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May. 29th, 2023 05:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatSo far, so good...
1. Did laundry (the laundry room was conveniently empty at 6 am in the morning).
The day before, I cleared out the bottom of my clothes closet and deposited the cds and dvds in the basement. Someone grabbed the CDs, but the DVDs are stacked on bookshelves down there. We have a sizable DVD collection in the basement by the way. If anyone ever wanted to get a DVD player, they could just borrow DVD's from the basement laundry room. Same could be said about books - there's quite the little library down there. I'd say roughly over a thousand books coat all the bookshelves?
2. Almost completed another watercolor. Got to talking with a co-worker - who draws cartoon characters from the actual renderings, such as Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Jasmine, Garfield, etc. She also used to draw women in Victorian ball gowns. I get that - I did that. I don't now. She told me that I should bring my artwork to share with folks at work. (Uhm, no. Gabe is about as far as I'm going to go with that. )
3. Ao3 - I'm taking a break from, and I may or may not prune the site when it opens up again. I don't want to waste too much time on it. (I have other things that take priority that I need to do. And most of the content on it is over ten years old, or dates back to well before 2019.) [ ETA to Clarify: I'm not a monitor on A03. A03 told me they suspended my account, so I was trying to switch stuff over, they want me to delete approximately 40-55% of the content I posted to it - which is non-fiction meta. Consider how you would feel if someone told you to do that?]
4. Finished New Amsterdam over the weekend (finally). It kind of petered out at the end. The last five to six episodes didn't quite work. But that's okay. It was a good series overall, and for the most part, I liked the characters.
Also as previously mentioned Queen Charlotte - which is by far the best of the Bridgerton series. And am almost done with Shadow and Bone - I can't comment on the YA series, but the television adaptation is rather good and well cast, and I adore the Crows (Kaz, Jesper, Nina, Inej, Wylan ). Like all of these types of series - the weakness is the star crossed lovers at the center of it, but unlike a lot of them - it has a strong supporting cast, strong world-building, and an interesting mythological base (Asian and Eastern European mythos).
5. Watched Ant Man & the Wasp: Quantiumania today - it was okay. Had the same exact issues as Guardians of the Galaxy - too much reliance on CGI special effects and video game action scenes, also a bit too nerdy for its own good. (Although that is the audience.) Other than that - it was enjoyable. The characters are likable, the performances were good, and the plot held together. Paul Rudd and Evangenlily are showing their age, but I think Michelle Pfieffer and Michael Douglas have made deals with the devil. They looked amazing. Bill Murray has a cameo (I'm not sure why...but he does). Plus, we get X-men/Avengers standby villain - M.O.D.O.K. Mechanical Object Designed to Kill Everything. (Also reminded me of Guardians which had something similar.) The villain, Kang, was also similar, all powerful, into scientific experiments, etc. (And, it just occurred to me? Played by a black actor.) The movies are way too similar for their own good.
Marvel is starting to copy itself a bit - it does this in the comics as well, and I have to take a break, until they kind of reboot and create new innovative stories. Right now they appear to be on a "let's fight the evil fascist scientist" kick, with lots of cool special effects from video games.
That said? Kang is recastable. If for some reason or other, Jonathan Majors can't continue as Kang? I seriously doubt anyone will notice. Everyone else? Not so much. But Kang is.
Kang the Conqueror is a bit too much on the noise for well...Genghis Khan the Conqueror.
They really need to introduce the X-men - the X-men had better villains, and were in some respects better villains themselves.
Although, Kang is rather complex and doesn't see himself as a villain. Also once again we get the explanation of the multi-verse, and like Guardians, a villain who wants to play God and fix everything.
[I kept nodding off while typing out my review....]
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It's a beautifuld ay today, makes me grateful, even if I've felt sleepy during a portion of it.
1. Did laundry (the laundry room was conveniently empty at 6 am in the morning).
The day before, I cleared out the bottom of my clothes closet and deposited the cds and dvds in the basement. Someone grabbed the CDs, but the DVDs are stacked on bookshelves down there. We have a sizable DVD collection in the basement by the way. If anyone ever wanted to get a DVD player, they could just borrow DVD's from the basement laundry room. Same could be said about books - there's quite the little library down there. I'd say roughly over a thousand books coat all the bookshelves?
2. Almost completed another watercolor. Got to talking with a co-worker - who draws cartoon characters from the actual renderings, such as Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Jasmine, Garfield, etc. She also used to draw women in Victorian ball gowns. I get that - I did that. I don't now. She told me that I should bring my artwork to share with folks at work. (Uhm, no. Gabe is about as far as I'm going to go with that. )
3. Ao3 - I'm taking a break from, and I may or may not prune the site when it opens up again. I don't want to waste too much time on it. (I have other things that take priority that I need to do. And most of the content on it is over ten years old, or dates back to well before 2019.) [ ETA to Clarify: I'm not a monitor on A03. A03 told me they suspended my account, so I was trying to switch stuff over, they want me to delete approximately 40-55% of the content I posted to it - which is non-fiction meta. Consider how you would feel if someone told you to do that?]
4. Finished New Amsterdam over the weekend (finally). It kind of petered out at the end. The last five to six episodes didn't quite work. But that's okay. It was a good series overall, and for the most part, I liked the characters.
Also as previously mentioned Queen Charlotte - which is by far the best of the Bridgerton series. And am almost done with Shadow and Bone - I can't comment on the YA series, but the television adaptation is rather good and well cast, and I adore the Crows (Kaz, Jesper, Nina, Inej, Wylan ). Like all of these types of series - the weakness is the star crossed lovers at the center of it, but unlike a lot of them - it has a strong supporting cast, strong world-building, and an interesting mythological base (Asian and Eastern European mythos).
5. Watched Ant Man & the Wasp: Quantiumania today - it was okay. Had the same exact issues as Guardians of the Galaxy - too much reliance on CGI special effects and video game action scenes, also a bit too nerdy for its own good. (Although that is the audience.) Other than that - it was enjoyable. The characters are likable, the performances were good, and the plot held together. Paul Rudd and Evangenlily are showing their age, but I think Michelle Pfieffer and Michael Douglas have made deals with the devil. They looked amazing. Bill Murray has a cameo (I'm not sure why...but he does). Plus, we get X-men/Avengers standby villain - M.O.D.O.K. Mechanical Object Designed to Kill Everything. (Also reminded me of Guardians which had something similar.) The villain, Kang, was also similar, all powerful, into scientific experiments, etc. (And, it just occurred to me? Played by a black actor.) The movies are way too similar for their own good.
Marvel is starting to copy itself a bit - it does this in the comics as well, and I have to take a break, until they kind of reboot and create new innovative stories. Right now they appear to be on a "let's fight the evil fascist scientist" kick, with lots of cool special effects from video games.
That said? Kang is recastable. If for some reason or other, Jonathan Majors can't continue as Kang? I seriously doubt anyone will notice. Everyone else? Not so much. But Kang is.
Kang the Conqueror is a bit too much on the noise for well...Genghis Khan the Conqueror.
They really need to introduce the X-men - the X-men had better villains, and were in some respects better villains themselves.
Although, Kang is rather complex and doesn't see himself as a villain. Also once again we get the explanation of the multi-verse, and like Guardians, a villain who wants to play God and fix everything.
[I kept nodding off while typing out my review....]
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It's a beautifuld ay today, makes me grateful, even if I've felt sleepy during a portion of it.
