Wednesday Memes

[rhysiana]

WIP Wednesday

Fic: I'm mostly working on exchange fics I can't talk about right now, but the most time-sensitive one is started! It has an outline and multiple paragraphs!

Knitting: I'm currently working on a Double Gradient Boomerang Shawl in blues and grays (because I have developed a severe Mandala gradient cakes problem and that was a fun way to use two at once). Pics when finished, which will hopefully be soon. Both yarn cakes are at the point where they've lost their structural integrity due to being center-pulled, always a fun herald of the end drawing near.

Temari: I've started the last ball in my year-long series all done in the same color palette to eventually become a hanging over the back of a kimono. I started in January with an extremely basic S4 design and am ending with a 122 faces division. The 122 is going to take several weeks, because there are a lot of layers that have to be done in order. So far, the marking is done and the first of 12 islands of green "flowers" is done. I really have to work on it more in the evenings than I haven been, because I wanted all the green parts done before Saturday, so I can demonstrate the next step on the stream.

Wednesday Reading

I'm currently reading priest's Tai Sui on my phone for reasons known only to my brain, but it seems to be working? The entire thing is intimidatingly long, but the individual chapters are short and good for reading while pacing around the house after I've been sitting for too long.

The current audiobook is Deanna Raybourn's The Impossible Imposter, which I have been listening to incredibly slowly because my ability to pay attention to audiobooks is always hit or miss, but I do love that narrator. It was good to listen to during meals when I was at the folk school and always eating outside on my own.

Also, I opened my copies of Golden Terrace today and they are gorgeous. I haven't started reading yet, but just getting to admire them is enough right now.

Comments

[ehyde]

How are you liking Tai Sui so far? It was very long, that's the biggest warning I've been giving people when I rec it, but I thought that each book/arc had a decent ending, where I felt like I could rest a bit, at least.

[rhysiana]

I'm enjoying it! I just got to the end of the first arc, which didn't seem to take long at all. I think if I think of it as a series of books rather than one huge novel, it seems far more reasonable. I'm also so glad it's an E. Danglars translation, because what usually makes me give up on translated c-novels is having to stop every 5 minutes to think about what word choice changes I would have advised an editing client to make, which I recognize is simply a hazard of my job, but I never have that issue with their translations, so hooray! (I also read their translation of Mo Du, the only other novel I've made it all the way through so far.)