Wednesday

[clevermanka]

The TL is having a collective meltdown today over Bai Yu's earring and ponytail. Here it is in motion. Bob, can we get that on replay?

Fanart: Love this take on the Necklace of Pining. Also love happy Shen Wei at Zhao Yunlan's flirting. Sad and bloody Modern Kunwei.

Sweet Chuguo moodboard.

From Tumblr, for the Wang Zhuocheng fans.

My thoughts 24+ hours after my first shot:

Really not looking forward to the second dose.

I was fine the evening of, but the day after was rough. I felt like I was moving through water and my brain was so sluggish. I had a bit of a headache--what I think of as Fatigue Headache. Sort of like a sinus headache but comes with a side effect of considerably slowing down my thought processes to where I get a little panicked from not being able to think. As a test, I played a few games of solitaire and (I timed myself) it took about 1.5x as long to get through a game as usual. Interesting little bit of empirical evidence I'd never thought to try before. Anyway, I was just fucking exhausted all day and it was a real drag.

Feeling a little better today, but I'm not gonna push anything yet. My low back hurts in the usual spot which makes no sense because I've done nothing to deserve it. I can only assume it's general inflammation. Extra sucks because I can't stand for very long which means not much is gonna happen on the portrait today, either.

While I was in the throes of fatigue brain yesterday, I watched a horror film on the recommendation of a friend. It's not my usual mindless horror comfort watch but it was so good. Super mind-bendy what-is-real speculative fiction. It's called Coherence and if you like tight, unscripted, ensemble cast stuff I think you'd like it. There's no gore (one guy bumps his head off-screen that results in a bit of bleeding), and no special effects. It was filmed in the writer/director's house on a shoestring budget but the camerawork and acting is spot-on. I watched it on Shudder TV but I don't know where else it might be available. Definitely worth hunting down if it sounds at all interesting, though.

eta: aaaaand it's another nap-before-noon day.

Comments

[kimboo_york]

Oh GOSH same for me, re: second day was worse than the first. I got my shot late in the day on Monday, but the fatigue and headache really hit around 2 pm yesterday. Which was too bad, b/c I was trying to learn how to mask images in a video using software I have never used before and OMG by 5 pm I was actually, legitimately, literally ~crying~ in frustration. It did not hit me until after I logged off work that I, someone who almost never cries, was perhaps dealing with more than usual stress! ahahaha *face palm*

Today is better, I'm still a bit lethargic and creaky, but my arm hurts less. I hear the second pfizer shot is usually has a worse reaction so I'm pondering taking the next day off from work as a precaution.

YAY no covid for us! But UGH side-effects. bleargh.

[clevermanka]

Ooof, sorry to hear you were suffering yesterday, too. Here's hoping my Moderna second-go is easier. 🤞 for that and for better days for both of us today.

[kimboo_york]

also HOW DARE you post that vid of WZC, which I have not revisted in at least *checks watch* a few hours. :D ahahaha his voice, istg. He is so BABY except when he's really not. aaaaaaaaa

[clevermanka]

Love a man who can do both.

[goss]

for the Wang Zhuocheng fans

The litte eyebrow raise has killed me ded. *__*

[clevermanka]

It was a pleasure knowing you. *salutes*

[trobadora]

OMG BAI YU!!!!!!!

Glad you're feeling a little better, and I hope the rest of it will go away quickly!

[clevermanka]

Thank you, here's hoping!

[writedragon]

Sorry the vax is getting to you -- the upside is, it means its working. Also, I have read that it is permissible to take an anti-inflammatory (provided one can tolerate them, of course), after the vax but not before, to help with fatigue, fever, body aches or whatever. I'm planning on doing that after my second dose b/c I hear it can kick the booty pretty hard. That said, after 2 days of initial symptoms post first dose, I actually felt better than I have in a long time. I might have been a long hauler and not known it.

[clevermanka]

I'll remember that anti-inflammatory med tip when I get my second shot next month, thank you. Hurray for your feeling better!

[yaaurens]

Oof, that sounds like a very un-fun vax reaction. I've heard that the first one is worse if you've had covid and then the second one is a breeze, and vice versa if you haven't had it. But who knows how all this works, everyone is reacting so differently! I'm sorry you're suffering with it though, and hope you feel better quickly.

Also, thank you for the little fandom round-ups. It's so much easier than doing all the digging and hunting myself, lol.

[clevermanka]

Thank you. It's definitely a drag, but at least it's nothing I'm not sorta used to. Yay chronic fatigue?

For much more extensive Twitter round-ups plingo_kat offers a weekly round up (usually) on Sundays or Mondays.

[marycrawford]

Man, the little ponytail on BY looks just as good on him as the one on Z1L ages ago! Thanks for linking to the good stuff.

[clevermanka]

You betcha.

[moodsong]

I nap every day at lunch. 😝😝😝😝

[clevermanka]

I used to! Since being unemployed, I usually didn't need my rest time until later in the afternoon. The past couple days, though, I've needed both!

[naye]

Hope you get over the side-effects soon. *hugs*

...of the vaccine, I mean. There's really no getting over PONYTAIL EARRING BAI YU.

[clevermanka]

Thank you, and yes! Very much agreed! 😄

[calystarose]

*hugs* I'm sorry post-vax was so rough on you.

oh wow, Bai Yu *chin hands*

[clevermanka]

He looks SO GOOD. (and expensive, as someone said on Twitter 😆)

[calystarose]

mmm indeed :)

[brandywine28]

People's vax reactions really seem to be varying -- kind of wildly! My mother, who will take any excuse to complain and freakin' run with it, only had a tiny bit of arm stiffness for, like, a day and a half. Meanwhile a friend of mine says she's been headachey and nauseous for almost two weeks. (Both had the Pfizer shot, fwiw.) Human bodies are the worst. They should be outlawed.

Here's hoping that urge to nap starts to wane a little!

[clevermanka]

I used to revel in my body (I could do such wonderful, fun things with it!) but boy howdy does age and/or illness take it out of person. sighhhhhh

And thank you, yes, here's hoping!

[satsuma]

oooh i love that modern kunwei <3

days two and three were the worst for me as well, though its hard to differentiate between vaccine side effects and the symptoms flare i've been in for the last six? months. Hopefully you're feeling better now

[clevermanka]

its hard to differentiate between vaccine side effects and the symptoms flare i've been in for the last six? months.
LOL SAME. Was it the vaccine or physical and emotional fallout from moving the last of my shit out of my ex's house? Who knows???

Hope you start feeling better soon, bb.

[satsuma]

I signed up for the CDC's post vaccine symptoms tracker and so they keep texting me like 'hey how are you feeling today?' and I'm just like, honestly i have no idea

Tho I would say march was definitely better than february, which was probably better than the november-january hellzone. If I could get back to my 2019 baseline before I have to move in august that'd be lovely, but I'm a bit dubious as to whether it will actually happen

[clevermanka]

*fistbump of sad solidarity* I would love to get back to my early 2019 baseline (pre-job-loss, pre-breakup, pre-move). And same, I've got some real doubts that's gonna happen.

I hate that you've been having such a rough time of it, too.

[satsuma]

Hopefully we're both able to get there eventually <3

I think? I already said this over on ao3 back when it was posting, but I really did appreciate having Deconstruction to read over the winter

[clevermanka]

Yes, fingers crossed! And I'm so glad Deconstruction helped you get through a bleak season, bb! *hugs hugs hugs*