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Dogwood sunsets
May. 21st, 2020 03:39 amI had a meeting with my advisor and committee member yesterday, which I thought I was prepared for and I thought would finally let me sit down and start programming... and it did not go the way that I expected, sigh. I have another week to come up with something new. It's frustrating, because I feel like the conversation circled around some of the same things we were circling around one or two years ago. Maybe it's a sign that we never really addressed it properly. Ah, well. Nothing to do for it but work on it.
Afterward, I went out and did some jumping practice in the yard - my headphones almost flew off, whoops - and then today I took a walk in the park near sunset. I climbed up in one of the blooming dogwood trees at the top of the hill, with its pale blossoms lit gently from the side by the soft colors of the sunset. And then I convinced my brain to let me climb up further and watched the sunset for a bit, the bright orange clouds against the desaturated teal of the sky. I probably scraped my bare legs, but it was lovely and worth it.
In fandom things:
Reading Wednesday:
Read: DNF Guardian. I got to the chapter where it switched from the translator who wrote not-great-but-serviceable prose and had a fair amount of grammar errors to the translator who put comma splices and wrong dialogue punctuation in almost every sentence. Life's too short for that. Maybe I'll try the drama sometime, but I have to say, I didn't find the first part of the novel that interesting.
Reading: The Interior Life by Katherine Blake. I'm really enjoying it so far! The conceit is that a bored housewife begins imagining a story the way she used to when she was younger, and the historical fantasy story she dreams up becomes increasingly elaborate. The book uses two different fonts to show the difference between her life and her daydreaming, as sometimes they intermingle quite a bit. She starts to change her life based on the story by listening to medieval music and reading up on history, imagines herself as the characters at points, and thinks of them talking to her and giving advice.
So far, I've found both stories interesting. And as someone who imagines stories a lot, I've found a lot of it relatable, including the part where the main character finds herself going back over parts of the story because she can't make it continue, or struggling to force the story one direction but finding that while she can imagine it, it doesn't stick, or pausing at one point to wonder if her characters should be eating rice in not-medieval-England. I am suspicious that there will be a 'these are both real stories and the MC is connected to the people in another world'-type twist, but we'll see. Bonus: the book was free on the author's website \o/
Will read: I might try another cnovel? That MDZS(?) one is really popular, right? (Yes, I know nothing about cnovel fandom except the tiny bit I have osmosed.)
Afterward, I went out and did some jumping practice in the yard - my headphones almost flew off, whoops - and then today I took a walk in the park near sunset. I climbed up in one of the blooming dogwood trees at the top of the hill, with its pale blossoms lit gently from the side by the soft colors of the sunset. And then I convinced my brain to let me climb up further and watched the sunset for a bit, the bright orange clouds against the desaturated teal of the sky. I probably scraped my bare legs, but it was lovely and worth it.
In fandom things:
- I posted a Lilia fic inspired by a comment someone left on another recent fic of mine. Really struggled with tagging it because it's about her old relationship with Victor and her changed relationship with Yakov post-divorce and her new relationship to Yuuri as a performer as she watches his programs... and I don't know what AO3 tags go with that.
- Wrote half of a guest post for the Frozen in Time skating blog that went up today, about Mao's 2014 Worlds programs and Adelina's 2014 Olympics programs (I said nice things about her because I like being popular). The other guest writer's writing is very nice.
- I'm very excited for
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rareshipsonbingo. Glad to have something to replace RSOI this year!
Reading Wednesday:
Read: DNF Guardian. I got to the chapter where it switched from the translator who wrote not-great-but-serviceable prose and had a fair amount of grammar errors to the translator who put comma splices and wrong dialogue punctuation in almost every sentence. Life's too short for that. Maybe I'll try the drama sometime, but I have to say, I didn't find the first part of the novel that interesting.
Reading: The Interior Life by Katherine Blake. I'm really enjoying it so far! The conceit is that a bored housewife begins imagining a story the way she used to when she was younger, and the historical fantasy story she dreams up becomes increasingly elaborate. The book uses two different fonts to show the difference between her life and her daydreaming, as sometimes they intermingle quite a bit. She starts to change her life based on the story by listening to medieval music and reading up on history, imagines herself as the characters at points, and thinks of them talking to her and giving advice.
So far, I've found both stories interesting. And as someone who imagines stories a lot, I've found a lot of it relatable, including the part where the main character finds herself going back over parts of the story because she can't make it continue, or struggling to force the story one direction but finding that while she can imagine it, it doesn't stick, or pausing at one point to wonder if her characters should be eating rice in not-medieval-England. I am suspicious that there will be a 'these are both real stories and the MC is connected to the people in another world'-type twist, but we'll see. Bonus: the book was free on the author's website \o/
Will read: I might try another cnovel? That MDZS(?) one is really popular, right? (Yes, I know nothing about cnovel fandom except the tiny bit I have osmosed.)
