Yes, I return to Dreamwidth once again to post things I cannot ethically tweet.

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I made two vids this summer; here they are:



I made this one for FanworksCon in four days, which I am probably not going to ever attempt again. Don't make vids in four days, it's terrible.



This one I made for fleurdeliser and also to exorcise my MDZS feelings (that didn't work).

I haven't posted anything about The Untamed/MDZS here and this is not the post explaining what it is - although I am very happy to talk about it in the comments! - but I did want to write up a quick tutorial on options to deal with the hard-coded subtitles that are ubiquitous in Chinese media. Idk where we host images these days tbh, so I posted the tutorial on Tumblr. You can find it here.

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Dear Vidder,

Thank you so much for making me a vid! I hope you find something in here that sparks an idea! Here are the fandoms I requested, why I like them, and prompts in case you need some inspiration - although if you've got another idea, please don't feel bound by my suggestions!

I don't have any video or audio triggers, so go wild if you so choose.

Thank you!

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That's about it! Thank you and I'm excited to see what you make!

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Hello, life without twitter is EMPTY. o___o

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(Yeah, I know I abandoned DW in January mid-meme. Sorry.)

If you're on Twitter at all, you've probably heard about Guardian, a Chinese TV show about superpowered alien hijinks and two incredibly beautiful men who work together to protect the world and are in love. One of them has an oral fixation. The other wears short skirts incredibly nice suits and pined for the oral fixation one for ten thousand years. That's basically all you need to know.

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OK Masha, this was a really long post, but I'm still not convinced

Fine:



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I am very late with my next posting meme question! This is not a post about it. The next one is about my bulletproof buttons for fictional pairings and I cannot simply shoot off a post about this important subject, it is much too important. I've been vidding - Festivids is due on Sunday and I am done except for one clip that I like and my beta doesn't. I just need a little brain space to think about it, but this week has been really busy at work so I haven't really spent a lot of time at home.

Work right now is pretty interesting, in that I am involved in a lot of different things, which is exactly the way I like it, but it also means putting in extra hours and juggling many more projects than I used to have to do. At some point I should really write up a post about what I'm up to at work, because things have changed a lot since I was last on DW.

Other things I've been doing:
* playing Stardew Valley on Switch
* reading some Harry/Draco fic and Buzzfeed RPF
* watching youtube let's plays
* clearing out junk from some drawers and closets in my house
* being obsessed with The Favourite

What are you all up to?

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All posting topics here! Suggest more questions in the comments here or on that entry.

likeadeuce asked, "What are your top comfort reads/rereads? (books, genres, fandoms, whatever)." You would THINK that this is a totally innocuous question, but I suffer from an extreme case of staircase wit about it and there's a 100% chance that once I post my answer I'll remember like twenty other books that are way more important. So, this isn't a Definitive Guide to Masha's Rereading tendencies but a partial answer.

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Stolen from likeadeuce. Give me posting topics (questions, lists, goals, etc)!

January 3: What are your top comfort reads/rereads? (books, genres, fandoms, whatever) - likeadeuce
January 4: What's a place you'd definitely like to visit in the next couple of years? - yunitsa
January 5: What are your bulletproof buttons for fictional pairings? - yunitsa
January 6: How did Bazik and Maxy come into your life? And how soft are their bellies? - la_dissonance
January 7: Vidding, in general - tattered_errata
January 8: How'd you get into fandom? What fandoms have you been in? - seascribe
January 9: Top 5 favorite sets of bros! - sansets
January 10: What is the craziest/most daring thing you've ever done? And what would be the next you'd want to do? - romantical
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Dear Festividder (and anyone else who might be browsing this letter for ideas) -

Thank you so much for making me a vid. This is my first time participating in Festivids and I am really excited. I hope you find something in here that sparks an idea! Here are the fandoms I requested, why I like them, and prompts in case you need some inspiration - although if you've got another idea, please don't feel bound by my suggestions!

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That's about it! Thank you very much in advance - I'm really looking forward to seeing whatever you make!

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Finished painting my living room this weekend, thus completing my first home improvement project. \o/ I got a lot of paint over the trim, which is kind of unfortunate, even though I honestly don't notice it. IDK, maybe I'll repaint the trim at some point? IDK.

The walls have been blue for so long that I don't remember the living room being any other way. I really like it. I think it needs a light-colored couch and some bright yellow armchairs, maybe. I will ponder this.

I got some new bedding for my giant bed. I remember railing against decorative pillows on beds last month, but it turns out that when you have a giant king bed, there's enough room for both you and a cat and all the pillows. I pushed the bed into a corner of the room and arranged the pillows in the corner, and sleeping now is really, really cozy. The next step is going to be painting the bedroom, and then I think I need more furniture for it, because the room is big and looks kind of bare even with the giant bed.

The disc drive of my PS3 has stopped reading discs; after watching a bunch of videos on youtube and taking the PS3 apart twice (feeling v. proud of myself), I ordered a replacement lens. Maybe I will have a working disc drive by the weekend. :O

BAZIK has a cold. He's sneezing all the time and I feel bad for him, but he also seems to be improving. I'm supposed to take him in for dental work and a heart evaluation, but I have already spent so much money at the vet in the last month that I really don't want to. Ugh.

I bought a really pretty bottle of bubble bath on Thursday night and have taken a couple of baths since then. Maxy likes to sit on the edge of the bathtub and look at me while I do this. Perv.

So overall it was a good weekend, aside from a couple of unfortunate things. I also almost finished Book Three of LotR and watched Fellowship of the Ring, so obviously I have about a million feelings about Middle-Earth right now and not much room for anything else. It's like it's 2004 all over again.

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