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Lynn, QC, PH.

I edit and proofread academic papers and books. I write here and elsewhere. I also talk way too much about P-pop and beauty pageants over at Pop and Pageantry.

Get in touch if there’s a project you think we can work on together.

Category: Stuff I do

  • I worked on SB19’s “Wakas at Simula: A Visual Journey” photobook and it’s finally out

    I worked on SB19’s “Wakas at Simula: A Visual Journey” photobook and it’s finally out

    Now that SB19’s Wakas at Simula: A Visual Journey photobook has been released, I can finally talk about it. I was asked by my long-time colleague, writer Mica de Leon, back in May if I could be the editor-in-chief for this and after much shaking screaming crying throwing up of course I said yes.

    The book was put together by a small team—one editor-in-chief, one managing editor, one art director, one contributing writer—and two people from Summit Books, who coordinated with the creative team of 1Z Entertainment on approving the images, layout, and content of the photobook. We had about three months to get this done to make sure it comes out just in time for the release of the SB19 Wakas at Simula: The Trilogy Concert Finale concert film—quite a bit of pressure there and a real time crunch, especially with the guys’ busy schedule.

    But it all came together right on time, and it’s great to finally be able to post about it 😀 I’m so proud of the book that I’m sharing it everywhere: here, Facebook, IG, Twitter, and even fricking LinkedIn. I truly hope people will enjoy the book; the team behind it (us!) is composed of solid A’Tin, and we did our absolute best to capture SB19’s story, vision for the future, and appreciation for A’Tin.

  • I renamed my Youtube channel to “Pop and Pageantry”

    A couple of months after I posted about my Youtube channel, I suddenly had a flash of inspiration and renamed it Pop and Pageantry, which is pretty clever of me, I think. Lately, I’ve been focusing a lot on P-Pop or Pinoy pop, with the occasional video on pageantry, so the name only seemed natural.

    Since I last blogged here, I gained quite a lot of followers thanks to a commentary video I made about how poorly trained P-Pop groups shouldn’t be made to debut before they’re ready. I have a related video stewing, this time about the explosion in the number of P-Pop groups, though that might take a while to come out because I have other videos lined up. I’ve been trying to post every week and doing a decent job so far. I’m not doing anything too complicated by way of video editing, but it’s been nice to do what I AM able to do with Davinci Resolve, and these videos have been a good reason for me to write.

  • A little bit about my Youtube channel “late-night chips”

    A little bit about my Youtube channel “late-night chips”

    I wasn’t always big on watching Youtube, but during the pandemic lockdown, it became one of the things I enjoyed doing, along with making candles and miniature houses. I don’t remember what I first really started watching, but I do know that having my nth viewing of J. Lo and Shakira’s Superbowl halftime show interrupted by an ad was what made me decide to get Youtube Premium. Super worth it.

    I wandered into the video essay and commentary space somehow, watching the works of Contrapoints, Jessie Gender, Princess Weekes, and Alice Cappelle, among others, eventually adding Swell Entertainment and münecat to my subscriptions. I also became heavily into drama channels and could recount in exhaustive detail what happened between Gabbie Hanna and Jessi Smiles, and Colleen Ballinger and Adam McIntyre. I was there when Hbomberguy eviscerated plagiarists, and I witnessed the rise and fall of iilluminaughtii. I also watched the Try Guys drama unfold. I’d known about them for years, but tuning into the drama made me a regular Try Guys viewer and now a 2nd Try subscriber.

    As I got deeper into Youtube, I started entertaining the thought of having my own channel containing video essays on various topics. I’d joke about it every time Miss Universe season came around. I’m very interested in beauty pageants and a few years ago, I felt like I had plenty to say about it from a feminist and sociological perspective.

    Then in January 2023, I just decided I was gonna go for it.

    I’m terrible at naming stuff, but I ended up going with “late-night chips” to refer to my habit of late-night snacking. And maybe as a nod to chewing on a memory, an idea late into the night.

    My first video was about the movie The First Slam Dunk, which I wrote, recorded, and edited in a hurry the moment I got home from the movie theater. Afterwards, I made videos about probably quite niche topics, like the long-gone Manang’s Chicken, the 1980s young adult horror book series Twilight: Where Darkness Begins, and the 1990s movie Baby Love. My most popular video is the one about the Miss Universe 1994 semifinalists and what happened to them after the pageant. It has more than 52,200 views so far, which should tell me that I found a potentially popular niche to work with, but I absolutely insist on posting about other things 😀

    I’ve written a bunch of stuff I want to make videos about, but I’ve unfortunately not gotten around to recording them. I do everything for my channel: research, writing, narrating and recording, and video editing. It’s a lot of work, but I get a lot of satisfaction doing it.

    Have I achieved Youtube fame and made tons of money from my channel? Heck no. I need 1,000 subscribers and I’m not even halfway there, and thousands of watch hours, which I definitely do not have.

    Recently, I started making videos about SB19, a group I love and admire. None of the videos have cracked 1,000 views, but it’s all good; the channel has been idle for months, and even having a few hundred people watch my work and listen to me talk is already huge. It’s been fun because it’s testing my ability to write quickly and produce a video mere hours after a bit of SB19 news came out. And it’s bringing my channel back to life. I’ve even gotten started writing something I’ve put off for half a year.

    This project is pretty big for me because I’m painfully averse to being perceived, but perhaps there’s a part of me that’s not because I’m perfectly willing to put my writing out there and use my actual voice.

    I have to admit that my ultimate goal here is to have a modest following and to earn a bit of money too. For now, though, I’ll settle for having 100 views per video.

  • Reposting some old posts because in retrospect, they were pretty good

    Nothing more to it than what the title says. I’m looking at my old blog via The Wayback Machine and I realized I wrote some pretty good stuff back in the day. I think some of them still deserve to be read, so I’m putting them here as well. Enjoy.

  • I love my lifestyle blog so much

    Almost 10 years ago, I started a Quezon City-oriented blog called QCitizen. I had big plans for it—so big that I got overwhelmed and ended up not doing anything for it at all, save for the occasional post here and there.

    Last year, I decided that, because I keep harping on about how much I miss the blogs and websites of old, I should start working on QCitizen again. The posts are still sporadic, I admit, but there’s a lot more there than there ever was, and it looks the way I want it to look—still a blog, but more of a magazine, with big, clear images. It’s one of the projects I’m proud of working on in 2025, and I really want to keep it going for a long time.