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halfcactus) wrote2024-09-30 05:49 pm
halfcactus) wrote2024-09-30 05:49 pm
September log
WEBTOONS/MANGA:
Wrote about I'll Be Matriarch in This Life + See You in My 19th Life + A Sign of Affection here.
DNF A Sign of Affection because I 1) found out it was still ongoing, 2) lost my urge to bingeread shoujo/otome comics.
MOVIES:
Wrote about 我的少女時代 Our Times (2015) here, and 海角七號 Cape No. 7 (2008) + How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies (2024) here.
GAMES:
Finished Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective and enjoyed it!!! Even though I ended up still having questions about the plot, the twists in the last act really stuck the landing and got me in the feelings. I also really liked the way it shows how animals, humans, and ghosts have very different perspectives on life, deaths, and attachments... And the overall design and experience were pretty great, even though I was too dumb and impatient for this game. XD
CREATIVE WORK:Subbed: 舍不得星星 You Are My Lover Friend trailer 1
So Close gifs: Shu Qi gifset / Karen Mok/Zhao Wei gifset
Mid-Autumn Dice Game rules (graphic/diagram): personal work, technically a repost from 2021, but I wanted to archive it
Sep 19 & 20 ~travel vlog~
Also made the graphics for NiF Exchange 2024 (technically just recycled last year's PSD to get it done fast)
PLAYING:
Fallen London, a free text-based + browser-based RPG... Idk how long I'll stick with it but I really like the mobile version! So far it's curbed my wild urges to keep starting new books/comics/games, which is good, because between the endless compulsions to start new books/comics and the frustration of never finishing anything, I was about to go crazy. And it's much healthier than gacha. Even though I almost left our laundry to get rained on because I'd just gotten a (rare!!!) temporary Danger buff lol. My character is named Santan, after a tropical flower.
WATCHING:
舍不得星星 You Are My Lover Friend, starring Wang Yuwen, Zhang Xincheng, and Guo Yunqi.
READING:
John Dickson Carr, "The Plague Court Murders": I think I am... halfway.
Chaiko, "Journey to the West": I want to continue but I really dislike reading graphic novels on a screen ;___;
priest, "橋頭樓上 End of the Bridge, Top of the Tower": 6 more chapters to go... I mostly rely on ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
cnovels' weekly check-ins to pressure me into reading and checking in. XD But it does benefit me to be unambitious about my reading pace because I need to ~absorb~ stuff, even though stretching it out for months and months means I'm forgetting most of the details.
接骨木花, "陰間沒有珍奶嗎 Is There Boba in the Underworld？": Wrote about it here... I have no idea if I'll continue and what my reading progress is... I'm not sure this has any chapter breaks...
Jimmeh Aitch, "哈囉哈囉馬尼拉 Halo-Halo Manila": Briefly wrote about it here... I'm actually really enjoying this a lot! It's such an interesting PoV for me, and his points beautifully illustrated... I'm currently at the part where he introduces readers to certain Filipino words and what they mean to him.
青春 18X2: This is a comic anthology featuring different artists. So far I've only read the first story, which is about a girl about to graduate without ever confessing her feelings to her short delinquent seatmate... Very shoujo manga art style, and the 青春 is truly 青春-ing. I'm unclear if any of the stories in this anthology are connected to the recent Greg Hsu movie with a similar title.
燈神 The Djinn: YOU ARE SO BEAUTIFUL I WILL COME BACK TO YOU I PROMISE
Leng Qian Shan, "Purely by Accident": Sometimes I pull up this novel as a bedtime read, so I've only read, like, two chapters. Haven't read a fantranslation in a while but am enjoying douqi's translation a lot, because at least it reads like a novel.
Anyway Shortbox Comics is going live super soon and I'm trying to commit to only getting works by Filipino authors considering *gestures at reading list*. Not to mention I have yet to finish going through last year's Shortbox haul. XD
Wrote about I'll Be Matriarch in This Life + See You in My 19th Life + A Sign of Affection here.
DNF A Sign of Affection because I 1) found out it was still ongoing, 2) lost my urge to bingeread shoujo/otome comics.
MOVIES:
Wrote about 我的少女時代 Our Times (2015) here, and 海角七號 Cape No. 7 (2008) + How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies (2024) here.
GAMES:
Finished Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective and enjoyed it!!! Even though I ended up still having questions about the plot, the twists in the last act really stuck the landing and got me in the feelings. I also really liked the way it shows how animals, humans, and ghosts have very different perspectives on life, deaths, and attachments... And the overall design and experience were pretty great, even though I was too dumb and impatient for this game. XD
CREATIVE WORK:
Currently
PLAYING:
Fallen London, a free text-based + browser-based RPG... Idk how long I'll stick with it but I really like the mobile version! So far it's curbed my wild urges to keep starting new books/comics/games, which is good, because between the endless compulsions to start new books/comics and the frustration of never finishing anything, I was about to go crazy. And it's much healthier than gacha. Even though I almost left our laundry to get rained on because I'd just gotten a (rare!!!) temporary Danger buff lol. My character is named Santan, after a tropical flower.
WATCHING:
舍不得星星 You Are My Lover Friend, starring Wang Yuwen, Zhang Xincheng, and Guo Yunqi.
Would not recommend this to friends, but it's serviceable and relaxing as a background watch. While Wang Yuwen and Zhang Xincheng have very nice, warm "childhood friends" chemistry (likely due to them being IRL childhood friends with moms who are spreading leaks of their kissing scenes behind their backs), the characters are, though competent, kinda bland...
Enjoying the OP enough that I've never skipped it, though. :') And the show does manage well with its quieter moments of sweetness so I'm hoping it catches it rhythm sooner or later.
Enjoying the OP enough that I've never skipped it, though. :') And the show does manage well with its quieter moments of sweetness so I'm hoping it catches it rhythm sooner or later.
READING:
cnovels' weekly check-ins to pressure me into reading and checking in. XD But it does benefit me to be unambitious about my reading pace because I need to ~absorb~ stuff, even though stretching it out for months and months means I'm forgetting most of the details.douqi's translation a lot, because at least it reads like a novel.Anyway Shortbox Comics is going live super soon and I'm trying to commit to only getting works by Filipino authors considering *gestures at reading list*. Not to mention I have yet to finish going through last year's Shortbox haul. XD
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To be fair I think KH just... numbs you. XD
But yeah Ghost Trick did a really good job! A true roller-coaster of emotion!!! And none of the characters or their relationships turned out the way I expected, which was nice.
I felt kinda bad for Jowd's wife, though... Cabanela/Jowd may be the most shippable pairing in-game, but I thought it was rude to not include her in the family photo in the end lol.