It's one of my favourite festivals, though that's because I love December and Christmas and, of course, Winter Solstice.
I rolled a lot of glutinous rice dumplings with my mother yesterday and we've frozen them so we can have it throughout the month. Very optimistic of us, I think dad will devour all the little pandan ones by the end of the night.
As far as Chinese festivals go, it's lowkey and chill. So I prefer it, because of that, over the New Year. Drop by any sit-down Chinese restaurant in my part of the world and they'll have a bowl of dumplings for you too, free of charge.
The unexpected thrill of joy when I see someone has downloaded from me on Soulseek. Oh, you like my music! You like this thing I like too!
It's funny, I never liked sharing my music preferences on Spotify but somehow this is ok?? It feels like a connection, however silent and brief, because they've specifically set out to find these files.
I have discovered SoulSeek! 500 years too late but damn if it isn't good for finding music. Faster than using bots on Telegram and the quality is also so, so good.
It's always a good day to add new things into the piracy arsenal. I feel like we're losing so many things nowadays because streaming services yank things off the air without a way to buy dvds or blurays. Not only is it one less avenue to make money from, but the hard work of the creative team can no longer be seen.
Well, in music's case it's more because you have to pay extra for lossless quality. A little less defensible, but I own my music at least.
House of the Dragon brainrot is so real because when I attempted to help fill up needy Fandom Trees, I only managed to write for the two House of the Dragon ones!
Well... and one about Hong Kong media recs, that one I could browse a few actors' wikis for and be very nostalgic about. But also, I watched most of those as a literal child so idk how it'd look like to an adult. Except Conqueror's Story, me and my dad rewatch it together every couple of years to compare Liu Bang and Xiang Yu's leadership styles.
But anyway, I should probably get some HOTD icons on here, since the fandom is living in my brain long term now.
Nothing like coming home after a late night supper (where I snacked on too much fried mantou) to see my first, and probably only, fandom discord talking about an AU where the characters in this crackship are... college Republican vs college Democrat???? I am completely certain I've lost the plot.
Really having to toe the line on exposing how foreign I am to these people or just finding different fandom friends.
Got a wee bit over-enthusiastic changing up all my tumblr themes and lost steam by the time I got here. Oh well, at least I've got a new cursor here. Now to figure out how to put those silly blingey floating stuff that used to plague us all before the Age of Social Media. Most of the old sites I used to shamelessly copy+paste from are gone unfortunately.
I think I'm a little grateful to grow up in the age where there was incentive to learn html so you could have a cool social page of some sort. It was ugly as sin and not always the most accessible, but it was creative.
Ranting here because Tumblr's search function now lets untagged posts show up and I do not want my irrationally peevish post getting to that BNF. Inexplicably after watching 2 episodes who feels they can talk shit.
Anyway, someone had a take about SPYxFamily where they said they don't know why Loid would so wholeheartedly support Yor even when she was implied to have been a prostitute by her coworker. "Shouldn't Loid have realized that this would tank his mission if word got out to the school? One of the parents was even there blah blah blah."
The instant gratification of posting on AO3 is just.... *chef's kiss*. I posted this nonsense less than 800 words and somehow it's getting kudos??? Maybe some people are unhappy about their kudos to comments to hits ratio but my standards are so low I don't give a damn.
I may or may not have started a continuation in Scrivener. The feeling of instant feedback is a whole lot different than slaving away at my Nanowrimo story.
I cannot believe that the 2nd week is almost over. I have managed to write something every day (rarely ever hitting targeted word count) but the story still keeps on mutating.
Anyway I didn't think I had it in me to even write to write 10k words so that's something.
You know, I'm really liking the options to toggle between formats in replies. HTML has a hell of a learning curve and letting us choose between casual and raw HTML as well as Markdown is just...😍😘!
It's something at least, but is it enough in the long run?
A lot has been written about social media, the companies that monopolize the market, and what it's doing to us. And of course, everyone and their dog has their own ideas on how to fix it.
This post really got me excited at first and I was all fired up to, like, start my own website hell yeah! Then I realised it involved a lot more knowledge about HTML, CSS and the like than I already had.
Oh, I'm sure people crawled up hill both ways in the past and it is quite feasible and led to a career in IT yadda yadda yadda. But consider this, I am not a teenager with endless free time to learn and the goal of my internet life is to shitpost.
So I guess what I'm saying is, I wish things on the better end of the internet were easier to access. Or maybe it seems more peaceful because less people can access it? Inquiring minds would like to know.
2.The time I spent trying to find out how to put this in subscript is also hammering in the fact that posting is time consuming. No posting from a toilet guaranteed.
It's been a while, a 2-years-and-an-international-move-and-pandemic sort of while. But recently I've been thinking about the internet and the sort of capitalistic hellscape we live in, and places like Dreamwidth keeps the total domination of the social media monopolies at bay for a little while longer.
So I'm back for now! Going to give it another try and hopefully this time it'll stick.
Netflix is telling me that there's an Australian series based on Journey to the West and frankly I have conflicting feelings about it. I realise that it's... irrational since I've only seen its trailer, which isn't enough to judge a show. Just, with the exception of the Monkey King, most of the main cast, the directors, and the writers are white? Journey to the West is already a story that I barely trust in Chinese hands, because it is so difficult to get the Monkey King's characterization right. SO DIFFICULT.
Taiwan just legalized gay marriage!!! I've been keeping a bit on an eye on them since their Constitutional Court ruled that it was unconstitutional to deny same-sex marriage and today they passed the law!!! AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
Congratulations Taiwan for being the first in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage! Take that "what about our Asian values dur hur" politicians, we're here, we're quuer, GET USED TO IT!
I just came out of Endgame and I fairly enjoyed it! I sat through the credits, despite knowing there was no post-credit scene, because I was so overwhelmed by emotion. This is it, this is what it all culminates to. And what a journey it was to see these people fighting so hard to bring their loved ones back. When Thor talked to Frigga I was so punched by the feels. And I liked Tony interacting with Morgan and Rhodey. Yes I would kill for James "Rhodey" Rhodes, best guy around. Also Steve and Thor because I'm fond of their dumb asses.
Of course, there were bits I didn't particular enjoy and there were characterizations that hurt me because I'm wayyyy too attached to these characters. But I am far too tired of death and my faith in media is far too hollow to struggle anymore, so I'll just let them rest and reread the Not Easily Conquered series so I can have my 5 cakes and eat them too because I cannot stand the thought of Steve, with his knowledge of the future, letting Hydra flourish in the agency that is Peggy's life work. I just can't.
So here's to 22 movies (that I never completely watched)! It's been a fun, long ride.
It's been one day since I finished watching the finale and I just get angrier and angrier at the thought of it. I'm not entirely sure what to do with myself.
I do crave a certain kind of fix-it fic though, the kind that has Quentin in 3x5, post-Eliot's death, living an obnoxiously long life. Maybe he's moved in with Ted's family and is just spoiling his grandkids, idk. I JUST NEED SOME SORT OF JUSTICE!
Please prod me along to any fic remotely like that.
Me: Oh, The Magicians is over I can finally binge watch it the way my attention span likes it.
The Magicians: Does That
Me: ...Nope.
I'd like to thank everyone who shared spoilers because my mental health has not been very good lately and I do not actually want to watch another queer person struggling the way I am pick THAT.
F*** you writers, this is not the realism I want. In a list of unrealistic things that happen on your show, queer happiness should not be one of them.
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