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Wednesday and Other Things
Jan. 15th, 2020 11:33 amI'm in a weird mood today.
Ironically, it's due to something I was reading (which maybe isn't 'ironic,' Alanis, but more coincidental, as today is 'what are you reading Wednesday.')
Thing is, some time ago, I got another invite to a possible anthology that would revolve around magical realism. As part of that, the editor sent me a sample story. I finally had a chance to read it today, and now I'm trying to think about what I would have to say in a magically realistic way. I tend to think of myself as a straight-forward writer... for the most part. I know that I have a tendency towards genre trope perversion, and I can be, as my former agent apparently used to say to sell my work, "Weird, but compelling." Which, when you think about it, pretty much could sum up magical realism as a genre. But, I'm just sort of in that nebulous phase of story writing where I'm just trying to wrap my head around what I might write and how I might write it.
This feeling is probably exacerbated by the fact that all I really want to write is more fan fiction. I've been on a streak. I have a number of pieces going, one of which is extremely self-indulgent, which means that it's tremendously fun. Who knew I had a secret yen to write slice-of-life on the farm stories? NOT ME. But, apparently, I do. (Yes, this is still Bleach fic, so WTF. I should at least be a Silver Spoon fan.)
So, what have I be reading?
Honestly, not a huge amount. I did read the first volume of Nyankees which I LOVED because it was precisely what I wanted/expected. It's cats as people (and sometimes as themselves), running around doing hoodlum things, like fighting over food, territory, and lady cats. It's dumb AF. It's AWESOME af. 10/10 would recommend.
Also, some time before Christmas, I ordered a DVD version of the Bleach Live Action film, which finally showed up on Monday.
image: a montage of a bunch of real people Bleach characters staring intently out at the audience--literally all of them are super good-looking.
I bought the DVD from somewhere in Malaysia because the people I go watch anime with expressed an interest in seeing this and the hostess does not have Netflix. It is, so far as I know, still available to stream from Netflix, but let's be honest I own almost everything else Bleach related, so I should probably just own this.
Anyway.
The other thing we've been dealing with again is Mason's late-night schedule. So, I've probably talked here, before, about how our clever boy has figured out how to get a later start at his high school. He doesn't have to go in until 8:50 am most days (Wednesdays are an exception because Washington has something they call "Foundations," which appears to be like home room, on Wednesdays.) He's arranged this because his PSEO classes allow him to be flexible about when he takes them. So, he's signed up for evening classes both semesters. This semester he has one on-line class, economics, and one in-class class, which is print making (which my art loathing child is hoping isn't too focused on drawing skills since he has NONE.) Between these classes, which often go until 7 pm;his robotics season, which has him staying until at least 5:30 pm; and his work, which, when he goes can go as long as 7 pm, Shawn and I have been struggling with pushing back our dinner schedule so we can all still eat together/eat decently.
We're old.
We have been old, in fact, since we were young.
We like to eat at 4:30 pm. Don't judge!
Okay, you can judge, because everybody does--even Mason's friends called him an old man when he would leave a gaming session to go eat at our ridiculously early hour. But, at least try to sympathize with the idea that a family that is used to eating at one time is now STARTING meal preparation THREE HOURS LATER than usual. We don't eat these days sometimes until 8 pm, which wonderfully European, but TOTALLY NOT US.
Shawn and I are thinking that we're just going to have to institute a kind of second dinner option, wherein we eat some kind of (potentially healthy) salad/appetizer some time closer to 5 pm, so that we all aren't hangry by dinner time. Mason, meanwhile, has always had the option of snacks either at St. Paul College or at his work. I pack extra food on robotics days. So, he'll make it one way or the other, but Shawn and I have previously stared balefully at potato chips or just sitting and being sad until dinner time, so the pre-dinner dinner might be a solution for us.
I don't know how normal people even do this late eating thing. I suppose you also don't have breakfast at 6 am and lunch sometime around 10:30 am, eh? WEIRDOS.
Anyway, did y'all read anything interesting this week?
Ironically, it's due to something I was reading (which maybe isn't 'ironic,' Alanis, but more coincidental, as today is 'what are you reading Wednesday.')
Thing is, some time ago, I got another invite to a possible anthology that would revolve around magical realism. As part of that, the editor sent me a sample story. I finally had a chance to read it today, and now I'm trying to think about what I would have to say in a magically realistic way. I tend to think of myself as a straight-forward writer... for the most part. I know that I have a tendency towards genre trope perversion, and I can be, as my former agent apparently used to say to sell my work, "Weird, but compelling." Which, when you think about it, pretty much could sum up magical realism as a genre. But, I'm just sort of in that nebulous phase of story writing where I'm just trying to wrap my head around what I might write and how I might write it.
This feeling is probably exacerbated by the fact that all I really want to write is more fan fiction. I've been on a streak. I have a number of pieces going, one of which is extremely self-indulgent, which means that it's tremendously fun. Who knew I had a secret yen to write slice-of-life on the farm stories? NOT ME. But, apparently, I do. (Yes, this is still Bleach fic, so WTF. I should at least be a Silver Spoon fan.)
So, what have I be reading?
Honestly, not a huge amount. I did read the first volume of Nyankees which I LOVED because it was precisely what I wanted/expected. It's cats as people (and sometimes as themselves), running around doing hoodlum things, like fighting over food, territory, and lady cats. It's dumb AF. It's AWESOME af. 10/10 would recommend.
Also, some time before Christmas, I ordered a DVD version of the Bleach Live Action film, which finally showed up on Monday.
image: a montage of a bunch of real people Bleach characters staring intently out at the audience--literally all of them are super good-looking.
I bought the DVD from somewhere in Malaysia because the people I go watch anime with expressed an interest in seeing this and the hostess does not have Netflix. It is, so far as I know, still available to stream from Netflix, but let's be honest I own almost everything else Bleach related, so I should probably just own this.
I am thinking about trying to find a copy of "Bleach: The Musical," but then I would own a musical and... even though I love "Manly Dance" from the Bleach musical, I do not know if I could ever force myself through an entire musical, even one based on Bleach. You ARE talking to the one person who intentionally fast-forwarded through the music in Disney's "Frozen." In fact, I fast-forward through any musical number in almost anything I watch. And, no, I have never gotten into "Hamilton," which I do, in point of fact, know makes me a freak of nature.
Look, I don't like tomatoes, either, so I am possibly the only person I know who isn't terribly fond of pizza, which also makes me an outlier in American culture. (I love white pizzas, though, thanks to discovering such things existed when we went to Rome a zillion years ago with my parents.)Anyway.
The other thing we've been dealing with again is Mason's late-night schedule. So, I've probably talked here, before, about how our clever boy has figured out how to get a later start at his high school. He doesn't have to go in until 8:50 am most days (Wednesdays are an exception because Washington has something they call "Foundations," which appears to be like home room, on Wednesdays.) He's arranged this because his PSEO classes allow him to be flexible about when he takes them. So, he's signed up for evening classes both semesters. This semester he has one on-line class, economics, and one in-class class, which is print making (which my art loathing child is hoping isn't too focused on drawing skills since he has NONE.) Between these classes, which often go until 7 pm;his robotics season, which has him staying until at least 5:30 pm; and his work, which, when he goes can go as long as 7 pm, Shawn and I have been struggling with pushing back our dinner schedule so we can all still eat together/eat decently.
We're old.
We have been old, in fact, since we were young.
We like to eat at 4:30 pm. Don't judge!
Okay, you can judge, because everybody does--even Mason's friends called him an old man when he would leave a gaming session to go eat at our ridiculously early hour. But, at least try to sympathize with the idea that a family that is used to eating at one time is now STARTING meal preparation THREE HOURS LATER than usual. We don't eat these days sometimes until 8 pm, which wonderfully European, but TOTALLY NOT US.
Shawn and I are thinking that we're just going to have to institute a kind of second dinner option, wherein we eat some kind of (potentially healthy) salad/appetizer some time closer to 5 pm, so that we all aren't hangry by dinner time. Mason, meanwhile, has always had the option of snacks either at St. Paul College or at his work. I pack extra food on robotics days. So, he'll make it one way or the other, but Shawn and I have previously stared balefully at potato chips or just sitting and being sad until dinner time, so the pre-dinner dinner might be a solution for us.
I don't know how normal people even do this late eating thing. I suppose you also don't have breakfast at 6 am and lunch sometime around 10:30 am, eh? WEIRDOS.
Anyway, did y'all read anything interesting this week?
