Books of 2024: THE WAY SPRING ARRIVES AND OTHER STORIES, edited by Yu Chen and Regina Kanyu Wang (feat. first daffodils!!)
I've been pining after this one since the hardback released, but I'm more of a paperback person so I Waited, and in my Waiting I missed the seasonal alignment to start reading it (come on: I can't be expected to read a collection with this title any time except at the very beginning of spring, right??). But! Guess what!! Spring is once again Arriving, and things are starting to bud and bloom, and I love that!
Being bilingual is great bc I can justify watching the same 6 hours of content for the third time in 10 days to see how they translated the dialogue <3
just saw the news that bob odenkirk is joining the cast of the bear for the second season and it kinda reminded me to check in and see if there were any updates about your richie jerimovich fic? hope this doesn’t come off as annoying or rushing just genuinely interested in the process of you writing this specific work and would love any little bit of info you feel like sharing even if it’s just ranting about the process being difficult! hope you’re doing well and can’t wait to see what’s next for neon medusa too!
Oh, I'm so excited to see what he does in this new season!!! 🤩
And no worries!! I'm kinda stuck on a few points for Richie because he's not, like, developed in the sense that we know what is going on with his home life. He's divorced but still wears a ring and probs doesn't see his daughter very often, and I'm just sort of agonising over skipping it and leaving it as a vague grey blur you never get to see, or making things up as I go! I just hate missed continuity.
But ahhhh, it's coming along! It was one of the ones shuffled for now until I work out the kinks in the narrative, but I started watching the Bear (again, again, again) to inspire me, so hopefully it'll be finished soon! 🖤
my toxic trait is that every time I rewatch my favourite movie I end up liveblogging it to people like I haven’t seen it a thousand times and like they haven’t heard every comment humanly possible about it