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Apr. 15th, 2024 09:52 pmStarted the first of several dramatic audible dramatization adaptations of the Kate Daniels books - with large castes, and they are really good. Kind of like listening to a radio drama? And with urban fantasy - it's better than live action. I wouldn't mind an animated version - but they may not be popular enough for that.
The one I've started with is Magic Slays. It works really well if you've already read the books, but it may if you haven't, too?
Again, these aren't for everyone. I find them cathartic and comforting, but I'm admittedly an odd duck. I have a weakness for X-men comics and daytime serials - which I also find comforting and engaging.
While the soap fandom is wonky at times, I can at least discuss the characters, the X-men comic fandom is hell on earth. I dip a toe in and run away screaming. Think Buffy's Warren Mears, Andrew and Jonathan times twenty. This is why I've hidden my love of comics over the years. Speaking of comics? Magneto Resurrection is actually good - Storm travels to Hell to retrieve Magneto. So it's a psychological journey for Storm and Magneto with good art. There's this great line in it about how we need to face and accept our shadows, not ignore or try to erase them, in order to ensure they don't overwhelm us or take over. If we acknowledge them and see that we all have shadows, and none of us are easily categorized - then we have a better chance of following the path of light, and not being consumed by our demonic side or the shadows. Or worse giving into them without realizing it, and thinking we have defeated them.
It's kind of that old Joseph Conrad quote from Heart of Darkness, "when looking into the abyss make sure it doesn't look back into you" or you don't fall into it. Or when fighting monsters, try not to become them?
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About ready to give up on "Yellowface" - I have over 100 pages left, and I'm tired of the whiny protagonist, also I've had it with Athena, who is dead, and not much more likable in absentee. Also it's hard to feel sympathy for Kuang. Kuang is an award-winning and best-selling author, who is also an perpetual student getting a Ph. She's hardly disadvantaged.
I think I may jump to another fantasy novel or romance novel? Preferably not Satire.
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Saw the first episode of Fallout on Amazon Prime over the weekend. Better than expected, but not compelling. It's yet another series based on a video game. ( Read more... )
I've read that you don't need to be a gamer to enjoy it. But I'm on the fence about that. It's slow. The first episode drug. I found the female character mildly annoying. The male characters were more interesting - Maximos and The Ghoul. The set up feels very....well I feel like I've seen it before? Or read it? It's basically dystopian sci-fi - and very satirical. The world is stuck in the 1950s due to a nuclear blast. So we have a dystopian 1950s verse, with 1950s culture and tech here and there.
It's interesting - so I may go back to it? But I'm not that gripped by the characters? So on the fence.
Has anyone else seen it? Should I continue? Does it get any better?
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The X-men has new writers. What is it about 2024? My daytime soap got new writers. The X-men got new writers. Doctor Who got a new Who, Companion and new Writing team. My crazy workplace has new management. Plus election year. I have a new cubicle. My church is getting a new minister. Is it just me or is the Universe trying to tell me something? I hate watershed years. I did not want this to be a watershed year. But apparently, I've no choice in the matter? We even had an eclipse. (We'll have more than one in more than one area, so you can wander about and see them.)
Anyhow, once we finish this arc or by June, we'll have a whole new X-men writing team. (Kind of around the same time the Minister of my church takes off. ) There's several new books and teams. I took a gander at some of them last night...and they are certainly different. The show-runner/editor in chief (who also changed) - Tom Brevort - has a blog on substack that I subscribed to. Apparently the biggest complaint so far about the previews in the press release is the "font" - people are upset about the Big Yellow Font Against Black Background - because they've decided it means the story is going back to the formulaic 1980s and 90s approach based solely on the font. (See? Comic book fandom is the worst.)
What's nice is we have more female writers. But I really wish we had more female artists? I'd love to be an X artist, but alas, I went a different route. And I don't quite have the skill level. They say it's easy to do a comic, that you can do it with stick figures. So I may yet try my hand at a web comic.
The one I've started with is Magic Slays. It works really well if you've already read the books, but it may if you haven't, too?
Again, these aren't for everyone. I find them cathartic and comforting, but I'm admittedly an odd duck. I have a weakness for X-men comics and daytime serials - which I also find comforting and engaging.
While the soap fandom is wonky at times, I can at least discuss the characters, the X-men comic fandom is hell on earth. I dip a toe in and run away screaming. Think Buffy's Warren Mears, Andrew and Jonathan times twenty. This is why I've hidden my love of comics over the years. Speaking of comics? Magneto Resurrection is actually good - Storm travels to Hell to retrieve Magneto. So it's a psychological journey for Storm and Magneto with good art. There's this great line in it about how we need to face and accept our shadows, not ignore or try to erase them, in order to ensure they don't overwhelm us or take over. If we acknowledge them and see that we all have shadows, and none of us are easily categorized - then we have a better chance of following the path of light, and not being consumed by our demonic side or the shadows. Or worse giving into them without realizing it, and thinking we have defeated them.
It's kind of that old Joseph Conrad quote from Heart of Darkness, "when looking into the abyss make sure it doesn't look back into you" or you don't fall into it. Or when fighting monsters, try not to become them?
***
About ready to give up on "Yellowface" - I have over 100 pages left, and I'm tired of the whiny protagonist, also I've had it with Athena, who is dead, and not much more likable in absentee. Also it's hard to feel sympathy for Kuang. Kuang is an award-winning and best-selling author, who is also an perpetual student getting a Ph. She's hardly disadvantaged.
I think I may jump to another fantasy novel or romance novel? Preferably not Satire.
***
Saw the first episode of Fallout on Amazon Prime over the weekend. Better than expected, but not compelling. It's yet another series based on a video game. ( Read more... )
I've read that you don't need to be a gamer to enjoy it. But I'm on the fence about that. It's slow. The first episode drug. I found the female character mildly annoying. The male characters were more interesting - Maximos and The Ghoul. The set up feels very....well I feel like I've seen it before? Or read it? It's basically dystopian sci-fi - and very satirical. The world is stuck in the 1950s due to a nuclear blast. So we have a dystopian 1950s verse, with 1950s culture and tech here and there.
It's interesting - so I may go back to it? But I'm not that gripped by the characters? So on the fence.
Has anyone else seen it? Should I continue? Does it get any better?
***
The X-men has new writers. What is it about 2024? My daytime soap got new writers. The X-men got new writers. Doctor Who got a new Who, Companion and new Writing team. My crazy workplace has new management. Plus election year. I have a new cubicle. My church is getting a new minister. Is it just me or is the Universe trying to tell me something? I hate watershed years. I did not want this to be a watershed year. But apparently, I've no choice in the matter? We even had an eclipse. (We'll have more than one in more than one area, so you can wander about and see them.)
Anyhow, once we finish this arc or by June, we'll have a whole new X-men writing team. (Kind of around the same time the Minister of my church takes off. ) There's several new books and teams. I took a gander at some of them last night...and they are certainly different. The show-runner/editor in chief (who also changed) - Tom Brevort - has a blog on substack that I subscribed to. Apparently the biggest complaint so far about the previews in the press release is the "font" - people are upset about the Big Yellow Font Against Black Background - because they've decided it means the story is going back to the formulaic 1980s and 90s approach based solely on the font. (See? Comic book fandom is the worst.)
What's nice is we have more female writers. But I really wish we had more female artists? I'd love to be an X artist, but alas, I went a different route. And I don't quite have the skill level. They say it's easy to do a comic, that you can do it with stick figures. So I may yet try my hand at a web comic.