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blysse-and-blunder · 3 years

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in lieu of a commonplace book

6pm, sunday, sept 12, 2021

what, again? i hear you cry. yeah, me too. this is a quick a roundup after the zeroth week of the term which is promising to be the most chaotic yet.

reading finished watership down! i get the reputation that this book has now, for making cute woodland creatures dark and dramatic-- but it was the mythological/linguistic/poetic stuff that i liked the most. the lapine vocab just always ended up...sounding and tasting very satisfying, good mouth feel. and at last section with the assault on efrafra was so stressful-- and the various twist endings!-- and i was glad to realize that i'd gotten personally invested in a couple of characters; seeing bigwig in the epilogue, having grown old, having survived, hit me hard.

i also finished the chosen and the beautiful, and turned around and have told everyone i talk to about it. i've also picked up aliette de bodard's in the vanisher's palace, and it has been reminding me incessantly about the d*sney film raya and the last dragon, which i watched a little bit of on the plane to nyc. like!! the world building, the dragons, the post-apoc setting, the big gay energy. this novel seems to only have characters who use she or they pronouns, and they address pronouns in some interesting ways too, to convey formality, register, intimacy between characters, etc. i wish the overall writing style was less variable though-- the geometry of the titular palace is meant to be anti-geometric, nausea-inducing, dizzying, and sometimes the jumps from scene to scene almost mirror that?

listening this is my memo to myself to click on my mutuals' music links more often. i took a chance on @girlfriendsofthegalaxy's cowboy-joke post of miya folick's "stop talking (about that boy)" and then spent a solid week on a miya folick kick, just listening to her same album premonitions. i don't know if i can shoehorn my dnd character's backstory into the lyrics of "deadbody", but something about the righteous fury in her voice, it really does feel like faertrin, and in my head it's an anthem for my weird little man. please listen to it for its own sake, though, the video makes it clear that it's really about domestic violence vel sim, not dnd revolutionaries.

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watching nothing quite like getting to the end of the timeskip in the untamed in grand style, with lotus root and rib soup made by the inimitable @pep-squad-lizzie, a heartbreaking montero powerpoint by @dimir-charmer, dessert by @hematiterings, and emperor's smile by me, after nearly eight months of working on this show together. y'all. the catharsis. i can start posting things from my drafts folder now that Certain Characters are dead, thank god, i only have uhhhhh 1k drafts or so.

playing my dnd campaign one resumes tomorrow! they're all coming over to my back porch, for my first time hosting after being in this group for more than a year! i'm feeling extremely normal about this!

making a housemate and i threw some brownies together last night, while keeping out of the way as an outgoing housemate moved out-- it went fairly quickly, wasn't nearly as tense as i was afraid it was, and we sent them away with a mushy brownie piece each. phew.

working on in a rare moment of only having one (more or less) project to work on, i actually sent my prof a draft outline of the paper the same week i had planned to, as well as the updated draft of the intro essay with all the changes she asked for. now to...outline a diss proposal..........spent thursday being back in an academic library for the first time since march 2020, which was fine, even mildly comical as i watched new students try to navigate the stacks elevators, it was very like 'well this is business as usual and not even that nostalgic' up until i stepped into one of the classrooms in this particular niche topic-specific library on campus, which just looked so...hopeful and nervous and expectant, with its carefully marked seats and hand sanitizers. when will there be an in-person palaeography class in there again? not this fall. but the room is ready. :')

#weekly roundup #ilcb #in lieu of a commonplace book #i post these like 'tra la la i read BOOKS #when in reality i should be admitting to the truly astronomical amounts of fic i consumed this weekend #astronomical i tell you

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xiaofiaan · 3 years

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Lan Zhan and Wei Ying seeking comfort from the other on dysphoric or (even just bad days.) the two of them weren't really much for asking for comfort before but after years of being together, small and big gestures become common between them. Wei Ying often gives his husband head massages (and after all these years, Lan Zhan has become more familiar with Wei Ying's brand of physical intimacy) and he would play music for him. sometimes the music they've learned and made together or sometimes the songs he learns on night hunts. Lan Zhan's love language is acts of service and it shows when he's around Wei Ying. it can be something as small as peeling tangerines or sometimes it could be sitting in comforting silence with him in the library as they research or cooking lotus rib soup for Wei Ying the best he can. when Wei Ying needs to cry, he cradles Wei Ying in his arms as he cries and he weeps with him. sometimes they play music and curse together. and most importantly they talk to each other. about their feelings or just about anything. at the end of the day, they're okay because they got each other <33

god I am so sorry this is so incoherent sleeby brain went 🤪

please don't apologize this is... ohmygod... lowkey tearing up because of this 😭😭😭 actually it's highkey... ohhhhhh....

#ur brain is huge #this made me happy #them comforting one another on dysphoric days :pleading: correct i love that so so so much #jack answers #kausar tag #wangjitheestallion #trans time

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