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august media consumption
hey look im doing one of these things. are you PROUD of me?? im proud of me.
honestly this whole thing was fueled by me taking a twitter break at the start of the month and then [actually consuming media]. fueled by that fucking anon who was like ‘heyyyy have you read mdzs??? wei wuxian reminds me of chenle kinda’
anon you really did a fucking number on me. and then new zealand went into full on ‘literally do not leave your house everything is shut down’ lockdown so i have nothing to do. obviously the way to fill that gap in my life is to not write consume media.
watching
the untamed/cql:
nervous chuckle HOO HUM. i watched the first few episodes of the show, had the apparently extremely common ‘what the fuck is going on’ reaction. asked friends if i should watch the live action or read first, most said the live action probably.. then i started reading the book and got way too caught up. you can see my initial thoughts on cql/mdzs in my last post. but as of the show specifically -- god! it's so pretty. i literally want to just. touch every single one of the costumes.
i dont want to repeat myself over and over again, but suffice to say im thoroughly enjoying myself.
RPDR All Stars Season 6:
honestly i didnt watch s13 or s12 of drag race, so this is the first time i’ve watched a season as it airs for a while. it’s been kind of losing my interest but im mostly just in it at this point for freaking KYLIE SONIQUE LOVE who is gorgeous and stunning and i am cheering for SO hard. her tropical runway lives forever in my head (the green!! the freaking feathers). s11 being the last season i properly watched too ofc i have to cheer for rajah too — she’s looked absolutely incredible in basically all of her runways and it feels like she’s had such a big glo up from her previous season. every time she comes out with her skin all bronze and glittering my jaw just freaking drops — she’s fucking gorgeous. really hoping either of them takes home the crown.
RPDR All Stars Season 5:
living up to my time old tradition of binging drag race episodes as background noise. honestly i feel bad for everyone who was on this season because cmon.. it’s freaking shea coulee. i’m glad she got her well deserved win. her and jujubee made this season great — i absolutely loved jujubee, her confessionals were so fucking funny.
young royals:
i watched the first episode at the start of the month and then.. didn’t continue. but it’s on my to finish list? should this even go here? i just want to say i started it, i think i saw a few people on the tl talk about it, hence the reason i randomly picked it up. it SEEMS interesting. i like private school stories, lol.
youtube stuff
mostly just game reviews for games i’ll never play. i watched a whole series of reviews on the thief series.. for some reason??
ripley, cha and me also watched half of a playthrough of devotion yesterday which was HIGHLY ENJOYABLE. i love horror games but im too chickenshit to play them, so having other people there with me has been GREAT. much better than cursing to my empty room and freaking out at every tap tap. which speaking of, god damn this game is gorgeous. why are horror games so damn good with their atmosphere?
im hopelessly behind on dream content again. such is life.
reading
mdzs: now i finished the extra chapters last night i can finally say im DONE!! not finally bc u kno i was basically just holding off finishing but. i am completely done. honestly i read a good third+ of this book in like 10 hours and i wont lie a lot of it blurred into one, but im really looking forward to doing a re-read now i know what the fuck is happening.
fic:
MORE mdzs fic. i usually go to bed at like 9-10 just so i can read for a few hours every night. there’s so much fucking good fic in this fandom and its fun working through it all as i try to work out what dynamics i like.
i also re-read some old favourites, and dabbled in a bit of x-men fic for the nostalgia factor.
listening:
july playlist/no august playlist </3
honestly august was mostly a throwback month. last.fm lets me know i’m still listening to lucy daucus’s ‘home video’ album a normal amount (a lot). triple dog dare is the standout song on the album for me — the build up and the narrative are so fucking fantastic. i’m still obsessed with it, and i wrote a fic vaguely based on it that maybe i’ll finish at some point. maybe in my grand ncity wip cleanout.
i haven’t listened to solar power yet, lol.
i liked if i can’t have love, i want power, but i need to give it a proper listen. favorite track so far is definitely honey. i like halsey when she’s singing rock, and the album feels really well polished and cohesive.
happier than ever was.. alright? unfortunately billie eilish’s voice tends to blur into one a lot of the time for me, but i absolutely LOVE the title track. i’m a huge fan of songs that build up and the point where the electric guitar comes in and then the bass and then everything just starts building up.. oh my fucking god. ‘i dont talk shit about you on the internet/never told anyone anything bad’ makes me feel like a god damn teenager singing in my room again.
i still can’t stop listening to ‘rum pum pum pum’. don’t ask me why. it just keeps getting stuck in my head. otherwise, i’ve mostly just been listening to taemin songs and k-pop mixes on spotify. oh, and vixx! val mentioned them at the start of the month and i’ve been having fun going through a throwback period to when i used to be a starlight in 2016. their music still holds up, and it’s freaking fantastic. i just really love the way n’s voice sounds.
i do a lot of listening on youtube so last.fm doesn’t catch it. but its mostly just more kpop.
playing:
superstar sm:
anniversary event has been so good to me. i was able to finish the shinee and 127 event themes, which is exactly what i wanted. i think i burned myself out a little on grinding (if i close my eyes i can see the beatmap for ‘here i am’ on the backs of my eyelids) but im really happy with what i got done. swapped out 6dream from my top 5 (rip) for joy, and managed to get all the way to masters 1 as a result.
thanks to the limited r card selector i was also able to finish my taemin want theme (THAT I KICKED MYSELF FOR NOT FINISHING WHEN IT CAME OUT)!! which made me super happy.
Top 5 gains:
Taeyeon: all r41 -> r61, r61, r99 (!!)
BoA: r61, r61, r71 (no change)
Joy: all r1 -> all r61
Taemin: Want theme from r1 -> r46, r49, r46 (my original day and night theme is r31)
Exo-M: all r38 -> r45, r48, r43
hopefully this will let me hang in at masters 1, but i doubt it, and i’ll probably bounce back and forth between m1 and p3 depending on bonuses. happy to just let my rp passively regain until next puc.
league of legends:
ugh guys. guyssss. i basically have only been logging on to play clash with my friends purely bc i fixed my sleep schedule and can barely play with them anymore. but i really want to get back into things. maybe get plat this season. this year i role swapped from mid to adc after like 6 years of maining mid and it’s certainly been a trip, but im a masochist and actually really like playing adc for WHATEVER REASON. mostly its been aided by me picking up aphelios, who is just super fun to play in a stupid way. i dont usually like complex champs but learning him has felt so rewarding. it’s that awesome feeling of actually improving.
what ISN'T fun is building fucking shieldbow all the time so i dont explode in half a second. i just wanna play the game not be evaporated by everyone who looks in my general direction.
writing:
literally just ficmix (SCREAMS) and in a circle of bitter light. my writing output has been laughably slow, but it is what it is. i’m gonna make a ‘upcoming releases’ post at some point or another, but here’s hoping my desire to write mdzs fic kickstarts my writing juices. god knows i have a lot of ideas. mostly involving people stabbing each other.
and thats it! honestly as productive as this all has been it’s mostly been concentrated in one area. i do hope my consumption will.. continue. ive been really bad at not reading or watching new things for a while, so i hope i can actually get back to branching out again. i miss having ideas. i miss being MOTIVATED.
