It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like a Non-Denominational Holiday.
It turns out that people really don't know how to react when they're offering their cat a treat, and you take the cat treat out of their hand and pop it into your mouth.
(She yelped and reflexively hit me, then said, 'Oh, I'm sorry I hit you! I didn't know what else to do!')
Talking about this with my housemates later:
Ginger: I want to know what was going through your head.
Riona: I was on the sofa with the cat next to me. RD had the packet of cat treats, and she took one out, and I was just lying there thinking, 'The cat treat is going to come into my range. I could eat the cat treat. There's nothing to prevent me from eating the cat treat.'
Rei: Oh, so it was premeditated. You schemed.
Riona: No! I wasn't actually planning to eat it; it was hypothetical! I wasn't expecting to do it! And then I did!
In other news, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is a genuinely excellent film. The visual style was extremely cool. Very comic-book inspired. I've never seen anything quite like it before.
Spoilers below the cut:
Miles Morales is endearing and feels very much like a teenager. The moment when he was struggling with his uncle and pulled off his own mask, exposing his identity and not knowing whether that would be enough to make his uncle spare him, absolutely shredded my heart.
This poor kid. He wasn't ready for any of this.
It didn't occur to me until after the film, but Gwen's backstory included 'I couldn't save my best friend Peter Parker'; it must have been very strange and painful for her to be working with an older alternate-universe version of her lost friend. The film never really addressed that. There might be scope for fanfiction there.
While I'm under the cut, I want to record my favourite joke in the entire film:
Security guard: I know you snuck out last night, Morales.
Miles, thinking: Play dumb!
Miles: Who's Morales?
I really enjoyed this film, and I recommend it if you have any fondness for Spider-Man or interest in animation at all. I'm generally tired of superhero films, but this felt like something fresh and fun.
(She yelped and reflexively hit me, then said, 'Oh, I'm sorry I hit you! I didn't know what else to do!')
Talking about this with my housemates later:
Ginger: I want to know what was going through your head.
Riona: I was on the sofa with the cat next to me. RD had the packet of cat treats, and she took one out, and I was just lying there thinking, 'The cat treat is going to come into my range. I could eat the cat treat. There's nothing to prevent me from eating the cat treat.'
Rei: Oh, so it was premeditated. You schemed.
Riona: No! I wasn't actually planning to eat it; it was hypothetical! I wasn't expecting to do it! And then I did!
In other news, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is a genuinely excellent film. The visual style was extremely cool. Very comic-book inspired. I've never seen anything quite like it before.
Spoilers below the cut:
Miles Morales is endearing and feels very much like a teenager. The moment when he was struggling with his uncle and pulled off his own mask, exposing his identity and not knowing whether that would be enough to make his uncle spare him, absolutely shredded my heart.
This poor kid. He wasn't ready for any of this.
It didn't occur to me until after the film, but Gwen's backstory included 'I couldn't save my best friend Peter Parker'; it must have been very strange and painful for her to be working with an older alternate-universe version of her lost friend. The film never really addressed that. There might be scope for fanfiction there.
While I'm under the cut, I want to record my favourite joke in the entire film:
Security guard: I know you snuck out last night, Morales.
Miles, thinking: Play dumb!
Miles: Who's Morales?
I really enjoyed this film, and I recommend it if you have any fondness for Spider-Man or interest in animation at all. I'm generally tired of superhero films, but this felt like something fresh and fun.