第四年第二百八十八天

Oct. 24th, 2025 06:28 am
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宀 part 2
守, to guard/to protect; 安, peace; 完, to finish/end pinyin )
https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?cdqrad=40

词汇
猪, pig (pinyin in tags)
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-3-word-list/

Guardian:
我们一定会好好守护大家的安全, we have to protect everyone's safety
我们翰噶族杀猪都是这么杀猪的, this is how we of the Hanga tribe slaughter pigs

Me:
完了,时间没了,怎么办。
你爱吃猪肉吗?

The Friday Five for 24 October 2025

Oct. 23rd, 2025 03:23 pm
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These questions were originally suggested by [livejournal.com profile] akarii.

1. What do you see when you are looking out of the window closest to you?

2. Who was the last person coming into your room?

3. What is the most predominant colour around you?

4. What is right behind you?

5. What is on today's calendar sheet?

Copy and paste to your own journal, then reply to this post with a link to your answers. If your journal is private or friends-only, you can post your full answers in the comments below.

If you'd like to suggest questions for a future Friday Five, then do so on DreamWidth or LiveJournal. Old sets that were used have been deleted, so we encourage you to suggest some more!

Eclepsis by Aloïs

Oct. 23rd, 2025 06:02 pm
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The French graphic novel Eclepsis, written and illustrated by Aloïs, was awesome! Basile lives in Gouès, where only women are allowed to practise witchcraft. After transitioning, he leaves for Eclepsis, where he takes the exams to enter the Academy of Magic.

This will be a trilogy, and I'm very excited to read more. The characters are loveable, the two magic systems are interesting and the art is great.

In addition to the trans male protagonist, there's some f/f. For more HP-like LGBT stories, check out my rec list. For more LGBT Quick Reads, check out my other rec list.

Thanks for the rec to [personal profile] malurette!

第四年第二百八十七天

Oct. 23rd, 2025 08:02 am
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宀 part 1 mián
它, it; 宅, home; 宇, universe pinyin )
https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?cdqrad=40

语法
Wanting: 想 vs 要 vs 想要
https://www.chineseboost.com/grammar/xiang3-yao4-xiang3yao4-difference/

词汇
周围, around (pinyin in tags)
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-3-word-list/

Guardian:
它具体有什么功效,我并不了解, but I don't understand what its specific effects are
还有什么想要说的吗, is there anything else you want to say?
镇魂灯始终就藏在特调处的周围, was the Guardian Lantern always hidden around the SID?

Me:
我是在宅工作的。
周围的人不会明了。

Read-in-Progress Wednesday

Oct. 22nd, 2025 09:24 pm
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This is your weekly read-in-progress post for you to talk about what you're currently reading and reactions and feelings (if any)!

For spoilers:

<details><summary>insert summary</summary>Your spoilers goes here</details>

<b>Highlight for spoilers!*</b><span style="background-color: #FFFFFF; color: #FFFFFF">Your spoilers goes here.</span>*

第四年第二百八十六天

Oct. 22nd, 2025 07:57 am
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子 part 3
孤, lonely; 学, to learn/to imitate; 孩, child pinyin )
https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?cdqrad=39

词汇
重, heavy; 重大, significant (pinyin in tags)
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-3-word-list/

Guardian:
你们俩应该好好回学校学习学习, you two should go on back to school and study
是相当重大的突破, it seems like a significant breakthrough

Me:
外向的孤独患者需要认可🎵
你的这个发现有重大的意义。

A smattering of small things

Oct. 21st, 2025 03:35 pm
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It was pouring rain when I woke up, and again, even if it didn't last long enough--I don't know what time it started, but it was pretty much gone by midmorning--it was appreciated. (Of course, I say that as someone working from home; one coworder who works onsite sometimes is in walking distance of the office, and walking to work today resulted in literally wringing clothing out in the kitchen sink upon arrival.)

That also meant it was dim enough at the start of my workday that turning on both strings of Hallowe'en lights in my office made actual sense! The purple/orange string around the edge of the ceiling is bright enough to be fun regardless, but the new string of ghosts around the window is backlit enough that actually turning the lights on makes little sense during the day. (And these years I spend so little evening time in my office, Dayjob crunches notwithstanding.)

I checked in on my freelance schedule yesterday and found out that things have been rearranged in a way that makes the rest of this month and November pretty light, early December a bit much (although some of the work due then can be done in November, theoretically), and January a bit of an onslaught. It should be fine! Just. Ooof. (At least January isn't a typical crunch time, although anything's possible.) This also gives me a bit more motivation to extend my vacation time after Christmas.

At some point today Pokemon Go rolled out its seasonal Hallowe'en skin, which inevitably charms me all out of proportion.

There were other things in my head this morning, but of course the Dayjob workday quietly wiped them away, so we'll call this a post.

第四年第二百八十五天

Oct. 21st, 2025 07:36 am
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子 part 2
存, to exist; 孙, grandchild; 季, season pinyin )
https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?cdqrad=39

语法
Uses of 才
https://www.chineseboost.com/grammar/four-uses-cai2/

词汇
种, species/kind/to plant; 种子, seed; 各种, all kinds of pinyin )
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-3-word-list/

Guardian:
到时候等我们老了,我们就让我们的小孙子小孙女给我们拍照, when we get old we'll make our grandsons and granddaughters take pictures of us
只有我们都活着,才能守护天下的和平, we can only preserve peace if we stay alive
我本来以为我种下的这颗种子就要失效了, I'd thought the seed I planted had failed

Me:
季节总算换了,好安心。
我才有三分钟,说得快。
你种了什么样的菜?
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As of yesterday, Pale Mirror's finished editing their translation of Reading the Remnants and has posted EPUBs and PDFs for it!
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Reading: As of midweek, I'd read nine novels (well, eight and a novella) this month, which is very pleasing given that I usually consider that a good number for a full month, never mind just about halfway through one. (Of course, for the last few days my brain's done an about-face and decided that I'm going to be just reading a cookbook now, thanks.)

Since my last accounting, I've finished KJ Charles' All of Us Murderers (gothic murdery queer romance), Freya Marske's Cinder House (which I wish I'd realized going in--or perhaps more importantly, when I bought it at full price--is a novella, although that didn't keep me from enjoying it quite a bit), Stephen Graham Jones' The Only Good Indians (very solid, but I feel I've met my quota for books with mutilation for a while), Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle (not so much my thing, maybe [whatever that is], but I sure see why it's a classic!), and E.K. Johnston's Pretty Furious (a satisfying "~good girls~ lash back at the fucking patriarchy and its associated bullshit" read).

Now I'm reading through the aforementioned cookbook, Bee Wilson's The Secret of Cooking: Recipes for an Easier Life in the Kitchen, which swiftly made its way onto the inherently-aggravating-but-complimentary list of cookbooks bought in ebook that I now want in hard copy.

Also, [personal profile] scruloose and I are...maybe a third?...of the way into Fugitive Telemetry (having decided to listen to Murderbot in chronological order rather than publication order).

Growing: In a shocking development, our Tiny Tim tomato plant (which we bought immediately before the drought turned unmistakable official, and therefore have since watered once or at most twice since putting it in) has produced a couple handfuls of ripe fruit! [personal profile] scruloose reports that they're tasty! We're over halfway through October!

Kill to Love

Oct. 20th, 2025 05:35 pm
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The BL Chinese/Singaporean drama Kill to Love was great. Sixth Prince Xiao Shu He and Assassin Duan Ziang want to live a simple life together, but they'll have to face many obstacles.

This is uncensored (only on-screen kisses, though), as it is a coproduction between China and Singapore. It's very different from Meet You at the Blossom, except in the fact that it starts nice, then turns fucked-up (positive or negative, depending on what kind of plot you like).

I also ship Shen Song/Huo Ying.

AWS outage

Oct. 20th, 2025 10:11 am
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DW is seeing some issues due to today's Amazon outage. For right now it looks like the site is loading, but it may be slow. Some of our processes like notifications and journal search don't appear to be running and can't be started due to rate limiting or capacity issues. DW could go down later if Amazon isn't able to improve things soon, but our services should return to normal when Amazon has cleared up the outage.

Edit: all services are running as of 16:12 CDT, but there is definitely still a backlog of notifications to get through.

Edit 2: and at 18:20 CDT everything's been running normally for about the last hour.

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