"what is she saying?" "she's saying 'thank you'."

[tsuki_no_bara]

(spoiler: she's not saying "thank you".)

on saturday my sister and i saw the shape of water, which is a lovely romance between a mute woman and a, uh, fish. but seriously, it's genuinely sweet and romantic and fairy-tale-like, and in fact one of the things i really like about it is that it's clearly set in a particular place (baltimore) at a

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[donutsweeper]

I saw that Doncaster thing on tumblr- I love when the people who run the social media sites have a good sense of humor. :)

[tsuki_no_bara]

it's so adorable, isn't it?

[justphoenix]

I really, really hope you have to cover reception because of similar duties or low seniority, and not because you're a woman. Does anybody else have to cover her?

[tsuki_no_bara]

i split it with the mail room guy, so i'm pretty sure it's because i'm an admin (rather than an auditor or something), and not because i'm a woman. the office manager/coordinator is just too busy. (there may or may not be some sarcasm there.)

[fannishliss]

thanks for the movie review because I had not yet heard about this movie. it sounds sad? I tend to avoid sad movies. but otherwise very interesting.

moscow -- this is why so much vodka.

we read an interesting article about why Putin walks like a gunslinger. Hint: he was the head of the kgb.

Tucson does have the really iconic cactuses like you would see in a Road Runner cartoon. The 21 foot one probably had the iconic arms. They don't get those until they get really tall. Las Vegas is in a different desert (the Mojave) from Tucson (the Sonoran), but my friend who lives in Vegas bought a house with a saguaro in front. It was really pretty until it gave up and fell over.

[tsuki_no_bara]

parts of it are sad but it ends on a happy, hopeful note. i mean, it's a love story, it has to have a happy ending.

>>moscow -- this is why so much vodka. <<

seriously! no wonder russians are so depressed!

saguaros are my favorite cactus. those and the round barrel cactus. if tucson is going to try and woo amazon with a cactus, they may as well go big. did your friend in vegas buy that house for the saguaro, or was it just a nice bonus? because a saguaro in the front yard would totally sway me towards the house.

[touchofgr3y]

I love that you brought Lego! Excellent choice :)

[tsuki_no_bara]

not just any lego - women of nasa lego! which means i now have a tiny lego space shuttle and a tiny lego hubble telescope on my bookcase. :D

[halfshellvenus]

Wasn't The Shape of Water fascinating? So much rich detail, and much of it not what you might expect, either.

HSH's opinion about the various TMI moments is that they are to help us see the main character as a sexual being, so that her embracing of love and emotional depth from such an unusual source makes sense to us for who she is.

The fingers, though... perpetually Ewww.

The Moscow thing... gads, you know there isn't much daylight to the north this time of year, because of the angle of the earth, but to have what little there is blocked by cloud cover? Argh, pass the Stoli, tovarisch. Or maybe just the noose...

[tsuki_no_bara]

it really was detailed! i figured all the eggs had to be meaningful, but i couldn't figure out what they meant. (other than they made me want a hard-boiled egg sandwich.) i thought from the outset that the scars on elisa's neck were healed-over gills, so the fact that she was so attracted to a fishman made sense to me. i mean, like calling to like, you know? but hsh's point is still a good one. i mean, when you watch someone masturbating in her bathtub more than once, you get a picture of her as a sexual being.

i could've done without the fingers, tho. euugh. i did love that they got darker and darker and more and more dead without any comment from anyone until the end, tho. it was nicely subtle.

no wonder russians (or at least muscovites) seem like a depressed bunch. they need sunlamps!