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sophia_sol) wrote2024-06-27 12:57 pm
sophia_sol) wrote2024-06-27 12:57 pm
5 things: bedtime, taizong emperors, fic tags, feelings about birds, feelings about bugs
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me every night: THIS is going to be the night I get it right and am asleep at a good and reasonable time
me every night, hours past bedtime, not yet in bed: it's a total mystery how this has happened yet again!
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last week's podcast learnings: hang on, my personal nemesis Li Shimin wasn't the only emperor called Taizong, there was a Taizong emperor of the Song as well?!
*goes to wikipedia*
aha, same characters for Taizong for both Tang Taizong and Song Taizong, and it means "Great Ancestor", I'm picking up what's being put down here
three
me looking at fic tags saying "eroticised blood drinking" like okay I'm listening..... and then I notice the "alternate universe: vampires" tag and yeah nah I'm outtie
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sometimes you see unknown birds flying over a distant treeline going about their business, and you get so emotional (positive) about how many birds there are beyond your ability to perceive, living their lives and doing their things, that tears come to your eyes!
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whenever I spend extensive time outside in a healthy ecosystem, I'm amazed at the sheer variety of different insects I see. like, other than all the mosquitoes and deer flies, I hardly see two of the same species, and yet I'm constantly seeing bugs! it makes me want to know about all of them, which is an impossibility because there's SO many!
me every night: THIS is going to be the night I get it right and am asleep at a good and reasonable time
me every night, hours past bedtime, not yet in bed: it's a total mystery how this has happened yet again!
two
last week's podcast learnings: hang on, my personal nemesis Li Shimin wasn't the only emperor called Taizong, there was a Taizong emperor of the Song as well?!
*goes to wikipedia*
aha, same characters for Taizong for both Tang Taizong and Song Taizong, and it means "Great Ancestor", I'm picking up what's being put down here
three
me looking at fic tags saying "eroticised blood drinking" like okay I'm listening..... and then I notice the "alternate universe: vampires" tag and yeah nah I'm outtie
four
sometimes you see unknown birds flying over a distant treeline going about their business, and you get so emotional (positive) about how many birds there are beyond your ability to perceive, living their lives and doing their things, that tears come to your eyes!
five
whenever I spend extensive time outside in a healthy ecosystem, I'm amazed at the sheer variety of different insects I see. like, other than all the mosquitoes and deer flies, I hardly see two of the same species, and yet I'm constantly seeing bugs! it makes me want to know about all of them, which is an impossibility because there's SO many!
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ok so there's two aspects to this!
first: I find vampires SO boring. idk why! they just are, to me, and always have been! goes along with werewolves and zombies as being a major yawn despite so many people loving the tropes. whereas! if characters are eroticizing blood related stuff when they AREN'T supernatural beings who must drink blood to live, then they're being freaks for their own sake, and that's fun :)
second: when my main fandoms are all set in handwavey ancient china, it's.....weird. to me. to read fanfic making the characters be very specifically a european supernatural being. it feels a bit colonialism flavoured, you know?
EDIT: also! the birds! yes you're SO right about the rails and things and it's delightful to remember, every time!
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