June 2025

S M T W T F S
1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
22 232425262728
2930     

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags

July 28th, 2020

rose_griffes: (Default)
Tuesday, July 28th, 2020 08:14 pm
Dealing with the pro-hydroxychloroquine crowd on Facebook. Some of y'all are probably aware of today's brouhaha; if not, count yourself lucky. But it included an MD who stated that we don't need masks! Because there's a cure! Which is the same drug that has failed multiple tests of its effectiveness. Aaaaaanyway.

Recent visual media:
  • Currently watching Never Have I Ever on Netflix, with mixed feelings about it. It’s a teen multigenerational comedy. Episodes 1-3 are a mess--I only made it through by doing some hand sewing while watching. It got better in episode four, so it’s still on my watch list, but with a big question mark behind it.
  • I didn’t finish episode one of Cursed, a pre-Arthurian legend drama. The lead character, Nimue, wasn’t that compelling (yet), and I lost interest. Anyone else try it? Does it get better? Not gonna watch it for emo goth bad boy, FYI. Another skinny sad greasy-haired evil dude? Meh.
  • Having gotten to season five, I think I’m done with the Community rewatch. I watched fewer than half of the episodes of seasons 1-4, and now there’s no Troy, so... 
  • Wow, this is rather negative so far. So: Burn Notice remains a delight, although I’m still in season two, thanks to all of these detours.
  • I’m about to take one more detour: just signed up for Disney+. My plan is to keep it for one month and watch Hamilton and The Mandalorian. I’ll try some of the other Star Wars animated shows, but I didn’t like them before, so no promises about finishing. Any thoughts on what else I should watch?

Books! Courting Darkness is technically book one of a duology, but really book four of a five(?) book series by Robin LaFevers. It's another of the nun assassin books! Alternate history with magic and the old gods of Brittany! And Anne of Brittany marrying the king of France, and our poor assassin nuns who worship the god of death have lost their god, and and and... I have to say: this book is where things REALLY got exciting. I liked books 1-3! But this one is definitely where all of the pieces come together in a compelling way. Now I'm anxiously awaiting book five, which comes out in a week! Yay!

rose_griffes: (Default)
Tuesday, July 28th, 2020 08:58 pm

I forgot to include links in my last post! First off: since I started the previous post by mentioning pandemic-related stuff, I’ll start this post the same way. Making Sense of the Research on COVID-19 and Masks. It’s an overview of multiple studies, explained in clear English, with links back to the studies.

Moving on to some video essays: 

Author Courtney Milan recently recommended FocusMate for writing productivity. You sign up for a session (three free sessions per week--if you want more than that, you pay), meet your randomly selected accountability partner, tell each other your goal for the next sixty minutes... and then you keep writing until the end of your time. Then, report to your accountability partner. Potential for abuse? Not non-existent. But overall it sounds like an interesting possibility to kick-start yourself if stuck.

Back to Star Wars. (I KNOW!) A Defense Of Finn’s Character Arc (in TLJ) is just what it sounds like, but this particular essay does acknowledge some of the flaws and missed opportunities in addition to praising the positive elements. 

rose_griffes: Ernie and Bert--Bert is wearing a tophat.  Fancy! (style)
Tuesday, July 28th, 2020 09:43 pm
Question: have any of you participated in the big remix challenge in the last few years? Here's the sign-up page for this year and I'm a bit intimidated. (I've done single-fandom remix challenges--usually co-hosted by me. But never the BIG remix.)

Edited to add: okay, I've navigated the sign-up form. It's not as complicated as I feared; I just needed to read the directions more closely instead of skimming like I usually do.

Anyway! I can add another fandom if I can get two more 500+ word stories written for a fandom where I have at least one story of that length done. Got any prompts for Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles? Or for the Star Wars sequel trilogy?
Tags: