Comma comma chameleon
I'm trying to decide if I want to sign up for 
hurtcomfortex or not. In a lot of ways it's right up my alley, but, brainweasels. Also I tend to like treating, and have more luck with it, more than assignments and managed to write a lot for Chocolate Box without signing up? I dunno. There's still a day or two to decide.
I watched "The Umbrella Academy" and I'll have to admit, I'm kind of boggling at fandom's reaction. Personally, I thought it was meh. Nonspoilerly reaction - I didn't care about Vanya at all and while I see why fandom is so interested in Klaus, I wasn't. A big problem I had was I love the found families trope and I also love families. UA couldn't decided where it wanted fit under either of those, if at all. There was also, sadly, a distinct lack of shirtless Tom Hopper (for understandable reasons, but still).
A bit back I also watched the BBC/Netflix miniseries "Bodyguard" which I was really disappointed in as well. It reminded me of the worst parts of 'Sherlock' where it tried to be tension-filled and clever in ways that don't work (either originally or if you stop to think about it). Oh well.
I started listening to "The Magnus Archives" which is a weekly horror fiction podcast that's been running for a few years. I'm partway through S3 (about 2/3-3/4 of the way through what's aired so far). The premise is the new Archivist for the Magnus Institute (an organization dedicated to the esoteric and weird) is going through old casefiles and, eventually slowly realizing things about them. There's a bit of an arcing storyline that runs through it, building as the episodes go on. It's interesting, but definitely not for anyone with issues with various spiders/worms/creepy crawlies, or eyes, or other types of body horror. It's also something you have to be careful to listen to via earbuds since some later eps have the occasional shout and whatnot. I'll probably never be fannish about it, but I like it.
I had to turn off anon commenting on my DW after someone left a, well, terrible comment on my Hollywood & Historical Research post accusing me of basically being willfully blind and Eurocentricly biased (and used a LOT of curses and attacks to do so). I post links to resources as I come across them. I'm happy to add to my lists and have done so as I've found new resources (I think originally there was only 300 or so links and now there's well over 500). I don't claim the posts are all encompassing, I do try, but I'm hampered by the fact anything I link to is going to be in English (since I won't link to a resource I can't check out myself to at least make sure it seems useful) and I can also only link to something I'm come across and I only follow certain blogs which will limit things.
As always, if you come across any useful resource you'd like others to know about or think they'll find helpful, I'd be happy to include it in one of my posts.
Have some Oxford comma love! A Maine appellate court recently ruled in favor of dairy drivers in a labor dispute. The circuit judge’s opinion began "For want of a comma, we have this case." Basically it was an overtime pay issue since according to Maine law, workers are entitled to 1.5 times their normal pay for any hours worked over 40 per week. However, there are exemptions to this rule. Specifically, companies don’t need to pay overtime for "The canning, processing, preserving, freezing, drying, marketing, storing, packing for shipment or distribution of {blah blah blah}" but since there's no comma after 'shipment' the drivers argued the law excluded only packing (whether for shipment or packing for distribution) but that the distribution by itself would not be exempt despite the owners of the dairy arguing it did. The judge decided that without that comma the distinction wasn't clearcut. Huzzah for the Oxford comma!
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hurtcomfortex or not. In a lot of ways it's right up my alley, but, brainweasels. Also I tend to like treating, and have more luck with it, more than assignments and managed to write a lot for Chocolate Box without signing up? I dunno. There's still a day or two to decide.
I watched "The Umbrella Academy" and I'll have to admit, I'm kind of boggling at fandom's reaction. Personally, I thought it was meh. Nonspoilerly reaction - I didn't care about Vanya at all and while I see why fandom is so interested in Klaus, I wasn't. A big problem I had was I love the found families trope and I also love families. UA couldn't decided where it wanted fit under either of those, if at all. There was also, sadly, a distinct lack of shirtless Tom Hopper (for understandable reasons, but still).
A bit back I also watched the BBC/Netflix miniseries "Bodyguard" which I was really disappointed in as well. It reminded me of the worst parts of 'Sherlock' where it tried to be tension-filled and clever in ways that don't work (either originally or if you stop to think about it). Oh well.
I started listening to "The Magnus Archives" which is a weekly horror fiction podcast that's been running for a few years. I'm partway through S3 (about 2/3-3/4 of the way through what's aired so far). The premise is the new Archivist for the Magnus Institute (an organization dedicated to the esoteric and weird) is going through old casefiles and, eventually slowly realizing things about them. There's a bit of an arcing storyline that runs through it, building as the episodes go on. It's interesting, but definitely not for anyone with issues with various spiders/worms/creepy crawlies, or eyes, or other types of body horror. It's also something you have to be careful to listen to via earbuds since some later eps have the occasional shout and whatnot. I'll probably never be fannish about it, but I like it.
I had to turn off anon commenting on my DW after someone left a, well, terrible comment on my Hollywood & Historical Research post accusing me of basically being willfully blind and Eurocentricly biased (and used a LOT of curses and attacks to do so). I post links to resources as I come across them. I'm happy to add to my lists and have done so as I've found new resources (I think originally there was only 300 or so links and now there's well over 500). I don't claim the posts are all encompassing, I do try, but I'm hampered by the fact anything I link to is going to be in English (since I won't link to a resource I can't check out myself to at least make sure it seems useful) and I can also only link to something I'm come across and I only follow certain blogs which will limit things.
As always, if you come across any useful resource you'd like others to know about or think they'll find helpful, I'd be happy to include it in one of my posts.
Have some Oxford comma love! A Maine appellate court recently ruled in favor of dairy drivers in a labor dispute. The circuit judge’s opinion began "For want of a comma, we have this case." Basically it was an overtime pay issue since according to Maine law, workers are entitled to 1.5 times their normal pay for any hours worked over 40 per week. However, there are exemptions to this rule. Specifically, companies don’t need to pay overtime for "The canning, processing, preserving, freezing, drying, marketing, storing, packing for shipment or distribution of {blah blah blah}" but since there's no comma after 'shipment' the drivers argued the law excluded only packing (whether for shipment or packing for distribution) but that the distribution by itself would not be exempt despite the owners of the dairy arguing it did. The judge decided that without that comma the distinction wasn't clearcut. Huzzah for the Oxford comma!
This entry was originally posted at https://donutsweeper.dreamwidth.org/560235.html. Please comment where you wish.