They Say What They Say

Previous poll review
In the Making friends with chatbots poll, 66.1% of respondents hadn't used AI in the last seven days, as far as they were aware, and 8.9% had used it for work. A quarter of respondents had used it against their will. Once again, I'm left wondering how representative Dreamwidth denizens are. My people!

In ticky-boxes, alpine octopuses practising their yodelling came a distant second to hugs, 41.1% to 67.9%. Thank you for your votes!!

Reading
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Kdramas
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Other TV
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Audio entertainment
Tons of Tech Won't Save Us, which is really good. Argh, everything. /o\ Most of the available episodes of new Aotearoa NZ political podcast Cross Party Lines (in the vein of and inspired by The Rest is Politics), which is really good -- intelligent and informed, of course, and I appreciate that the right-wing representative has zero time for our current government. Writing Excuses. Letters from an American. One episode of Fansplaining. A couple of episodes of The Life Indigenous, and the start of an episode of The Tongue Unbroken: Language Revitalization & Decolonization.

Online life
Constantly running to keep up, partly because I haven't been around as much. | I need to not compare my Yuletide productivity with last year's -- finishing my assignment is enough! Anything else is jam. | The sid_guardian Slo-Mo Guardian Rewatch continues to be wonderful!

Writing/making things
A few bits and pieces inspired by the Slo-Mo Rewatch, a few flashfics. It's time to roll up my sleeves and dig into my Yuletide fic: so far I have 360 words and a scene list. I'm in a reasonably good writing headspace, so I expect it to be fun if I can keep from second-guessing my prose. *knock on wood*

Life/health/mental state things
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Link dump
Ryan Coogler gives a speech at Chadwick Boseman's posthumous Hollywood Walk of Fame star ceremony (via minoanmiss) | dyk-tv-theme-song | wordhippo.com is my current thesaurus of choice | The Old College Try (Feel Good (TV) fanvid) by periru3 | Japanese heavy metal (who linked to this? the video is amazing) | From Now on I’m Taking All of My Storytelling Lessons From This Wild Epic About Love, Loyalty, and Necromancy by Kali Wallace (via starandrea) | !!!!! Did you know you can search across all sign-ups for events on AO3? !!!! :D

Good things
Meerkats and kangas and lemurs, oh my! Sunshine. TV. Dumplings. Biking. Yuletide and Guardian. Dreamwidth. Haircuts (I had 8 months' worth cut off, and when I stood up, there was a MOUNTAIN of clippings on the floor). Coloured pencils. Podcasts. Libraries.

• Slo-Mo Rewatch post
• Yuletide assignment draft
• media update post (or, as I generally refer to it in my notebook: MUp) ✅
• attack email inbox/tabs
• First Aid flashfic (started)
• draw something *struggles with the urge to disclaim this to the horizon and back*

Already achieved: dishes; fandomtrees signup submitted, tweaked, and re-tweaked (I'm not going to touch it again!) (NINE fandoms, whaaaat?).

Also, I took almost no zoo photos the other day (and none of the meerkats), but I did snap these.

Wow, I haven't linked my fanworks here in over a month - and I have been writing.

Guardian

• Additions to the episode 4 interrogation of Shen Wei
  
  • The Mouse and the Dragon, 1,559 words, G-rated, ep 4 missing scene, Guo Changcheng interrogates Shen Wei
  • Going Fishing - 1,180 words, G-rated, ep 4 missing scene, Da Qing interrogates Shen Wei
  • Analysis and Verification - 838 words, G-rated, ep 4 missing scene, Lin Jing and Wang Zheng stealth-interrogate Shen Wei


• Other things
  
  • Bed of Purrs - Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan & Da Qing, 2,565 words, T-rated, set in YOHE (Da Qing-centric)
  • Reasons - 100 words, G-rated, ep 5 missing scene, Shen Wei POV on moving house
  • not close enough - 300 words, G-rated, episode 6, Shen Wei timeloop feels
  • Da Qing Works - fanart of Da Qing, riffing off the DreamWorks logo, G-rated
  • Retreat - 734 words, G-rated, Da Qing, Wang Zheng, Sang Zan, random fluff with tiny crossover

Bon Appétit, Your Majesty

• Inventions, Invective, and Potential - 2,527 words, G-rated gen, Jang Chun-Saeng (medieval Korean inventor dude), spackle for the ending

• kangaroos (tolerated brief stroking)
• a tight huddle of six ring-tailed lemurs
• red panda trying to sleep in a windblown tree
• sleeping snow leopard
• tiger actually up and doing things
• sunbear ditto (the only bear in Aotearoa, apparently)
• meerkats! climbing on us! (we had a paid "close encounter")
• misc. others

And the rain mostly held off until we were at lunch afterwards. \o/