Weekend Round-Up
Jan. 12th, 2019 11:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
allheadybooksReading:
Great round-up fromtozka on some of the conversations happening in fandom lately about federation/Mastodon, Tumblr vs. DW etiquette, and fandom practices generally: Fandom Meta Discussions on Mastodon
sea_changed linked her review of The Favourite to ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
fffriday here (discussion in the comments of both the comm post and her personal journal post): Move Rec: The Favourite (2018). The comm itself is worth checking out! Recs for femslash books, movies, & fanfic, posted every Friday.
I also always find interesting articles through Anne Helen Petersen's twitter feed. She's a pop culture writer with Buzzfeed who specializes in celebrity profiles & social commentaries, and she recently published a piece called How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation which got a lot of traction, and then curated some responses from folks with other experiences for this follow-up. I first heard of her through her excellent, insightful profiles of Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner a few years ago--both worth reading if you like critical takes on class, celebrity image, and the publicity machine.
Watching:
I got caught up on season 4 of Legends of Tomorrow, then got curious and went back to Season 1 to see how the show started out. I've been jumping around watching episodes here and there, mostly in the background while I play a game on my phone. My wife tends to wander away because she says it's too loud (all the dramatic music and fight sounds, I think)! I'm liking Sara Lance a lot more as I watch through her early-season character arcs. I like that one of her big characterizations is "cannot visit the past without seducing some historical lady." I'm in Season 2 now and curious to see how the Time Bureau gets started.
Also, The Good Place is back!
Ever since they introduced the 'points' conceit in season one, I've been wondering if they would complicate or subvert it. It seems WAY too easy that our actions and their impact on the world would be easily reducable to a number. I love that in this episode, they shift from thinking about morality as individual intention into considering it in the context of global capitalism--that no matter what our intentions are, when we are embedded in exploitative systems, our actions end up having negative consequences along the way. Really hoping they keep developing this critique!
Also, Chidi in the mailman outfit was ADORABLE, and I love having everyone smell their favorite things. This show always does something funny and interesting with the supernatural locations.
Great round-up from
tozka on some of the conversations happening in fandom lately about federation/Mastodon, Tumblr vs. DW etiquette, and fandom practices generally: Fandom Meta Discussions on Mastodonsea_changed linked her review of The Favourite to fffriday here (discussion in the comments of both the comm post and her personal journal post): Move Rec: The Favourite (2018). The comm itself is worth checking out! Recs for femslash books, movies, & fanfic, posted every Friday.I also always find interesting articles through Anne Helen Petersen's twitter feed. She's a pop culture writer with Buzzfeed who specializes in celebrity profiles & social commentaries, and she recently published a piece called How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation which got a lot of traction, and then curated some responses from folks with other experiences for this follow-up. I first heard of her through her excellent, insightful profiles of Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner a few years ago--both worth reading if you like critical takes on class, celebrity image, and the publicity machine.
Watching:
I got caught up on season 4 of Legends of Tomorrow, then got curious and went back to Season 1 to see how the show started out. I've been jumping around watching episodes here and there, mostly in the background while I play a game on my phone. My wife tends to wander away because she says it's too loud (all the dramatic music and fight sounds, I think)! I'm liking Sara Lance a lot more as I watch through her early-season character arcs. I like that one of her big characterizations is "cannot visit the past without seducing some historical lady." I'm in Season 2 now and curious to see how the Time Bureau gets started.
Also, The Good Place is back!
Ever since they introduced the 'points' conceit in season one, I've been wondering if they would complicate or subvert it. It seems WAY too easy that our actions and their impact on the world would be easily reducable to a number. I love that in this episode, they shift from thinking about morality as individual intention into considering it in the context of global capitalism--that no matter what our intentions are, when we are embedded in exploitative systems, our actions end up having negative consequences along the way. Really hoping they keep developing this critique!
Also, Chidi in the mailman outfit was ADORABLE, and I love having everyone smell their favorite things. This show always does something funny and interesting with the supernatural locations.
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Date: 2019-01-14 12:34 am (UTC)