| Slow crawl back to normal |
[Aug. 9th, 2025|11:23 pm] |
My room continues to look like a tornado tore through. I'm slowly unpacking boxes and putting things on shelves but there are not enough shelves. I've moved into a smaller space. And I don't have a separate closet for my mustier books either, which is a problem, because I do not like "the smell of books." That's the smell of respiratory distress. So there is still some problem solving to be done.
I've been trying to sneak in reading some Jayvik fanfic now and then, but digging around for something that looks appealing has gotten hard. There's a lot of modern AU stuff which I don't care about. If it's smutty I'm not here for the PiV sex which lately feels like it's put 60% of fic out of the running. And the fanon characterization of Viktor as the straight man who worries about piddling things like safety and Jayce as manic pixie dream boy is fun in moderation but moderation only. None the less I am trying to go through the fic that were posted for the recent Jayvik exchange.
This is one that I enjoyed. It's a Vikjayce fic where they've gotten older, wiser, and more tired: https://archiveofourown.org/works/66947971
While I have no interest in any of the games or anime or anything else, I'm enjoying the sudden mainstreaming of Uma Musume exclusively because suddenly random ass trivia about Japanese racehorses keep hitting my various socials. And I am a big fan of random anime turning people on to a hobby that they had never considered before (Chihayafuru my beloved). Coincidentally I'm not getting more Japanese language youtube vids on my feed which is a surprise bonus cause I can call this language practice now.
On a very related note, I finally blocked all youtube shorts via uBlock Origin. I'm not on ticktok, instagram, or whatever other sort of infinite scroll hellscape is out there but shorts got their claws into me because I do watch youtube vides often enough, and have not been able to stop making the mistake of clicking on a picture with a cat on it. For a while I was just telling youtube to hide shorts every time they came back, but even then I'd only ever remember to do this after realizing I'd lost another few hours of precious time, so today I was like, no more, and hopefully this will solve the problem. |
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