Eh...stuff?

1. So I'm listening to Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-men Because Someone Has To. And it's hilarious. Discusses how the writers lack continuity, because they drop in to write an issue, without really understanding what came before.

It also goes into some of the socio-political problems with same of the issues.

Take-away: "Why does Betsy licks motor-oil or blood off Cyclops face, isn't that bad for you?"

Also blows my mind that there are people out there who were far more encyclopedic and geeky about this than me.

And getting bored with romance novels, I may be going back to the X-men comics.

I don't know why this is ...but I only get obsessed with cultural pursuits, usually television shows, movies, or books/comics. (I don't get obsessed with theater because I can't bloody afford it.)
Also the things I get obsessed with or fannish about are weird:

* X-men comics (note no other comics, just those)
* Star Wars (Star Trek would have made more sense, more content)
* Farscape (see Star Wars...)
* The Chronicles of Lymond...
* Buffy the Vampire Slayer (my brother was shocked I didn't like Angel more, I didn't.)
* Daytime Soap Operas (I think I have a serial story fetish, particularly for convoluted stories that have no real continuity to speak of.)
* The Monkeeys
* Battle Star Galatica
* Battle of the Planets
* Kimba the White Lion
* Escape to Witch Mountain - book and 1970s film


2. Speaking of fannish things..

The Good Place is Renewed for Season 4

Yay. I'm really only invested in a handful of television series at the moment. One is The Good Place.

3. This poem by Kaitlin Boulding, entitled "Questions to Ask Yourself Before Giving Up" blew me away.

Questions to Ask Yourself Before Giving Up by Kaitlin Boulding.

Particularly:

Remember: you are a comma, one
beloved earring, a house
circled on a traveller’s map,
sometimes misplaced,
but never an imposition.

Everyone feels like a hallway
at some point or another.
But you are a room
that people enter to stay.

From one hallway to another...yes, definitely that. (What a perfect metaphor for how I've been feeling lately.)

4. More fannish stuff...

Captain Marvel Trailer

5. And regarding Tumblr purge...

The Great Tumblr Purge Is Open

I feel for the people who had a lot of fic and art on that site that was adult oriented. (Note, you don't have to be explicit, to be defined as adult. Alot of my content is considered adult.)

I wrote and published a novel with adult content.


6. John Scalzi reveals that he wrote his last best-selling book, Consuming Fire, in two weeks...
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