media round-up (january 2021)

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a summary of all of the media i consumed + some writing reflections because why not

STUFF I WATCHED
- i don’t watch anything worth talking about (soul, hsmtmts) but i will reflect on my kpop media consumption instead <3
- enhypen fancams/music videos i watch way too much:

• jungwon & sunghoon dance reps stage, heeseung chamber 5, enhypen chamber 5 fruit dance practice, enhypen let me in holiday version, jay dive into you

stuff i covered on my watchlist:
- enhypen & hi (4/4) >> made me like heeseung/jay less and appreciate jungwon more, good way to understand how awkward their predebut dynamix were
- every live with less than 7 members >> the only ones i have left are super old (like one from september, and another one called november’s first live…) and idk if i even want to watch them. but i will get to it eventually
- every [월말결산] segment (3/3) >> enhypen transparent goalsetting is uhh questionable <3
- in general i’ve watched 18 enhypen vlives in total, idk how many i watched during december but i got to know enhypen a lot better this month!
- (2/3) chwechwekang lives >> the content is interesting i guess. idk not sure how much i care about txt at this point
- (1/15) recommended txt x to do episodes >> oops i’m going to try and watch more of these once i’m done with hsmtmts i guess

vlives vs variety
- variety is kind of more interesting to watch in general except I FIND GAMES SO BORING… like miss me with that alkkagi bullshit
- also while i like edited videos it’s always prone to some sort of framing whereas vlives are very… organic and can often be boring/awkward for that exact reason. but idk i find enhypen content to be really watchable now probably because i like them so much…
- anyways i prefer vlives <3 but also i understand that they’re worse lol

STUFF I LISTENED TO
top artists (last 30 days)
1. cravity
2. bts
3. cherry bullet
4. penn masala
5. loona

top songs (last 30 days)
1. love so sweet - cherry bullet (95)
2. your eyes tell - bts (93)
3. tere werga / fight for you - penn masala (82)
4. voice - loona (72)
5. crying in the club - the nor’easters (44)
6. force - tomorrow x together (44)
7. realize - cravity (41)
8. losing you - wonho (36)
9. my turn - cravity (33)
10. flowering - lucy (32)

trends in my listening:
- literally all of my top songs were things i looped while writing… anyways as always my taste in music is horrid but it was nice to listen to acapella music again
- rediscovered bts through a jaywon fanedit to YOUR EYES LINGER and then listened to their old music/jungkook’s soundcloud stuff out of nostalgia <3
- #vroom_vroom_vroom_skrrt

STUFF I READ
books in chronological order:
1. the winged histories by sofia samatar ★★★★★
2. spinning by tillie walden ★★★.5
3. the language of food: a linguist reads the menu by dan jurafsky ★★★
4. a city inside by tillie walden ★★★.5
5. little fires everywhere by celeste ng ★★★★.5
6. crooked kingdom [six of crows #2] by leigh bardugo ★★★★
7. i love this part by tillie walden ★★.5
8. are you listening? by tillie walden ★★★★
9. the list of things that will not change by rebecca stead ★★★★.5
10. the end of summer by tillie walden ★.5
11. everything i never told you by celeste ng ★★★★★
12. check, please! book 1: # hockey by ngozi ukazu ★★★.5
13. the three-body problem [remembrance of earth's past #1] by cixin liu (translated by ken liu) ★★★.5
14. stargazing by jen wang ★★★★
15. picture us in the light by kelly loy gilbert ★★★★

other books that i didn’t finish reading:
- henna wars: uhh i didn’t like this book and ended up not finishing it <3
- [currently reading] handmaid’s tale: reading this for english class
- [currently reading] averno: i still don’t really know how to approach reading a whole book of poetry in contrast to just individual poems because it takes so long for me to process a poem and really think about it… also i’m used to annotating poems and i can’t do that with this LIBRARY COPY. not sure if i’ll finish reading but hopefully i can make my way thru this slowly over the next couple of weeks

trends in what i read:
- 10/15 have some lgbt content in it although it ranges from extremely minor to like… literal lesbian romance <3
- 7/15 are graphic novels
- i finished reading every single tillie walden book… hoping to do the same for rebecca stead next but we’ll see

STUFF I WROTE
- your eyes tell, beomgyu/heeseung, 16k: my heeseung and beomseung thesis, contains basically everything i want to say about heeseung, is also my favorite thing that i’ve written i think <3
- ponified a noren and a yuwin wip to artificially increase the number of jakehoon fics on ao3
- dreamwidth posts:

• taegyu primer — really happy about this and i doubt i’ll update it anytime soon
• enhypen dynamics — IT’S ALREADY SO OUT OF DATE!!! i don’t want to update it until i understand jungwon and sunoo better but the severe lack of data in the heeseung and niki sections kills me
• txt x enhypen interactions — it’s perfect To Me <3 taehoon when

things i want to think about more:
- whether characterization is stilted thru inclusion of canon information
- if i can try and be more purposeful during my first draft to avoid going through five drafts
- Should Every Fic I Write go thru the same intensive editing/effort process or should i just let loose and write the plotless 2k sunsun sunoo doing sunghoon’s makeup drabble of my dreams…
- trying to be more concise and coherent when i’m discussing enhypen dynamics in the future!!!