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On spoilers and watching (or not watching) television: ( slight spoilers (heh) for NBC's Timeless and the Veronica Mars TV reboot )
Television that I am watching: still making my way through The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, a little bit at a time. I do find many of the characters very engaging, or at least entertaining. The setting is fantastical in all the best ways. The puppets with the most human-like features are still too lacking in animation; that's not really a problem for me until something truly dramatic happens, and then I find myself wishing for more facial expressiveness.
Still rewatching The Expanse. Aie, I really understand now why many fans find Holden annoying, especially in a rewatch. Why exactly does he have to go DO THE THING all of the time? The thing varies from one storyline to the next, but whatever it is, Holden is going to do it.
Sooner or later I'm going to delete my livejournal account. I've been mirroring posts from dreamwidth to livejournal for several years, but given that Dreamwidth is the only place with activity now, there's no reason to keep both open. I think I need to "find" some posts here that I have bookmarked there... and maybe check for any more comment-fics that are still available there that I'll need to import somehow.
I've already imported comments made on my livejournal to dreamwidth; I'm thinking of comment-fics made on livejournal communities. I wonder if any of those communities are now mirrored here?
Anyway. Here, have an unrelated but interesting quote.
Television that I am watching: still making my way through The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, a little bit at a time. I do find many of the characters very engaging, or at least entertaining. The setting is fantastical in all the best ways. The puppets with the most human-like features are still too lacking in animation; that's not really a problem for me until something truly dramatic happens, and then I find myself wishing for more facial expressiveness.
Still rewatching The Expanse. Aie, I really understand now why many fans find Holden annoying, especially in a rewatch. Why exactly does he have to go DO THE THING all of the time? The thing varies from one storyline to the next, but whatever it is, Holden is going to do it.
Sooner or later I'm going to delete my livejournal account. I've been mirroring posts from dreamwidth to livejournal for several years, but given that Dreamwidth is the only place with activity now, there's no reason to keep both open. I think I need to "find" some posts here that I have bookmarked there... and maybe check for any more comment-fics that are still available there that I'll need to import somehow.
I've already imported comments made on my livejournal to dreamwidth; I'm thinking of comment-fics made on livejournal communities. I wonder if any of those communities are now mirrored here?
Anyway. Here, have an unrelated but interesting quote.
[...] “Trying to find some primordially authentic culture can be like peeling an onion. The textiles most people think of as traditional West African cloths are known as Java prints; they arrived in the 19th century with the Javanese batiks sold, and often milled, by the Dutch. The traditional garb of Herero women in Namibia derives from the attire of 19th-century German missionaries, though it is still unmistakably Herero, not least because the fabrics used have a distinctly un-Lutheran range of colors. And so with our kente cloth: the silk was always imported, traded by Europeans, produced in Asia. This tradition was once an innovation. Should we reject it for that reason as untraditional? How far back must one go? Should we condemn the young men and women of the University of Science and Technology, a few miles outside Kumasi, who wear European-style gowns for graduation, lined with kente strips (as they do now at Howard and Morehouse, too)? Cultures are made of continuities and changes, and the identity of a society can survive through these changes. Societies without change aren’t authentic; they’re just dead.”
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