August 2022 Last minute update (Patreon)

Sorry for the last minute post- I'm about to enter a really busy time. I'll be working full-time while my boss is away for the next two weeks since the other admin quit to take care of her baby. No I don't get full time benefits or a raise during this time (my hours will be "rearranged"). I'm also currently teaching a MFA class too. So it's going to be tough. 

I did get a break from work between terms and a ton happened! Mostly, I went to to Boston Fan Expo and I keep having to remind myself to post the cosplay and pictures. But JUST for you guys, I'll include links to videos of Elijah Wood and Giancarlo Esposito when I can. It was a pretty fun con, but I was nervous about getting COVID. Fortunately, I didn't. My friend Grace is a bigger spender than I'm usually am, and I got lots of art and keychains too. The highlight of the con was seeing how animated Esposito was (he seemed to want to turn every question into a motivational speech) and a podcast panel with Christy Carlson Romano and Will Friedle (from Kim Possible) where they had a bunch of people stand in line and do off the cuff voice acting for these fun doodles their artist friend drew. Grace and I also went on a ghost tour, which was fun, and we walked to Chinatown, which seriously messed up my feet (I'm trying orthopedic shoes now).

Doing a LOT of reading. I finally finished This is How You Lose the Time War- sapphic story about enemy agents on the opposite end of a time war- and really loved it. I also read Carmilla, which I wrote a lot about on tumblr, and read the sweet, much more romantic retelling Carmilla & Laura. I also finished The Deep- it's very heavy, since it's about merpeople who were descended from pregnant slaves thrown overboard, but vey good. On the non-novella side of things I read The Once and Future Witches, which I definitely think is a nice read if you like witches, alternate fantasy histories, and feminism and Library of the Unwritten, also a decent read which mixes demons from hell and stories-about-stories. 

I also recently finished Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating (just a cute queer YA fake dating story) and Everybody in This Room will Someday Be Dead (this was for a new queer book club, after the other one fell through. Fingers crossed for this one. It was a bit tough to read because it's about a woman with severe depression and anxiety and is accurate about it, but it definitely wasn't a bad book, so step up from my last book club read.) Aaaand having finished Harrow (and now thoroughly back on My Locked Tomb bullshit, eagerly anticipating the next one), I'm now listening to Under The Whispering Door. I told you I was reading a lot!

Showwise, I'm a bit behind with anime, (predictably dropped Uncle) but I finished Russian Doll S2 (good), Better Call Saul (so good), and I'm watching Harley Quinn right now, which I've surprisingly enjoyed a lot? I'm not always down with the gore/grossout comedy all the time (and why was the first season was so obsessed with anti-Semitic jokes... though at least they stopped in the second), but I actually mostly really enjoy it's takes on all the characters and find them fun. I like that it does something different with them. Plus, Harley/Ivy. I also enjoyed The Rehearsal, a bizarre absurdist comedy.

(Still annoyed that adaptations will have Babs be a Stephanie-Brown-style- Batgirl when Batman is on fuckin' Damien as Robin but whatever, god forbid Steph and Cass ever not be fucked over. )

Currently watching The Sandman too, and enjoying it. I think it made a lot of good changes to the comic, tbh.

Moviewise, REALLY enjoyed Prey (Predator horror flick starring Comanche people, if you haven't heard) and liked Nope (Jordan Peele's new thing) okay. 

I also bought and am sometimes attempting to play Stray but my computer cannot deal with the game, which is pretty depressing.

Finally, I'm up to 91,000 words on my novel and officially on the string of climactic scenes. I'm pretty hyped about it!

Sorry I can't go into more detail about the con and other stuff, I'll try to do some additions when I have more time.