Roundup (15 July 2019)

Sick day, so an early post day it is.

Reading

( A History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict )

( Digital Minimalism )

Watching

With two episodes left in the season, Gentleman Jack has been a utter and complete delight. I know they had Anne Lister's actual words to work with, but I adore everything about how they choose to frame her, the sentimental fuckboi and land-owning ass she is. Bumped up her diaries on my to-read list.

I finished Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid - squicky fanservice moments aside (which are...uncomfortable, but hey, this is why I don't watch much anime), it was a pretty cute watch. Domestic shenanigans with an office worker who suddenly gains a dragon maid and a dragon daughter <3. Thinking it'd make a good Yuletide request. (Also, perhaps the first time I've seen a fictional programmer who isn't a L33T hackerz but actually has a regular software developer job? The Python on the screens were at least syntactically accurate too.)

Theatre

I watched both What The Constitution Means To Me and In The Green over the weekend, and they both ended up being about the horror-absurdity that is being a woman in their protagonists' societies, so that was cheery. They were both pretty good though. I really liked the former - as scattershot as the one-woman performance is, it's clear how planned out it is. They also gave us all pocket constitutions towards the end of the play.

Other Things

Neocities is a thing and I made a very basic page that linked to all my other fandom preferences. Saw someone suggest it could be nice for exchange letters and that's certainly a thought.