Roundup

I've left my apartment while it's still light out these past two days, which has been a marked improvement from the usual winter lethargy.

Video Games

Instead of going back to the DA2 replay that I started over a year ago, I instead decided to start a playthrough of Jade Empire - a 2005 Bioware RPG set in a fantasy world inspired by Chinese mythology.

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Theatre

With my only prior knowledge being a skim of the plot on Wikipedia half a year ago, I watched the Oklahoma! revival. Or, as my friend and I kept calling it, "edgy Oklahoma". It was a good watch, and I'm not just saying that because they fed us at the intermission. (That was delicious cornbread, okay). Judging from the book not being changed, the edginess definitely wasn't "what if poor Jud was harmless" but more "Curly also isn't harmless, and the town is happy to enable that".

My favourite characters to watch were probably Laurie, who was great at every emotional pivot, and Ali, who was hilarious and brilliant. I'm so curious to know how Curly and Jud's conversation in the smokehouse is played in most regular productions of the show, given how ugly Curly's suggestions get.

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This review captured a lot of what worked in the show.

Now that I've seen a production, I am even more intrigued by that gifset I saw ages ago of a version with f!Curly and m!Ado Annie. I would definitely watch that.

Talking Meme

Day 24: Favorite Tropes in F/F

Links

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