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Currently I am helping to digitize old photo albums from 1970s. More than a third are stored in magnetic albums, which cardboard pages grip photos on a sticky, adhesive coating, covered by a layer of plastic that is peeled back to position photos. However, I only know about the danger recently. It's sadly hard to move the photoes to newer photo albums because they are of different sizes, so I'm going to find tissue wrap to at least give the old photos covers

Source:
https://www.thoughtco.com/safely-removing-photos-magnetic-sticky-albums-1422292
https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Archiving_adhesive_photo_albums

NASA’s Webb telescope is an initial success — despite formidable odds: I am really happy about that and can't wait to read about the discovery. 

After finishing the Silt Verses, I listened to the first episode of The Town Whispers, an audio drama with folk horror and Lovecraftian horror. The narrator has a clear voice, and the production value is good. In the story, a stressed and unappreciated housewife meets a mind altering tree, but the resolution is not to my taste. Perhaps it will get better. 

JJWXC, a major Chinese web novel site is going to launch an international site, and it doesn't accept translation from outside China, so many fan translators pulled their work because of the legal risk and worry of being stolen wholesale and put on the future site. There is rumour that the original writers won't benefit from any profit from the translated work. Judging from the site's poor past record in its treatment of its writers, I found the rumour sadly believable. Chinese fans already learnt the brutal lesson of saving everything because of censorship. It is sad to see international fans having to face this too. 

Quite a number of my favourite Chinese web novel writers stopped updating their new work or didn't publish new work anymore for health and other reasons. 😥 The reduction of creative freedom and the rise of internet mobs probably don't help at all. 

Silt Verses is a weird fiction/horror audio drama podcast that two followers of an outlawed god go on a pilgrimage and encounter other forgotten gods in the rural countryside. It is dark, but the mythology sounds interesting. I don't have the right attention span for podcasts in general, but this one has full transcripts that I can take advantage of. 
Link: www.thesiltverses.com/



DNF: 

I have started reading Wandering Inn, which is an ikesai web novel about a young woman running an inn after being transferred to a brutal fantasy world where everyone has class and skills. During the short span of time she was attacked, neatly raped, poisoned by food and discriminated. I like how practical the heroine is but I have to give up after 1.26.
( Spoiler )
It just feels so pointless. 

Currently reading: Theories Of Personality by David Lester
I like the system approach to present Freud (theory of motivation), Kelly (theory of cognition) and the holistic approach to personality psychology in a modern and rational way, and how he shows many psychologists absent in text books that actually complement, modify and elaborate on the main streams of psychology.

Currently reading: Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet: New Essays, edited by Karen Hellekson and Kristina Busse
I think this book is inspiring. I realize for the first time that the first lesbian fandom has been established as late as 1986, of a female buddy cop show Cagey and Lacey, which's the first show to be saved a letter campaign in the article tracing the history of media fandom. Different metaphors and contexts to understand fan fictions are suggested and I'm most interested in the one that sees fan fiction as a blend of text and performance. One of the essays gives me insight on why alpha/beta/omega gains popularity recently.

Currently listening: various Chinese Wind music (modern Chinese music that makes use of traditional music instrument e.g. di, er hu, melodies and classical poetry images in the lyrics) 
Harvest Sprouts by Hita is one of the songs that I listen to often. The music style recalls a traditional folk song and the lyrics is a response to a classical poem which mentions the angst of soldiers away from home.  Only that in Harvest Sprouts it tells the untold story of the soldiers' wives left at home.

Currently researching: academics paper on fan fiction and fandom
Discover that academics love football a lot . (One of them can be concluded as "Korean Women Save World Cup from Hooligans") Read a paper that celebrates dark fic as double resistance to both the canon and to the interpretative community.

Things I am looking forward to:
Comics
Hickman's revamp of Ultimates in August. I really like his work in Ultimate Thor and I'm confident that he'd do a great job.
Tabletop RPG:
Tehnonoir: I like speculative fiction and the mechanic seems cool.
The Legend of Wuxia: I like Weapons of the God, so I think I 'll enjoy the wuxia rpg. (ETA: I mean Legends of the Wulin. Sorry)
Far West: Wuxia and steampunk are my weakness. I just hope that it won't have faily issues.

Links

Have Your Cake and Eat It: A feminist perspective on baking
Artist buys cheap landscapes at yard sales, then paints monsters into them.
X-Men movies fic rec
Book rec/review: Delusions of Gender - Cordelia Fine, Ph.D.

1. I write another Belle/Esmeralda that they 're both mages, just different kinds. Read it on AO3.
2. Boss Death is a very good song, making an one-sided argument interesting. I keep wanting to write a RPG AU based on this song.

Here's a meme: a list of a hundred awesome female characters that I remember. (no specific order)( Cut for the 100 awesome female characters )

What I did for 3w4dw

1. Translation of Chinese poetry: see the tag - translation: poetry
2. original prompt fic. Prompt: A secret society you would least suspect would actually manage to take over the world.
3. Chromatic icon set: Sailor Moon (1), (2) , Avatar: the last Airbender , Marvel comics
4. Cap-im prompt fest: The first time Steve and Tony sleep without having sex

I wrote these fic in two days, in my continued procrastination:

Title: All of Play
Fandom: Marvel comics
Rating: Teenage and above audience
Character/Pairing: Colleen Wing and Misty Knight
Summary: Just another night of fight with Misty and Colleen as monster hunters.
Warning: none
Note: Set in the same AU with Monster Hunter. with the Heroes for Hire gang as supernatural-que monster hunters

Title: Tenderly
Fandom: Disney
Rating: General audience
Character/Pairing: Belle/Esmeralda
Summary: Belle has two love in her life: Books and Esmeralda.
Warning: none
Note: This comes from the fact that Belle appears in a shot in the film Hunchback of Notre Dame. Perhaps I should label it AU.

Title: Memory
Fandom: Marvel comics
Rating: General audience
Character/Pairing: Steve/Tony
Summary: Tony may forget this, but Steve doesn't. (Tony is an asexual.)
Warning: none
Note: written for the asexual_fandom comment fic fest prompt: Any Fandom, Asexual character, amnesia

Title: Music
Fandom: Rg Veda
Rating: General audience
Character/Pairing: Sourma/Kendappa
Summary: A happier moment in Sourma and Kendappa's life
Warning: none
Note: Sourma/Kendappa is the first canonical female romantic relationship I read. I just don't expect the sudden impulse to read it.

When I'm discussing the lack of femslash in fandom, I'm enabled to hold a fest celebrating relationship between female-identified characters in canon. Well, it's very meaningful but......

ETA: I started female_fest, a pan fandom fest celebrating female relationship. It's quite empty yet, but hopefully I'll add on tonight.

Do appreciate signal boost and help.