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[halfcactus]

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1. What is your all time favorite book?
For the past decade, probably Ann Leckie's Radch trilogy--in particular Ancillary Justice. I remember reading it at my desk at my old job and getting assaulted with feelings. Also Goblin Emperor by Sarah Monette.

I feel like I keep waiting for my next reads to hit me the same way but I think I should reconcile myself with the fact that my reading brain is not what it was ten years ago, before the pandemic. ^^;

2. What is your all time favorite movie?
For the past decade, The Legend of Hei. Xiao Hei my baby!!!

3. What are you reading right now?
An assortment: the manhwa The Tale of Goldiluck the Black Kitten, which I adore fiercely; the manhwa As the Heart Leads, a fantasy/romance with pretty art, ongoing in its first season; The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman; The Invention of Darling, Li-Young Lee's latest anthology, which has a "plot" I can actually follow as it constructs (or reconstructs; I'm not very familiar with religious lore) a creation story. It feels less autobiographical and inward-facing than usual, an interesting experience.

I've also sampled the first chapters of the licensed translations of Run Wild (Saye) and The Imperial Uncle, though I'd hardly count that as reading.

4. What is your favorite show on TV?
For the past decade, the cdramas Nirvana in Fire, Qihun (Hikaru No Go cdrama), and The Murderous Affair in Horizon Tower. For anime, Chihayafuru, Silver Spoon, Run with the Wind, and Natsume's Book of Friends.

5. What is the last movie you saw in the theater?
Nezha 2, which I'm surprised they showed in our local theaters at all! A little sad that I missed Mickey 17 because I couldn't afford to watch two movies in the same week...

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Tech things, this month:

Finally learned to back up my computer without overwriting the backups from my previous computer! Next project would be trying to retrieve and back up my old music files and fanvids. Kinda sucks that because iTunes shifted to streaming, my mp3s (even the purchased ones!) disappeared from my folders in the process of all my reformats and migrations and I can't seem to download the files off the cloud.

Retrieved my Evernote files, mostly fic and poetry saved from the internet... One day I will go through them.

I can now (kind of! I mean I’ve only tried it on one site so who knows) rip streams through Stacher, which is yt-dlp for dummies (a.k.a. ME). Still using Cobalt and Wechat for everything else, which I hope never stop working bc they’ve been so reliable I don’t know any other good alternatives.

Comments

[geraineon]

Your favourite tv show list has so much overlap with mine XD

I really should try Run with the Wind

[halfcactus]

The friendshp and found family stories really come out ahead, don't they? :P

I really like Run with the Wind as one where the characters are adults (college age) and only two of them are in love with the sport (running) and therefore each other... while the rest are forming their own relationships with it. You still get the sports feelings but it has a more "realistic" and "relatable" vibe. I loved the novel version too, it broke me out of my reading slump!

Meanwhile I have Mushishi on my list :D

[lassarina]

I think the iTunes stuff stays in the cloud as long as one is subscribed to Apple Music & has playlists that are mixed and matched between owned* and streamed? My mp3s seem to still be on my hard drive.

*for values of.

I feel you on pre-pandemic reading brain. Mine goes back to like 2015, but damn. Sometimes I just want parts of younger me back. (Many of them improved with time, but some of them got worse, lol.)

[halfcactus]

Ah ty for the insight, that makes sense! The perils of a subscription. >_<

I really hope our brains reconfigure themselves for the better in the next five years... I just miss being able to enjoy things and distract myself from the world, you know?

[lassarina]

There are a couple of books that are not objectively brilliant but to which I will forever owe a debt of gratitude because they completely sucked me in during a time when I was distracted and upset by the world, yeah, I get you.

I'm hoping as I get used to single life, some of it will come back. if I can, like, aim a fire extinguisher at the world or something.