Media update 16032026
Mar. 16th, 2026 07:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alterkrmnThis is a quick update, because I have low energy and because I've been putting it off since the end of January. I'm just making a list of the things I've finished watching or reading, but I'm not going to go into much depth here. I have drafts for some of the series I've finished, and I might write them, but I can't promise anything. We can talk about them in the comments, if anyone is interested in reading my opinions in a less structured or extended way.
Finished watching
Finished reading
Currently reading
Currently writing
Currently watching
Dramas
Anime
On hold
Books
Anime
Dramas
Finished watching
- Interminable (Thai BL) – 12 episodes ( January 23)
- DMD Friendship Reality, the Third Chapter (Thai reality show) – 6 episodes (January 25)
- Goddess Bless You From Death (Thai BL) – 13 episodes (January 30)
- Burnout Syndrome (Thai BL) – 10 episodes (Febraury 4)
- Dare You to Death (Thai BL) – 10 episodes (February 26)
- How Dare You!? (Chinese drama) – 32 episodes (February 26)
- Heated Rivalry (Canadian drama) – 6 episodes (March 9) (rewatch)
- KinnPorsche (Thai BL) – 14 episodes (March 14)
Finished reading
- Panguan – Musuli – 117 chapters (extras not included, i Suppose I’ll have to wait for the licensed TL ToT) (February 8)
- SVSSS Vol. 4 – MXTX – 10 chapters (March 13)
Currently reading
- Convenience Store Woman – Murata Sayaka (Tr. Ginny Tapley Takemori)
Currently writing
- The pulse beneath (Khemjira fic) - 2/8 chapters (it has a title and I've posted those two chapters!)
- My Burning Heart (Visual Novel)
Currently watching
Dramas
- Countdown to Yes (Japanese BL) – Mondays – 9/11 episodes
- The Long Ballad (Chinese Drama) – No schedule – 9/49 episodes
- Cosmetic Playlover S2 (Japanese BL) – Thursdays – 8/10 episodes
- Cat for Cash (Thai BL) – Tuesdays – 8/10 episodes
- My Romance Scammer (Thai BL) – Sundays – 7/12 episodes
- Only Friends: Dream On (Thai BL) – Fridays – 3/12 episodes
- The Pitt S1 (US drama) – No schedule – 3/15 episodes
- Hard Nights (Thai drama) – No schedule – 3/16 episodes
Anime
- Isekai Office Worker: The Other World’s Books Depend on the Bean Counter – Tuesdays – 10/12 episodes
On hold
Books
- Counterattack - Chapter 198
Anime
- Sanrio Danshi – No schedule – 8/12 episodes
- Komi Can’t Communicate – No schedule – 4/24 episodes
- Rokuhōdō Yotsuiro Biyori – No schedule – 2/12 episodes
Dramas
- The Bangkok Boy (Thai BL) – No schedule – 2/12 episodes
- Theory of Love (Thai BL) – No schedule – 2/12 episodes
- Perfect 10 Liners (Thai BL) – No schedule – 4/24 episodes
- Runaway (Thai GL) – No schedule – 2/8 episodes
- Debo, puedo y quiero: Juan Gabriel (Mexican documentary) – No Schedule – 3/4 episodes
Checking in
Mar. 16th, 2026 10:30 amehydeDespite an assortment of kids and adults sick with a bad cold, I managed to make four pies for pi day: pumpkin chiffon (this has meringue mixed in with the pumpkin mixture to make it fluffier, it's the only pumpkin pie I ever make), cherry (we had frozen cherry pie filling already, so this one was easy), chocolate (it's just pudding in a graham cracker crust), and for the first time, lemon meringue. The lemon meringue turned out pretty good except that the meringue topping shrank and pulled away from the crust, so it ended up like a fluffy island on a yellow lake. Still tasted good!
We've now watched up to episode 36 of Guardian. The ancient past episodes were very fun! I'm a little worried about watching the final few episodes because I know it's not going to end well. I'm in theory still reading Record of the Missing Sect Master but tbh I'm considering dropping it. It's very slow moving and feels like at least half (this is an exaggeration) the content is other characters reacting to the couple-ness of the main couple, which. I guess is a trope that some people like (a lot of people like, judging by some of the fanfic out there) but it is not my thing at all. Also it's doing this thing where it feels like at this point, both the mains are on the same page re. a lot of the hidden information, but the author's still holding it back from the reader just ...because? I think if you want to a dramatic reveal later on some things need to be a mystery to the characters who care about it, too. Anyway. A lot of the mysteries and secret identities and such, which should be right up my alley, feel more artificial here than they have in other books. So I should probably just drop it and read something I'll enjoy, instead.
I did manage to work on some projects, too! I modeled/printed some attachments to help build a sewing frame, as well as an adjustable hole-punching template!I even worked on some actual books too. And I got my assignment for this year's cnovel bookbinding exchange, which. I am going to have so much fun with this.
We've now watched up to episode 36 of Guardian. The ancient past episodes were very fun! I'm a little worried about watching the final few episodes because I know it's not going to end well. I'm in theory still reading Record of the Missing Sect Master but tbh I'm considering dropping it. It's very slow moving and feels like at least half (this is an exaggeration) the content is other characters reacting to the couple-ness of the main couple, which. I guess is a trope that some people like (a lot of people like, judging by some of the fanfic out there) but it is not my thing at all. Also it's doing this thing where it feels like at this point, both the mains are on the same page re. a lot of the hidden information, but the author's still holding it back from the reader just ...because? I think if you want to a dramatic reveal later on some things need to be a mystery to the characters who care about it, too. Anyway. A lot of the mysteries and secret identities and such, which should be right up my alley, feel more artificial here than they have in other books. So I should probably just drop it and read something I'll enjoy, instead.
I did manage to work on some projects, too! I modeled/printed some attachments to help build a sewing frame, as well as an adjustable hole-punching template!
Long-term psychological effects of physical isolation
Mar. 16th, 2026 04:12 amvoidbeetles posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
little_detailsHi!
I have a character in a sci-fi universe who ends up "shipwrecked" alone on a completely uninhabited planet for two years. The planet, and the specific environment he lands in, are perfectly habitable by humans (we are in soft scifi territory here, very Star Trek inspired) and he's able to survive with some effort. (The details of how are not really important to the story - I know at least that he's the kind of guy who'd be able to salvage some tech and emergency supplies from his wrecked ship, and I'm comfortable with brushing past the details of what exactly he brought with him - but if anyone's really interested in coming at it from that logistical angle, I won't stop you!)
What is more relevant to the story is how this experience would continue to affect him by the time he's back home safely. I think there are a bunch of possible avenues here and I'd love to see people's takes on how they would approach this or approach researching it. For example, here are some of my cursory thoughts:
I have a character in a sci-fi universe who ends up "shipwrecked" alone on a completely uninhabited planet for two years. The planet, and the specific environment he lands in, are perfectly habitable by humans (we are in soft scifi territory here, very Star Trek inspired) and he's able to survive with some effort. (The details of how are not really important to the story - I know at least that he's the kind of guy who'd be able to salvage some tech and emergency supplies from his wrecked ship, and I'm comfortable with brushing past the details of what exactly he brought with him - but if anyone's really interested in coming at it from that logistical angle, I won't stop you!)
What is more relevant to the story is how this experience would continue to affect him by the time he's back home safely. I think there are a bunch of possible avenues here and I'd love to see people's takes on how they would approach this or approach researching it. For example, here are some of my cursory thoughts:
- PTSD is certainly a likely long-term complication
- It's implied that his shipwrecking was not an accident/was engineered maliciously - I imagine this is something he has dwelt on heavily throughout the two years and will affect his ability to trust people (and to visit other uninhabited planets in the future!). Seems like it would be easy to get caught in delusional spirals in a situation like that.
- I know that prolonged isolation can cause hallucination/psychosis in some cases, especially in solitary confinement, sensory deprivation contexts, etc. Is that as much of a risk in this case? And if so, do you think he'd still be experiencing psychotic symptoms after the fact?
- One of his personality traits is that he's fairly attention-seeking - I think it's likely this incident will exacerbate that and make him more desperate for connection
- It'll probably alter how he approaches social situations in the future in general; that's something I'll definitely be thinking about
- Perhaps he got into the habit of talking to himself on the planet, and this never went away
Performing some traffic maintenance today
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dw_maintenanceHappy 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.
Paint manufacture, storage and transport in Napoleonic Europe
Mar. 13th, 2026 10:05 pmhyarrowen posting in little_detailsFor large-scale projects, specifically for ships. All my ship-related resources for the era are for the British Navy, and books on colour that I've read have been on artists' paints or dyes.
How would a French Imperial Navy vessel be painted, not at one of the big shipyards? Would it be mixed up on site from raw ingredients, or bought in? Would there be barrels, buckets with lids, cannisters, vats or what - and what would the paint be made of?
Searching online produces info on painting scale models, or contemporary pictures of ships. I found a chapter on ship decoration in Conway's History of the Ship: The Line of Battle but that doesn't have the early-in-the-process details I want. I found an article on the pre-Revolutionary Navy in the International Journal of Maritime History, by David Plouviez, that's too early and still doesn't cover paint.
Thank-you in advance.
How would a French Imperial Navy vessel be painted, not at one of the big shipyards? Would it be mixed up on site from raw ingredients, or bought in? Would there be barrels, buckets with lids, cannisters, vats or what - and what would the paint be made of?
Searching online produces info on painting scale models, or contemporary pictures of ships. I found a chapter on ship decoration in Conway's History of the Ship: The Line of Battle but that doesn't have the early-in-the-process details I want. I found an article on the pre-Revolutionary Navy in the International Journal of Maritime History, by David Plouviez, that's too early and still doesn't cover paint.
Thank-you in advance.
JJWXC Reader Annual Report 2025
Mar. 12th, 2026 10:05 pmllonkrebboj posting in cnovels This is a public service announcement for JJWXC users!
https://www.jjwxc.net/sp/2025annualuserstat/readerstat.html?ver=20260106&src=&year=2025
Every year, around January or February, jj releases your previous stats for the year, which can be accessed via searching 年度报告 on the app search bar, or via the link for the web version. The search bar access method may be limited time only as it currently does not work xD But here is the link to access on the browser (just remember to be signed in!). You can also follow 晋江文学城 on weibo where they will post the announcement and link when it is available.
https://www.jjwxc.net/sp/2025annualuserstat/readerstat.html?ver=20260106&src=&year=2025