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Jun. 24th, 2021 01:00 pmI got a wonderful gift in the Exchange of Interest:
all I ever meant to do was keep you
It's John and Grace, both separately dealing with their grief - Grace helping out a friend with their art store, John occasionally using the store as a place to warm up. It's wonderful, and full of heart. And clever little plotty twists. It's basically everything I could ask for in a fic. I love my fandom.
Pertinent to the last post about We Are Lady Parts, here are some other medias I have consumed in the past months.
War of the Worlds (2019)
Set in contemporary France, this Anglo-French reimagining of H. G. Wells' classic in the style of Walking Dead follows pockets of survivors forced to team up after an apocalyptic extra-terrestrial strike.
Weird, sometimes terrible and sometimes wonderful. Very violent. I liked the scope of the story, I liked a lot of the survivor storylines, but some of them were just dire.
( spoilery )
Creamerie
Eight years after a viral plague decimated all men, three dairy farmers from Hiro Valley accidentally run over the last surviving male human on the planet.
*nervous gigglesnort* When NZ makes a dark comedy, it's... really dark. This is set eight years after a virus has killed 99% of men. The three main characters are dairy farmers. The ruling body is a group of beautiful blonde women straight out of Mean Girls. The show is very pointy, looking at peformative feminism, fertility politics, mental health. It's really funny, it's really smart, there is a lot of semen.
Basically a rollercoaster between laughing hysterically, dying inside, and wanting to weep. In a good way.
( spoilers )
Shadow and Bone
Very competently done, lots of fun to watch. Don't have fannish feelings about it in particular? But I did enjoy yelling BIN BONS every time Kirigan was on screen. I kind of felt sorry for the volcra, to be honest? And the CGI stag. Poor old stag.
Beforeigners
The series takes place in Oslo, where sudden flashes of light appear in the bay in Bjørvika. People from different time periods—the Stone Age, Viking Age, and the 19th century—suddenly appear in the present. Police officer Lars Haaland meets the first "time migrants", who speak Old Norse.
Nearly two decades later, the so-called "Beforeigners" struggle to integrate into modern Norwegian society. Some 19th-century individuals found work as journalists, office workers, and teachers, while most of the old Norse folk are homeless and sleep in parks. The Stone-Agers mainly live at the fringes and in forests. Some modern Norwegians perceive these "refugees" as a drain on society.
This sounded kitsch as fuck to me, and I avoided watching it for a few months after it came out, because subtitles mean I can't crochet while I watch, so I save those times for things for which I have higher expectations. But then! I figured out how to crochet and read at the same time, so subtitled shows were back on the menu, and I'm glad, because this series was fabulous. 10/10, would watch ten more seasons of this. Second favourite thing this year, next to We Are lady Parts.
( kinda spoilery )
Clarice
*sigh* What a strange confluence of things this was. So much of it was murky and oddly paced. And pointlessly stylised. It was Hannibal, with no plot. And yet, and yet. If the show had been called Ardelia, and been about Ardelia's career path in the shadow of her famous friend, I would have watched it forever.
Ted Lasso
This was sold to me as delivering good feels of a similar calibre to The Good Place, and I was not misled. It's the story of an American football coach imported to the UK to coach soccer, when he has no experience at all.
I was continuously ready to cringe, and I don't think I actually did once? The show is sweet and gentle, without being saccharine or maudlin. I cried, but in a good way. I love every single character, except for the one played marvellously by Anthony Head, and his character I love to hate.
It is truly lovely.
( spoilers )
Onwards and upwards, trying to be more posty!
all I ever meant to do was keep you
It's John and Grace, both separately dealing with their grief - Grace helping out a friend with their art store, John occasionally using the store as a place to warm up. It's wonderful, and full of heart. And clever little plotty twists. It's basically everything I could ask for in a fic. I love my fandom.
Pertinent to the last post about We Are Lady Parts, here are some other medias I have consumed in the past months.
War of the Worlds (2019)
Set in contemporary France, this Anglo-French reimagining of H. G. Wells' classic in the style of Walking Dead follows pockets of survivors forced to team up after an apocalyptic extra-terrestrial strike.
Weird, sometimes terrible and sometimes wonderful. Very violent. I liked the scope of the story, I liked a lot of the survivor storylines, but some of them were just dire.
( spoilery )
Creamerie
Eight years after a viral plague decimated all men, three dairy farmers from Hiro Valley accidentally run over the last surviving male human on the planet.
*nervous gigglesnort* When NZ makes a dark comedy, it's... really dark. This is set eight years after a virus has killed 99% of men. The three main characters are dairy farmers. The ruling body is a group of beautiful blonde women straight out of Mean Girls. The show is very pointy, looking at peformative feminism, fertility politics, mental health. It's really funny, it's really smart, there is a lot of semen.
Basically a rollercoaster between laughing hysterically, dying inside, and wanting to weep. In a good way.
( spoilers )
Shadow and Bone
Very competently done, lots of fun to watch. Don't have fannish feelings about it in particular? But I did enjoy yelling BIN BONS every time Kirigan was on screen. I kind of felt sorry for the volcra, to be honest? And the CGI stag. Poor old stag.
Beforeigners
The series takes place in Oslo, where sudden flashes of light appear in the bay in Bjørvika. People from different time periods—the Stone Age, Viking Age, and the 19th century—suddenly appear in the present. Police officer Lars Haaland meets the first "time migrants", who speak Old Norse.
Nearly two decades later, the so-called "Beforeigners" struggle to integrate into modern Norwegian society. Some 19th-century individuals found work as journalists, office workers, and teachers, while most of the old Norse folk are homeless and sleep in parks. The Stone-Agers mainly live at the fringes and in forests. Some modern Norwegians perceive these "refugees" as a drain on society.
This sounded kitsch as fuck to me, and I avoided watching it for a few months after it came out, because subtitles mean I can't crochet while I watch, so I save those times for things for which I have higher expectations. But then! I figured out how to crochet and read at the same time, so subtitled shows were back on the menu, and I'm glad, because this series was fabulous. 10/10, would watch ten more seasons of this. Second favourite thing this year, next to We Are lady Parts.
( kinda spoilery )
Clarice
*sigh* What a strange confluence of things this was. So much of it was murky and oddly paced. And pointlessly stylised. It was Hannibal, with no plot. And yet, and yet. If the show had been called Ardelia, and been about Ardelia's career path in the shadow of her famous friend, I would have watched it forever.
Ted Lasso
This was sold to me as delivering good feels of a similar calibre to The Good Place, and I was not misled. It's the story of an American football coach imported to the UK to coach soccer, when he has no experience at all.
I was continuously ready to cringe, and I don't think I actually did once? The show is sweet and gentle, without being saccharine or maudlin. I cried, but in a good way. I love every single character, except for the one played marvellously by Anthony Head, and his character I love to hate.
It is truly lovely.
( spoilers )
Onwards and upwards, trying to be more posty!
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