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Oct. 29th, 2020 01:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
issenllo*gets home*
*rips off mask*
*takes deep breath*
There are definitely days when Covid's only the sixth or seventh thing on my mind, and then there are very powerful moments when I feel like it's the topmost. On the other hand I've not caught a single cold this whole year due to everyone wearing masks, washing hands and keeping their distance. And now that I've jinxed myself...
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I got my Yuletide assignment! Hm, time to get my writing muscles to work. I've only been writing some random chapters of my MDZS fics these few months.
Watched the first and last episodes of The Queen's Gambit, which is on Netflix. Story of a chess prodigy called Elizabeth. How did they find someone with such wide big eyes and who can blink them in such a coolly challengingly way? Actually, make that coolly, intellectually, challengingly. Loved the last episode where she goes to a tournament and proceeds to thrash everyone (emerging, in true American-narrative trajectory - compare with Hikaru no Go - the winner) and with intense looks across the chessboard without it being necessarily sexually seductive (no doubt it's there somewhere, but I didn't notice). Ah, it reminds me of why I love Hikago so much.
Not sure whether to watch the middling episodes where despite a traumatic childhood, her genius was noticed, she's set on the path to being famous, while spiraling down in her personal life due to addiction, until she climbs up and achieves success because of support from her best friend/sister, etc, etc... you know how these stories go.
Also, the dresses! She wears a different dress for every match (while the male competitors, of course, just get by with suits - maybe even the same suit, who could tell?). The blatant sartorial inequality is kind of enraging but I do love dresses.
*rips off mask*
*takes deep breath*
There are definitely days when Covid's only the sixth or seventh thing on my mind, and then there are very powerful moments when I feel like it's the topmost. On the other hand I've not caught a single cold this whole year due to everyone wearing masks, washing hands and keeping their distance. And now that I've jinxed myself...
***
I got my Yuletide assignment! Hm, time to get my writing muscles to work. I've only been writing some random chapters of my MDZS fics these few months.
Watched the first and last episodes of The Queen's Gambit, which is on Netflix. Story of a chess prodigy called Elizabeth. How did they find someone with such wide big eyes and who can blink them in such a coolly challengingly way? Actually, make that coolly, intellectually, challengingly. Loved the last episode where she goes to a tournament and proceeds to thrash everyone (emerging, in true American-narrative trajectory - compare with Hikaru no Go - the winner) and with intense looks across the chessboard without it being necessarily sexually seductive (no doubt it's there somewhere, but I didn't notice). Ah, it reminds me of why I love Hikago so much.
Not sure whether to watch the middling episodes where despite a traumatic childhood, her genius was noticed, she's set on the path to being famous, while spiraling down in her personal life due to addiction, until she climbs up and achieves success because of support from her best friend/sister, etc, etc... you know how these stories go.
Also, the dresses! She wears a different dress for every match (while the male competitors, of course, just get by with suits - maybe even the same suit, who could tell?). The blatant sartorial inequality is kind of enraging but I do love dresses.