tying up several loose ends
Nov. 27th, 2023 10:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
isunshowerITEM THE FIRST: MOONLIGHT CHICKEN
got to the end of it!!!! as a newcomer to the bl genre, i'm fascinated by the chokehold alan/gaipa has on the ao3 tag because... it was sort of gestured at in canon but mostly because those actors are often paired up together? i want to watch more bl but don't really know how to shop around for another one i'll like (i've watched 2 so far! moonlight chicken and our dining table!). i joined a discord but there's so much going on in it and it's so... fandom-y, for lack of a better word. there's a stereotype about women who watch bl or whatever and i know that to some degree i fit that stereotype but it's a weird environment to be in and idk if i like it. someone in one of the channels recommended eclipse, triage, and a thousand stars. triage is apparently a time loop story, and i do love a time loop, so maybe i'll watch that? because my other options are to check out only friends and last twilight, which is what my tumblr mutual who turned me onto these 2 prior shows keeps putting on my dash (thanks, man?). i will say i watched the first 1/4th of an only friends episode and did sort of enjoy it but i just know the plot is going to devolve into a level of drama that'll be difficult for me to watch.
ITEM THE SECOND: SURVIVAL SHOW ROUNDUP
subsection a: i finished produce x. oh my god what a slog that final episode was. i've gotten my top 11 together (comprehensive survival show top post to come once pdjp finishes airing) and now i need to finish writing my weird little produce series retrospective to... post on dreamwidth, i guess. i guess this is the place i put my long-form ramblings now. yeah.
subsection b: pdjp had eliminations, and i lost one of my faves, koyama mana. i am, however, pleasantly surprised that iida shizuku and sutani yurara made it; they've definitely been sleeper faves for me. i didn't realize how much i was rooting for shizuku until her rank was announced.
ITEM THE THIRD: JUNIOR EUROVISION
i don't post about it much here, but i'm a big eurovision enjoyer, enough so that i'm with a fan newsblog called That Eurovision Site. yeah that's literally what it's called, none of the fansites have particularly creative names it's fine. i got to do the livetweet (which was way easier back when tweetdeck was still a thing, rip) and damn that voting sequence was a marathon!!!
i'm also going to take this moment to complain about the guy who runs the fansite. he's very passionate and very driven but he's also very prone to making decisions without consulting literally anyone and asking just a little bit too much of us. i'm not sure if he has a job or anything but like... the rest of us have lives, tim.
ITEM THE FOURTH (AND FINAL): SINGING WOES
it's almost december, which means we've entered concert hell! this week i had a rehearsal yesterday (i'm subbing in for my friend in his quartet), then ones tomorrow wednesday and thursday; then i get a little off week before an absolute gauntlet of monday rehearsal, tuesday gig, wednesday rehearsal, thursday dress/gig, friday gig, saturday gig. and also i work three days that week. it's gonna be fun. no, for real. stressful but fun. that week is spread across 2 ensembles and i've got a friend who's in both with me so uhh, we're going to be seeing a lot of each other.
one of my choirs (wednesday choir/mendelssohn) also got offered to do carmina burana with the orchestra this spring and i REALLY wanna do it, except it's the week right before i go to compete with both tuesday choir/boys and thursday choir/delaware, and both carmina and contest would require me to take at least three days off of work and i'm just not sure if i can afford the loss of pay. i'm probably going to say i can do carmina anyway and then pull out later if i have to.
got to the end of it!!!! as a newcomer to the bl genre, i'm fascinated by the chokehold alan/gaipa has on the ao3 tag because... it was sort of gestured at in canon but mostly because those actors are often paired up together? i want to watch more bl but don't really know how to shop around for another one i'll like (i've watched 2 so far! moonlight chicken and our dining table!). i joined a discord but there's so much going on in it and it's so... fandom-y, for lack of a better word. there's a stereotype about women who watch bl or whatever and i know that to some degree i fit that stereotype but it's a weird environment to be in and idk if i like it. someone in one of the channels recommended eclipse, triage, and a thousand stars. triage is apparently a time loop story, and i do love a time loop, so maybe i'll watch that? because my other options are to check out only friends and last twilight, which is what my tumblr mutual who turned me onto these 2 prior shows keeps putting on my dash (thanks, man?). i will say i watched the first 1/4th of an only friends episode and did sort of enjoy it but i just know the plot is going to devolve into a level of drama that'll be difficult for me to watch.
ITEM THE SECOND: SURVIVAL SHOW ROUNDUP
subsection a: i finished produce x. oh my god what a slog that final episode was. i've gotten my top 11 together (comprehensive survival show top post to come once pdjp finishes airing) and now i need to finish writing my weird little produce series retrospective to... post on dreamwidth, i guess. i guess this is the place i put my long-form ramblings now. yeah.
subsection b: pdjp had eliminations, and i lost one of my faves, koyama mana. i am, however, pleasantly surprised that iida shizuku and sutani yurara made it; they've definitely been sleeper faves for me. i didn't realize how much i was rooting for shizuku until her rank was announced.
ITEM THE THIRD: JUNIOR EUROVISION
i don't post about it much here, but i'm a big eurovision enjoyer, enough so that i'm with a fan newsblog called That Eurovision Site. yeah that's literally what it's called, none of the fansites have particularly creative names it's fine. i got to do the livetweet (which was way easier back when tweetdeck was still a thing, rip) and damn that voting sequence was a marathon!!!
i'm also going to take this moment to complain about the guy who runs the fansite. he's very passionate and very driven but he's also very prone to making decisions without consulting literally anyone and asking just a little bit too much of us. i'm not sure if he has a job or anything but like... the rest of us have lives, tim.
ITEM THE FOURTH (AND FINAL): SINGING WOES
it's almost december, which means we've entered concert hell! this week i had a rehearsal yesterday (i'm subbing in for my friend in his quartet), then ones tomorrow wednesday and thursday; then i get a little off week before an absolute gauntlet of monday rehearsal, tuesday gig, wednesday rehearsal, thursday dress/gig, friday gig, saturday gig. and also i work three days that week. it's gonna be fun. no, for real. stressful but fun. that week is spread across 2 ensembles and i've got a friend who's in both with me so uhh, we're going to be seeing a lot of each other.
one of my choirs (wednesday choir/mendelssohn) also got offered to do carmina burana with the orchestra this spring and i REALLY wanna do it, except it's the week right before i go to compete with both tuesday choir/boys and thursday choir/delaware, and both carmina and contest would require me to take at least three days off of work and i'm just not sure if i can afford the loss of pay. i'm probably going to say i can do carmina anyway and then pull out later if i have to.
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