Media Diet Aug-Oct
Oct. 30th, 2022 19:18![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
superborbI have been in Graeber purgatory for the last three months and I am STILL NOT DONE with Dawn of Everything, so uh. Some mostly non-book media! (I... am mostly enjoying it, but it's just very difficult to read through in one sitting, which makes my progress slow.)
Make, Sew and Mend, by Bernadette Banner: An overview of hand-sewing techniques. Fromsophia_sol's rec. It was well laid out in terms of the order of covered topics and mostly clear, though it was occasionally excessively wordy. There were a few times when I had to reread a sentence a dozen or so times before I understood what was happening and afterwords felt like it could have been expressed with more clarity. On the one hand, I'm not an experienced sewer so it makes sense that I would be confused sometimes; on the other, surely that is most of the intended audience, as the techniques covered are not particularly fancy. I did learn how to properly anchor my thread! And corrected a few other things that home ec misled me on.
8UPPERS: In conjunction with their album promotion, Kanjani8 released this movie, where they are gangsters who have suddenly acquired a baby. I guess a lot of background was supposed to be revealed in teasers in advance, but the plot still made sense without it. Not that the plot is that complicated or deep, but it is coherent! Mainly, they cast a cute baby and there are lots of found family scenes.
As We Like It (2021): An all-female cast retelling of As You Like It, set in a neighborhood of Taipei where internet is banned. It opens with many gay and lesbian couples as background, but an 'I'm not gay' freakout is what keeps Orlando and Rosalind-as-a-boy apart? And the het couple being able to have a baby is why they're superior? There are briefly mentioned gay couples, but it does come across as being far more comfortable with lesbians (or the playacting of a lesbian relationship) than with gay people. It tries to conclude with a 'gender doesn't matter' message at the end, but... all the main couples are het, though played by women, and the closest they get to queerness is the slight gender bending of Rosalind-as-a-boy. It was a fun romp, just not as queer as it seemed it'd be.
Luca (2021): Summer adventure coming of age movie set in Italy, where a sea monster child explores the human world for the first time. (I got the rec from someone on DW, but I can't seem to turn it up in search, as searching "Luca" also turns up hits for "Lucas"...) Fun, easy story to watch. I didn't love the animation style, but so it goes. I really like that Disney+ movies are available dubbed in lots of languages, and they're often pretty ideal for language learners in terms of speed etc.
Debrief (RP): Alternate Cold War with ghosts, one hour, two player game. Fromskygiants' rec. This was the first time I did an RP and I am not sure I'm very good at it! I played with bf, and we were much more inclined to negotiate openly and also not add character quirks that would make it more difficult to succeed lol. It was fun! Being time limited makes it an easier introduction too. If you play, warnings for upper class white men in mid 19c Britain attitudes and histories.
Make, Sew and Mend, by Bernadette Banner: An overview of hand-sewing techniques. From
sophia_sol's rec. It was well laid out in terms of the order of covered topics and mostly clear, though it was occasionally excessively wordy. There were a few times when I had to reread a sentence a dozen or so times before I understood what was happening and afterwords felt like it could have been expressed with more clarity. On the one hand, I'm not an experienced sewer so it makes sense that I would be confused sometimes; on the other, surely that is most of the intended audience, as the techniques covered are not particularly fancy. I did learn how to properly anchor my thread! And corrected a few other things that home ec misled me on. 8UPPERS: In conjunction with their album promotion, Kanjani8 released this movie, where they are gangsters who have suddenly acquired a baby. I guess a lot of background was supposed to be revealed in teasers in advance, but the plot still made sense without it. Not that the plot is that complicated or deep, but it is coherent! Mainly, they cast a cute baby and there are lots of found family scenes.
As We Like It (2021): An all-female cast retelling of As You Like It, set in a neighborhood of Taipei where internet is banned. It opens with many gay and lesbian couples as background, but an 'I'm not gay' freakout is what keeps Orlando and Rosalind-as-a-boy apart? And the het couple being able to have a baby is why they're superior? There are briefly mentioned gay couples, but it does come across as being far more comfortable with lesbians (or the playacting of a lesbian relationship) than with gay people. It tries to conclude with a 'gender doesn't matter' message at the end, but... all the main couples are het, though played by women, and the closest they get to queerness is the slight gender bending of Rosalind-as-a-boy. It was a fun romp, just not as queer as it seemed it'd be.
Luca (2021): Summer adventure coming of age movie set in Italy, where a sea monster child explores the human world for the first time. (I got the rec from someone on DW, but I can't seem to turn it up in search, as searching "Luca" also turns up hits for "Lucas"...) Fun, easy story to watch. I didn't love the animation style, but so it goes. I really like that Disney+ movies are available dubbed in lots of languages, and they're often pretty ideal for language learners in terms of speed etc.
Debrief (RP): Alternate Cold War with ghosts, one hour, two player game. From
skygiants' rec. This was the first time I did an RP and I am not sure I'm very good at it! I played with bf, and we were much more inclined to negotiate openly and also not add character quirks that would make it more difficult to succeed lol. It was fun! Being time limited makes it an easier introduction too. If you play, warnings for upper class white men in mid 19c Britain attitudes and histories.
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Date: 2022-11-01 00:17 (UTC)(I think it helped me finish it that I read the ebook and didn't have the percentage thing turned on, so I had no idea how long it was when I started or how much I had left at any given moment. I think I would have been so much more overwhelmed if I'd known!)
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Date: 2022-11-07 03:28 (UTC)(I am still so glad that you guys had fun with Debrief!)
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