like a true nature's child

Okay, if you follow me on twitter, you know I've spent the last week or so losing my mind over The King: Eternal Monarch, and since twitter is a terrible medium for posts of any length, I have dusted off my DW to scream at length.

Very brief intro

He, Lee Gon, is the king of the Kingdom of Corea. She, Jeong Tae-eul, is a police officer in the Republic of Korea (ie, our world). Through the magic of hopping between parallel worlds, they fight crime an attempted coup and also fall in love.

It's a 16 episode Korean drama that originally aired in spring 2020 and is now available on Netflix.

( behind the cut: a longer description, some character intros, and content notes )

Okay, here are some things I said on Twitter just now:

"i don't want to write outlander fic, but there's only so many times one can yell in email about how they need to make out. hmm." "i think maybe what i want is longform, free association, spoiler friendly episode-by-episode discussions?"

So this is an experiment in building it and seeing if they will come [back]! Let's say, hmm, anything aired, anything in preview on starz.com, any episode titles, and anything in books 1-3 is fair game.

( some initial thoughts, likely to be added to in-between fighting a Raven Boys shipwar elsewhere )

just finished:

Veronica Roth's Divergent trilogy. I wanted something light (easy, not necessarily cheerful) to read over the long weekend, and these were that. I liked the first one okay and thought they went downhill after that.

( also i had some questions (spoilers for all three) )

in progress:

Breakfast with Lucien, a biography of the artist. Just started; confused about the face he seems not to be banging his assistant.

up next:

The Napoleon and Josephine book, maybe? Not really sure yet.

shihadchick asked: or, if you could order around a bunch of fancy stats people/observers to build a data set, is there anything you'd particularly like to investigate in particular?

(She actually asked two questions, but the other one has a longer answer and will come at a later date.)

I have ...several answers for this!

1. First, I'd like to see the on-going zone entry/exit stuff expanded - more teams! more years! centralized database! (i suspect a proper bit of crowd sourcing could make this happen - claim a game via tick box, upload the standard excel sheet when you're done, allow for multiple people to claim the same game and cross-validate their answers, and then run this whole thing into a queryable database a la extraskater.) as best i know, no one does this for the hawks currently. someone needs to kidnap shutdownline, basically.

2. tracking change of possession. it's related to zone entries in that frequently zone entries become a turn-over, but i'd be also interested in how often turnovers come from bad rebounds, hits, datsyukian takeaways, etc, etc. (unlike many people, i LOVE interrogating hits. i keep thinking that with enough data, people will notice they're* meaningless.)

*technically i think there are several kinds of hits, and only MOST of them are meaningless - so i'd love to be able to distinguish between a hit that takes you out of position vs one that forces a turnover.

3. better show data. more accurate, more granular, plus whatever whoever at SN is doing trying to meaningfully understand shot quality.

4. realtime tracking of every player on both teams at all times plus the location of the puck.

granted, that last one is probably less 'stats folks' and more 'GMs', but, seriously, think about it: we could QUANTIFY how often that backdoor PP play doesn't work.

( i saw thor 2! )

in other news, read the newest mckinley book, and am still trying to work out how i feel about it. (i mean, i liked it! but i'm trying to work out what it is i wanted more of.)

Hello, fellow Yuletider! I am so excited that you are writing for me.

As always, optional details are optional! I will be thrilled with whatever you give me. But if you are one of those authors who feel better with stalking your recipient details, read on.

( requests: Toby Daye, Fast and Furious, Haywire, Seven Kingdoms, Doctrine of Labyrinths, Gentleman Bastards )

I was a pretty heavy user of google reader, so I was pretty annoyed when Google decided to close it down. Luckily, my annoyance didn't last long, since The Old Reader was pretty much a perfect fit for what I was looking for.

Three months later, the folks at TOR have quite reasonably decided that keeping a system up for 420K users is way different than the 10K they signed up for and thus they will be scaling back, which, from the way they've described it is quite reasonable for their mental health but does mean that I'm looking for a new reader again.

( what i've tried and what i'm looking for )