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shadowkat1. I've archived all the worthy essay, fanfiction, meta, review posts that could possibly fit into Archive of Our Own (which has been broadened a bit to allow for items that fit "no fandom") from 2003-2005. (I have over 19 years worth of posts to skim through, and a lot are either already there or don't work and can't be archived. I'm not archiving the pandemic posts for example - that wouldn't work at all.) I won't put combined meta reviews (ie. posts with multiple television show and movie reviews on it or long personal ramblings or personal posts or work related posts or family related posts or photo montages.) Have to draw the line somewhere. I put several fandom meta posts on it, and one on the Zimbardo Prison Study (I was taking a social psychology course in 2005 due to abject boredom.)
And oh dear god, I was a huge drama queen in the early 00s on the net. I kept threatening to delete the journal. (I deleted a couple of those posts along with a meme that provided far too much personal information.) It was silly. I never did of course. (Ironic too, considering we all deleted our lj's after moving them here, some folks just did it outright and didn't move them at all. A lot of the people I was arguing with and interacting with on LJ are long-gone. I have no clue what happened to most of them, others I've parted ways with - but do know where they are.) Meditation really helps stop that silliness. I also cared what people thought back then - don't now. And wanted some sort of validation - don't require it at all now. Don't care. Again meditation - or mindfulness meditation really helps shut up the stupid ego or those negative thought loops.
I didn't realize how much I'd actually changed emotionally, mentally, physically and as a person until I scanned those old posts.
I wonder if I re-watched Buffy and Angel, Farscape, BSG, Lost, etc now - what I'd think of them? Would I be a fan? Haven't watched any of them in over ten-fifteen years. And I'm not really fannish about anything at the moment. I'm playing with Soap Twitter and Soap FB, but I'm not a fan. I watch mainly for mother - I'd stop if she did. And mildly curious to see what happens to the characters.
2. Television..
* Brother recommends - "Sex Pistols" on Hulu, a drama by Danny Boyle. (So may try it. It has ads plastered all over the subways. And on television. But I thought it was a documentary - apparently it's not.)
* Chidi recommends "Severance" - tried three - four episodes and I agree with my brother, it's a touch "overwrought" for me. And depressing. Biting Satire, but American Biting Satire tends to be depressing. Also conspiracy's related to a workplace, I can do without right now.
* Still watching the Essex Serpent - meant to watch it after dark tonight, because it's impossible to see during daylight hours. But I lost track of time - archiving. I've mixed feelings about it - but I also had mixed feelings about the book. It gets a little preachy on the gender/class issues but Victorian related novels often do.
* Tried Obi-Wan on Disney Plus - it's better than I expected. Very much geared towards a family audience, not an adult audience, which in retrospect may be the problem with all of the Star Wars films and series? Star Trek is geared towards adults, and Star Wars towards kids, and well that's kind of problematic in a way?
Also Star Wars is set up as old school serial action drama - a blend of WWII movies and Westerns, as space opera. It's not really science fiction, it has more of a fantastical element to it. And leans heavy on Western motifs.
I did like Ewan McCregor as Obi-Wan, and he works in this as well. But the pacing could be better, and the supporting cast is a touch stiff. As is the writing - which unfortunately is par for the course for Star Wars. (It never did have the best writing in the world. I'm a long-term fan, and even I can admit that.)
* Need to go back to Picard - since that held my interest last weekend.
3.God, I'm tired. I'm going to bed. Been sleeping poorly. I blame digestive issues. But I ate less gassy items today. And ice cream earlier. So that should help.
(I do Breyers - which is basically the same as homemade, no additives, no preservatives, just orangic milk, egg, sugar, and vanilla. I am ridiculously picky about Ice Cream - also I can't have the cheap brands like Edy's and Turkey Hill - they have too many additives, so I avoid. But I'm off the kick - so won't buy more after this. Ice cream tends to give me gas. As do all dairy products. Also it glues up the digestive system. Dairy is not our friend.)
And oh dear god, I was a huge drama queen in the early 00s on the net. I kept threatening to delete the journal. (I deleted a couple of those posts along with a meme that provided far too much personal information.) It was silly. I never did of course. (Ironic too, considering we all deleted our lj's after moving them here, some folks just did it outright and didn't move them at all. A lot of the people I was arguing with and interacting with on LJ are long-gone. I have no clue what happened to most of them, others I've parted ways with - but do know where they are.) Meditation really helps stop that silliness. I also cared what people thought back then - don't now. And wanted some sort of validation - don't require it at all now. Don't care. Again meditation - or mindfulness meditation really helps shut up the stupid ego or those negative thought loops.
I didn't realize how much I'd actually changed emotionally, mentally, physically and as a person until I scanned those old posts.
I wonder if I re-watched Buffy and Angel, Farscape, BSG, Lost, etc now - what I'd think of them? Would I be a fan? Haven't watched any of them in over ten-fifteen years. And I'm not really fannish about anything at the moment. I'm playing with Soap Twitter and Soap FB, but I'm not a fan. I watch mainly for mother - I'd stop if she did. And mildly curious to see what happens to the characters.
2. Television..
* Brother recommends - "Sex Pistols" on Hulu, a drama by Danny Boyle. (So may try it. It has ads plastered all over the subways. And on television. But I thought it was a documentary - apparently it's not.)
* Chidi recommends "Severance" - tried three - four episodes and I agree with my brother, it's a touch "overwrought" for me. And depressing. Biting Satire, but American Biting Satire tends to be depressing. Also conspiracy's related to a workplace, I can do without right now.
* Still watching the Essex Serpent - meant to watch it after dark tonight, because it's impossible to see during daylight hours. But I lost track of time - archiving. I've mixed feelings about it - but I also had mixed feelings about the book. It gets a little preachy on the gender/class issues but Victorian related novels often do.
* Tried Obi-Wan on Disney Plus - it's better than I expected. Very much geared towards a family audience, not an adult audience, which in retrospect may be the problem with all of the Star Wars films and series? Star Trek is geared towards adults, and Star Wars towards kids, and well that's kind of problematic in a way?
Also Star Wars is set up as old school serial action drama - a blend of WWII movies and Westerns, as space opera. It's not really science fiction, it has more of a fantastical element to it. And leans heavy on Western motifs.
I did like Ewan McCregor as Obi-Wan, and he works in this as well. But the pacing could be better, and the supporting cast is a touch stiff. As is the writing - which unfortunately is par for the course for Star Wars. (It never did have the best writing in the world. I'm a long-term fan, and even I can admit that.)
* Need to go back to Picard - since that held my interest last weekend.
3.God, I'm tired. I'm going to bed. Been sleeping poorly. I blame digestive issues. But I ate less gassy items today. And ice cream earlier. So that should help.
(I do Breyers - which is basically the same as homemade, no additives, no preservatives, just orangic milk, egg, sugar, and vanilla. I am ridiculously picky about Ice Cream - also I can't have the cheap brands like Edy's and Turkey Hill - they have too many additives, so I avoid. But I'm off the kick - so won't buy more after this. Ice cream tends to give me gas. As do all dairy products. Also it glues up the digestive system. Dairy is not our friend.)
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Date: 2022-06-05 09:54 am (UTC)The little I know about the Sex Pistols thing tells me there's at least some effort to recreate the rise and fall using modern-day actors who had to learn to be a band together.
I've occasionally deleted journals, mostly when I needed to get out from under the weight of what had past. E.g., I had many years on LJ but now don't.
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Date: 2022-06-05 03:14 pm (UTC)Oh, the deleting thing was different than doing it for well the reason many folks deleted LJ. We all used to threaten to delete our journals - to get attention or mainly to get people to tell us not to do it. LOL! And they would. (I'm not sure why - it was pretty clear by about the fifth go around that most of us were just crying wolf.)
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Date: 2022-06-05 01:21 pm (UTC)Don't worry about it. Some threatened to delete everything, a few did it, most eventually came back. Kind of a stage some people needed to get through?
Star Trek is geared towards adults, and Star Wars towards kids, and well that's kind of problematic in a way?
It's a fair assessment. Roddenberry wanted to push his personal philosophy, Lucas wanted to just tell his fantasy. S Trek started off preachy (still often is) eventually got into some genuine Sci-Fi with occasional banal/juvenile material, and S Wars started a rollicking, but coherent space opera and drifted off into absurdity.
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Date: 2022-06-05 03:01 pm (UTC)From what I've read about Lucas - Star Wars was meant to be his satiric take on the Vietnam War. (LOL!) But Lucas isn't good at either satire or well doing that sort of thing, and no one picked up on it. (I can sort of see it - if I squint at it sideways.) So he had something to say, he's just not all that articulate.
It works very well for kids though. As a kid - I adored Star Wars. It was the first non-scary sci-fi film that I saw. (everything else had some sort of alien monster threat - Alien came out the same year as Star Wars did, or thereabouts). Also first one with a strong lead female character who wasn't there for sex appeal. (Well at least not until the beginning of Return of the Jedi.)
There's some good Star Wars stuff now - but oddly it's stuff that doesn't focus on the Skywalker clan. Anything that does not focus on the first three films or is more about the world, is actually pretty good. Rogue One kind of does, but for the most part - it's its own standalone film, and among the better efforts. So too is the Mandalorian. It's when they get too close to the original three films, they kind of get muddled. I'm not quite sure why that is - it may be because Star Wars has become rather iconic, or bigger than life in the minds and hearts of those who saw it and the media, so anything will feel like a let-down in regards to that fannish devotion. And people, or so I've noticed, tend to get fannish about things that aren't necessarily well crafted.
On Ice Cream
Date: 2022-06-05 01:45 pm (UTC)I do enjoy Edy's (on occasion) if I want to enjoy something decadent with chocolate chunks and nuts. (I also have a love of Good Humor chocolate eclair bars carried over from childhood.)
My wife loves Häagen-Dazs pints with lots of fruit flavors.
I could take or leave Turkey Hill or Blue Bunny. (Adequate, in a pinch.) If we want to splurge as a family, we'll head over to Cold Stone Creamery and buy a variety six-pack of Flying Saucer type ice cream cookie sandwiches (with sprinkles).
You know...before typing this, I had no idea I had such specific tastes in ice cream.
Re: On Ice Cream
Date: 2022-06-05 03:11 pm (UTC)LOL!
Cold Stone Creamery is rather good. I've heard of it.
I'm rather picky - for all sorts of reasons. (I won't bore you with - almost did and decided nah.)
Favorite: Peppermint. (Best was Zarda Diary in Overland Park, Kansas - where I first discovered it in junior high. A friend and I would ride our bikes to get it in the summer and spring.)
Now, I get whatever is available. McConnell's isn't bad. It is only available in December and ridiculously hard to find.
I can't have the ones with all the additives. (Edy's, Blue Bunny, and Turkey Hill tend to have gluten in them). Living in NYC though - and the area I live in? I'm kind of in ice cream mecca. You can get any type of ice cream on the planet. It's insane.
Agreed on Breyer's - by far the best vanilla out there. It's also lower in fat. It comes close to homemade.
Good Humor? It was the only time I liked Strawberry - my favorite was "Strawberry Shortcake" ice cream bars. Devoured those as a child.
Hagen Daz does do sorbets well. Although I prefer gelato for it.
Re: On Ice Cream
Date: 2022-06-06 02:30 am (UTC)Other faves-- Ben & Jerry's "Chunky Monkey" and "Cherry Garcia", and Haagen-Dazs' "Rum Raisin"