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So this may be odd but...

I really like Daylight Savings Time. By which I mean, I like us changing the clocks. I like going back and forth between DST and standard time. In the fall, I like how it's suddenly darker at night, it feels like we're settling in for winter. It's cozy. And in the spring I like how it's the opposite, it's so sunny and it feels like everything is waking up.

And I think it's neat that we can just... change the time. Although our perception of time marches relentlessly forward, we don't actually have to be tied to a clock because that is a thing we made up. It's useful but we can change it if we felt like it.

It reminds me of that quotation from one of the very best books ever, The Last Unicorn:

When I was alive, I believed — as you do — that time was at least as real and solid as myself, and probably more so. I said 'one o'clock' as though I could see it, and 'Monday' as though I could find it on the map; and I let myself be hurried along from minute to minute, day to day, year to year, as though I were actually moving from one place to another. Like everyone else, I lived in a house bricked up with seconds and minutes, weekends and New Year's Days, and I never went outside until I died, because there was no other door. Now I know that I could have walked through the walls.

Anyway now I'm going to go change all the non-internet-connected clocks in my home and go to sleep, because I am that responsible asshole.

UPDATE THE NEXT MORNING: omg i’m so fucking tired, i take it all back, DST is the worst. ahhhhhhhhh do not want

oh no, a fandom milestone

OK so I'm pretty new to this whole "fandom" thing to be honest. I've always liked stuff and have occasionally read fanfiction but I've never really participated in the fandom stuff until I got into The Untamed/CQL/MDZS. And if I'm being honest with myself I really only got into fandom because the pandemic was starting and I felt a mighty need for something fun and divorced from the reality of 2020

Anyway.

So I'm reading this book right now called Winter's Orbit and it is giving me SUCH wangxian vibes! If someone told me it started life as a sci-fi arranged marriage wangxian AU I would be nodding along like "yes, this totally makes sense".

To be fair, literally nothing in the plot so far is like MZDS at all, but here are our main characters: Kiem, who is outgoing, loves to party and drink, has responsibilities but approaches them with an irreverent air. Jainan, who hella smart and accomplished, quiet, cerebral, reticent, and serious. They're put into an arranged marriage. They are both super into each other, but are convinced for various reasons that the other person isn't interested and/or resents them. They both tiptoe around each other's feelings and they each interpret this as dislike.

So yeah, the fandom milestone is that I'm starting to read character dynamics from the show I like into other media ;^^

(PS I googled the book just now and it turns out this book did start out on AO3 but I didn't read further to see if it was fanfic or an original story but yeah, I wasn't totally off-base in clocking it as fanficy)