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The absolute joy of having a theater all to yourselves so you can react however you want to a movie. Went with three friends to go see Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves in theaters yesterday, and it was a grand time. The friend that doesn't typically enjoy fantasy loved it, other friends loved it, I loved it. We were laughing and clapping and yelling. I had more context than them from tumblr, and waiting for some scenes to happen to see their reactions was fun. I can only echo all the good sentiments I've heard about it. Edgin and Holga's platonic relationship and co-parenting gave me life. It was fun to see the shapeshifting sequences come to life on screen, and I liked the practical effects of the non-human characters. And Edgin's continuing belief in Simon was lovely. Also the fact that it was not bloody. It could have been so bloody, but they decided not to do that and I thank them for it because I am not great with the level of blood and gore in most fantasy media put out these days. Overall, ten out of ten movie, and I was glad I went to see it.
I've been reading many lovely books recently, and I wish I could be more coherent when talking about them with people. I want to be able to say what I liked about the book, identify common tropes in it, be able to summarize it instead of rambling on for ten minutes and still getting nowhere with what it's about. I'd love to feel comfortable typing up reviews to leave on books I love. I want to be able to think critically about them, but I feel like I missed that part of my education (I was a terrible student in school, so maybe that's my fault). Somehow, despite how much I read I just feel so... dumb.
I just had a lovely impromptu movie night with a friend, and we watched Fellowship of the Ring. I have not watched that movie all the way through in probably ten to fifteen years. Let me tell y'all.
It was an experience. Hearing the gorgeous music in its original context, seeing the beautiful landscapes laid out in so many shots and being brought along this roller coaster of the beginning of their adventure, watching the fellowship come together and take care of one another and fight for each other and keep each other going.
Just... so much. I have so much love for this film, and it's a tragedy it took me this long to rewatch it.
And another thing. My poor heart, I'd forgotten that Boromir dies in the first film. I was sitting there silently, unable to look away from the screen, throat locked up, tears streaming down my face, realizing that his last interaction with Frodo would be his temptation for the ring overtaking him, that he fought to save Merry and Pippin and had to watch as the orcs took them away...
If you were wondering, no I'm not okay. ;_;
I just had a lovely impromptu movie night with a friend, and we watched Fellowship of the Ring. I have not watched that movie all the way through in probably ten to fifteen years. Let me tell y'all.
It was an experience. Hearing the gorgeous music in its original context, seeing the beautiful landscapes laid out in so many shots and being brought along this roller coaster of the beginning of their adventure, watching the fellowship come together and take care of one another and fight for each other and keep each other going.
Just... so much. I have so much love for this film, and it's a tragedy it took me this long to rewatch it.
This just in from yet again again rewatching the trailer for season 2 of Our Flag Means Death!
It's about a week until my birthday, which is less important than the fact that it's also the day season 2 of Our Flag Means Death starts airing (!!!), and I think I've picked the best and the worst time to start finally watching the show. Like, I can binge season 1 if I want! Season 2 is just around the corner! But I'll have to suffer through the wait for the next episodes like all the rest. ;-;
I have recently started delving into Hannibal fanfiction (have never watched the show and never will, though I did traipse through the episode guides for the entire show eons ago and got mentally scarred for my efforts), and this year I've been making an attempt to leave more comments, but with Hannigram fics... how am I supposed to put into words the expressions on my face when I finish reading, staring down into the abyss, wondering how I ended up here (in a good way), smile frozen on my face, hanging head in hands. It's been a trial. Anyways I know literally three characters and next to zero plot and most of the time I have no idea what's going on but I'm having a good time over here.
Excuse the heck out of you, me of the past, where do you get off on leaving your last sentence of a story incomplete?
He wondered if perhaps he was getting too used to this, that this,
That this what??? What did I do to deserve this disrespect. How am I supposed to know where the sentence was supposed to go. Why have you done this to me. Whyyyyyyyy. (╥ᆺ╥；)
Joke's on me I'm stuck on episode 7 of season 1 (~treasure hunt~) and keep noping out of finishing it because I can't deal with the secondhand embarrassment. And now half(?) of season 2 is out and I'm being sweetly tortured with all the beautiful gifsets I keep seeing and I want so badly to watch season 2 along with everyone and my love for Stede and Ed is strong but my inability to deal with secondhand embarrassment is stronger. T^T
This just in from yet again again rewatching the trailer for season 2 of Our Flag Means Death!
It's about a week until my birthday, which is less important than the fact that it's also the day season 2 of Our Flag Means Death starts airing (!!!), and I think I've picked the best and the worst time to start finally watching the show. Like, I can binge season 1 if I want! Season 2 is just around the corner! But I'll have to suffer through the wait for the next episodes like all the rest. ;-;
Trying to be a good reader and leave comments on all the fics I read these days, defaulting to something like "Thank you for writing this, I loved it!" when I can't find more words to say.
Which, considering my recent fixation is Batjokes and I know so little about anything and everything superhero comics, means that's most of my comments.
Oh well, I'm having a good time here. (￣︶￣;)
What am I going to do with myself after I finish reading TGCF. (◎_◎;) Like no seriously almost all of my free time this month I have been dedicating to reading MXTX books and once I finish TGCF... that's it. There's no more. ఠ_ఠ If I wanna continue with this reading trend, I have... Golden Terrace? I could reread that? But then what?? I don't want to invest in series that aren't fully translated yet, so Qian Qiu, 2HA, and Guardian are off the table. I suppose I could... return to Novel Updates and find fan translations there.
(We are ignoring the countless other books I have in my room, we are on a danmei trend, people.)
This is probably a moot point to consider because I will probably have burnt myself out on (binge) reading after TGCF and will return to a more relaxed pace where I am not All Consumed by whichever book I am reading.（￣＾￣;）
Crying sobbing screaming I just messaged an author on Instagram with a desperate plea for what the heck something in a summary of their book meant and I want to crawl under a rock this is so awkward. foisefiosefjoiesjfo but my friends wouldn't answer me and the internet was not helping so here we are.
Ninety percent chance she doesn't respond. It's fine. It's fine. This is totally fine.