Here look at this cat

[clevermanka]

Guardian/adjacent:
Fanart: new from Breeze Wong. A Moment with all of Ken's Weilan and Weilan derivatives.
Zhao Yunlan: the journey of a face.
Bai Yu: a journey into a pool.

Art Writing and Fanfiction, by Daniella Sanader

If I’m honest, something akin to embarrassment has lingered in me: only in the last two or three years have I been able to own up to friends and peers about this previous life. That sort of thing always makes me sad, but this is an essay about coming around from that. This in particular is beautiful: ...writing fanfiction is what taught me how to slow down and listen for these cues in the work of others, to find pleasure, rigour and creativity (to find an identity, even) in the process of close reading, of intimate spectatorship. 

Morning thunderstorms today would usually please me greatly but I slept not at all well last night. I woke a few minutes before six, but only managed to drag myself out of bed three hours after that.

Which is annoying bc in addition to doing Actual Adult Stuff today (very necessary Adult Stuff that I've been putting off for literal weeks) I want to finish the writing portion of Hellbent's sequel today--I worked on it a lot yesterday, even though you might not be able to tell that from the accomplished word count. One nice thing about writing a PWP sequel to a PWP is there's even less need for establishing setting and characters. It only took me a bit over twelve hundred words to get to the kissing!

Of course, any of that happening depends on my brain shifting out of second. Something it utterly failed to do for more than ten minutes at a time yesterday. I did get this great photo of Miette tho.

Comments

[solo]

Wow, that photos is really artistic.

[clevermanka]

Thank you! I haven't done much with photography for decades, so it's nice to know my eye hasn't completely shriveled from disuse.

[thetimesink]

Oh, hell no! That is a great shot! ...as in, "Is that a painting?"

[clevermanka]

Thanks!

[minoanmiss]

AWESOME PHOTO

[clevermanka]

Thanks, bb!

[clevermanka]

So it won't show on people's reading pages, I'm putting in a comment a list of things that disappointed me this week:
Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears
The 2018 Shakespeare in the Park Much Ado About Nothing
Slings & Arrows Season 3
Kesha's new album
Something else that was so boring I've forgotten it
Humanity in general

[mckitterick]

So much disappointment for one week 🙁
But, damn, that photo is amazing!

[marycrawford]

Look this is a frigging Coca Cola ad shoot, Zhu Yilong, what right have you to do things like this? I figured you might appreciate it as much as I do, tho. XD Hope someone with more tech-savvy makes a slo-mo gif.

[marycrawford]

PS: why can't I see the cat photo? I want to!

[clevermanka]

He's SO PRETTY.

I don't know why the kitty pic won't show for you, sorry! Maybe a link will work?

[marycrawford]

Aaah thanks, that worked! That is a gorgeously composed photo. <3

[clevermanka]

[trobadora]

Zhao Yunlan: the journey of a face.

... I cannot stop staring at his lips.

I did get this great photo of Miette tho.

Wow, that#s an amazing photo!

[clevermanka]

I cannot stop staring at his lips.
None of us can. 😭

[khellekson]

Look at that cute cat, gazing longingly up, hoping for her people.

I love the quote about intimate spectatorship. Yes yes yes.

For me fandom is about the gaps, the close readings, the desire for continuity, the need to weave it all together with your imagination to make something explicable.

[clevermanka]

"Intimate Spectatorship" might be one of the best phrases I've ever read about fic.

[goss]

What a wonderful photo! :D

Also, OMG I *WISH* I WAS BAI YU in that pool video. (My a/c is broken and because of lockdown can't be fixed right now, there is little water in the pipes, this house is an oven, and i am DYINGGGGGG. /o\ )

[clevermanka]

Oh nooooooooo suffering from heat is The Worst. I don't suppose the ice-fan thing is an option? At least while you're sitting at a desk or something?

[goss]

Ice? Man, I wish. Ice doesn't remain solid for more than a couple minutes, if so much. :b

And like yesterday electricity went for a whole hour. O_O While a fan blowing hot air is not exactly an ideal situation, yesterday I found out that NO fan at all is far, far worse. /o\

Anyway, being highly suggestible, I just ended up throwing myself into a 5-minute cold ha! I wish tepid shower just now. Thanks, Bai Yu. :b

Speaking of suggestibility, yesterday I was reading that Guardian RPF gym fic, and ended up exercising afterwards. LOL! That Bai Yu, again! XD

[clevermanka]

UGH. I wish I could teleport a couple of our chillpacks to you (those frozen plastic things you throw in a cooler). But I guess if that were possible, you could teleport yourself a new AC unit.

[wrote_and_writ]

Beautiful kitty!

It’s raining so hard here, has been all week, and I’m basically just staying in bed. I hope you get some time/space to be cozy today. ❤️

[clevermanka]

I'm going to head to bed soon, myself. *fistbump*

[winter_blossom]

Oh, my <3 Miette looks lovely and that shot is excellent!

[clevermanka]

She's a very pretty kitty (and those stairs are pretty photogenic, too).

[riventhorn]

Adult Stuff is the worst.

But that is a very lovely picture of your cat!

[clevermanka]

Yes, let's look more at the kitty bc all I did today was write fic and pop in on the Guardian Discord watch.

[nnozomi]

GORGEOUS photo. Nice to see you on my weekly venture into Discord, too!

[clevermanka]

It's a good thing that cat is soft and pretty bc she's being a NIGHTMARE today 😆

[rheasilvia]

That is an absolutely lovely picture! The light is perfect. <3

[clevermanka]

Thank you! I'm ridiculously pleased by it.