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Oct. 1st, 2023 08:07 amA couple of days late: 中秋节快乐！ The full moon was looking over my morning glories early yesterday morning.
The Guardian wishlist fest revealed on schedule—many thanks to trobadora and china_shop who always make it happen—and I got three gorgeous fics with which I couldn’t be happier. no navy to speak of either is elenothar’s remix of my fic about Shen Wei and language, while mjsakurea’s Mother Tongue also looks at similar themes, and they’re both fascinating in the way they look at language (and very painful, in the good sense, in the way they look at Shen Wei). And mumblemutter wrote me a fantastic Huo Daofu/Bai Haotian fic in not only the sugar, but the days!
ETA: actually I got FOUR fics, now including a lovely, tender bit of worldbuilding and Weilan from sakana17, What its name had been. <3
As for the writing end, I got somewhat carried away and wrote five fics (four as nnozomi, one as scherzanda); for some reason involving a lot of “mid-canon, potential canon divergence” stuff this time. I got to play with favorite characters like Lin Jing and Bai Haotian, do some outsider POV, explore a bit more Dixing worldbuilding, and give the complicated fucked-up relationships of The Rebel one more try, and had a wonderful time.
As if to mark the Mid-Autumn festival, the weather has done that weird thing it does where someone suddenly notices the calendar and pushes the temperature down by 5 degrees C, with no transition period. I am so happy to see the back of summer, I can’t tell you.
I’m very behind on DW reading/comments…as per usual…hopefully today.
Recent posts in senzenwomen include the doctor Kusumoto Ine and the tea merchant Oura Kei.
Translating excerpts from a “Fantasy Science Reader,” using characters and scenes from popular manga/anime etc. to present various basic scientific concepts; the science part is a little too much for humanities person me, even though it’s aimed at kids, but the ideas are fun, and there’s something definitely surreal about looking up anime series details for work purposes.
We’re doing the Brahms Violin Concerto in orchestra and I can’t stop listening to it, Taka’s version (which I can’t link because it’s never been uploaded) and that of Shoji Sayaka, a violinist I’m particularly fond of for her playing itself, because she likes Brahms, and because I’ve seen interviews where she seems shy, soft-spoken, and of few words except when she gets going about music (it’s not like I have a type or anything), and also for her cute round face. (As a bonus, here she is playing the Brahms Double Concerto with Tatjana Vassiljeva. It’s a problem—I can’t just keep listening to these two pieces over and over, but nothing else lives up to them!)
(Re)reading this and that but no decent writeups right now, hopefully next post.
Chinese: Playing around with a couple of fannish-related bits of translation for my own amusement, which may or may not ever get anywhere but they’re fun; watch this space, I guess. Also pleased because Liu Chang’s weekly livestreams are back after a hiatus when he was off filming something (another Liu Sang thing, I think, because he’s grown out his hair again). I wish there were more Liu Chang fans around; I just find him a lot of fun, and his singing in particular blows me away every time.
Writing: After writing a ridiculous quantity of fic words in July through September, I now have a few blank weeks before Yuletide starts; it’s high time I got to grips with the various advice received from kind beta readers for my original thing. Ideally I can revise books 1 and 2 over the fall, alongside Yuletide writing, and start on book 3 properly in the new year… .
Photos: Record of a short trip a bit down south. Two cats and one flower (you can’t tell from the picture, but the hibiscus blossom was larger than my spread hand); a complex of railway, stairs, and gate, a typical shrine tree (camphor, I think), and a dawn castle with bonus station; the sea on the cliffs below a temple, some charms from the temple itself (dedicated to childbirth and featuring lots and lots of symbolic breast images, which I did not photograph for reasons), and a sea-and-islands image of pure fantasy. Also, from the sublime to the ridiculous, a shop sign I could not resist. I think the apostrophe makes it.
Be safe and well.
The Guardian wishlist fest revealed on schedule—many thanks to trobadora and china_shop who always make it happen—and I got three gorgeous fics with which I couldn’t be happier. no navy to speak of either is elenothar’s remix of my fic about Shen Wei and language, while mjsakurea’s Mother Tongue also looks at similar themes, and they’re both fascinating in the way they look at language (and very painful, in the good sense, in the way they look at Shen Wei). And mumblemutter wrote me a fantastic Huo Daofu/Bai Haotian fic in not only the sugar, but the days!
ETA: actually I got FOUR fics, now including a lovely, tender bit of worldbuilding and Weilan from sakana17, What its name had been. <3
As for the writing end, I got somewhat carried away and wrote five fics (four as nnozomi, one as scherzanda); for some reason involving a lot of “mid-canon, potential canon divergence” stuff this time. I got to play with favorite characters like Lin Jing and Bai Haotian, do some outsider POV, explore a bit more Dixing worldbuilding, and give the complicated fucked-up relationships of The Rebel one more try, and had a wonderful time.
As if to mark the Mid-Autumn festival, the weather has done that weird thing it does where someone suddenly notices the calendar and pushes the temperature down by 5 degrees C, with no transition period. I am so happy to see the back of summer, I can’t tell you.
I’m very behind on DW reading/comments…as per usual…hopefully today.
Recent posts in senzenwomen include the doctor Kusumoto Ine and the tea merchant Oura Kei.
Translating excerpts from a “Fantasy Science Reader,” using characters and scenes from popular manga/anime etc. to present various basic scientific concepts; the science part is a little too much for humanities person me, even though it’s aimed at kids, but the ideas are fun, and there’s something definitely surreal about looking up anime series details for work purposes.
We’re doing the Brahms Violin Concerto in orchestra and I can’t stop listening to it, Taka’s version (which I can’t link because it’s never been uploaded) and that of Shoji Sayaka, a violinist I’m particularly fond of for her playing itself, because she likes Brahms, and because I’ve seen interviews where she seems shy, soft-spoken, and of few words except when she gets going about music (it’s not like I have a type or anything), and also for her cute round face. (As a bonus, here she is playing the Brahms Double Concerto with Tatjana Vassiljeva. It’s a problem—I can’t just keep listening to these two pieces over and over, but nothing else lives up to them!)
(Re)reading this and that but no decent writeups right now, hopefully next post.
Chinese: Playing around with a couple of fannish-related bits of translation for my own amusement, which may or may not ever get anywhere but they’re fun; watch this space, I guess. Also pleased because Liu Chang’s weekly livestreams are back after a hiatus when he was off filming something (another Liu Sang thing, I think, because he’s grown out his hair again). I wish there were more Liu Chang fans around; I just find him a lot of fun, and his singing in particular blows me away every time.
Writing: After writing a ridiculous quantity of fic words in July through September, I now have a few blank weeks before Yuletide starts; it’s high time I got to grips with the various advice received from kind beta readers for my original thing. Ideally I can revise books 1 and 2 over the fall, alongside Yuletide writing, and start on book 3 properly in the new year… .
Photos: Record of a short trip a bit down south. Two cats and one flower (you can’t tell from the picture, but the hibiscus blossom was larger than my spread hand); a complex of railway, stairs, and gate, a typical shrine tree (camphor, I think), and a dawn castle with bonus station; the sea on the cliffs below a temple, some charms from the temple itself (dedicated to childbirth and featuring lots and lots of symbolic breast images, which I did not photograph for reasons), and a sea-and-islands image of pure fantasy. Also, from the sublime to the ridiculous, a shop sign I could not resist. I think the apostrophe makes it.
Be safe and well.
