![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
May. 31st, 2025 08:55 pm
May Roundup
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miss_grimwoodAn exciting and busy month, looking back! Although with less to show for it than I'd like
Fics:
you shall drip rubies, precious rubies - Bellatrix/Rodolphus, rated M
Crafting::
I finished the blanket! I need to make a post dedicated to it with the few progress pictures I have. It was actually quite easy to put together in the end after all the putting off I did.
I’ve managed to get myself two new blanket projects, though, one (crocheted) for my best friends baby due in October, and another for my other cousin, who has sensory issues and thought she wouldn’t appreciate a yarn blanket, but she’s tested her sister’s and now she’d like one for her birthday in September
Read:
The Folk Tales of Scotland
Other::
I got a job! I had my interview at the start of the month and the last three weeks have been full of paperwork and training and prep. My DBS certificate came through this morning which is the final stage - they just need to verify it and I can start working. It’s part time, and client based, so it won’t be super regular, but because of the nature of it (I don’t know why I’m being vague, but I am), I can also find private clients and supplement my working hours that way.
Fics:
you shall drip rubies, precious rubies - Bellatrix/Rodolphus, rated M
Crafting::
I finished the blanket! I need to make a post dedicated to it with the few progress pictures I have. It was actually quite easy to put together in the end after all the putting off I did.
I’ve managed to get myself two new blanket projects, though, one (crocheted) for my best friends baby due in October, and another for my other cousin, who has sensory issues and thought she wouldn’t appreciate a yarn blanket, but she’s tested her sister’s and now she’d like one for her birthday in September
Read:
The Folk Tales of Scotland
Other::
I got a job! I had my interview at the start of the month and the last three weeks have been full of paperwork and training and prep. My DBS certificate came through this morning which is the final stage - they just need to verify it and I can start working. It’s part time, and client based, so it won’t be super regular, but because of the nature of it (I don’t know why I’m being vague, but I am), I can also find private clients and supplement my working hours that way.
Tags:
May. 31st, 2025 03:22 pm
Happy Dragon Boat Festival!
lee_bellaHappy Dragon Boat Festival to anyone who celebrates it. The rest of the post is all about danmei novels.
I'm reading Nian Zhong's sci-fi danmei novel Happy Doomsday (末日快乐) right now. It's very different from her previous novel, the western high fantasy Stray (迷途). It talks about empathy and asks the following question: Can you empathise with someone, whether they are human or machine, who does not share your views, values, cultural background, orientation, gender identity, etc.? "Can you hear me?" one of the characters in the novel asked another character. It's a poignant moment at a glance, but talk about the wrong place and the wrong time -- or perhaps it is the right time?
On another note, it's probably the first time I cried over a smiley face emoji. The emoji feels like a homage to Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex's Laughing Man, but I could be wrong.
Also read Help (救命) and Full Server First Kill (全服首杀), also by Nian Zhong.
Help: The most effective horrors are the ones that have happened and/or are happening in real life -- and you are not immune to it. Nian Zhong called Help "pseudo infinite flow related and merry underworld style". It's an interesting take on the genre.
Full Server First Kill: A game creator's love for his game helps keep him going. This novel asks a similar question that Wang Ya proposed in World's Best on the Surface (表面天下第一). If you become a character in the fictional world you created, and that world becomes reality, what would you do? The two MCs in their respective novels arrive at different conclusions, and both are valid.
I'm reading Nian Zhong's sci-fi danmei novel Happy Doomsday (末日快乐) right now. It's very different from her previous novel, the western high fantasy Stray (迷途). It talks about empathy and asks the following question: Can you empathise with someone, whether they are human or machine, who does not share your views, values, cultural background, orientation, gender identity, etc.? "Can you hear me?" one of the characters in the novel asked another character. It's a poignant moment at a glance, but talk about the wrong place and the wrong time -- or perhaps it is the right time?
On another note, it's probably the first time I cried over a smiley face emoji. The emoji feels like a homage to Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex's Laughing Man, but I could be wrong.
Also read Help (救命) and Full Server First Kill (全服首杀), also by Nian Zhong.
Help: The most effective horrors are the ones that have happened and/or are happening in real life -- and you are not immune to it. Nian Zhong called Help "pseudo infinite flow related and merry underworld style". It's an interesting take on the genre.
Full Server First Kill: A game creator's love for his game helps keep him going. This novel asks a similar question that Wang Ya proposed in World's Best on the Surface (表面天下第一). If you become a character in the fictional world you created, and that world becomes reality, what would you do? The two MCs in their respective novels arrive at different conclusions, and both are valid.
