Poetry Club Plug

[x_los]

(I'm just going to pretend there's not a decade long hiatus between posts, because while there is a lot to say on the subject of fandom, media platforms and associated cultures, I've said it so often and with such feeling that it feels as though I've nothing left to offer: the quiet that scans like apathy, because you yelled and cried it out ages ago. Suffice it to say, I hope to use this more now.)

A thing I've been doing lately is modding dankodes, a com where danmei fandom people (and adjacent) read classical Chinese poetry in Chinese and/or English and discuss it. Right now we're almost through the Shi Jing, and looking ahead to maybe doing some Tang stuff next (there's going to be a 'plug your choice, then vote' affair).

On there, we've also got some casual drop-in reading groups for SVSSS (which Mari and I have finished, but which anyone is welcome to add to the discussion of) and Nirvana in Fire, which I'm only partly through (having watched the show when it aired). If other people (besides Mari, who I think is reading it in and around other things) wanted in on NiF, to add some soft deadlines in there or to organise similar read-alongs via the platform, that'd be very welcome. 

Comments

[stultiloquentia]

Thank you for linking your poetry comm. I'm very new to the subject, so I probably won't have much to say at first, but I'm really looking forward to lurking!

[x_los]

Cool! It's supposed to be like, all knowledge levels/specialisms, so there's really no pressure to be a poetry MFA with perfect early-Chinese or anything. (I'm sure not.)

[maidoforleans]

Hi! coming over from AO3 to introduce myself. I've been following your Untamed miscellany and I have been a fan of your fic for ages (GENTLE ANTIDOTE! f me up!). *waves* I am definitely going to check this community out!

[x_los]

Oh nice! It'd be really good to have more people active on there, I feel atm ppl are a bit afraid to weigh in because they don't see that many other people doing it, so they think they have to wait and say something Profound and then never get around to saying anything. x_x