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Giftsmas
Was delightful, if low key; alas, multiple packages that had been moving steadily through the postal system over the preceding 10 days suddenly ended up parked in warehouses as of Monday, where they languish still. But people seemed pretty pleased with the gifts that did arrive on time, and now there's the promise of more to come.
Yuletide
I got three delightful gifts for Yuletide:
take a right, bang a left by ideal_girl, All Elite Wrestling, Trent Barreta, Orange Cassidy, Chuck Taylor, multiple other cameos, rated T.
Written in linked 100-word segments, this totally captures the feel of the Dynamite Diamond match between Orange Cassidy and MJF. There are some great backstage moments with Chuck and Trent, and OC's characterization is on point.
Snowflakes by Dorey G, Blake & Avery Series, William Avery/Jeremiah Blake, rated M.
The enduring OTP of my heart, I am always thrilled to see--and even better, get--fic in this microfandom. The story picks up my snowstorm prompt and runs with it. There are so many good little moments here: increasingly worldly Avery, enduringly cynical and resigned Blake, the back-and-forth and humorously pointed observations between them. Good stuff.
Waffle Cone Bruise (log in to AO3 to see this one), All Elite Wrestling, Sue Barreta, Trent Barreta, Chuck Taylor, Orange Cassidy, rated G.
This double drabble in response to my 'what came next?" prompt for the Best Friends-Santana & Ortiz Parking Lot Brawl hits all the right notes. I love Mother Hen!Sue here.
Shenanigans
We set the temperature to a pleasant 66 degrees before retiring, only to wake up in extreme discomfort at an obscenely early hour and discover that the thermostat had malfunctioned and heated the apartment to a "cozy" 87 degrees. About half of the houseplants--most of which had already been expressing their extreme displeasure at finding themselves in the winter sunlit, arid indoors instead of the humid, sunny balcony of summer past--said 'F-- this' and croaked. I am gently coaxing the survivors into hanging on until spring. Meanwhile, the humidifier still produces warm mist, but the fan that projects it throughout the house is broken.
Language Learning
Mango Japanese: Chapter 2: Units 1-7
The course did introduce the "apology as a form of 'thank you'" this week, then dove directly into native Japanese numbers from 1-10 and ways to ask whether someone speaks or understands the languages you do.
Mango Korean: Chapter 10: Units 2-8
A lot of useful grammar in this week's units: progressive tense; verbal nouns; and admonitions and advice. The latter in particular is well presented. On the flip side, the course has given up teaching particles entirely, so that learners are (possibly unbeknownst to them) presented with a very colloquial form of the language that might make particles even more confusing and tricky to learn further on.
Podcast Gaelgagh: 70-76
We've progressed to a pretty gratifying place where the students (and listeners) have learned enough to correctly form new grammatical constructions by inference. There are still a fair number of silly practice sentences, but far more that sound like something you'd actually say to someone in a conversation, and that's pretty neat.
RIP
I was very, very sad to hear that Brodie Lee passed away yesterday. What a freaking shame.
これで以上です。
Was delightful, if low key; alas, multiple packages that had been moving steadily through the postal system over the preceding 10 days suddenly ended up parked in warehouses as of Monday, where they languish still. But people seemed pretty pleased with the gifts that did arrive on time, and now there's the promise of more to come.
Yuletide
I got three delightful gifts for Yuletide:
take a right, bang a left by ideal_girl, All Elite Wrestling, Trent Barreta, Orange Cassidy, Chuck Taylor, multiple other cameos, rated T.
Written in linked 100-word segments, this totally captures the feel of the Dynamite Diamond match between Orange Cassidy and MJF. There are some great backstage moments with Chuck and Trent, and OC's characterization is on point.
Snowflakes by Dorey G, Blake & Avery Series, William Avery/Jeremiah Blake, rated M.
The enduring OTP of my heart, I am always thrilled to see--and even better, get--fic in this microfandom. The story picks up my snowstorm prompt and runs with it. There are so many good little moments here: increasingly worldly Avery, enduringly cynical and resigned Blake, the back-and-forth and humorously pointed observations between them. Good stuff.
Waffle Cone Bruise (log in to AO3 to see this one), All Elite Wrestling, Sue Barreta, Trent Barreta, Chuck Taylor, Orange Cassidy, rated G.
This double drabble in response to my 'what came next?" prompt for the Best Friends-Santana & Ortiz Parking Lot Brawl hits all the right notes. I love Mother Hen!Sue here.
Shenanigans
We set the temperature to a pleasant 66 degrees before retiring, only to wake up in extreme discomfort at an obscenely early hour and discover that the thermostat had malfunctioned and heated the apartment to a "cozy" 87 degrees. About half of the houseplants--most of which had already been expressing their extreme displeasure at finding themselves in the winter sunlit, arid indoors instead of the humid, sunny balcony of summer past--said 'F-- this' and croaked. I am gently coaxing the survivors into hanging on until spring. Meanwhile, the humidifier still produces warm mist, but the fan that projects it throughout the house is broken.
Language Learning
Mango Japanese: Chapter 2: Units 1-7
The course did introduce the "apology as a form of 'thank you'" this week, then dove directly into native Japanese numbers from 1-10 and ways to ask whether someone speaks or understands the languages you do.
Mango Korean: Chapter 10: Units 2-8
A lot of useful grammar in this week's units: progressive tense; verbal nouns; and admonitions and advice. The latter in particular is well presented. On the flip side, the course has given up teaching particles entirely, so that learners are (possibly unbeknownst to them) presented with a very colloquial form of the language that might make particles even more confusing and tricky to learn further on.
Podcast Gaelgagh: 70-76
We've progressed to a pretty gratifying place where the students (and listeners) have learned enough to correctly form new grammatical constructions by inference. There are still a fair number of silly practice sentences, but far more that sound like something you'd actually say to someone in a conversation, and that's pretty neat.
RIP
I was very, very sad to hear that Brodie Lee passed away yesterday. What a freaking shame.
これで以上です。
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It sounds like you are making good progress with the languages!
I watched WWF with my dad when I was a kid but kind of lost touch with it after that. I have heard there are some good wrestling shows out there now.
I had totally forgotten about YuleTide until yesterday and so I scrolled through the offerings with great giddiness and now have so much to read to escort me into the New Year.
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And there's a lot of good stuff in Yuletide this year! I'm not familiar with the most popular fandoms, but the smaller ones have a bunch of gems.