Weekly summary: June 9 - June 15, 2024
Jun. 16th, 2024 09:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alchemicinkBack again for the weekly summary even though I feel like I just wrote last week's 😅
Music stuff!
The YouTube algorithm suddenly remembered that time a few years ago when I listened to a handful of songs by Bridear, and so rec'd me their most recent song this week: Still Burning. I enjoyed the guitar riff for this one
HSJ's weekly video is a performance of Negative Fighter from their most recent tour. This song is so silly and upbeat so I love it. I do think it's funny how this is like the third version of the song they've put up on YouTube now tho
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I've got some fic recs this week. I've whittled my Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood reading list down to under 100 fics again finally (but just barely 😅). And apparently the unintentional theme this week was rare pairs (gen and ship) lol.
☆ Lan Fan & Dr. Knox (she comes for a visit)
☆ Winry/Paninya (they stop Garfiel from getting scammed)
☆ Scar & Paninya (an AU where they meet when she's a child)
☆ Riza/Gracia (a sweet fic about family, but please mind the tags!)
☆ Scar/Miles (cooking!)
☆ Izumi & the Elric brothers (a sweet pre-canon moment)
☆ Izumi & the Elric brothers (Izumi's point of view as she decides to take the boys on as students)
☆ Al/Mei (but it's really mostly father!Al and their baby)
Also, I have one little Howl's Moving Castle fic rec (book canon): in which Howl and Sophie do their best impression of each other
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Still working on several fics this week! I think I'm about 85 percent done with my intoabar fic. So fingers crossed I can finish it in the next few days. I'm feeling good about how it's turned out so far.
I wrote another fic for femslashfete, because I can't stop thinking of ideas. Anyway, this was my first time writing Kimberly/Trini from the Power Rangers 2017 movie!
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seasonsofdrabbles is back for their summer round. I'm not sure if I'm gonna sign up because I'll have some work deadlines around the same time as the event's deadlines. But on the other hand, I only need one evening to write a drabble. Even if I don't signup, maybe I can write a treat or two.
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I wrote some mini reviews for some movies from the Japanese Film Festival Online. I'm hoping to catch one or two more movies before it ends. This has been a nice opportunity to watch some new things!
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I attended the local 4-H livestock show this past week, which is always fun to watch even though it's also always really hot and smelly 😂 The kids show off the goats, lambs, or hogs they raised. It's just extra cute when the kids and the animals are both the same size 😁 I took so many photos!
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Lastly, a garden update!
The plants (tomato and pepper) I had been worried about a few weeks ago have rebounded nicely. It helped that I gave them some extra water and fertilizer. So I'm glad they're still hanging in there. The peppers did have some trouble with blossom end rot for a bit, but I think I've solved that problem too. Fingers crossed I'll get to pick some peppers and tomatoes soon!
My eggplant plants are doing great! I've been picking eggplant for two weeks now. If anyone has some easy eggplant recipes, please share 😂 All I've been doing is cooking them in a vegetable stir-fry lol
My snaps (most people call them green beans) are also doing amazingly well. The plants grew much bigger than I expected. And last night I got to harvest the first batch. It wasn't a lot yet, but it was enough to cook with dinner.
So that's it for this summary. Wishing everyone a happy week ahead!
Music stuff!
The YouTube algorithm suddenly remembered that time a few years ago when I listened to a handful of songs by Bridear, and so rec'd me their most recent song this week: Still Burning. I enjoyed the guitar riff for this one
HSJ's weekly video is a performance of Negative Fighter from their most recent tour. This song is so silly and upbeat so I love it. I do think it's funny how this is like the third version of the song they've put up on YouTube now tho
***
I've got some fic recs this week. I've whittled my Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood reading list down to under 100 fics again finally (but just barely 😅). And apparently the unintentional theme this week was rare pairs (gen and ship) lol.
☆ Lan Fan & Dr. Knox (she comes for a visit)
☆ Winry/Paninya (they stop Garfiel from getting scammed)
☆ Scar & Paninya (an AU where they meet when she's a child)
☆ Riza/Gracia (a sweet fic about family, but please mind the tags!)
☆ Scar/Miles (cooking!)
☆ Izumi & the Elric brothers (a sweet pre-canon moment)
☆ Izumi & the Elric brothers (Izumi's point of view as she decides to take the boys on as students)
☆ Al/Mei (but it's really mostly father!Al and their baby)
Also, I have one little Howl's Moving Castle fic rec (book canon): in which Howl and Sophie do their best impression of each other
***
Still working on several fics this week! I think I'm about 85 percent done with my intoabar fic. So fingers crossed I can finish it in the next few days. I'm feeling good about how it's turned out so far.
I wrote another fic for femslashfete, because I can't stop thinking of ideas. Anyway, this was my first time writing Kimberly/Trini from the Power Rangers 2017 movie!
By the way,
seasonsofdrabbles is back for their summer round. I'm not sure if I'm gonna sign up because I'll have some work deadlines around the same time as the event's deadlines. But on the other hand, I only need one evening to write a drabble. Even if I don't signup, maybe I can write a treat or two. ***
I wrote some mini reviews for some movies from the Japanese Film Festival Online. I'm hoping to catch one or two more movies before it ends. This has been a nice opportunity to watch some new things!
***
I attended the local 4-H livestock show this past week, which is always fun to watch even though it's also always really hot and smelly 😂 The kids show off the goats, lambs, or hogs they raised. It's just extra cute when the kids and the animals are both the same size 😁 I took so many photos!
***
Lastly, a garden update!
The plants (tomato and pepper) I had been worried about a few weeks ago have rebounded nicely. It helped that I gave them some extra water and fertilizer. So I'm glad they're still hanging in there. The peppers did have some trouble with blossom end rot for a bit, but I think I've solved that problem too. Fingers crossed I'll get to pick some peppers and tomatoes soon!
My eggplant plants are doing great! I've been picking eggplant for two weeks now. If anyone has some easy eggplant recipes, please share 😂 All I've been doing is cooking them in a vegetable stir-fry lol
My snaps (most people call them green beans) are also doing amazingly well. The plants grew much bigger than I expected. And last night I got to harvest the first batch. It wasn't a lot yet, but it was enough to cook with dinner.
So that's it for this summary. Wishing everyone a happy week ahead!
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Date: 2024-06-19 08:30 pm (UTC)Oh, some of these recs sound really interesting! I’ll have to remember to come back later 🎉
Good luck with intoabar!
Sometimes it’s extra fun to just write a treat or two. Either way, hope you have fun with what you decide!
Good luck for your garden! One of my parents makes a really excellent vegetarian meatball thing with eggplant, but it takes them hours so maybe I wouldn’t recommend it 😅 it fun reading about your garden because ours is way further behind here - the plants just got transplanted outside at the beginning of June, and some people are still getting stuff in the ground.
Hope you have a great week!
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Date: 2024-06-22 03:42 am (UTC)Enjoy the recs if you get a chance to read! (One day I'm gonna compile them all into a nice fic rec list masterpost)
I just wrote one treat for a round earlier this year, and so it was nice and stress free. So I may do that again after all
Yeah I don't think I'd have the patience for an hours-long recipe 😅😂 ahh that's right, your garden growing season would be starting later because of the temperatures, yeah? If people are still planting in June, when does garden season usually end there? My garden is a bit early this year bc it's usually July before the veggies get ready to eat
Hope you have a great weekend, my friend!