I don't even know anymore, y'all.
I'm watching the Sci-Fi Channel Dresden Files series from a few years ago for research purposes* and the plotting is pretty abysmal and really makes me appreciate Butcher's ability to write a story that makes sense but I kind of like how they've made Harry less of an obnoxious dick** and I think I'm falling in love with Paul Blackthorne don't you judge me but please send help.
Also, Murphy as a Latina single mother is WEIRD WHAT IS HAPPENING, but I kind of like it...? For now...? We'll have to see where they go with this...? And I could write an alarming amount about how Bob appearing as a human is another way of showing that TV!Harry is better integrated into the world around him than is Book!Harry, but that is NOT what I am here for. I am here for tech. Because lecture.
There really is just something about Blackthorne, though, something I can't put my finger on...
In less pathetic news, I finally felt ready to get a new hamster today (thanks, weird dream!), but the ones at my local pet store won't be old enough to be sold for another two weeks. Now, I could obviously drive down to one of the pet stores in Touristy Beachville, and they would probably have hamsters to-hand, but I'm pretty sure the ones at my local store are from the same stock as Lorne was (Lorne being the second best hamster I've ever had in my life***), and they are all goddamned adorable, and just in the couple of minutes I stood there looking at them, three of the little buggers managed to steal my heart****. So, it's annoying and kind of painful to have to wait (particularly since I got the cage all set up before I went out, so there's this empty hamster cage in my room waiting for a fuzzy little tenant), but it'll be worth it. The only concern I have is how in the world I'm going to be able to choose just one.
* I'm not even lying - the way Harry is presented in this show is, to my mind, very different than the way he is presented in the books, and I think a legitimate case can (and will!) be made for a correlation between his relative integration into society in the two and how big a deal is made about his inability to be around technology.
** OMG PUN I AM SO PLEASED WITH MYSELF RIGHT NOW.
*** Iolaus was the best. Iolaus will forever be the best. Lorne might have made it to co-best if he had lived longer, but no hamster will ever top the awesomeness that was Ioio.
**** To be fair, there were also four rats that did likewise, but I'm not in the market for rats right now. If Lorneybear had lived a few more months, long enough to get me off on my own and out of the padres' again, I might be in the market for rats. But not this time. It's still strictly hamsters for me. Because the tails, you see. My mother is a tail bigot.
Also, Murphy as a Latina single mother is WEIRD WHAT IS HAPPENING, but I kind of like it...? For now...? We'll have to see where they go with this...? And I could write an alarming amount about how Bob appearing as a human is another way of showing that TV!Harry is better integrated into the world around him than is Book!Harry, but that is NOT what I am here for. I am here for tech. Because lecture.
There really is just something about Blackthorne, though, something I can't put my finger on...
In less pathetic news, I finally felt ready to get a new hamster today (thanks, weird dream!), but the ones at my local pet store won't be old enough to be sold for another two weeks. Now, I could obviously drive down to one of the pet stores in Touristy Beachville, and they would probably have hamsters to-hand, but I'm pretty sure the ones at my local store are from the same stock as Lorne was (Lorne being the second best hamster I've ever had in my life***), and they are all goddamned adorable, and just in the couple of minutes I stood there looking at them, three of the little buggers managed to steal my heart****. So, it's annoying and kind of painful to have to wait (particularly since I got the cage all set up before I went out, so there's this empty hamster cage in my room waiting for a fuzzy little tenant), but it'll be worth it. The only concern I have is how in the world I'm going to be able to choose just one.
* I'm not even lying - the way Harry is presented in this show is, to my mind, very different than the way he is presented in the books, and I think a legitimate case can (and will!) be made for a correlation between his relative integration into society in the two and how big a deal is made about his inability to be around technology.
** OMG PUN I AM SO PLEASED WITH MYSELF RIGHT NOW.
*** Iolaus was the best. Iolaus will forever be the best. Lorne might have made it to co-best if he had lived longer, but no hamster will ever top the awesomeness that was Ioio.
**** To be fair, there were also four rats that did likewise, but I'm not in the market for rats right now. If Lorneybear had lived a few more months, long enough to get me off on my own and out of the padres' again, I might be in the market for rats. But not this time. It's still strictly hamsters for me. Because the tails, you see. My mother is a tail bigot.