Sunday sort-of symphonic snippet, etc. etc.

[nnozomi]

・My neck hurts. I should stop putting it off and go looking for a proper ergonomic chair etc. (whine whine)

・In a gesture toward healthy eating, I have started eating frozen yogurt instead of ice cream, meaning actual yogurt frozen in ice cube trays. I miss the US yogurt flavors which worked well for this (coffee, lemon, maple...), but plain yogurt is pretty good too and probably has less sugar. And it's cold, which helps now that the highs are in the 30s/90s.

・Can anyone think of a plausible male version of the name Anna? The Johannes/John etc. variations seem a little too far off, and I'm hesitant to make a case for Hanan as a common AU!English-language name.

・My book 2 rough outline is all questions, but too many ideas is more fun than too few.

・Lots of people commented favorably on the stained glass umbrella photo I put up--it's from a company called Felissimo if you want to look it up!

・I wrote a snippet of CQL fic (yes, this is specifically The Untamed, not MDZS, as will become clear from the text) in my head during orchestra practice today, so why the hell not. This is pure self-indulgent orchestra AU, not to be expanded or continued (not by me, anyway).
Wei Ying loves this moment so much. The two Lans lock eyes across the orchestra; Lan Wangji’s face softens just perceptibly and Lan Xichen’s expression turns solemn around the reed in his mouth, making them almost perfectly identical. With the violin tuned to itself already, it takes Lan Wangji only seconds to adjust his A-string to precisely the same pitch as the clean, crystalline sound of Lan Xichen’s oboe. The corners of his eyes soften a little more as he concentrates on the tuning peg; Wei Ying wants Lan Wangji’s mouth on him so much he almost can’t stand it, every time.
Satisfied, Lan Wangji gives his brother and the other wind players a tiny bow and draws a circle in the air with the scroll of his violin, yielding the right to tune. He has been making this courtly little gesture as long as Wei Ying can remember, since junior high orchestra, twenty years ago. The bow is stiffer now—Lan Wangji’s back troubles him a little more every year, ever since—ever since. But the grace of the movement as a whole is flawless, more every year indeed.
Wei Ying gets an elbow in his side from the second flutist, reminding him to stop mooning over the concertmaster and tune his damn instrument, yes, all right, Su Minshan, what makes you think it’s not in tune already—(This exchange has happened so many times they don’t have it out loud any more.) On his other side, Lan Xichen can’t smile while he’s still playing the A, but his eyes are warm.
Birth names and courtesy names all in a mess, sorry.

Be safe and well.

Comments

[trobadora]

Can anyone think of a plausible male version of the name Anna?

Hanno, maybe?

[nnozomi]

Possible! Thanks ;)

[clevermanka]

That snippet is lovely.

Oh! And names...Andrew, maybe? Shortened to Andy?

[nnozomi]

Thank you ♡

Andrew/Andy, maybe! Maybe just a whole lot of An- names of various kinds (this is just me playing with worldbuilding, trying to come up with common generational names rather than one for a single person).

[tinny]

My neck hurts. I should stop putting it off and go looking for a proper ergonomic chair etc. (whine whine)

Lol, this sounds like my decision making process in a nutshell.

Good luck getting it done and finding a chair! <3


plain yogurt is pretty good too and probably has less sugar

It should! I mean, it should not have any added sugar. And the lactose contained in milk itself is reduced in yoghurt, too.

Imagine the surprise when I figured out during a holiday in Italy that plain yoghurt can also be sugared. Ewwwww. I'd never seen that before in my life. (But that just means it's not a thing that's done in Germany, apparently, it is definitely done in other places.)


Can anyone think of a plausible male version of the name Anna?

Hm, yes, Hannes is the closest (and derived from Johannes of course), but I don't know why Anno wouldn't be a plausible name? I know people called Hanno and Arro and Benno, so names with those components do work.

Also, Andor is a proper name and actually relatively popular here (for people of Croatian descent).

[nnozomi]

Lol, this sounds like my decision making process in a nutshell.
Ha, how many of us are there? Oh dear.

People will put sugar in anything, honestly. I have a sweet tooth myself, but I'm trying to be a bit healthier because I get so little exercise in summer...

Hannes, Anno, Andor! Will keep in mind.

[elenothar]

Oooh, oboeist Lan Xichen! 😍

[nnozomi]

I've always had a thing about oboists, and it suits him! Lovely icon.

[marycrawford]

Jan is a super common Dutch male first name, though I know it's sometimes a female name in the US.
Also Johan, which at least is shorter than Johannes.
And if you were to go Friesian, Anne is a male name as well. :)

[nnozomi]

Huh, I didn't think of Jan or Yan, that might be worth playing with... (mostly just messing around with worldbuilding for fun, so anything might go!) ;)

[naye]

Good luck with the ergonomic chair purchase! They can make such a huge difference.

For male version of Anna I'd go with Anders, unless they're meant to be more similar. (Those are both common names in Sweden.)

[nnozomi]

I know I should buy the damn chair! Just so much trouble, lol.

I'll keep Anders/Andrew variations in mind!

[chestnut_pod]

Perhaps simply Han? Also, lol, Anna is from חַנָּה, which derives from the H-n-n root, and it so happens that there is another h-n-n name that is masculine. Perhaps "Hannibal" would suit your purposes ;)

[nnozomi]

Han might work! I'm leaning toward something like Yann right now, so Han would be a good variation. As for Hannibal, I will have to figure out if the Punic Wars happened in this particular AU! If so, it could be a possibility... ;)

[china_shop]

Good luck finding a good chair, once you get around to it (and in the meantime, I hope your neck isn't too bad!). <3

・My book 2 rough outline is all questions, but too many ideas is more fun than too few.

Yes! *pompoms*

[nnozomi]

Thank you on both counts <3 I mean, the worst is knowing something ought to be happening but not having enough plot on hand; right now I have a vast amount of plot and potential character development which all has to be corralled! ;)