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1. What sets you apart from your friends?

A constant, ever present feeling of disconnect. Otherwise, I suppose it's the reading addiction! A need for stories greater then I need air xD

2. What sets you apart from your family?

The mess I leave everywhere LOL I'm a cat and also a pig.

3. What sets you apart from your coworkers/fellow students?

An unfortunate inability to respect deadlines and maintain awareness of passing time without external help. (Yes, it's executive function problems xD but still pretty exceptional and stubborn...I am nothing if not an opinionated bag of cats!) Hmmm... besides that, maybe my usual organically optimized sleeping schedule from 21:30 to 03:30? ^^; As long as I fall asleep approximately within this time, I won't feel tired and napping happens by choice and for leisure.

Been using this for years in school and at work, and everyone else sleeps when I wake up (which is the whole point of doing it).

4. What is the one thing about you that is most unique?
I would say it is rare but not unique? My absurd need to know why, dig new rabbit holes and then share them when it comes to my translation projects.

5. What is your most interesting quality?

I think I'm pretty unexciting and a very ordinary type of ordinary xD

Current Mood: amused

halfcactus

Added Burning Houses & Hush Harbor by Mookie Katigbak-Lacuesta to my reading rotation because I realized I could acquire it through Shopee. \o/ I've only gone through a few of the poems, which made me starkly feel that I was not smart or literary enough, but Temper/7 Down has sat in my brain for days and days and maybe that's enough. It's part of a section that's formatted as a series of crossword puzzle hints, so I guess it makes sense for me to still be trying to follow the emotional threads.

Here's the full poem, which I worked hard to format with html.

Mookie Katigbak-Lacuesta, "Temper/7 Down"

Hellions in your novels balled fists Inside trouser pockets. You never let A belt lick welts on a child's thigh.
	Barroom rakes, at the slightest libel Dream of triggers and knives. You never put a wife in place
With a shake or a sharp word. Stones were paperweights for Memos. Knives were cameos
	Mounted on walls or tucked In a safe. And pity the man You would not hate, him you'd
Consecrate with your indifference. Best was how you taught a child To spit her rage like a catcher
	To his mitt, and hurl with all Her bile and length, Neither glass nor stone,
Only the brittle shells Of eggs her throw Broke against the wall.
	Temper: to see in red, To lose control. But also This: to curb, to hold.

I made a Justice in the Dark gifset based on the last three lines:
jitd gif: temper

+5 more gifs

Also on tumblr

Creation notes:

I used a ripped paper texture for the big paper background, but for the paper strips—I was playing around and found that Resolve has a Paper Edges effect omggggggg

For the fonts—I was looking for a suitably distressed font and suddenly remembered Eduardo Recife's Misprinted Type. I wondered if his website was still up and it is! :D I've never really been able to incorporate his fonts/textures into my fanwork, but for this I used his Misproject font.

douqi

In university I took a course on twentieth century women's literature in English. One of the books we read for that was Virginia Woolf's A Room of Her Own. In it, as part of constructing a critical historical account of women's writing in England, Woolf discusses the Restoration era writer Aphra Behn, one of the first women to earn her living by writing professionally.

At the time, our lecturer gave us a brief autobiographical sketch of Aphra Behn to contextualise the reference. What he did not tell us was that she wrote at least one genderfucked lesbian poem. Or that she may have been bi. I had to discover that for myself at my current great age. Thanks, Malaysian higher education.

geraineon

Dumping links here!

The Kickstarter for Galette vol. 3, a yuri comic anthology will end in six days! Get it here: Kickstarter link

I Lived Through Collapse. America is Already There: An essay about how it feels to live in Sri Lanka during the end of civil war.

Social Impact Job Boards: For people who are looking for a job in the humanitarian aid sector

This fedi account regularly posts fund raisers for Gaza: Fedi link

Things I want to post about but do not quite have the brainspace to yet: My Michigan trip to do a round of goodbyes and gather gossip from academia, me side-eyeing the Love and Deepspace fandom a lot, packing up to leave the country (thoughts and feelings).

Maybe I'll get to some of these, but these days, even getting out of bed takes forever because I am suddenly hit by emotions. Blegh.

halfcactus

Luo Weizhao/Pei Su + physical contact + UST (clips sourced from eps 1-21):

Watch on YouTube

Also on: AO3 / Tumblr

There's one wrong frame in this but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

(Me:
Why does it take me a full week just to watch 2 episodes

Also me:
*stops watching every 5 mins to make gifs and vids*)

halfcactus

journal photos: food, jitd vocabulary

april monthly spread featuring a lot of food drawings

various justice in the dark vocab represented by drawings and stickers

The vocab notes have been paying off as I go further in the show. \o/ But I've been too busy just trying to catch up with the episodes to keep at it. ^^;

Media

啞舍 Ya She: Modern-day supernatural donghua about an antique shop owner and a doctor whose fate is tied with his. Not really a fan of the way women were written here—to its credit there were a lot of female characters, but they lacked agency and I was especially annoyed with the subplot with the doctor's patient. Cases were pretty hit-or-miss; my favorite was the Tong Puppet episode. Overall, this was better as a buddy watch than a solo watch, especially with

daisydiversions "translating" the dog over voice call. :P

Cheese in the Trap: Modern-day college enemies-to-lovers manhwa where the ML has done a host of truly unforgivable things to the FL, due to a lack of empathy, lack of interest in considering the ripple effects of his machinations, and his own disdain for the FL. He kind of spends the present timeline trying to make up for it, knowing he can't, and fearing he'd lose the FL now that she's entered his orbit and become his world. That the romance is on the unhealthy side makes it more interesting, as does its depiction of socio-economic differences (ML VS everyone else). But the personal conflicts are dragged out—this comic has a brand of wish fulfillment that has all the college drama hashed out over a series of public classroom showdowns and having the crowd pick a "side". IDK why these college students are so invested in each other's lives, to the point of getting involved in the drama?

The best parts were the family storyline—the FL struggles with the pressure of being the eldest daughter; when she changes and asserts her feelings, her family changes with her. I loved watching Inho being folded into that bubble. And I really liked that one of the story arcs was about a gay couple going through the roughest patch of their relationship because of financial stress.

xxxHolic movie:: Wrote about it here.

Fanworks roundup

Fanvid: "Wonderland" (xxxHolic | gen)

Fanvid: "Untouchable Face" (Justice in the Dark | Luo Weizhao x Pei Su)

Fanvid: "the unblooming flowers, the unreturning you" (Justice in the Dark | gen - character study about Pei Su and his grief for his mother)

Fanvid: "The Brightest Star in the Night Sky" (Hikaru no Go/Qihun | gen - everyone x Go)

Current Music: Fleet Foxes - Mykonos

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Reading

250530 - The Friday Five

To see in red, to lose control.

'All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn'

Some links of interest

[fanvid] Sinner (Justice in the Dark, Luo Weizhao/Pei Su)

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