It's not Rocket Science!

Been getting back into studying Japanese again these days. I picked up a copy of the Genki text and workbook which I haven’t used since high school haha. Tonight I’ve been trying to review some Hiragana. Trying to remember the structure of my old classes to give myself a sense of how to approach self study. I’ve been trying several different studying apps, flash card decks as well!

I’ve also spent a little time revisiting gesture studies, inspired by some of the studies molten_gold  has been doing in her server. Id like to work up to the lighting and shadow style studies she’s been doing in particular, but gestures has always been a good way to get myself into the mindset of art studies! 

In the meantime I’ve continued plugging away at writing up some posts to make a DW-centric index of my doujinshi catalog, which will in turn link to various posts where I share or review my books here! I’m about…80-90% done with the Twelve Kingdoms catalog including adding new books which I’ve long put off. It’s just a matter of getting a few more minor details added here and there like page counts, dates and double checking accuracy of title translations, creators credits and the like. There’s also the matter of finishing up a few outstanding book descriptions too which are definitely the more fun part of this project. So keep an eye out for that!

in fannish news, I’ve recently been made an admin of the 12kingdoms  comm here on DW! Still feeling really flattered and astounded by this turn of events, initially I’d messaged one of the older mods to clarify a few things before committing to writing up a few more detailed posts (like sharing a few, ahem, more risqué doujinshi over there ahaha!). I’ve also been debating making a call for help in updating a few fandom-centric wiki updates for the series in light of the new books becoming more accessible to the English speaking fandom as Eugene wraps up his translation of the last of them. Particularly the TV Tropes page and fandom Wiki both of which I often reference for double checking details here and there! I’m sure other folk must make use of these as well and I’d really like to see them updated a little… I just have no idea myself how to really edit wikis! 

(Basically, everything considering the plot and characters of the Tai Court is very out of date ahaha!)

That reminds me, I should really collect Aili’s translations of the Tai books/Demonic Child for binding!