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innie_darlingHi, everybody!
I keep thinking that I should post something but then not actually doing it, and here I am on Saturday morning with two things to write (more on that later) and my laptop open, so here goes.
I've been reading lots of stuff. Manuscripts from my friend, who's been publishing m/m romances; published books (The Daevabad Trilogy, the Cormoran Strike books, Nine Coaches Waiting, Daddy-Long-Legs [a cherished reread], The Hating Game, The Epic of Gilgamesh, some Frances Hardinges, and lots of non-fiction); and tons of fic.
I've been watching quite a lot too. I finally watched The Boys and am totally into whatever Hughie,
Annie, Marvin, Serge, and Kimiko are up to. And I am more than ready for Soldier Boy to show up and be hotly bowlegged. (As an aside, I couldn't help wondering: I think Tom Ellis does a remarkable job playing Lucifer on Lucifer, but can you imagine the show if Giancarlo Esposito had landed the role? With that lovely carved face and little smile and magnetism?) I rewatched the Romola Garai Emma, which might actually take the cake for my favorite Austen adaptation, though Northanger Abbey is pretty hard to beat as a romp. And I zipped through Perry Mason because Matthew Rhys is so goddamn compelling to watch - he's half the reason The Americans had such a grip on me - and he is amazingly good in this show. Plus, Tatiana Maslany! I rewatched season 2 of Fleabag. And I started and plan to finish both I May Destroy You and Lovecraft Country. Also on the watchlist: A Confession and Ted Lasso. I'm enjoying Mr. Mayor in a kind of low-key, nice to have something mindless to watch way, and pleased that Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist has returned in a way that shows they're not afraid to tinker with their own formula for success.
I'm taking a screenplay class - the laptop is open so that I can write a third draft of my script for a short film (~15 min). It's a very foreign way to write for me - I'm used to thinking more in terms of short stories/novels, in which I can explore a character's interiority - and I'm stumbling a lot, but it is interesting. And the other thing I want to get cracking on is my Lucifer series, to which end I listed myself as an author over at Fandom Trumps Hate, which I've done for a few years now, and which has always brought cool and interesting people into my life.
There's work stuff - nothing earth-shattering, just very very busy and also wondering what things will look like if and when we are back in the office - and personal stuff (quarantine has been good for catching up with friends; has been more of a mixed bag when it comes to family).
How about you guys? You hanging in there?
I keep thinking that I should post something but then not actually doing it, and here I am on Saturday morning with two things to write (more on that later) and my laptop open, so here goes.
I've been reading lots of stuff. Manuscripts from my friend, who's been publishing m/m romances; published books (The Daevabad Trilogy, the Cormoran Strike books, Nine Coaches Waiting, Daddy-Long-Legs [a cherished reread], The Hating Game, The Epic of Gilgamesh, some Frances Hardinges, and lots of non-fiction); and tons of fic.
I've been watching quite a lot too. I finally watched The Boys and am totally into whatever Hughie,
Annie, Marvin, Serge, and Kimiko are up to. And I am more than ready for Soldier Boy to show up and be hotly bowlegged. (As an aside, I couldn't help wondering: I think Tom Ellis does a remarkable job playing Lucifer on Lucifer, but can you imagine the show if Giancarlo Esposito had landed the role? With that lovely carved face and little smile and magnetism?) I rewatched the Romola Garai Emma, which might actually take the cake for my favorite Austen adaptation, though Northanger Abbey is pretty hard to beat as a romp. And I zipped through Perry Mason because Matthew Rhys is so goddamn compelling to watch - he's half the reason The Americans had such a grip on me - and he is amazingly good in this show. Plus, Tatiana Maslany! I rewatched season 2 of Fleabag. And I started and plan to finish both I May Destroy You and Lovecraft Country. Also on the watchlist: A Confession and Ted Lasso. I'm enjoying Mr. Mayor in a kind of low-key, nice to have something mindless to watch way, and pleased that Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist has returned in a way that shows they're not afraid to tinker with their own formula for success.
I'm taking a screenplay class - the laptop is open so that I can write a third draft of my script for a short film (~15 min). It's a very foreign way to write for me - I'm used to thinking more in terms of short stories/novels, in which I can explore a character's interiority - and I'm stumbling a lot, but it is interesting. And the other thing I want to get cracking on is my Lucifer series, to which end I listed myself as an author over at Fandom Trumps Hate, which I've done for a few years now, and which has always brought cool and interesting people into my life.
There's work stuff - nothing earth-shattering, just very very busy and also wondering what things will look like if and when we are back in the office - and personal stuff (quarantine has been good for catching up with friends; has been more of a mixed bag when it comes to family).
How about you guys? You hanging in there?
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Date: 2021-01-30 11:44 pm (UTC):D
I keep wanting to post, too, and then just not having the mental energy to do it. *sigh*
I am mostly doing what you're doing - reading, watching, a tiny bit of writing, work, repeat. Not bad, but pretty low-energy.
Also talking a lot to my little brother, which is a change and a very good thing.
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Date: 2021-01-31 03:22 pm (UTC)Yes, it's all sort of vaguely draining even though I'm not doing much of anything. I wish we could all get some of the energy we used to have back!
I'm very pleased you're in more regular contact with your little brother! Since mine got married, he and I have not been nearly as close (the timing doesn't help, as quarantine started a few months after the wedding) and I would like to return to the same footing we used to be on.
Good luck for the week ahead, honey!
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Date: 2021-01-31 03:52 pm (UTC)I wish I could go back to writing three different fics at a time and posting every week. Arrgh, stupid brain!
My brother was with a woman for years who basically chipped away at everything he liked to do, and never wanted to go out or be social, and made him feel bad for wanting to do those things on his own. Now they're quits, she's gone, he's in his own space and doing his own thing and we are visiting, talking, doing stuff (he's in my 'bubble', heh).
It's a lot like my own experience, and we're both enjoying the post-divorce life. :D
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Date: 2021-01-31 04:44 pm (UTC)I am so glad you both came out on the other side, enjoying being yourselves and enjoying each other!
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Date: 2021-01-31 04:49 pm (UTC)WTF. Family isn't allowed to be close?
I know my little brother (and I) both gave in to stuff rather than fight fight fight all the time, which is something we *both* regret enormously. So it might be the same for your brother.
I hope you can make it clear to your brother that you want him in your life and that he needs to find a compromise between her demands and his own needs.
*hugs*
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Date: 2021-01-31 05:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-01-31 09:42 pm (UTC)The only thing in your lists here I've read or seen recently is Lovecraft Country. I'm an SF&F fan, not a horror fan, so I found some of LC difficult to watch. (I also had objections to a few specific things.) But I found a lot to love, too! I hope you enjoy it.
I've taught Gilgamesh occasionally. I'm pretty sure they had recovered more of it when I taught it most recently than they had when I taught it 20 years previously, which is just amazing to me. They keep occasionally turn up more bits. My own field is Old English, and that really stopped happening decades and decades ago.
We're doing ok. All of us have stayed healthy (touch wood). Brilliant Husband and I go almost nowhere. He still does all the shopping, now with a mask (now with a filter inside the cloth layers). He sings at church—far from anyone. I went for a few months when our state's covid numbers were down but stopped again and went back to the livestream. Progeny is back in her college town, in an apartment and with a part-time retail job, but she takes all her classes online. She had two covid scares after the same person in her bubble got it twice; I thought that person had learned from the first time, and I thought my daughter did too, but nope. Not in the same bubble any more. Fortunately, Progeny stayed negative both times. She's doing well in her courses. BH and I are doing all right at work, though it's pretty darned stressful. But we're well and doing fine financially, and I know way too many people for whom one or both are going badly.
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Date: 2021-02-03 02:07 am (UTC)I'm almost done with Lovecraft Country the show (what I'm seeing does not bear much resemblance to what I remember of the book) and I'm finding it fascinating and both compelling and problematic.
I'd never read Gilgamesh before - the genealogy thing is a trip, with the one-third and two-thirds - and found it much more engaging than I'd expected. I think I'd mentally classed it as an epic and therefore less likely to be personal or intimate and of course it's both those things in spades. I know what you mean too about being amazed by discoveries. My field was Victorian Poetry and within the past few decades, the works of a poet who'd been famous at the time but fallen into obscurity more recently were rediscovered, and her stuff is AMAZING.
I'm glad you guys have stayed healthy, though your kid's bubble sounds worryingly permeable! I live alone and venture out at least once a week for errands, but always masked and distanced. My parents are both 70+ and while my mom has managed to get her first vaccine shot, my dad's state is a little less organized and he's still waiting. We've all been very careful and also very lucky. Long may that last for us all!
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Date: 2021-02-04 11:14 pm (UTC)I hope your dad gets his first shot soon and your mom has no trouble getting her second. BH's dad has both, and my mom got her first last week.
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Date: 2021-02-05 12:37 am (UTC)