Since we're about half-way through the year now, I thought I'd take a look back at the list of fandom Johnny's-related things I hoped would happen this year (see here) and see how things have turned out at the half-way mark.

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I was reading a post the other day about non-sexual intimacies, and the first whole paragraph touched on some big parts of what bothers me about a lot of romance writing in fiction really perfectly. Too often, the writers focus overly much on romantic relationships while underdeveloping non-romantic relationships, or just seem to throw together the ( Read more... )

Hello new friends from the Johnny's friending meme! It's nice to meet you all. ^_^ I never really know what to write for intro posts, so I'll try to cover some information that I think is important about me, do something I've been thinking about doing for a little while, and then open the floor to questions ( Read more... )

I'm doing a project for one of my classes related to collected advice for students studying Japanese (and maybe also some for future instructors). There's a lot about my project that isn't fully concrete in my head yet, but since I'm conducting interviews with students as a part of it and asking them what their goals are, I thought I'd sort out my ( Read more... )

I want to eat s'mores ( Read more... )

I find myself wanting to interact with people but not having anything I want to say. Nothing's really going on, but I don't think that's all it is. I kept a journal while I was in Japan, but I got less and less interested in writing in it, even when lots of things were happening. I still kept up with it, but I don't know how to describe or explain ( Read more... )

So this week, a rare happening occurred. I wrote some fanfiction. But I may be too embarrassed to ever post it or share it with anyone. Way to go, me. And I chose to write it by staying up until like 2 am one night. And then the next night I stayed up writing a short paper for school. Guess which one was longer ( Read more... )

As the title suggests, I have here a list of stuffs I want to buy. It will be updated accordingly at various intervals. I'm going to try to post at least once a month starting now.

( The List )