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six sentence sunday
Feb. 4th, 2019 06:28 pmTechnically it's Monday here, but also for once of late I have six linear sentences of a very rough draft so why not.
Feb. 4th, 2019
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Feb. 4th, 2019 06:33 pmMedia round-up:
• Finished Animorphs. Cried during the last book. The very end was a bit bizarre, but otherwise I'm glad to have finally experienced the whole of the story. I find myself wondering whether Applegate's hopes for the books - a sixty-book anti-war anthem - panned out for the generation it was written for. After all, it was one of several pieces of formative media in my childhood with an equally strong environmentalism message, and here I am, seeking the professional tree-hugger life. Do It For Cassie. (Somewhat relatedly, I also managed to depress myself with the thought that in some ways I'd rather buy into the future presented by the end of the novels than the one we're facing currently but haha, that's enough of that.)
• The next book on the list is Sea of Rust! I'm a few chapters in and ehhh, it's okay. I'm hoping it'll pick up a bit once an actual plot emerges; at the moment it's almost more a series of short stories about life after the robopocalyse, and I don't find the narrator very interesting yet. I think I just prefer my robot fiction to be more Ancillary Justice - which is to say, actual xenofiction, rather than non-human characters that seem to think and feel identically to humans save for the copious technobabble.
• Gifs of smooth animation and crafty fight choreography caught my eye on Tumblr, so I've watched the episodes of Dororo that are out and I like it a lot! It's a straightforward, fairy-tale-ish sort of story (a man makes a deal with 12 demons for power and they take his firstborn son's body parts as payment; the boy manages to survive and now, grown, seeks to re-gain his parts by defeating the demons) but that's part of the charm for me. The animation's smooth as silk, the pace is slow but not painful, and - as anyone who knows me even slightly will know - I am the hugest sucker for that older distant hero figure and their tagalong kid companion found family nonsense.
• The Liar, the Whiskey, the Thief is still one of my headbopping earworms at present.
• Sunless Skies is out and I am absolutely not allowed to touch it until I finish more of the games I already own, damnit.
• Finished Animorphs. Cried during the last book. The very end was a bit bizarre, but otherwise I'm glad to have finally experienced the whole of the story. I find myself wondering whether Applegate's hopes for the books - a sixty-book anti-war anthem - panned out for the generation it was written for. After all, it was one of several pieces of formative media in my childhood with an equally strong environmentalism message, and here I am, seeking the professional tree-hugger life. Do It For Cassie. (Somewhat relatedly, I also managed to depress myself with the thought that in some ways I'd rather buy into the future presented by the end of the novels than the one we're facing currently but haha, that's enough of that.)
• The next book on the list is Sea of Rust! I'm a few chapters in and ehhh, it's okay. I'm hoping it'll pick up a bit once an actual plot emerges; at the moment it's almost more a series of short stories about life after the robopocalyse, and I don't find the narrator very interesting yet. I think I just prefer my robot fiction to be more Ancillary Justice - which is to say, actual xenofiction, rather than non-human characters that seem to think and feel identically to humans save for the copious technobabble.
• Gifs of smooth animation and crafty fight choreography caught my eye on Tumblr, so I've watched the episodes of Dororo that are out and I like it a lot! It's a straightforward, fairy-tale-ish sort of story (a man makes a deal with 12 demons for power and they take his firstborn son's body parts as payment; the boy manages to survive and now, grown, seeks to re-gain his parts by defeating the demons) but that's part of the charm for me. The animation's smooth as silk, the pace is slow but not painful, and - as anyone who knows me even slightly will know - I am the hugest sucker for that older distant hero figure and their tagalong kid companion found family nonsense.
• The Liar, the Whiskey, the Thief is still one of my headbopping earworms at present.
• Sunless Skies is out and I am absolutely not allowed to touch it until I finish more of the games I already own, damnit.