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[community profile] snowflake_challenge #6: Share your favourite piece of original canon.
I don't have a favorite anything anymore since I have a very short memory and tend to move on from interests... But here's a list of favorites from the last five years:

  • the movie Legend of Hei: there's supposed to be a sequel in the works and I'm worried Xiao Hei will spend less time in his cat form in it. I think his human form is cute too but I have cat bias. XD
  • the manga Witch Hat Atelier: the art, design, and paneling are insanely good, and I cried almost every volume. Not very sure the anime format is for me but I'm excited for it nonetheless!
  • the baihe youth comic 她們的故事 Their Story: Found out recently that there's some controversy(?) around it, but I still love it and it continues to be a comfort reread.
  • the Yoruneko comics, which are about the daily (well, nightly) life of a cat owner: this is also a comfort read and the main reason I still check Twitter, as the artist posts there. There's an animated series too.
  • the webtoon Like Wind on a Dry Branch: I paused at around 100 chapters in (it's ongoing with 200+ chapters), but it was the most invested I was in a canon in a while, a rare occurrence. It has some of my fav tropes too, ie. hurt/comfort and demons raising a human child :'D

    I guess it's easier to say that my favorite medium is comics these days... I need to relearn how to read books without illustrations. ^^;


    2.
    Vocabulary list from the first chapter of 全宇宙最后一只猫 The Last Cat in the Universe (which I'm dropping because I'm looking for shorter or maybe less webnovel-y reads):
    journal photo: vocabulary from The Last Cat in the Universe chapter 1

    3.
    Recent bookmarks:
  • Public Domain Archive: you can filter by style, time period, and tag!
  • Ellipsus: supposedly a Google Docs alternative.
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    Challenge #15: Fandom Snowflake Challenge's 2023 Fandom Wrapped!


      Your top 5 fandoms for 2023 were:
      N/A (But maybe Nirvana in Fire, because I revived my AO3 to comment on NiF Exchange works XD)

      Your top 5 fandom spaces (Discord, Twitter, etc.) in 2023 were:
      Twitter + occasional Discord. Dreamwidth for myself.

      The top 5 things you did to contribute to fandom in 2023 were:
      By my own metric:

    • Another year of (Chinese & Taiwanese media) watchparties...
    • Another year of fansubbing (really, too many to summarize)...
    • Oh No! Here Comes Trouble fancomic fantranslation (just because I think asking + waiting for permission is the pinnacle of hard work XD)
    • Modu/Justice in the Dark GIFs + recs + translations
    • A couple of niche (in the Anglosphere) cdrama fanvids (that were also translation vids lol)

      Your top 5 most appreciated fandom contributions were:
      Subbed variety show clips (Meng Ziyi, Tan Jianci, and Tan Songyun fans sure showed up for them!):

    • Tan Songyun + Zhang Xincheng phone call (Our Inn)
    • All These Years MVs, variety show clips, behind-the-scenes, promotional videos... I subbed nearly all of them, which... yeah, never again.
    • This Tan Jianci + Zhang Xincheng (Our Inn ep10) shitpost????
    • Meng Ziyi in a Hi6 special ep that wasn't officially posted on Youtube
    • Modu audiodrama S5 livetweet + fansubs thread

      Your fandom personality in 2023 was: (i.e. Fandom Eeyore, Twitter Refugee, Discord Party Animal, etc.)
      Hater (of cdramas, cmovies, cnovels lol). Copyright Strike Struggler (thanks Zhejiang!!!). Tired But Showed Up. Watchparty Mod.

      In 2023, you discovered: (that you adore hockey RPF, but you hate the Liberty Mutual emu, etc.)
      That even basic Taiwanese is incomprehensible to me lmfao. That I was tired of c-ent fandom across all spaces... That the fansub projects I enjoyed doing the most were lyric subtitles... And that I do like working with people (friends) on fandom things.

      Your fandom home in 2023 was: (Bluesky, Mastodon, Middle Earth, lying in my bed, with a good book, etc.)
      Twitter, but it's not a fun place anymore since the algorithm just pushes high-engagement content now (fandom drama, dumb non-fandom discourse and engagement bait, and whatever people are fighting about in Chronically Online PH Twitter). :( And the one Discord, because it was nice to be able to just check in on weekends and have a sort of movie/television club and it was pretty much a server of 5.
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    Challenge #12: Tell Us about a Personal Win.

    Getting through 2023 for sure!
    mental health thingsI had been stuck in a pretty bad anxiety-depression spiral since late 2022 and I feel like I spent all of 2023 putting myself through therapy without actually going to therapy. _(:3」∠)_

    I don't think I had a ~breakthrough~ until the very end of the year, though it's hard to say what exactly flipped the switch in my brain; it really was an entire year of giving myself homework and introspecting with intent and even when I had gotten past the paralyzing void of meaninglessness, I felt subhuman through most of the motions.

    It did also help, for both mental and practical reasons, that my older brother was out of the country (and therefore our household) for half the year so I had more space in my head. :P

    Anyway, after... all of that... I've gone back into hibernation haha.


    Fandom-wise: Finally, an excuse to make a compilation post—I translated and made lyric videos(/fanvids) for all of Zhang Xincheng's songs this year! It was a good year for music releases for him—2 OST songs, an insubstantial summer duet, and a mini-album with songs he co-wrote. My personal favorites are Abyss (Modu/Justice in the Dark OST) and Evening Wind (neither of which he co-wrote hahahaha).








    And I got to work with a fantranslator I admire ([twitter.com profile] for_zhouyutong, who has also stepped back from their fan account) for a couple of Young Blood cast-related things and I really enjoyed the experience! One of them was sadly blocked on Youtube </3
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    Challenge #7: Make a list of fannish and/or creative resources.

    Cfandom people are always looking for Chinese learning resources, so here is a list (with other links thrown in):
    Read more... )


    Challenge #8 Talk about a current fannish project (fic, art, vid, crochet, funko pop village) (that you are creating or enjoying)
    Not exactly fannish, but I'm trying to maintain a journal—and trying to keep reading cnovels so I have content to put on my journal (vocabulary lists). XD I meant to finish My Five Elements Lack You before LNY but I've been to preoccupied to sit down and read, oops.

    And someone did an animatic of a Modu audiodrama skit (parody of a viral Korean video/meme) I subtitled/translated, though as usual, I can't look at my old stuff without critiquing them and wanting to claw out my face.

    Audio with soft subs:



    Animatic by liss:



    Challenge #9: Rec Us Your Newest Thing.
    Not really a "thing", but, well, my latest dog obsession is Manyu and only Manyu!!! I now understand solo/celeb stans because I felt a wave of crushing disappointment when her owner posted a photo of her little brother... Like, cute doggo, but that's not my baby :( :( :( I hope she's genuinely being treated well by her owners because she seems like such a sweet baby and I love her little face sooooo much.

    I also started Fire Emblem: Three Houses last week + am trying to do Yoga with Adriene's January 30-day challenge without following her timeline, ie. just doing a video whenever I feel like it. I don't usually vibe with her videos but this series actually looks beneficial for my back, with different core focuses and an average video length of 18-20 minutes. We'll see if I can make it to the end! (I'm at Day 6 lol)


    Challenge #10: Five Things
    Five recent reads/watches (or attempts to):

  • Dungeon Meshi anime: fantasy anime about experiencing the cycle of life by cooking in the dungeon. Updates every Thursday, and it was a nice weekly unwinding ritual for 2 weeks, until I fell into the FE3H pit. I didn't make it very far into the manga, so I'm excited to see the rest of the story in the anime! IMO ep1 flew by too fast for the food and comedy scenes to be truly done justice, but ep2 was a bit smoother. I expect it to find its groove as it goes—even the manga took a couple of volumes to pick up momentum.

  • Frieren: another fantasy anime, one about mortality, outliving the people you love, and carrying the parts they left behind on your journey. I only got to see maybe 1.5 eps and the grief and pre-grief hit me pretty hard so I'm not super sure this is for me. It's very wholesome and soothing otherwise! The basic premise is life after saving the world.

  • I Told Sunset About You: 5-episode Thai BL drama, one that I remember a non-fandom friend recommending a few years back, long before the sequel existed. I think I only made it through half an ep because I couldn't multitask to it? XD But production values are very promising, and characters seem to be Thai Chinese, which is interesting to me!

  • 長安三萬里 Chang'an (2023): Just watched this weekend, and will try to write about it at some point lol. tl;dr - This is a 3/5 movie for me.

  • The 2023 Hugo nomination statistics have finally been released – and we have questions: stats and discussion roundup.
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    I thought this was a good one to do, considering how fragmented my internet identity is. XD
    [community profile] snowflake_challenge Challenge #4 (https://snowflake-challenge.dreamwidth.org/70775.html)
    IceBreaker Challenge! Tell us about yourself. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.


    I'm A, a walking identity crisis who uses a different handle on pretty much every platform! The ones I identify with the most are [tumblr.com profile] decrescendo and [archiveofourown.org profile] grassjelly.

    I'm currently fandom-less, but my fandoms are typically Asian media (JRPGs, animanga, and various cdrama), though I've been in book fandom in the past (Les Miserables, Discworld).

    My primary medium is graphics, though I've recently shifted to fanvids.

    I kind of want to do a image dump of my fanart over the years but I will try to restrain myself!!!! The ones I feel are most representative of my heart are from what I think of as my days of youth: my various Discworld fanwork (2011–2015) and Nirvana in Fire X Persona 5 tarot deck (2018) [process post here], and also this one typographic animation I did for Guardian (2018)...
    image-heavy post )
    I also eventually learned to GIF. :)




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    Yoinking from [community profile] snowflake_challenge (h/t [personal profile] eglantiere):
    https://snowflake-challenge.dreamwidth.org/70165.html
    Challenge #2

    In your own space, set yourself some goals for the coming year. They can be fannish or not, public or private. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it.Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

    Read more... )

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