Titles are hard
Mar. 5th, 2021 12:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hilsStill not doing great mentally. Things that normally wouldn't bother me are irritating the shit out of me and I'm finding myself avoiding places like Twitter so that I don't end up snapping at someone who hasn't actually done anything wrong. I'm still dipping in and out but I'm not glued to it the way I used to be. Same with Discord.
It's actually been quite nice that a couple of weeks ago Jacqui asked if I would watch Manner of Death with her as she'd seen gifs on Tumblr and was interested. Since it was on my to watch list too this worked out well and we spent pretty much every evening last week watching it together. It was a lot of fun. As a result she's asked for more bl shows to watch and luckily I have a list :D
We've watched Because of You and Tonhon Chonlatee together so far and she's watched History 3: Trapped on the evenings when I've had other social obligations because I've already seen it.
The nice thing about it is because I'm watching it with someone else I can't pause it to reply to messages or look at my phone and I can't tweet while watching because I need to read the subtitles. It's given me some much needed social media downtime.
The only downside is that it's taken over the slot where I was watching Nirvana in Fire so I haven't watched a single episode in a good couple of weeks. I'm going to have to try and make time for it somewhere because it's still fantastic and I do want to finish it.
Writing is helping a lot too actually. Sometimes when I'm upset I don't want to do anything creative at all but at the moment writing is providing a good escape for me.
I published another![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
sundial_exchange treat last night and I have another one that's a work in progress. I should get that finished before the 12th and after that I'll consider my Sundial Treats done. It's been a fantastic experience. I've got to play in multiple fandoms, write some super rare pairings (don't even ask about the one I have outlined that has 0 fics on AO3) and enjoy the warm fuzzy feelings I get from giving people gifts.
As of yesterday I have now published more words this year than I did in the whole of 2020 and it's barely March. In fact this is the most I've published since 2016 and I'm only 4k away from overtaking that year as well. Guardian and associated fandoms is very inspiring!
This is the fic I posted yesterday. It's forglymr and is a continuation of Talking Through Walls
Title: Talking Side By Side
Fandom: Guardian RPF
Pairing: Zhu Yilong/Bai Yu
Rating: General Audiences
Summary: “It was an accident, Xiao Bai. Accidents happen all the time, to regular people with regular jobs.”
“Regular people don’t choose to do their own stunts, Long-ge. Maybe we should have become accountants instead. Or librarians.”
My Mandarin lessons are still going well. I got to the first 'test your proficiency' stage on one of the apps I'm using and I passed :D It was quite satisfying when some of the questions only gave you the chinese characters to answer with and I still did okay. I'm starting to recognise some of the more commonly used ones which makes me feel good.
And I'm recognising more spoken words when I'm watching cdramas which is always exciting.
It's actually been quite nice that a couple of weeks ago Jacqui asked if I would watch Manner of Death with her as she'd seen gifs on Tumblr and was interested. Since it was on my to watch list too this worked out well and we spent pretty much every evening last week watching it together. It was a lot of fun. As a result she's asked for more bl shows to watch and luckily I have a list :D
We've watched Because of You and Tonhon Chonlatee together so far and she's watched History 3: Trapped on the evenings when I've had other social obligations because I've already seen it.
The nice thing about it is because I'm watching it with someone else I can't pause it to reply to messages or look at my phone and I can't tweet while watching because I need to read the subtitles. It's given me some much needed social media downtime.
The only downside is that it's taken over the slot where I was watching Nirvana in Fire so I haven't watched a single episode in a good couple of weeks. I'm going to have to try and make time for it somewhere because it's still fantastic and I do want to finish it.
Writing is helping a lot too actually. Sometimes when I'm upset I don't want to do anything creative at all but at the moment writing is providing a good escape for me.
I published another
sundial_exchange treat last night and I have another one that's a work in progress. I should get that finished before the 12th and after that I'll consider my Sundial Treats done. It's been a fantastic experience. I've got to play in multiple fandoms, write some super rare pairings (don't even ask about the one I have outlined that has 0 fics on AO3) and enjoy the warm fuzzy feelings I get from giving people gifts.As of yesterday I have now published more words this year than I did in the whole of 2020 and it's barely March. In fact this is the most I've published since 2016 and I'm only 4k away from overtaking that year as well. Guardian and associated fandoms is very inspiring!
This is the fic I posted yesterday. It's for
glymr and is a continuation of Talking Through Walls Title: Talking Side By Side
Fandom: Guardian RPF
Pairing: Zhu Yilong/Bai Yu
Rating: General Audiences
Summary: “It was an accident, Xiao Bai. Accidents happen all the time, to regular people with regular jobs.”
“Regular people don’t choose to do their own stunts, Long-ge. Maybe we should have become accountants instead. Or librarians.”
My Mandarin lessons are still going well. I got to the first 'test your proficiency' stage on one of the apps I'm using and I passed :D It was quite satisfying when some of the questions only gave you the chinese characters to answer with and I still did okay. I'm starting to recognise some of the more commonly used ones which makes me feel good.
And I'm recognising more spoken words when I'm watching cdramas which is always exciting.
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Date: 2021-03-05 04:01 pm (UTC)I'm sorry about that... also I find it oddly comforting that it's not just me.
And yay for all the writing! \o/
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Date: 2021-03-05 04:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-03-07 12:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-03-07 06:28 pm (UTC)Glad a watchalong provides downtime for you! :D I do get distracted from my regular fannish activities by discord a lot, but so far I haven't found anything that helps except set myself to "away". And I'm somehow reluctant to do that. It's weird.
As of yesterday I have now published more words this year than I did in the whole of 2020 and it's barely March.
Oh wow! Congrats! Guardian-and-adjacent fandoms are awesome. \o/
And yay for Mandarin progress, too!