@geraineon My principle chronic illness is akin to an injury to the body's systems which cope with stress. That's the best example and perhaps explanation I have.
It doesn't matter whether it's physical, mental or emotional stress. They all fuck me up badly and at this point the recovery time is long enough I don't before something else comes along.
I can't even get to the point of enjoyment or not, I have to try not to aggravate the injuries any more than life already throws at me.
@emmaaum When I said wuxia/xianxia/court intrigue/etc. doesn't seem to be for you, I am not saying that you are too thick to get it. I am saying exactly what I am saying, which is I don't think you enjoy the tropes and the types of stories contained within these genres.
I am sorry your disability makes it hard. If you're still interested in giving all these stories a try, I am not dissuading you. But whatever you did not like about them is not gonna change very much from one series to another.
The flavour of the friends -> enemies -> lovers in the series of fics, House of Mirrors (Suzaku/Lelouch, Code Geass) is still so delicious years later.
Excerpt:
“What?” Suzaku demanded with frustrated anger, holding the knife to Lelouch’s eye. It must have been very hard, to earn to fight Lelouch for so many years just to find out his enemy could no longer understand the nature of his revenge. “What did you expect? You must have seen that coming as soon as you agreed to come with me. Wasn’t that why you’ve come? For Euphie? For everybody else? For the good person you once were before you betrayed us all? So you could have a little honor at the end? So there would at least a sane part of you at the end?”
“Idiot. That was not why I’ve come with you.”
Honour, values, small talk when he was about to poke his eye out. As much as all that still annoyed him, Lelouch found some comfort in the fact that Suzaku hadn’t changed.
It'll be nice to watch Haikyuu movie with a friend but I guess I'll just have to make my housemate go with me or watch it alone (I am fine watching it alone but... it'll be nice! To watch with a Haikyuu fan friend!)
Boosting this with caveats because I am personally a little uncomfortable with most discussion/meta about zhiji/zhiyin but other people might enjoy this
(This is on me, because I didn't specify and didn't know I was this uncomfortable until now)
I said I'll go Linux the moment my windows tells me to upgrade again after I declined it twice and guess what? Today, the notification popped up again so this weekend I am fucking switching
@geraineon I've been running Linux (mostly Debian) for about twenty years...but C is my sysadmin, so my own question-answering capabilities are low. That said, if you hit a wall somewhere, I can easily direct you to them if that's helpful!
Recommending I Can Do It! (Now on the correct visibility setting)
I really enjoyed it this e-sports danmei novel (as you can probably see by how I finished 134 chapters, 11 extras in about five days ahaha)
Short summary of the novel
This is an e-sports story, with the romance happening between this streamer, Soft, who excels in flaming every single player in the League of Legends e-sports circuit (and every player he plays with) except for his idol, Road, with his idol, Road. Soft is an extremely talented player who basically spends all his time playing LoL, watching LoL and streaming for money. Due to circumstances, he joined Road's e-sports team as the new mid-laner (a position in LoL).
Thoughts
It's very fluffy, very sweet. The ML totally dotes on the MC, and does it so obviously too. The MC is basically a hissy cat who will claw and scratch everyone except ML (and ML's family...). Their poor manager has his hands full trying to manage this tea (him praying every night probably, "please, Soft, don't reply to trolls and don't flame back, please"). 10/10 would recommend if you are in the mood for fluff, comedy, sweet/healing, soft. Would probably not recommend if you do not game AND do not know league of legends at all. If you game but don't watch or play LoL, I think you'll be fine (lots of footnotes)
Some caveats
The KR-CN e-sports rivalry might get uncomfortable to read (some insults/comments are on accent, for example); also expect some of the usual beauty standards stuff in webnovels in description of how people look; main character is slightly less than 18 at the start of the novel (but the relationship doesn't start till he's 18)
I wish there's a 1.5x speed button on crunchyroll because eps 16-18 were painful to watch (a slog due to our lack of investment in the rei-vincent romance)
i think this series could be shortened into 12 episodes or idk 16 eps, and it'll be fine.
more next week. I think we are now back in business about the non-romance parts
It's time for Nirvana in Fire eps 25 and 26! Start anytime your Sunday~ though there are some who watched ahead so feel free to do even more episodes if you want! (I know it's hard to stop)
Same deal as always, tag with #NiFNotABirthdayParty, tag surf to talk to others, CW your posts, enjoy! And don't sweat it if you are behind, take your time