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waterscrollGood riddance 2020! Let's hope the new year is better.
New year's resolutions:
1. Stop reading about MDZS wank. It brings no joy to my life.
2. Find a fandom that I am more comfortable writing fic in, and then actually write fic.
The Kennyo route in Ikemen Sengoku was unfortunately kind of a dud. He's such an interesting antagonist and his short stories were interestingly ambiguous, but once they tried to fit him into the formula of their main routes it got, well, formulaic. I'm guessing they never intended to write a route for him originally because bridging the gap between how awful he is in some of the other routes and the fanservice they want in their main routes was a big challenge and I think in the end didn't work. But they build a Temple together and MC becomes an abbess so I guess I got fanserved.
In MDZS, I got back to the novel and I'm now up to chapter 35. I'm finding it very different from the show, and I found it offputting for a while because I couldn't connect to novelverse Jiang Cheng. But as I'm getting more into it I'm enjoying novelverse Wei Wuxian more and more, because he is funny and a little bit ridiculous in a way that he mostly isn't in the dramaverse after the first couple of episodes. He's also kind of a mess and it's fun watching him figure himself out. Reading this translation helped me get into it, and I think I'm now invested enough that I'll read the rest in the regular translation.
I started watching season 4 of The Crown (haven't watched the other seasons) because I thought it might scratch my itch for watching terrible people do politics. And yes, it definitely does. The fandom has 70something fics on A03. My favorite tag, on a shipfic involving the Queen: no smut bc treason. I don't think this will be a fic fandom for me but it's fun to watch.
glymr tells me that Nirvana in Fire has a lot of politics, so maybe I should watch that next.
And how are you all?
New year's resolutions:
1. Stop reading about MDZS wank. It brings no joy to my life.
2. Find a fandom that I am more comfortable writing fic in, and then actually write fic.
The Kennyo route in Ikemen Sengoku was unfortunately kind of a dud. He's such an interesting antagonist and his short stories were interestingly ambiguous, but once they tried to fit him into the formula of their main routes it got, well, formulaic. I'm guessing they never intended to write a route for him originally because bridging the gap between how awful he is in some of the other routes and the fanservice they want in their main routes was a big challenge and I think in the end didn't work. But they build a Temple together and MC becomes an abbess so I guess I got fanserved.
In MDZS, I got back to the novel and I'm now up to chapter 35. I'm finding it very different from the show, and I found it offputting for a while because I couldn't connect to novelverse Jiang Cheng. But as I'm getting more into it I'm enjoying novelverse Wei Wuxian more and more, because he is funny and a little bit ridiculous in a way that he mostly isn't in the dramaverse after the first couple of episodes. He's also kind of a mess and it's fun watching him figure himself out. Reading this translation helped me get into it, and I think I'm now invested enough that I'll read the rest in the regular translation.
I started watching season 4 of The Crown (haven't watched the other seasons) because I thought it might scratch my itch for watching terrible people do politics. And yes, it definitely does. The fandom has 70something fics on A03. My favorite tag, on a shipfic involving the Queen: no smut bc treason. I don't think this will be a fic fandom for me but it's fun to watch.
glymr tells me that Nirvana in Fire has a lot of politics, so maybe I should watch that next.And how are you all?
