Introductions

[nepenthee]

Let’s get to know each other! :D Not sure what to say? Here are some ideas:

<b>Name:</b>
<b>Collective/Main site:</b>

<b>Latest finished project(s):</b> (site-related)
<b>Next project(s):</b> (outside of this event)

<b>Currents:</b> (any web stuff, a fandom you’re active in, a book you’re reading, things you’re trying out, recent life events etc.)

Note that if this DW community gets reused for future events, this post may be left as a sticky, so you may want to keep things general. (No fear, you'd always be welcome to reintroduce yourself!) For anything related to the event specifically, please use the regular checkpoint posts.

Comments

[nepenthee]

Name: Lethe
Collective: oubliette.nu

Latest finished project(s): As far as shrines go, Vanishing Moon (Irisviel from Fate/Zero) earlier this year as a resurrected project from 2016 (incredible even to me); the latest fully new shrine is Refugium (The Top Secret, a series I’ll be shrining again now) from 2022. Aside from that, I’ve been revamping various things lately, be it out of necessity (my domain) or on a whim. (One must not underestimate whims. This event? Partly cobbled together on a whim, fully intended to encourage the pursuit of whims.)
Next project(s): Getting two more manga projects done for my collective six-chances.net and the proper launch of the collective itself.

Currents: About more or less nine years after first hearing of flexbox, I have finally got around to having a closer look at the theory and giving it a try in my recent revamp adventures. I know full well why I turtled so long (when u just want to get your words and sites out and don’t want to pick up anything new that seems dauntingly complex at first sight!!), but now... I feel a rush of power. A_A

I’ve been reading a lot in the past few months after going wild in multiple English bookstores abroad. I’d like to dive deeper into sci-fi, starting with classics. All this reading makes me want to set up some personal overview/collection page because neither Goodreads (old school in an ugly way) nor Storygraphs (no public personal tags) are any good when it comes to displaying what you like to share with others in a useful way. All activities lead to site-making, it would seem.

[spyderstar]

I've been waiting so eagerly for six-chances.net to launch! Your sites are so thoughtfully created so I'm so curious to see what your project will yield upon its completion.

Have you chosen any sci-fi books yet to start with? A collection of your reading material be amazing and something I'd be extremely interested in; I'm always looking for recommendations for books, and have found some great reads through the mentions on your sites.

[nepenthee]

I am soooo eager for six-chances.net too, which will be at the core of my shrine-making in the next while; I just haven't found the voice to write the collective's content yet (or the layout inspiration lol, but that should be secondary). Your comment had me think about what to write and how to eventually rephrase my drafts all week, allowing me to connect my idea from back then to my current feelings regarding websites and fanwork at present, so the project's shape is much clearer now. Thank you for that, truly! <3

For science fiction: I (re)read Ted Chiang's brilliant short story collections this year (Exhalation; Stories of Your Life and Others), whose concepts, themes and manner of storytelling I greatly enjoy thinking about and discussing with others; I then picked up Flowers for Algernon (which became one of my favourite books right away), I, Robot, The Left Hand of Darkness, Annihilation (which gave me a craving to reread and replay certain manga and games with a similarly unsettling mood and progression of discoveries), and a few more all at once. To take it easy, I'd like to build directly on that: check out more of Asimov and Le Guin to get a feeling of their range (Le Guin impresses me, but I have not read anything of hers yet that matches my taste), continue the Southern Reach series, and see what books Chiang mentions and recommends in his notes and in interviews I've seen. Also, reread an Alastairs Reynolds book I once randomly bought (Blue Remembered Earth; one of the few SF works I'd read), check out its sequels at long last, and perhaps continue with his works. I haven't had time to study Gollancz' SF Masterworks line-up yet, but I hope there'll be a quiet afternoon in a bookstore sometime next year where I can peruse it. :D

When six-chances.net and its planned sites are eventually up, there'll hopefully be a lot of manga to catch people's attention (though not books)! :D