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August summary: lockdown + got vaxxed + bought some stationery (you can see them here) and a digital keyboard (Casiotouch S1--I'm thinking about posting some sort of ~review~ when I have more time).

I finished a lot of media in August, but most of them were books I started a while back, or shows I've been groupwatching over a period of months. ^^;

TV/Movies

HiStory3 Trapped, The Day of Becoming You, Kamen Rider Build, Minari )


Books

  • Neon Yang, "The Black Tides of Heaven": thoughts here
  • Jessica Zafra, "Twisted Travels: Rambles in Central Europe”: thoughts here
  • Allie Brosh, "Solutions and Other Problems": I liked this book for personal reasons, but due to the content, it's in no way a pleasant or enjoyable read. "Banana" was very funny, though. I'm also anti-reccing the physical book as it is very, very heavy and unwieldy. Might sell my physical copy and switch to digital when I have more energy. (Book contains: pet illness + death, suicide and grief, cancer scare, medical situations, drugs)



    Lastly, a list of fanworks I made throughout the month:


  • The Day of Becoming You Tumblr gifset tag in chronological order
  • The Day of Becoming You gifs (Twitter thread)
  • Couple of Mirrors (12-episode republican era GL drama, which we're now groupwatching) gifs (Twitter thread)
  • Piano arrangement/sheet music for Crush On (ep 22 piano BGM) from The Day of Becoming You
  • Piano arrangement/sheet music for My Soul (ep 23 guitar BGM) from The Day of Becoming You: here's a video of me playing a draft of this arrangement, using a random instrument setting in my new keyboard XD
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    This took 4 days—I started on Sunday and finished on Wednesday. Usually I work on my Notes app and encode it on Noteflight when I get on the computer. Here's a screencap of my 以沫 WIP from last year:



    This time I tried using Goodnotes5's score template, and I'm not sure if that made it easier or harder?


    PROS:
    - It is, in a way, easier to not have to write the names of the notes.
    - It's also easier to just copy what's on my notes instead of having to "translate" letters into their place on the staff.


    CONS:
    - If I want to change the key for the entire thing, I'm doomed. (Noteflight does seem to have a transpose function, but I haven't tried it, and it's still more work.)

    - I don't know how beat or rhythm patterns work anyway, I really just map the notes...

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