five things: MoDG podcast, using one's glutes, fic writing, wangningxian, music files

[sophia_sol]

one

since I've gotten to the episodes of the Master of Demon Gorge podcast where the host has abandoned the format of telling things off-the-cuff to a friend, and instead it's polished and prepared explanations of the topics at hand, it has easily become my favourite chinese history podcast. Interesting topics, well-explained, by someone who has thought about the ways in which the past is relevant to today but without overdoing that aspect. and it's by someone who thinks critically about questions of empire, which I particularly appreciate.

some podcasts excel at the conversational banter between hosts and some excel at straightforward lectures and it's good when podcasts figure out how to do what they're best at!

I have lots of MoDG archive to go through yet and I'm looking forward to listening to all of it


two

body things I've successfully re-trained myself on: how to sit/stand up straight without rounded shoulders, how to hold a pen in a better grip, how to stand/walk without pronating my ankles

body things I have not successfully re-trained myself on (yet): using my glutes as evolution intended.

SOMEDAY I will properly harness their power and then I will be unstoppable


three

my svsss extras zine fic is finished and submitted!!! final word count: about 4.5k. I love it very much and I can't wait for folks to get to read it. and I can't wait to read the rest of the zine myself!

I have immediately started working on a new fic, about a character I haven't written before. I say that like it's not the norm lol, most of my fic writing history has been me writing something about a new-to-me character, it's unusual actually that I just wrote two fics in a row about the same ship! (for both mdzs remix and svsss extras zine, I wrote bingqiu)

My new fic is about mo xuanyu, and I really need to review all the mxy parts of mdzs more closely, taking notes of any relevant details, before I continue working on this fic. I'm sure that there are things in my mind that are misremembered details, and that there's interesting stuff that hasn't stuck with me

I do always like it when I can ground things more fully in the context of what the canon actually says!


four

please consider this very important wangningxian thought: https://www.tumblr.com/gravitywonagain/718830771835666432/the-thing-about-wen-ning-being-a-fierce-corpse-is


five

this week I discovered that musicolet is very diligent about finding all audio files on my phone and has integrated all my Merlin Sound ID recordings of birds into my music library. yes, a file that's, say, 23 minutes of listening to me walk interspersed with the calls of canada geese and red-winged blackbirds is exactly what I want when I put my music library on shuffle 😂

Comments

[ivyfic]

This is why I never shuffle. Too many audio lectures and ambient noise recordings.

[sophia_sol]

my problem is that I just really like the shuffle experience: novelty and variety without having to make decisions!

[pauraque]

See, I don't listen to podcasts, but if there were a podcast that was just people from different parts of the world walking and recording birds, I would probably listen to that.

[sophia_sol]

I haven't listened to much of it so I can't speak to its quality, but I do actually know about a podcast that's just a guy going on bird walks and recording them! it's called Songbirding: A Birding-by-ear Podcast. It might be worth your time to check it out!

[pauraque]

:O I definitely will check it out! I don't know why it didn't occur to me that someone had probably already done this.

[chestnut_pod]

That's quite a feat for Musicolet!

[sophia_sol]

right?! I need to figure out if there's a way to restrict musicolet to only scan specific folders for audio files. there must be some way of achieving that!