First, found this on a friending meme, which I answered there and will answer here, because I thought some of the questions were interesting:
Location: New York City
Dreamwidth comms you'd recommend (or wish existed!): common_nature (I like the photos)
One of your favorite words & why: Valentine - I like the sound. Also my niece's middle name: kamama, butterfly and elephant in Cherokee - and that's pretty much why I like it, also the sound.
A trope you wish was subverted more often: male hero/female damsel - I want to flip it. Actually I also want to flip male hero/female sidekick trope, and the older man/younger woman trope - older woman/younger man. I think traditional gender tropes and most romance tropes need to be subverted more often.
What you tend to post about in your journal: Anything that comes to mind. Seriously, it's called spontaneous musings. I will write about practically anything. And I post a lot of photos that I've taken. I don't write fanfic any longer (did ages ago, but good luck finding it), nor fanart or fanvids. I will post reviews, or meta. I'm a fan meta writer. Lately I've been writing a daily chronicle of surviving a pandemic in NYC.
Other places to find you online: I'm on Ao3 as shadowkat67 Link
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It's cold here. High of 25 degrees. Feels like 6 degrees outside. Radiators whispering in the background. I kept dozing. I think I kind of dozed and slept most of the day. Didn't sleep well the night before.
Thinking of renting Dear Evan Hansen, but on the fence. It's gotten mixed reviews, Musical Twitter hated it. But they are admittedly funky and not reliable.
Tried watching Midnight Mass - but fell asleep during the second episode. (I'm kind of spoiled for it - I already know the monster is a vampire, and it's about vampires. So it's not scaring me. Vampires don't scare me - I've seen too many vampire movies and television shows, I'm kind of burned out on the trope. Also it's religious horror - and religious horror tends to irritate and annoy me, it doesn't scare me, it just annoys me. I think it's because I know too much? Or I know more about religion than the writer does? I kind of studied it. And I'm not religious, I'm spiritual but religion makes me twitchy, it's the whole authority thing - I don't buy it.)
So, I have a feeling this one may not work for me? Two people have rec'd it to me so far - one on DW, and one at work. But they both love religious horror and are into stories about religion, while I find the religion trope a huge turn-off.
At end of the day, everything is subjective, isn't it?
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I've chosen a new paperback book to read, while I'm procrastinating getting a new kindle (my third) - I can technically read it on my phone and Fire HD, but it's easier on a kindle. I only have a Fire HD for comic books. I'm trying to figure out how to stream National Theater on my TV. I may hunt a way tonight. (I want to watch Benedict Cumberbatch and Johnny Lee Miller's Frankenstein).
Anyhow, the new paperback is Evelyn Waugh's "Handful of Dust", which![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
oyceter sent me way back in 2004 or thereabouts. I just never go around to reading it. It looks funny and I'm in a weird mood. I think I finally burned out on Romance Novels.
( BOOKS )
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Tonight? I'm considering starting either The Witcher or Dexter:New Blood, or I might start up with S3 the Expanse. I think that's where I left off.
It hadn't started yet or finished yet, when I completed S2 sometime back in 2019-2020. Now we have up to S6 released, or they just released S6. Katie Mack (the astrophysicist) insists it is by far the best written science fiction series she's ever seen and the most accurate in terms of science. (I'd agree with that assessment and I'm not a scientist, but it does make the most logical sense.) But my favorite sci-fi series continues to be Farscape.
Actually these are my favorite Science Fiction series:
( Read more... )
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Okay I need to make dinner. I'm thinking the gluten free nut-free pesto against the grains pizza I've got in the fridge, although it's probably smarter to do the chicken. But I'm bored of chicken.
I kind of want snow, but we aren't getting any - we're just getting cold temperatures, then it will warm up and rain again.
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We were discussing COVID on Twitter. Or our workplaces and COVID.
The open workspace is not conducive to dealing with COVID. Most people who have are working remotely now (which makes sense), but a lot are still in the office (which does not make sense and the employers are idiots).
( Read more... )
**
Random Photo:
Location: New York City
Dreamwidth comms you'd recommend (or wish existed!): common_nature (I like the photos)
One of your favorite words & why: Valentine - I like the sound. Also my niece's middle name: kamama, butterfly and elephant in Cherokee - and that's pretty much why I like it, also the sound.
A trope you wish was subverted more often: male hero/female damsel - I want to flip it. Actually I also want to flip male hero/female sidekick trope, and the older man/younger woman trope - older woman/younger man. I think traditional gender tropes and most romance tropes need to be subverted more often.
What you tend to post about in your journal: Anything that comes to mind. Seriously, it's called spontaneous musings. I will write about practically anything. And I post a lot of photos that I've taken. I don't write fanfic any longer (did ages ago, but good luck finding it), nor fanart or fanvids. I will post reviews, or meta. I'm a fan meta writer. Lately I've been writing a daily chronicle of surviving a pandemic in NYC.
Other places to find you online: I'm on Ao3 as shadowkat67 Link
**
It's cold here. High of 25 degrees. Feels like 6 degrees outside. Radiators whispering in the background. I kept dozing. I think I kind of dozed and slept most of the day. Didn't sleep well the night before.
Thinking of renting Dear Evan Hansen, but on the fence. It's gotten mixed reviews, Musical Twitter hated it. But they are admittedly funky and not reliable.
Tried watching Midnight Mass - but fell asleep during the second episode. (I'm kind of spoiled for it - I already know the monster is a vampire, and it's about vampires. So it's not scaring me. Vampires don't scare me - I've seen too many vampire movies and television shows, I'm kind of burned out on the trope. Also it's religious horror - and religious horror tends to irritate and annoy me, it doesn't scare me, it just annoys me. I think it's because I know too much? Or I know more about religion than the writer does? I kind of studied it. And I'm not religious, I'm spiritual but religion makes me twitchy, it's the whole authority thing - I don't buy it.)
So, I have a feeling this one may not work for me? Two people have rec'd it to me so far - one on DW, and one at work. But they both love religious horror and are into stories about religion, while I find the religion trope a huge turn-off.
At end of the day, everything is subjective, isn't it?
***
I've chosen a new paperback book to read, while I'm procrastinating getting a new kindle (my third) - I can technically read it on my phone and Fire HD, but it's easier on a kindle. I only have a Fire HD for comic books. I'm trying to figure out how to stream National Theater on my TV. I may hunt a way tonight. (I want to watch Benedict Cumberbatch and Johnny Lee Miller's Frankenstein).
Anyhow, the new paperback is Evelyn Waugh's "Handful of Dust", which
oyceter sent me way back in 2004 or thereabouts. I just never go around to reading it. It looks funny and I'm in a weird mood. I think I finally burned out on Romance Novels. ( BOOKS )
***
Tonight? I'm considering starting either The Witcher or Dexter:New Blood, or I might start up with S3 the Expanse. I think that's where I left off.
It hadn't started yet or finished yet, when I completed S2 sometime back in 2019-2020. Now we have up to S6 released, or they just released S6. Katie Mack (the astrophysicist) insists it is by far the best written science fiction series she's ever seen and the most accurate in terms of science. (I'd agree with that assessment and I'm not a scientist, but it does make the most logical sense.) But my favorite sci-fi series continues to be Farscape.
Actually these are my favorite Science Fiction series:
( Read more... )
***
Okay I need to make dinner. I'm thinking the gluten free nut-free pesto against the grains pizza I've got in the fridge, although it's probably smarter to do the chicken. But I'm bored of chicken.
I kind of want snow, but we aren't getting any - we're just getting cold temperatures, then it will warm up and rain again.
**
We were discussing COVID on Twitter. Or our workplaces and COVID.
The open workspace is not conducive to dealing with COVID. Most people who have are working remotely now (which makes sense), but a lot are still in the office (which does not make sense and the employers are idiots).
( Read more... )
**
Random Photo: