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My calender tells me it's 2024.
It feels like I haven't really done a lot this year. I mean, I definitely haven't been productive fic-wise. It's - year before last, I felt I was just getting in a roll with a fic and then I had to stop writing it because I had to write a Yuletide fic, which - well, the recip read it, at least. Anyway, this year I swore off exchanges, but I haven't been able to refind it. All I've written are three crossover ficlets in Danish - one MDZS/Word of Honor, one Narnia/Sandman and one Good Omens/Murder She Wrote.
I wish I could claim I had been superproductive in other parts of my life, but... I've worked, been on a couple of vacations - 5 days of springtime vacation in Berlin (lovely city, must visit again, can recommend the computer game museum) + a couple of days in the summer in Lund (very nice, though probably won't visit again - might repeat the couple of days somewhere in easy reach thing, though).
I've read a fair amount - you can find the complete list on Goodreads. A little bit of this, a little bit of that - got through both The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System (quite fun) and Heaven Official's Blessing (technically speaking MXTX's best written, but just not quite as engaging as the other two), read a few books on asexuality - rec: Refusing compulsory sexuality; bunch of comics, the autobiography from the first lady detective in Denmark - stuff.
Watched a few movies and shows - some fun: I think my favourite movie this year was "Ta' det som en mand, frue?", a 70s feminist movie with about half the time dedicated to a what-if-men-and-women-swapped places segment; and the Onmyoji anime on Netflix was also fun. A couple of things - sadly including Good Omens season 2 - were more disappointing - and I've almost stopped watching MCU. I watched the new Black Panther because Namor, mostly. Anyway, I've listed the full set below, mostly for my own sake.
1. Knives Out
2. Red Heat
3. The Northman
4. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
5. 12 Meter ohne Kopf
6. Dexter: New Blood
7. A Korean Odyssey
8. Shadow & Bone season 2.
9. Bullet Train
10. Den, der lever stille
11. John Wick
12. Cyrano
13. Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
14. The Woman King
15. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
16. Black Adam
17. Castlevania season 2.
18. Good Omens season 2.
19. Men In Black: International
20. The Legend of Vox Machina season 1.
21. Freaks Out
22. The Blob
23. A Touch of Zen
24. The Legend of Vox Machina season 2.
25. Dungeons & Dragons : Honor Among Thieves
26. Tag det som en mand, frue
27. Heaven Official's Blessing season 1.
28. Renfield
29. Godzilla Minus One
30. Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 3.
31. Onmyoji season 1.
32. Blood Rain
It feels like I haven't really done a lot this year. I mean, I definitely haven't been productive fic-wise. It's - year before last, I felt I was just getting in a roll with a fic and then I had to stop writing it because I had to write a Yuletide fic, which - well, the recip read it, at least. Anyway, this year I swore off exchanges, but I haven't been able to refind it. All I've written are three crossover ficlets in Danish - one MDZS/Word of Honor, one Narnia/Sandman and one Good Omens/Murder She Wrote.
I wish I could claim I had been superproductive in other parts of my life, but... I've worked, been on a couple of vacations - 5 days of springtime vacation in Berlin (lovely city, must visit again, can recommend the computer game museum) + a couple of days in the summer in Lund (very nice, though probably won't visit again - might repeat the couple of days somewhere in easy reach thing, though).
I've read a fair amount - you can find the complete list on Goodreads. A little bit of this, a little bit of that - got through both The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System (quite fun) and Heaven Official's Blessing (technically speaking MXTX's best written, but just not quite as engaging as the other two), read a few books on asexuality - rec: Refusing compulsory sexuality; bunch of comics, the autobiography from the first lady detective in Denmark - stuff.
Watched a few movies and shows - some fun: I think my favourite movie this year was "Ta' det som en mand, frue?", a 70s feminist movie with about half the time dedicated to a what-if-men-and-women-swapped places segment; and the Onmyoji anime on Netflix was also fun. A couple of things - sadly including Good Omens season 2 - were more disappointing - and I've almost stopped watching MCU. I watched the new Black Panther because Namor, mostly. Anyway, I've listed the full set below, mostly for my own sake.
1. Knives Out
2. Red Heat
3. The Northman
4. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
5. 12 Meter ohne Kopf
6. Dexter: New Blood
7. A Korean Odyssey
8. Shadow & Bone season 2.
9. Bullet Train
10. Den, der lever stille
11. John Wick
12. Cyrano
13. Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
14. The Woman King
15. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
16. Black Adam
17. Castlevania season 2.
18. Good Omens season 2.
19. Men In Black: International
20. The Legend of Vox Machina season 1.
21. Freaks Out
22. The Blob
23. A Touch of Zen
24. The Legend of Vox Machina season 2.
25. Dungeons & Dragons : Honor Among Thieves
26. Tag det som en mand, frue
27. Heaven Official's Blessing season 1.
28. Renfield
29. Godzilla Minus One
30. Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 3.
31. Onmyoji season 1.
32. Blood Rain
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Namor is a good reason to watch anything! He was certainly the reason it was my favourite Black Panther movie.
I'm glad to hear you thought SVSSS and Heaven's official blessing were only quite fun at the most. I have had terrible problems getting into MDZS - entirely because of the translation, I'm sure - and didn't really want to have to read the other two. Now I won't feel so guilty at not bothering.
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If I remember, the official MDZS translation is just bad (I read a no longer available fan translation, which had plenty of faults of its own), but the other two are done by better translators. SVSSS is quite fun, very wacky, very meta, and the awful sex scenes are for important plot reasons. Totally. But MDZS remains my favourite.
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The official translation being genuinely bad is reassuring. I read a whole load of fanfics that are objectively badly written and have no problem with them, so I was disappointed with myself for not enjoying it at all. I cannot imagine that a book that is so popular would have ever been so dreadful in its original language though. It's almost enough to make me want to learn Chinese, just so I could appreciate it properly, but I suspect my motivation would not last long enough.
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Yeah, I started reading a fan translation, and I was a couple of chapters in when it disappeared. Then I bought the official book thinking it would obviously be a lot better but in fact it was a lot worse. And now I'm slowly drifting away from the whole thing in search of the next best thing, so I'm unlikely to even try the others.