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English reading-
The Taishan Hospital Murders
-man still needs a beta. You may not know this, guy, being Jewish and all, but there *are* no Gnostics left in the west. Iraq, /maybe/.
My Father Had a Daughter
- Shakespeare novel about Judith Shakespeare. Err- no worse than The Player's Boy, and no better.
Guards, Guards!
-Nothing wrong with it. Perfectly respectable light reading. Maybe it's the fanclub puts me off.
170 Chinese Poems
- When I find myself in times of trouble....
Japanese reading-
Godchild 3-6
-and tomorrow may be devoted to 7&8
Tantei Aoneko 3&4 (reread, though I must have been drunk when I read it first time because there are whole stories that make no sense now)
-and tomorrow may be devoted to 5 but maybe not. Godchild is easier. Aoneko in some perverse way is more satisfying. Except that the minute he gets near Uguisu the action and the conversation become of a Stygian darkness. This is annoying because I saw one night how you could do Aoneko/ Phantom Moon crossover but to do it I must must *must* know what Aoneko is saying to Uguisu and just what the hell is up between them. It's not like the relationships in PMT are any clearer, and I must have clarity in at least one of my sources.
Unless I'm supposed to map Quickmaiden onto Uguisu exactly as Glassbat is mapped onto Aoneko; and myself I would prefer not.
Fic
Finished the Rainy Willow, not as good as the first one IMHO; wrote a 100 Demons drabble and the Xmas fic; did a background exercise to the sequel to Kaiei at the Southern Ocean, to tell me how my ambassador feels, which alas still doesn't tell me what kind of poems she'll recite. This novel writing thingy is an exercise in infinitely delayed gratification AFAICS. (ETA: though I suppose, for those who take note of such things and think they matter, 2007 is marked from all other years by my writing *two* stories with no male characters in them at all. However the women in them talk exclusively about their interactions with the male characters, so I say it doesn't count, and my claim to not be misogynistic thus rests solely on a hand-written Haruka/ Michiru story in 1995.)
As for 2007 as a whole- it didn't hurt much but it had no high points that I can recall. Years where I don't travel always register as dull; and these days, frequently, years when I do travel register as dull as well. I did nothing new- no milestones, no ground broken. I wrote more than I have since 2003, which is good; but I didn't care for any of it, which is bad. I read more in both languages than usual, which is good, but nothing much stayed with me afterwards except maybe a fever-dream Daisan no Teikoku.
I'd be inclined to call the year a failure except for three things.
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sho_sunaga reappeared in my life. I lost 5 kilos, something I'd been trying to do for over three years but never achieved short of dysentery or starvation; and my knees hurt less even without the cortisone shots that've kept me mobile for the last year. (To compensate, my feet in their oh-so-expensive orthotics are *killing* me.) Finally, the casual futzing around with Chinese I've been doing for the last two years or so suddenly took a big step towards literacy, probably because rasetsunyo keeps posting things I want to understand. So there's hope for next year.Which I hope will be a good one for all of you.
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Happy new year!
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Even though I think that 2007 was not a 'good' year in lots of ways.... it made it more bearable that others were having a good year.... and also Shahrazad and Darian...makes it more than bearable!
*loves and Hugs*...
here's hoping my Japanese literacy improves as your Chinese seems to be!
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Guards, Guards: uh, fanclub?
Re the claim to not be misogynistic (by writing female characters): I think it is possible to make the "me not misogynistic" point even if there are no main female characters. You can have the males talking about the females =P (but certainly not in the vein in which Bertie talks about Aunt Agatha!)
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If I wanted to earn my Girl Guide Not-A-Misogynist badge I could indeed have the males talk about the females. The canonical ones in my fandom, however, canonically don't, and the dragon males would do it in the same slightly chilling fashion as the dragon females talk about them: from the pov of good uhh breeding. What are her bloodlines, what are her political alliances, is she of a compatible temperament, what other enticements does her court provide, and would all these factors inspire me sufficiently to have sex with her for two hundred days?
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I used to think he was serious fun too. Then I discovered other authors, and rediscovered Wodehouse (considering some of the Pratchett jokes I think particularly funnee are actually bows in direction of Wodehouse) =)
Re pov of uhh good breeding the furry in me so resonates with that. Why not a fic in which both versions (male, female) of this *serious* discussion are shown? ^_^
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The Pratchettites are indeed more civilized and less toxic than either the Potterites or the (reincarnated) Doctor fans now you mention him even if you didn't. OTOH anything more toxic than PotterWhodom is probably outlawed by the Geneva convention.
Mind you, Wodehouse too is the same sort of chummy fandom as pterry, and an acquired taste as well because its vaunted comic brilliance escapes me, on the whole. Once or twice is fine, but... same schtick again and again and again?
I've touched on the politics of dragon breeding here and there, but I find it works better as corroborative detail than as the focus of a fic itself. I had a whole story where some strong-minded ruler decided she /must/ have a child with *certain king* and this king only; but as I couldn't decide which king it was (is totally different story if she pressures Gouen than if she has her sights set on Goukou) I relegated it to backstory to something else.