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Mar. 20th, 2026 08:54 am[personal profile] foxinthestars
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I just changed my default icon from my old cartoon fox to my SCA coat of arms. The first time I showed up to a meeting of my shire, I said I was there to nerd out about history (hence the book) and do crafts (hence the knot), and that has been holding up well.

Been busy the last couple of days and haven't posted. We got my mom ready and took her to the doctor, which is a big job these days, but we got it done and hopefully the doctor visit will result in some progress.

On the fannish side, for the first time in years my fanfic spigot has opened, and draft Honzuki fics are pouring out. I've got one complete draft one-shot and another that's most of the way there. I don't know how long this will last, and I kind of don't know what to do with them? Like, "post to Ao3" is the obvious thing, but where does one find beta readers these days? Do I need a beta reader that much? Do I need to do canon review (and if so, how many of the canon's three-dozen-plus volumes need reviewing)? What do I want out of posting these fics? It seems like a waste not to, but if I ask myself whether I want comments and kudos the answer seems to be "not that much" (on the other hand, disabling comments is not an appealing notion). Well, these are solvable problems if I calm down and work through them.
foxinthestars: Myne in the background peeks around the shoulder of someone in the extreme foreground. (honzuki peek)
The first time I said this, it was filtered, so I'll say it again: So far I am enjoying being back! It's early days yet, but I feel like DW addresses a real craving I was having.

No profound new material today; I'm tired.

Yesterday I had a dentist appointment plus my weekly SCA meeting. It was a project night, a new person came, and we had some really nice conversation as we all introduced ourselves (and prompted each other about all the stuff we did) and tried to give some newcomer info. Unfortunately for our post-meeting restaurant trip, it was one of those nights Panera was out of everything; we all wanted warm soup but like everybody else in the county probably already had wanted warm soup, so I ended up resorting to the French Onion. It didn't taste bad, but not good enough to get again, plus it was a gamble; sometimes too much onion doesn't agree with my tummy, but I got away with it this time.

Then today I did my weekly-or-so Walmart pickup and got lunch from the local Senior Center; they were doing corned beef and trimmings for St. Patrick's day. I totally forgot to wear green, tho.

I've been thinking of doing like a read-along here, going through a light novel series I like bit by bit and posting about it. Honzuki (Ascendance of a Bookworm) is the most likely candidate, but if I wanted space for on-first-reading material I could do Weakest Tamer, or I'm also quite fond of Beware of Chicken (which is Canadian not Japanese but still essentially a webnovel-turned-light-novel).
foxinthestars: Photo of fox pouncing in snow captioned "Fun!" (fun)
Ah, it almost slipped my mind, but MST3K is one of my longtime loves, and the MST veterans at Rifftrax are doing a Kickstarter to make a new season. Only 36 hours left as of this writing!



Only four episodes but they've gotten pledges for... (counts on fingers) 102 times as much money as they asked for?

I was a loyal backer of the previous MST3K revival seasons and glad they got made, but they haven't done it for me quite like the classics. I'm guardedly optimistic about this effort coming closer, but it also might just be that I got attached to the show during a moment in my life that has passed and thus nothing will ever hit in quite the same way. But I'm still in.

And (warning: in-jokes ahead) the most recent season ended with several characters going back in time, so if they wanted to make some continuity gesture while bringing back Mike, Kevin!Servo, and Bill!Crow --- well, first off, it's just a show, you should really just relax, but they could always say it was one of them weird numbers where Jonah and/or Emily stepped on a butterfly or something, and then 'cause of that a certain Radio Shack in the Upper Midwest folded slightly sooner than it otherwise would have, and then 'cause of that the Sci-Fi Channel never secured the rights to Diabolik, and now here we are in an alternate timeline.
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Happy Saturday!

I'm going to be doing a little maintenance today. It will likely cause a tiny interruption of service (specifically for www.dreamwidth.org) on the order of 2-3 minutes while some settings propagate. If you're on a journal page, that should still work throughout!

If it doesn't work, the rollback plan is pretty quick, I'm just toggling a setting on how traffic gets to the site. I'll update this post if something goes wrong, but don't anticipate any interruption to be longer than 10 minutes even in a rollback situation.

(Peeks in) Hello?

Mar. 14th, 2026 09:58 am[personal profile] foxinthestars
foxinthestars: Azure, a closed book palewise argent garnished Or, on a chief invected argent a Wake knot azure. (Default)
So, I've been away from DW for a long time. My last post was, wow, three and a half years ago. But lately I've been feeling like I want to come back.

In the meantime I'd largely moved to Facebook, since that's where I keep up with my RL friends (mostly my SCA shire and kingdom right now), but the atmosphere there is way different of course, and I was getting back in the mood to ramble about fannish things and just ramble in a more DW-esque way generally, so I guess here I am?

Right now I'm obsessing about Ascendance of a Bookworm -- hereinafter "Honzuki" (new anime season countdown, woo!) -- and yet again trying to get back to studying my Japanese. Conveniently, Honzuki's publisher, TO Books, puts their Japanese edition ebooks on American Amazon, including novels, manga, and the novels in a "Junior" edition with furigana (pronunciation glosses) on everything. They also offer the same options with Weakest Tamer and Tearmoon, and I've been enjoying the former for that reason; it lacks Honzuki's "OMG this is the best thing EVER!" valence, but it's fun. I did enjoy the anime of Tearmoon back when, but I don't feel like going back to that one.

There's other stuff going on, not all of which I want to put in a public post, but that seems like enough for now.

Um, hello again?

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