Ever Bethany

So here is the silk I dyed:

It spun up quite nicely, too, except for the fact that my fingers, with their dry patches of callous, kept catching on some of those tiny fibers...

But it seemed to turn out okay! I'm going to ply it with another that's just sheer white.

Also, happy NaNovember to those of you celebrating! I am non-observant this year. Unless you count adding a poem a day and being sure to work on other projects as well as my main novel when I have the time.

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Thought I'd slithered out of doing the food all week at the Belvidere Mansion, but it has transpired elsewise.

Hurrah?

Thing is, as long as I've slithered out of getting up and out the door at 6:30 to drop my dad off all those days, well, same difference.

Though I do feel bad about getting picked up, like the shiftless rogue I only wish to be.

I got some cabbage soaking in salt before I left this morning, for kimchi. Because I might as well be an overachiever, now I've slithered out of some of it...

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Today was one of those I realized was not going according to plan early, and so improvised. I wrote only a tiny bit of Pact, but it's a section that's tough and so having it flow pretty well when I did sit down for a minute was great. I think there's really nothing harder than journey sections, in a story.

Don't you think?

Tomorrow looks to be another day where errands co-op the time left over from work, but I'll optimistically carry notebooks with me...

I've started a yoga class some co-worker ladies were talking about--free at the Catholic church. It's mainly women over 50, but Cali Coworker and I were welcomed despite being a couple decades short. I'm already mentally adding it to my weekly things: it's biweekly, on Tues. and Thursday (?) so I could add more or choose between days when things conflict.

I need to sit down and just BE for a while, like it makes you. Cali Coworker was late and so I managed to be all fretting about her being able to get in the first 15 minutes of the last class. Just typical. X)

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I always figured there were no adaptations of the (fairly common, actually) shojo comics of a guy masquerading as a GIRL idol, because it was just too impossible, for a teen boy to pass for a girl. Though the girls (actress-pretty girls) playing boys is kinda not that possible either. We just go with it...

Of course, k-pop boybands have proved this theory wrong. Am watching "Ma Boy", 3 ep k-drama in which such a thing is taking place before my eyes.

The weird resemblance of the heroine and the hero actually made it hard for me to tell which was the actual boy in posters...

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Crap. Accidentally up past midnight, watching gender-bender high-jinks in the drama "K-Pop: Extreme Survival".

Tomorrow morning, I will have a hangover from both.

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I am feeling gross-ish, so I started watching a new shojo anime.

As you do.

I am also watching it on my phone because my computer seems too bulky to be comfortable.

(When did I get rid of my last pair of fat-pants?

Anyway, it looked intriguing and fluffy. Surprisingly good, though in the exactly fluffy way I'd expected (it's amazing how you can do it wrong, yes, I'm looking at you Mei-chan No Shitsuji).

It's got: isolated girl, magical blood, butler guy, elite rich people. It's the remix that's fun.

The heroine is waaaay tsundere, because she's been picked on as the rich girl all her life. Already that's fun, one of those as the viewpoint character, instead of a friend-sidekick. She moves into this elite mansion*...to try and discipline herself out of her sarcastic ways. Finds herself assigned one of the Secret Service guys that are part of the building. Twist: they're all, SS and resident, part youkai.

Slow build-up right now, but that's fairly usual for a fantasy shojo comic, which it is based off. I would actually really like to get my hands on that. I am only two episodes in.

(*accidentally used the Japanese transliteration here: it means apartment, like in a high rise. I'm not sure why that's the word used, or exact application)

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I'll keep this one short and sweet, but I'm sorry guys

I'm pretty sure Sokka is the best, and the Avatars and bitter Firebending princes (that...sounds naughty to me for some reason) can go off with their emotions and heroics while we giggle in an igloo.

Just so's you know.

***
OMG
I JUST FIGURED OUT
HE'S JIRO WANG
like if there was a t-drama of this he would play Sokka, if he wasn't already a leads actor, sob, though, sob he could also totally play Aang

because the Taiwanese specialize in agebending

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I was serving a table with two Asian ladies that were speaking to each other in a foreign language. My ears were perked up every time I came by, of course.

I was fairly certain that it was Korean after a bit, but when I brought them a dessert sampler plate, and they exclaimed, "Yeppuda!" which clinched it--it means, "Ooh, pretty!"

I asked if they were from Korea, they asked how I could tell. One said, "Bangaweoyo" (Nice to meet you) and I repeated it, bobbing in my awkward white-girl bow.

It was great, they were very friendly about it, and I rarely have the nerve to say anything so it felt good to ask.

Of course, as soon as I was back in the kitchen I realized that I had used the wrong form for our respective positions: It should have been "Bangapsumnida", the formal-polite, not informal-polite.

Alas.

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Guys. I am hesitant to exclaim too loud about this show...because it's the kind of smart drama that has more potential to hurt you, because it also has potential to be fantastic.

That said, this show sports a hero who's smart enough that when he travels forward 300 years into the future, he gets over his bewilderment and finds himself clothes to blend in. He's constantly observing and deducing what he's seeing in what's a totally alien world. Like you do.

He's the first to make me want to dabble with a time-travel story (though not much) because it's so personal a take to his character. And though his counterpart is kind of a lovable idiot, it comes across as her being a kind of unusual girl to the screen, though common enough in life: she is exaggerating for cute. She's not stupid--she's in a rush. And she's willing to yell at people who cut her off, and flip off a smirky ex-boyfriend. Really, she's fantastic.

Dramas make smart girls seem dumb all the time: having a ditzy girl seem very full and capable? As well as a crazy driver?

I also love that there have been moments of significance between the characters though there's no romantic interplay yet. The tension is there.

(Adorable? Our Hero not knowing how to do his seatbelt, she does it for him, it's awkward, he comments "I see, that's why you were mad I asked you to do it". SO CUTE.)

I'm holding my frail little heart in my hands on this one, watching slowly, because I already love the characters, respect them, and only want the best story for them.

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I actually watched the first fourth of this last, due to a screw-up on the upload of subbed videos. I think this may have been a good thing, for reasons I'll explain later...

This show promises to be compelling. Not in a sudden, plot-racing way, but in treatment and mood. I've wanted to check out this director's work after hearing about Vampire Prosecutor (which was not as camp, but also not as humorless, as you might think from the title. Apparently) and the posters for this were so...evocative.

It's a time-travel drama in a season of time-travel dramas, but this has the personality to pull it off...

A hero who, when transposed in time, reels a second, but then carefully asks a question to try and discern what's happened, knowing it's something outside his experience. He's an intelligent, intuitive person--he's not going to crash around, flailing through his assumptions.

The heroine is apparently ditzy, if resourceful, and dedicated to being an actress (which, no doubt on purpose, never looks too distinguished onscreen) but her cute manner belies a sharp edge that can cuss out an ex--and accept a job got through his connections.

The thing with the opening: sageuk, the Korean equivalent of a Western, or more realistically, wuxia drama, is fond of its trope-laden openings. I watch fusion sageuk for the crossover fantasy elements present in the ones I've picked out. I haven't yet learned to enjoy the sameness.

This is where the service of missing the actual opening lies: when I got plopped down into a political debate first moment, I knew I'd missed something, figured an intro got cut off. I am pretty quick on the uptake, and know a bit about the premise, so it wasn't a problem. The beautifully lit moonlit horse-chase wasn't particularly new, but I liked the next library fight (in the familiar Scholar's Library of Sungkyunkwan). Despite the fact that I wasn't sure any scholar would allow wreckage of such hard-won manuscripts...

Anyway. I will not make big claims for this show yet, but I have a feeling it's going to be nuanced enough to really hit a spot that nothing I've watched recently has... Being unimportant but not dumb.

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