I’m once again sharing my thoughts on my recent media consumption. But first some thoughts about my joyful reading project.

I spent several days making a deliberate effort to not read if I didn’t feel like reading or wasn’t excited by anything I had to read. I don’t think it really helped? I was kind of miserable but in a different way than when I read things because I don’t have anything better to do. (I need no screen low hand impact things to do right before bed) But I guess after I did that I did end up reading some things. So maybe it worked? But I would rather not do it again.

I went back to reading not because I was suddenly super excited but because I had a day where I was too sick to do much at all and ended up reading a long fic all day.Which was nice, maybe not joyful, but nice.

( All Systems Red, Commodity and Exchange in the Mongol Empire, The Crescent Moon Tearoom, and The Flash Band )

With the latest layoffs at Tumblr I've seen several friends making accounts here for the first time! Welcome, feel free to ask me any questions.

Here's what I hope are some useful links and tips:

If you are into Chinese entertainment and/or novels both the c_ent and cnovels communities are nice places to hang out, that host regular chats about what people are reading and watching as well as other topics. c_ent also keeps a list of Chinese media related communities on Dreamwidth.

I'm part of the group blog ladybusiness which features intersectional feminist criticism and yelling about our feelings. I haven't been posting much there recently but renay has posted some great stuff!

I also rec following common_nature for pretty pictures!