all kinda stuff
Some things of interest!
- Lil Nas X covered Jolene and I can't stop listening to it.
- Rumor had it (as of last week) that Daredevil is getting a soft reboot with the same cast on Dis+ and if it were to happen, it would prove Kevin Feige is worthy because 1) it was the only Netflix Marvel series worth saving IMO (unless you count Punisher, which I do, but it's really a spinoff of Daredevil) and 2) CHARLIE COX. I'm skeptical, but hopeful.
- Babylon 5 is also getting a reboot and I'm 10000% going to be on the couch with popcorn when it does. And I'll give it the same number of episodes I gave the original to hook me in, which was 12, because that first season was a slog and a half. But once I was in, I was all in; to me, it's still the show with the best-defined plot arcs ever. I'm sure they can do it even better in the reboot, knowing what went wrong/right the first time.
- I went to see No Time to Die and I posted my thoughts about that over here, and now I'm just waiting for someone to talk to about it. *crickets chirp* So in the absence of that, I wrote some more 00Q, for reasons.
- While I've been off work this last month recovering from surgery, the only thing I really accomplished was to take down my old fannish website. It was quite a project, checking each page and every file, to be sure everything I was deleting was already on AO3 or was saved off to my hard drive for posterity, given that there was 25 years worth of stuff in there. In the process I unearthed all kinds of stories I had hidden and forgotten about, and therefore had never posted. Some have been hidden there for 15 years; some were never posted publicly. Here's a list of what I've coded and posted to AO3 so far, for the sake of completeness:
The Waters of Lethe - Stargate SG-1, Jack/Daniel
Ridiculous Odds - due South, Fraser/Vecchio
The Language of Love - the Sentinel, Jim/Blair
Signs and Wonders - Smallville, Clark/Lex
I'm relieved the website is retired. I created it for free in 1996 on Geocities, and it has lived on Yahoo! Small Business for many years now for a fee, but the last time I actually updated it was 2008. Eventually I will cancel the webhosting, but I'll keep the domain name one more year, just so nothing weird happens to people who might follow old links to my site.
- From the old website, I did keep all my long, long recommendations lists for SPN, SG-1, Star Wars and misc fandoms, tho many of the links were broken, but - I have them in documents with the HTML intact, in case I want to follow those URLs. They are like little time capsules of mid-2000's fanfic excellence. Some of those SPN stories were amazing.
- I did also post all of the vids Barkley and I made together to AO3, and I'm going to post some of my own vids. The ones I like the best (things like Hurt, Did You, Farewell Ride, Comin' Home Baby, etc), probably. Mostly that's because I obliterated the download links for the older ones by deleting my website, so now they only live streaming at Vimeo, but there's no way for people to access them without the links or passwords.
- I have binge-watched ALL the things while I've been off work, since I really couldn't do much else: Dr. Death (really good); Dexter (surprisingly good, I'm not sure why I missed it first time around); Midnight Mass (interesting, but not very scary; only watch if you're into preachy philosophizing, good acting, and deep character dives); Ted Lasso season 1 (fun, but not a rewatch); The Great (fun); Goliath season 4 (I'm mostly in it for Nina Arianda, and I miss season 1 every time a new season comes out that's worse than the previous season); Only Murders in the Building (it's so meta! And pretty fun); The Looming Tower (frustrating but good); and Maid (I'm at episode 5 and I think I'm about to bail). It would be hard to underestimate how much time I have spent sitting in the recliner, exhausted and feeling icky, while staring at the TV. (It also helps to binge watch things when one is not sleeping at all.)
- I will say tho, y'all Prime folks should queue up the first few minutes of Goliath 04x02 to watch JK Simmons doing an amazeballs extended musical number (complete with song and dance) called "Mr. Pain Killer." Uh, he's the head of a bad pharma company that makes opioids, and this is a fantasy sequence? IDK how to explain this hilarity. Honestly, you have to see it to believe it. Preview clip.
Think that's it. It's been a rough month chez Destina, but this next month will be better, as we head into spooky-sparkly-pumpkin-cranberry-peppermint season. Hope you all are doing well. ♥
- Lil Nas X covered Jolene and I can't stop listening to it.
Click to view- Rumor had it (as of last week) that Daredevil is getting a soft reboot with the same cast on Dis+ and if it were to happen, it would prove Kevin Feige is worthy because 1) it was the only Netflix Marvel series worth saving IMO (unless you count Punisher, which I do, but it's really a spinoff of Daredevil) and 2) CHARLIE COX. I'm skeptical, but hopeful.
- Babylon 5 is also getting a reboot and I'm 10000% going to be on the couch with popcorn when it does. And I'll give it the same number of episodes I gave the original to hook me in, which was 12, because that first season was a slog and a half. But once I was in, I was all in; to me, it's still the show with the best-defined plot arcs ever. I'm sure they can do it even better in the reboot, knowing what went wrong/right the first time.
- I went to see No Time to Die and I posted my thoughts about that over here, and now I'm just waiting for someone to talk to about it. *crickets chirp* So in the absence of that, I wrote some more 00Q, for reasons.
- While I've been off work this last month recovering from surgery, the only thing I really accomplished was to take down my old fannish website. It was quite a project, checking each page and every file, to be sure everything I was deleting was already on AO3 or was saved off to my hard drive for posterity, given that there was 25 years worth of stuff in there. In the process I unearthed all kinds of stories I had hidden and forgotten about, and therefore had never posted. Some have been hidden there for 15 years; some were never posted publicly. Here's a list of what I've coded and posted to AO3 so far, for the sake of completeness:
The Waters of Lethe - Stargate SG-1, Jack/Daniel
Ridiculous Odds - due South, Fraser/Vecchio
The Language of Love - the Sentinel, Jim/Blair
Signs and Wonders - Smallville, Clark/Lex
I'm relieved the website is retired. I created it for free in 1996 on Geocities, and it has lived on Yahoo! Small Business for many years now for a fee, but the last time I actually updated it was 2008. Eventually I will cancel the webhosting, but I'll keep the domain name one more year, just so nothing weird happens to people who might follow old links to my site.
- From the old website, I did keep all my long, long recommendations lists for SPN, SG-1, Star Wars and misc fandoms, tho many of the links were broken, but - I have them in documents with the HTML intact, in case I want to follow those URLs. They are like little time capsules of mid-2000's fanfic excellence. Some of those SPN stories were amazing.
- I did also post all of the vids Barkley and I made together to AO3, and I'm going to post some of my own vids. The ones I like the best (things like Hurt, Did You, Farewell Ride, Comin' Home Baby, etc), probably. Mostly that's because I obliterated the download links for the older ones by deleting my website, so now they only live streaming at Vimeo, but there's no way for people to access them without the links or passwords.
- I have binge-watched ALL the things while I've been off work, since I really couldn't do much else: Dr. Death (really good); Dexter (surprisingly good, I'm not sure why I missed it first time around); Midnight Mass (interesting, but not very scary; only watch if you're into preachy philosophizing, good acting, and deep character dives); Ted Lasso season 1 (fun, but not a rewatch); The Great (fun); Goliath season 4 (I'm mostly in it for Nina Arianda, and I miss season 1 every time a new season comes out that's worse than the previous season); Only Murders in the Building (it's so meta! And pretty fun); The Looming Tower (frustrating but good); and Maid (I'm at episode 5 and I think I'm about to bail). It would be hard to underestimate how much time I have spent sitting in the recliner, exhausted and feeling icky, while staring at the TV. (It also helps to binge watch things when one is not sleeping at all.)
- I will say tho, y'all Prime folks should queue up the first few minutes of Goliath 04x02 to watch JK Simmons doing an amazeballs extended musical number (complete with song and dance) called "Mr. Pain Killer." Uh, he's the head of a bad pharma company that makes opioids, and this is a fantasy sequence? IDK how to explain this hilarity. Honestly, you have to see it to believe it. Preview clip.
Think that's it. It's been a rough month chez Destina, but this next month will be better, as we head into spooky-sparkly-pumpkin-cranberry-peppermint season. Hope you all are doing well. ♥