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Mar. 21st, 2019 08:25 pm• Blitzed through Russian Doll in a single hit, which was not my intention when I started. As good as promised, and more heartwarming than I was expecting. The acting was sharp, the dialogue was fantastically weird, and the fundamental messages of the narrative were ones I could whole-heartedly get behind. I really enjoyed Nadia as a character, partly through the fascination of watching someone who lives in the same general world as myself - a white woman in a western city - but such an utterly different part of it. I think I may also just have a bit of an envious interest in selfish women characters in general. The nice thing about shows like RD and The Good Place is they point out the obvious flaws of such an approach to life but allow the characters to grow without denying the existent strengths either. Sometimes situations need a bully, using their powers for good.
• And speaking of strong, independent, and selfish women characters - I finally, fi-i-inally pulled Uncharted: Lost Legacy off my shelf and worked my way through it. Very fun! It was a much longer, fuller game than I thought, and every outlet that marketed as a DLC or even an expansion was kind of underselling it frankly. I applaud their choice of side characters to be elevated to the position of protagonists, as Chloe and Nadine made for an endearing and balanced pair, and I was hugely relieved when a feared injection of heterosexuality failed to manifest. There is no grand kiss, of course, but it's left remarkably open to interpretation. I'm going to have to go fanfic hunting.
• Playing the game also made me itchy enough for more fun parkour that I've gone and booted up the first Uncharted game again. Le sigh. We'll see if I stick with it, though getting to hang out with Elena for an entire game is pretty decent motivation. Proud to announce that in the time since I first played it, my skills have progressed enough that I am confidently plowing through on normal mode so far. Ooh la la.
• I am going to finish Tyranny. I swear. I promise.
• I read a bit of Serpent's Reach, then decided that was too much of a brain work-out straight after Cuckoo's Egg; so I swerved into City of Stairs as another new book I'd picked up, and found it good with worldbuilding that's very up my alley, but not executed with quite as much poise as I'd like; which is probably what contributed to me getting distracted and accidentally re-reading the second Emelan novel again. In other words, I'm a bit all over the place on the book front right now. I do want to get back to City of Stairs, but I'm still waiting wistfully for the next new thing to really, properly grab me.
• I think I just started the questline to become A Person Of Some Significance in FL O: Started from the bottom four times now we're here.
• I have the barest minimum possible tolerance for horror and just watching the trailer meant I had to leave the lights on for a week, but I am so fucking desperate to just find out what the story behind Us is. I'm so curious. What is going on.
• And speaking of strong, independent, and selfish women characters - I finally, fi-i-inally pulled Uncharted: Lost Legacy off my shelf and worked my way through it. Very fun! It was a much longer, fuller game than I thought, and every outlet that marketed as a DLC or even an expansion was kind of underselling it frankly. I applaud their choice of side characters to be elevated to the position of protagonists, as Chloe and Nadine made for an endearing and balanced pair, and I was hugely relieved when a feared injection of heterosexuality failed to manifest. There is no grand kiss, of course, but it's left remarkably open to interpretation. I'm going to have to go fanfic hunting.
• Playing the game also made me itchy enough for more fun parkour that I've gone and booted up the first Uncharted game again. Le sigh. We'll see if I stick with it, though getting to hang out with Elena for an entire game is pretty decent motivation. Proud to announce that in the time since I first played it, my skills have progressed enough that I am confidently plowing through on normal mode so far. Ooh la la.
• I am going to finish Tyranny. I swear. I promise.
• I read a bit of Serpent's Reach, then decided that was too much of a brain work-out straight after Cuckoo's Egg; so I swerved into City of Stairs as another new book I'd picked up, and found it good with worldbuilding that's very up my alley, but not executed with quite as much poise as I'd like; which is probably what contributed to me getting distracted and accidentally re-reading the second Emelan novel again. In other words, I'm a bit all over the place on the book front right now. I do want to get back to City of Stairs, but I'm still waiting wistfully for the next new thing to really, properly grab me.
• I think I just started the questline to become A Person Of Some Significance in FL O: Started from the bottom four times now we're here.
• I have the barest minimum possible tolerance for horror and just watching the trailer meant I had to leave the lights on for a week, but I am so fucking desperate to just find out what the story behind Us is. I'm so curious. What is going on.
