i hear the voices when I'm dreaming

...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:

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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.

So ... Netflix has a new-ish show, Afflucted, that I've been waffling in whether or not to watch. It advertised as a documentary following people with chronic illnesses. I wasn't sure, in advance, whether it was going to be sympathetic or dramatastic.

It's the latter. In a "oh it's all in their head" way. And it deliberately twisted the stories of *everyone* involved, who were misled about the purpose of the show (documentary ga reality tv) and were basically abused by the production staff.

https://medium.com/@afflicted/the-truth-behind-netflixs-afflicted-92e92d32cd7c is worth reading. If links to essays written by the participants, detailing the experience and also the facts that got left out about things like, oh, say, actual diagnoses and actual medical info and actual *everything*.

I am Not Impressed.

Okay, I have to rant: I watched a movie on Netflix (which is a fairly common occurrence) and it is *bad*. Not the fun cheesy kind of bad, not the "so bad it's almost kind of good" bad, not even the "fascinating train wreck" kind of bad. Just ... bad. And bland. And I would rather have spent my time watching paint dry.

It's called "Brace for Impact", only that's not really the proper name, and the summary on Netflix is misleading to some extent.

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