some are the melody and some are the beat

While I’ve been doing a good job of keeping up with Shield updates while playing, I can’t say the same thing for Digimon Ghost Game—but I have been watching it! Currently up to episode 38. ( thoughts & spoilers beneath the cut )

► There’s going to be a podcast dedicated to the posts from Ursula K. Le Guin’s blog! So far, there’s only a one minute trailer out, which I listened to earlier today, where her son & literary executor explains the project. I’ve read a few of her blog posts here and there, generally due to someone linking to a specific one, but that’s about it, so I’m finding myself quite intrigued.

► I’m not entirely sure how I originally came across this—possible via the Renegade Bindery discord server?—but earlier this week, I read through the first issue of the FANMADE magazine. It wasn’t quite what I expected—I was thinking more of something like a short zine, but it was genuinely a full-blown magazine, with articles and little games (I loved the crosswords <3) and all sorts of things, and it took me a bit more than an hour to go through it all. I didn’t read every article (I’m squicked by pregnancy, so the mpreg spotlight was a no, and I did not feel up to reading/thinking about AI in fandom at the time, so I skipped that one too), but I checked out most of it, and while I had some minor issues with some of the articles, overall I’d say I enjoyed it!

I do have the sense that the creators of this magazine are coming from the western media/television side of things, fandom-wise, which has really never been my sphere, but I don’t have the sense that they’re against putting other fandoms in the spotlight, just (probably?) that’s what they’re familiar with / had people offering to write articles about. But this is only the first issue, so we’ll see. In any case, I am interested enough to want to check out future issues.

Also, for one of the mad libs-style games, I ended up with this paragraph & was rather entertained (bolded text were the words I picked out beforehand): ( spoilers for the mad lib? beneath the cut )