#1.5th place for both

[alolowrites]

Croatia vs Morocco was an incredible 3rd place World Cup match. If I had the power, I would have given 3rd place to both lmao.

[strixcattus]

Conlang Year Day 80

This is not a place of honor.

(Nominative/base, accusative, dative, comitative, benefactive, and both possessives)

That's one of three gendered persons complete. In the tenseless variants, because I am still intending to mark tense directly on the pronouns somehow.

...by the time this conlang is done, I'm never going to want to work with a table again.

I'll not include an example for every form, just touch on examples of every gender, because no one wants me to write out sentences for each of twenty-eight pronoun forms, least of all myself.

The "divergent" gender has a couple different use cases—most stringently, it refers to an instance where there's a duplicate of you that used to be you, but you won't become them—i.e., the point of divergence is in your future. More lenient interpretations would allow you to use it even when the divergence is in your past, so long as you still think of yourself (or they think of you) as the "past version" of the other.

1.5th-person pronouns in use:

Gako kozei. My past self speaks. Koi lako nezio. I see my alternate-universe self. Mida lako kaiju. I lie to my future self. Zono sadu niozei. My divergent self kills my past self. Touji lako gedu. I wait for my future self.

Zasi lako gazio ne ja zacio duoko sie diozio. [repair 1.NOM 1.5.split.COM ACC DEF.SG time-machine 1.ALI-POSS and 1.5.split.ALI-POSS] I, with my alternate-universe self, repair our time machine. (Arguments other than the verb and subject can come in any order)

[couripacepals]

Weekly Roundup

World Records Java 1.7 RSG any% World Record - Teddiursa311 - 19:19 Java 1.17 SSG any% (former) World Record - HanabiYaki - 1:55.303 Java 1.17 SSG any% World Record - EmpireKills - 1:55.196 Java 1.16 RSG any% no shift world record - Ophyra - 29:33 Java 1.16 RSG any% Infinipearl World Record - algorythm - 9:45 Java 1.15 RSG any% Classic World Record - Ontricus - 16:51 Java 1.15 RSG any% 2nd day trading Classic WR - SammyMCSR - 19:33 Java 1.15 RSG any% Icarus - aymericpierre - 10:31

Personal Bests Java 1.16 RSG any% - Raddles - 17:17 Java 1.16 RSG any% - Raddles - 11:52 Java pre-1.9 RSG any% Raddles - 28:34 Java 1.16 RSG Icarus HHH - aymericpierre - 10:11 Java pre-1.9 RSG any% - Funderful - 22:46 Java pre-1.9 RSG any% - giyo - 25:04 Java 1.16 RSG any% - qam - 11:09 Java 1.16 RSG any% - CroPro - 12:11 Java 1.16 RSG any% - lysotroph - 12:20 Java 1.16 RSG any% - andrew_crow - 9:53 (retime pending) Java 1.16 RSG any% - fikas - 21:12 Java 1.15 RSG any% - 2KBlockBlind - 26:48 Java 1.16 RSG any% - EvanKae - 11:51 Java 1.16 RSG any% - EvanKae - 11:15 Java 1.7 RSG any% - guide - 23:41 Java 1.16 RSG any% - @s3er - 26:22 Java 1.16 RSG any% - PMDkat - 14:38 Java 1.15 RSG any% - bloonskiller - 19:46 Java 1.16 RSG any% - ellienfp - 17:19 Java 1.16 RSG any% - Orachi - 12:13 Java 1.15 RSG any% Classic - Pango - 19:42 Java 1.16 FSG AA - Binja - 8:06:05 Java 1.16 RSG AA - eficz - 4:53:27 Java 1.16 RSG AA - Cube1337x - 3:48:02 (first ever non-Feinberg sub4) Java 1.16 RSG AA - blackmagic556 - 6:15:00 Java 1.18 RSG AA - LNXSeus - 15:49:55 Java 1.16 RSG AA Duos - Meister Maki & Meister Rosie - 5:32:33 Not a PB, but a shoutout for Feinberg for four sub4 AA runs, being one of only two people to have a sub4 AA run and the only person with 2 or more.

Events and other news MoleyG’s 1001 1.16 RSG any% Runs Without Resets (343 out of 1001 runs) Couriway’s 100 1.16 RSG any% Hardcore Speedruns in a Row - still ongoing! Frogzz' Pre 1.9 Tourney: still ongoing! If you'd like to stay informed, here's the bracket with all the upcoming matches and results. Not Very Frightening: Feinberg and Automatt have moved on into the upper bracket semifinale, while Hoffik will play Wetsockboi and Fyroah will play against either Shipoman or MeisterMaki, both in the loser's bracket. Artist Relay Cup (ARC): While no relay matches are happening right now, the official twitter account is posting a lot of the art drawn in the last few days! Go check it out and support some of the very talented artists in this community. GNG Tourney continues! keep an eye out on the GNG Twitter for match announcements, and watch on Polina’s Twitch! TST 2 (The Sub-X Tournament) - has began! Set seed, survival only, players have a one hour period to reset as many times as they want for the fastest completion, watch at Paperpal’s Twitch! (Still ongoing) Community Weekend: 11-13th of March. Artists and Runners alike learned (hopefully) many new things from each other. MSL Finals: Two out of three finals are done! In the Endermite league, granattpl wins before emogirl33333 and maljack. Meanwhile, in the Enderman league astrafwastaken takes the win before a three-way tie for second between Oxidiot, qam and Automatt. Keep an eye out for the last final of the grand lae

Upcoming Events MCC - Five HBG members are in MCC! It'll take place on march 26th with all of them on different teams. Insomnia Gaming Festival: Fulham, Bendoeslive and Shmalex have been accepted for an 1.16 RSG exhibition match at Insommnia! It'll take place on 1.5th of april as well as prior IRL content, so stay tuned! Most tournaments mentioned earlier will also continue soon, with Relay starting their second bracket matches on Tuesday.

[savrenim]

hi hi hi. so I just got into the Hamilton fandom, I swear I am four years late where did everybody go, and, well. I am apparently a hamburr shipper. bcs that is my life now. anyway I saw your fic ifmlam and I swear it is my favourite of all the fics I've ever read (and trust me I've read literally thousands). I love it so so much, how do you write fics like that??? I cried about four times during the whole thing, I stayed up till 4am reading it even when I had to wake up at 7 because it is just. that. good. I could not stop thinking about it for days afterwards and ifmlam has just ruined me. I can't think of listen to Hamilton without thinking of ifmlam anymore.

on to my qursttion: is it abandoned? of course it's perfectly FINE if it is. don't let anyone tell u differently, your fic is YOURS and u are amazing.

but pls I really need closure from ur fic, it has been haunting me if its abandoned or ongoing and I've read ur other fics and they are just chefskiss and thank you so much for writing them all. thank you thank you thank you, I will never be able to thank you enough for writing this fic and for everything it's done for me. I am probably thousands of miles away but I am sending you virtual jugs through a co.puter screen right now.

(don't feel pressured to reply to this or update it flam, I know how overwhelming it can get with so many messages and after a while u get desensitized to it. u can literally reply "thx. itfmlam is abandoned" and I would still be amazingly star struck. anyway has gotten way too long and I need to sleep and I'm sorry u probably won't see this so I'm just talking to myself right now but bye!!)

and thank you so so much for writing itfmlam.

aaaah hello anon!

thank you so so much???? I am so??? honored??? that ifmlam rates so highly to you, and also that you've read my other fics??????

the answer to the "is ifmlam abandoned" question is probably the worst possible one, which is pretty much "I do want to finish it, both for the folks that still want closure as well as it bothers to me have abandoned projects that are in the public eye/ already partially published, but also, it is last on my current writing projects list"

my current actually active writing projects list, kind of in order of priority, is

I'm literally three chapters away from being Actually Fully Done with the not-quite-first-not-quite-second let's call it 1.5th draft of an actual?? full?? original?? novel?? Opus which of course then goes out to beta readers and then gets who-knows-how-much edited and then maybe beta readers again if a lot does change and then a copyeditor my mom, my copyeditor is my mom, and maybe my little brother he's one of the betas but is very good at catching typos and then I!!! get to publish it!!!! which is the single thing I am most excited for!!!!!!!!! this should be closed up in the next week or two, and then take a while for people to actually read the draft and get back to me.

I really desperately want to finish my open-but-like-90%-written fic, which means we raise it up, the final chapter of to the bottom of the river bc I realized that it was kind of incomplete, and the second chapter of a buried and a burning flame because any more work there will need to wait until the author publishes the next book in the series. this should be closed up in the next month or two.

Speedwrite the draft of the second book of the Opus series so that hopefully by the time book 1 edits are happening, I have an almost complete draft of the second book. this is mostly me side-eyeing myself about taking nearly four years to write the first book, but that is solidly in part because I had so many other open projects which point 2 is about clearing that docket. this should be done in the next year.

And then just have my major projects be, at least until books 1-5 are written and published, books 1-5 of that because that is arguably the first major 'plot arc' of the series, so if I'm looking for a pause point on writing, that's probably where to stop.

There are two or three other short side projects (a weird fun second person short story tentatively titled witch-queen, a collection of four short stories Memoirs about a not-so-evil necromancer and the shenanigans he gets up to trying to rule a kingdom, working title Perfectly Normal Recipe Blog which is a collaborative project about a perfectly normal recipe blog that definitely doesn't include anything out of the normal) that will happen when they happen

There are other projects that are on the backburner -- The Numanok Files, a series of probably 12-15 short novellas about a mercenary/ bounty hunter esque person in space whose specialty is dealing with hauntings, but, like, 80% of their jobs is actually "you are effectively a space home inspector pointing out faulty wiring reacting to solar flares/ there's a weird alien fungus/ it's carbon monoxide okay change your atmosphere filters" and 20% of it is punching ghosts; there's a post-post apocalypse novel that I want to write that I know characters and general pacing and half the setting but need to work out the other half and figure out how much aesthetic I want to commit to; there's Strangeside7 aka spacerace book that is my reaction to how much I love how Redline the anime movie commits itself to "no we are about a race, like 60% of the screentime is just fully going to be an utterly ridiculous sci fi space race"; there's even a ridiculous YA trilogy that I would have to completely transplant the setting but might end up writing because the interplay between angel-physics and physics-physics was one of my favorite things in the world. and I guess the weird ridiculous technically a sequel series to ifmlam that was going to be published as original books that was basically me having fun with 'okay I fucking love star wars prequels old rotting space bureaucracy galactic republic style' except with seers and that also still might happen because it does have some of the coolest sci fi concepts and honestly I thiiiink that's all?

but the tl;dr of that timeline is I'm trying to finish a punch of projects Right Now, so that I can write books 2-5 of Opus, and then when I'm done that (which honestly, my average fiction-writing output is close to 100k a year. if I'm concentrating purely on one project, and writing books that are about 100k, we are talking four years. although my job situation is super up in the air in that period and writing might get put solidly on the backburner as I try to make it in academia, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯) I will re-evaluate which projects go next, and that's when ifmlam is likely to come up for review.

I do not have any expectations that I will make it as an original author. I'm planning on posting all of my stuff online for free, but, like. it is incredibly difficult to convince people to try out even a piece of free and easily accessibly original work even if one has a huge following, I am a very small fanfiction author, and from what I can tell the majority of the people who are interested in my work are mostly interested in me finishing ifmlam. writing is a hobby for me, and while I'm writing mostly for me--and hence the for me bit at least for the next five years is pretty solidly going to be this series that I am deeply excited about and have sunk my heart and soul into every single aspect of--I'm human, and I don't really like shouting into the void, and I expect if I spend five years publishing to absolutely no response I will either stop writing for a while and do other things gods know my life is busy enough, return to fandom in general to write some other fanfic about whatever I get deeply into, or return to a work that I actually get response to. so ifmlam will probably start getting worked on a bit at that point one way or another. unless, of course, we are in the incredibly rare timeline in which I do make it as an original author, there are people who are deeply hyped for my original works and an actual demand for them, in which case as you may have noticed there are enough ideas there to keep me busy for a decade or two, and they will just get my full attention instead of fanfiction*. in this timeline, I will do what I was considering doing a few years ago, which is officially declare ifmlam otherwise abandoned and make one more giant chapter update which is a full and cleaned up outline of what I was going to write, interspersed with the scenes already written, and have ifmlam be given at least that closure.

*I want to make it clear that I very much love fanfiction and am proud to have been a fanfiction author and in my heart of hearts would keep writing it forever, I just also have a lot of ideas for characters and settings and magic systems and Aesthetics and I have been biting at the bit to write something that is //mine// and all mine and only mine for a while, I don't see original work as superior so much as there are a dozen fandoms that I am currently in and bursting to make content about except oops these fandoms currently only exist in my head, and I want to correct that

of course given how much as writing is my vent activity and I write what I'm in the mood for, there's a chance I'll feel ifmlam cravings before then, just... expect it to take a couple of years for an update, but also for there to be an update one way of another in a couple of years? but as for right now, I'm turning to original writing, because that is what brings me joy.

but I am really deeply honored that it brought you so much joy!!! and while I will never publish spoilers in a public place, if you message me off anon I am perfectly happy to give a run-down of my current plans for the ending, bc I know "wait a couple years and see" is not the most satisfactory of answers! and hey maybe you'll be like me and once you've given Opus a try you'll decide you like it better too, it does have Seers although they are deeply different Seers than in ifmlam but imo it's very gay and fun and at least politics on one side

[isitneccessary]

[Morning Musume ‘18] Haga Akane has no interest in boys, has never fallen for one

(This turned into a bit of an obsessive oshi post. Wota get excited over the dumbest things. That includes both me and the people in this thread.)

[original thread]

1: 2018/07/22(日) 01:56:04.11 0.net

Source is YoungTown

れい@ri_hrk

Haga “Since long ago, I’ve had no interest in men, and I’ve never liked a boy.”

Sanma “Do you see Kudou as a romantic interest?”

Haga “What do you think?”

#yando

10:45 - 2018年7月21日

3: 2018/07/22(日) 01:56:41.77 0.net

What’s so strange?

You’ve never fallen in love with a woman before either.

4: 2018/07/22(日) 01:57:15.72 0.net

Was she a lesbian?

5: 2018/07/22(日) 01:57:26.50 0.net

I stan!!!!!!!

7: 2018/07/22(日) 01:58:43.80 0.net

That’s the best!

10: 2018/07/22(日) 02:02:59.84 0.net

It’s a pretty high ranking thing to say.

8: 2018/07/22(日) 01:59:34.40 0.net

I’m guessing she’s trying to appeal

12: 2018/07/22(日) 02:05:12.85 0.net

Someone who hates men would never become an idol to begin with.

16: 2018/07/22(日) 02:08:34.04 0.net

Iikubo once said that she cancels out her desires towards males by reading manga, didn’t she?

13: 2018/07/22(日) 02:06:15.01 0.net

Her first love is yet to come

6: 2018/07/22(日) 01:58:13.22 0.net

It’s cuz she was always bullied lol

17: 2018/07/22(日) 02:09:03.56

She’s said she was at the top of the school caste at times and that she was bullied at others so I can’t believe what she says.

2. ℃-uteな名無しさん 2018年07月23日 05:33　id：3q.ibW1v0 (comment from matome site)

>>17

Going from Elementary school (Nagano) → Middle School (Nagano) → Middle School (Tokyo) is a big change in environment, so it wouldn’t be strange that her social standing in the school also changed.

19: 2018/07/22(日) 02:10:07.89 0.net

She’s bragged that she’s never lost an argument because she tires out the opponent or says things that make them wanna leave

She challenged Ogata-san (Risa) for no real reason but was defeated, and the fact that she opened her heart to her after that is pretty cute.

20: 2018/07/22(日) 02:11:05.58 0.net

21: 2018/07/22(日) 02:12:53.16 0.net

Her b**bs are pretty big.

That’s nice.

22: 2018/07/22(日) 02:13:24.75 0.net

She fell for Kudou in the all-girls school way

24: 2018/07/22(日) 02:16:32.22 0.net

Didn’t she just like Kudou while thinking of her as a guy?

25: 2018/07/22(日) 02:16:40.85 0.net

I love her.

31: 2018/07/22(日) 02:20:24.25 0.net

No choice but to stan

35: 2018/07/22(日) 02:29:11.64 0.net

As expected of a Reina Child.

34: 2018/07/22(日) 02:28:05.71 0.net

How many times are you people going to be tricked by this lie?

37: 2018/07/22(日) 02:30:18.64 0.net

With that face and those boobs there’s no way she’s not popular

40: 2018/07/22(日) 02:32:06.63 0.net

There’s no way there’s no way.

41: 2018/07/22(日) 02:33:58.36 0.net

People who say stuff like this are the exact ones who suddenly announce marriage and pregnancy.

I know it.

42: 2018/07/22(日) 02:34:45.20 0.net

I bet she recently got a guy and is feeling guilty about it so she ended up saying this.

43: 2018/07/22(日) 02:34:57.85 0.net

The law is idols who say this unprompted always have a man.

46: 2018/07/22(日) 02:40:37.59 0.net

By that law you must think Michishige is a total slut lol

45: 2018/07/22(日) 02:39:25.64 0.net

A real lez, as expected of a Sayu successor

48: 2018/07/22(日) 02:59:01.65 0.net

It would be interesting if she was HelloPro’s first lesbian but saying she’s never liked a boy just has to be a lie.

(”first”)

58: 2018/07/22(日) 06:42:11.61 0.net

In Akanechin’s case, she might actually be a lesbian, which is scary

51: 2018/07/22(日) 03:10:25.50 0.net

Too bad for the gachikoi wotas.

55: 2018/07/22(日) 06:30:51.71 0.net

I always thought she was a fairy girl. I guess I wasn’t wrong

(not the English slur for fairy as gay just like literally a fairy)

61: 2018/07/22(日) 07:14:28.98 0.net

Supposing this is true, when she falls in love for the first time

She’ll jump to the very top of Musume.

Whether you believe it is up to you.

62: 2018/07/22(日) 07:21:04.37 0.net

Virgin big boobed angel Akane

66: 2018/07/22(日) 07:59:43.69 0.net

Girls who have never liked boys wouldn’t become idols

They won’t have motivation.

There’s already people saying this, but

67: 2018/07/22(日) 08:05:38.04 0.net

I wonder if she’s had bad experiences with boys before.

75: 2018/07/22(日) 18:52:27.43 0.net

It’s okay if you fall for me, Akane.

76: 2018/07/22(日) 21:14:53.86 0.net

It’s rare for you guys to think a lesbian appeal might be for real.

78: 2018/07/22(日) 23:50:55.76 0.net

She bought Maria’s photobook with her own money, so basically...

Some matome site comments:

10. ℃-uteな名無しさん 2018年07月23日 18:06　id：u7s6Z.Zu0

Hating men and not liking men romantically are different things entirely. To begin with, wota, whether male or female are like a strange animal more than anything so counting one as a man or a woman is suspicious.

11. ℃-uteな名無しさん 2018年07月23日 20:52　id：bzQt7u1G0

Nechin is strong willed, a celebrity even if it’s temporary, and apparently the daughter of someone with a lot of influence in her hometown, so it’s not surprising that boys would be too scared to confess.

13. ℃-uteな名無しさん 2018年07月24日 12:26　id：mMWQlCrF0

Girls who are strong-willed, beautiful and tall are the type guys keep their distance from.

Obviously you can never know anything for sure, but I do have an opinion on this matter, so here’s a video of Akane gushing about Duu and her favorite girl/girl couple IshiDuu.

This articulate and obsessive fervor is basically how she talks about these two topics at all times, and her obsession with Duu has continued on with the not at all masculine Hayami Umika. 

The thing about Maria’s photobook is true, by the way. She also bought the photobooks of Duu and her favorite actress, Yamamoto Maika.

And then here’s an excerpt from her blog post about Ogata Risa aka Marunee, her second favorite person in the world after Duu. This blog post was a special post where she made a holiday on August 8th for giving thanks to Marunee, like mother’s day or father’s day, but the way she talks about her here is how she always talks about her:

Somehow Marunee,

I think it’s natural for her but,

She totally matches my sense of humor lol I don’t laugh at all at a lot of comedy stuff but,

Marunee is really good at making me laugh.

So when we’re together, it’s super fun~♡ Whenever I’m texing Marunee,

I’m always laughing.

She’s so funny!!!!!!!!!

Once, I told her “I had a really nice dream last night”

And she said “Good for you! Sounds delicious!” (lol) So when I replied “What do you mean delicious???”

“Eh, why did I say delicious again?” was what she said!!!! I was laughing so hard lololol But the thing that made me laugh the most recently was when I wrote her “I love you the second most in the whole world!! Second most! But really it’s more like 1.5th most”

Sending her my love as usual← “I thought you might say that (lol). I thought I might get up to 1.5th place or 1.1th place (lol)” is what she said (lol) For me that’s a total bullseye hehehe I thought, How did she see through me! (lol) She can make me laugh just through text,

Well, she’s probably not meaning to but,

That’s why she’s the best ♡♡♡

Then more than anything, we just click!!! There’s so many things I can only talk about with Marunee... Things that other people would definitely call “gross”,

Marunee will definitely understand.

Of course, there’s lots of things we talk about besides that……... Also, she’s my number one source of healing

Her minus ions are amazing!!! When I’m tired, or feeling sad,

If I hug Marunee, I’m healed…... Thank you so muuuuuuuuuuch!!!!!!! The person who makes me smile the most,

The person who I trouble the most

And therefore the person I want to thank the most.

That’s Marunee!!!!!! lol

Thank you for everything!!!!!!!!!

I love you!!!!!!!

Take this information as you will.

[purplesurveys]

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Do you like baking? I actually did enjoy, the few times I’ve done it. I just don’t have the money and patience for to bake often. I don’t like waiting for something to bake for more than an hour just for me to gobble it up in minutes, ya feel. What's one skill you really admire in a person? Being able to play the piano. How tall are you? Not tall. 5′2″, must be even just 5′1″. Do you like scrapbooking? Hate it. Is it hot in your bedroom? Not right now thanks to Christmas weather. It’s pretty early though so it might still get a little warmer later.

What kind of pets do you have? I have a dog, and we also have a cat although that’s my sister’s. Have you ever touched a snake? Yep. When I was in Bali I got to put one around my neck. Do you pick your nose? Yes. Do you like root beer? If so, favorite brand? Nope. I’ve never tried it but I don’t think I’ll like it either. The scent has always thrown me off. What was the last thing you painted? Again, don’t trust me with any art skill ever. Do you ever sit around naked when you're alone? I mean I do but that’s only after showers and I’m at least wrapped in a towel. I never sit around completely butt-naked. What color looks best with your favorite color? White. Have you ever eaten tofu? Yes, a few times. I hate tofu by itself, though. Have you ever had a cavity? Yeah, pretty late in my teens too (I had been around 17) so it was an embarrassing trip to the dentist at the time. What's your favorite band? Paramore, then Against Me! Would you eat chocolate-covered grasshoppers? Yes. I’d be excited to get my hands on one. What did you buy last time you were in Wal-Mart? Are you in college? Yes. What is your favorite dog breed? All dog breeds are my favorite except maybe for chihuahuas who are in 1.5th place. I’ve never seen a gentle chihuahua, all of them are so sassy D: Has anyone ever pushed a pie in your face? No. Do you like the smell of tea tree oil? I don’t think I know what that smells like. What's your most frequently used curse word? Fuck and its variants. Do you go on Bzoink often? To get surveys, yes. Is your best friend the same sex as you? They both are. Trigonometry or calculus? UGH. Statistics. Do you sing when you're alone in the car? Of course. Do you sing in the shower? No. I take two songs max in the shower, no time at all to sing. Have you ever had a puppy? Briefly. My dog impregnated a dog of a neighbor and when she gave birth, they gave us one of the puppies. We didn’t keep it though, instead our maid adopted it and she brought it with her back to the province. Turn on the heat or wrap up in blankets when you're cold? Human burrito is always a good idea. Do you play Mario Kart? I did. On the Wii. Now I miss it. What is your problem? I have to go to mass in an hour and it’s going to be the longest hour of my week again b l e h. Do you have a job? No. What does your deodorant smell like? Like...floral, I’d say. Do you like coloring books? I love them, I owned stacks of coloring books as a kid. I still enjoy it although I haven’t had the chance to color anything in a while. Would you date someone who was bisexual? Probably. Do you like gingersnaps? Eh, I can live with it. Have you ever been on a boat? Many times. Have you ever gone outside in just your underwear? Never. Do you keep up with the news? As a journalism major, I try to. But it can get so repetitive and/or technical sometimes that I just give up on catching up with a particular story completely. Are you fairly happy with yourself? No. Have you ever celebrated Pi Day? Nope. Do you draw? Never. Do you use lotion regularly? Quite regularly, yes. Have you ever been on a roller coaster? The one time I gave myself a chance, yes. It was a baby roller coaster in Singapore, lasted literally 20 seconds and it proved to me that my stomach wasn’t built for rides. I hated it, I felt nauseous even hours after. Are you hungry? Not really. Do you use a lot of smiley faces when you type? No, only when I chat with acquaintances I guess. What color are your bedsheets? Blue. Have you ever had a roommate? I had to share a room with my sister for the shortest time two years ago. We both didn’t like it immediately. Do you like surveys with really random questions? Yeah as long as it doesn’t get too weird. Have you ever been on a plane? Sure. Do you like hiking? I can handle it. Do you have wisdom teeth? I don’t think so...I don’t feel anything unusual in my mouth lately. Do you know what the modulus operator is? The what? Are you hungry now? Nope.

[welcometomy20s]

January 26, 2017

link dump

The Sun is Also a Star

Do you believe in love at first sight?

I poo-poo the people who dismiss the idea that love could caught quickly. Love is like a fire, most time it takes quite a time to light up, but sometime when the conditions are right and people are desperate, it could happen like *snap*.

Daniel and Natasha is certainly desperate. Daniel is trying to become the good kid after the successful one got suspended from Harvard. Natasha have leave the country and have only one day to salvage herself. Then fate intervenes...

The book structure in a meandering way, with several side-sections and frequent cutback to either perspective. It’s lovely done, gimmicks tends to be presented as cleverness and nothing else, but Yoon presents here like any other format of storytelling and it makes for a non-irritating win.

Now, I could talk about how fate intervenes in strange places, or how Yoon’s unique background makes for a round reading experience, but there’s a grander sense of love that is presented here. The love for America.

Daniel and Natasha are both immigrants, Daniel’s 2nd and Natasha is 1.5th, and their views on how the country affects them impacts their day as a whole. While the main plot feels like a typical boys-meets-girl story, I think what makes the story stand out is that new perspective on how America impacts people.

What do people feel about the diversity of this place? What feelings the words ‘The American Dream’ evoke in people? The novel gives a subtle nod to this topic while presenting a engrossing love story, with funny and sad twists.

It’s a nice book. Even the sad ending is bittersweet and hopeful than not.

You should read it. The length is meaty enough to give a full day’s attention.