there may be words

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.

Miscellaneous ( life-and-work updates: )

Because it has been raining all day here – a positive thing, in my book! Except for the laundry problem it creates.

Anyway, a(nother?) go at several-things-make-a-post-ing, miscellaneous life updates edition…

• Won't make a full Zhou Shen post this week because my attention span is in short supply, but I'll probably end up posting about his new song anyway because it's so good! On a related note, I shared my 380-videos-long playlist with a fellow fan on Tumblr and they actually finished listening to the whole thing, wow. Even I haven't done that in a while! It's really long!!
• Spent some time last evening reading through old(ish) fics off an AO3 kudos email, which is always fun between the fact that I forget fics once I'm done posting them and said fics being obviously tailored to my own interests. Highlights: Pokemon fic, all three ATLA fics, a whole bunch of fics for FMAB (the one where I fail to cut Alphonse a break and the one where I do it again) and FMA 03/CoS (this 3-sentence-ish collection, a brief crossover with the MCU because SSR!Elrics, and not actually a crossover but Ed as the Man in the Tan Jacket), post-series fic for ink-splotch's Leagues and Legends trilogy, and the TPN timetravel AU that I never quite finished but still like a lot.
• So many interesting comments on the translation post! Replies to come once my brain returns back online and functional, but I'm also tangentially entertained by the realisation that I've actually never quite engaged with translation meta/theory as a thing in itself? Which is atypical of the way I usually approach things (i.e. search the stuffing out of it) but then again I didn't actually start out intending to Do Translation, so. Wouldn't even be inaccurate to say I started doing it by accident, really.
• Guardian-related: Three fics done at fan_flashworks (and my own tag, yay!), a small scene discussion idea rattling around the back of my brain, and the extremely vague "what if Zhao Yunlan walked into the vibes of FMA 03's ending" concept lurking even further into the shadows.
• Devoted several hours today just whacking away at technical exercises for the data visualisation software we use at work, which was a refreshing challenge because I only get to use it for routine stuff at work 90% of the time despite being for all intents and purposes the subject matter expert in my division.
• Very non-committal watchlist: 大侦探 S7 now that it's started airing, these two math videos, the mini-episodes for Project Sekai and In/Spectre… and I still haven't gotten around to more of Reset…