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ysobel...why is update a word br downdate isn't?
Anyway.
1. Hit 1000 day streak in Duolingo (!], which also means that -- given my previous streaks -- I've done more than 2k total days (!!). That's a lot. ...of course, two days later i missed a day, but streak freeze caught that one. Still, I'm likely to lose it st some point.
2. The book I was hate reading? I finished it and kind of wish I hadn't. CW abuse:
So the setup was "woman goes missing. Is it her husband? They had the seemingly perfect marriage. Is it the mystery stalker she went to the police about? Did she run awayyyyyy???"
And there were Surprise Revelations along the way. Like the fact that her husband is verbally and physically abusive. Like the fact that she had an affair with the police detective investigating the stalker case. And her sister's ex starts acting weird. And the husband doesn't seem to be worried.
The Zomg Surprise Twist(s) is/are that the police detective fabricated the stalker so that the woman would come to him and they could get close, and when she broke off the affair he decided to kidnap her and hold her captive, literally tied down until the media moves on to other things with plans to live entirely off the grid.
The sister's ex, whom the narrative was trying to red-herring into looking like the bad guy, rescues the missing woman. Sister and ex get back together. And woman and husband get back together because ~they love each other~
...and I wanted to scream because it's the same love-excuses-abuse mentality that Twilight/50S has.
Their marriage goes from bliss to "I'm so bored I'm considering running away" to affair in like four months. He's super abusive -- verbally and emotionally and physically -- including classic things like very solicitous flowers-and-dinner honeymooning after she "made him" get scary mad. And the verbal abuse escalated after the affair (and granted, affairs aren't good things to do, but the "I deserve all this punishment and he could be meaner, let me grovel" attitude she has is ... gross.
And they get back together. Because ~love~.
::rolling eyes so hard they fall out::
Needless to say, I don't recommend it.
2b. (Or not 2b, that is the question) -- er, I mean, one good thing is that the book has resparked my interest in working on the 50 Shades of Ace project (aka rewriting fsog with sensible characters and an ace protagonist who discovers that she loves kink).
3. I tried listening to the audiobook I have checked out from the library, but the narrator is the same guy that does the version of Watership Down that I utterly adore, to the point of listening to it a ton of times. IF's my default going-to-sleep hook, because soothing narrator and a story I know well that's nicely compartmentalized so it doesn't matter if I drift in and out. And I keep having this brain short listening to this other one *because he's not narrating rabbits aaahhhhh*. I may have to read that book instead of listening, lol.
4. My self-imposed yarn diet (because I have way more yarn than I could ever use) is conflicting with my need buy rainbow yarn. (I have only one rainbow skein and it's gone missing along with the partial shawl. I think the black widows stole it.) Also, someone on rav is making various queer sea creatures for pride season -- octobi, genderflusquid, pridetopus -- and one of the ones is an aceopus, and now I have a mighty need to make one. Though *that* I can scrounge up yarn for (grey white black purple).
5. At what point does feeling like I'm drowning in life crises stop becoming an acknowledgment of stressful reality and start becoming a crutch? Asking for a friend.
6. Mark Harmon is pretty. I've been rewatching NCIS -- not so much a binge as ragged uneven spurts -- and i am very 😍 at Gibbs. Very aesthetically pleasing.
7. There is apparently a new Men In Black movie, starring Thor and the Valkyrie. The trailer makes it look astoundingly stupid. I think I will rewatch the original mib instead.
Anyway.
1. Hit 1000 day streak in Duolingo (!], which also means that -- given my previous streaks -- I've done more than 2k total days (!!). That's a lot. ...of course, two days later i missed a day, but streak freeze caught that one. Still, I'm likely to lose it st some point.
2. The book I was hate reading? I finished it and kind of wish I hadn't. CW abuse:
So the setup was "woman goes missing. Is it her husband? They had the seemingly perfect marriage. Is it the mystery stalker she went to the police about? Did she run awayyyyyy???"
And there were Surprise Revelations along the way. Like the fact that her husband is verbally and physically abusive. Like the fact that she had an affair with the police detective investigating the stalker case. And her sister's ex starts acting weird. And the husband doesn't seem to be worried.
The Zomg Surprise Twist(s) is/are that the police detective fabricated the stalker so that the woman would come to him and they could get close, and when she broke off the affair he decided to kidnap her and hold her captive, literally tied down until the media moves on to other things with plans to live entirely off the grid.
The sister's ex, whom the narrative was trying to red-herring into looking like the bad guy, rescues the missing woman. Sister and ex get back together. And woman and husband get back together because ~they love each other~
...and I wanted to scream because it's the same love-excuses-abuse mentality that Twilight/50S has.
Their marriage goes from bliss to "I'm so bored I'm considering running away" to affair in like four months. He's super abusive -- verbally and emotionally and physically -- including classic things like very solicitous flowers-and-dinner honeymooning after she "made him" get scary mad. And the verbal abuse escalated after the affair (and granted, affairs aren't good things to do, but the "I deserve all this punishment and he could be meaner, let me grovel" attitude she has is ... gross.
And they get back together. Because ~love~.
::rolling eyes so hard they fall out::
Needless to say, I don't recommend it.
2b. (Or not 2b, that is the question) -- er, I mean, one good thing is that the book has resparked my interest in working on the 50 Shades of Ace project (aka rewriting fsog with sensible characters and an ace protagonist who discovers that she loves kink).
3. I tried listening to the audiobook I have checked out from the library, but the narrator is the same guy that does the version of Watership Down that I utterly adore, to the point of listening to it a ton of times. IF's my default going-to-sleep hook, because soothing narrator and a story I know well that's nicely compartmentalized so it doesn't matter if I drift in and out. And I keep having this brain short listening to this other one *because he's not narrating rabbits aaahhhhh*. I may have to read that book instead of listening, lol.
4. My self-imposed yarn diet (because I have way more yarn than I could ever use) is conflicting with my need buy rainbow yarn. (I have only one rainbow skein and it's gone missing along with the partial shawl. I think the black widows stole it.) Also, someone on rav is making various queer sea creatures for pride season -- octobi, genderflusquid, pridetopus -- and one of the ones is an aceopus, and now I have a mighty need to make one. Though *that* I can scrounge up yarn for (grey white black purple).
5. At what point does feeling like I'm drowning in life crises stop becoming an acknowledgment of stressful reality and start becoming a crutch? Asking for a friend.
6. Mark Harmon is pretty. I've been rewatching NCIS -- not so much a binge as ragged uneven spurts -- and i am very 😍 at Gibbs. Very aesthetically pleasing.
7. There is apparently a new Men In Black movie, starring Thor and the Valkyrie. The trailer makes it look astoundingly stupid. I think I will rewatch the original mib instead.
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Date: 2019-06-18 08:15 pm (UTC)I also think Mark Harmon is pretty, principally because I imprinted on him as a sweet young thing in Reasonable Doubts, a fun procedural featuring Marlee Matlin as a very Jewish ADA in Chicago. Harmon's character knew enough sign to work with Marlee's, but wasn't her terp.
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Date: 2019-06-18 10:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-07-01 03:35 am (UTC)(It is occasionally the case that the trailer for a movie is worse than the movie -- and the lead female, who probably isn't actually a Valkyrie, is on my list of Pretty Eye Candy, so there's at least that going for it.)