#books ive read in 2020

[mercymornsimpathizer]

only read three (3) scifi books this year....what have i become...

#scifi followers pls send recs esp new releases #i need to restock my scifi tbr and im p sure ive read every good book from 1960-2020 #a lot of the buzzy stuff this year seems so meh to me

[edanmaia]

full dust jacket is interesting. the dual color of the background (instead of white) is so so interesting. Like a sunset???? 👀 or it's just a reference to shadow (black) and flame (orange)

& ofc the multiple 8 point stars littered throughout

All of the imagery is very Hellish (Hel-ish?) 🤔

-there's writing on her arms and it looks like insignias (the one at the top is mountains??) AND it looks like there are 8 (dusk court is real)

-the back cover looks like a portal and a cave entrance ooooooh

-the person might be hypaxia (rereading the books rn & shes in hofas)

#hosaf #house of flame and shadow #crescent city #sarah j maas #sjm #forgive me ive only read the first book in 2020 and skimmed hosab

[tantai-jin]

fic writer meme!

thank u rachel @fruitdaze for the tag!!! <3333333

1. How many works do you have on Ao3?

23 since 2016 lmao,, i don't remember exactly how many i posted on lj from 2012-2015 but it wasn't a ton, probably 10-15 that were like 50k altogether

2. What's your total Ao3 word count?

124,765

3. What fandoms do you write for?

it's been all over the place since 2020 lol but p much only chinese media like danmei novels, movies, cdramas. used to write kpop rpf but prob won't return to that even tho i still like and follow many groups

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

给你给你 (yunfei)

换一世身份姓名; heaven to myself (canglan)

not-that-small talk (tell me honestly) (bts yoonkook LOL)

새벽 rush hour (yellow light, slow) (bts taegi LOL)

捡一个梦; reach for a dream (canglan)

5. Do you respond to comments?

i usually do, although i'm often quite late LOL i have a couple fics where i didn't reply to all the comments after a certain point and then i just stopped 😭 or if they are a guest user or only leave emojis as a comment then i don't reply? but ofc i see every comment

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

uhh i feel like the only thing i wrote that is complete and has an angsty ending is 捡一个梦; reach for a dream bc it was a missing scene from an angsty arc of the show. or lol jk same scenario applies to 余光 (remnants of light) bc it takes place before the end of yuwu and not in one of the happier moments

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

either 给你给你 or 换一世身份姓名; heaven to myself bc they're both disgustingly sweet and affectionate at the end

8. Do you get hate on fics?

nope! either i am writing for tiny ass fandoms or like, my fics don't get enough traction to attract haters LMAO

9. Do you write smut?

not a lot... the incomplete bingqiu au i posted has the most explicit scenes so far but i am still too shy writing it. i have to practice so that i can write more than 3 sentences of sex in a single day and actually finish the wips i started 😭

10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you have written?

i have before! nothing crazy tho bc it was just kpop rpf and it would be like, two idols from the same company that have interacted multiple times! lmao. sometimes i think abt crossovers for cdramas that are relatively tame such as: two actors that have been in the same drama multiple times are reincaranted and those 2+ dramas are their different lives... but it's so niche in eng speaking fandom and i haven't fully written one out yet. also does it count as a crossover if u put characters from story A into the setting/setup for story B bc i do that a lot but i think that is fairly common at least for ppl to imagine

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

i don't think so... again, my fics do not get a lot of traction so i don't think it's likely lmaooo

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

i think there was an exo one translated into russian a long time ago but i don't even remember which one lolllll it might have been on my livejournal

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

not a whole fic yet but ive brainrotted a plethora of aus with friends before such as but not limited to mingqian actors au with lianzi (very intricate with multiple variations) and a Bunch of cdrama and yuwu stuff with another friend :')

14. What's your all time favorite ship?

i cannotttttt pick only one but ummm in the last yr-ish it's been a rotation of tantai jin/li susu + mingye/sang jiu from cyjm, mingqian from liu yao, xilian from yuwu (🤪)..... bingqiu from sv (always).... i should stop for now that's Tew Many. but i think once i finish spl, changgu will also be up there

15. What is a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

i feel like i'm cursing myself by typing this out but perhaps the bingqiu i posted one chapter of..... even if i could write all the p With p parts that i wanted to include, i was also a little stuck on the ending and idk if i would be able to write it in a way that doesn't feel like a cop out or just weak in general 😢 but i do like that au and i think my writing for it so far was p decent... so who knows...!

16. What are your writing strengths?

i think i am pretty good at dialogue that sounds 1. natural and 2. true to the characters! i try really hard to make imagery sound original(ish) and evocative, and to make a character's Yearning palpable

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

intricate plot, action, sex (takes me forever to write and haven't done it in as much detail as i would like to tbh)

18. Thoughts of writing dialogue in another language in fics?

i love it! i did it a little in my yunfei fic and instead of directly translating the line of chinese right there i just included the meaning in the next line of dialogue, like "what do you mean [thing they just said]" + i did it like that bc the tone of it just felt so much more natural to me in mandarin for that specific convo. not that it was something untranslatable (it wasn't) but it just felt comfier to me. i also like the thing ppl do where you can hover over the text and it will show the translation but idk how that html works HAHA someday i would like to give it a go

19. First fandom you wrote for?

exo.......... lmao

20. Favorite fic you have written?

overall i think it would be typhoon season (my incomplete but not abandoned cisswap girls ximang in hk) ! i had it fermenting in my brain for like 8 months before i wrote it, which meant i had figured a lot of the stuff for the beginning out and it was much easier to write than normal since i was not deliberating so much in the moment. i think the pacing for it was good and the reveals of backstory were placed well, and i think i adapted the characters well too even if it's only a first chapter and they haven't done a lot yet. i wanna write them again but it's been rly hard for me to think abt that specific au for many months lol. i also think my recent yzy gegedidi fic had a lot of yummy scenes even if i see some flaws in some parts of the fic's progression... but i spent enough time on it already so i will not go and fix it anymore 😌 peace

i think all my writer friends were tagged already...... this tagline (like a bloodline) will end with me

#my blah blah #the funny thing is that ive posted 9 fics since 2020 and they are from 7 different fandoms #which makes it so that if i talk abt fics like this i don't think a single friend fully knows what i'm talking abt more than 50% of the tim #i am just jumping from place to place and vibing. there are so many good shows and books and movies and games etc to watch and read and pla

[aropride]

nobody freak out okay but im reading a book

#text #ive STARTED reading several books in the past couple years but the last time i finished a book was.. hang on i gotta check goodreads #august 22 2020. so it has been. almost 3 years. over 1000 days. since i finished a book #BUT. this time. i have armed myself with the strongest weapon (audiobook) my bladesmith (youtube) could offer me

[nabaath-areng]

I was planning to build new desktop this fall, but seeing that the winter half year practically chains me to bed making me incapable of sitting up I took some of my savings to get a laptop so I can have it in bed for drawing, writing etc at least. And so I'll save back up the coming months and build it once spring arrives instead (hopefully component prices has gone down then too)

All that to say I can only eat my hands as I catch glimpses of dawntrail news after having been ffxiv-less since july last year. my abstinence is out the roof

#that being said i am admittedly a little bit nervous about returning now that its been so long #i played without break from 2014 til 2020 and then its been on an off between 2020 and 2022 #and then since then i havent had the means to play #like on one hand i dont dare looking too much into ffxiv happenings cause my abstinence grows worse #and on the other i worry that ill feel weird coming back #because returning from past breaks have felt weird #which admittedly might be because i dont allow myself to take my time and enjoy things but rather rush to catch up #but whenever i can play im just gonna take all effort possible to not rush and potentially even do things on my own #rather than feel stressed by not slowing down others #im glad for the increased single player options tbh #at the same time the break has done me good cause i feel like im further away from making those mistakes #and having a lot to catch up with before being up to date might be good for me #finding hobbies outside ffxiv has done me good too #my relationship to it wasnt the healthiest as it was my sole lifeline during horrific and traumatic years #but now ive been able to play tons of other games again and read books and draw more and write more than ever #and done more irl things again even finishing one type of education #so honestly? i think itll be fine #i dont have to feel bad over my relationship with the game evolving into a different form #i still love it immensely and its had a profound impact on my life as a whole #both in terms of friends and creativity and also significant other #anyway that got longer and rantier and more personal than i first intended #peace signs and sparkles

[viir-tanadhal]

my music book collection kills me

#this says a lot about me huh 😭 #the kraftwerk book was alright. i liked the audiovisual analytical segments #ive only read one chapter from glitter up the dark for my thesis but i found a copy used so snatched it up #my 2020 copies of literally and vs america are so beat up #the inside is highlighted and flagged all over the place aksjsnd #i want more music analysis books like ones i got from the library for my thesis but i havent found any used copies thus far

[atomicniire]

Moss remained stubbornly uncommitted- to origin, to gender, to genes, went by "she" this time but not others

Dead Astronauts by Jeff Vandermeer

#jeff vandermeer #dead astronauts #okay to be fair I have avoided posts about dead astronauts when i can #because ive been trying to read this book since 2020 #BUT WHY DID NO ONE MENTION THE ABSOLUTE LEGEND MOSS #my kind of person

[catkin-morgs-kookaburralover]

okay who wants to read the prologue to Adira's story

also known as: her story is increasing in importance to me again and may become my focus project for a while idk, unless it gets Too Hard again or smth

#adira #i first drafted it back in ??? 2018? 2017? idk #then i completely overhauled it and renamed the character and changed a bunch #then in 2020 i redrafted it and it became rather a mess #so then i REdrafted it in 2021 #i have then gone through and rewritten the prologue #incorporating the prologue of both versions #i still need to reread through all my notes and things first before i embark on a proper overhaul of book one taking into account all the #various stuff ive written #but anyway who wants to read it! :) #just bc i want to share lol #betareading #(feedback is welcome as usual but not a requirement. although genuinely betareaders would be welcome/people i can bounce off ideas with) #writing #my writing

[onepiexe]

ive not been on here at all oh my god

#logbook #my last text posts were from like. laurel day. and then nothing until back on like the 5th. #anyways hi im alive SKSHSJFKG spring is almost over. .i habe been told i'll still be busy in the zummer but it wont be bad #it'll be a busy im actually really excited for and have wanted to do this whole time lol #ive got new plant babies. i bought some new furniture. im slowly cleaning my space. #i made new friends at work with some of the cashiers finally. turns out we're all the same age. #we're planning to hang out this week after work too :) #ummmmmm. mostly been watching alfred bi attorney streams/vods and reading again. #relearing spanish. . .learning botany from books. . .going to start on my course this summer too. #i got a plushie i preordered back in like. 2021?? 2020?? and havent slept a night without em<3 #yeah idk ive been doing alright. hows everyone been. missed yall. #tell me whats up if you read this :)

[lordsardine]

#it's 1:30 AM and i need to vent about this i feel like im going insane #ive been on this. fucking. Mission™ to refind this book i read i think in like 2019/2020 #i really enjoyed it! i gave it to my mom to read! she has no memory of it! #i fucking tore our house apart looking for it in tampa and fucking nada #ive tried googling for it. oh my god have i tried #and tonight i just spent an hour+ combing through my fucking personal text posts #hoping to fucking god i mentioned it once and of course not!!!!!!!!! #at this point i feel like im hallucinating it #i bought it at barnes and noble. it was written by a woman. it was a thriller novel #AND YET I CANT FIND IT ALKSDFAIGWEYUBFAFDA #miscellaneous #i need to go to bed but i am fucking . AaAAAAAA #i WILL find this stupid fucking book i swear to god

[britneyshakespeare]

i think reading the first three shakespeare henriad plays back-to-back-to-back has broken my brain for the last three months

#and i read shakespeare's book: the making of the first folio (2023) by chris laoutaris in between r2 and 1h4.... #april may and june have been highly shakespearean months for me #i haven't read as much shakespeare in recent years as i had been when i first received the riverside shakespeare so i was feeling #some kind of way. wanted to make up for it. #i always tried to read at least one play a year #but now i have a problem. i've read 20 plays and 7 of the plays i have read are english histories #which is too high of a number for my liking. THE HISTORIES HAVE BROKEN MY BRAIN!!!!!! #tales from diana #i have only read five (5!!) of the proper comedies #7 comedies if you count romances as comedies #oh god. i need to do smth about that number #perhaps i should read a comedy before i go onto henry the fifth even though i reallyam looking forward to it.... #that's like everyone's favorite play in the henriad seemingly #idk this series as been really good so far #i think richard ii might still be my favorite but henry iv part 1 had some really great moments too #henry iv part 2 was a bit slow in the beginning but it had a great ending #i also realized i haven't read a proper tragedy since 2020 lol. w king lear #i honestly barely remember king lear... i should watch a production of it soon #idk i read king lear in the beginning of the pandemic so that's fogged up w WEIRD memories and. idk #i should probably reread it someday but right now there's just so much else i want to get to read first #king lear wasn't my favorite when i was reading it but that might've just been. hard to get into bc of the state of the world #i did in fact read it bc shakespeare wrote it during the plague but. that was not of comfort. to say the least #i told myself i'd take at least a month after finishing henry iv part 2 to read other things that ive been slacking on #particularly other plays. i have a lot of drama i want to read that is NOT shakespeare. i do. i do have other playwrights i like #gonna start by reading some plays from my norton anthology of drama and just. kick back

[thebraxiatelcollection]

Has anyone else been having a hard time reading since the pandemic started or is it just me?

#april book blogs #dnf yet another book! #my reading has been everywhere since 2020 #it was doing so well in 2019 then...shit happened #i just havent found a book that ive been truly engrossed in or given a 5 star recently #been trying to reread old favs #and try new books #i think my most highest rated book this year is probably stars and thats a few of them lol #lately been reading more fanfiction #so thats been helping

[aropride]

i want to read so bad & i feel awful abt not being able to read well- like understand what im reading i mean i can physically read words fine- especially considering like. i want to be a writer thats all i care abt. and i can't read a 200 page book anymore. like okay

#text #this is embarassing for me but the ONLY thing ive finished reading this year that wasnt like #super short. like a short fic or something. is fucking uh/v. #ive read parts of books! nd ive read some (short) papers on like. psychology n shit #but i havent Finished reading anything. and i feel so so BAD about it like. #especially bc i WANT to read and theres so many books ive told myself i'll read & then i dont . #idk im just so. like. #i dunno #in 2021 i read a couple long fics . dont think i finished a book that year either #in 2020 i read a couple books. mostly audiobooks. WHICH STILL COUNTS !!!!!!!!. #but like. its been getting worse year by year . 🙂👍 #2019 was the year it got rlly bad i think #i remember crying bcuz i was failing all the reading checks in our great gatsby unit despite doing the reading and taking notes and everyth #everything #eventually i just gave up and read summaries cuz i was likw What's the point if i cant remember any of it anyway #whatever who give a shit #neg

[limerental]

alas, I've finally finished the witcher saga after two years of trying to do so and not wanting to finish lady of the lake.... I'm a little baby about it and I love sad shit! But i did not want to read it. Anyway it was good and satisfying and also not at all satisfying and also I'm pewishing

#and no i havent finished the short stories #idk i think ive just been wanting to leave myself things to still experience as new even two and a half years into this hyperfixation #i dont even own season of storms and ive only read half of sword of destiny #fake books fan i suppose #but the saga is where my heart is #literally though i read up to lady of the lake in fall or winter 2020 and just couldnt keep going hehe

[surrender-souls]

i think books should often have illustrations as words and images are like sweet lovers

#i can draw. can i illustrate someones book. #can someone illustrate my book. #i speak #ive been reading more lately idk if ive mentioned that but i havent read novels regularly since 2020 #i feels beautiful #ive been reading the lottery and other stories by shirley jackson and shes one of my favorite authors now i think #her style! every story she writes has this everyday feeling to it its beautiful #and even if the story just reflects a typical moment in life she writes it in an uncanny way which suggests you are only seeing the surface #i started a book diary #i write the title author starting and finishing date and i write some thoughts i had on the book

[wolfsnake]

I have started READING A BOOK its WILD

#Ive been struggling with reading for a while!! #last year Ive read 2 full books and most of a third one #and it was more than Id read in a while!!! #well for fun #I read a few in 2020 before dropping out #for class