Media Round Up: Yuletide, Mochi and Magic
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forestofgloryStar Trek: Voyager-- We have finished season 3 and watched the first episode of season four which means lots of Borg, and I’ve kinda met Seven of Nine! There was a great episode where Tuvok and Tom Paris where trying to write a holo-novel together and Tuvok quotes some Vulcan poetics! Now I really want some fic about Vulcan poetics -- if you know of any please send it my way.
Moontangled by Stephanie Burgis I love The Harwood Spellbook series of fantasy novellas of which is the most recent installment, and went the author was offering ARC’s on twitter I jumped at the chance! This was delightful as expected, I will have a longer review after this comes out which will be sometime in February.
I Love You So Mochi by Sarah Kuhn This was a YA novel about an Japanese American girl who visits Japan for spring break. Its really cute and has wonderful descriptions of food and clothing. The main character is searching for a vocation in the story and as a person who would like to have a vocation but doesn’t really I found this theme a bit hard to deal with. But I still enjoyed the book. I also appreciated that the main character’s mom is not dead and that their mother/daughter relationship plays an important role in the book.
Yuletide 2019 I read a lot of fanfic posted as part of this annual small fandoms exchange. There was quite a lot of fic for my Chinese drama fandoms and also many fics based on books I enjoyed. Here are a some of recs:
”A Series of Discoveries” by genarti
(Sorcerer to the Crown) a very cute take on Rollo’s backstory
”Be Bold, but not Too Bold” by meguri_aite
(In Other Lands), the summary of this is pretty prefect “A dragon appears in the Borderlands, and Elliot Schafer makes it his first order of business to get kidnapped by it.”
”Situation Normal” (Murderbot) Murderbot goes to a scientific conference and mets ART again.
”The Past Didn't Go Anywhere” by FairestCat (The Untamed) A wonderful Wen Qing Lives fic
”Fire in the Blood” by Jo Lasalle (The Untamed) I enjoyed not knowing more than the tags going into this fic so I’m just going to say that this gave me a lot of feelings.
Get You A Man Who Can Do Both by marycrawford (Guardian) A very cute Da Qing POV midcanon.
“Ring the Bells (That Still Can Ring)” by Shadaras (The Untamed) Another Wen Qing centric fic (I love her, ok?) also featuring some very excellent Jiang Yanli
The Witch Boy, The Hidden Witch, and Midwinter Witch by Molly Ostertag -- the first two where rereads. These middle grade graphic novels about a boy who wants to do girls magic and his family and friends are so good! I especially enjoyed the complicated family politics in the last volume. And I love that one of his friends has two dads and it's not an issue at all. The art here is lovely and colorful. I just really loved these!
Moontangled by Stephanie Burgis I love The Harwood Spellbook series of fantasy novellas of which is the most recent installment, and went the author was offering ARC’s on twitter I jumped at the chance! This was delightful as expected, I will have a longer review after this comes out which will be sometime in February.
I Love You So Mochi by Sarah Kuhn This was a YA novel about an Japanese American girl who visits Japan for spring break. Its really cute and has wonderful descriptions of food and clothing. The main character is searching for a vocation in the story and as a person who would like to have a vocation but doesn’t really I found this theme a bit hard to deal with. But I still enjoyed the book. I also appreciated that the main character’s mom is not dead and that their mother/daughter relationship plays an important role in the book.
Yuletide 2019 I read a lot of fanfic posted as part of this annual small fandoms exchange. There was quite a lot of fic for my Chinese drama fandoms and also many fics based on books I enjoyed. Here are a some of recs:
”A Series of Discoveries” by genarti
(Sorcerer to the Crown) a very cute take on Rollo’s backstory
”Be Bold, but not Too Bold” by meguri_aite
(In Other Lands), the summary of this is pretty prefect “A dragon appears in the Borderlands, and Elliot Schafer makes it his first order of business to get kidnapped by it.”
”Situation Normal” (Murderbot) Murderbot goes to a scientific conference and mets ART again.
”The Past Didn't Go Anywhere” by FairestCat (The Untamed) A wonderful Wen Qing Lives fic
”Fire in the Blood” by Jo Lasalle (The Untamed) I enjoyed not knowing more than the tags going into this fic so I’m just going to say that this gave me a lot of feelings.
Get You A Man Who Can Do Both by marycrawford (Guardian) A very cute Da Qing POV midcanon.
“Ring the Bells (That Still Can Ring)” by Shadaras (The Untamed) Another Wen Qing centric fic (I love her, ok?) also featuring some very excellent Jiang Yanli
The Witch Boy, The Hidden Witch, and Midwinter Witch by Molly Ostertag -- the first two where rereads. These middle grade graphic novels about a boy who wants to do girls magic and his family and friends are so good! I especially enjoyed the complicated family politics in the last volume. And I love that one of his friends has two dads and it's not an issue at all. The art here is lovely and colorful. I just really loved these!
