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With the latest layoffs at Tumblr I've seen several friends making accounts here for the first time! Welcome, feel free to ask me any questions.

Here's what I hope are some useful links and tips:

If you are into Chinese entertainment and/or novels both the c_ent and cnovels communities are nice places to hang out, that host regular chats about what people are reading and watching as well as other topics. c_ent also keeps a list of Chinese media related communities on Dreamwidth.

I'm part of the group blog ladybusiness which features intersectional feminist criticism and yelling about our feelings. I haven't been posting much there recently but renay has posted some great stuff!

I also rec following common_nature for pretty pictures!

17)Today I’m reccing one of my favorite cdramas ever: The Long Ballad

It has so many of my favorite things: A super smart chaos muppet who is also an extraordinary young woman succeeding at typically masculine pursuits, an girl who is not like other girls and her best friend who is, badass older women, and also really excellent character arcs

I could go on about this forever but instead I’ll just link you to the primer and rec list I wrote last year https://ladybusiness.dreamwidth.org/361221.html

18)For #DecRecs today I bring you an academic paper: “‘What Do Barbarians Know of Gratitude?’ - The Stereotype of Barbarian Perfidy and Its Uses in Tang Foreign Policy Rhetoric” by Shao-yun Yang

Now many of you know that I dislike Tang Taizong rather a lot so I appreciate this paper for calling him out on his BS. But It's just really interesting paper especially if you are interested in ethic identity in Chinese history
https://www.academia.edu/5290394/_What_Do_Barbarians_Know_of_Gratitude_The_Stereotype_of_Barbarian_Perfidy_and_Its_Uses_in_Tang_Foreign_Policy_Rhetoric?sm=b

19)Today for #DecRecs I'm reccing Laid Back Camp!

I have recently started rereading the first several volumes of this charming maga (with the intention of then reading the volumes that I haven't read yet) There is also an anime which is great too!

It's a slice of life story about high school girls going camping, with lots of food, friendship, and pretty scenery. Very lovely and warm and also likely to make you hungry!

20) Reccing fic for #DecRecs today!

"Spring Splendor" by ayeshah

This is a fic based on Song of the Long March, the manhua which is the inspiration of The Long Ballad, but basically reads as historical RPF about Princess Yicheng of Sui, who is the loose inspiration for a character in both the manhua and the drama.

She seems really interesting and badass and I'm sad that men didn't write down more about her life
So I really love that this fic digs into what we know about Princess Yicheng and tried to image what her life would be like!
https://archiveofourown.org/works/15235845

(This set accidentally ended up Long Ballad themed)

I'm trying out posting shorter and more frequent DecRecs roundups

6)Today's #DecRecs is Walkers Shortbread Scottie Dogs. The dog shapes are so charming and cute! (and yes they do taste better than the less cute version -- appearance matters!) These are a bit difficult to find where I live, which adds to their allure for me. R happened to pick up a box for me a few days ago and I've been eating them slowly

Today is the 7th day of #DecRecs and I want to rec the Qingming River Bot! (https://universeodon.com/@QingmingRiverBot)This bot posts details from the well known painting g “Along the River During the Qingming Festival” / 清明上河圖
I love seeing these little snippets of urban life in Song times on my feed! It's fun to see the boats and cows and horses and to imagine what all the people are up to!

8) It's the 8th day of #DecRecs and I haven't recced any fanfic yet. Let fix that!
on a long journey by twigofwillow is long time favorite of mine. It's post cannon Lan Sizhui story so themes of family living on with complicated pasts. The emotional stuff is very complex and nuanced as it should be.
I also love how its structured in a non-linear way , and features storytelling and and letters!
It's just a very beautiful fic!
https://archiveofourown.org/works/29819775/chapters/73366473

Last weekend at ReaderCon there was a panel inspired by my post about cozy SFF! kate_nepveu took excellent notes.

I also recommend checking out the rest of Kate's panel notes I'm still reading my way through all of them, but so far I have especially enjoyed Fantasies of Political Inagency and The Novels of Mo Xiang Tong Xiu.

2023 was a mixed year for my writing. I posted more at ladybusiness than ever before! But I didn’t post much fic. I struggled a lot with hand pain and was sick for a long time, both of which had a negative impact on my ability to write. Here’s an overview of what I did write!

At the start of the year I organized a group post at ladybusiness of our favorite short fiction of 2022

In 2023 I set a goal of writing a rec list every month. And I mostly succeeded, missing one month due to illness and one month just cause. I rounded up all those rec lists here. For December instead of writing a rec list I posted a rec a day for DecRecs, which you can find at my #DecRecs tag

I also wrote a little bit of fic in 2023, posting a total of 3,238 words on ao3 over three fics, one co-written.

While it wasn’t a productive year in terms of word count, each fic was part of a new thing I tried this year: an exchange, co-writing and writing a drabble. Here are the three fics:

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In 2024 I want to be better at contributing to group posts at ladybusiness so I'm making it a goal to contribute at least once a month.

I'm also setting myself a goal of finishing and posting at least one fic over 1k.
And my stretch goal is to write something for a fandom event.

Hopefully a few small goals will help motivate me, but not be overwhelming

Here's the latest batch of DecRecs!

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#DecRecs is reccing fest that happens in December. People rec things (where things can be anything) they want to rec and share them with the hashtag #DecRecs. This year like last year I'm reccing a thing every day for the month!

Here's everything I've posted for #DecRecs so far this year:

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I was feeling uninspired to write a rec list this month and was planning to skip it this month. But then yesterday I though I've been watching a lot of cool Chinese modern dance videos, and I want to tell people about them. So clearly I needed to write a rec list. So here it is Rec List: Chinese Modern Dance Videos

Also today I have finally reached a goal that I've been working towards for a long time! I know 1000 characters in Skitter!

I manged to just squeak in a rec list this month: "Recent Nonfiction Highlights

Things have been not great both depression wise and hand pain wise so I'm happy I manged to put something together. Also this is my 7th post at Lady Business this year which is more posts in a year than I have ever achieved before

New post at ladybusiness : "The Joy of Artifact Fanfic: a Rec List" I really love artifact fiction (stuff that includes letters, emails, news articles or and other found documents) so this was super fun to put together. I did a lot of reading and rereading and got to reflect a bit on how these stories work. This list ended up being mostly cdrama fic.

This the forth rec list in my write a rec list every month project I'm attempting this year! So far it's going well.