exeterlinden

Point the first against the mysterious new person in the show: she clearly has bad taste in media. Just ask SecUnit.

Point the second: yeah, that bit I've been dreading since the trailer.

Seccy???

Oh, look: actually scary Murderbot pinning Gurathin to the wall. Yes, good.

(Am I misremembering or did they skip part of the conversation here?)

Poor, paranoid Gurathin. Hopefully he comes around in the show. I prefer him as Murderbot's friend it doesn't like, but we're still a bit away.

Please tell me sexually harassing SecUnit is against the rules. Bad DeltFall or possibly undercover GrayCris person. *hits repeatedly with folded up newspaper*

I am happy that they've gone with Murderbot is aro-ace - I just wish they hadn't taken the "everybody else seems to be going overboard in the other direction" way of showing it.

First among equals? Is Preservation proto-Roman empire now? (Or did nobody else read those novels?)

And cliffhanger.

Also, Mensah - it didn't hurt Gurathin. It pinned Gurathin to the wall without causing him any physical injury. It made a point, nothing more.

You know, the show is starting to grow on me with the last couple of episodes. Less cringe, more action. I enjoyed SecUnit and Mensah working together at the end. (And I need more SecUnit interacting with Gurathin, and less Leebeebee interacting with anybody, femme fatale wannabee or not).

luzula

One of our ducks vanished during the day, in all probability taken by a fox. I can't imagine she would stay away from feeding time of her own free will, so something must have happened to her. Obviously we lock them up at night, but they don't wander far from the house and garden during the day, so we thought there wasn't much danger in broad daylight. But no.

When we asked in the village group chat, it turns out several neighbors had had chickens taken during the day by foxes! Would have been nice if they had warned the neighbors about this, instead of using the group chat for useless and annoying suspicion of strangers walking down the road (a completely unremarkable thing for people to do).

I don't blame the fox for doing its foxy thing, obviously. But I am more sad than I expected to be about the duck. They are such funny and endearing creatures--I had grown quite fond of them all, and this one was one of my favorites. She was the younger female, often the first to come running at feeding time, and had been amusing and annoying us with her desultory brooding habits. Runner ducks apparently don't reliably brood, but she was often doing it, so we left her some eggs to let her try. So she would do it for half the day, but then go out with the others and ignore the eggs. We joked that maybe she was holding out for an eight-hour working day if she was going to brood.

Farewell, Ester. You were a lovely duck, and I shed tears for you.

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oneiriad

Oh, I like the SecUnit factory bit. Kinda creepy body horror meets the Office.

And here comes Mensah with a mining drill.

Someone clearly need to give Ratthi a basic lesson in firearms safety.

...

A bit less basic.

Okay, the tiny episodes ending with cliffhangers serial format is getting annoying.

I'm not a fan of SecUnit's brief visit to Sanctuary Moon, but I get that some things needs to be more visualized for the audience. I do wish they hadn't had SecUnit actually call Mensah the galactic explorer line. Leave the poor Murderbot the privacy of its own mind.

mergatrude

Okay, in the spirit of "I read all your posts eagerly so I should be reciprocal" I'm dragging an entry out of myself with bloodied nails. I've been feeling pretty low energy mood-wise as I've been reducing my physical activity to try and let my shoulder heal. The downsides to inactivity include a circularity of no longer wanting to be active, leading to less ability to be active, so I've been pretty much stuck on flicking through my tumblr dash and reblogging cats. Cheap, low-stakes dopamine. :-\

Winter and it's cold fronts from the Antarctic are finally here. I don't like being cold, but at least today there's blue skies and light winds. I made myself go for a walk before having my lunch and I think that's the trick. Otherwise I sit there and play sudoku on my phone for the best part of an hour. It was so good for me, to the point where I've deleted several dolorous sentences from this post (yes, it was much worse than this).

Cheerful things! I finished my latest jigsaw. I admit to being addicted. ( A sunny afternoon in Amsterdam )

Dude is making me re-watch all three Sonic the Hedgehog movies on Blu-ray (because he does his best to cheer me up) and they are a lot of fun. Agent Stone is THE best henchman in the history of henching! We're also watching Andor and I keep saying, "This is about to go horribly wrong, isn't it?" I am holding off on Murderbot until all the episodes are out and I can binge them over a seven day free trial! I feel MB would approve of this strategy.

I recently finished reading The epic crush of Genie Lo by F.C. Yee, and it was a lot of fun. Monkey was something I watched and loved as a teenager (the original Japanese series) so I was primed to love this. Thanks

isis for the rec, and everyone else for your book posts. Even if I don't comment I'm always taking notes. ♥

Currently, I'm reading The ruby's curse : a River song, Melody Malone mystery by Alex Kingston. So far it's as fun as a Doctor Who episode. I have The iron will of Genie Lo ready to go when I'm done with that.

I've been playing Ori and the Blind Forest (definitive edition) and it's so pretty. I bought myself a controller to make playing easier, but my hand-eye coordination is still not great and I got frustrated yesterday when I got to an energy gate and didn't have enough energy to open it. I didn't feel like back-tracking so I played through Florence for easy comfort gaming.

At work it's the start of exams, so things are about to get busy. I have to remember to stand up more often and not lift anything.

In conclusion, here is a picture of Ashah, who has decided that my Oodie is just wrong and refuses to sit on it. ( Read more... )

Hope you're all travelling well! ♥

isis

What I've recently finished reading:

A Drop of Corruption, the sequel to The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett. I liked it a lot (Din and Ana are great characters!), and I thought it was easier to follow than the first book, in the sense that I figured out the major twists and culprits before they happened (which is not a criticism, it means the appropriate breadcrumbs were dropped). The worldbuilding continues to be very weird and cool. Definitely one of the best Sherlock Holmes fanfics I've read! :-)

What I'm reading now:

I've gone back to the Shardlake series by C. J. Sansom and am now on the fifth book, Heartstone.

What I'm watching now:

Still Andor. The other night I dreamed we were giving a party, except our house was basically Mon Mothma's house on Chandrila and the party was like the wedding episode. And then I went into the bathroom to change clothes and I noticed that my husband had left the tap dripping water so the cats could drink it, just like in real life :-) And then I woke up.

What I'm playing now:

Still Mass Effect: Andromeda, heading toward the endgame. It's still fun! Except for having to kill another Architect, which is basically the thresher maw of the Andromeda galaxy, and I still hate both of those enemies!

luzula

I didn't really bother trying not to be obvious when I wrote this for

sanguinity:

Excerpt from the Journal of Captain Keith Windham for August 14-16, 1745 (1011 words) by Luzula
Fandom: The Jacobite Trilogy | The Flight of the Heron Series - D. K. Broster
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ewen Cameron/Keith Windham
Characters: Keith Windham, Ewen Cameron
Additional Tags: Diary/Journal, Missing Scene

It was fun to write a bit of Keith's journal from when he first met Ewen! It was equally obvious that

sanguinity was the one who wrote me this lovely "Mr Rowl" fic:

Nary a Cause for Tears (9400 words) by sanguinity
Chapters: 4/4
Fandom: "Mr Rowl" - D. K. Broster
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Raoul des Sablières/Hervey Barrington, Raoul des Sablières/Juliana Forrest
Characters: Hervey Barrington, Raoul des Sablières, Lavinia Barrington, Hannah Jeremy, Juliana Forrest, John Jeremy (Mr Rowl)
Additional Tags: Epistolary, Enemies to Lovers, Bittersweet, Missing Scenes, Canon Compliant, Pining, (but not only pining!)
Summary: If he dies here, that will be his final judgement of me: that I take joy in his suffering.

Were it true, I would be a happier man this night.

It is a fic with many layers: an academic framing, a journal intended for public consumption, and the same character's secret journal. I really enjoyed how these layers interplayed with each other, and of course it's great to get Barrington's POV on the canon events (and more than the canon events, too!). There are some lovely missing scenes here.

isis

Mostly I'm just putting it here so I can find it again. But also, I rec this whether or not you have played the game, it's not really spoilery, and it's very cool:

Words by Phineas (at YouTube)

seascribble

Did we really used to live on 22 minutes of our shows week to week? It's rough out there, man. I'm glad they're spreading out the run but I do sort of wish the episodes were a little longer (but Sea, you said you didn't know how they were possibly going to turn the novella into ten episodes. And I still don't but that's their problem, I'm having a good time)

( Spoilers )

Very keen for next week's episode. I've watched all of three of them three times through, which I usually don't do so that's one pro of them being short as well as I think a comment on the overall quality.

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