halfcactus

Happy Eid!

a picture of a sign that reads "DO NOT FEED the CATS in the GARDEN" followed by two photos of a cat coming out of the garden

Small victories, etc

After years of columbarium visits with 0 cat sightings, I have FINALLY spotted one of the infamous garden cats (pictured above)!!! It came out of the garden, right where the family vault was. This one was very affectionate and twined around my legs when I invited it to approach, suddenly nipped me on the knee (without breaking skin) before sauntering off, then returned to me for more scritches. On a different day, I saw a different cat sleeping at the entrance near the flower shop but it had the vibes of a street cat and not a forbidden fruit. Anyway, good month for cat sightings!

Set up S****** on my parents' smart TV so they can watch movies that aren't on Netflix without me and my USB stick. I've seen news that R*** D***** is dead but it works fine on their TV when otherwise the streams would have been unwatchable from infinite buffering.

Learned how to play the Switch on docked mode (after a year of owning this Switch)... Still playing I Am Setsuna and still dropping the game every time I have to enter another dungeon. /o\ I have no idea how far along I am, but it's far enough to have access to the Spritnite that allows me to recover a generous amount of MP every time I defeat an enemy, while not far enough to have recruited a character with the Shadow attribute (it has to be the Reaper, right?).

Found an old notebook that I had been using to learn the lyrics of Chinese songs by translating by hand... Threw it out without hesitation because 1) I don't need to refer back to it anymore 2) my level of comprehension back then is probably outdated and full of rookie mistakes. I do miss the practice of sitting down and writing everything by hand and going through every line word by word, I am so lazy and unfocused now.

Btw I have a computer now! I bought it from my brother's friend who owns a computer shop, which landed me a considerable discount AND reliable/free delivery. I've mostly been using it for watchpartying, online purchasing, posting on DW, and watching videos. I'm trying to ease my way back to do other stuff (making icons, edits, fansubs, etc) but I'm enjoying lying down too much. ^^;

Links of interest:

llonkrebboj/

fwoopersongs's translation (with footnotes and all) of Song Dongye's Anhe Bridge, which has become one of my fav songs in recent years (with thanks to

jianghuchild who had specifically requested an edit set to this for last year's Cdrama Gotcha for Gaza).

pauraque's post about Until Then, a slice-of-life/supernatural visual novel set in the Philippines (playable on Steam [Windows] and PS5). (H/t

rionaleonhart, who also wrote about it here.) I hope there's a Switch release someday!

Mezzanine Theater Diary: a Letterboxd-like app for logging/rating/reviewing the shows you watch and seeing other user-submitted reviews. Sadly this seems purely app-based.

默讀 (Silent Reading / Mo Du) was recently updated with new extras, which I hope are reflected in the official English translation... I've only read 181 to 183, but they're very cute! President Fei and Captain Luo go on a road trip. :D What are the chances that they record these for the audio drama...

This photoshoot makes me imagine a NANA AU where Nana had dated Reira instead of Ren.

February media
( dark fantasy was my manhwa flavor of the month )

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Recent media:

The Baengri Clan's Unwanted Granddaughter: Transmigration/regression/fix-it shoujo with a martial arts setting. Enjoying this a lot! And it's nice to read a wuxia/wulin story from Korea and understand what's going on because the concepts are familiar enough and the characters are kids. 😂 It's one of the ones where I want the childhood arc to last forever because everyone is so cute and charming.

Nezha 2: Hoping that the international digital release has reworked subs because the theatrical ones were not ideal... sometimes even going into "WTF" territory. 🙈 I spent most of the runtime anticipating west sea auntie's scenes and while she did not disappoint, I could have used more of her. There were only seven of us in the cinema when I watched; the other six came with their families, and the jokes were a hit with the kids and this one adult man who took his phone out to take videos so often I wanted to tell him that camrips are up on the internet. 😂

The Substance: A very pointed movie about patriarchal + Hollywood beauty standards and its effects on women, and how the pursuit of beauty and anti-aging is an addiction. I covered my eyes for most of the body horror, and completely checked out for the entire third act which was nothing but violence and body horror... Overall, great visual storytelling, Kubrick-esque art direction, feelings of liminal space, and pop culture impact... but I was too weak for it, and 2 hours and 20 minutes felt too long to make a point.

Sugar Apple Fairy Tale: DNF after 5 episodes. It just feels weird to watch a very shoujo anime tackle slavery (in this case, of fairies). It tries, but its foundations are still too silly and saccharine to have any bite. Kinda wish this category of manga/manhwa dies out.

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