the "how is it already mid-may??" update

But first, the performance that has been single-handedly getting me through the past two weeks:

So good. So infinitely loopable.

Anyway. Unordered fandom-and-adjacent list:

• Finished my 520 exchange fic just in time! For a given definition of the word, in that it is complete but I'd still like to add a few paragraphs to round out the corners if brain permits, which is a chancy prospect.
• Casually watching TLTR with a generous amount of skipping (I am considerably No at horror-type suspense vibes and also the pacing in this show needs a pacemaker of its own) while sending elenothar unhelpful observations about Wu Xie and literal debugging. (He's definitely got a point about hugging pillars, though.) Also I suspect this is the kind of thing which I'd enjoy (even?) more in book form, but we are, ha ha, not touching that with the ten-foot pole that is my lack of attention span.
• Note to self: watch the Pokemon anime more often, it's good brain-empty fun.
• As with a definite large fraction of my Tumblr dashboard, I'm also subbed to Dracula Daily but see above note re: attention span, so mostly I'm just absorbing it secondhand via textposts and memes. There are worse rides to be on.
• Also participating in a NIF group read (well, reread for me, aside from the revised starting chapters since I went with the original ones last time). Doom, thy shadow is long.
• Words cannot adequately express the extent of both my (a) LOL-ness at 2/4 things mentioned above being Chinese-media-I-am-consuming-in-Chinese (I say this often but it's still true, seeing as I spent most of my life convinced that my use for anything aside from conversational usage would end with graduation) and (b) fizzy-brain pleasedness at having the correct language set to consume the things I'm interested in more-or-less in the original (kind of self-selecting by nature, but still – awfully convenient, good job past!me).
• The 生米 mood of the moment is knowing he's on 2 ongoing shows (天赐 and now 奔跑吧) and literally not having the brain for more than clips + photos but being delighted anyway. I'm definitely gonna miss it when 天赐 is over and with it my stream of weekly new performances and vlogs, he spoils us with this content.

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