Very full of Seki

I've applied for a few more FFXV zines: an Ignis-centric one (I really want to get into that), a music-centric one that seems interesting, and a friendship-focused one that I applied for one a whim. There's an interesting Noir-themed one accepting admissions soon, so I might put in for that one if I hear any negatives back from the others. If I get into them all, well, uh... I might be okay, actually? We'll see.

(Though I really need to get cracking on my Cosmogony piece -- I know the era, and I know what I want to write, basically spill out all the logistics and practicalities of how to keep people alive during ten years of NO SUNLIGHT, in the form of a very biased history text -- so if the mods approve it, I can set off.)

Meanwhile: just hit WK level 7!

Got my Ignoct White Day gift assignment! My assignee gave me good prompts and told me to go wherever I wanted with them. :D

I just hit Wanikani level 5! I know this level is a killer, very slow-going, but it's still a good progress market.

I also just downloaded Torii to my phone. It's a project by a WK user, for Japanese vocab learning via SRS, and it's customisable to, for instance, just the JLPT level 5 vocab, or JLPT levels without WK-covered items. I've not started it up yet; I wanna get further into WK first, but at first glance it seems pretty cool.

I've been progressing with the first set of kanji in Wanikani.

I know all of these, I thought when they came up, pleased. No problem! Except that my complacency became an issue in seconds; it wanted me to give 'shichi' instead of 'nana', 'ku' instead of 'kyū' -- the on reading being asked for isn't the generally preferred and therefore familiar one. Oops. WK doesn't penalise you for entering kun'yomi instead of on'yomi, but if you simply can't recall the on'yomi at all then being pardoned for entering the kun'yomi is only a stay of execution. I dutifully went and re-read the lesson texts and corrected myself, and told myself to not be arrogant next time.

A note on the mnemonics: I don't think of most learning mnemonics as effective, because so many are visually based and I'm aphantastic, but the WK ones often work for me because they're narratives not visuals. Even if I'm forever going to mess up jo and jyo.