it's almost November
And that means it's 
mini_wrimo time! Sign-ups are open until November 10th (though the challenge starts on the 1st as usual). I still have to finish up the project I've been working on for the last few years (17k words and counting, agh) and I semi-spontaneously took on another project as well, so I am extra grateful it's running again this year, as I have plenty to work on. Come write with us if you like -- it's super low-pressure, and I've always found it helpful and fun.
While trying to avoid thinking too much about the outside world (though I will say that the early voting place we went to seemed to be well set-up and smoothly run), I have been enjoying, among other things: the Chinese drama Joy of Life (imperial conspiracies upon conspiracies upon conspiracies, full of charmingly dramatic and often lighthearted shenanigans, with a bit of potentially timey-wimey mystery thrown in), the new seasons of Haikyu!! (possibly the best pure sports anime ever; the manga is also brilliant) and The King's Avatar donghua/cartoon (about a pro gamer who has to start over, finds a job at an internet cafe, and eventually builds his own team -- the live action drama is also a really fun and endearing watch, but it's definitely aimed at more of a general audience, while the donghua is probably more accurate and appealing to gamers), Fire Emblem: Three Houses (the Golden Deer House route has been thoroughly delightful), Final Fantasy XIV (finally took the plunge to try my first MMO ever), the League of Legends World Championships, the Pathfinder: Mummy's Mask card game, Seanan McGuire's Wayward Children novellas, The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells, a re-read of the manga Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun, and lots of fic, mostly from around the edges of The Untamed/Mo Dao Zu Shi (MDZS) and The King's Avatar/Quan Zhi Gao Shou (QZGS). I have been pleased that my Chinese language skills have rebounded a bit after watching all these Chinese dramas. I'll probably never be fluent (much to my parents' disappointment), and there has been a lot of deterioration since I quit grad school, but it's nice to get some of it back, anyway.
ETA: I have two opt-in filters, one for mini-nano (which is mostly snippets) and one for yuletide (which is mostly brainstorming and rambling and angsting). If you would like to be on either or both, please let me know (comment here, message me, or email me at this username at gmail). They haven't really been used since I switched over to mostly-DW from mostly-LJ, so even if you know you were on the LJ filter, please opt-in again. This entry was originally posted at https://athenejen.dreamwidth.org/102840.html.
mini_wrimo time! Sign-ups are open until November 10th (though the challenge starts on the 1st as usual). I still have to finish up the project I've been working on for the last few years (17k words and counting, agh) and I semi-spontaneously took on another project as well, so I am extra grateful it's running again this year, as I have plenty to work on. Come write with us if you like -- it's super low-pressure, and I've always found it helpful and fun.
While trying to avoid thinking too much about the outside world (though I will say that the early voting place we went to seemed to be well set-up and smoothly run), I have been enjoying, among other things: the Chinese drama Joy of Life (imperial conspiracies upon conspiracies upon conspiracies, full of charmingly dramatic and often lighthearted shenanigans, with a bit of potentially timey-wimey mystery thrown in), the new seasons of Haikyu!! (possibly the best pure sports anime ever; the manga is also brilliant) and The King's Avatar donghua/cartoon (about a pro gamer who has to start over, finds a job at an internet cafe, and eventually builds his own team -- the live action drama is also a really fun and endearing watch, but it's definitely aimed at more of a general audience, while the donghua is probably more accurate and appealing to gamers), Fire Emblem: Three Houses (the Golden Deer House route has been thoroughly delightful), Final Fantasy XIV (finally took the plunge to try my first MMO ever), the League of Legends World Championships, the Pathfinder: Mummy's Mask card game, Seanan McGuire's Wayward Children novellas, The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells, a re-read of the manga Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun, and lots of fic, mostly from around the edges of The Untamed/Mo Dao Zu Shi (MDZS) and The King's Avatar/Quan Zhi Gao Shou (QZGS). I have been pleased that my Chinese language skills have rebounded a bit after watching all these Chinese dramas. I'll probably never be fluent (much to my parents' disappointment), and there has been a lot of deterioration since I quit grad school, but it's nice to get some of it back, anyway.
ETA: I have two opt-in filters, one for mini-nano (which is mostly snippets) and one for yuletide (which is mostly brainstorming and rambling and angsting). If you would like to be on either or both, please let me know (comment here, message me, or email me at this username at gmail). They haven't really been used since I switched over to mostly-DW from mostly-LJ, so even if you know you were on the LJ filter, please opt-in again. This entry was originally posted at https://athenejen.dreamwidth.org/102840.html.