Write Every Day: Day 18
Oct. 18th, 2025 05:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
"I used to wonder if it wouldn't be better just to haul off and quit hoping. Just protect my own inner brain, my own mind and heart, by drawing it up into a hard knot, and not having any more hopes or dreams at all. Pull in my feelings, and call back all of my sentiments... and, yet … the pleasures, and the displeasures, the good times and the bad, are really all there is to me.
[They] are the yeast that always starts working in your mind again... and then, all at once, no matter what has happened to you, you are building a brand new world again, based and built on the mistakes, the wreck, the hard luck and trouble of the old one."
– Woody Guthrie, in A Race Of Singers by Bryan K Garman
My day 18: My routine falls apart at the weekend (which is fine). I wrote a short meta post for
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Fic – Tokyo Babylon / XXXHolic – make its way back to you. (g, one-shot)
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Fandom : Tokyo Babylon / XXXHolic
Author : Yui_Miyamoto
Story Title : make its way back to you.
Rating : G
Genre(s) : Romance, Angst
Main Character(s) : Sumeragi Hokuto, Kuzuki Kakyou, Ichihara Yuuko, Watanuki Kimihiro
Summary : Hokuto makes a nearly-impossible wish only to find one waiting for her…
Warning(s) : None.
Disclaimer : Tokyo Babylon and XXXHolic were lovingly crafted from Clamp-sama. I love them so much.
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Author : Yui_Miyamoto
Story Title : make its way back to you.
Rating : G
Genre(s) : Romance, Angst
Main Character(s) : Sumeragi Hokuto, Kuzuki Kakyou, Ichihara Yuuko, Watanuki Kimihiro
Summary : Hokuto makes a nearly-impossible wish only to find one waiting for her…
Warning(s) : None.
Disclaimer : Tokyo Babylon and XXXHolic were lovingly crafted from Clamp-sama. I love them so much.
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Fic – Tokyo Babylon / 東京BABYLON – No one. (pg-13, one-shot)
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Fandom : Tokyo Babylon / 東京BABYLON
Author : Yui_Miyamoto
Story Title : No one.
Rating : PG -13
Genre(s) : Romance, Angst
Main Character(s) : Sumeragi Subaru, Sakurazuka Seishirou
Summary : Subaru thinks about his role as an onmyouji and meets Seishirou on his way home…
Warning(s) : M/M.
Disclaimer : Tokyo Babylon belongs the wonderful geniuses of Clamp-sama.
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Author : Yui_Miyamoto
Story Title : No one.
Rating : PG -13
Genre(s) : Romance, Angst
Main Character(s) : Sumeragi Subaru, Sakurazuka Seishirou
Summary : Subaru thinks about his role as an onmyouji and meets Seishirou on his way home…
Warning(s) : M/M.
Disclaimer : Tokyo Babylon belongs the wonderful geniuses of Clamp-sama.
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Slo-Mo Rewatch: Guardian episode 4, part 1
Oct. 18th, 2025 03:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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Hi, and welcome back to the Guardian drama Slo-Mo Rewatch. Watch half an episode a week, at your leisure, and then come and chat about it here in comments. Or you can just jump into the comments without rewatching, of course!
Here are the previous weeks' rewatch posts.
Episode 4, up to 22:30
Summary
Zhao Yunlan catches Shen Wei at a crime scene and takes him back to the SID for questioning. Zhu Hong and Chu Shuzhi both have a crack at it, but Shen Wei is unflappable. Zhao Yunlan lets him go. Lin Jing complains about the lack of evidence. Chu Shuzhi and Xiao-Guo catch Lin Yusen at the morgue, and the SID questions him. Lin Yusen takes Zhao Yunlan to see a crime scene, and on the way, Shen Wei joins them. During a minor attack, Shen Wei's arm is cut; he heals it in front of Zhao Yunlan. Zhao Yunlan, Shen Wei, and the supposed victim of the attack go to a tea shop; Zhao Yunlan is unconvinced by the victim's story but assigns Xiao-Guo to walk her home. Her boyfriend is jealous. Zhu Hong sets herself up as bait in a sting. Meanwhile, Zhao Yunlan and Shen Wei

Quote
Zhao Yunlan: If my mum knew I had an intellectual like you as a friend, she'd be bursting with joy.
Shen Wei: What's precious between friends is intimacy. If she saw you now, she would definitely be happy.
Detail
I love the juxtaposition of: 1) Zhao Yunlan being inadvertently distracted by Lin Yusen, 2) Shen Wei's foot being stuck to the ground, and 3) Zhu Jiu's lurking, while elsewhere 4) Da Qing is drugged with poisonous gas, 5) Chu Shuzhi runs towards the screams only to find they're a recording, 6) Zhu Hong is kidnapped, 7) Lin Jing watches helplessly from his lab, and 8) Chu Shuzhi speeds back to the site of the sting to find Zhu Hong gone.
Questions
Do you have a stand-out favourite scene or quote from the first half of episode 4? A favourite part of the interrogation scene, specifically? Are there any other SID members you would have liked to see interrogate Shen Wei? (*koff* all of them!! *koff*) Do you sympathise with Lin Yusen? How does Zhao Yunlan justify to himself allowing Shen Wei to join the investigation, after telling Lin Yusen, "A professional's job should be done by professionals"? If you can remember your first watch, did you find Zhang Danni suspicious at this stage? Does Zhao Yunlan know Zhu Hong and the others have set a trap for the serial killer? How could they have set their trap more effectively? Who do you think is the most competent member of the SID (excluding Zhao Yunlan), at this stage? How heart-clutchy is the "intimate friendship" conversation on a scale of 1 to 10,000? If you're familiar with the novel, any thoughts about how the drama adaptation compares?
(As usual, these are all just conversation starters - feel free to answer all, some, or none, and to say as much or as little as you like! You don't have to be keeping up with the rewatch to join in. We'd love to hear your thoughts!)
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Mainly a tiny bit of posterity: Thanksgiving dinner
Oct. 17th, 2025 02:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I somehow mentally misplaced a week when we were booking our covid/flu shots and I was looking at the last market date of the season for the little one on the corner. Unsure how my brain concluded that they were on the same day. (Market's last day is tomorrow, shots are a week from tomorrow, so it's FINE, just...odd.)
The rest of this is entirely about what we did for our little Thanksgiving dinner (with a bit of blood glucose talk), so it's going under a cut. ( cut! )
The rest of this is entirely about what we did for our little Thanksgiving dinner (with a bit of blood glucose talk), so it's going under a cut. ( cut! )
Bohemian Rhapsody flashmob
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I'm sure everyone but me has already seen this, but I have to share it anyway - this is amazing!
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Write Every Day: Day 17
Oct. 17th, 2025 04:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
"Because in the age of likes and follows, we have confused the reward of creating with the reward of being praised for creating, and why wouldn’t we? Our culture has never celebrated aspiring. Our culture celebrates markers of success. You meet a writer at a party. Oh, have you ever been published? When we could ask: what are the stories that inspire you? What is the story you most want to tell? We have to rewire the way we talk about art, the way we think about artists. The job of the artist is not to skip to the good part. The job of the artist is to make art when no one gives a damn, when no one likes or follows, when we are not being comforted by compliments and praise."
– Leigh Bardugo, via TedX
My day 17: I added 617 words to my flashfic. The story is supposed to be a little missing scene about time travel. Perhaps inevitably, given one of the characters is a deposed king, politics has reared its head, so it's still going. Oops! Not to worry, I still have plenty of time to finish it.
I also slightly tweaked a gift fic. I was thinking about the question of how to portray emotional beats/responses, showing without telling. In tandem with that, I started wondering if my POV characters have been tending too cerebral lately. Do you prefer characters to think through the implications of things or just to gut-reaction? (Does it depend on the character?) How do you express emotional beats? Are your descriptions primarily physiological (pulse, breath, etc) or something else? Do you have a technique for conveying feelings as they arise, or is this just something you do instinctively?
As well as writing, I went with Andrew (partner) to our favourite outdoor cafe (which is being forced to close down in a few months, oh no!) and sat in the blustery northwesterly, then did grocery shopping. This evening our friend is coming over for the last two episodes of Kdrama Low Life, and I'm making enchiladas.
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Day 16:
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Finished watching Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka...
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...and it was something alright. This Anime, like the Manga it was based upon manages to make you feel so uncomfortable in a variety of ways from the overly graphic violent tones paired with unapologetic streams of blood splashing everywhere coupled with over saturated scenes of fanservice ranking from Sailor Moon-type of revealing to the unconditional tropes of a distasteful Hentai you would watch to point out how cringy and ridiculous it is. The moral undertones in this series makes to wonder why it was even planned to begin with, and while some characters have potential to grow into a sympathetic trope themselves, it gets thrown out the window in the very next scene with aforementioned themes.
However there's one character in particular that makes this Anime even worse than you could ever tolerate watching, that character being Mugen Kurumi AKA The "War Nurse," who is potentially the very worst Anime character I ever had the displeasure in watching. Her very, VERY questionable portrayal as a healer AND torturer comes highly polirizing at best.
It makes me uncomfortable that Square-Enix was involved in the publishing of this series as well. You *could* watch it for the sympathetic feelings towards characters like Asuka and some actually good battle scenes, but I doubt you could get past a couple episodes much less the entire thing.
On the other hand, went on downloading Streets of Rage 2 on my phone and had a great time in nostalgiaville, so it did ease the uncomfortable feelings I experienced watching that Anime at least.

However there's one character in particular that makes this Anime even worse than you could ever tolerate watching, that character being Mugen Kurumi AKA The "War Nurse," who is potentially the very worst Anime character I ever had the displeasure in watching. Her very, VERY questionable portrayal as a healer AND torturer comes highly polirizing at best.
It makes me uncomfortable that Square-Enix was involved in the publishing of this series as well. You *could* watch it for the sympathetic feelings towards characters like Asuka and some actually good battle scenes, but I doubt you could get past a couple episodes much less the entire thing.
On the other hand, went on downloading Streets of Rage 2 on my phone and had a great time in nostalgiaville, so it did ease the uncomfortable feelings I experienced watching that Anime at least.

Write Every Day: Day 16
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Welcome to Write Every Day! I'm
china_shop, and I'll be your host for October Part 2! (Much, much thanks to
cornerofmadness for sharing the month with me. ♥)
For the regulars who have been doing this a while and just want the details: I'm on NZDT (UTC+13), and I plan to post between 4pm and 6pm local time, which should line up pretty well with
cornerofmadness's posts. Please comment on the most recent post, and specify what day(s) you're checking in for.
( For everyone else: what is Write Every Day and how does it work? )
I go to London Writer's Salon Antipodean Writers' Hour on weekdays, and that usually starts off with an encouraging/inspirational quote. Here's one someone shared a while back.
My goals and check-in
This morning I wrote 1,028 words of flashfic for the current "Brilliant" round of
fan_flashworks. I'll finish it tomorrow, and then... has anyone seen Bon Appétit, Your Majesty who'd be willing to beta? :-)
Writing goals for the rest of month include not stuffing up my arms, so this afternoon I walked along a local mountain-bike trail, through the trees, then met up with my partner for hot drinks and chocolate brownie by the sea. The weather has been cold, wet and windy lately, but yesterday and today the sun finally came out. Yay!
Other goals for the next 16 days: finish my flashfic, finish a treat I started for
guardian_wishlist, sign up for Yuletide, and write something for the next (amnesty) round at
fan_flashworks. Other than that, I'll see where the spirit takes me.
How about you? Did you write today?
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For the regulars who have been doing this a while and just want the details: I'm on NZDT (UTC+13), and I plan to post between 4pm and 6pm local time, which should line up pretty well with
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( For everyone else: what is Write Every Day and how does it work? )
I go to London Writer's Salon Antipodean Writers' Hour on weekdays, and that usually starts off with an encouraging/inspirational quote. Here's one someone shared a while back.
"When you go mountain climbing, the first thing you’re told is not to look at the peak, but to keep your eyes on the ground as you climb. You just keep climbing patiently one step at a time. If you keep looking at the top, you’ll get frustrated.
"I think writing is similar. You need to get used to the task of writing. You must make an effort to learn to regard it not as something painful, but as routine."
–Akira Kurosawa, via The Script Lab
My goals and check-in
This morning I wrote 1,028 words of flashfic for the current "Brilliant" round of
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Writing goals for the rest of month include not stuffing up my arms, so this afternoon I walked along a local mountain-bike trail, through the trees, then met up with my partner for hot drinks and chocolate brownie by the sea. The weather has been cold, wet and windy lately, but yesterday and today the sun finally came out. Yay!
Other goals for the next 16 days: finish my flashfic, finish a treat I started for
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How about you? Did you write today?
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Watching Old Who, my brain keeps wanting to treat it as a ttrpg. "No don't split the party!" and "oop I guessed he rolled a 1 there" and "tha what you get for not doing a perception check" and such.
Also seeing the early Daleks makes me think of Daleks telling scary campfire stories. "AND THEN" (waves flashlight under "face") "SUD-DEN-LY THE DOC-TOR." (Other Daleks shriek and flail in terror) ...or Daleks telling baby Daleks "BE-HAVE OR THE DOC-TOR WILL COME". Are there even baby Daleks? Hmmm.
Also ... is it ever explained why everyone speaks English?
Also seeing the early Daleks makes me think of Daleks telling scary campfire stories. "AND THEN" (waves flashlight under "face") "SUD-DEN-LY THE DOC-TOR." (Other Daleks shriek and flail in terror) ...or Daleks telling baby Daleks "BE-HAVE OR THE DOC-TOR WILL COME". Are there even baby Daleks? Hmmm.
Also ... is it ever explained why everyone speaks English?
Kissy Picspam: Will Love in Spring
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This drama is only very loosely Wu-Lei-related. ;) It stars Zhou Yutong, who was in Nothing But You with him - but he's not in this one! This is Will Love in Spring, and the ML is Xi Tian. There are so many cute couple-y scenes in it, and so many kisses, that it deserves a picspam!
Picspam List:
#1: Nothing But You
#2: Will Love in Spring
These 12 caps separately downloadable in full size from this gallery: https://postimg.cc/gallery/hSpqRpT
Zip file of all my 130 caps: https://www.mediafire.com/file/7812e4aqphevrmd/loveinspring_allcaps.zip (eps 9-13 have lower resolution unfortunately)
Enjoy!

( 11 more pics - kisses and cuddles )
I've made six icons from this show:
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Picspam List:
#1: Nothing But You
#2: Will Love in Spring
These 12 caps separately downloadable in full size from this gallery: https://postimg.cc/gallery/hSpqRpT
Zip file of all my 130 caps: https://www.mediafire.com/file/7812e4aqphevrmd/loveinspring_allcaps.zip (eps 9-13 have lower resolution unfortunately)
Enjoy!

( 11 more pics - kisses and cuddles )
I've made six icons from this show:






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Boku no Hero Academia, FINAL season watch-along
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The final (still so hard to believe!!) season of Boku No Hero Academia started airing last week. If you would enjoy watching it along with other fans, come join us over at
bnha_fans! Like with previous seasons, we're sharing thoughts and reactions every week (without manga spoilers on those posts, to keep it friendly for anime-only folks :)).

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Girl Genius for Wednesday, October 15, 2025
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