Recent Media: A Surprising Number of Moms
Jun. 26th, 2019 09:40 amPeter & Ernesto: A Tale of Two Sloths by Graham Annable -- a cute comic for kids about sloths and friendship.
Red Azalea by Anchee Min I mentioned to my mom that I was getting into Chinese dramas and she lent me this book. It's memoir of a woman who worked in the Chinese film industry in the 70s. It also covers her terrible childhood and being sent to work on a farm during the Cultural revolution. Oh and she’s queer. Actually there’s not much about the film industry in the book it's much more focused on her personal life than what it was like to make movies. I would have enjoyed more about the day to day of filming but l still found this book fascinating. It's not my usual thing because lots of bad things happen but I found it very compelling reading. (Content note: animal death)
Sanity & Tallulah by Molly Brooks This a super cute SF comic about two girls who live on a space station and have and adventure together. Featuring friends and mad science!
Fanfic about moms! I’ve been slowly reading through the recs that people left me on my post about fanfic. Some highlights so far include:
“Two Lilies” by opalmatrix A first meeting between Susan Sowerby and Susan Sowerby and Lilias Craven form The Secret Garden.
The President Beifong AU A series where Lin Beifong for Korra goes into politics, and has children. Not all of these are form Lin’s point of view, but they are all about complex family relationships.
Nirvana in Fire eps 6-9 Well, now a couple of episodes have failed the bechdel test, but I’m still loving the women of this drama. Mu Nihuang, the warrior princess, continues to be great. She clearly has more figured out that she’s telling. Xia Dong the inspector was also got to be really badass for a little bit. Then all the women disappeared for two episodes. I hope they come back soon. Meanwhile there are many schemes I’m trying hard to keep track of everything but it's a lot. One thing I want to know but am afraid to look up is what does the writing over the doorway of each house say? Do the houses have names? ( spoilers )
Queer California: Untold Stories at the Oakland Museum I loved the idea of this exhibit -- but it felt like it was too big a project for the amount of space they had. I’d love to see smaller exhibit focusing on just one part of the untold stories of Queer Californians. That said I enjoyed this and was glad I went.
Red Azalea by Anchee Min I mentioned to my mom that I was getting into Chinese dramas and she lent me this book. It's memoir of a woman who worked in the Chinese film industry in the 70s. It also covers her terrible childhood and being sent to work on a farm during the Cultural revolution. Oh and she’s queer. Actually there’s not much about the film industry in the book it's much more focused on her personal life than what it was like to make movies. I would have enjoyed more about the day to day of filming but l still found this book fascinating. It's not my usual thing because lots of bad things happen but I found it very compelling reading. (Content note: animal death)
Sanity & Tallulah by Molly Brooks This a super cute SF comic about two girls who live on a space station and have and adventure together. Featuring friends and mad science!
Fanfic about moms! I’ve been slowly reading through the recs that people left me on my post about fanfic. Some highlights so far include:
“Two Lilies” by opalmatrix A first meeting between Susan Sowerby and Susan Sowerby and Lilias Craven form The Secret Garden.
The President Beifong AU A series where Lin Beifong for Korra goes into politics, and has children. Not all of these are form Lin’s point of view, but they are all about complex family relationships.
Nirvana in Fire eps 6-9 Well, now a couple of episodes have failed the bechdel test, but I’m still loving the women of this drama. Mu Nihuang, the warrior princess, continues to be great. She clearly has more figured out that she’s telling. Xia Dong the inspector was also got to be really badass for a little bit. Then all the women disappeared for two episodes. I hope they come back soon. Meanwhile there are many schemes I’m trying hard to keep track of everything but it's a lot. One thing I want to know but am afraid to look up is what does the writing over the doorway of each house say? Do the houses have names? ( spoilers )
Queer California: Untold Stories at the Oakland Museum I loved the idea of this exhibit -- but it felt like it was too big a project for the amount of space they had. I’d love to see smaller exhibit focusing on just one part of the untold stories of Queer Californians. That said I enjoyed this and was glad I went.
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