Below are the most recent 2 friends' journal entries.

Thursday, May 8th, 2025
lore	5:03p	What's so Cozy about murder?...Noodle Shop Mysteries.... Feh. I have more fannish navel-gazing on my mind, but I don't feel like picking at scabs today. pauraque, I will reply soon, but thank you! You had some helpful thoughts. <3 Reading-wise, I've been trying to figure out the "Cozy" mystery phenomena by starting to read one. So far, I'm still mystified. I'm on book 4 of the Noodle Shop Mystery series, labeled a cozy series by my local library. After my ongoing obsession with the Crazy Rich Asians books, this series seemed like a good fit for my first cozy read. They are not written with too much depth, which I define as above a 12th-grade reading level with more vocabulary and flourish, but that's not a bad thing. I haven't had as much time to read fiction in the past few years, but I am determined to keep fiction reading in my life. So, something that goes down easy is fine with me. The writing is not overly simplified - I've read a couple of those books, and no, thank you. I think the cozy part is that the murders are gristly, but not graphic, and there's a huge cast of characters with lots of charm. It's like reading Gilmore Girls. I also could see this series as a Hallmark Movies and Mysteries offering. The basic scenario is that Lana, daughter to the owners of Ho-Lee Noodle House in Asia Village and sometimes waitress, can't help but poke her nose in when murder visits the Village. If you read the author's bio, that's Lana; she's not hiding the Mary Sue of it all. She's surrounded by the regulars of Asia Village, who spend most of their time telling her to stand up straight and stop snooping around - it's dangerous! Thank goodness, Lana doesn't listen well. ^_^ love, lore This entry was originally posted at https://lore.dreamwidth.org/149671.html. Please comment there using OpenID. Current Mood: determined
Monday, May 5th, 2025
lore	11:34a	Snape/Lupin notes...Still struggling with small-letter fandom... I had the SO* open up a blog for me because I felt weighted down by the history of All Things Journal, but this is still my preferred platform for writing my thoughts, sporadic as they may come. I had a lovely note from the person running a Snupin Discord community. A post will probably appear on lupin_snape sometime soon, but if you can't wait, visit https://discord.gg/npBpN2mXhC. I'm already lurking there because no matter how bad JKR makes me feel about her work, the people who love my ship are some of the best still hanging in fandom (and yes, I know there are others great Fandomers out there. All Fandoms rule, no matter how weirdly I feel about being fannish these days). I *still* haven't been able to bring myself to post that fic I discussed previously to AO3. I really ought to just pull the trigger and take my lumps. I have slowly, at a glacial pace, been talking to AO3 about moving a couple of the major Snape/Lupin archives I inherited or created to AO3. It's a complicated process, but these two sites keep going down and the platforms are beyond ancient. I'm worried they will go down and I won't be able to get them up again, even with the help of the SO. Think I'll stop here for now. Still struggling to be fannish in this world of properties going on too long, creators revealing what asshats they are, and other properties being cut off at the knees before they really get started. It's hard to get excited about anything these days. I miss the Fandom part of fandom. love, lore *SO = Significant Other for those new to my language quirks. This entry was originally posted at https://lore.dreamwidth.org/149275.html. Please comment there using OpenID. Current Mood: uncomfortable