It's started snowing late last night. I looked up from where I was working, and suddenly the garden was all white. It feels really special to me, it feels like slightly magical to have snow on Twelfth Night, now matter how briefly. I'm beginning to get a little down, feel a little sad about Christmas being over, and even though we still have the tree up, there's that feeling that soon I'm going to have to address the New Year, and I'm already disappointed with that, with the things that haven't happened. You have to make miracles happen, I am told. As part of that,
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bingo generator in supercord and as to-morrow is my wrap up post for
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precuretokuprompt—thank you everyone for making this particular miracle happen, friends—I thought I had could free up space to play with something like this. It has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that since New Year's Eve, I've been watching SNH48 streams and am kind of alarmed/
fascinated by how messy things are there, the things that are happening in the personal lives of members that they are failing to keep secret. I've very apprehensive about media from the mainland, but there's a part of me that has been in love with the romanticism of Shanghai for a long time. A friend recently posted a
video of the part of the city in which the theatre is located, and this current fascination with Shanghai might be good to channel into a bingo card like this, I thought.
"Shanghai is indeed a very special place," he writes.
"I think the most important Shanghai-rule is 'live and let live.'"I haven't seen the prompts on this bingo card because of the way the site presents your results when the card is generated, so honestly, this will be a surprise to me too.
( mess, distress )Needless to say,
Teacher Teacher Fes is still on the table also. I have something to post for that soon, but, again, I worry about flooding your timelines.
How did I end the year? I watched a lot of concert streams. I watched
Kouhaku for the first year in quite some time. I re-watched the whole of the original
Negima! cartoon. It's not as bad as everyone recalls! I started re-watching the live action series again last night and was struck by how well it holds up also. Man of dubious opinions, Akamatsu Ken has started putting this
dojin mark he invented on new volumes of his work in the hope of encouraging people to make fanzines. I really like this. I think I'm going to follow his example and start putting this on my work too. I've always thought of writing as a conversation I am having with people—albeit a conversation in which I will refuse to reply and/or clarify anything I mean—and I feel that putting something like this on a cover is as a good a sign as any that I view my work as
your work, and the moment you read it, it's
yours and you can do with it what you please. I don't have a resolution for the New Year, not beyond the usual adult stuff, get some money &c., but maybe this year I'd like to think more meaningfully about how to communicate that I want to share what I do with you not because I want your validation, but because I want you to tell me your own stories.
That's it. That's all I've got. Oh, and I started using the youtube kids app. For ages now, because of the nonsense I watch, youtube has trying to push me towards the app because it thinks I'm a kid as a I delete google accounts every five years and refuse to
send them a picture of my passport so they can verify that I am a grown up, so I just went all in on the youtube kids app and found that it's actually a pretty good alternative to their site with no need for adverts, no product placement, and a nuclear method of blocking videos from appearing on your frontpage. I like it a lot. It wants me to watch
The Descendants, apparently. I'm kind of okay with that.
