Previous poll reviewIn
the Routine poll, 84.2% of respondents voted for tooth-brushing, 50.9% for locking up and switching things off around the house, and 33.3% for tending to pets. Night-time routines taking more than half an hour got 24.6%, and "sometimes it takes me an hour or more" got 7%. *high fives*
In ticky-boxes, hugs won with 75.4%, followed by "how stressful it is to ask tradespeople to change things they've done" with 57.9% and "sitting on a mountain ledge in the moonlight, listening to owls" with 56.1%. Thank you for your votes! <3
ReadingIncandescent by Emily Tesh, read by Zara Ramm, who sounds exactly like Emma Thompson. I spent the middle third of this being unsure what the plot was (or if there even was a plot; "is this a cosy magic-school story?" I asked nobody in particular). Things stirred ominously under the surface, but the tension relied on the reader being more worried about them than the mostly oblivious POV character -- which was interesting. Overall, I enjoyed it very much.
The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander (Chronicles of Prydain). A few more chapters. I'm past halfway and it still feels like setup, which I guess is a function of it being the first book of five.
A tiny bit more of
Neurotribes. I'm bored with the case studies/anecdotes and ready for some theory.
Two more chapters of
Guardian by priest.
My
Whimsy binge stalled after bouncing off three different narrators for
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club. None of them hit the humour right. I suppose I'm going to have to read in text, but Prydain first (and I still haven't finished my reread of
Werecockroach, note to self).
KdramasI finished
Our Unwritten Seoul and enjoyed it very much. It's about 30yo identical twins, one who works in a corporate office in Seoul, and one who lives in their hometown and does a series of temporary and part-time jobs. The office worker is miserable from being bullied at work, so they decide to swap lives. Contains some pretty good (in my inexpert opinion) disability rep, and
I approved of both the morals (spoilers)
1) if you bottle things up and don't let people see your vulnerability, you can't feel their love; and 2) love isn't about winning or losing, or whether you're a burden; it's about being on the same team, staying together, and supporting each other as you win or lose. <3 <3 <3 (I was so happy when Ho-su stopped pushing Mi-ji away, and with the ending when they used sign language sometimes. <3 <3 <3)I cancelled my VIKI subscription earlier this week because I wasn't using it, so of course I immediately started watching
My Dearest Nemesis, as
recced by
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adore. It has a bit of a "based on a webtoon" feel, but I'm fine with that, and it's a neat twist on the Obnoxious Repressed Chaebol Exec trope. (The leading man is leading a double life: he's a closet fanboy, but his family and position require him to present as a 100% bland, respectable businessman.) I'm obsessed!
Note to self: check out
First Night with the Duke next. And maybe renew your VIKI subscription.
Other TVPoker Face and
Murderbot continue to be enjoyable (we're an episode behind on each of them). I found the second half of
Andor season 2 a lot more engaging than the first half (and might like the first half more on the rewatch; yet to be determined). Another episode each of
Étoile and
Krapopolis.
The Old Guard 2 on Netflix.
Tiny spoiler for the very end.
Andrew was disgusted that, at the end, as [redacted] leave the secret archive full of ancient texts, they turn out the light but leave candles burning. "What about the ancient books?!" LOL!A rewatch of French film
Rosalie Blum, which I love.
Guardian/FandomThe continuing delights of read-alongs and polls.
Audio entertainmentA little bit of Heather Cox Richardson's
Letters from an American (US constitutional-law context for current developments), a little bit of
Midnight Burger (audiodrama), most of the first season of
Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones (which I'm enjoying despite not being familiar with DWJ's earlier books).
Writing/making thingsI wrote a flashfic for the
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fan_flashworks amnesty round and am poking at a couple of WIPs. My brain seems to be in recovery mode. My only current deadline is the
fan_flashworks Science round.
Life/health/mental state thingsMy thumbs/hands/wrists are not in great shape. My body is working hard to metabolise ambient stress. (*hugs to everyone*) I'm feeling a little under siege by winter and ~the state of things~, but I saw my sister for the first time in weeks (she's had a cold), a friend came over for lunch on Thursday, and last night our tv-watching friend joined us for
Rosalie Blum.
Good thingsChocolate. Andrew and Halle. Fandom and all of you. Polls. Kdramas. Books. Podcasts. Eminem. Writing when it happens. AO3 (*clutches*). Love, kindness, and diversity.
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 35
Crowd-sourcing randomness
View Answersheads
6 (17.1%)
tails
8 (22.9%)
edge
8 (22.9%)
zero-g (the coin never falls)
14 (40.0%)
ticky-box full of grumbly cats in search of treats
23 (65.7%)
ticky-box full of being protective of your blorbos
17 (48.6%)
ticky-box full of surviving AO3 outages
24 (68.6%)
ticky-box full of soft, bright-green moss nestled at the base of a tree, glittering with beads of dew
21 (60.0%)
ticky-box full of hugs
26 (74.3%)
