Projects are nice. I like them.

[myaru]

Things to Decide:

1. Should I post once a week?**
   (For the sake of discipline, keeping ideas moving, etc. It's easy to fall into a rut.)
   
   • If yes, see list #2.
   
   
   • If no, what can I do to engage with people not in my head?
     (Which, for the record, is not something I'm good at. See: how I fail at characterization.)
   
   
   • If yes, still wondering if I should continue the "100 Things" tagging or just retag as "pretentious writing posts."
     (Don't get me wrong; I could write 100 posts about writing, but the question is whether I should.)


2. Big projects: good idea, Y/N? Blog, or resource, or hahahahaha updating the rest of Guardian Angels (but I like the misleading update text. It makes me laugh)?

** Edit 05.21.2018: more like post once a month. How the fuck is it almost June?


God, nesting lists is ugly.


Things I Could Do:

• What about that Heian-era-for-writers resource thing. Some kind of resource probably already exists, but it would be fun.
  (Also, it would make me read books. And Scrivener is actually a great tool for world-building documents...)


• Replay and blog... Xenosaga. Or some other game, but I feel a nagging guilt for the way I talked about it back in the day.


• Actually move down my Steam list and play/blog new games.


• Be a good student and do some marketing research, e.g. analyze Starbucks internal marketing vs. external, the disaster of the Villainess relaunch, etc. This would not be on DW.


• Slink back into my corner and do nothing productive.

Hm.

Been thinking of playing NeiR: Automata. Friends want me to play The Witcher 2 and 3, and there are a ton of visual novels on my list that I should read if I intend to write a script for one. (Not for any official purpose--just a personal project.)

Someday I should finish Fire Emblem: Fates. I want to, but I also don't want to. The last time I played it, bad things were happening, and it's hard to kill the associations. On the other hand, I could start over and fucking marry Xander! I mean. Hold me, big brother. I doomed myself searching for fan art just now.

Comments

[bonnefois]

I tried to post weekly and it eventually slipped to monthly. My only suggestion is you wanna keep a lot of stuff handy. I'm starting up a meta month of may so that should keep it busy but otherwise it's like...but there are youtube videos to watch...and video games to play...so blog posts sit in my folders unposted.

I'd love the Heian resource. I could donate links and the names of research titles I've pulled up as well.

I haven't finished FEF, either. But that's a mix between unfortunate drama that involved doxxing people and unfortunate lack of WIFI. I finished Echoes, though! Did you ever play that one?

[myaru]

Yeah, pre-writing is the only way I can imagine keeping up. Strange, since I used to have trouble stopping myself from posting more than once per day.

If you've got cool Heian links, I'm interested! I've dreamed of putting a reference resource together for other writers for years, but it's the sort of project that would involve a lot of up front reading and work, and no result for others to see right away. Which... I guess nobody is waiting for this with bated breath, so.

I have not played Echoes. Did it come out after? I've been living under a rock. :/

[bonnefois]

Yep, a fannish love can do that. In retrospect, it's pretty hilarious to see people frown about posting once a day when people now post/retweet hundreds of times a day on twitter and tumblr.

Yes!
https://www.amazon.com/Fire-Emblem-Echoes-Valentia-Nintendo-Standard/dp/B01N12ES3A it's a remake of FE3. Honestly it's a really great one. Fully voiced, lovely graphics, great gameplay and story. I only have a few minor complaints about it and it didn't mess with my enjoyment.

Some of these may have gone defunct, I gotta warn. I'm just copying from a file I saved.

http://www.bookmice.net/darkchilde/japan/khist4.html

possibly good reference for Heian era?? I found it useful, at least :D
It saved me from making a research error, phew!

here's another one, yay, research
http://www.junihitoe.net/taiken/itm/jyunihitoe.html

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/189048.The_Ink_Dark_Moon --
collected translations of omo no komachi and Izumi Shikubu!

also, a random note from someone talking about Heian era: In Heian
period Japan they believed that anal intercourse cured syphilis.

I think there is a story in there somewhere

http://heian-collection.tumblr.com/post/30924492466/sexual-intercourse-was-constituted-as-a-healthy

http://howtobeheian.wordpress.com/

http://ww2.wyomingcityschools.org/~zollerjw/Q2Files/HeianReading.pdf

http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/g/j/gjs4/textbooks/480/ch6.htm

http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/g/j/gjs4/textbooks/172/Higuchi.htm

http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2132.html

http://www.sengokudaimyo.com/miscellany/names.html

Research by anthropologist Liza Dalby, based mostly on erotic poems
exchanged between women, has suggested lesbian relationships were
commonplace and socially accepted in Japan during the Heian Period.

I have heard of it; that figures a lot in her Tale of Murasaki. There's also implication it was accepted among men, but I've heard only a few literary examples, and am not sure how far that research has gone. Or how solid the examples are, come to think of it - but it doesn't seem unlikely.

I'm much better now, but still feeling tired. Maybe by Wednesday I'll actually get to participate in the Tolkien fandom thing with fic, which is what I wanted to do all along.

How are things going with you? You mentioned being sick, so I hope you're better?

Oh, yes, there was a lot of m/m, plenty of the pederastic variety
(shudo, yes) and funnily enough, Kabuki were restricted to men after a
time to cut down on prostitution, but the men just went and became
gigolos that served both sexes (!) though that's after Heian era.

oh, speaking of the SengokuDamaiyo links, did you read this one?
http://www.sengokudaimyo.com/Forced_Affection.html

Heian clothing! http://www.iz2.or.jp/english/fukusyoku/wayou/index.htm
Finally! I kept only finding things about Juni-hitoe and Sokutais and
none would go into anything else.



Myobu no Omoto: Cats are famously pampered, but perhaps none so much as the cats of Japanese Emperor Ichijo (980-1011). Domestic cats had recently been imported from China to Japan, and they became a luxury and a curiosity among the wealthy. After a cat belonging to the emperor had kittens, the Left and Right ministers were tasked with clothing the kittens and feeding them delicacies—but a real stir was caused when the emperor assigned a court lady, Uma no Myobu, to serve as the kittens' wet nurse. As if that wasn't enough to secure the noble position of these fluffy critters, he named one cat Myobu no Omoto, signifying that she was a lady-in-waiting of the fifth rank. The emperor also famously imprisoned a dog who dared to chase his beloved Myobu no Omoto.

http://io9.com/10-feline-celebrities-that-prove-we-were-always-obsesse-1572455248?utm_source=recirculation&utm_medium=recirculation&utm_campaign=tuesdayPM

translations!
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/omori/court/court.html

http://richard-hooker.com/sites/worldcultures/ANCJAPAN/WOMEN.HTM could be useful

http://www.uwec.edu/beachea/teach/japanese_religion/puette2.htm

http://en.bookfi.org/s/?q=heian&t=0

http://www.temcauley.staff.shef.ac.uk/izumi.shtml

http://edgeofafield.tumblr.com/post/53262389268/beyondsilkroads-asian-matriarchy

https://historyofjapan.wordpress.com/

http://samuraipodcast.com/

http://namakajiri.net/nikki/kitsune-fox-familiars/

http://www.urasenke.org/flowers/autumn.php

http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/687591-heian-japan-794-1185-ad

http://academia.issendai.com/foxtales/japan-lafcadio-hearn.shtml

http://samurai-archives.com/index.html

http://www.crystalinks.com/japan.html

http://www.art-and-archaeology.com/timelines/japan/heian.html

http://www.archaeolink.com/ancient_japan.htm

http://www.taleofgenji.org/

http://www.ijparker.com/about_heian_japan.htm

http://taoist-sorcery.blogspot.com/2013/06/onmyodo-taoist-sorcery-in-ancient-japan.html

http://www.coyotes.org/kitsune/kitsune-classification.html

http://richard-hooker.com/sites/worldcultures/ANCJAPAN/WOMEN.HTM

http://heianperiodjapan.blogspot.com/2015/06/books-about-heian-period.html


books I either have boughten, or are about to buy:
Emperor and Aristocracy in Heian Japan: 10th and 11th centuries
Herail, Francine
The Book of Yokai: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore
Foster, Michæl Dylan
Folktales of Japan
seki, keigo
Things Japanese
Basil Hall Chamberlain
Mysterious Japan
Julian Street
A Short History of Japan
Ernest Wilson Clement
An Introduction to the History of Japan
Katsuo Hara
In Ghostly Japan
Lafcadio Hearn
Come and Sleep: The Folklore of the Japanese Fox
Christopher Kincaid
Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan (Illustrated)
A History of Japanese Religion
Kazuo Kasahara
The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan
Ivan Morris
Kij Johnson's novels.
Sugaware no Michizane
Insei
As I crossed a bridge of dreams.
Insei: Abdicated Sovereigns in the Politics of Late Heian Japan,
The Cambridge History of Japan, Vol. 2: Heian Japan
Heian Japan, Centers And Peripheries
Mikael Adolphson, Kames Edward, Stacie Matsumoto, Edward Kamens
A Poetics of Courtly Male Friendship in Heian Japan
Paul Gordon Schalow
Uncovering Heian Japan: An Archaeology of Sensation and Inscription (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society)
Japan. From Ancient Times to 1918
Selling Songs And Smiles: The Sex Trade in Heian And Kamakura Japan
Janet R. Goodwin
Kenneth Scott Latourette
History of Japan, 660 BC to 1872 AD
William Elliot Griffis
Myths & Legends of Japan
F. Hadland Davis
Imagining Exile in Heian Japan: Banishment in Law, Literature, and Cult by Jonathan Stockdale

Note: some of them cover later eras more. I'm currently in another research project, so my Heian research has been shelved until I finish the shorter, less taking one as I need to figure out what to do with my protag. (And I need to buy more research books.) Several can be found at bookfi.net. A great deal of the rest can be found on amazon for either free, or .99 on kindle.

[myaru]

Hot damn, that's a lot of links! This is awesome. I've heard of/purchased a few of these, but definitely not all, so I'll comb through this at my first opportunity. Thank you!

What I've always wanted is one site where you can find all this--or at least some reference to it, instead of having to keep such long lists and notes and such. I dunno if Heian Japan is getting better known now (?), but finding info has always been like pulling internet-teeth. And I mean... what if somebody wants to write some Onmyouji fic, which I would want to read? That shit has to be expedited.

[myaru]

Also, completely forgot about that FE game, though I recall seeing people talk about it before release. I'll have to grab it. Must've been Warriors I was uninterested in.

Welp, whatev! I just need money now.

[samuraiter]

I'm in the middle of both a Birthright run and a Conquest run. I've not done Revelation yet, though Mrs. Samu is working on that.

It very well could be time to revisit Xenosaga. I still have good memories of the first one, lo these fifteen years gone. (The other two? Well ....)