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Jun. 3rd, 2020 07:16 pm• I broke my digital media streak by plunging into a re-read of every Diana Wynne Jones book in my house: Charmed Life, Dogsbody, and Hexwood. She had such a knack for telling stories outside the formulaic mould, and Dogsbody in particular still feels like something that was written exactly for the tastes of my younger self. I loved it so much as a kid that I tried to copy it out by hand once, because I was moving away from the library it was in. Fortunately there were still copies in print by the time I was able to buy it, years later.
• A group of friends held an online 'convention' over the Memorial Day long weekend, and though I couldn't attend everything scheduled because timezones, I did manage to sit in the group watch of Justice League Dark: Apokolips. I don't know exactly what it is about comic book franchises and the urge to write Kill 'Em All storylines, but unrelenting grimness is far more fun when you're all screeching together as a group. Also, there was, you know, the shark thing.
• We also played a oneshot, which ended up becoming a twoshot, haha. Very enjoyable, even if I'm still not terribly adept at tabletop gaming. I stutter out into silence far too often, fret constantly about whether I'm being too passive or demanding too much spotlight or just otherwise not doing what I 'should', always seem to come up with better ideas far after the fact... I was never much of a natural at improv in drama either. Brain just a little bit too hamster in some respects, and a little bit too sloth in others. Regular practice in a smaller group would probably help, but them's the breaks. I still had fun, and still hope to participate in any future oneshots we do! (Again, alas: timezones.)
• Apparently it was Time for the personal pilgrimage that is rewatching Ergo Proxy. It's still very dear to my heart, wonky as it is. Another case where someone just managed to appeal to some ridiculously specific tastes of mine.
• Inception is back on Netflix, so I sat down with it again. Actually felt a bit bored? It's a decent action film with some light heist flavouring, but the grand cinematics it was so famed for aren't as impressive after a decade dominated by high octane CGI-driven superhero films, and there really is a lot of extrapolation that crunches up dialogue time. Poor Ariadne is only half a character: the rest of her is a Google search bar.
• Apologies to Mass Effect; StarCraft has briefly consumed my life again. I'm no whiz at strategy games, but I've done decently so far... and I also still remember 'power overwhelming'. Be interesting to see if that still works. Mostly I have my eyes set hungrily on the zerg campaign, and the promise of cooing lovingly once more over the Queen of Blades. (Queen of my heart.)
• A group of friends held an online 'convention' over the Memorial Day long weekend, and though I couldn't attend everything scheduled because timezones, I did manage to sit in the group watch of Justice League Dark: Apokolips. I don't know exactly what it is about comic book franchises and the urge to write Kill 'Em All storylines, but unrelenting grimness is far more fun when you're all screeching together as a group. Also, there was, you know, the shark thing.
• We also played a oneshot, which ended up becoming a twoshot, haha. Very enjoyable, even if I'm still not terribly adept at tabletop gaming. I stutter out into silence far too often, fret constantly about whether I'm being too passive or demanding too much spotlight or just otherwise not doing what I 'should', always seem to come up with better ideas far after the fact... I was never much of a natural at improv in drama either. Brain just a little bit too hamster in some respects, and a little bit too sloth in others. Regular practice in a smaller group would probably help, but them's the breaks. I still had fun, and still hope to participate in any future oneshots we do! (Again, alas: timezones.)
• Apparently it was Time for the personal pilgrimage that is rewatching Ergo Proxy. It's still very dear to my heart, wonky as it is. Another case where someone just managed to appeal to some ridiculously specific tastes of mine.
• Inception is back on Netflix, so I sat down with it again. Actually felt a bit bored? It's a decent action film with some light heist flavouring, but the grand cinematics it was so famed for aren't as impressive after a decade dominated by high octane CGI-driven superhero films, and there really is a lot of extrapolation that crunches up dialogue time. Poor Ariadne is only half a character: the rest of her is a Google search bar.
• Apologies to Mass Effect; StarCraft has briefly consumed my life again. I'm no whiz at strategy games, but I've done decently so far... and I also still remember 'power overwhelming'. Be interesting to see if that still works. Mostly I have my eyes set hungrily on the zerg campaign, and the promise of cooing lovingly once more over the Queen of Blades. (Queen of my heart.)
