i can help! i'm very strong and... sticky!
my sister and i saw spider-man: far from home last night and i'm not sure how i feel about it. peter is still the cutest, except when ned is the cutest, and i enjoyed jake gyllenhaal, but i think i liked the first one better.it seemed to kind of jump from thing to thing and while i could follow what was going on - i mean, it's not super complicated - i couldn't totally get into it. even tho peter and mj are so adorably awkward around each other, and ned and betty are really cute in a "you make my teeth hurt" kind of way, and i like the tension between peter wanting to be a normal high schooler (he just wants to tell the girl he likes that he likes her!) and having to be a superhero and somehow not let anyone figure out who he really is. and sometimes i'm a sucker for a special effect, so i really liked the what's-real-what's-not scenes with peter and mysterio. well, maybe i should call him quinn.
but man, i am so tired of tony stark. i know his relationship with peter was significant, and of course there's still going to be a lot of memorial stuff so soon after his death and the unsnappening, but seriously, how soon before we can have a movie without him? at what point is he going to stop making non-trivial appearances in other people's movies?
also i had the sense that the post-credit sequence was supposed to make more sense - i mean, other than skrulls having impersonated fury and maria hill - and it did make "fury" snapping "don't say her name" when peter mentioned captain marvel make sense, but was i supposed to recognize where fury really was, and what he was really doing? because aside from "well, he's in outer space, i bet carol is involved somehow" i couldn't figure it out.
we got previews for two animated movies (both starring tom holland!), the next terminator (which i want to see mostly for linda hamilton kicking ass in her sixties), the next jumanji (why), hobbs & shaw (why), knives out (which i want to see for a. chris evans playing an asshole, and b. the possibility i might recognize some of the locations), and once upon a time in hollywood (can't wait).
yesterday was also artbeat, which i didn't realize until i was trying to drive into davis square and couldn't. it was BRUTALLY HOT but i love artbeat so i had to look around. i got paper houses and 3d printed earrings shaped like beets and a shoulder bag made from vcr tape woven into fabric. there were a lot of people and i saw a lot of dogs and had bao for lunch and did not overheat (much) because there was a kind of portable fountain, with several spigots for drinking out of AND refilling one's water bottle. free water! also a coffee truck offering free coffee, but as i am not a coffee drinker, i didn't have any. but i fully support the idea. i love artbeat. all the pottery looks the same after a while, but there's soap and photography and clothes and prints and A LOT of jewelry booths. and fun shit.
today i ran lots of errands and made a final pass at the spacebang, which posts on wednesday. O.O it's as done as i can make it. it was also BRUTALLY HOT but if you go from a/c to a/c, it's not that bad. and a little boy (maybe eight or nine?) said to me "hey, i like your t-shirt! mad max, right?" (it's a mad max: fury road tank from unicorn empire that says "oh, what a lovely day!" on it.) and of course i said "yeah, thank you!" and his brother said "how do you even remember that? you saw that movie six years ago!" it was adorable.
and speaking of BRUTALLY HOT - atlanta. and way more family than i'm used to.it was fun! mostly. my cousin kept having people over (dinner on thursday - followed by town fireworks - and cookies on saturday) and my sister kept wanting to lie out by the pool and get a tan and did i mention there was way more family than i'm used to? because there was. also a lot of services, because my cousin's a rabbi and her fam is, shall we say, very connected to their judaism, and the hotel was a convenient five minute walk from the family temple. the rabbi (not my cousin) wore jeans friday night and mumbled a lot, as if he was praying by/for himself and a bunch of other people just happened to be there. i was not impressed. saturday was the three-hour conservative shabbat service i grew up with, except a lot of the songs were different. at least the rabbi was appropriately dressed and spoke up. we threw candy at my cousin's kid and her fiance, and because my aim is WEAK, WEAK I SAY i accidentally hit a woman in the back of the head. >.< mediocre, self. the lunch afterward was weirdly comforting, because, again, it's what i grew up with. and also, egg salad. :D
on friday we went into atlanta proper for the civil rights museum and saturday night like fourteen of us had bbq for dinner and sunday afternoon my sister and i watched the second half of the world cup with our oakland cousins - it was VERY EXCITING and i'm not even a soccer fan. and then we got dressed and went to the wedding. which lasted FOREVER because i guess conservative jewish weddings do. the bride and groom are very cute together and even tho the ceremony was, like, twenty minutes long, it was very nice and involved a lot of family members. my cousin officiated but the groom's family rabbi came up from florida and had a part in it, and it was just really nice. the reception was, uh, well, the band sounded like a wedding band and played a lot of songs from the 90s, and because i knew a lot of them i could actually dance to them. fun. :D food was good (middle eastern buffet!), and the cake topper was my aunt and uncle's cake topper (the bride's grandparents) from when they got married DECADES AGO which i thought was really sweet. it just went on FOREVER, tho. and while i like that side of the family and i liked being able to spend time with my cousins and their kids (who are now real people! with jobs and rents and real life!) (well, one of them is starting college in september, so no job or rent, but he's less of a child than he was the last time we saw him) after a while i needed to be by myself for some peace and quiet.
also the hotel got a ten for comfy beds, a ten for convenience, and a zero for maintenance. the room locks were contactless and evidently need to be charged from time to time, because my parents were locked out of their room FOUR TIMES because the door wouldn't open because the lock was dead. my sister and i got locked out once. we were only there four nights! we got a free night for our trouble. also, they have something called "light touch" housekeeping, and i don't know what that means but it was more like "no touch" housekeeping. they didn't even make the bed until saturday, because my sister complained. and the room only had two towels, even tho the couch pulled out so the place could theoretically sleep at least three, possibly four. wtf.
it really was nice to see cousins, tho. they're always a good time. and i learned that my paternal grandma, who graduated from medical school in the late 20s and treated mostly women, wouldn't terminate a pregnancy if one of her patients needed/wanted it - because she wasn't trained as a surgeon - but she'd refer the patient to someone who would. go grandma.
i keep forgetting to share this, but fireworks in space! by which i mean, a double star system experienced what's called the great eruption in the 1800s and is still showing off.
fun things about ticker-tape parades in new york, in honor of the us women's soccer team getting one when they got home from winning the world cup.
goats are being used in wildfire-prone parts of the us to try to cut down on the fire risk. they eat grass and other stuff that can catch fire, and they're cheap and kind of cute.
this is an interesting article about how the humanities (languages, literature, etc) helped prisoners survive jail in communist romania.
the house that played twelve oaks, the wilkes plantation in gone with the wind, is for sale. it's MASSIVE. shocker.
the running of the t-rexes.
and i share this tweet because the pic "is so full of ham that three books of the old testament outlawed it for hygiene". hee.
and finally a meme, because i was tagged by sidleypkhermit, and why not.
Rules: go to your current WIP (or one of them), go to the seventh page, find the seventh line on it, and share the next seven sentences with us. Then tag seven others to do the same.
"Besides, I told you, people like you. Not everyone likes her." She put her glass down and patted him and Jensen on the shoulders, then dug in her pockets for money. She slapped some credits on the counter. In most places, for most people, a credit was just a line of code instantly transmitted from one account to the next, but in places like Port Wombat, places frequented by smugglers and conmen and those whose business was semi-legal at best, cold hard cash was just as common. It was harder to track.
Bounty hunting was a legitimate, licensed career choice, but bounty hunters sometimes inhabited the same shadowy corners as their bounties, and conducted their personal business the same way.
from my bang! it's not really a wip, but it's the only thing i'm currently working on. and i no longer have any idea who the writers are around here! so if you do have a wip, feel free to meme and share. :D
but man, i am so tired of tony stark. i know his relationship with peter was significant, and of course there's still going to be a lot of memorial stuff so soon after his death and the unsnappening, but seriously, how soon before we can have a movie without him? at what point is he going to stop making non-trivial appearances in other people's movies?
also i had the sense that the post-credit sequence was supposed to make more sense - i mean, other than skrulls having impersonated fury and maria hill - and it did make "fury" snapping "don't say her name" when peter mentioned captain marvel make sense, but was i supposed to recognize where fury really was, and what he was really doing? because aside from "well, he's in outer space, i bet carol is involved somehow" i couldn't figure it out.
we got previews for two animated movies (both starring tom holland!), the next terminator (which i want to see mostly for linda hamilton kicking ass in her sixties), the next jumanji (why), hobbs & shaw (why), knives out (which i want to see for a. chris evans playing an asshole, and b. the possibility i might recognize some of the locations), and once upon a time in hollywood (can't wait).
yesterday was also artbeat, which i didn't realize until i was trying to drive into davis square and couldn't. it was BRUTALLY HOT but i love artbeat so i had to look around. i got paper houses and 3d printed earrings shaped like beets and a shoulder bag made from vcr tape woven into fabric. there were a lot of people and i saw a lot of dogs and had bao for lunch and did not overheat (much) because there was a kind of portable fountain, with several spigots for drinking out of AND refilling one's water bottle. free water! also a coffee truck offering free coffee, but as i am not a coffee drinker, i didn't have any. but i fully support the idea. i love artbeat. all the pottery looks the same after a while, but there's soap and photography and clothes and prints and A LOT of jewelry booths. and fun shit.
today i ran lots of errands and made a final pass at the spacebang, which posts on wednesday. O.O it's as done as i can make it. it was also BRUTALLY HOT but if you go from a/c to a/c, it's not that bad. and a little boy (maybe eight or nine?) said to me "hey, i like your t-shirt! mad max, right?" (it's a mad max: fury road tank from unicorn empire that says "oh, what a lovely day!" on it.) and of course i said "yeah, thank you!" and his brother said "how do you even remember that? you saw that movie six years ago!" it was adorable.
and speaking of BRUTALLY HOT - atlanta. and way more family than i'm used to.it was fun! mostly. my cousin kept having people over (dinner on thursday - followed by town fireworks - and cookies on saturday) and my sister kept wanting to lie out by the pool and get a tan and did i mention there was way more family than i'm used to? because there was. also a lot of services, because my cousin's a rabbi and her fam is, shall we say, very connected to their judaism, and the hotel was a convenient five minute walk from the family temple. the rabbi (not my cousin) wore jeans friday night and mumbled a lot, as if he was praying by/for himself and a bunch of other people just happened to be there. i was not impressed. saturday was the three-hour conservative shabbat service i grew up with, except a lot of the songs were different. at least the rabbi was appropriately dressed and spoke up. we threw candy at my cousin's kid and her fiance, and because my aim is WEAK, WEAK I SAY i accidentally hit a woman in the back of the head. >.< mediocre, self. the lunch afterward was weirdly comforting, because, again, it's what i grew up with. and also, egg salad. :D
on friday we went into atlanta proper for the civil rights museum and saturday night like fourteen of us had bbq for dinner and sunday afternoon my sister and i watched the second half of the world cup with our oakland cousins - it was VERY EXCITING and i'm not even a soccer fan. and then we got dressed and went to the wedding. which lasted FOREVER because i guess conservative jewish weddings do. the bride and groom are very cute together and even tho the ceremony was, like, twenty minutes long, it was very nice and involved a lot of family members. my cousin officiated but the groom's family rabbi came up from florida and had a part in it, and it was just really nice. the reception was, uh, well, the band sounded like a wedding band and played a lot of songs from the 90s, and because i knew a lot of them i could actually dance to them. fun. :D food was good (middle eastern buffet!), and the cake topper was my aunt and uncle's cake topper (the bride's grandparents) from when they got married DECADES AGO which i thought was really sweet. it just went on FOREVER, tho. and while i like that side of the family and i liked being able to spend time with my cousins and their kids (who are now real people! with jobs and rents and real life!) (well, one of them is starting college in september, so no job or rent, but he's less of a child than he was the last time we saw him) after a while i needed to be by myself for some peace and quiet.
also the hotel got a ten for comfy beds, a ten for convenience, and a zero for maintenance. the room locks were contactless and evidently need to be charged from time to time, because my parents were locked out of their room FOUR TIMES because the door wouldn't open because the lock was dead. my sister and i got locked out once. we were only there four nights! we got a free night for our trouble. also, they have something called "light touch" housekeeping, and i don't know what that means but it was more like "no touch" housekeeping. they didn't even make the bed until saturday, because my sister complained. and the room only had two towels, even tho the couch pulled out so the place could theoretically sleep at least three, possibly four. wtf.
it really was nice to see cousins, tho. they're always a good time. and i learned that my paternal grandma, who graduated from medical school in the late 20s and treated mostly women, wouldn't terminate a pregnancy if one of her patients needed/wanted it - because she wasn't trained as a surgeon - but she'd refer the patient to someone who would. go grandma.
i keep forgetting to share this, but fireworks in space! by which i mean, a double star system experienced what's called the great eruption in the 1800s and is still showing off.
fun things about ticker-tape parades in new york, in honor of the us women's soccer team getting one when they got home from winning the world cup.
goats are being used in wildfire-prone parts of the us to try to cut down on the fire risk. they eat grass and other stuff that can catch fire, and they're cheap and kind of cute.
this is an interesting article about how the humanities (languages, literature, etc) helped prisoners survive jail in communist romania.
the house that played twelve oaks, the wilkes plantation in gone with the wind, is for sale. it's MASSIVE. shocker.
the running of the t-rexes.
and i share this tweet because the pic "is so full of ham that three books of the old testament outlawed it for hygiene". hee.
and finally a meme, because i was tagged by sidleypkhermit, and why not.
Rules: go to your current WIP (or one of them), go to the seventh page, find the seventh line on it, and share the next seven sentences with us. Then tag seven others to do the same.
"Besides, I told you, people like you. Not everyone likes her." She put her glass down and patted him and Jensen on the shoulders, then dug in her pockets for money. She slapped some credits on the counter. In most places, for most people, a credit was just a line of code instantly transmitted from one account to the next, but in places like Port Wombat, places frequented by smugglers and conmen and those whose business was semi-legal at best, cold hard cash was just as common. It was harder to track.
Bounty hunting was a legitimate, licensed career choice, but bounty hunters sometimes inhabited the same shadowy corners as their bounties, and conducted their personal business the same way.
from my bang! it's not really a wip, but it's the only thing i'm currently working on. and i no longer have any idea who the writers are around here! so if you do have a wip, feel free to meme and share. :D