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I can't say I'm surprised I'm doing a lot of catch-up days here

December 4: rhysiana asked "What's the most satisfyingly self-indulgent fandom project you've ever done?" and I think it's gotta be a fic series I wrote back in Yona of the Dawn fandom: the Alien Larp AU. It was born somewhat out of spite: someone who was less of a fan of the enigmatic "villain" as I was suggested that, for all the insight we had into his motivations, he might as well be a robot from outer space. I said "sounds good to me!" and outlined some notes wherein Soowon was, indeed, an AI from outer space (and the rest of the cast, or most of them, retained their pseudo-historical fantasy canon selves). Blending a scifi AU with a fantasy canon is SO FUN okay and of course I had to write it and it eventually grew to a series of 8 works including what was at the time the longest fic I'd written. clockworkspider typeset and printed a collection of them and this was, I think, my first encounter with fanfiction as a book and you can see where that got me.
(The "Larp" in the series title is from the fact that the AI is supposed to enable the planet to play host to alien tourists. Sort of like a Dark Lord of Derkholm thing. Many times I asked myself "should I give this series a more serious title?" and answered "nope!" so there we are.)

Also December 4: megan_moonlight asked for my top 3 Wen Ning scenes! These aren't in order but a) in the drama, when Jiang Yanli gives him soup! b) in the novel, when he sees the ghosts of the other Wen remnants, and c) when he first wakes up as a conscious fierce corpse. But to be honest every Wen Ning scene is a good one! except for the one with Jin Zixuan

I should go to bed so I will catch up on Dec 5 tomorrow!

❧ @jin-guangyao asked me "What's your default 'picking-up-a-cat' technique?" and you know, I was pretty sure I could just write it down and I'd be remembering correctly, but I had to check to be sure. Thanks, Banshee!

1. head skritches
2. one hand on chest, just in back of forelegs
3. up!
4. other hand supports back legs
5. bring towards my chest

❧ last summer one of my siblings introduced me to therapyshoppe.com which sells stim devices, among other things. I have a couple of squishy balls with various textures including this one (filled with gel beads).



Anyway I think they should make a version that's just filled with the black ones and has a colored milky liquid and market it as a boba tea themed stim toy, that would be pretty cute

❧ Watched the first episode of the Drowning Sorrows in Raging Fire donghua (based on the book I've been not-reading). It jumps much faster into the action, unsurprisingly, and seems fun. I'll keep watching. Amusingly it (for a very brief moment) had an animation of someone knitting that was more accurate than most live-action knitting I've seen (although, mirrored), which I probably only noticed because I was knitting while watching.
(The knitting isn't plot-relevant. Somewhat character-relevant, for a side character.)

❧ There's a local hawk! It came down to the bike path yesterday, and today I saw it circling in the sky (and now I have the song "Oklahoma" from the musical stuck in my head because of one line)

I caught a pic of the hawk flying away--under a cut because it's carrying something dead, although you can't make out details ( pic here )