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Fannish interests: Fanart, fic reading/sometimes writing, selfshipping/yume/riako/whatever stuff, oshikatsu culture
What I like to post about: Long form rambles about my life, ideas I have about media I like
Fandoms: Mostly Blue Lock, Cookie Run (CRK/CROB), YGO, rhythm games (PJSK/Enstars to be specific), Vocaloid, and Trauma Center. I mostly post about Blue Lock because I've been very hyperfixated (I'm autistic) for about 4 months at this point. I'm trying to branch out and get into more things as well.

About me: I've used DW for about 3 or so years but this is a new journal, I've had other journals in the past. I've never liked mainstream social media. Problem is I'm only now really figuring out how to properly engage with this site and maybe get some eyes on my journal. I like talking to myself but it gets a bit lonely. By the way, I hate discourse and I'm not pro or anti or neutral anything. If I see something I don't like I block it. And I would assume I needn't say this but just in case, bigots of any kind are not welcome around me.
Other hobbies: Music (I love Interpol), drawing, crafts, reading
Looking for people who are: Also neurodivergent, in the same fandoms as me

Journal info: My entries are pretty long, and I don't cut them unless they contain some kind of sensitive content. I do vent but it's nothing too serious, anything I think would warrant a content warning has one and goes under a cut. I haven't posted much fandom-related content but will definitely do so eventually, so stay tuned...

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What I go by: Ren (they/them)

Bit About Me: Nonbinary, bisexual, old (okay, over 40), parent, writer, admin worker and disabled, living in Wales.

Where else I can be found online: so many places lol

What I post about: Art, writing, fanfic, mostly my life in general - my kids, my health, my hobbies

Hobbies & Interests: I like to write, to draw, archery, colouring, gaming (I have a swtich and a PS5), fanfiction. This is one of the few places, as well as pillowfort, where my fandom side and my actual life intersect.

Fandoms/characters/ships if fannish: I like Stargate, Star Trek, Rizzoli & Isles, Dr Who, Castle, NCIS, Bones, MCU, Dragon Age. I dabble a lot and hope around a lot - I mostly write in whatever I'm watching at the time. I prefer femslash, I dislike m/m.

Other things I want you to know about me: I have two kids, both girls, one is a cancer survivor and had a liver transplant. I've been married for 13 years to my American wife.

What I'm looking for in friends/blogs to follow: Anyone who still loves Stargate as much as me, but anyone who's into the same stuff as me, or happens to be a geeky parent.

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Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin
Remembrance of Earth's Past #1

I really need to get into gear with posting my book reviews - I read this in April/May and wrote it up, too, but forgot to post it.

I read this book in German, since I have to read a translation of it anyway, and the German one is supposed to be very good.

If anyone doesn't know the general gist of the novel yet:

Astrophysicist Ye Wenjie, in political exile in a secret military base and disilluisioned with mankind after the atrocities she witnessed during the cultural revolution and the destruction of natural beauty all around her, secretly broadcasts a message into space to invite aliens to Earth to settle its problems.

Years later, nanomaterials researcher Wang Miao is forced to confront an apparent alien conspiracy that has caused many scientists to commit suicide, and his own life seems to be on a (very short) countdown towards death, too.

I loved all the cultural revolution parts. It's not every day that a Chinese author honestly describes how terrible it was for the people involved. That was by far my favorite part of the book.

Everything "science"-related just drove me up the wall, though, so I had a very hard time finishing it, and basically just skipped the last third just to get it over with. I will not read the remaining books in the series. This is a pity, because I'd been looking forward to watching the addaptations. Maybe I'll still do that sometime...

spoilery (and ranty) thoughts

* Oh god the science, where do I start?

* Wang Miao sees a countdown superimposed over everything, even pictures he takes with his camera. When his wife takes pictures with the same camera, there is no countdown. This is not how science works. (It's like vampires having no reflection. That's not how light works.)

* The aliens prove their existence to Wang Miao by causing a change in background radiation, which should be completely impossible. (Duh, it is. There is no scientific explanation for this. I waited for one, but it did not come. Except for the "sophons", see below. I did not buy it.)

* One of the rounds in the three body problem computer game has a planet and a sun come so close to each other that people start to float from one to the other. Wtf this is not how gravity works!

* That Ye Wenjie is so disillusioned with humanity that she would want aliens to either save or destroy Earth is something I can accept. That the majority of human/Chinese scientists would commit suicide out of despair over an alien invasion is something I cannot. The whole drama aspect of Wang Miao's first few chapters just did not work for me at all.

*The Trisolarans develop "sophons" (minuscule supercomputers embedded in single protons) in order to arrest Earth's technological development by interfering with its scientific experiments. Ostensibly, them being light particles, they can travel at light speed, but they still contain information somehow and can expand into computers... um... no. Nope. That's not how astrophysics works. He tried to explain the multidimensional aspect of it, but it didn't sound believable to me.

* Let alone the assumption that the Trisolarans would know exactly how to stifle our development from ... a few communications a few decades back? Not bloody likely.

* The Trisolarans (in the computer game) also develop a computer made out of people. This might work in Minecraft, but not on a scale like this, with every person being a logic gate by lifting flags they have in their hands. This is so utterly ridiculous. People aren't reliable like that. The accumulated errors would throw off every calculation. Although if you want to look at it as a "the Chinese army is so reliable" metaphor, that's another story.

* There are several comments on society, stating that most of the users of the three body computer game are older people, educated Chinese, for example. I'm not sure if that was intended as a political dig, or whatever. It wasn't consistent enough to make sense to me, anyway. There were several throwaway generalizing statements like this in the book instead of having them evolve organically from the narrative.

* So. Metaphorically, I can see what Liu Cixin did, and there might be some merit in it, especially in looking at the mindsets of the characters involved, and getting more thoughts on how people live(d) in China. But I've talked to people who have read the remaining two books, and I've been told that it's just more scifi and less personal/societal consequences. I can accept a scifi premise as the means of analyzing human behavior, or throwing light on specific societal constructs, that's absolutely a reason I read scifi/fantasy, but there has to be at least a minimally logical basis for everything to rest on, and this book just doesn't have that for me. I was just ranting at the scientific impossibility of it the whole time.

* As I said, I really like how he described the cultural revolution, how different people dealt with it, and how extreme the wounds left in everyone's psyche were. It was worth reading the book for that, but the "science" parts just made me angry, and subjecting myself to more of that is absolutely not worth it.

1 star - Interesting and harrowing descriptions of the Chinese cultural revolution, but the rest of the book just wasn't for me.

1 - 5 stars - Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky The Final Architecture #1 [DW link]
2 - 2 stars - Miss Merkel: Mord auf dem Friedhof by David Safier Miss Merkel #2 [DW link]
3 - 4 stars - Once Broken Faith by Seanan McGuire Toby Daye #10 [DW link]
4 - 1 star - Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin [DW link]

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Final Project Hell has begun at school 😭 Or, well technically I still have one class with the final project unassigned as yet? But still!

For Social Problems, I need to do a creative project on, well, a social problem, and write an accompanying paper. And there's some regular homework in addition to that.

For Ceramics, I need to interview a living ceramicist and do a creative project on them. The interview has to be done vocally (in person, over the phone, or via video call). Plus our final unit project, the slab houses.

Intro to Human Services hasn't been assigned yet, but guess what, it's another interview! This time with a Human Services professional. Looks like it has the same "interview has to be done vocally" restrictions as the Ceramics interview. Separate from that is a final paper, "Developing Your Personal Mission Statement as a Human Services Professional".

I need to go to the Learning Commons or something and get all of this bullshit untangled, because my ADHD brain has gone into Panic Mode.

Current Mood: distressed

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NBC (USA) and Peacock streaming will have a full-movie-cast program called Wicked: One Wonderful Night tonight from 8:00pm - 10:00pm ET. It will also be available for streaming beginning tomorrow at 8:00pm on Peacock.

If you don't get NBC where you are and haven't invested in Peacock, you can get a 7-day free trial of Peacock and shut it off as soon as you've seen the special.

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Title: Moving On
Fandom: Horizon: Zero Dawn
Characters: Aloy
Rating: G
Length: 44 words
Summary: 3 sentence fic. Aloy says goodbye to the home she shared with Rost.

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Hello!

How's writing going? If you didn't write, did you edit? Brainstorm?

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As we are still seeking pinch hitters, the collection will be delayed: we will now aim to open the collection on Saturday, November 15 @ 1:00pm Eastern Standard time (Countdown).

That means the pinch hits are now due Friday, November 14, noon Eastern time (Countdown), about a day before the collection is scheduled to open, though we can be flexible if needed. The minimum is 100 words.

If you would like to claim a pinch hit, please comment to this post with the name/number of the pinch hit you would like. Make sure to include your AO3 username! Comments are screened.

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Paramount has just cut 1000 jobs and 1000 more job cuts are expected. They want to reach "$2 billion in expense cuts across the company." That's more than most companies and some countries are worth.

Job cuts after an acquisition aren't surprising. It usually happens in a frenzy, and some positions come back once the losses start leading to problems. But a line in this news story, as well as another article coming out the same day, made me start thinking about where big cuts are likely to come from.

"More than 800 people — or about 3.5% of the company’s workforce — were laid off in June, prior to the Ellison family takeover. At the time, Paramount’s management attributed the cuts to the decline of cable television subscriptions and an increased emphasis on bulking up its streaming TV business. In 2024, the company eliminated 2,000 positions, or 15% of its staff." (emphasis mine) ( Read more... )

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Fandom: Boy's Love Online Are Doomed To Fail - 风华如故
Mods please use the f: book (category) tag
Rating: T
Length: 100 words
Content notes: none
Author notes: The title is from SUBTITLES MISSING by Chris Tse and God by Song Xiaoxian, translated by Simon Patton. It was also inspired by Thingummyjigs by Jin Haishu, translated by Simon Patton.
Summary: While they are parted, Ran Feng thinks about Xingchen every day.

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Challenge #68: Favourite Technique (Vibrant Coloring + Text)

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Here's the next Wu Lei drama picspam! From Amidst a Snowstorm of Love, a 2024 drama starring Wu Lei and Zhao Jinmai. This drama has so many kisses! \o/

here are my thoughts on the drama itself (mostly spoiler-free)

Amidst a Snowstorm of Love, a 2024 cdrama starring Wu Lei and Zhao Jinmai as successful (i.e. impossibly competent) billiard players. It's on viki. It was filmed in Finland, replete with lots of night scenes and snow everywhere (the BTS about that is funny because apparently it did not snow nearly enough and most of the snow is fake). It's based on a webnovel by MBFB, the same author who wrote Love Me Love My Voice, which was so low on drama it verged on boring, but I sat through the whole thing last year.

Wu Lei's subtle expressions held my attention here too (and he's soooo pretty), but his character is the older one in the relationship, and he's very stoic, which just isn't Wu Lei. (Which is funny because the leads are the same age and they both said that this made the shoot easy for them because they got along very well.) Plus there are some tropes I don't like - and I recognize them as typical for the author: both leads are hyper-competent, they seem to have an inhuman number of hours every day to do their multiple jobs and travel for six hours on top of that, there is a lot of eating/food conversation going on, the man does implausible romantic things for the woman while keeping important things secret from her, all the side characters are in favor of the romance and constantly commenting on it. I went into it expecting pretty much all of it, so it's not too bad. It turns out that watching characters play billiard tournaments is much less interesting than watching people cook (which is what Love Me Love My Voice did), but really enjoyed the BTS material, especially the featurettes on the leads getting proper training in the sport. (Otoh, I have also been watching a ton of Dongji Rescue BTS material, and learning to freedive >> learning to play billiards, just sayin. ;))

I also dipped my toes into the novel the drama is based on, trying to figure out if some of the relationship setup things were better in the novel, but it turns out the drama is very very close to the novel, often scene by scene, including dialogue. Which is probably a good thing, because there is only a terrible MTL translation available of the novel (the title is "During the Snowstorm"). I actually needed the drama to explain some of the book scenes to me, because the translation was pretty much incomprehensible. /o\ I did not get very far into the novel - no kiss scenes yet - but apparently the drama was heavily censored and stripped of eight episodes to meet the episode limit requirements when it aired last year, so I expect there are some differences.

Summing up the last third of the drama: the fact that he did his confession speech in English was very cool. Very unusual. My complaints center on two reoccurring things: 1) she keeps evading his kisses and 2) he tends to do surprising things with the idea of it being Romantic TM, and she always pouts and complains about him not telling her about it in advance. Rightly so, I guess, but it's grating to watch it over and over. Especially since I think the show is trying to tell us that he's in the right.

Overall, I'm in two minds about the drama, because I always somehow expected more from it than it gave me, but otoh it wasn't *bad*. The romance was very sweet most of the time, and I liked the many kisses especially.

Picspam List:
#1: Nothing But You
#2: Will Love in Spring
#3: Amidst a Snowstorm of Love

The selection of my favorite 40 pics separately downloadable in full size from this gallery: https://postimg.cc/gallery/tP5wg9r
Those 40 plus all 340 as zip files: https://www.mediafire.com/file/xckl8wg2qypbw0b/snowstorm_picspam.zip + https://www.mediafire.com/file/0mneuef0se82rcb/snowstorm_allcaps.zip

Enjoy!

( 40 pics - mostly of the couple hugging/kissing )

I've made thirty-six icons from these so far:

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Title: Job First
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Rating: Mature
Summary: George Gently has his mind firmly on the job but John has other ideas
Pairing: George Gently/John Bacchus
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Hi all, we have 3 post-deadline pinch hits still up for grabs! These are all due Friday, November 7, noon Eastern time (Countdown), a day before the collection is scheduled to open, though we can be flexible if needed. The minimum is 100 words.

If you would like to claim a pinch hit, please comment to this post with the name/number of the pinch hit you would like. Make sure to include your AO3 username! Comments are screened.

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AMNESTY WEEK #028
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At the end of this two-week window, a post will be made collecting all the links of the posted entries, which will also signal the end of the posting period, and a new regular challenge will go up.

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Here are this week's votes tallied, and below the cut are our winners for Challenge #280 – Trick or Treat!

( This week's finalists are... )

Total Challenge Words Written: 2933

Congratulations to both of you, and thank you to everyone who took the time to cast their votes!

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