it would be like heaven

・I'm sure this has been remarked upon, but Zhao Yunlan's phone lock screen is a 酸浆 calyx, a Chinese lantern plant! (Baidu tells me that it has a number of alternate names like 灯笼果 with "lantern" 灯 in, so no way that was a coincidence...

・I was very sorry to see that I've come so late to Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint that it's long past Yuletide eligibility. That said, does anyone have any fic recs, self- included? (Shadaras kindly linked me to some gorgeous ones, including their own, but I still want more and I'm not sure where to start looking.)

・Y tracked down an old J-pop song that I've had the chorus of stuck in my head for years: Kiroro's 長い間, two Okinawan women who started performing together in high school and are now in their forties and still at it. The theme at 1:19 still gets me.

・I've been rereading John Bellairs for the first time in ages--The Curse of the Blue Figurine--and being reminded just how good he is. ( Read more... )

・Writing some stuff, maybe not what I should be, but what the hell I'm enjoying it. We'll see.

・Photos: some morning glories, a tree outside the local castle, and a rainbow! clevermanka sent me one of, I think it's skeptical-lynx?'s gorgeous Guardian art postcards, and being the lovely person she is she threw in a sticker for good measure. I had it on my desk, and the light coming through my glass bits and bobs did a 画龙点睛.
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Be safe and well.