Roundup

Finished watching The Last Dance, which was a great documentary about Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls - I knew basically nothing about MJ other than Space Jam going in, and the documentary was pretty good at setting context.

My Jedi Academy save crapped out on me and instead of loading from an earlier save, I took this as a sign that I should playing this 2003 game. I am now 8.5 hours into Disco Elysium with minimal prior knowledge and an uncharacteristic refusal to look things up. The latter is getting bolstered by an increasingly strong feeling that there isn't going to be a "good" ending anyway, so I can just be the shitter I'm destined to be, dodging political questions and staring at footprints.

The Adventure Zone: Balance

I finally finished it, only took me like three years. My final verdict is Taako ≈ Merle >>> Magnus. This podcast's goof/seriousness ratio and transitions between the two meant that it was very difficult to take any of Magnus's apparently earnest heroics seriously, but I could buy Taako's selfish focus on himself and his people and Merle's half-hearted gestures towards doing good. Also, because I am that dweeb who hates when athletes argue with referees, I additionally hate it when there's incredibly obvious dice lying and the reddit graphs back up that observation.

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Writing

I wrote a couple of fics for Starship Iris week, one for Violet and one for Park. I'm enjoying S2 so far, and posting reactions on Tumblr. I do mourn the loss of timeline consistency, statements about Juniper Liu's age have thrown a wrench into things.

Recs

There has been so much good Starship Iris art lately! A few favourites below.

Stressed undergrad Violet

Sana playing guitar on the hammock

General Frederick getting surprised in the S1 finale

Sana and a tiger

Random Links

Perseverance landed on Mars! I enjoyed this post about how its landing site was chosen, and this video explaining how the helicopter will fly and stay functional.