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taste of honey
Sep. 16th, 2021 10:35 am・I did a thing I should not have done and snuck a dumb pun into a technical translation, but “Press-molded bearings, never seen before in the industry!” were so clearly “un-press-edented” that I couldn’t resist.
・I seem to have written (but not posted yet, sorry) five and a half short or short-ish fics for the Guardian wishlist thing so far, plus at least one more I want to get to. I hope I’m not getting carried away.
・In reference to the zhiji discussion I mentioned last week, A-Pei taught me guimi 闺蜜, for close female friendships, a new one on me. (I finally remembered the 閨 character from 閨秀作家, a very old-fashioned (Meiji-era) term for women writers. Funny correlations.)
・( The Rebel episodes 38-41 )
・I’ve gotten fascinated by watching ballet company classes on YouTube. My mother is an honest-to-goodness balletomane who has taken me to performances several times, and while I can tell that it’s highly skilled and very beautiful, I never quite get it—if I know the music they’re dancing to, my brain has trouble adding the extra dimension of dance somehow, and I keep protesting to myself “but why isn’t the dance phrasing the same as the music?” or “but that’s the recapitulation, how come they’re not doing the same steps as the exposition?”. I like reading about ballet, and someday I will figure out what I’m not getting and learn to enjoy watching performances more. In the meantime, I enjoy the company classes a lot! I like seeing the dancers with no makeup and in various outlandish practice garb, especially the cute chiffon skirts (although I’m slightly disconcerted by how little some of the men seem willing to wear), I like seeing the individual steps broken down and the way they differ subtly from dancer to dancer, especially as it’s not a performance and so they’re not compelled to match as closely as possible, I love the little spurts of exuberance in centre work when the women spin or the men leap. In musical terms as well I’ve always far preferred rehearsals to performances, it’s much more fun to watch something taken apart and put back together again than to hear it once through in its final form.
Be safe and well.
・I seem to have written (but not posted yet, sorry) five and a half short or short-ish fics for the Guardian wishlist thing so far, plus at least one more I want to get to. I hope I’m not getting carried away.
・In reference to the zhiji discussion I mentioned last week, A-Pei taught me guimi 闺蜜, for close female friendships, a new one on me. (I finally remembered the 閨 character from 閨秀作家, a very old-fashioned (Meiji-era) term for women writers. Funny correlations.)
・( The Rebel episodes 38-41 )
・I’ve gotten fascinated by watching ballet company classes on YouTube. My mother is an honest-to-goodness balletomane who has taken me to performances several times, and while I can tell that it’s highly skilled and very beautiful, I never quite get it—if I know the music they’re dancing to, my brain has trouble adding the extra dimension of dance somehow, and I keep protesting to myself “but why isn’t the dance phrasing the same as the music?” or “but that’s the recapitulation, how come they’re not doing the same steps as the exposition?”. I like reading about ballet, and someday I will figure out what I’m not getting and learn to enjoy watching performances more. In the meantime, I enjoy the company classes a lot! I like seeing the dancers with no makeup and in various outlandish practice garb, especially the cute chiffon skirts (although I’m slightly disconcerted by how little some of the men seem willing to wear), I like seeing the individual steps broken down and the way they differ subtly from dancer to dancer, especially as it’s not a performance and so they’re not compelled to match as closely as possible, I love the little spurts of exuberance in centre work when the women spin or the men leap. In musical terms as well I’ve always far preferred rehearsals to performances, it’s much more fun to watch something taken apart and put back together again than to hear it once through in its final form.
Be safe and well.
