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things I've been doing
Oct. 19th, 2021 09:50 am1) The other day I did a thing! With people! Which is to say, I got together with an old workmate (who has now moved on to a much better job) and some of her friends and we played Call of Cthulhu. And it was fun!
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2) I had been re-reading a bunch of Terry Pratchett, then somehow I veered off into re-reading Charles Stross's Laundry Files books. They're horror/comedy about an extremely secret British government agency that deals with the supernatural. The early books lean heavily into workplace comedy/satire, but always with a background of cosmic horror, while the later books are closer to pure cosmic horror, which our "heroes" are corrupted by even in the act of fighting against it, with occasional quips.
I've now started the latest, Dead Lies Dreaming, which I haven't read before although it came out a couple of years ago. And . . . one of my problems with the Laundry Files series as a whole was a scarcity of queer characters. (There are two gay men, minor characters and a little bit stereotyped, in the first couple of books, who then aren't mentioned for several books before reappearing for one books in a more prominent role, but that's about it.) Well, Dead Lies Dreaming, which is the first of subseries in the same universe but not focused around the Laundry itself, has a whole group of queer characters. And I am so scared for them that I'm currently stalled on continuing the book. Oops.
While I get my courage up, I'm re-reading Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air, because apparently that will help?
3) During 2020 I could hardly concentrate on anything. Couldn't read novels, couldn't watch films or even narrative TV series. I've mostly recovered my ability to read (it started coming back after Biden's inauguration, when it felt like the imminent existential threat was lessened and there was hope again--Biden has absolutely not lived up to even my limited hopes for him, but that's another issue) but movies/TV are still a problem. There's a ton of stuff I want to watch--Ted Lasso, Midnight Mass, The Green Knight, the recent seasons of Wynonna Earp and Lucifer--but I just can't.
I'm watching the Bake Off, of course, and for some reason I've started watching old QIs from the point when Sandi Toksvig took over. But that's about it.
I badly want to go and see a movie. But I want to go to a real movie theater, and even having been vaccinated, it feels like a terrible idea to do that at a time when local COVID case rates are almost as high as they've ever been.
Someday. Someday, it will actually be over.
( More under the cut )
2) I had been re-reading a bunch of Terry Pratchett, then somehow I veered off into re-reading Charles Stross's Laundry Files books. They're horror/comedy about an extremely secret British government agency that deals with the supernatural. The early books lean heavily into workplace comedy/satire, but always with a background of cosmic horror, while the later books are closer to pure cosmic horror, which our "heroes" are corrupted by even in the act of fighting against it, with occasional quips.
I've now started the latest, Dead Lies Dreaming, which I haven't read before although it came out a couple of years ago. And . . . one of my problems with the Laundry Files series as a whole was a scarcity of queer characters. (There are two gay men, minor characters and a little bit stereotyped, in the first couple of books, who then aren't mentioned for several books before reappearing for one books in a more prominent role, but that's about it.) Well, Dead Lies Dreaming, which is the first of subseries in the same universe but not focused around the Laundry itself, has a whole group of queer characters. And I am so scared for them that I'm currently stalled on continuing the book. Oops.
While I get my courage up, I'm re-reading Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air, because apparently that will help?
3) During 2020 I could hardly concentrate on anything. Couldn't read novels, couldn't watch films or even narrative TV series. I've mostly recovered my ability to read (it started coming back after Biden's inauguration, when it felt like the imminent existential threat was lessened and there was hope again--Biden has absolutely not lived up to even my limited hopes for him, but that's another issue) but movies/TV are still a problem. There's a ton of stuff I want to watch--Ted Lasso, Midnight Mass, The Green Knight, the recent seasons of Wynonna Earp and Lucifer--but I just can't.
I'm watching the Bake Off, of course, and for some reason I've started watching old QIs from the point when Sandi Toksvig took over. But that's about it.
I badly want to go and see a movie. But I want to go to a real movie theater, and even having been vaccinated, it feels like a terrible idea to do that at a time when local COVID case rates are almost as high as they've ever been.
Someday. Someday, it will actually be over.
