Previous poll reviewIn
the Stoic hurt/comfort poll, 44.2% of respondents prefer the stoic character stoically/reluctantly/awkwardly providing comfort, vs 41.9% who prefer them receiving comfort (pretty sure that's within the margin of error, though); and 27.9% said it depends. Three people (including me) checked "I'm not into hurt/comfort." <3
In ticky-boxes, appreciating being able to breathe through your nose came second to hugs, 62.8% to 79.1%. Thank you for your votes! ♥
ReadingI finished
The Hymn to Dionysus by Natasha Pulley, read by Sid Sagar, a m/m clockpunk fantasy novel set in ancient Thebes. I especially enjoyed the Theban POV, and I grew increasingly more engaged as it progressed. Might read it again sometime in text.
Still making my way through
Refuse to Be Done by Matt Bell. I'm up to the advice for third drafts.
Andrew and I finished
Warrior's Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold, read by Grover Gardner, while polishing off a jigsaw, and have started
The Vor Game, in which Miles is instructed to learn to respect authority, and immediately sets out to manipulate everyone around him.
KdramasThe same four as last week:
Phantom Lawyer,
You're Beautiful (ahhhh!),
Love Scout, and
Lovely Runner. The latter involves the female lead time-travelling 15 years into her past self, and she seems weirdly unaware of the age gap between her and the school-age male lead. Maybe this isn't a romance? (Writing this made me consider an alternate version where her contemporary self just sends her diary or something to the past instead, so her teen self would be armed with all the knowledge but still age-appropriate.)
Other TVFinished
Paper Girls (argh, permanent cliffhanger ending!) and
Connections (BBC). Still watching
The Pitt,
Rooster, and
Scrubs. Zoomed through all of
Big Mistakes, a Netflix romp starring Dan Levy, which ended with a set-up for season 2.
Fringe (which is losing the plot, wow) and
Bluey with my sister.
And we saw
Hoppers at the cinema, and had a great time with it. Aww! Such an optimistic view of the world.
Audio entertainmentDreaming Against the Machine (new podcast by Adam Becker, author of
More Everything Forever), episode 1: "Futurists, with Reo Eveleth". The podcast is about "envisioning a realistic and hopeful future", and this episode was really great. I found it via the
Better Offline episode "More, Everything, Forever with Adam Becker".
(Aside: something about DAtM made me think that podcasts are the blogs of today: thoughtful people making their ideas and conversations public, very voicey and intimate in a way. And presumably just as hard to break into (in the English-language sphere) if you're not a confident user of the English language...)
Writing/making thingsGetting back into the swing of writers' hour now it's moved to 8am for the winter -- which is timely, because I have a 520 Day assignment fic to write. (I was aiming for short, but it's already over
1500w 2300w, with at least two scenes to go. Which is what happens when you mostly read novels, I guess.)
Life/health/mental state thingsWe've had a few days of gorgeous weather (and next week is looking dire), which has meant a lot of biking. Plus I have builders working on reputtying some of my windows, which is disruptive and dusty, so I've been out a lot; yesterday I worked on my 520 fic at our newly re-opened central public library. All of which is to say that my arms are pretty mad at me. Bluetooth keyboards are great, but so is my home ergonomic setup. And I can only handle so much biking atm.
The window work is in a race against the weather, and weather forecasting has got less accurate since some @#$#*ing incompetent shitheads @#(*ed up the US Weather Service. So who knows if my house will be weatherproof next week? No one!
I'm not as cranky as this sounds. Just a bit stressed, and my house is covered in a fine layer of dust. Guess I'm looking at a thorough
spring autumn clean once this is all done.
Had a flu jab on Wednesday.
Link dumpGet your Letter to the Editor published. Every. Time. |
AO3 admin post about Spambot Comments on AO3 (different types, and what to do about them) |
Remarkable survival after hawk trapped in car grille |
Mom cat shows her kittens the German shepherd is safe (Youtube, via
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Good thingsLovely weather. Mobile technology and ebikes. Writing!! Friendly builders. Andrew and Halle and friends and Dreamwidth.
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Do you have different prose standards for reading profic vs fanfic?
View Answersno, I'm pretty relaxed about prose quality if other aspects of the story capture me
8 (21.1%)
yes, I'm more picky about fanfic
0 (0.0%)
yes, I'm more picky about profic...
17 (44.7%)
... with the exception of certain genres
3 (7.9%)
no, I'm picky across the board
13 (34.2%)
other
5 (13.2%)
ticky-box of to read makes our speaking English good
19 (50.0%)
ticky-box full of podcasts
4 (10.5%)
ticky-box of how many rivers must an otter swim down before you can call it an otter
23 (60.5%)
ticky-box full of 42
17 (44.7%)
ticky-box full of hugs
27 (71.1%)
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