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Here are some quick reviews of the RE films, along with a few notes on which timeline I think they belong to, which is part of a larger piece I'm working on discussing why I think we should see the RE universe as two separate timelines in general (based mostly on characterization). Timeline references are from over here.

( Degeneration )

( Damnation )

( Vendetta )

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bemused_writer

I wrapped up this game a few days ago, and I have since plummeted into a full-blown RE obsession, so it's safe to say I enjoyed it. Some of my critiques of the start remain the same, but once Grace was in Rhodes Hill proper things improved immensely.

I figure I'll go over some of my critiques and predictions from the last two entries, and see what holds up and what doesn't.

( Spoilers abound... )

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yourlibrarian

1) I wrote last year about the movie The Big Year, which was about birders trying to break a record in seeing the most birds that year. When I told my partner I was trying to pass 1000 wins at Solo on BGA he said, "So this is your Big Year." ( Read more... )

2) I confess I don't really follow the Oscars race or even nominees since I only see movies once in a while and usually well after they've been released, but I thought this was an interesting summation. I was particularly struck by the discussion of costs, and how chasing Oscar prestige outranks movie ticket sales, since so many potential contenders crowd into the end of year period. This almost guarantees many people will miss a number of them.

What was interesting about this survey is the data on how people have changed their opinions of last year's Oscar nominees. "Americans are much more likely now than they were last year to say they love "A Complete Unknown" (51%, up from 39%). They’re less likely to say they love "Dune: Part 2" (43%, down from 53%)."

3) On the same day in which NPR's 1A did a show on the value of acknowledging mistakes, someone also posted about The Ctrl-Z Award’ to honor researchers who correct the scientific record. This latter seems like a much needed antidote to our times (and can also be immeasurably helpful). I hope it does well.

RE: the 1A episode, here's a quote: "So, you know, theoretically, you could make a decision that was the wrong decision, but if it doesn't have a bad outcome, you're not even judging it as a mistake half the time. And that that's actually potentially the difference between a little mistake and a big mistake...we talk about this three act structure, what happened before the mistake, the mistake itself, and then how we deal with the mistake thereafter...It's not the crime. It's the cover up. Right? And that's an act three problem. But because people haven't gone through the process of saying, okay, what actually happened in act one, act two, and and now how am I gonna deal with it in act three? They make an even bigger one."

The fear of error is also talked about here: "what I see in the therapy room is sometimes it can take folks a while to really come around to admit to themselves actually that a mistake even happened because there's so much shame. It gets kind of locked up because as we've been discussing, as a culture, we do a terrible job of admitting to ourselves and to others that mistakes actually are how you learn. And so we get have so much shame that's wrapped up in it. And from that end, when there's shame, depression, anxiety, trauma, you know, are not far behind. So talking through mistakes, processing mistakes, learning not to avoid coming around to kind of, unpacking the Russian doll, if we stick with that metaphor, that's a huge piece of therapy." I can really recommend reading the episode transcript (you can also listen to the show).

4) What these incidents made me think of was fear on the Internet. "One of the phrases we like is curious, not furious. And so whether you're thinking about yourself, oh, I'm so angry at myself. Why did I do this? Or you see someone else make a mistake and you're kind of angry that they did it. The more that you can use curiosity as opposed to anger, I think we would all get along a little better. And then to your point, it's so helpful to talk with someone else. We believe you have to talk your mistakes to death. And it's helpful to write about them, sure, if you really don't have anyone with whom you can speak."( Read more... )

5) And speaking of mistakes, it's nice to have unexpected support even when you make them. ( Read more... )

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I have slept like crap all week, waking up at 2:30 or 3am and unable to get back to sleep for several hours. Last night was the first night where I woke up and was able to fall back asleep but I was so tired at that point that it was inevitable. I'm a sleepy beepy even now.

We boiled 5 days this week starting sunday, I'll make a separate post about that since it's A Lot and also I'm still learning all the boil stuff. The days are long. I am taking today off farm work instead of taking off this past monday since monday was a nice day and there was so much to do. I was planning to take one of the rainy days off but boiled and did other stuff instead.

Most of the wood I split didn't really dry in time, which was kinda expected so my dad ran out and bought a cord of dried firewood and he pulled some dead birches off the mountain that we'll cut and split in the next few days. We really need to work a year ahead. So the basswood will be set aside for next year I think.

The weather was really far too warm for several days and then it dropped dramatically. The cold temps now are mostly due to high winds which are terrible and irritating. I'd rather it just be cold instead of windy.

My sister was in town all week which was great because we swapped off who was watching the boiling and could give each other breaks and chat when in passing.

I have gotten some weaving done which is nice, I kinda want to crank through a bunch of it. I need to plan out my next sewing project since the coat is done. I decided not to type up a separate post for February crafting goals since I only finished the coat and made progress on a bunch of stuff.

I have a lot of sidejob work to do, which I'm going to get at least three plans done today if I can. Might go take a brief nap first though.

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yaaurens

Cardiology appointment was.... not particularly helpful.

The good news is, I have a heart! It is, according to the tech who did the ultrasound, anatomically correct and of an appropriate size!

The bad news is, this means I can no longer make Grinch jokes about myself. Alas!

No, really, the bad news is that there is no obvious reason for why my heart rate won't ever slow the fuck down. When we started the ultrasound, it was 140, and only got down to about 120 at the lowest, after lying on a table doing nothing for about 15 minutes. The tech asked about thyroid issues in the family and if I'd been tested for issues there, and yeah, that's been done every dang time with consistently clear results. Sooooooo yeah.

No idea what the next steps are; I'm going to shoot my PCP a message tomorrow if I don't hear from them and ask if they've received the results and what we should do next. I'm hoping the cardiologist himself (rather than the tech) will have some vague ideas, but I am not really expecting much.

Sigh. At least it's not likely my heart will explode any time soon?

unicornduke

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1) I am starting plans for a fall foliage road trip in October through Michigan. Anyone have any recommendations?

2) Following up on what I wrote about in my last post, I watched several episodes of Paradise S2. I'm not sure why I'm still watching this. ( Spoilers )

3) By contrast, I saw the Muppet Show (special? Apparently a one-off?) and found it a delight. Disney has definitely struggled in finding a way to utilize the Muppets and two shows have now failed. I'm glad they tried to do something different with them, and I rather liked the show where they were trying to make a more realistic "behind the scenes" Muppet show.

But maybe these days a return to the past would be particularly welcome (and surely there's still a lot of appeal for kids). I've got to imagine they've got a potential guest list a mile long. My partner and I kept thinking that some of the puppeteers must have been filled with glee at being able to recreate this show.

It did make me laugh when Sabrina Carpenter said she'd watched the show, her parents had watched the show, and her grandparents had watched the show. We'd be rather young to be her grandparents but, yeah, 50th anniversary after all.

4) I found the first of my top 3 shows of the year last month when we watched How to Get to Heaven from Belfast. I'd quite enjoyed Derry Girls, so was interested in trying this. I found it had a lot of the fun from Derry with an added mystery at the center. ( Read more... )

5) When in his latest charity auction batch Stephen Colbert listed a Lord of the Rings sword that had been on the stage wall, we couldn't believe he'd be selling such a thing at any price. Turns out it's a replica of the actual sword used in the film, which he already has (and he joked he would be buried with). Even so, I figured it would go for a lot, and it's going to be well over $25,000. His neckties are going for over $1000.

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As expected, the time change has absolutely fucked up my sleep schedule. Not helped by a skunk spraying something in the front yard at 4:30am this morning so my bedroom smelled intensely of skunk while I was laying there awake for no reason and the house still smells faintly. We are going to have to trap it if it's living under the porch. And also not helped by covering the boiling for an hour until 10:30pm last night.

We have successfully started boiling sap although I'm not super involved in it. I don't know what I'm doing, never really have done it, so I panic a lot about it while taking over for my dad so he gets a break. Like last night, the sap started drawing off but the container with the filters nearly overflowed because the filters were ??? and there was some panicking. My dad said it probably wasn't going to draw off at all in the hour he went inside. So you know. Normal stuff. My sister is in town for a couple of days to help with it at least. Once I get some better idea on how it all works, I'll make a post about it. Currently, we are producing delicate grade, which my sister called cotton candy tasting. That changes over the tapping season as the microbes change.

I finished splitting all the basswood on the ground, just need to stack it. Not sure we have quite enough wood for the season, but I think it'll be a bit shorter anyway. I have started shifting focus to the field season, it is time to start outside work. Blueberry pruning is up first since that needs to be done dormant. I should crank through that quick. Then moving and mulching with woodchips. I need to order grow lights for our starts, I need to get peppers started in the next two weeks or so, figure out pumpkin orders, etc etc.

There's some health stuff going on with my parents that we are waiting to hear on, so I am scaling back farm stuff that was going to be a bit of a stretch to complete. The weird fruits like currants and expanding the elderberries.

I am working on sidejob stuff and need to bill that client. Need to nap and eat more food. I made chocolate cake and pizza the other night. Also split three loads of wood for the burner once I got the bobcat tire fixed. I took the bobcat tire to the tire place to get fixed on the day we had freezing rain, not my best move and there was only one hairy moment on a backroad until I kicked it into 4 wheel and slowed way down. Skipped that road on the way back. Main roads were fine. The bobcat had to come back to the main farm to pick up the sap totes because of where we put them for good gravity feeding since regular tractor forks can't lift high enough.

Also went to a grower meeting about christmas trees, looks like a really good enterprise, don't have the capacity this year, but should next year if all goes well. Interesting thing, a lot of the christmas tree farms have been in business for 50-100 years. Wildly long time.

I keep focusing on farm stuff because the world is such a shitshow. My local rep emailed me some propaganda so I sent back a little rant on how immoral bombing Iran is. I don't think it will do anything.

But yesterday instead of going to spinning group, I drove an hour and a half to an event put on by the regional trans org which was performances and a makers market and I felt like such shit driving down, but afterwards I was so happy. It was so nice to just see all the queer folks, and so many! And bought some weird art. And saw some performances. What a delight. Did get to talk to someone who is localish to me and they said they are trying to get some more folks together up our way at various places, so I'm excited to keep an eye out for that.

yaaurens

Escapade was a blast! Me and Airawyn convinced someone new to attend this year, and she fit in superbly. I imagine she'll be back next year. It's always a bit of a gamble, y'know? Want to make sure friend has fun, but also don't want to be tied to friend the whole time. It was great though, the second batch of friends I introduced her to, she went, wait, are you ___? And it was! So they had a grand time chatting about people they both knew. And then later on we were doing something in the con suite and she met Nev and was like, wait, did you write ___? And Nev was like, OMG WHAT I have been recognized by name alone?!?

And seeing pals and hanging out and talking fandom was fun as always. I miss everyone already!

I am also older! (not a surprise, cuz everyone is, but y'know) We went to the Skirball museum to catch the Jack Kirby exhibit right before it closed, and boy am I glad we did. It was delightful. I loved getting to see original art, and sketches, and learn things about the man that I never knew before (like he moved it here near me and is actually buried out here? I need to make a pilgrimage!). The 'rents went along and I think they actually enjoyed it too - we got there just in time to join a docent tour, and that was extremely helpful for them. And me too, but more for them since they had zero background info. Ash cam along too, and that was so much fun getting to see her and spend time with her just doing something fun without work or munchkin involved. (I like munchkin, but I miss just having Ash.) And then we went through the rest of the museum, which was much more mom's speed, as it's a Jewish American museum so it's all kinds of Judaica info that she's super into.

Got a bunch of books for birthday, including the translations of Mo Du and Sha Po Lang, which I haven't started yet. Did finish the last of the Lychford books that I hadn't read yet, and now feel like I want to go back and read all six of them again, in a row, in the correct order. I just really love those novellas.

Work continues, except for my Methodist job, which officially ended today. I imagine it's not a common experience, witnessing the closing of a church. I've certainly not done it before; we've always left instead. So that was sad and hard. Hopefully will be able to keep in touch with people.

I got my first fraud return, and my first IP PIN reject, so those feel like mini milestones, lol. And more military returns, and some pretty wild life stories. Kinda fun, really. Tomorrow I plan on taking my next level-up test, which will get me to three, and then I'll probably start working on the next set of classes because I still have a lot of long, empty days at work.

Didn't go see the Z1L movie for a couple of reasons - time, and Sam mentioned some directorial choices that were visually difficult, so I just said fuck it, I'll wait and small screen it, and spend time with my friends instead. I think that was a good decision.

Dad and I have been working our way through Arsenal Military Academy, which hasn't been too bad, really. This is the most tolerable I've ever found Xu Kai to be, and Zhu Hong's actress is in there too. It's still a stretching disbelief cross-dressing show, but at least a couple of characters have at least acted suspicious about it, lol. It's also made me look up some historical references, and I always enjoy learning new things, so that's fun too, even though what I'm learning is definitely Not Fun.

Tuesday is my cardiology appointment, which I am both looking forward to and dreading. It's one of those, please let them find something, but an easily fixable something, kind of situations. I would like to not have a constantly elevated heart rate any more, thanks, it's been like three years, I'm over it.

Hand specialist appointment, however, is not until JUNE. I need to contact my PCP and be like, please, do you have a second option, because I don't have physio now, and my left arm is getting worse, and waiting another 2.5 months is not gonna be helpful. Or get me back in physio, something.

Goals for the Week: pass the level-up exam. cross the 25 returns mark. start reading sha po lang.

Good Things: friend time! books and having time to read them. dark chocolate peanut butter cups.

yourlibrarian

1) At the grocery this morning and their clothing displays mirror the seesaw of our weather – puffy coats next to sundresses. It was so warm today than when I came back to drop the groceries off, I had to change into a t-shirt before I went out again, and it was barely 10 AM.

2) Had a nice piece of luck as well. The grocery was running a $10 coupon for $100 or more of purchases. I had to drop my partner off at work this morning because he had an all-day thing, and in the rush forgot to take the grocery list. So as I was putting stuff in the trunk I remembered I'd forgotten his celery. Went back and decided to pick up a few more things since I had the $10 coupon now. Got to the register and realized someone had left that same coupon sitting in the machine when they left! So I got the $10 off and still have my coupon for next week.

It amazes me how people don't bother taking their coupons. It's usually for things they're buying anyway and a free item is not unusual. And this was literally $10 in cash sitting there, when groceries are so expensive! I didn't even know what it was at first, just saw that someone hadn't taken their coupon and figured I'd look to see if it was something I could use.

3) Also on the grocery front, I have recently become addicted to Sumo oranges. Came across them during a sale, and got just one bag because they're pricey. Came back home with 3 the following week.

Oranges have never been my favorite, even though we had incredibly good ones growing in our backyard growing up. These are the closest I've gotten to those. I never end up eating only one.

3) As part of

marchmetamatterschallenge, I have been going through my

tv_talk comments in case I discussed much about a show (mostly, no). However it was a good reminder about a great many shows I watched which I liked and would recommend, but might not think of if someone asked me.

Some of these were strong throughout, and some long running ones have some weaker seasons but still worth watching. In no particular order, just as they came up on my entries: ( Read more... )

4) One of the things reviewing all these past posts made me aware of is how much more TV I'm watching, but overall with less enjoyment. Every so often I hit a show I would really recommend, but usually they fall into the "ok" category or I just nope out of it a few episodes in.

I think the changes in TV have a lot to do with this. ( Read more... )

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It’s taking too much effort to cross post here everyday so I’ll post here once a week about what’s been going on and hope that’s enough.

My posts are friends only except the fanfics.

yourlibrarian

marchmetamatterschallenge has begun! I'm particularly excited this year since I will finally come current with my meta archiving. I'm already finished with 2024 and should finish 2025 by tomorrow. One thing I hope is to do more writing this year.

2) The February CheckIn at

everykindofcraft has gotten a lot of responses. It's interesting to hear all the different ways that people have learned these skills.

3) In less good news, a bunch of RSS feeds seem to have stopped working. The AO3 vids feed hasn't updated in weeks (so unlikely to be AO3's recent issues), and 4 feeds from Tumblr have stopped as well, though it seems only 2 have been updating lately. It's definitely not the feed service, because at least 3 other feeds I have set up have updated within the last few days. I'm wondering if Tumblr is somehow blocking RSS feeds now?

I also feel like there are people's posts that I have missed though I am less sure about that.

3) I was waiting for a cashier and there were 3 women and 2 small girls ahead of me. The two little girls were racing around everywhere, grabbing things and then having them put back by the women. It was all taking some time, and the squealing was getting on my nerves. But then one grabbed an Easter Bunny and told her mom she wanted it.

The mom asked the cashier if it was solid or hollow, and was told it was hollow (which seemed most likely to me given its size and price!) The little girl then asked what "hollow" was, and her mom struggled to explain it, finally saying "It has a hole inside it." The little girl then said "I'll put it back and get another." We all burst out laughing as her mom then tried to explain that the bunny wasn't defective, it was just the way it was made.

4) So it looks like Paramount will fold HBO into its service. I expect that will put paid to its bundling with Disney services, though it does make it more likely we'll keep Paramount+ around post-The Late Show cancellation. At this point the U.S. looks like it's going to have 3 major streamers, a number of secondary streamers (in which I include Peacock) and a vast number of tiny streamers.

5) Never posted here that I finished the latest season of Strange New Worlds. Thought it somewhat better than earlier seasons, despite the way it started, though I find it a bit jarring to see TOS episodes essentially revised for use here. The finale seemed a cross between Rey at the end of the Skywalker saga and ST:TOS's Lazarus episode. ( Read more... )

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In the controversy surrounding Cory Doctorow’s anniversary post, many people have engaged with the spirit of the thing, but I have yet to see any in-depth discussion of his choice to invoke the term purity culture. Purity culture is a term with very particular origins, and it’s not some general term for people being mean on the internet. It’s a term for a specific enculturation into a pattern of sexual abuse.

But before we get into that, let me give you an overview of why we’re talking about this again. I say “again” because — as long-time readers may recall — I posted about this subject before back in 2019. With that said, that post was written for a different audience, and there are some new facets to address this time, so let’s take it from the top.

Crossposted to Pillowfort and my personal site.

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I think it’s INCREDIBLY hilarious that the last time I made a post here was February 1st. xD Here I am again on March 1st, and another month starts anew.

I’ve been spending a lot more time offline, tbh. Been putting my phone on Do Not Disturb more than usual, and some weekends I don’t even pick it up at all. xD I don’t think it’s burnout per se, but definitely in a bit of a “just survive the day” type mood and finding the strength to put one foot in front of the other in more productive ways that don’t involve doomscrolling.

That’s also caused me to take a step back from my creative outlets, but I wanna hopefully start writing again soon, especially with the last round of OC x Canon Week on the horizon. ; o; Also wanna try to revive my Fannish 50 posts since I kinda miss those? Maybe? We’ll see. xD

I miss writing and wanna write more, so we’ll start there and see where it all goes.

Anyways, here’s a pretty cool album I got with the most recent Bandcamp Friday extravaganza! Hope you enjoy. ❤️

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unicornduke

Most of this was typed up Friday evening and is only somewhat coherent but that gives you a sense of how tired I was.

This became The Big Push to Get Shit Done for Maple Syrup. My whole body is sore. Wednesday was my first day on the mountain this week, replacing drops. We do maple syrup on a small/medium scale by tubes, around 600 taps. Smaller or more old fashioned producers do spouts and buckets where the buckets hang from the spouts or at the bottom of trees but that works best on flatter ground accessible by vehicle or horse drawn sleds. They also need to be emptied every day. We have a small mountain.

It is still a mountain. Actually, I think technically it is a ridge at the top of it, which isn’t where we are working, it’s further up and to the right of the below photo where my uncle’s orchard is. I don’t have a good sense of how high it is. In the view, we go up to the top of what is visible straight ahead and a little to the right.

A small hump of a mountain covered in trees and the sky is a clear beautiful blue.

A small hump of a mountain covered in trees and the sky is a clear beautiful blue.

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