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zen_monk Since I've been seeing the meme posted by owlmoose lately on DW, what better way to have people catch up to me than by participating?
Where do you hang out online?
Tumblr, but mostly on mobile and usually just lurking. So I guess not so much hanging out than it is that I have a presence in the form of active reblogs and some comments spattered here and there. I actually started being more chatty with my Free Company in Final Fantasy XIV over on the Balmung server, and in another FC in Diabolos. I also go on WeChat and on Facebook, but not so much as suddenly family members are present and I don't wish to take in more career advice than I want to.
What are you reading?
I started to read The Last Man by Mary Shelley that I lifted from my housemate so that I could read while I work (surreptitiously). It's a really interesting read about "The Future!!!" from an early Romanticist perspective, though it's not a lot of "The Future!!!" in it aside from the presence of hot air balloons for the first half. It's largely a criticism about Romanticism ideals and attitudes, and mostly a self-insert of Mary Shelley (as a male protagonist) and her husband (as the male "best friend" of the protagonist). And like most English Romantic novels, features the virtues of English society as it tries to persevere and surpass the scary Orient in the form of conquering Turkey and liberating Greece (the acceptable exotic place).
I've also started reading "The Lies of Locke Lamora" by Scott Lynch to get started on the Gentlemen Bastard series, but it's been slow reading so far. Mostly on my part, as I was really busy with my summer job.
What are you watching?
Everyone must watch "The Grand Hotel" that's available on Netflix, the most popular European show of a Spanish telenovela set in early 20th century Spain of the intrigues of the hotel staff and the families who own the hotel in some form or another. There is murder, missing people, and a determined brother who made himself employed as a butler in order to find his sister, the maid who is the foundation of all the family drama that could ruin the hotel and everyone within it.
It is also extremely beautiful. I now want all my fandoms to have a Hotel AU featuring murder, forbidden love between the classes, and the lives of the servants as they try to assert themselves.
I have also kept up watching "Saint Seiya: Soul of Gold" which is a semi-canon continuation of the Saint Seiya series. Web series anime is..... some varying quality. But I noticed it has much more acceptable animation quality of some consistency compared to the other Toei web-animation series Sailor Moon Crystal.
What are you making?
Recently, I got an unpaid internship annotating English grammar youtube videos for the tutoring website Questive. I mark down the timestamps of when a subject changes in the video, like for Indefinite Pronouns, and at the end make up some questions for the viewer to answer below it. I have sporadically rp-ed as Kain Highwind on Tumblr, but I've been very inactive on it lately. I also had a Lenna Tycoon muse, but that also had been inactive. Ahh, my life is my work but it's not even the paid kind.
What are you squeeing about today?
A fanartist I follow on Tumblr had an ask about what they think about the levels of stubbornness between Tifa and Lightning, and concluded in the tags why there isn't any TifLight/Farronhart work available, and I've been mentally squeeing over the pairing in solidarity of her tags.
My fandom life is suddenly absurdly small compared to last year.
If you could rope old fandom friends into a new fandom, it would be.....
In my heart of hearts, I want Dissidia fandom to still be a thing and find a community therein (mostly for the women, and that I wished their narratives were better than what they were given, even though it didn't diminish how I felt about their roles). What I am hoping to be more active in are fandoms that I used to be in and want a community again, which are the Persona (3 and 4) fandom and I guess Sailor Moon. Nostalgia has a way of having a comfortable base to put my feet in. And they are reasonably popular enough to have some familiarity in it to make such transitions possible :D
owlmoose lately on DW, what better way to have people catch up to me than by participating? Where do you hang out online?
Tumblr, but mostly on mobile and usually just lurking. So I guess not so much hanging out than it is that I have a presence in the form of active reblogs and some comments spattered here and there. I actually started being more chatty with my Free Company in Final Fantasy XIV over on the Balmung server, and in another FC in Diabolos. I also go on WeChat and on Facebook, but not so much as suddenly family members are present and I don't wish to take in more career advice than I want to.
What are you reading?
I started to read The Last Man by Mary Shelley that I lifted from my housemate so that I could read while I work (surreptitiously). It's a really interesting read about "The Future!!!" from an early Romanticist perspective, though it's not a lot of "The Future!!!" in it aside from the presence of hot air balloons for the first half. It's largely a criticism about Romanticism ideals and attitudes, and mostly a self-insert of Mary Shelley (as a male protagonist) and her husband (as the male "best friend" of the protagonist). And like most English Romantic novels, features the virtues of English society as it tries to persevere and surpass the scary Orient in the form of conquering Turkey and liberating Greece (the acceptable exotic place).
I've also started reading "The Lies of Locke Lamora" by Scott Lynch to get started on the Gentlemen Bastard series, but it's been slow reading so far. Mostly on my part, as I was really busy with my summer job.
What are you watching?
Everyone must watch "The Grand Hotel" that's available on Netflix, the most popular European show of a Spanish telenovela set in early 20th century Spain of the intrigues of the hotel staff and the families who own the hotel in some form or another. There is murder, missing people, and a determined brother who made himself employed as a butler in order to find his sister, the maid who is the foundation of all the family drama that could ruin the hotel and everyone within it.
It is also extremely beautiful. I now want all my fandoms to have a Hotel AU featuring murder, forbidden love between the classes, and the lives of the servants as they try to assert themselves.
I have also kept up watching "Saint Seiya: Soul of Gold" which is a semi-canon continuation of the Saint Seiya series. Web series anime is..... some varying quality. But I noticed it has much more acceptable animation quality of some consistency compared to the other Toei web-animation series Sailor Moon Crystal.
What are you making?
Recently, I got an unpaid internship annotating English grammar youtube videos for the tutoring website Questive. I mark down the timestamps of when a subject changes in the video, like for Indefinite Pronouns, and at the end make up some questions for the viewer to answer below it. I have sporadically rp-ed as Kain Highwind on Tumblr, but I've been very inactive on it lately. I also had a Lenna Tycoon muse, but that also had been inactive. Ahh, my life is my work but it's not even the paid kind.
What are you squeeing about today?
A fanartist I follow on Tumblr had an ask about what they think about the levels of stubbornness between Tifa and Lightning, and concluded in the tags why there isn't any TifLight/Farronhart work available, and I've been mentally squeeing over the pairing in solidarity of her tags.
My fandom life is suddenly absurdly small compared to last year.
If you could rope old fandom friends into a new fandom, it would be.....
In my heart of hearts, I want Dissidia fandom to still be a thing and find a community therein (mostly for the women, and that I wished their narratives were better than what they were given, even though it didn't diminish how I felt about their roles). What I am hoping to be more active in are fandoms that I used to be in and want a community again, which are the Persona (3 and 4) fandom and I guess Sailor Moon. Nostalgia has a way of having a comfortable base to put my feet in. And they are reasonably popular enough to have some familiarity in it to make such transitions possible :D
I should really watch/read/dive into _______ and then come talk to you about it!
I feel like I should go back into Dragon Age fandom, though I am more interested in things that don't relate to the player character as I am to other aspects of the world. Also FFXIV, but I'm still playing catchup to the plot stuff of that game. Also Gentlemen Bastards for some folks who are into that, which seemed itself a neat thing. I also want to start watching some of the superhero shoes that are on tv right now, namely The Flash and Agents of SHIELD, so that I'm still peripherally in the Marvel and DC fandom, especially when Vixen's show is on and that there's new developments regarding the topic of Inhumans.
What else is on your mind?
I'm really glad to be back home with my family.
I feel like I should go back into Dragon Age fandom, though I am more interested in things that don't relate to the player character as I am to other aspects of the world. Also FFXIV, but I'm still playing catchup to the plot stuff of that game. Also Gentlemen Bastards for some folks who are into that, which seemed itself a neat thing. I also want to start watching some of the superhero shoes that are on tv right now, namely The Flash and Agents of SHIELD, so that I'm still peripherally in the Marvel and DC fandom, especially when Vixen's show is on and that there's new developments regarding the topic of Inhumans.
What else is on your mind?
I'm really glad to be back home with my family.
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Date: 2015-09-11 10:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-09-11 11:29 pm (UTC)I'm....awful at paying attention to hype because I've just accepted that there are games from certain publishers/devs I will simply buy. I'm a failgamer.
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Date: 2015-09-13 07:28 am (UTC)I will say that DAO and DA2 are ones where I place my heart closest towards (and to extension what progress I did in Awakening). The character flaws in a lot of folks are what appeal to me the most, if that makes sense, even when they're turn-offs most of the time, e.g. everything Oghren and.... multitude of others. Which makes dealing with these people as your personal companions and friends interesting since sometimes they'd be the people who aren't your companions in other games, or would be the NPCs. Realizing I like characters like that kind of made me retroactively enjoy the cast of XIII and onwards more since I used to have more contradicting feelings toward them
btw, XIII trilogy was both amazing and confounding mostly because it's a lot of "hey this is good plot" and also a lot of "why not more good plot???"