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rose_griffes) wrote2021-01-14 07:47 pm
rose_griffes) wrote2021-01-14 07:47 pm
Hark, tis an update!
Attempting a quick update: my country is on fire.
Not literally. Yet.
I'm going to ignore that and focus on recent media consumption. Still watching Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season seven, and cackled aloud multiple times during the episode set in the 1980s. The multiple 80s media references were hilarious and spot-on, including the robots with human voices, exaggerated blood splatter accompanying an offscreen death, disembodied digital heads on tv, and Russians with short-cropped blond hair. Oh, and Mack's "tie on the headband" montage! Hee!
Roommate H and I are watching Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings adaptation. It's been a looooong time since I've watched them. H hasn't seen them, so I'm enjoying her newby reactions. The most common one is simply confusion at the many, many names. The Nazgul are the Dark Riders are the Ring Wraiths are the Nine, just for example. She does like them so far, even if she finds them a bit intense at times. Her media choices don't usually include battle scenes, for instance.
Even I'm finding things a bit much at times. I'll need to brace myself for The Return of the King, given that it has moooore battle scenes than the other two movies.
No book update now; I'm re-reading a favorite fanfic instead. Because my country is on not-literal fire and I can't focus.
Not media: I tried this grain-free, dairy-free brownie recipe and liked it. I had my usual reaction to this type of recipe: at first I have to process how it's different from the standard end result, so I don't really know how I feel about the altered product until a few bites later.
Anyway, all of this to say: reasonably tasty and acceptable in texture, but would be even better with some pecans and marshmallows.
Not literally. Yet.
I'm going to ignore that and focus on recent media consumption. Still watching Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season seven, and cackled aloud multiple times during the episode set in the 1980s. The multiple 80s media references were hilarious and spot-on, including the robots with human voices, exaggerated blood splatter accompanying an offscreen death, disembodied digital heads on tv, and Russians with short-cropped blond hair. Oh, and Mack's "tie on the headband" montage! Hee!
Roommate H and I are watching Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings adaptation. It's been a looooong time since I've watched them. H hasn't seen them, so I'm enjoying her newby reactions. The most common one is simply confusion at the many, many names. The Nazgul are the Dark Riders are the Ring Wraiths are the Nine, just for example. She does like them so far, even if she finds them a bit intense at times. Her media choices don't usually include battle scenes, for instance.
Even I'm finding things a bit much at times. I'll need to brace myself for The Return of the King, given that it has moooore battle scenes than the other two movies.
No book update now; I'm re-reading a favorite fanfic instead. Because my country is on not-literal fire and I can't focus.
Not media: I tried this grain-free, dairy-free brownie recipe and liked it. I had my usual reaction to this type of recipe: at first I have to process how it's different from the standard end result, so I don't really know how I feel about the altered product until a few bites later.
Anyway, all of this to say: reasonably tasty and acceptable in texture, but would be even better with some pecans and marshmallows.
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Can't focus either - makes work interesting.
Anyhow - Not sure I could re-watch Lord of the Rings right now - a bit too dark, also too many battle scenes. I've a cousin re-watching Game of Thrones, and just no.
But hey Wanda Vision is coming to Disney + tomorrow, along with a hero story about a Girl and a Smart Squirrel. Flora & the Squirrel, based on the comic that I gave my niece for a birthday gift when she was eight.
And I'm trying James Herriot's All Creatures Great and Small on Masterpiece Theater.
Plus Zoey's Extraordinary Play List.
Gluten Free/Paolo Brownie Recipes are dicey. I do have a gluten free/paolo brownie mix - Bare Naked brand, two boxes, that I got from Amazon way back in May that I've not done anything with..hmmm.
Reading? I'm doing audio books and comic books. And romance novels. I can't focus on much else. It's really hard to focus right now.
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I'm curious to see what people think of Wanda Vision, given that I currently have access to Disney+. Roommate H has an account.
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Baking sounds like a good compartmentalization technique with ~everything going on right now.
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(Too bad there's no "Faramir is closer to his book characterization" version available. That really sticks out on a rewatch.)
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That (and to a lesser degree the directorial treatment of Frodo) has always been my major beef with the internal aspects of the film. I have fondness for them but dang do I have notes!