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Another year came and went, along with my 20 year anniversary as a fanfic writer actually putting my fic out there.
It's been a pretty quiet year, all in all. I went on a spring vacation to Athens (which was nice and apparently unseasonably warm, did a day trip to Delphi and a food tour and looked at many ruins and some robots). Didn't get to see a Crazy Christmas Cabaret this year for the second year as an adult - and this time it was Tivoli being greedy capitalists that were to blame (and not covid like last time). Oh well, I've already secured tickets for next year.
But apart from that it's been - pretty quiet. Partly because, to be honest, I don't really have a large social circle IRL. Being aro-ace, introverted and a bit of a homebody doesn't really help, but I was spoiled for a few years by being in a social circle with people who lived nearby. These days it's a lot less stuff. I really should try to do something about that.
I managed to write 4 entire fanfics this year, yay! (Well, two fics and two ficlet.) And all of them at least partly in Cdrama and danmei fandoms, so I guess that's my active fandom these days.
First was A Hard's Day Night, a crossover between Word of Honor and the Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation and a sequel to Nirejseki's It's Tough to be a God (which has Jiang Cheng ascending to the heavens). My fic then involves Gu Xiang, another angry, purple, whip-wielder, seeking shelter in a temple of JC's and is basically a fix-it. (It's also the fic I stalled on in 2022 after having had to interrupt writing it to finish the last Yuletide fic I suspect I'll ever write).
Second was A Diplomatic Incident in Three Easy Steps, which is a crossover between Beetlejuice and Heaven Official's Blessing. I had fun writing that one - I feel that the grotesque comedy of the Beetlejuice ghost verse blend fairly well with Ghost City and that universe.
Ficlet the first was Boys Will Be Boys, which is basically just a fragment of story. It's what would happen if Wenren E from Devil Venerable Also Wants to Know and Di Feisheng from Mysterious Lotus Casebook were to meet. Answer: fight! Fight Fight! (Listen, those boys have one track minds).
Ficlet the second is the only non-crossover - The One Within the Scum Villain which stole the very bare bones basic concept from a specific manga and applied it to SVSSS. Judging by hits and kudos that was the year's biggest success, though frankly I think that's just that it's in that reasonably active fandom.
I read a fair amount of books this year. Also finally succumbed to my deep frustration with Goodreads and applied to be a "librarian" there, so I can actually keep using the site to track my reading instead of waiting literal months for books to be added.
Some favourite reads in chronological order:
Svend Fleuron's Det røde kobbel, about an orphan litter of foxes growing up into scary pack hunters. (SF is a mostly forgotten Danish author of animal stories from 1920s and 1930s.) It was interesting - very bloodthirsty and I liked the way he had the foxes think about the world.
Most of Nghi Vo's short novels in The Singing Hills Cycle, set in a xianxia-esque world with a wandering priest/story collector as the main character. They're nice and inventive. I especially liked When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain, where a story is retold from two very different perspectives, and The Brides of High Hill, which has some very creepy foxes.
Silvia Federici's Caliban and the Witch, which has definitely affected how I'm seeing a lot of the current anti-childfree politics and right wing movements.
Cyan Wings' Devil Venerable Also Wants to Know (which has apparently been picked up for proper publication, so I downloaded the fan translation to keep). Wenren E is the most ridiculously aro-ace coded danmei protagonist ever, and the book is full of delightful side characters and it's just a fun read.
Maggie Shen King's An Excess Male was also an interesting read, though I grew to dislike pretty much all the characters. Set in a near-future China, where the gender disparity has led to women having multiple husbands (and not much of a say about anything) and the focus is on a woman and her two husbands, their dangerous secrets and the process of them potentially getting a third husband into the mix.
I watched a bit as well. My favourite visual media this year was, well. I quite enjoyed Lille Spejl, a Danish movie from the 70s with Frits Helmuth as a gay factory worker and part time drag queen and his social circle. It reminded me of Ta' det som en mand, frue from the same period. I also quite enjoyed Mysterious Lotus Casebook - wacky murder mystery solving turned epic martial artists drama, bit slow to start, but fun, and I very much enjoyed the grumpy bad boy Di Feisheng.
1. Heaven Official's Blessing season 2.
2. Hidden Letters
3. Asteroid City
4. Lille spejl
5. The Abyss
6. Ronja Röverdotter part 1.
7. A Haunting in Venice
8. Yojimbo
9. Little Shop of Horrors
10. Bastarden
11. Dead Boy Detectives season 1.
12. Prey
13. Deadpool & Wolverine
14. Poor Things
15. Beetlejuice
16. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
17. Dune : Part Two
18. Mysterious Lotus Casebook
19. All of us strangers
20. Delicious in Dungeon season 1.
It's been a pretty quiet year, all in all. I went on a spring vacation to Athens (which was nice and apparently unseasonably warm, did a day trip to Delphi and a food tour and looked at many ruins and some robots). Didn't get to see a Crazy Christmas Cabaret this year for the second year as an adult - and this time it was Tivoli being greedy capitalists that were to blame (and not covid like last time). Oh well, I've already secured tickets for next year.
But apart from that it's been - pretty quiet. Partly because, to be honest, I don't really have a large social circle IRL. Being aro-ace, introverted and a bit of a homebody doesn't really help, but I was spoiled for a few years by being in a social circle with people who lived nearby. These days it's a lot less stuff. I really should try to do something about that.
I managed to write 4 entire fanfics this year, yay! (Well, two fics and two ficlet.) And all of them at least partly in Cdrama and danmei fandoms, so I guess that's my active fandom these days.
First was A Hard's Day Night, a crossover between Word of Honor and the Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation and a sequel to Nirejseki's It's Tough to be a God (which has Jiang Cheng ascending to the heavens). My fic then involves Gu Xiang, another angry, purple, whip-wielder, seeking shelter in a temple of JC's and is basically a fix-it. (It's also the fic I stalled on in 2022 after having had to interrupt writing it to finish the last Yuletide fic I suspect I'll ever write).
Second was A Diplomatic Incident in Three Easy Steps, which is a crossover between Beetlejuice and Heaven Official's Blessing. I had fun writing that one - I feel that the grotesque comedy of the Beetlejuice ghost verse blend fairly well with Ghost City and that universe.
Ficlet the first was Boys Will Be Boys, which is basically just a fragment of story. It's what would happen if Wenren E from Devil Venerable Also Wants to Know and Di Feisheng from Mysterious Lotus Casebook were to meet. Answer: fight! Fight Fight! (Listen, those boys have one track minds).
Ficlet the second is the only non-crossover - The One Within the Scum Villain which stole the very bare bones basic concept from a specific manga and applied it to SVSSS. Judging by hits and kudos that was the year's biggest success, though frankly I think that's just that it's in that reasonably active fandom.
I read a fair amount of books this year. Also finally succumbed to my deep frustration with Goodreads and applied to be a "librarian" there, so I can actually keep using the site to track my reading instead of waiting literal months for books to be added.
Some favourite reads in chronological order:
Svend Fleuron's Det røde kobbel, about an orphan litter of foxes growing up into scary pack hunters. (SF is a mostly forgotten Danish author of animal stories from 1920s and 1930s.) It was interesting - very bloodthirsty and I liked the way he had the foxes think about the world.
Most of Nghi Vo's short novels in The Singing Hills Cycle, set in a xianxia-esque world with a wandering priest/story collector as the main character. They're nice and inventive. I especially liked When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain, where a story is retold from two very different perspectives, and The Brides of High Hill, which has some very creepy foxes.
Silvia Federici's Caliban and the Witch, which has definitely affected how I'm seeing a lot of the current anti-childfree politics and right wing movements.
Cyan Wings' Devil Venerable Also Wants to Know (which has apparently been picked up for proper publication, so I downloaded the fan translation to keep). Wenren E is the most ridiculously aro-ace coded danmei protagonist ever, and the book is full of delightful side characters and it's just a fun read.
Maggie Shen King's An Excess Male was also an interesting read, though I grew to dislike pretty much all the characters. Set in a near-future China, where the gender disparity has led to women having multiple husbands (and not much of a say about anything) and the focus is on a woman and her two husbands, their dangerous secrets and the process of them potentially getting a third husband into the mix.
I watched a bit as well. My favourite visual media this year was, well. I quite enjoyed Lille Spejl, a Danish movie from the 70s with Frits Helmuth as a gay factory worker and part time drag queen and his social circle. It reminded me of Ta' det som en mand, frue from the same period. I also quite enjoyed Mysterious Lotus Casebook - wacky murder mystery solving turned epic martial artists drama, bit slow to start, but fun, and I very much enjoyed the grumpy bad boy Di Feisheng.
1. Heaven Official's Blessing season 2.
2. Hidden Letters
3. Asteroid City
4. Lille spejl
5. The Abyss
6. Ronja Röverdotter part 1.
7. A Haunting in Venice
8. Yojimbo
9. Little Shop of Horrors
10. Bastarden
11. Dead Boy Detectives season 1.
12. Prey
13. Deadpool & Wolverine
14. Poor Things
15. Beetlejuice
16. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
17. Dune : Part Two
18. Mysterious Lotus Casebook
19. All of us strangers
20. Delicious in Dungeon season 1.