Thoughts of a Schneyk

Mostly a page for me to be writer and fangirl. Find my fanfic on AO3 at ConvenientAlias. 

[convenientalias]

Y'all are usually good at this and I'm feeling indecisive again so:

What 2026 Korean or Thai drama should I start watching next?

Don't Be Too Emotional

Girl Rules

Gold Land

Mr. Kill

Sin and Love

The Prosecutor's Proposal

The East Palace

The Edge of Horizon

Voting ended onJul 19

[convenientalias]

Sin and Love episodes are only 25 minutes and one person did vote for that so I have now binged to the current point.

To the person who voted for that: Actually crazy stuff going on in there. What the fuck. Well, no, a lot of it is pretty typical toxic BL, but I NEED more context for a lot of this and I am not at all sure we're going to get it in future episodes. Also this could be a problem for me bc so far I'm shipping Yoo Sehyun/Kwon Hyukjae more than the actual ship. but listen. It's a vibe.

To everyone else: ....I still need another show to start watching lol.

[convenientalias]

Y'all are usually good at this and I'm feeling indecisive again so:

What 2026 Korean or Thai drama should I start watching next?

Don't Be Too Emotional

Girl Rules

Gold Land

Mr. Kill

Sin and Love

The Prosecutor's Proposal

The East Palace

The Edge of Horizon

Voting ended onJul 19

[convenientalias]

Question for my followers: are any of you writing original fiction lately? If so, what?

[succubusboyfriend]

are you “adaptable” or are you just willing to subject yourself to existing in low key background-level ambient misery

[succubusboyfriend]

these are different things btw. actual adaptability means not dealing with being miserable long term. and being constantly mildly annoyed/frustrated with a situation but being “able to deal with it” counts as ambient misery. btw.

[succubusboyfriend]

let this be your sign to make your life just a little more livable. get a dollar store trash can for your bedside so Cup City’s invasion plans fall through. block a tag or post that makes you grind your teeth every time you see it. get some grip pads so your bed stops sliding across the hardwood a little bit every time you get in it. tell that person you need a little more support. if you get annoyed at a situation more than a couple times, change it. don’t be content with being miserable.

[demonprincex]

and the more that you start doing this, the better you will get at detecting your own feelings and advocating for yourself! This is an important start to being more of a person in the world if you struggle with that

[convenientalias]

I've been looking at submission calls for short fiction again and the number of literary journals that don't pay writers kind of pisses me off.

I read an article from one journal editor about it, where they made the justification that journal publishing doesn't make much money anyway and it's hard work for the editors etc. On that subject:

I think if the journal is making literally no money, as in, it's free or profits go to charity, fine. Then you and the writers are in the same boat. They know what they're getting into.

If you are making money, any money, and the writers get none of it, that's ridiculous. Of course editing and publishing is hard work and quite time consuming. But so is fucking writing. And without the writers, you would have nothing to edit and publish to begin with.

I actually think there's a huge difference between nonpaying markets and token payments btw. Sure, neither pays your rent. But a token paying magazine or anthology is giving you what they can afford. A nonpaying magazine, if they are making ANY profit, does not believe you deserve to share it.

Saying all this as a self published author. I don't make much money self publishing, but my worst selling short story on Amazon has still made me something like 10 dollars, not counting collection sales. If a publisher of short fiction can't be bothered to pay you even 5 dollars, you can do better financially on your own.

As for exposure... hhjhygggjj. I'm not getting into it.

[allsortsoffuckedup]

Hey hey, as a librarian, can I just say don’t pace yourself at the library. I get a lot of customers saying “oh I shouldn’t get too many books out at once” but like you should!!!! Max out your card, take everything we have on a subject you’re interested in, make a book fort in your home. We love that shit! It doesn’t matter if you read them or not; just take them for an adventure and bring them back whenever they’re due!

For public libraries, one of the ways we secure funding year to year is lending. Governments don’t want to fund more books if they’re not being used and the way we measure use is by issues. Regardless of whether you read it or not, whether you have it for a day or a month, if you issue it to your library card, we get the stats! It makes the library look good!

Help your local library; get books out even if you know you can’t read them all!

[bobagogo]

tfw you are the bane of your manager's existence

[panticwritten]

[legendof]

[evilwizard]

warrior who came to me for advice: i just don’t know if i should listen to the telepathic trees, who say i should save the forest, or my adopted wolf mother, who says i should cut it down to build my city. that’s why i came to you… should i go with Psi Ents or Dog Ma?

me: your existence feels fairly contrived

[convenientalias]

On the one hand, I'm always disappointed when I DNF a drama, but on the other hand, it's good bc there are way too many dramas on my to watch list already, we need to eliminate them >:I

[stephexmachina]

proposing a new genre of fiction called an anti-romance where u r presented w a couple at the start & the story is about their emotional journey towards a catastrophic break up

[stephexmachina]

will they won't they (end this farce). there's only one bed (but for some reason they don't really want to share it). out of context eavesdropping (that paints the relationship in a better light than it deserves). chasing after them to stop them getting on that plane (and stopping them from finally being free)

[stephexmachina]

nobody understands my vision i don't mean any old story where a relationship fails and it's tragic or w/e i mean a story where the intention is for the audience to root for it failing the same way u root for it succeeding in a romance. & when the relationship finally implodes at the climax of the story it's all very cathartic & everybody cheers.

[stephexmachina]

like have u never wanted a fictional couple to break up so badly it hurt?

[kyoshi-lesbians]

my controversial opinion is I don’t think Zuko was confused by “my first girlfriend turned into the moon”

[kyoshi-lesbians]

he was there during siege of the North. he infiltrated the spirit oasis. he has an uncle who studies spirits and the spirit world. he watched the sky go dark then the moon suddenly reappear like everyone else in the entire world did. and most importantly he watched zhao get eaten by a giant godzilla fish spirit.

[kyoshi-lesbians]

his entire life since he saw that beam of blue-white light in the south pole has been ‘this day has already been so goddamn weird’

[edgar-allan-possum]

The only really new information was that that was Sokka’s girlfriend

[library-graffiti]

Important opinion in the tags that I need to have be part of the post:

[clearascountryair]

Also, Iroh was there? He literally watched Sokka make out with the moon spirit. And you want to tell me that a romantic sap like him would not have immediately told Zuko about this romantic tragedy? Please, Zuko has known about this for ages, he just knows that this is not an acceptable situation in which to say “yeah, I know.”

[terriwriting]

Sokka: “My girlfriend turned into the moon.”

Zuko: “I know.” “Yes.” “She sure did.” “Uh huh.” “Tell me something new.” “Are we still talking about that?” “That’s rough, buddy.”

[alexseanchai]

[image: tags by samwisethebold: #it’s not that he doesn’t get what sokka means #it’s that how on earth do you respond to that]

[uberguber89]

When you put it like that, this is actually a legendary display of tact on Zuko’s part

[convenientalias]

Shocking myself and everyone who knows me, I have actually finished my stack of library books without any holds coming in. The holds I do have are on a wait list.

And so.

how many books can I reasonably order from the library????

3

4

5

6

10

none

Voting ended onJul 7

[convenientalias]

5 seems to be winning so I have ordered 5. However, 2 are less than 200 pages and 1 is a graphic novel. Might I persuade you to vote higher???

These are the books so far:

[convenientalias]

Shocking myself and everyone who knows me, I have actually finished my stack of library books without any holds coming in. The holds I do have are on a wait list.

And so.

how many books can I reasonably order from the library????

3

4

5

6

10

none

Voting ended onJul 7

[alientitty]

💀

[xanraygun]

[I'm waking up] I feel it in my hips, enough to make Wal-Mart stocks dip. Welcome to the shrimp case, to the shrimp case. Radiation from space, up in my face.

Woah-oh-oh-oh oh, woah-oh-oh-oh shrimp's RADIOACTIVE, RADIOACTIVE!

[eelhound]

“How does one hate a country, or love one?… I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side of a certain plowland in the hills; but what is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving it a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply? What is love for one’s country; is it hate for one’s uncountry? Then it’s not a good thing. Is it simply self-love? That’s a good thing, but one mustn’t make a virtue of it, or a profession.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin, from The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)