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ikea finally brought my bed! i had a lot of trouble assembling it and everything was kind of awful, but now it's set up and i have a bed and things are great. and today i built my bookcases and unpacked all of my books and a lot of my knicknacks, so it's starting to feel more like home and less like i'm living in a storage room. tomorrow i'm going to try to unpack everything else and maybe build my desk? if i have time. and then i'm pretty much all moved in? :D? :D?
so last week was pretty terrible because of the whole bed situation and my continuing inability to sleep, but on friday i went to see thor 2 with kait and margaret and nomie. i didn't really like the first thor and didn't much care about going to see this one except i will prob see any/every mcu movie and i like hanging out with my friends, but i ended up loving it?? i can't get over how funny it was, and how it was often more about jane than thor, and how they finally wrote loki in a way that didn't make me want to set him on fire just to keep myself awake. so yeah, i had a lot of fun, and i just generally had a lot of fun hanging out with everyone because ~friends~!
and then yesterday i went to brunch with karen and then we saw ender's game. idk how someone who has never read the books would feel about it, but from someone who found the books to be LIFE-CHANGING it's a really weird movie. like, on top of all the dumb plot shit that doesn't make any sense, i will never get over the complete rewrite on petra's character to make her more nurturing and compassionate. petra would stab you in the face for that characterization.
i came home and was SO TIRED and went to bed at 8, but since i couldn't fall asleep right away i decided to read a little bit more of fangirl by rainbow rowell and then i was up til 1:30am crying over how perfect it is. like, you guys, when cath starts reading the outsiders to levi THERE WERE SO MANY TEARS. ugh their faces. my bulletproof otp kink is prickly ladies and the charming dudes who are head over heels in love with them, so levi/cath obviously did a number on me. i wrote a long tumblr post about it and cried a lot and then stuck it in my drafts because it was too personal for lj, so there's no way i'm putting it on tumblr. but sometimes a part of me will still occasionally wish i wasn't asexual/aromantic and levi/cath triggered that hardcore. i love their relationship, and their relationship to fandom, and reagan!! and wren's growth over the year, and all the simon snow stuff. just. so good.
i talked about it for a little while with nomie today, but i wish there had been just a small bit of "i haven't talked to my fandom friends in so long, how do i even go back to that? do they miss me? do they care about me or just about my fic?" it's not weird to me that she cut herself off from her fandom friends with all of this, because i've been there, but i feel like it portrayed the community a lot more shallowly than it is, like they only liked cath for her fic and she only had one fandom friend and it was wren. but i think part of that is because rainbow rowell came into fandom as an adult and part of it is just a difference in when i grew up in fandom and when this takes place. like, it's SO DIFFERENT to be 18 and in fandom now than it was in 2002, and that's really weird/awesome.
but anyway, I LOVED THE BOOK A LOT. A++, will probably be buying a physical copy at some point. (maybe at the end of the month, since she's doing an event here.)
i also have temp work at MIT for two days next week, and i'm really nervous about getting lost because there will be buses involved and buses freak me out? idk why they make me so much more nervous than trains, but they do. (it's probably because i have a lot more potential to get seriously lost with buses. but it'll be fine. dumb freshmen figure this out every year, i can manage.)
so last week was pretty terrible because of the whole bed situation and my continuing inability to sleep, but on friday i went to see thor 2 with kait and margaret and nomie. i didn't really like the first thor and didn't much care about going to see this one except i will prob see any/every mcu movie and i like hanging out with my friends, but i ended up loving it?? i can't get over how funny it was, and how it was often more about jane than thor, and how they finally wrote loki in a way that didn't make me want to set him on fire just to keep myself awake. so yeah, i had a lot of fun, and i just generally had a lot of fun hanging out with everyone because ~friends~!
and then yesterday i went to brunch with karen and then we saw ender's game. idk how someone who has never read the books would feel about it, but from someone who found the books to be LIFE-CHANGING it's a really weird movie. like, on top of all the dumb plot shit that doesn't make any sense, i will never get over the complete rewrite on petra's character to make her more nurturing and compassionate. petra would stab you in the face for that characterization.
i came home and was SO TIRED and went to bed at 8, but since i couldn't fall asleep right away i decided to read a little bit more of fangirl by rainbow rowell and then i was up til 1:30am crying over how perfect it is. like, you guys, when cath starts reading the outsiders to levi THERE WERE SO MANY TEARS. ugh their faces. my bulletproof otp kink is prickly ladies and the charming dudes who are head over heels in love with them, so levi/cath obviously did a number on me. i wrote a long tumblr post about it and cried a lot and then stuck it in my drafts because it was too personal for lj, so there's no way i'm putting it on tumblr. but sometimes a part of me will still occasionally wish i wasn't asexual/aromantic and levi/cath triggered that hardcore. i love their relationship, and their relationship to fandom, and reagan!! and wren's growth over the year, and all the simon snow stuff. just. so good.
i talked about it for a little while with nomie today, but i wish there had been just a small bit of "i haven't talked to my fandom friends in so long, how do i even go back to that? do they miss me? do they care about me or just about my fic?" it's not weird to me that she cut herself off from her fandom friends with all of this, because i've been there, but i feel like it portrayed the community a lot more shallowly than it is, like they only liked cath for her fic and she only had one fandom friend and it was wren. but i think part of that is because rainbow rowell came into fandom as an adult and part of it is just a difference in when i grew up in fandom and when this takes place. like, it's SO DIFFERENT to be 18 and in fandom now than it was in 2002, and that's really weird/awesome.
but anyway, I LOVED THE BOOK A LOT. A++, will probably be buying a physical copy at some point. (maybe at the end of the month, since she's doing an event here.)
i also have temp work at MIT for two days next week, and i'm really nervous about getting lost because there will be buses involved and buses freak me out? idk why they make me so much more nervous than trains, but they do. (it's probably because i have a lot more potential to get seriously lost with buses. but it'll be fine. dumb freshmen figure this out every year, i can manage.)