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Recently enjoyed Wednesday's Child by Niv Sekar, a little f/f urban fantasy comic about a woman who wakes up curiously numb after a night in the club. She finds out over the next few weeks that someone had cast a spell to make her emotions disappear.

It was what she needed, but it wasn't kind.

(This is mostly to remind myself to check out Niv Sekar's work if ever they're on Shortbox again since I quite like her writing and art style.)

PIHU HAS ALWAYS RESENTED HER FEELINGS. HOW OUTSIZED THEY ARE, HOW INCONVENIENT - HOW SHE STILL DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO EXORCISE THEM.

PIHU HAS ALWAYS RESENTED HER FEELINGS. HOW OUTSIZED THEY ARE, HOW INCONVENIENT - HOW SHE STILL DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO EXORCISE THEM.

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snowflake_challenge #5
Talk about what has improved in your life thanks to fandom.
My perspective; My world is so small and boring and stationary but I've been realizing lately how broad my PoV has become in spite of it. The perks of not being limited to physical proximity. XD Also travel! If it weren't for fandom friends, I never would have gone on the quest to try the black sesame chiffon cake in New Taipei City... There's no way I would have known it would have existed and that I was capable of enjoying a dessert that much...!

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Misc.:

The Lovers release has been pushed to 2026. *sad dolphin noises*

Fanmix rec: The Magician (Arcane - Viktor) by

fairykiss: great tracklist, great cover and track art

Manga I recently enjoyed (all ongoing): Though I Am an Inept Villainess (universally cherished but chronically ill heroine x reviled but healthy villainess bodyswap; inner palace intrigue; gen), When I Became a Commoner, They Broke Off Our Engagement! (a fairy's mischief: a commoner and a noble are swapped at birth, to be returned to the "right" parents when they're older; the men appear to only exist so they can help the girls achieve their goals of social change...)... Megane, Tokidoki, Yankee-kun (high school romance between a reformed delinquent and a girl who used to be bullied by delinquents)

A cnovel I recently bookmarked and briefly skimmed but am not sure I'll actually read: 全宇宙最后一只猫 The Last Cat in the Universe: The MC is a former pampered house cat that is determined to cultivate to the ultimate nine-tail form; fantranslation appears to be incomplete.

Re-posting because I was feeling nostalgic—technically it's a Qihun fanmix (concept: Gu Yu and Jiang Xueming make a mix CD together), but it's pretty much a 2000s Mandopop playlist with three out of the five S.H.E songs I know. Originally posted on Tumblr 3 years ago.

fanmix cover

tracklist, stream links, and notes here on

chillwaves

Recently:

Finished watching To the Wonder, which certainly, uh, took a turn in the last ep. I think I have thoughts about the show and some notes about the production, but right now my only thought is that I could have been healed with more scenes of baby sheep.

Started reading Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint (Rainbow Turtle fantranslation). I'm enjoying it a lot more than I expected! Some of the character moments were scenes I didn't even know I needed... But it really is so long and I'm bad at consuming anything for extended amount of time so I've stopped, somewhere around volume 5. I like that it's appropriately webnovel-y and very easy to read on the phone (it's very light on descriptions), while also being meaty.

Got myself stuck in the Proving Grounds of Eiyuden Chronicle. 🤣 I initially stopped playing because I wanted to wait for "the right time" to do a dungeon crawl, but, well, weeks have passed... Sometimes I turn on the game so I can "explore a bit"... But there's a puzzle element to this dungeon and I genuinely don't remember which dungeon configurations I've finished... And battles still take forever to load so I ragequit every time I try to continue. 🤣

Saw 毛雪汪 ep 90, featuring Wang Yuwen and Zhang Xincheng. I now get all my ZXC updates from

gixininja, a Tan Jianci fan who... has conditioned me to think about Tan Jianci every time I think about ZXC. I initially wasn't going to watch this because I just don't have the spoons/attention span for variety shows (ZXC is doing a lot of variety shows this year and I simply am not following them), but she assured me it was my type of variety show (chill and cozy) AND informed me that Mao Buyi has a pug who is an official cast regular... She was right! There were also mentions of TJC, which I reported accordingly. XD

My key takeaway from that ep is that ZXC wrote a song for the drama he and WYW are in (whose English title is *drumroll* You Are My Lover Friend), and that WYW was NOT asked to sing for it, as previously agreed. (From what I understand, it's meant to be a duet?) (This is all told in good humor, since WYW and ZXC are childhood friends, and 80% of the ep is WYW exposing ZXC.)

I also have to say that it also felt very freeing to just sit back and watch this without having any thoughts about subbing or translating or cutting the video into bite-sized segments... And to not really feel a thing except mild interest in music. I feel like my Chinese has deteriorated a lot over the past year of stepping away from fandom and most cmedia, but it's really nice to just be a regular viewer lol.

Anyway this is the ep... I didn't realize how clickbait-y the episode description was until now haha:

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