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[kindkit]

I am a cyborg now.

In the least dramatic way possible (during cataract surgery they implant a new corrective lens to replace the cataract-y old one) but nevertheless, a cyborg.

I can see much, much better out of my right eye. The other one is still crap (and before the surgery it used to be my "good eye"!), but I'll get surgery on that one in the next few months. In the meantime, I still have much improved vision overall. And I've got colors back, yay! Everything had been very dull, hazy, and yellowed.

In other news, the Good Omens miniseries is mostly great (I like it better than the book in some ways, not all to do with Aziraphale/Crowley). Has anybody else watched it yet?

Comments

[halotolerant]

Huzzah for cyborg vision!

I fully love Good Omens. More or less completely for the Aziraphale/Crowley bits (it's been a long time since I read the book but I enjoyed the Adam-as-Just-William-AU element so much, which I don't think makes it onto screen - to be fair the style of Just William really never makes it onto screen, it's so narrator-voice-ish). Tennant and Sheen are clearly 100% into it as a Romance Thing and although, yes, I would have loved a handhold or something at the end just to provide an emotional climax, the more I rewatch it (on my third time through) the more I see of the depth their performances bring to the emotional journey of each moment, such that dining at the Ritz is practically NSFW... Or nearly, anyway *g* Aziraphale as a character hits me so square on the id it's ridiculous.

I want so much backstory about Aziraphale and his 'discreet gentleman's club' and his role as a bookseller in Soho over the years.

[kindkit]

Once again I'm replying to you ridiculously late. The problem is, I always want my replies to you to be intelligent and interesting, and so I wait until I have intelligent and interesting things to say. And wait, and wait.

Being now without anything especially intelligent or interesting, I'll just say that I'm still feeling the GO love very much. Especially since Michael Sheen has responded to a torrent of people's Aziraphale/Crowley feelings, and fic, and art, with both grace and enthusiasm.

so much backstory about Aziraphale and his 'discreet gentleman's club' and his role as a bookseller in Soho

Oh, yes. Have you seen any good new stuff? I'm a bit afraid to look at the fandom on AO3, because the task of finding the good among the awful will be . . . daunting.

(Do not currently have an Aziraphale icon, but I think Giles is close enough.)

[halotolerant]

I know well that feeling of 'ooh, I'll wait and reply to this PROPERLY' and then, as time passes, feeling less and less capable :( However you are always intelligent and interesting and I'm not just saying that <3

I am very delayed replying to you, but for another reason! Specifically that I have been at Worldcon (my first) and then in a post-worldcon internet-free retreat in Donegal (I say retreat, just people in a house party somewhere without signal or wifi). I am behind on all my onlines as a result, and just starting to poke it today. I looked at a few journals today to make sure I was caught up and saw your other health and life posts - I'm so glad things are broadly positive in balance *hugs*

Hmmm, GO has definitely exploded into one of the unmanageable fandoms. Marginaliana has a rec collection that I trust? https://archiveofourown.org/collections/MGOrecs although I've not read them all myself. I need to resort the list again soon, at one point I was up to date with it and checking daily but that was like 3 weeks ago. Enough people I follow anyway have written in it (e.g. Laura Shapiro) that a certain amount comes to my inbox without my looking.

[kindkit]

Ooh, I am envious over Worldcon and subsequent Donegal. Were you by the sea? I spent a couple of days in Glencolmcille once, years ago, and it was beautiful.

Thanks for the link! And many many many many *hugs*. I've missed you.