern Life hosted by Hannah Fry s02e02 -- about the history of the vacuum cleaner; very close to being a puff piece (suck piece?) about Dyson.
The first episode of Tribe hosted by Bruce Parry (UK documentary series), where he goes to stay with remote tribes and lives with them for a few weeks, taking part in their daily life. It has what I'm assuming are the usual implicit tensions of this kind of anthropology (risks veering into voyeurism), especially when there's a camera crew involved. Parry can't actually sink into the experience fully because he has to keep breaking scene to narrate to camera. But was still really interesting.
Dead Ahead -- an Aotearoa NZ answer to the Ghosts franchise. A Māori family return from living in London to inherit the family home and find themselves haunted by dead relatives (kēhua). It's pretty great and also bilingual, with a fair amount of subtitled reo Māori. (Note to self: rewatch if/when you finally get around to starting to learn te reo.) One short season, which argh, does not resolve the central question. More of a drama than a sitcom.
North of North -- more indigenous TV, this time in the Canadian arctic. We've seen three episodes now, and it's delightful. The main character is lovely and charismatic, and it's made us laugh really hard a few times. Fresh and surprising.
More Bluey -- how is this show so adorable? How am I so intractibly earwormed with Bingo's "poor little bug on the wall, ding jing" song?
Tetris (2023 movie) -- this was unexpectedly excellent! It's a biographical thriller about trying to secure the distribution rights to Tetris. Set during the cold war, with a Ted Lasso-like main character. (I may only think that because of the moustache, lol.) A flawed but likeable main character, anyway. It contains corporate intrigue, corrupt and backstabbing magnates (Robert Maxwell played by Roger Allam of Cabin Pressure fame), and naive Westerners heading to the USSR and landing themselves in hot water in multiple hapless ways. Playful, funny, energetic, tense, and based on a true story. (On Apple+.)
Fandom
Multiple modding things happening at once. I can do this!
And ooh,![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
fan_writers already has 150+ subscribers. \o/
Audio entertainment
Writing Excuses (the last couple of episodes haven't really landed for me; I like the technical ones), Letters from an American (US politics), Gone By Lunchtime (local political pundits; their discussion of the RSB made me want a lawyer or two to butt in).
Writing/making things
Lots of false starts. Apparently I'm still restocking the well or whatever.
Life/health/mental state things
My arms are such a mess, gah. Other than that, things are okay!
Food
I made Crispy Sesame Tofu last night, and it was amazing. Like the lemon chicken recipe, it contains 4 tablespoons of sugar; totally worth it. The tofu crisped really well, too. Last week I made nuoc cham (the dipping sauce that often comes with Vietnamese summer rolls; fish sauce, lime juice, sugar, water, garlic, chillis) for the first time, and it was delicious. Conclusion: sugar is the answer to everything.
Today I'm going to make chicken dumplings to re-stock my freezer.
Link dump
Korean practice post | Current earworm (from Bluey) | Cow Cuddling & Highland cow experience (UK) | The Four Types of Novel Writers byEllenBrock (Youtube, revisiting) | 9 Mistakes You're Probably Making in the First 10 Pages by alyssamatesic (Youtube) | Louis Baker - R A I N B O W (Youtube, music). (So much youtube, hi.)
Good things
Guardian. Local TV shows. Cat! Cooking new things. An inbox full of fannishness. Audiobooks.
I would like to go for a swim today, but the outdoor pool doesn't open till October, boo.
Previous poll review
I really enjoyed everyone's answers to the Youtube poll, thank you! I'd been thinking that I mostly use it for a) tv and movie trailers, b) specific music I'm looking for or that people have linked to, and c) how-tos (especially technical things, now that the search engines are useless, but also random stuff like how to fold dumplings). But the discussion reminded me I also watch essays, usually about story, writing, or film, in particular:
In the poll, 48% of respondents said music, 44% said other, and 24% said "instructional videos - practical" and "dramas and tv". Ten percent of respondents don't use Youtube. In ticky-boxes, squishable fur-creatures (46%) came second to hugs (70%). Thank you for your votes and comments!
Reading
Audio: System Collapse (Murderbot) by Martha Wells, read by Kevin R. Free. I enjoyed this, not quite as much as Network Effect but well enough (and it might hit better on a re-read, like Network Effect did for me). I really appreciate that the series is grappling with wider existential issues, rather than opting for "Murderbot is super special" exceptionalism. And the middle section of Saving The World Through [Spoiler] was very fun.
Audio: Waiting for the Flood by Alexis Hall, read by Will Watt. This is a gorgeously written (and brilliantly narrated) m/m & m/m romance -- very close POVs, lovely similes. The perfect-partner wish fulfillment is almost at magic realism levels, and I found the transition from POV1 to POV2 a bit jarring, but I had been wondering how there could still be six hours left at that point, so something had to happen. My fannish brain wanted it to all come together more at the end -- poly, or friend group -- but how it actually played out was more realistic. The gestalt felt kind of genre-breaking: some very romance-novel elements, elevated by the observational detail and dreamy pacing, and complicated by the unorthodox structure. In minor characters, I loved Marius' mother so much.
Continuing on with Meditations for Mortals (thought-provoking and compassionate; the one-short-chapter-a-day really does feel meditative, and I suspect I'll go right back to the beginning once I've finished) and Guardian (just a few weeks to go in the readalong).
I found Carbonel by Barbara Sleigh in a neighbourhood tiny library yesterday, so probably that sometime soon. I haven't read it since I was a kid, and somehow I own the sequel but not the original. Talking cats ftw!
Kdramas/Cdramas
Continuing Nothing But Love and enjoying it tremendously. Both the leads have such a huge amount of heart, and the theme song's chorus ("you will be loved, you will be loved") really is the theme of the whole show. The found-family vibe is slowly coming together.
Other TV
The Secret Genius of Modern Life hosted by Hannah Fry s02e02 -- about the history of the vacuum cleaner; very close to being a puff piece (suck piece?) about Dyson.
The first episode of Tribe hosted by Bruce Parry (UK documentary series), where he goes to stay with remote tribes and lives with them for a few weeks, taking part in their daily life. It has what I'm assuming are the usual implicit tensions of this kind of anthropology (risks veering into voyeurism), especially when there's a camera crew involved. Parry can't actually sink into the experience fully because he has to keep breaking scene to narrate to camera. But was still really interesting.
Dead Ahead -- an Aotearoa NZ answer to the Ghosts franchise. A Māori family return from living in London to inherit the family home and find themselves haunted by dead relatives (kēhua). It's pretty great and also bilingual, with a fair amount of subtitled reo Māori. (Note to self: rewatch if/when you finally get around to starting to learn te reo.) One short season, which argh, does not resolve the central question. More of a drama than a sitcom.
North of North -- more indigenous TV, this time in the Canadian arctic. We've seen three episodes now, and it's delightful. The main character is lovely and charismatic, and it's made us laugh really hard a few times. Fresh and surprising.
More Bluey -- how is this show so adorable? How am I so intractibly earwormed with Bingo's "poor little bug on the wall, ding jing" song?
Tetris (2023 movie) -- this was unexpectedly excellent! It's a biographical thriller about trying to secure the distribution rights to Tetris. Set during the cold war, with a Ted Lasso-like main character. (I may only think that because of the moustache, lol.) A flawed but likeable main character, anyway. It contains corporate intrigue, corrupt and backstabbing magnates (Robert Maxwell played by Roger Allam of Cabin Pressure fame), and naive Westerners heading to the USSR and landing themselves in hot water in multiple hapless ways. Playful, funny, energetic, tense, and based on a true story. (On Apple+.)
Fandom
Multiple modding things happening at once. I can do this!
And ooh,
fan_writers already has 150+ subscribers. \o/Audio entertainment
Writing Excuses (the last couple of episodes haven't really landed for me; I like the technical ones), Letters from an American (US politics), Gone By Lunchtime (local political pundits; their discussion of the RSB made me want a lawyer or two to butt in).
Writing/making things
Lots of false starts. Apparently I'm still restocking the well or whatever.
Life/health/mental state things
My arms are such a mess, gah. Other than that, things are okay!
Food
I made Crispy Sesame Tofu last night, and it was amazing. Like the lemon chicken recipe, it contains 4 tablespoons of sugar; totally worth it. The tofu crisped really well, too. Last week I made nuoc cham (the dipping sauce that often comes with Vietnamese summer rolls; fish sauce, lime juice, sugar, water, garlic, chillis) for the first time, and it was delicious. Conclusion: sugar is the answer to everything.
Today I'm going to make chicken dumplings to re-stock my freezer.
Link dump
Korean practice post | Current earworm (from Bluey) | Cow Cuddling & Highland cow experience (UK) | The Four Types of Novel Writers by
alyssamatesic (Youtube) | Louis Baker - R A I N B O W (Youtube, music). (So much youtube, hi.)Good things
Guardian. Local TV shows. Cat! Cooking new things. An inbox full of fannishness. Audiobooks.
Poll #33442 Your name
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 43
When you give your name over the phone, you often / habitually
View Answers
spell it out, unprompted
31 (72.1%)
exaggerate the pronunciation to reflect the spelling
6 (14.0%)
offer an explanation or additional information
12 (27.9%)
other
5 (11.6%)
ticky-box full of being gentle with yourself
30 (69.8%)
ticky-box of a taxonomy of dandelion-wishes
13 (30.2%)
ticky-box of sugar in everything
11 (25.6%)
ticky-box full of waiting patiently, fiddling your bag strap
11 (25.6%)
ticky-box of three enchanted owl feathers that can draw forth the dawn
23 (53.5%)
ticky-box full of hugs
33 (76.7%)
jesus christ I'm almost 40
Jul. 28th, 2025 07:32 pmwaketosleepRandom login go!
I deleted Twitter because of course I did. I am on bluesky now (https://bsky.app/profile/waketosleep.bsky.social) and I actually post a fair amount there? Back on my microblogging bullshit, I guess.
You're more likely to keep up with my doings on AO3 than here at this point, but fannishly: I've posted 230k words of fanfic in the last 3 years! The amount I've WRITTEN far exceeds that. I'm a machine. A machine that's writing a lot of Yakuza old man yaoi. But that is only one of nine different fandoms I've written fic for in that time. I wrote like five fics for Trigun Stampede. Finally getting into Trigun fandom after loving it since I was a teenager was wholesome.
I basically don't watch TV or movies anymore, couldn't tell you why. Just stopped, that's all (although I did watch TriStamp and I've seen some other random stuff here and there). I've been meaning to watch s2 of Severance though and it's on the Plex server I'm subscribed to so I might get on that soon, at least.
I do play video games still. I remain subscribed to FF14 and do a lot of high end raiding now. Once you get a good regular group for that shit (and I have one), it's pretty fun. I played like half of FF16; might finish it sometime. I have played almost every Yakuza game at this point. I think there's like four I haven't played still. Five if we're counting Lost Judgment. I'd like to play Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 since nobody shuts up about it but my PC can't handle it until I replace the processor and mobo, so lol. Maybe someday.
Work-wise, I've been in solo practice now for... a year and a half? Thereabouts. Never going back to being employed by someone else, I don't think. Money is tight but I stay busy and the ability to decide how much I work and how much money I make is helping my health some, which is really all I can ask. Got several matters in early litigation right now, we'll see which ones make it to trial. Probably more than one. I need to figure out how to serve a claim in Michigan soon.
I had to move last year (same city, different neighbourhood) but I like my new place quite a bit. It's very cool in here in July. I'm trying out growing flowers from the ground again in my little patio area outside, although I started them late and from seeds so we'll see how they do. Some are perennials, so fingers crossed they try again next year. If not, I'll try starting them sooner and see if that helps.
I deleted Twitter because of course I did. I am on bluesky now (https://bsky.app/profile/waketosleep.bsky.social) and I actually post a fair amount there? Back on my microblogging bullshit, I guess.
You're more likely to keep up with my doings on AO3 than here at this point, but fannishly: I've posted 230k words of fanfic in the last 3 years! The amount I've WRITTEN far exceeds that. I'm a machine. A machine that's writing a lot of Yakuza old man yaoi. But that is only one of nine different fandoms I've written fic for in that time. I wrote like five fics for Trigun Stampede. Finally getting into Trigun fandom after loving it since I was a teenager was wholesome.
I basically don't watch TV or movies anymore, couldn't tell you why. Just stopped, that's all (although I did watch TriStamp and I've seen some other random stuff here and there). I've been meaning to watch s2 of Severance though and it's on the Plex server I'm subscribed to so I might get on that soon, at least.
I do play video games still. I remain subscribed to FF14 and do a lot of high end raiding now. Once you get a good regular group for that shit (and I have one), it's pretty fun. I played like half of FF16; might finish it sometime. I have played almost every Yakuza game at this point. I think there's like four I haven't played still. Five if we're counting Lost Judgment. I'd like to play Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 since nobody shuts up about it but my PC can't handle it until I replace the processor and mobo, so lol. Maybe someday.
Work-wise, I've been in solo practice now for... a year and a half? Thereabouts. Never going back to being employed by someone else, I don't think. Money is tight but I stay busy and the ability to decide how much I work and how much money I make is helping my health some, which is really all I can ask. Got several matters in early litigation right now, we'll see which ones make it to trial. Probably more than one. I need to figure out how to serve a claim in Michigan soon.
I had to move last year (same city, different neighbourhood) but I like my new place quite a bit. It's very cool in here in July. I'm trying out growing flowers from the ground again in my little patio area outside, although I started them late and from seeds so we'll see how they do. Some are perennials, so fingers crossed they try again next year. If not, I'll try starting them sooner and see if that helps.
2531 / Fic - The Pitt
Jul. 25th, 2025 08:08 amsiriaJust Zhuzh It
The Pitt | Gen | ~1300 words
(Also on AO3)
( Trinity, Whitaker, and platonic roommate advice. )
The Pitt | Gen | ~1300 words
(Also on AO3)
( Trinity, Whitaker, and platonic roommate advice. )
Me-and-media update
Jul. 24th, 2025 12:04 pmchina_shopPrevious poll review
In the Retribution poll, 78.6% of respondents said the best revenge is living well, followed by a tie between "is sweet" and "is served cold" with 21.4% each. In ticky-boxes, an ancient language of shadows and flight (52.4%) came second only to hugs (73.8%). Brain being empty, but not in a meditation way came third with 50%. Thank you for your votes!
Reading
Still listening to Meditations for Mortals: Four weeks to enhance your limitations and make time for what counts, written and narrated by Oliver Burkeman, one short chapter a day. It's good! Yesterday's chapter was, basically, stop hesitating at the fork in the road, and take a step one way or another. So I should probably pick a WIP to work on. Heh.
Also listened to Network Effect (Murderbot) by Martha Wells, read by Kevin R. Free. (I've read it before in ebook, but I didn't remember much.) This time I was struck by how the first third or so is a locked-room mystery Awesome! I've started System Collapse.
Ebook: just Guardian.
Kdramas/Cdramas
An episode and a half of Sell Your Haunted House with Pru. We have two episodes to go. And I'm continuing my rewatch of Nothing But Love (AKA Nothing But You), a Chinese m/f romance set in a tennis club. I guess I'm renewing my VIKI subscription after all.
Other TV
About two thirds of The Residence (no spoilers, please!), which is enjoyably quirky in a Knives Out-esque way. Original flavour Lilo & Stitch, just as fun and anarchic as ever. We finished Turning Point: The Vietnam War, which was excellent but, despite having a wide range of voices throughout, ended very much in a US pov. And more Bluey, which is currently my happy place. "Bingo!"
Fringe with my sister (plus a couple of episodes of Bluey).
Guardian/Fandom
Guardian!!! <3 <3 <3 Did I mention thatguardian_wishlist is coming in a month or so?
Also, thatmific and I set up a comm for talking about writing: fan_writers (original fiction writers also welcome). It's humming away so far. Bring us your writing-meta links and thoughts!
Audio entertainment
A little more Letters from an American (/o\), one episode of Writing Excuses (currently has a very chatty, not very technical vibe, which is not so much my thing).
Offline life
On Saturday I went to the Dowse Art Museum, which had a range of delightful exhibits, including: a) several rooms on the theme of gay cowboys (before I went in, one of the staff cautioned me in an undertone that some of the works were explicit; reader, they were), featuring frilly saddles, large metal dildos, a whole wall of pencil sketches of gay cowboy sex, like seriously, and a short film about a newly het-married man who either decided to live in his gay-cowboy dream or went through a portal to a meadow-by-a-river gay-cowboy paradise, taking the married couple's priest with him, I'm not sure which. It ended with a dance number. b) a collection of latex sphinx cats, with each tattooed by a different local tattoo artist. c) a more sober and traditional exhibition of art made out of stone. d) a collection of "Shoes with Personality". e) some very nice weaving from (iirc) the 1920s and 30s.
On Tuesday, a friend and I went to the National Portrait Gallery for the 2025 Kiingi Tuheitia Portraiture Award, which had a fantastic range of styles and media, and I was particularly struck by one that made me think about my WIP meta, how much conviction it must take and how grounded in the concept the artist must have to be to embark on something quiet and thoughtful and complex, and then keep at it.
Writing/making things
I wrote a last-minute drabble for the Face challenge onfan_flashworks, but other than that, nothing but meta. And I spent yesterday's Writers' Hour on this post. I appear to be in a fic-writing hiatus, waiting for my creative brain to surface, but today I managed to find a sort-of ending for a WIP, just a few paragraphs, and send it to beta.
Life/health/mental state things
Arms still not great. Otherwise things are pretty good. The sunshine makes such a difference.
Food
I made this lemon chicken recipe twice in three days. So good! (So much sugar, lol.) Am about to make malfatti to stock the freezer with.
Good things
Art galleries and lunch with friends. TV with friends. Sunshine. Bluey. Guardian. New writing comm. Dreamwidth. Plenty of fun things to keep me busy. You all.
In the Retribution poll, 78.6% of respondents said the best revenge is living well, followed by a tie between "is sweet" and "is served cold" with 21.4% each. In ticky-boxes, an ancient language of shadows and flight (52.4%) came second only to hugs (73.8%). Brain being empty, but not in a meditation way came third with 50%. Thank you for your votes!
Reading
Still listening to Meditations for Mortals: Four weeks to enhance your limitations and make time for what counts, written and narrated by Oliver Burkeman, one short chapter a day. It's good! Yesterday's chapter was, basically, stop hesitating at the fork in the road, and take a step one way or another. So I should probably pick a WIP to work on. Heh.
Also listened to Network Effect (Murderbot) by Martha Wells, read by Kevin R. Free. (I've read it before in ebook, but I didn't remember much.) This time I was struck by how the first third or so is a locked-room mystery
spoilers.
set inside the corpse of the victim, ha! The middle is Murderbot-ART fighting/relationship drama, which is delightful. The final part starts out all action/adventure, and I kept zoning out of the logistics, but then we got other SecUnits, who are delightful, and ART cleaning for the in-laws.Ebook: just Guardian.
Kdramas/Cdramas
An episode and a half of Sell Your Haunted House with Pru. We have two episodes to go. And I'm continuing my rewatch of Nothing But Love (AKA Nothing But You), a Chinese m/f romance set in a tennis club. I guess I'm renewing my VIKI subscription after all.
Other TV
About two thirds of The Residence (no spoilers, please!), which is enjoyably quirky in a Knives Out-esque way. Original flavour Lilo & Stitch, just as fun and anarchic as ever. We finished Turning Point: The Vietnam War, which was excellent but, despite having a wide range of voices throughout, ended very much in a US pov. And more Bluey, which is currently my happy place. "Bingo!"
Fringe with my sister (plus a couple of episodes of Bluey).
Guardian/Fandom
Guardian!!! <3 <3 <3 Did I mention that
guardian_wishlist is coming in a month or so?Also, that
mific and I set up a comm for talking about writing: fan_writers (original fiction writers also welcome). It's humming away so far. Bring us your writing-meta links and thoughts!Audio entertainment
A little more Letters from an American (/o\), one episode of Writing Excuses (currently has a very chatty, not very technical vibe, which is not so much my thing).
Offline life
On Saturday I went to the Dowse Art Museum, which had a range of delightful exhibits, including: a) several rooms on the theme of gay cowboys (before I went in, one of the staff cautioned me in an undertone that some of the works were explicit; reader, they were), featuring frilly saddles, large metal dildos, a whole wall of pencil sketches of gay cowboy sex, like seriously, and a short film about a newly het-married man who either decided to live in his gay-cowboy dream or went through a portal to a meadow-by-a-river gay-cowboy paradise, taking the married couple's priest with him, I'm not sure which. It ended with a dance number. b) a collection of latex sphinx cats, with each tattooed by a different local tattoo artist. c) a more sober and traditional exhibition of art made out of stone. d) a collection of "Shoes with Personality". e) some very nice weaving from (iirc) the 1920s and 30s.
On Tuesday, a friend and I went to the National Portrait Gallery for the 2025 Kiingi Tuheitia Portraiture Award, which had a fantastic range of styles and media, and I was particularly struck by one that made me think about my WIP meta, how much conviction it must take and how grounded in the concept the artist must have to be to embark on something quiet and thoughtful and complex, and then keep at it.
Writing/making things
I wrote a last-minute drabble for the Face challenge on
fan_flashworks, but other than that, nothing but meta. And I spent yesterday's Writers' Hour on this post. I appear to be in a fic-writing hiatus, waiting for my creative brain to surface, but today I managed to find a sort-of ending for a WIP, just a few paragraphs, and send it to beta.Life/health/mental state things
Arms still not great. Otherwise things are pretty good. The sunshine makes such a difference.
Food
I made this lemon chicken recipe twice in three days. So good! (So much sugar, lol.) Am about to make malfatti to stock the freezer with.
Good things
Art galleries and lunch with friends. TV with friends. Sunshine. Bluey. Guardian. New writing comm. Dreamwidth. Plenty of fun things to keep me busy. You all.
Poll #33408 Youtube
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 50
If you use Youtube, what do you mostly use it for?
View Answers
music
24 (48.0%)
game play
9 (18.0%)
vlogs
7 (14.0%)
instructional videos - practical
12 (24.0%)
instructional videos - creative
9 (18.0%)
dramas and tv
12 (24.0%)
movie and tv trailers
10 (20.0%)
other
22 (44.0%)
I don't use Youtube
5 (10.0%)
ticky-box full of squishable fur-creatures
23 (46.0%)
ticky-box full of the delicate scent of honeydew among beech trees
19 (38.0%)
ticky-box full of grabbing a large hammer and just smashing things
21 (42.0%)
ticky-box full of existential hummingbirds wondering what to do with their lives
22 (44.0%)
ticky-box full of hugs
35 (70.0%)
2530 / Fic - The Old Guard
Jul. 22nd, 2025 11:32 amsiriaWhen Descends on the Atlantic
The Old Guard | Joe/Nicky | ~1500 words
(Also on AO3)
( They follow the rocky beach around past Liscannor, taking their sandals off to ford the Inagh where its waters are shallow and warmed by the late morning sun. Past this point, the beach is broad and sandy and so Joe and Nicky amble along it together, shoes still in hand. Joe never thought that one day he'd be glad of sunglasses in Ireland, but so it goes. )
The Old Guard | Joe/Nicky | ~1500 words
(Also on AO3)
( They follow the rocky beach around past Liscannor, taking their sandals off to ford the Inagh where its waters are shallow and warmed by the late morning sun. Past this point, the beach is broad and sandy and so Joe and Nicky amble along it together, shoes still in hand. Joe never thought that one day he'd be glad of sunglasses in Ireland, but so it goes. )
Why and how to blow the dust off a WIP
Jul. 22nd, 2025 08:58 amchina_shopI'm listening to Meditations for Mortals: Four weeks to enhance your limitations and make time for what counts, written and narrated by Oliver Burkeman, which espouses imperfectionism, a philosophy of life where you acknowledge that you'll never manage to do everything, and you stop beating yourself up about that fact. (I'm only seven short chapters in, hence this massive oversimplification.) I was thinking about how this relates to my WIP folder.
I'm serially monofannish. When I move fandoms, my old WIPs generally acquire Permanently Discontinued status. Sometimes I post them to AO3 marked incomplete, and other times they lurk in a subfolder of my WIP folder, where I occasionally mourn their lost potential. But mostly they're easy to ignore.
Over the months and years in a new fandom, I naturally accumulate more WIPs. So how do I choose what to work on next? How do I blow the dust off and get the engine turning over?
( Below the cut: multiple lists! )
I'm serially monofannish. When I move fandoms, my old WIPs generally acquire Permanently Discontinued status. Sometimes I post them to AO3 marked incomplete, and other times they lurk in a subfolder of my WIP folder, where I occasionally mourn their lost potential. But mostly they're easy to ignore.
Over the months and years in a new fandom, I naturally accumulate more WIPs. So how do I choose what to work on next? How do I blow the dust off and get the engine turning over?
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New comm: @fan_writers
Jul. 21st, 2025 06:18 pmchina_shop
mific and I have started a new comm: fan_writers - for meta about writing. As the name suggests, we're primarily coming from a fannish context, but original-fic writers are also welcome! Bring us your links to writing-related meta on Dreamwidth or post directly to the comm. Here are an Introductions post and a Resources post.
2529 / Fic - The Pitt
Jul. 20th, 2025 10:30 amsiriahow he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing
The Pitt | Jack/Robby | ~2100 words | Thanks tosheafrotherdon for betaing. Contains canon-typical suicidal ideation.
(Also on AO3)
( 'How the fuck do you have wings?' Robby's back on the rooftop. )
The Pitt | Jack/Robby | ~2100 words | Thanks to
sheafrotherdon for betaing. Contains canon-typical suicidal ideation.(Also on AO3)
( 'How the fuck do you have wings?' Robby's back on the rooftop. )