Weekly summary: June 2 - June 8, 2024

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It was an interesting week! Not irl, which was generally uneventful, but I have a bunch of fandom stuff to share this time 😁

Let's hop to it!

I don't have any fic recs this week actually because I have been ~writing~! It's been a while since I've been this focused.

Well, relatively speaking. I'm still hopping around to different things. But I'm making progress!

I wrote a tiny bit of heartshipping (YGO, Yugi/Ryou) for shiritori this week, which you can read here. I may clean this up and post to ao3 sometime?

I also wrote a little 23.5 fluff fic (Ongsa/Sun) for femslashfete! You can read that here. I thought I was gonna take a week break but I keep getting ideas so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I'm also making pretty good progress on my intoabar fic. It's a bit more serious in tone than I originally intended but I'm happy with it so far. Hoping to finish it this week maybe.

ALSO pod_together signups are open! bluedreaming and I are doing our usual collab! I think this is our fifth one?? Either way, I'm excited to start on that soon too!

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I finished my Howl's Moving Castle reread this past week. I'd forgotten how silly things get in those last two chapters 😂 all in all, it really is a delightful story. I don't usually write fic based on novels, but I'm kinda tempted for this one. I just enjoy banter and that's like 95 percent of Sophie and Howl's relationship 😁

Definitely recommend the book!

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Thanks to vriddy, I learned about the Japanese film festival online 2024 which is happening right now!! Open for a variety of countries. You can stream a selection of movies for free until June 18 and then after that, stream two dramas for free until July 3.

So far I've watched "We're Broke, My Lord" (starring Kamiki Ryunosuke) and "The Handsome Suit" (starring Tsukaji Muga). Both were comedies.

I really enjoyed "We're Broke, My Lord" the most. Maybe it was the period costumes lol. I should note a content warning for lots of mentions of ritual suicide (and one actual attempt). Otherwise, the story is a lot of fun.

"The Handsome Suit" wasn't bad, but it's also rather predictable. Mostly I enjoyed that I recognized a lot of the cast 😅

I did try to watch "School Meals Time Graduation" and "Wedding High" but I just couldn't get into them. They're probably good movies, but they just aren't for me.

I hope to watch more this week and write some mini reviews. Hopefully.

Regardless, I just want to support free and legal streaming while I have the opportunity.

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Some Star Trek news: Season two of Prodigy will be on Netflix at the beginning of July. (Glad that Netflix rescued the series after Paramount booted it last year.)

I saw some grumbling from Trek Twitter about Netflix releasing all the episodes at once, and I don't blame them. I think weekly watching is more fun.

But it doesn't really matter to me anyway. I don't have Netflix so the only way I'll get to watch is if I can convince my brother to watch it together. (Very unlikely)

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Music stuff!

Trident is back with new single Spice! to promote their new mini album. The song didn't really grab me, but I'm glad they're back anyway.

East of Eden also has a new single out: chasing the moon. Fun song, and I like that the music video features some cute backstage footage. They look like they're having a good time.

Hizaki (the lovely guitarist from Versailles and Jupiter) is releasing a solo album for the first time in years. Jill, the violinist from Unlucky Morpheus, is part of the backing band, but I'm not familiar with the rest of them. Either way, everyone looks lovely in the music video for Stella Maris

And speaking of Unlucky Morpheus, they're currently doing a little side project without their main vocalist Fuki. It's called Unholy Orpheus (lol) and Shiren is doing all the screamy vocals. I like melodic death metal so this is nice. The song is Undeveloped Land

(I sorta suspect this side project is to keep them busy while Fuki is unavailable. There is an upcoming tour with Gacharic Spin and DollsBoxx, and she provides vocals for Dollsboxx. I kinda hope they release some new music for the tour 🤞)

Lastly, hsj. They released their weekly video, of course, but I didn't really care for it, so no link this time. But in more exciting news, Daiki announced that he got married! How exciting! Here is a tweet about the news. He's the first one in the group to actually get married.

I've been following hsj since 2009, so I kinda feel like an auntie seeing one of them get married now?? 😂 Weird, I know. I'm just happy they get to have a life outside of their work.

Anyway, that's all I have for this summary. Sorry it got a little long 😅 Wishing everyone a good week ahead!