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Name: izzy
Age group: 20s
Country: NZ
Subscription/Access Policy: whatever! don't like, don't read.

Main Fandoms: Willow (the 2022 TV show), currently rewatching Buffy and loving it (especially Faith my beloved), Deadloch (can't wait for tomorrow!!!), We Are Lady Parts, North of North... basically anything with a strong woman-heavy cast and a bit of humour. I love Dan and Phil, they're my dudes, but I'm not especially a shipper. Deeply obsessed with Little Mix, Renee Rapp and Towa Bird at the moment too...
Fannish Interests: I write fic - a lot of RPF, a lot of femslash!, I like reading meta (and being right... of course), I vid a little, I'm really interested in fandom archiving work and getting involved in fandom-first sites like Dreamwidth, Fanlore, and smaller archives. I call myself a fan of fandom itself!

I like to post about: Things I'm reading/writing/watching. I'd love book/tv recs for sapphic/woman-heavy sci-fi, fantasy, romance, mystery, etc. Maybe my in-progress romance novel & the writing process! Pop music/culture ~~(don't forget I liked Chappell Roan before she was cool).~~
About Me/Other Info: To quote an incredibly dated yet formative show for me, Faking It (2014): the best way to get to know me is to understand the things I hate. These include:

Genre fiction that gives lip service to queer politics but is ultimately politically conservative or regressive,
Everything that's going on with the proliferation of pull-to-publish fanfiction. Respect your roots!
Being anti-RPF but still caring about celebrities/not knowing the meaning of the word parasocial but still throwing it around,
The general hellscape of late stage capitalism and the panopticon,
Taylor Swift.

Current Mood: bouncy
Current Music: Lip Service - JADE

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https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=73064&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-irreality-of-the-mingkwai-typewriter-part-2

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=73064

In part 1 of this post, "The (ir)reality of the MingKwai typewriter" (10/17/25) and many preceding, related posts (see "Selected readings" and the links to which they lead), we saw what a boondoggle and fiasco the Chinese typewriter (especially Lin Yutang's MingKwai) was. Yet people are still glorifying and extolling the clumsy, clunky, cumbersome Chinese typewriter as though it were leading the IT revolution (when the reality is quite the contrary). So much hype and sensationalism about the retrograde Chinese typewriter!

The following bilibili video, although in Chinese, will show how complicated and expensive to replicate such a device is:

Remarks by Xinyi Ye:

I just saw this behind-the-scenes video of HTX Studio's Chinese typewriter production. In another interview video, HTX said their studio was experiencing a financial deficit last year [when they made the video attempting to replicate Lin Yutang's MingKwai]. Probably not as bad as what happened to Lin Yutang [who went bankrupt building the MingKwai], but again shows how much investment goes into doing something like this!

It behooves all those who preach the gospel of the MingKwai and related Chinese typewriters to read and take to heart the scholarly critiques in the bibliography below.

Selected readings

"The (ir)reality of the MingKwai typewriter" (10/17/25)
"Chinese Typewriter" (6/30/09)
"Chinese typewriter, part 2" (4/17/11) — with memorable photos
"The many myths about the Chinese typewriter" (9/7/25)
"Chinese typewriter redux" (11/5/16) — this and the preceding two posts all talk about my favorite M. C. Hammer performance, "Chinese Typewriter Dance" ("U Can't Touch This")
"Another chapter in the history of the Chinese typewriter" (8/14/21)
"The many myths about the Chinese typewriter" (9/7/25)
"The impact of phonetic inputting on Chinese languages" (12/9/19)
"The Chinese Computer: Competition or Cooperation?" (3/1/26) — David Moser's lengthy critique of hypography, QWERTY, and other mistaken notions related to Chinese typing.
"Triple review of books on characters and computers" (8/23/24) — by J. Marshall Unger

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=73064&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-irreality-of-the-mingkwai-typewriter-part-2

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=73064

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Name: I go by angrybubbles, or Mr. Bubbles online :)
Pronouns: I use any and all
Age group: Late 20s
Country: USA
Subscription/Access Policy: 18+ only please! My journal is primarily public, but I will hide Meta or Analysis I'm shy about in access-only entries.
Other Info: I'm a college student, and media analysis is my hobby. Since I'm a Vampire Chronicles person, you'll probably see discussions of dubcon, grooming, incest, and abuse on my page, so please approach carefully. I do have a Harry Potter ship in my OTP's, but I'm not touching the series again until that woman is safely dead.

Main Fandom: AMC's Interview with the Vampire
Other Fandoms: Mob Psycho 100, Mushishi, Fullmetal Alchemist (any media), Dandadan, Kuroshitsuji,
Fannish Interests: I write fanfic, draw fanart (occasionally), but I primarily post analysis or short stories. Lots of Gothic Horror around these parts.
OTPs and Ships: Daniel Molloy/Armand, Armand/Louis de Pointe du Lac, Marius de Romanus/Armand, Claudia de Pointe du Lac/Madeleine Eparvier, Elizabeth Midford/Ciel Phantomhive, Harry Potter/Tom Riddle|Voldemort, Bakugou Katsuki/Midoriya Izuku,

Favourite Movies: Basically every Ghibli Film ever, Speed Racer, and Talk Radio.
TV Shows: AMC's Interview with the Vampire, AMC's The Talamasca, Fellow Travelers, The Haunting of Bly Manor.
Books: The Daevabad Trilogy, Sha Po Lang (Stars of Chaos), Heaven Official's Blessing (Tian Guan Ci Fu), Little Thieves, The Nevernight Trilogy, The Illuminae Files, Dark Rise, The First Sister series (Linden A Lewis), The Dandelion Dynasty, and Viscious (V.E.Schwab).
Music: I listen to a lot of OST's: currently obsessed with Mushishi's OST, and Iron Lung's OST. Otherwise, I listen to Pop Punk and Rock.
Games: I don't really play video games, much. I grew up playing Diablo, and have put 200+ hours into Diablo 3.
Comics/Anime/Misc: Not a comic-book person, but I'm definitely an anime freak. The ones listed above, but also Hunter x Hunter, Psycho Pass, The Ranking of Kings, Soul Eater, Yuri on Ice, Sailor Moon, Dungeon Meshi, Boku no Hero Academia, Card Captor Sakura, Princess TuTu, Katekyo Hitman Reborn, Fairy Tail, Hyouka, Detective Conan, Fate/Stay Night and Madoka Magica. I'm sure there's plenty of others, too, but I haven't had time to sit down and watch a new anime in a while (Dandadan is the exception to this).

Current Mood: happy

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siderea

Just hit play.

(All about the sound, but visuals also nice.)

2026 Mar 18: Benn Jordan [BennJordan YT]: "I'm here to disrupt the finance synthesizer scene."

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torachan

1. I've been making the rounds to all the SoCal stores to discuss our upcoming system transition and get a better feel for some of the stores' current processes, particularly for their accounting department, and today I went down to San Diego. Long day of driving, which sucks, but it was nice to see the store again after a long while, and I did make a lot of progress on my current audiobook!

2. Tomorrow I have a lot of meetings, but the first one isn't until 11, so I'm going to take my time in the morning to make up for how long today felt (I didn't even get home until after seven, and I left around 8:30 this morning).

3. Carla and I are not fans of the warm weather, but the cats sure love having the front windows open.

siderea

Screenshot of two comments on X. One says, "Reading Dune. Frank Herbert was cooking." and shows a section of a photo of a book page reading, "'Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.' '"Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man's mind,"' Paul quoted." Below that someone replied, paging Grok, X's resident AI, "please explain this post and the quote in in, what should I understand about it?"

Debate is raging on BSky if this is deliberate wit or accidental idiocy.

(h/t user mlyp.bsky.social)

vivien

So the thing that's easiest about Tumblr is you don't have to word much. DW needs words! Sometimes words are hard! But I won't be asking shitty AI for slop to put here. The words I provide will always be from a tired human who's forcing her brain to work.

I'm typing on my new Asus laptop. I call her RageAgainst, and she is locked down, baby. AI is globally shut down, no Microsoft Office, Duck Duck Go and Firefox loaded with Ad Nauseum and Privacy Badger, no FB (I deleted my account in Jan. 2025) or Instagram, no Adobe. It's beautiful. I may allow iTunes but I'm trying Waveform first. Not sure I love how it organizes album tracks; it's fragmented. Also iTunes is the only way to buy singles. I'm not opposed at all to physical CDs, and I have an external drive. But sometimes you just want one song.

I'm slowly moving all the files and bookmarks over from the previous laptop. It's always nice to set up a new computer, but it's taking a bit more mental energy what with... everything. To relax I've been watching streaming surf cam from all over the world on YouTube. Hawaii, New Zealand, Australia,and Japan have surfers catching waves right now, and it's pleasant to watch the waves roll in and know that there is so much beauty still in the world.

settiai

In tonight's game, ( the rest under a cut for those who don't care. )

And that's where we left off.

Current Mood: accomplished

james_davis_nicoll

Would it be possible to "Wrongfully Attributed" added to my entry?

josilverdragon

la petite mort (3896 words) by howlingmoonrise
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Barbie - All Media Types, Dracula - Bram Stoker, Dracula & Related Fandoms
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Barbie Roberts/Dracula
Characters: Barbie Roberts, Dracula
Additional Tags: Crack Treated Seriously, Vampires, Barbie References, Barbie's multitude of careers, Blood Drinking, Vampire Slayer(s), Podfic Available
Series: Part 1 of Howl's BCCU (Barbie Crackships Cinematic Universe)
Summary:

“Well,” she says, long and drawn out, and from the glint in her eyes he can tell this is some kind of inner joke, kept from him. “I’ve been a diplomat, and a race car driver, and a chef, and an astronaut, and a veterinarian--”

“An astronaut,” he repeats dryly. He wants to call her on her lie - but. But. How strange. There’s no indication of a lie: no rise in temperature, no quickening of her pulse, no change to her eyes, nothing.

She laughs. “You don’t know the half of it."

Oh my god I loved this!

Crossposts: https://josilverdragon.insanejournal.com/381040.html

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Fandom: 陈情令 | The Untamed
Pairings/Characters: Jiang Cheng & Wei Wuxian & Jiang Yanli, Jiang Cheng/Nie Huaisang (background), Wei Wuxian/Lan Wangji (background), Lan Xichen, Jin Zixuan, Meng Yao, Wen Zhuliu
Rating: R for Graphic Depictions of Violence and Major Character Death
Length: 133,987 words
Creator Link:

meyari
Themes: Siblings, Time Travel Fix-It, Women Being Awesome, Trauma & Recovery

Summary: As the Jianghu collapses around Jiang Cheng's ears, his borrowed core begins to fail. Wei Wuxian has one final trick up his sleeve, though the only person who can use it is the one person who has no core of his own: Jiang Cheng. Time travel may be impossible for everyone else, but Jiang Cheng has one slender, delicate chance to save the entire world. Of course he has to take it no matter what the cost might be.

Reccer's Notes: As soon as I saw this month's theme, I thought of this story. While time travel fix-its and core reveal fix-its are both common in the fandom, this story handles both tropes in ways I haven't seen any other story do. It also features amazing original characters, including several badass women of the Meishan Yu sect, and gives Jiang Yanli one of the best storylines I've ever seen. The rating is because there's still a war, and some characters still die, but it's a far different war, and they are far different deaths.

I do feel like I have to provide a caveat that this could use a serious line edit, by which I mean there is a grammatical or spelling error in nearly every sentence. It really says something that, despite this, I couldn't put the story down, and devoured all 100K+ words of it in the space of two nights.

Fanwork Links: Moments of Revelation (please note that this is archive-locked to AO3-registered users)

bluapapilio

"Survive! Gwanggong! /
Survive! Obsessive Gong!"

[NovelUpdates Page]

[Ch. 11-15] [Ch. 16-25]

Chapter 26: So the pin to get into Seon-woo's house is Seung-hyeon's father's memorial day?

So Seon-woo had to go with the amnesia excuse and Seung-hyeon bought it. I'm curious how this will change their dynamic since Seon-woo won't have to lie anymore to him. At least not about stuff he should know about like family.

Chapter 27:

Watching Seung-hyeon nod in understanding at such a half-baked excuse, Seon-woo suddenly understood why drama writers were so obsessed with amnesia plots. It must be so damn convenient—just sweep all the messy, inexplicable developments under the rug with a single line: He lost his memory. No need to explain, just let the trope carry it. It was in that moment Seon-woo found himself silently nodding in agreement: There’s a reason clichés are clichés.

So accurate.

Alright, Seung-hyeon has offered his help and will not take Seon-woo's hostility towards him seriously now that he knows Seon-woo doesn't even remember why he dislikes him.

Seung-hyeon is even helping Seon-woo get away from Eun-jae lol

Chapter 28: So Seung-hyeon is trying to keep Eun-jae away from Seon-woo because he doesn't think he's Seon-woo's usual type and his interest is a side-effect of the amnesia.

And yet, even though it all sounded perfectly reasonable, there was something about it that left Seon-woo unsettled. It was probably the distinct impression that Gwak Seung-hyeon was deliberately trying to keep him and Eun-jae apart.

Yeah, because they're both going after you I think haha except he thinks Seung-hyeon is after Eun-jae because of the game's premise.

Chapter 29: True to his word, Seung-hyeon is keeping Eun-jae away, but Eun-jae is sneaky and manages to give his lunch to Seon-woo and give a dinner invitation.

Chapter 30: Chicken feet 😭

Lmao Seung-hyeon followed Eun-jae and Seon-woo to dinner.

Chapter 31: Seon-woo assuming that Eun-jae just likes food a lot. *smh*

Welp, Seon-woo tried to ask Seung-hyeon to get him out of going to the movies with Eun-jae but the system interfered. He's generally uncomfortable not just with the crowd but how far the system will push this as a date.

Chapter 32: WTF is with the movies playing?? Adultery is Fun? And no wonder Seon-woo hates movie theaters with what happened the last time he went to one.

You mean they could've picked Dino Buddies’ Great Adventure: The Movie from the start but Eun-jae tried to make them watch trashy romance?

Well half a text message made it through and apparently Seung-hyeon is tracking Seon-woo so he showed up.

Chapter 33: Seung-hyeon said he only tracked him because of the text, but didn't he use it to find them at that restaurant before?

With how much Seung-hyeon and Eun-jae bicker not many would think they like each other. Though some might say they bicker like an old married couple, it doesn't come across like that.

Chapter 34: The system is actively trying to hurt him, it's reacting to his thoughts constantly now!

Eun-jae's sourness is annoying, Seun-woo didn't even want to be there, Seung-hyeon was the only thing that saved it from being a disaster.

Chapter 35: Seon-woo did the right thing by picking up Eun-jae only for the system to turn around and try to force him to push Eun-jae down. :( I hope Seung-hyeon calls and interrupts or something... And why is Eun-jae so messed up?

Current Mood: working

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PH 1 - [SAFETY] Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, Crossover Fandom, Chalion Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold, Jem and the Holograms (Cartoon), Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (TV)

PH 2 - Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes (Granada TV 1984), Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened (Video Game), [SAFETY] A Study in Emerald - Neil Gaiman, [SAFETY] Art in the Blood - Brian Stableford, Battlestar Galactica (2003), Dark Shadows (1966)

PH 6 - [SAFETY] Bullet Train (2022), [SAFETY] Kraven the Hunter (2024), The Fall Guy (2024), Gladiator (Movies - Scott)

PH 11 - Nantucket Trilogy - S.M. Stirling, Crossover Fandom, Crossover Fandom, [SAFETY] 长公主在上 | Zhǎng Gōng Zhǔ Zài Shàng (Web Series), Grimm (TV), 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018), 绅探 | Detective L (TV)

PH 12 - Crossover Fandom, 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game), 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game), [SAFETY] Original Work, [SAFETY] 恋をするつもりはなかった | Koi wo Suru Tsumori wa Nakatta | I Didn't Mean to Fall in Love (Manga), 网恋翻车指南 - 酱子贝 | Guide on How to Fail at Online Dating - Jiàng Zǐ Bèi, The Handsome Salesman At Work Is An Ideal Master, ダンジョン飯 | Dungeon Meshi | Delicious in Dungeon

PH 14 - [SAFETY] When the Angels Left The Old Country - Sacha Lamb, The Fairyland Series - Catherynne M. Valente, [SAFETY] Wind Will Rove - Sarah Pinsker, [SAFETY] Into the Woods - Sondheim/Lapine, [SAFETY] The Forbidden Book - Sacha Lamb

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PH 16 - Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon), Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (Manga), [SAFETY] BCV: Battle Construction Vehicles (Video Game)

PH 18 - [SAFETY] Point Break (1991), [SAFETY] The Collector Series (Movies), Kingdom Come: Deliverance (Video Games), [SAFETY] A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (TV)

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halfcactus

Thank you kind anon for the paid time ♥

Life updates:

I watched a local showing of A Chorus Line, which ends my streak of pre-booked outside/leisure time. Now I'm back to the hermit life.

We had one last cold surge from the northeast monsoon, as cold as 23C at daytime. Weather is warming up now but still pleasantly cool.

Currently groupwatching the How Dare You!? cdrama. We did try the donghua, but the Youtube subs were MTL and unbearable. (I vaguely recall iQiyi having human-translated subs? But we can't be bothered to subscribe just for that, so.) I guess it worked out because the cdrama pacing and visuals have been much more enjoyable while paying homage to the donghua.

I set up a new Feedly account because I miss reading old-school blogs (outside of Dreamwidth)! If anyone has any blog/Substack recs, I'd love to hear them. I've resubscribed to Kottke, Cup of Jo, and The Marginalist (formerly Brainpickings) because it comforts me to see old blogs still going strong.

The narra tree across the street has begun practicing how to bloom. So far it's just a few flowers here and there which I think has been attracting orioles (I usually just hear them flying around, now I can see them). Summer is coming.

I picked up some sort of Detective Di game because it was on sale for $2 on the Switch store and am enjoying it so far. Here we have Detective Di having a Mei Changsu moment.
detective di stands on a boat that floats on a stream.He observes, 'Some invisible force is pulling the boat forward.'

detective di stands on a boat that floats on a stream.He observes, 'Some invisible force is pulling the boat forward.'

Current events, local and international, continue to be very bleak, I hope everyone is doing well.

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Title: stuck within my head
Fandom: Water the Roses by Flavor Foley
Rating: G
Content notes: Embedded images. Bright colors were utilized, which may cause eyestrain.
Artist notes: Drawn with Krita, page/canvas templates via Electric Zine Maker. Drawn in around an hour, mainly to practice using the convert (linework) to alpha color filter. Title is derived from the song lyrics.
Summary: Fanart of the GUMI design from Flavor Foley's song, Water the Roses.
Challenge: 509 - Plant

( stuck within my head )