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[miss_ingno]

Dancing

I've tried out a kpop dance course in July and officially joined after summer hols this month! We've been practicing Aya from Mamamoo, last week we learned the chorus part of Jihyo's Killing Me Good (though my timing is... so off. I need a better spot to keep an eye on the trainer), and now we started on the chorus of Fast Forward by Jeon Somi, which we'll continue next week. It's pretty fun, overall, and a great breather from the stress at work.

Writing

I've switched between writing a couple different fandoms for various exchanges recently (a rarepairex treat, three fandomgiftbasket fills, two of which are done, my fffx assignment). It's been fun delving back into nostalgic anime fandoms like Naruto and Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters. Ygo! was my first fandom-fandom, actually. My first ever fanfic was a Mary Sue self-insert who got saved by Seto Kaiba lol. I think her name was Laila? Leia? And there's gonna be two Deja Vu fics. I had to rewrite my original fill because it accidentally got too close to a DNW, but I love both and they're different enough that I feel good publishing both.

I put in my swap wishes for fiab, too, so hopefully this multifandom trend will continue!

Grimm is super fun to write and I'm close to finishing a couple fics to post. There's a lot of second hand knowledge from my job going into the pregnancy fic. The last smutty bits in the canon divergence OT3 rewrite are fighting me, but once I can stitch it all together, I'm hitting post. So excited to share!

However, Guardian wishlists are hella distracting. I've already seen three prompts I /need/ to write, and there's still people signing up! What do!?

Watching

I've been watching Dimension 20's Mentopolis, and omg it's so good! I hate having to wait a whole week for a new episode, but so far, definitely worth it! The main characters are the personalisations of Hyperfixation (played by Hank Green), Impulse, Attention, Pleasure, Curiosity and Conscience, and they're all super fun! It's set in a detective noir mystery setting inside the brain, which is super fun :D!

Grimm Rewatch is going well. I'm excited to start season 3 tonight, I have very little memories of what happened in it. Juliette continues to be my blorbo, and the fic ideas keep multiplying.

Really need to pick Cang Lan Jue (Love Between Fairy And Devil) back up, I made it to episode 11/12 last October before my new workplace ate up my time. The body switch trope is giving me a lot of second hand embarrassment, so it's been hard to start again, no matter how much I originally loved it!

Comments

[china_shop]

Wow, the Kdancing course sounds so fun! Do you do it at fullspeed? I would die, lol.

I had to rewrite my original fill because it accidentally got too close to a DNW

Oh no! DNWs are so pernicious like that. I swear, they just worm their way in when you're not looking. Glad it worked out so well in this case.

However, Guardian wishlists are hella distracting. I've already seen three prompts I /need/ to write, and there's still people signing up! What do!?

*completely biased pompoms* ;-)

I haven't heard of Mentopolis! *wanders off to investigate*

[miss_ingno]

Wow, the Kdancing course sounds so fun! Do you do it at fullspeed? I would die, lol.

It is! :D and yeah - we learn step by step, repeat that a couple times, and then get thrown into the cold water of full speed lol. It's not too bad! Obviously you lose clarity of motion by rushing through the steps and that's something I need to work on, my precision isn't the best with recently learned stuff, but it's actually not too bad! You're allowed to make mistakes, it's more learning it and seeing where you can go with it :D

(but tbf I've been practicing solo at home, using the youtube tutorials that do 50% speed, 75% speed and then 100% speed mirrors to dance along to - you have more time to get used to the chain of movement and can pause/restart as you need)

Glad it worked out so well in this case.

Yeah, I reached out to the mod and they asked my recip, so we got things cleared up. They're getting a new fill, and I just posted the other work seperately because it's still good imo :D

Mentopolis is really fun! Here's the youtube trailer! It looks like they've uploaded at least the first episode on there, if you want to check its vibe out? The rest is being uploaded on dropout.tv behind a paywall (but a pretty reasonable subscription, I share mine with my bff - they encourage password sharing)

[china_shop]

It sounds very cool! (We have something here called Shut Up and Dance, which sounds similar but isn't just Kpop.) I remember you posting about practising using Youtube -- so impressive!

I used to do a ton of Zumba, but my instructors kept leaving the country or quitting, and I fell out of the habit, boo.

Thanks for the link! <3

[miss_ingno]

That sounds like a fun event!

I remember you posting about practising using Youtube -- so impressive!

Ahh, yeah, I started that when corona came around as an alternative to Zumba, since I wasn't keeping a proper exercise schedule trying to do Zumba on my own - having to come up with the choreo took too much brain function for me to stick with it for the whole 60 minutes I wanted. Having someone to imitate and goals to complete (e.g. complex move sets or whole choreos) was the sort of incentive I needed to keep doing this on the regular :D

Work definitely gets in the way nowadays (I can't learn as many new things, but I do a lot of refreshing old choreos). The dance course is helping with that! We're learning a lot of chorusses of whatever's popular currently, then move on to the next.

I used to do a ton of Zumba, but my instructors kept leaving the country or quitting, and I fell out of the habit, boo.

*handshake of commiseration* Zumba is fun, but without a steady instructor is definitely hard! (I used to do it for a year in... 2014/15 I wanna say? I had health complications which is why I stopped, and later tried to pick it up solo on my own to get my stamina back up)