Roundup

Maybe I'm actually reading/consuming enough things I have enough thoughts on that it makes sense to start splitting these up but eh, that can be next year jaggedwolf's problem.

Reading

Of Ice And Shadows by Audrey Coulthurst

Fantasy f/f, the sequel to Of Fire and Stars. It was a fun romp, as choppy as the prose got sometimes, but I was able to overlook that in favour of mysteries and magic.

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I continue to be mildly amused at my tastes - Priory of the Orange tree was objectively the better written book, but I got so BEC about one of the characters that I ended up rating it lower than this book.

Other Media

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

TL;DR I liked it! With TLJ following TFA, I had lost any expectation of this trilogy being a coherent story, and so I went in wanting to see Rey do cool stuff, and hopefully more Force stuff than we got in the last two movies.

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Talking Meme

I said more things.

Day 9: Commander Shepard
Day 11: Favourite Critical Role characters

Random Links

“You’re My Present This Year”: An Oral History of the Folgers Incest Ad

Timothy Simons (cameraman for auditions and callbacks): This was a very long time ago and if you asked me if I would end up being interviewed about this commercial that I worked on, 10 years later, I would not have believed you, because it was altogether pretty unremarkable. It’s not something I have a lot of memories about, outside of the fact that ultimately the commercial kind of seems like the brother and sister are going to have sex. That’s why we’re talking, right?

Our Predictions About the Internet Are Probably Wrong

Elsewise

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