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1) Shortpacked!
Thursday: Yay, Jacob's back at the store! I've missed his :| and o___O faces whenever people get up to what you could charitable describe as "hijinx" AKA always. While I love Amber and Jacob's friendship, and I hope he does grow out of his crush on her (tho I don't want it to be a cheap, instantaneous sort of thing, which is something I think Shortpacked! is excellent at avoiding; emotions linger and people have to actually work through their stuff over time), I'm also excited at maybe seeing Ethan and Jacob becoming friends? Like, real friends, not just acquaintances or coworkers who both happen to have Opinions on comix. More dude friends for Ethan! More friends, period, for Jacob! Everybody wins, especially me, Memlu!
Friday: Ugh, this whole storyline has just been so satisfying. Adults navigating and defining their relationships! Adults defining their relationships in relation to their respective needs as well as to the needs of the other party! LOL, what am I talking about, we all know I'm still blissing out over Amber and Mike getting engaged and having a baaaaaaaby. But Ethan and Drew finally confronting each other about the bug at the heart of their relationship was deeply satisfying, too, if kind of heart-wrenching, which idk if I can explain why it's so heart-wrenching given outside of his relationship with Ethan, Drew's kind of a cipher. I suppose it's that Ethan, who I loooooove, loves Drew, so through/for Ethan I care about this relationship, which LOL, that's ... such a terrible reason to 'ship something, but I guess it's like if you had a friend and that friend was dating someone you didn't really know and maybe you don't care about the person they're dating but you care about your friend. (Yes. Good simile. Because this fictional character is my IRL friend.) Whatever!! I just want him to be happy, y'all.
Anyway! Digging that Amber's worried about Lil' Warner's future with her and Mike, not simply because, as she says, she and Mike are both broken, messed up people (who work well together and can handle their respective issues), but because, well, it's a baby. It's her first baby. Of course she'd be worried. And I'm glad that Willis is addressing this instead of presenting the pregnancy as all sunshine and roses and comically timed morning sickness, both in the more general oh, god, pregnancy! terms and in regards, specifically, to Amber and to Mike and whether or not they're ready to or even capable of taking care of this future kid. (I think they are, but, uh, y'all knew that already.) Like, as excited as I am for BAAAAAABY because I am a baby monster, hear me baby talk, I still want to see the issues surrounding pregnancy for these two addressed. IDK how likely it is, but I want to see Mike deal with this, too, not because I'm not interested in Amber's fears and hopes wrt the baby but because I'm interested in his fears and hopes, too. And, well, it's always (and sadly) refreshing when pregnancy isn't just a mother's story, but the father's, too.
Also love that she confided in Leslie! Love these two ladies and their understated friendship. Shortpacked!'s fairly good at casual, friendly interaction between the characters, at exploring how different characters have different relationships, and Leslie and Amber's friendship, having evolved from some seriously awkward stuff, is uniquely personal. It's interesting to see how and what Amber chooses to confide in Leslie instead of Ethan! Ethan's her best friend, hobvs, but because he's her best friend there are things she doesn't necessarily want to tell him, not because she doesn't love him or trust him or respect him but because she prizes his love and trust and respect for her. Sometimes it's harder to confide in someone you love dearly than it is someone you don't know quite so well.
Tangent! David Willis: "I wasn’t sure if [Amber and Mike] would last until I started writing it and then I realized it would never ever end because I love them together so much." 1: Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, my emotions! 2: I'm so used to fiction fucking with me wrt OTPs that I'm, like, instantly wary of all assurances that no fucking is planned. Is this a trick? ARE YOU TRYING TO LULL ME INTO A FALSE CALM? I JUST DON'T KNOW IF I CAN TRUST AGAIN. I do know that should Amber and Mike ever break up, I'm going to have to sell all my belongings, move to a small and dark apartment in a suitably anonymous city, and just cry in that empty place for the rest of my life. When they find me, I will be but a dried husk, flittering as paper would about the room, driven only by the gentle current of that stale and wretched air.
2) I! Am going to learn Korean. Now I've said it and I can't take it back. Well, really, I can't take it back because I ordered a few beginner's educational materials etc the other day. Alas! Commitment! Self-study is perhaps not the best of ideas, which is why I'm planning on enrolling in the Korean language courses offered at NVCC next semester. But Annandale! I'm going to have to learn how to drive, horrors.
3) So a few days ago people were posting lists of TV shows they're planning to follow. Is it too late for me to join in? Guys? Is anyone still here? Hello? I'm just going to put this here and if you wanna look at it, that's cool, and if you don't wanna look at it, that's cool, too.
KDramas:
**Fall season.
4) I don't like to say this sort of thing--it always feels strangely arrogant to me, which is the saddest thing of all, and rather like I'm shouting at fate to come and throw a rock at my nose--but I like myself quite a lot now. I'm not the best person and there's lots I have to do to improve upon myself, but I'm a good person, I think. I don't have to feel guilty about people loving me. It's OK to believe I'm worthy of love.
Thursday: Yay, Jacob's back at the store! I've missed his :| and o___O faces whenever people get up to what you could charitable describe as "hijinx" AKA always. While I love Amber and Jacob's friendship, and I hope he does grow out of his crush on her (tho I don't want it to be a cheap, instantaneous sort of thing, which is something I think Shortpacked! is excellent at avoiding; emotions linger and people have to actually work through their stuff over time), I'm also excited at maybe seeing Ethan and Jacob becoming friends? Like, real friends, not just acquaintances or coworkers who both happen to have Opinions on comix. More dude friends for Ethan! More friends, period, for Jacob! Everybody wins, especially me, Memlu!
Friday: Ugh, this whole storyline has just been so satisfying. Adults navigating and defining their relationships! Adults defining their relationships in relation to their respective needs as well as to the needs of the other party! LOL, what am I talking about, we all know I'm still blissing out over Amber and Mike getting engaged and having a baaaaaaaby. But Ethan and Drew finally confronting each other about the bug at the heart of their relationship was deeply satisfying, too, if kind of heart-wrenching, which idk if I can explain why it's so heart-wrenching given outside of his relationship with Ethan, Drew's kind of a cipher. I suppose it's that Ethan, who I loooooove, loves Drew, so through/for Ethan I care about this relationship, which LOL, that's ... such a terrible reason to 'ship something, but I guess it's like if you had a friend and that friend was dating someone you didn't really know and maybe you don't care about the person they're dating but you care about your friend. (Yes. Good simile. Because this fictional character is my IRL friend.) Whatever!! I just want him to be happy, y'all.
Anyway! Digging that Amber's worried about Lil' Warner's future with her and Mike, not simply because, as she says, she and Mike are both broken, messed up people (who work well together and can handle their respective issues), but because, well, it's a baby. It's her first baby. Of course she'd be worried. And I'm glad that Willis is addressing this instead of presenting the pregnancy as all sunshine and roses and comically timed morning sickness, both in the more general oh, god, pregnancy! terms and in regards, specifically, to Amber and to Mike and whether or not they're ready to or even capable of taking care of this future kid. (I think they are, but, uh, y'all knew that already.) Like, as excited as I am for BAAAAAABY because I am a baby monster, hear me baby talk, I still want to see the issues surrounding pregnancy for these two addressed. IDK how likely it is, but I want to see Mike deal with this, too, not because I'm not interested in Amber's fears and hopes wrt the baby but because I'm interested in his fears and hopes, too. And, well, it's always (and sadly) refreshing when pregnancy isn't just a mother's story, but the father's, too.
Also love that she confided in Leslie! Love these two ladies and their understated friendship. Shortpacked!'s fairly good at casual, friendly interaction between the characters, at exploring how different characters have different relationships, and Leslie and Amber's friendship, having evolved from some seriously awkward stuff, is uniquely personal. It's interesting to see how and what Amber chooses to confide in Leslie instead of Ethan! Ethan's her best friend, hobvs, but because he's her best friend there are things she doesn't necessarily want to tell him, not because she doesn't love him or trust him or respect him but because she prizes his love and trust and respect for her. Sometimes it's harder to confide in someone you love dearly than it is someone you don't know quite so well.
Tangent! David Willis: "I wasn’t sure if [Amber and Mike] would last until I started writing it and then I realized it would never ever end because I love them together so much." 1: Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, my emotions! 2: I'm so used to fiction fucking with me wrt OTPs that I'm, like, instantly wary of all assurances that no fucking is planned. Is this a trick? ARE YOU TRYING TO LULL ME INTO A FALSE CALM? I JUST DON'T KNOW IF I CAN TRUST AGAIN. I do know that should Amber and Mike ever break up, I'm going to have to sell all my belongings, move to a small and dark apartment in a suitably anonymous city, and just cry in that empty place for the rest of my life. When they find me, I will be but a dried husk, flittering as paper would about the room, driven only by the gentle current of that stale and wretched air.
2) I! Am going to learn Korean. Now I've said it and I can't take it back. Well, really, I can't take it back because I ordered a few beginner's educational materials etc the other day. Alas! Commitment! Self-study is perhaps not the best of ideas, which is why I'm planning on enrolling in the Korean language courses offered at NVCC next semester. But Annandale! I'm going to have to learn how to drive, horrors.
3) So a few days ago people were posting lists of TV shows they're planning to follow. Is it too late for me to join in? Guys? Is anyone still here? Hello? I'm just going to put this here and if you wanna look at it, that's cool, and if you don't wanna look at it, that's cool, too.
KDramas:
- Scent of a Woman*
- Baby-Faced Beauty*
- Protect the Boss*
- White Christmas*
- 49 Days
- Dream High
- Archer**
- Parks and Recreation**
- Up All Night**
- Young Justice
- + the usual assortment of Cartoon Network shows, e.g. Adventure Time, Regular Show, The Amazing World of Gumball.
**Fall season.
4) I don't like to say this sort of thing--it always feels strangely arrogant to me, which is the saddest thing of all, and rather like I'm shouting at fate to come and throw a rock at my nose--but I like myself quite a lot now. I'm not the best person and there's lots I have to do to improve upon myself, but I'm a good person, I think. I don't have to feel guilty about people loving me. It's OK to believe I'm worthy of love.