shirasade 🐘 @shirasade@fandom.ink

Quick update for my #introduction post: 38, female, Swiss 🇨🇭 , ace-aro (aegosexual), fandom old. Writer, vidder, giffer. Currently mainly into #jalec #stucky #guardian but also lots of other fandoms (mostly tv).

Came here after seeing posts on fandom-after-tumblr - really enjoying this place, especially because I never did fandom twitter.
I'm shirasade pretty much everywhere else - also Hubzilla (fandom.stopthatimp.net), previously LJ (deleted).

How is it August already? That also means it's Writer's Month - I'll try to drabble each day, since I've been struggling with writer's block pretty much since March. (I wonder what happened then... /s)
You can drop requests for me here:
https://shirasade.tumblr.com/post/625231631577399296/hello-august-hello-writersmonth-im-still

Shiny, shiny moon lamp, which I need to have: https://latestaesthetics.com/products/magical-moon-light?variant=32504110907472

I've completely fallen for The Old Guard - now that's a superhero movie that does things right! Great backstory, awesome women, diverse cast, lbgtq rep, black female director... and now I just learned that in the comics Quynh's name is Noriko, but they changed her because the actress is Vietnamese, not Japanese. All too often Hollywood seems to think all Asians are the same, so this just raises Greg Rucka and Gina Prince-Bythewood in my estimation even more. Can't wait for the sequel!

My least favourite type of AO3 comment isn't the hate kind, but the kind that goes "this would be really great if only you'd..." - seriously, why bother?

As I mentioned before, I made #Guardian #tea blends on #adagio - if anyone of you is interested: https://www.adagio.com/signature_blend/group.html?group=17555 🍵
Sadly, Shen Wei, Guo Changcheng and Sang Zan are currently unavaidable.

Some of the best money I ever spent: ordering something from Amazon I got a cheap offer for an Audible membership, along with a free credit - I used it on "Sherlock Holmes - The Definite Audio Collection", read by Stephen Fry (a huge Sherlockian himself). It contains the complete works and has been keeping me company for months now!

I'm in a weird place with social media right now. Haven't really been active here for a bit, but during lockdown I basically lived on Tumblr. The past few days, however, my desire to check my dash has dwindled.

Instead I want to share random stuff about my life, like the fact that I'm now in my "goldilocks zone" with running: the precious few weeks after my hayfever & before the unavoidable summer heat. So I bought myself a Garmin smartwatch & just went on my first phone-free run. Go me? :)

And oh fuck this, if you want to know how my dad actually died, let me point you to the last episode, about 30 minutes in (except for the nurse, it was only us). I can't remember the last time I cried so hard.

Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist is such a great show, but oh wow, my heart hurts, what with that theme of dead and dying fathers. Never fails to make me cry, no matter how many years it's been (almost 8).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEzH1ycwP_U
I was quite proud of my Xicheng vid for Fandom for Australia - except I just noticed while watching another vid that I missed at least one actual interaction, so now I'm just annoyed with myself! (Not using clips from the Gusu era was a choice, but that scene came later & would have been perfect. Ugh!) #theuntamed

Turns out the problem were the Chinese characters - once I used only English, I managed to create all my blends without issue. Now begins the waiting for the samples, so I can taste test before I'll make them public.
I spent a LOT of time thinking about which ingredients to use for each character, now they only need to taste good, too! :)

What I've been doing this morning: Playing with the custom blend feature on Adagio, making teas for all the #guardian characters (SID crew, plus Ye Zun & BCE) - picking ingredients that fit them and making some basic graphics for the packaging.
It was great fun, although I wasn't able to actually save the results because of a bug. But I'll absolutely create that collection once it works again - I won't make it public, though, until I've tested my blends.

It's similar to finding a fic whose description and tags sound utterly perfect for you - only for it to turn out to be unreadable.

That rollercoaster of emotion when you find a tiny fandom on AO3 with the number (20) behind it - and then it turns out not a single fic is in a language you actually understand. The elation! The heartbreak!

I've been thinking of this quote quite a bit recently:
“I heard a preacher say recently that hope is a revolutionary patience; let me add that so is being a writer. Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

LJ friends recommended that book to me back when I had my first bout of depression. It was so much more than a writing manual to me.

I dreamed an actual soulmates AU, and now I can't remember anything except that it wasn't the usual "marks/words on your body" thing. This irritates me - why does my brain provide me with fic fodder and then take it away? Mean brain, mean! :)

@phyrry I got a comment from you on my recs blog about Hubzilla, but I can't reply to it. Not quite sure what happened.