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I made a bunch of icons from the first episodes of The Apothecary Diaries Season 2!

Sample:

Find all of them under the cut.

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And we're back for another week of The Apothecary Diaries! This is another episode of setup, and as many mysteries are starting to pop up in the rear palace, the story presented here doesn't really work as a standalone piece.

Still, many elements of note. This is the Maomao Sniffs Clothes Episode, after all:

My non-spoiler comment:

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This is all for my comment today. What do you think?

Manga and Light Novel readers: how is it going with the anime onlies in your opinion? Did they already solve some mysteries?

( How to write spoilers if you're a LN or manga reader )

Crossposted on anime_manga.

Today The Apothecary Diaries returned on air with the first episode of the second season. Have you watched already?

I'd like to have a discussion on the episode.

( Why am I doing this? )

The opening has been released this morning and it's stunning, both musically and visually. This is where spoilers abound, so I won't comment on it, but just take a look!

( Comments and questions on episode 25 (Spoiler-free) )

( How to write spoilers if you're a LN or manga reader )

snowflake_challenge #2: In your own space, talk about your fannish origin story.

Also my first entry to this year's Fannish Fifty on goals_on_dw.

I wasn't feeling particularly eager to discuss my fannish beginnings at first--having been a child in the 90s, there is only so much I can say about afternoon children programming on TV including anime and later, through a very rugged dial-up connection, my search for those very same anime on the Internet, finding hard-to-navigate seiyuu databases (still a mystery to me), fansites full of images that I could download and print, and finally, discovering fan fiction and fan art. For me that anime was Slayers (coincidentally, just like my current fave, an anime adapted from a light novel series), but with the same or another title that could represent the experience of many of my peers.

Not that responding to this question required originality at all--I get that in truth, there is as much to find in the things we have in common than the things in which we are different, in this community--but then again, what do I have to say?

Then yesterday, while I was thinking about glossing over it, focusing on my return to fandom, maybe, I happened to read this interesting article about fanfiction getting consumed more and more like any other piece of media, and less like the expression of a specific context of a specific subculture, that of fandom linked by the always insightful The Rec Center.

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That's it for now. Thanks for reading such a long post and for being willing to consider these issues!

Dear Summer of Horror Creator,

Thanks for creating for me! Whether you’ve been assigned one of my requests, you are a pinch hitter or you’re considering creating a treat for me, please know I very much appreciate it.

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A bit late, but here I am, joining the snowflake_challenge once again!

The prompt for Challenge #2 was:

In your own space, set yourself some goals for the coming year. They can be fannish or not, public or private. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

This year is going to be challenging in many ways, so for my fannish and crafty activities, other than a couple of things I'm already very committed to (and are ongoing), I'd rather talk about random things I'd like to do this year, with no priority set.

( Exactly three goals, or: the ongoing projects )

And as for more things I'd love to do, but with no strings attached and no expectations, in no order:

( All the things! )

And that's it for now!

Lately I've been pretty busy with working on the revision and the publication of the very long and very demanding multi-chaptered Attack on Titan fic I've talked about before in this journal. It's called Little Bird, it's about Annie Leonhart post-Canon (pre-final timeskip), it's pretty angsty, contains bad bureaucrats, fairy tales, ghost stories, decadent aristocrats and their cats, romance, funny banter... and silly names.

If you're now caught up with AOT, I'd love to hear what you think.

In September/October I also joined a fic exchange as a pinch hitter! For that I wrote Respite, or A Survivor's Ball, a Connie Springer-centric oneshot. I had a lot of fun.

I'd love to talk extensively about the end of Attack on Titan (as in: the anime adaptation), and maybe I will do so at some point, but generally speaking: it's great, it's been great, I'm grateful I could witness the final episode as it aired, and if you never watched AOT, or if you watched season 1 back then and then lost enthusiasm because of the waiting (or the very long-winded Uprising Arc in the manga, as it happened with me), I recommend to give it a go. It's not perfect, but it's still a great story, with a lot of great characters and themes to enjoy.

Right now, I'm out of breath and always running out of time because... let's say, updating the fic once a week, even if it's already fully written (but in need of revision, consistency checks, proofreading, as well as some additional scenes), is more effort-taking than planned ^^''' In fact, I managed to write here today just because I took a week off.

I usually use Tumblr to give updates about my revision process because the aot fandom is more there than here.

You can see them under the little bird tag, which also includes the funny faux period graphics I do for every chapter (another thing that... takes a lot of time. I can't really help myself).

( Example of graphics here )

Still, I check my reading page at DW daily, and I wish to join some winter festivities event (fandomtrees possibly) as well as being more consistent with update frequency and also... quality? Cut?

Last week I've read The Unauthorized Biography of Ms.Scribe and other than being incredibly captivated by the narrative I also thought about journaling as an art in the field of writing (and self-reflecting, and whatever) that I'd love to learn.

What I'm doing right now is just listing fannish and fannish-adjacent things I've been doing in no order. Which is ok, but also not the standard or the form that would motivate me to post consistently.

But just to confirm that this is my format atm, anime fall season 2023:

( Read about anime here )

Ah well. For the rest, I'm reading and I'm enjoying what I read, which is the greatest thing. Among the latest books I read, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enriquez (who is also very funny and endearing in person).

It’s August, which means that I am meant to start the revision of my longfic. I don’t feel ready, but it relieves me to think that the other day I opened up the project to look up some information for a connected oneshot and I liked what I read.

( on the july break bingo )

Anyway, here's the two entries I've made: triple drabble (shingeki no kyojin, not really spoilerish), set of mini-collages (original work). (Maybe I should post my card, too. One day before the cutoff date? Lol.)

More on writing:

In the past week, since dewladen talked about it, I’ve been using the 4thewords app to write, and while I’m really bad at these gamified experiences I found it quite useful for what I was doing (technical game writing with set lengths to achieve). Let’s see if I can also use it in other settings, especially given that I want to be more careful with the number of words that I put out (but there are also challenges for that, I think).

Also: I joined the comment_bingo for this round! Here is my card.

Media!

( Media updates )

Yes yes yes, I'm here (again).

( Reflective, albeit more hopeful stuff regarding my most recent rant about fandom )

On the other hand, while I haven't had the time to experience a lot of media in the past few days (travelling), some random comments about stories and more things:

• The Phantom of the Opera (ALW musical) still remains nonsensical in a very funny and enjoyable way. Enjoyable expecially for the fact that it's all good singing. Then, wtf-productions appears out of nowhere, and we appreciate them. We can only appreciate.
• I went to a theatre museum and the most majestic thing I saw was a travelling wardrobe, which included hangers, drawers and all, used by (probably?) a theatre actress. The world is a place full of wonders.
• The first two episodes of My Happy Marriage (anime on Netflix) were good and I'm on board. I only need the will not to look for the light novel/manga in the meantime.
• First episode of Undead Murder Farce: I'm intrigued but not as much as I would like to. Too early to say, though.
• I still hope for some progression in Spy x Family (manga). Mind, I just enjoy it and that's enough, but... a little progression? Please?
• I bought another book by William T. Vollman, An Afghanistan Picture Show. I hope it's a good one, although maybe I would fare better with another of his Seven Dreams.
• I'm trying to listen to new music. The Rika playlist facethestrange once shared is very useful and very in line with what I want. Thank you!
• I started working on a collaborative writing project, something something vampires (not the name, but I must stay quiet for now I think). Vampires!

But most of all, as a palate cleanser before going into the revision of my longfic, I joined the julybreakbingo. Be it writing or embroidery I hope I can create something fun and different.

Like a travelling wardrobe.

(The travelling wardrobe in question.)

It wasn't my intention to disappear for more than a month; as I might have said before, my plan was to give DW a 3-months try to see if it was fit my flow of writing, communicating, etc.

Then ~~life~~ work happened and I got a bit lost, but I'm still here, I promise! And since I haven't been able to write here for a while my plan now is to... extend my DW trial.

Heh.

Some brief updates:

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Games, cosplay:
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Media: ( Read more... )

And that's all for now. I'm still not out of the woods but I'll try to participate often, in some capacity at least. Be well!