Work is finally dying down, but my anxiety is RIGHT UP THERE so I'm watching streaming tv
Work has been absolutely busy lately, leading me to have about enough time for two-minute Twitter posts and not much else. Things have been happening, and we got a couple of people's work dumped on us. (Things happened here. OMG.) But this week is quiet, and we're not getting much extra work, so I can play catch-up and sneak on for a few minutes.
By the time I get home - by which I mean upstairs - I'm exhausted and I don't have the cope to get online for social media, including Dreamwidth, so I mostly just watch some tv and write in a notebook or knit. Not to mention that, well, I spent about a month of that time exhausted and with some low-grade anxiety about the state of the world or my work inbox, because I can't get anything done without overtime, but I can't work overtime. (I love my job, but that's just not a fun part of it.)
There's nothing on regular tv that I normally watch, and I've been saving the seven paltry episodes of Wynonna Earp that have aired because...well, I want to treasure them and they're only maybe one-quarter of an actual season.
I did watch Lifetime's slightly older (like, a couple years old) Menorahs and Mistletoe (or maybe that was reversed?)which did manage not to be insulting or condescending to Judaism, surprisingly, nor have the mensch of a romantic hero discover that Christmas was the better holiday. It had its flaws, don't get me wrong, but the generically-nondenominational Christian heroine did discover a love of things Jewish, and managed not to be insulting about them (in my opinion, but obviously you might have a different one).
I've been watching a lot of Forged in Fire, which is overloaded with white men who may or may not be cishet, it's hard to tell when they're just standing in front of a forge and blacksmithing in clothing that they can ruin with fire, soot, and smoke. (I mean, sometimes you can guess.) But I find weapon crafting fascinating from a technical perspective, and I like the historical weaponry aspect of it. They try to draw weaponry from the entire world, and they do get very specific about the history and geography about the weapon they ask the smiths to craft.
Thing is, I do wish that they had more women and men of color on Forged in Fire, and I think if a woman of color was to show up to blacksmith, she'd be a fucking unicorn. I would fall down in happy shock. They've had one white woman win to my knowledge, and that woman is a delight, but also. Holy goddamn. Just. I mean. I don't know what population they're starting with , but it'd be nice to see a different palette on the show.
But I have picked up an interesting amount of technical knowledge about blacksmithing that I wish I'd known in my heavily into Highlander years; I'd have tried to find a way to work that into fanfic, and used some swords that weren't the usual run of European blades and katanas that showed up in everything.
I've also been rewatching From Dust Till Dawn: The Series, because that show is a goddamn treasure, but mostly my favorites are not the series leads. I'm not a fan of DJ Cotrona and Zane Holtz (the Gecko brothers); for me, they were there to carry other people's stories along because, idk? When I watched it, Eisa Gonzalez (Kisa), Madison Davenport (Kate), Brandon Soo Hoo (Scott), Jesse Garcia (Freddie), and Wilmer Valderrama (Carlos) were absolutely brilliant actors and carried the series from beginning to end. But that's almost always what I do: I ignore the leads and focus on mostly the secondary characters. (Heartbreak central, but oh well.) There were brilliant tertiary characters, or people who were important for only a single season also. But they were really good for the story.
I'm trying to take it slow, but I'm almost done with season two, and then I'm going to hit s3 and its weird turns and twists that may have gotten it canceled since they did upend a lot of things. But I loved what they did in that season.
And now a new, urgent task has shown up for work, so...maybe I will wait and talk about other shows and movies later. This entry has been cross-posted to Dreamwidth (
comments). Comments are welcome on either post.
By the time I get home - by which I mean upstairs - I'm exhausted and I don't have the cope to get online for social media, including Dreamwidth, so I mostly just watch some tv and write in a notebook or knit. Not to mention that, well, I spent about a month of that time exhausted and with some low-grade anxiety about the state of the world or my work inbox, because I can't get anything done without overtime, but I can't work overtime. (I love my job, but that's just not a fun part of it.)
There's nothing on regular tv that I normally watch, and I've been saving the seven paltry episodes of Wynonna Earp that have aired because...well, I want to treasure them and they're only maybe one-quarter of an actual season.
I did watch Lifetime's slightly older (like, a couple years old) Menorahs and Mistletoe (or maybe that was reversed?)which did manage not to be insulting or condescending to Judaism, surprisingly, nor have the mensch of a romantic hero discover that Christmas was the better holiday. It had its flaws, don't get me wrong, but the generically-nondenominational Christian heroine did discover a love of things Jewish, and managed not to be insulting about them (in my opinion, but obviously you might have a different one).
I've been watching a lot of Forged in Fire, which is overloaded with white men who may or may not be cishet, it's hard to tell when they're just standing in front of a forge and blacksmithing in clothing that they can ruin with fire, soot, and smoke. (I mean, sometimes you can guess.) But I find weapon crafting fascinating from a technical perspective, and I like the historical weaponry aspect of it. They try to draw weaponry from the entire world, and they do get very specific about the history and geography about the weapon they ask the smiths to craft.
Thing is, I do wish that they had more women and men of color on Forged in Fire, and I think if a woman of color was to show up to blacksmith, she'd be a fucking unicorn. I would fall down in happy shock. They've had one white woman win to my knowledge, and that woman is a delight, but also. Holy goddamn. Just. I mean. I don't know what population they're starting with , but it'd be nice to see a different palette on the show.
But I have picked up an interesting amount of technical knowledge about blacksmithing that I wish I'd known in my heavily into Highlander years; I'd have tried to find a way to work that into fanfic, and used some swords that weren't the usual run of European blades and katanas that showed up in everything.
I've also been rewatching From Dust Till Dawn: The Series, because that show is a goddamn treasure, but mostly my favorites are not the series leads. I'm not a fan of DJ Cotrona and Zane Holtz (the Gecko brothers); for me, they were there to carry other people's stories along because, idk? When I watched it, Eisa Gonzalez (Kisa), Madison Davenport (Kate), Brandon Soo Hoo (Scott), Jesse Garcia (Freddie), and Wilmer Valderrama (Carlos) were absolutely brilliant actors and carried the series from beginning to end. But that's almost always what I do: I ignore the leads and focus on mostly the secondary characters. (Heartbreak central, but oh well.) There were brilliant tertiary characters, or people who were important for only a single season also. But they were really good for the story.
I'm trying to take it slow, but I'm almost done with season two, and then I'm going to hit s3 and its weird turns and twists that may have gotten it canceled since they did upend a lot of things. But I loved what they did in that season.
And now a new, urgent task has shown up for work, so...maybe I will wait and talk about other shows and movies later. This entry has been cross-posted to Dreamwidth (
comments). Comments are welcome on either post.