two weeks of classes are nearly done! actually, maybe it's too early to say things like this, but university is easier than high school (￣y▽,￣)╭ not that the coursework itself is easier, but i only have to take the classes i choose and i get to walk around a pretty campus between them. i have plenty of free time (i'm a week ahead with readings for my classes + i've been doing homework as soon as i get it...) so i can focus on more interesting things like early modern-era lesbian japanese lit and seafort doujinshi. as i expected, i'm still spending a lot of time reading. dorm library had a really
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neat book on the takarazuka revue and when i went down the hill for the city's farmers market last week i stopped at the library and found a copy of faulkner's the sound and the fury which i've been looking for. i have a whole pile of other books after i finish that one too. trying really hard to restrain myself from a seafort reread until at least the weekend
i'm not hanging out with friends constantly, but i've made enough that i usually have someone to eat dinner with if i bother to ask! i get to practice my chinese w a guy whose family is from taiwan and i talk to my desk partner in astro to check answers and talk about seafort. still hanging out with the group from the farm trip pretty frequently too :D there's a girl in the same hall as me who i ran into at the catholic mass last sunday, which was nice except now i feel obligated to keep going to mass even though it sucked...
hopefully the episcopalians are cooler lol. although bad mass aside, the catholics are good for talking to
talking with my brazilian friend about seafort yesterday and we accidentally realized the wiki had been updated to include the fact an author recently dedicated his book to feintuch's daughter for letting him read feintuch's final unpublished book. does this mean i have a chance? erm i sure hope so
enough yuri i can't make a post without some japanese seafort fanart. ignore the alexei x phillip that's the only bad take i've ever seen in the japanese side of the fandom. actually i found a vax x tolliver fanfic the other day and though i'd never considered it, i'm kinda sold... the japanese fansites always make me sad because most of the images are forever broken and they always reference doujinshi i'll never be able to find
→ this led me down the rabbit hole of trying to find feintuch's daughter's contact information, which i... might've succeeded in? i'm not sure if it's up to date and i found two different potential addresses right next to each other. clearly, the reasonable course of action is just to go to her town next summer (series of five buses will actually get me there, i still don't have to learn how to drive) and loiter around all the antique shops until i run into her! and even if i don't, it would actually be nice to visit the place feintuch spent most of his life in
and be able to visit his grave. i suppose i need to contact the one and only motel in the town to see what their prices are like, and then i can decide whether it's a worthy venture or not...
while i wait for next summer vacation, i want to work on a series of seafort zines! i have a bunch of essays i want to write, i can repurpose a lot of the seafort doodles i have, finally finish some proper fanart, and translate some of the japanese stuff too. as far as i've found there's not anyone else who still actively engages in the fandom, so it's really only a project for my own entertainment, but maybe it could be used as propaganda to convince new people to read the series too :3 i want to work on a proper fancomic too--since i can't decide on what arc to adapt, perhaps i'll make a post-canon pt + pook reunion instead. vax x tolliver content would be funny as well. one of my classes' final project is making a comic based on historical primary sources. i'm thinking about either something related to the takarazuka revue, colonial era america, or ancient rome but i should probably wait and see what stuff the university archive actually has lol. thinking about rushing one of the gender neutral frats but idk if i'm gonna remember to go to their open house tonight. enough rambling for today though,
pax!