A belated post

[krait]

I meant to post this during Nirvana in Fire Appreciation Week, but didn't quite get around to it.

After my first NiF rewatch, I found myself wondering things like, "Was the illegal fireworks factory discovered before or after the Minister of State Revenue was confirmed?" and "Which episode had the funny conversation with Dr. Yan on the steps?"

I also thought it would be handy for fic purposes to be able to answer questions such as, "Which people have referred to Lin Shu as xiao-Shu?" or "How many times does Mei Changsu appear with his hair down?" - the kinds of things that generally aren't found in more general episode guides that just cover the plot.



Have I ever mentioned that one of my unintentional hobbies appears to be collecting blank journals? I have an entire shelf of beautiful blank books just sitting around looking decorative; at this point, I don't even know where they came from! They just appear in my house, somehow. Currently the collection occupies a shelf beside the entertainment center, where my eye fell upon it during an NiF marathon, and it occurred to me that I could solve two problems in one swoop.

It's still a work in progress, but behold: Krait's Personal NiF Episode Guide & Reference Book!

The exterior:


The interior:


Now I won't even need the Internet in order to relive the viewing experience or work on a fic!

Comments

[azurelunatic]

That is a lovely physical book, and sounds like a delightful project!

[krait]

Thank you! I'm only at Ep 14 so far, but it's a fun way to use a notebook (and some fancy fine-point pens)!

[schneefink]

That is a very pretty notebook :) and it sounds like a very useful project, I hope you have fun!

[azdak]

The book is lovely! The notes seem incredibly useful, just the sort of info you need when you're writing fic and don't want to have to wade through fifteen episodes to find a particular detail.

[krait]

Thank you! I really like the styling of the book; I'm slightly concerned it's going to be too small (it took me some time to develop concision, oops) but I'll cross that bridge when I come to it and buy another one if I can find one.

It's definitely hard to skim through an episode for one specific thing - especially subtitled, because you can't even just let it play in the background and listen for a key word. Then my runaway journal collecting turned out to have the perfect little book for the job!

[canetr]

Hello. I am excited to see that you are working on detailing each episode of NIF with more than just the plot of that episode. Have you posted any of your episodic information? Just curious because I would love to start reading them. Thanks. Tracy

[krait]

Hi!

I haven't posted my episode summaries (with asides) anywhere, but I do have some episode reaction posts in my "fandom: nirvana in fire" tag, if those would be of any interest to you. :)