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michelel72) wrote2025-02-22 06:51 pm
michelel72) wrote2025-02-22 06:51 pm
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Quick takes: Various
Hello, world. I don't post much; I haven't been doing much. But I figured I'd make some notes of recent things as evidence to myself that I do anything.
Writing: I've been making stop-and-go progress on a story that I never meant to exist; it's ... 69,700 words so far, and it has so much left to go, and I need it to be in place for something else I wrote that follows it, and ... sigh. Why am I like this.
Beware of very mild spoilers beyond this point. Note also that I haven't been in an overly receptive headspace lately, so please know that I don't mean to denigrate anyone's favorites here.
Book: Dragonworld: DNF. Checked it out from the library, tried multiple times to get into it, couldn't care, gave up early (just after the fishing nets).
Book: The Fiancée Farce: This was set prominently on a shelf of the pop-up library that has developed on the third floor of my workplace, and I can get into a good marriage-of-convenience romance, so I borrowed it. It was ... okay. The prank "revenge" on the villain for his years-earlier treatment of Tansy was juvenile and ineffective (to me) but presented as triumphant; the villain's later plot twist really bothered me for repeating that same treatment for the same lack of consequences; the resolution went from implausible to unbelievable; and one of the (happily few, for my tastes) explicit scenes made Gemma seem to have arms of tentacular length and flexibility -- though it's possible I missed a positional detail due to skimming the sex scenes, heh.
Movie: The Poof Point: I re-upped Disney Plus. This has de-aged adults and a Black teenage girl, both of which have relevance to my writing interests. It was ... there. Typical goofy early-oughts Disney Channel fare. I kept being distracted by how very White the entire town seemed to be. I've decided the nosy neighbor was spite-baking those cookies while talking to Marie, though, because something in the way the actor moved that tray from oven to counter really spoke to me.
Movie: Soul: Pixar really is grim at times, wow. Fine, but I don't see wanting to watch it again. And I spent too long worrying about the cat's soul, lol.
Series: Wandavision: I'd been thoroughly spoiled for this (by choice), but I finally went back and finished it properly, because I haven't been spoiled for "Agatha All Along" and might check that out soon. I've fallen away from Marvel fandom in general, but this was quite well done.
YouTube: I'll sometimes watch video game playthroughs, and for some reason ones of "Slay the Princess" showed up. I saw early mention of that game and was curious, so I checked a couple out. I'm glad I did, because it's not a game I would have bought, but I'm very much intrigued by where it went and how the gamers reacted to it. I followed one of them, Euro Brady, into "Mouthwashing" as well, because that's even more certainly a game I wouldn't be playing myself (while I respect what it's saying). I'm enjoying his approach and style.
Writing: I've been making stop-and-go progress on a story that I never meant to exist; it's ... 69,700 words so far, and it has so much left to go, and I need it to be in place for something else I wrote that follows it, and ... sigh. Why am I like this.
Beware of very mild spoilers beyond this point. Note also that I haven't been in an overly receptive headspace lately, so please know that I don't mean to denigrate anyone's favorites here.
Book: Dragonworld: DNF. Checked it out from the library, tried multiple times to get into it, couldn't care, gave up early (just after the fishing nets).
Book: The Fiancée Farce: This was set prominently on a shelf of the pop-up library that has developed on the third floor of my workplace, and I can get into a good marriage-of-convenience romance, so I borrowed it. It was ... okay. The prank "revenge" on the villain for his years-earlier treatment of Tansy was juvenile and ineffective (to me) but presented as triumphant; the villain's later plot twist really bothered me for repeating that same treatment for the same lack of consequences; the resolution went from implausible to unbelievable; and one of the (happily few, for my tastes) explicit scenes made Gemma seem to have arms of tentacular length and flexibility -- though it's possible I missed a positional detail due to skimming the sex scenes, heh.
Movie: The Poof Point: I re-upped Disney Plus. This has de-aged adults and a Black teenage girl, both of which have relevance to my writing interests. It was ... there. Typical goofy early-oughts Disney Channel fare. I kept being distracted by how very White the entire town seemed to be. I've decided the nosy neighbor was spite-baking those cookies while talking to Marie, though, because something in the way the actor moved that tray from oven to counter really spoke to me.
Movie: Soul: Pixar really is grim at times, wow. Fine, but I don't see wanting to watch it again. And I spent too long worrying about the cat's soul, lol.
Series: Wandavision: I'd been thoroughly spoiled for this (by choice), but I finally went back and finished it properly, because I haven't been spoiled for "Agatha All Along" and might check that out soon. I've fallen away from Marvel fandom in general, but this was quite well done.
YouTube: I'll sometimes watch video game playthroughs, and for some reason ones of "Slay the Princess" showed up. I saw early mention of that game and was curious, so I checked a couple out. I'm glad I did, because it's not a game I would have bought, but I'm very much intrigued by where it went and how the gamers reacted to it. I followed one of them, Euro Brady, into "Mouthwashing" as well, because that's even more certainly a game I wouldn't be playing myself (while I respect what it's saying). I'm enjoying his approach and style.