Wednesday

[clevermanka]

Guardian/adjacent:
Zhu Yilong lovers, prepare yourselves.
I'll always love this bts shot.
Fanart: All of Yue's work! Old work from Captain that I hadn't seen yet. 

Untamed/adjacent:
Agreed, never not funny.
Wait, people think the CGI in The Untamed is... bad? 

My friend from China (I should start referring to her by her initials of MH since I seem to talk about her so much) has asked for recommendations for SF books. She's coming at it as an academic who wants to be able to discuss things with her colleagues when she returns home, so (in her words) "critically acclaimed" stuff is more desirable than fannishly popular. I asked about her general reading preferences (adventure, romance, plot vs. character-driven) and she didn't have an answer for that, but stated an interest especially in immigrant literature (she currently works in translation and translation studies and her dissertation touched partially on literature of the African diaspora). With vanishingly rare exception, I haven't read original fiction in three years so I could really use help with this. Please send me any suggestions?

Because McK decided that we might as well spend our US dollars while they're still worth something, I suggested we shell out for a Zojirushi rice cooker (the Japanese manufactured one bc it had better reviews). I gave away my old rice cooker (purchased in the early 2000s for $20 at Target) when I couldn't eat grains anymore. Now that I've successfully reintroduced white rice I quickly became Very Much Over the sad, soggy rice produced from cooking it in a pot on the stove. I used it for the first time yesterday and it was delicious.

In other news, I woke at 4:30, 7, and 9:50 this morning absolutely wiped. Today is definitely a caffeine day.