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Today is one of those "bottom of the bed" days. Boo flu! It hit me like a brick wall, too, though given how my flus usually go, I should be back up on Friday or Saturday at latest.

My tangyuan have been delayed to ... maybe tomorrow at earliest. I'll try to put together the Fopinions February on NIF today, but that might be delayed as well. My preliminary Guardian cast list is all done, save Bo Bi, so that might actually appear today, if I have the wherewithal to watch anything. Guardian episode-by-episode posts, episode 1, will come over the weekend.

In the meanwhile, I have nice tea (Fengqing Dragon Pearl!), lots of oranges, and at least 6 meals' worth of food ready + the ingredients for the next large batch in the freezer. Does anyone remember what the recommendations for fevers were – should I wrap up warm and overheat, or try to remain at a comfortable temperature, or what?

Fopinions February: How I got into Nirvana in Fire

Today's Fopinions February is for krait, on the topic of how I got into Nirvana in Fire. If I am incoherent, it is because I am sick and probably running a fever.

In short, I saw schneefink chat about it on my reading list during 2016*, then in 2017, decided to check it out. I was perhaps in a bit of a creative rut that Yuletide after completing my assignment, and was well-placed to check out a new canon. Subtitles have never been a problem for me – I grew up with them, watching Animal Planet Finland, where all the audio was in English and it was thus subtitled into Finnish – and neither are non-mine cultures (I get inundated with American stuff all the time, for one), so I gave it a try. And I was hooked! And now I'm studying Chinese... It has been a nice journey, even if I didn't write that much fic because audiovisual canons rarely hold my attention, compared to text-based fandoms.

I also found a NIF Discord, somehow (Tumblr might've been involved?), and through there got into more Chinese-origin fandoms (oh hi, Modao Zushi!), but the way I got into Guardian was the same as the way I got into NIF: I saw people chat about it on my reading list, then watched it all waiting for Yuletide sign-ups to go out.

* FFA might've been abuzz about it in Nov 2017 as well, but IIRC they only got to it later.