spiritual sustenance, also 中秋快乐

[nnozomi]

・Something I had to translate the other day: “Literature, art, theater and so on are all food for the soul in terms of a cultural life, and these forms of spiritual sustenance have suffered an especially terrible blow. The road to true recovery is long.” Such a familiar sentiment these days, but this particular version comes from the Asahi Graph on or about this date in 1923, after the Great Kanto Earthquake.

・From Ravel, via my mother: “You know, at night when I was walking along the sea, wondering whether something should be in B-flat or B-major, or how to choose a chord or guide a melodic line, I said to myself, ‘Oh, I am tired of this! I would like to be finished with it, just sitting in a café at last, enjoying an aperitif, looking at the sea.’ And when I was finally through and could sit in a café having my aperitif, the taste of it was bitter! I was longing for the time I had spent walking at night, thinking, ’Should it be B-flat or B-major?’” Please make it B-flat, M. Ravel. B major has more accidentals than anyone needs.

・I got A-Pei to teach me the Chinese word for "bra," apparently 内衣 in Taiwan and 胸罩 or 文胸 in China (where does the 文 come from? must ask mainlander Yu-jie). For some reason 胸罩 amuses me because of its resemblance to 口罩, face mask. I tend to think of bras as providing support rather than coverage, but who knows. 出门之前，一定要先穿胸罩再戴口罩吧.
also 我要吃月饼! I'll have to console myself with the little Skype mooncake emoji... .

・I wrote a half a dozen short fics for the Guardian wishlist event, which was great fun as both a writer and a reader(/viewer etc.), thank you so much trobadora and china_shop and everyone. Mostly I seem to have written Shen Wei shedding tears here and there and drinking a lot of tea. I will never get tired of writing him (or writing Lin Jing or Li Qian or Zhao Xinci, or playing with OCs), and I also got to try a couple of things I haven’t done before (writing something a bit darker and weirder than my usual for The Rebel, trying out a genderswapped character), so I’m glad I was suddenly motivated to do all this writing, not to speak of very kind and thoughtful comments received thereon.

・As a result of reading too many delicious wishlist fics before bed, I had a Guardian-related not-quite-dream while drifting off: Zhao Yunlan meeting with a bank clerk, who was saying that the Black-Cloaked Envoy had been the guarantor for his account for ten thousand years already and that was quite long enough. (Not sure if this meant “surely it must be inconvenient for the Envoy by now” or “bank regulations stipulate ten thousand years and no longer”). The bank thing was just the B-plot of my dream not!fic, but my brain knew it had to be resolved somehow, and of course the answer was that they could have a joint account if they got married...

Be safe and well.

Comments

[laireshi]

I haven't been commenting much lately but your posts are always such a joy to see <3

I tend to think of bras as providing support rather than coverage, but who knows
Omg, definitely! My poor back would Not deal without it. Coverage I couldn't care less for, lol.

(Speaking of dreams, mine featured writing down hanzi over and over again...)

[nnozomi]

I haven't been commenting much lately but your posts are always such a joy to see <3
<3 <3 <3 *hugs*

My poor back would Not deal without it. Coverage I couldn't care less for, lol.
I'm telling you, it was a TRIUMPH when I discovered a place in Japan selling bras that accommodate my Eastern European Jewish physique.

mine featured writing down hanzi over and over again...
lol, what a stress dream! Now I wonder if they were actual real hanzi or imaginary ones your dreaming brain invented, fascinating either way.

[clevermanka]

Mostly I seem to have written Shen Wei shedding tears here and there and drinking a lot of tea.
Yes, excellent. As as them getting married. 🧡

[nnozomi]

It amuses me that even 3/4 asleep my brain demanded a happy ending for them. <3

[trobadora]

I tend to think of bras as providing support rather than coverage

Same here! Of course that may at least partially be because in German it's a "bust holder". *g*

我也想吃月饼! But I don't want to go all the way across town to the Chinese supermarket, so I'm not getting any, alas.

I had a Guardian-related not-quite-dream while drifting off: Zhao Yunlan meeting with a bank clerk, who was saying that the Black-Cloaked Envoy had been the guarantor for his account for ten thousand years already and that was quite long enough. (Not sure if this meant “surely it must be inconvenient for the Envoy by now” or “bank regulations stipulate ten thousand years and no longer”).

Hee! That is a fantastic dream, and I love the idea of bank regulations specifically stipulating 10,000 years and no longer ... Also, yay joint account!

[nnozomi]

in German it's a "bust holder". *g*
Practical and to the point, works for me ;)

我也想吃月饼! But I don't want to go all the way across town to the Chinese supermarket, so I'm not getting any, alas.
Exactly. If not for corona I'd take the train out to the Kobe Chinatown. Maybe next year.

Also, yay joint account!
I mean, my semi-dreaming brain keeps track of the important things!

[marycrawford]

Mostly I seem to have written Shen Wei shedding tears here and there and drinking a lot of tea.

Oh myyy, I look forward to diving into a heap of fic and this is entirely my jam.

I love the dream about the bank clerk! Clearly your subconscious isn't done playing yet, and more power to it.

[nnozomi]

I look forward to diving into a heap of fic and this is entirely my jam
Same! You've read and very kindly commented on the one where Shen Wei cries and drinks tea, but there's at least one more where he cries a bit and one where he drinks more tea ;)

Clearly your subconscious isn't done playing yet, and more power to it.
You know, if somebody had told me that Guardian was this kind of forever fandom...

[marycrawford]

You've read and very kindly commented on the one where Shen Wei cries and drinks tea, but there's at least one more where he cries a bit and one where he drinks more tea ;)

:dying of glee: It's like, no, stopppp, you're too good to me! I am so behind on fic, but I love knowing that there's good things waiting for me.

[nnozomi]

I love knowing that there's good things waiting for me.
While I can't promise that my fics will count as good things, that sense of a whole pile of promising stuff by various people to read is so much fun! <3

[elenothar]

Giggling over that dream, not gonna lie. Perfect ending too ;)

Mostly I seem to have written Shen Wei shedding tears here and there and drinking a lot of tea.

Which is all kinds of delightful, and personally I'm really quite selfishly pleased that's what you ended up writing :D

I'm also mentally pointing a finger at Ravel and shouting NO.

[nnozomi]

Perfect ending too ;)
I love that my half-dreaming brain insisted on a happy ending ;)

and personally I'm really quite selfishly pleased that's what you ended up writing :D
thank you again for lovely prompts and lovely comments! I had so much fun with these things.

I'm also mentally pointing a finger at Ravel and shouting NO.
I love Ravel! I love the Impressionists, they hit my sweet spot of jazz meeting classical perfectly, but they ARE NOT EASY to play.

[tinny]

Please make it B-flat, M. Ravel. B major has more accidentals than anyone needs.

Muahahahaha, too true. :D


I wrote a half a dozen short fics for the Guardian wishlist

I saw, you wrote so many! (Haven't had time to read any fic this week, sadly. :/)

[nnozomi]

I love Ravel, but nobody needs five sharps at once in their life, lol.

I saw, you wrote so many! (Haven't had time to read any fic this week, sadly. :/)
I think I had a lot of summer stress to let off and it all came out in fic, good or not. No hurry, the fics will be there if you're interested whenever you have time and energy <3

[china_shop]

“Literature, art, theater and so on are all food for the soul in terms of a cultural life, and these forms of spiritual sustenance have suffered an especially terrible blow. The road to true recovery is long.” Such a familiar sentiment these days, but this particular version comes from the Asahi Graph on or about this date in 1923, after the Great Kanto Earthquake.

That is such an important point. <3

I love your Guardian dream. I'm imagining Zhao Yunlan not knowing the Envoy was his guarantor and being QUITE BAFFLED by the news! *g*

[nnozomi]

That is such an important point. <3
It's very comforting for me to find people saying the same things a hundred years ago in the wake of a different disaster, just because it suggests that we have a history of coping one way or another. <3

I'm imagining Zhao Yunlan not knowing the Envoy was his guarantor and being QUITE BAFFLED by the news! *g*
lol, time loops can be very complicated, Zhao Yunlan! I don't know what my brain was doing but it amused me.