Random Life Update

Writing

Been pretty successful in writing for June so far! Set myself a monthly goal of 16,666 words (520 words a day-ish) after May's 15k turned out too easy. Didn't go for 20k because June is promising to be more busy... china_shop hosting the Write Every Day challenge has been helping keeping me accountable!

Just when I said "no more pantsing for me" of course the Guardian Bingo's bonus prompt comes and crashes my resolution immediately 😂 Dragon is a great prompt (and makes sense with the dragon boat festival!), and I'm lucky I had a vague idea for dragon!Shen Wei already (and playing with the idea of Dragon City being named after him). A Long Night In Longcheng just hit 5k today and is nearly done, I really wanna post it soon. It's also like. 69% smut lol. Which was not my original intention but here we are I guess.

The Da Qing coda I signed up for is done, I'm just looking for a proper title now. Considering writing a quick second coda for a later episode <.< there's still spots left...

Dancing

I was struggling most of last week - my stamina hadn't quite recovered from the health issues yet, and my motivation was kinda. Shot. I ended up just doing my back and abs exercises, or just a short 10-20min dance + exercises a lot. I kept reshuffling my dance playlist, trying to figure out how to keep myself motivated.

Finally switched my non-dance listening off k-pop and back to my German metal faves (plus some Nightwish), that seems to have helped. Also having the new choreographies up first again helps too, even though I'm still constantly reshuffling which of the three I want to be learning (Ponzona, Why Not, and HIP), and definitely added "I'm a B" back in for last reserves motivation. Still flip-flopping on Odd Eye and You & I on 75% or 100%, kinda not in the right mood for them rn? Oh well. (Probably for the best since I strained something during my last Odd Eye practice.)

Considering finally getting a tripod for filming purposes, to give myself renewed motivation to polish up on all these choreos.

Listening

Really needed a new podcast to listen to and got impatient with You're Wrong About and Maintainance Phase not updating more often (lmao they already update a lot, I just needed a diversion and ran out of episodes :'D) Got all caught up on Printrun, too. Ended up listening to a couple episodes of You Are Good (previously known as Why Are Dads), which was okay for the couple movies I knew but didn't keep my interest for long. It *did* remind me of Dana Schwartz' podcast Noble Blood however, which was exactly what I needed. It discusses historical figures, their lives and their choices with a lot of empathy and in an almost fictionalized tone, with Dana Schwartz providing dramatic readings, but it usually points out pretty well what the facts are and what is speculation. If my history class had been like this, I would've probably been much more invested!

Watching

• Watched 长公主在上 - Eldest Princess On Top on trobadora's recommendation. Generally enjoyed it, though there were a couple embarassment squick moments. The short format makes it interesting and allows breaks, though some cuts between episodes were a bit jumpy imo. A decent and fun story that was well worth the hour or so it took to watch! The epilogues definitely made me snort.


• Started on Detective L because Bai Yu is pretty. Haven't gotten through the first episode yet because his first meeting with Qin Xiaoman is *awkward*. Will push through soon though because I'm very interested in what I've heard about their dynamic!

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