Media Round Up: Snippets
Dec. 25th, 2019 11:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
forestofgloryI haven’t been consuming a lot of new media the last few weeks so this will be a shortish update. I’ve been very slowly rewatching The Untamed and reading a lot of fanfic, also mostly Untamed, but also several other Chinese source canons, and some Yuletide fic though I haven’t really dug into that collection yet. I don’t usually include fic in these round ups because the transformative fandom norms for talking about that are pretty different than the book fandom norms and I’m still figuring that out. But if you are curious about some of the things I’ve been reading I’ve started a thread on twitter with recs for lady-centric Untamed/MDZS fic.
Star Trek: Voyager We are now somewhere in the middle of season three. I’m still enjoying this but several episodes recently have been hard to watch because they hit my embarrassment squick. Tom Paris has been given several opportunities to be a pushy jerk in recent episodes, but instead has respected other people’s boundaries, so that’s been lovely. I think I like Janeway’s new hair but I enjoyed the way the updo could fall down in a disaster.
The Living Dead This is spin off movie of The Untamed featuring two of my favorite side character having an adventure together. This was ok, but very confusing. Also a lot of it was very dark in a literal sense. So it was hard to see and that didn’t help the confusion. I wanted a bit more interaction between the two characters. Still there where some fun fight scenes, and some nice teamwork.
Sisters of the Vast Black by Lina Rather This is a science fiction novella about catholic nuns living on a living spaceship. I enjoyed it but the worldbuilding felt like a lot of details that didn’t quite go together and that was a bit frustrating. However I really enjoy the religion in space bits and the ways the nuns worked together as a community.
Descending Stories: Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju Vol. 8-10 by Haruko Kumota I finished this! I don’t have a lot to add to what I’ve said about this before. Basically this great story about intergenerational relationships and being an artist. It had a very satisfying ending. (Content note: death, grief)
Star Trek: Voyager We are now somewhere in the middle of season three. I’m still enjoying this but several episodes recently have been hard to watch because they hit my embarrassment squick. Tom Paris has been given several opportunities to be a pushy jerk in recent episodes, but instead has respected other people’s boundaries, so that’s been lovely. I think I like Janeway’s new hair but I enjoyed the way the updo could fall down in a disaster.
The Living Dead This is spin off movie of The Untamed featuring two of my favorite side character having an adventure together. This was ok, but very confusing. Also a lot of it was very dark in a literal sense. So it was hard to see and that didn’t help the confusion. I wanted a bit more interaction between the two characters. Still there where some fun fight scenes, and some nice teamwork.
Sisters of the Vast Black by Lina Rather This is a science fiction novella about catholic nuns living on a living spaceship. I enjoyed it but the worldbuilding felt like a lot of details that didn’t quite go together and that was a bit frustrating. However I really enjoy the religion in space bits and the ways the nuns worked together as a community.
Descending Stories: Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju Vol. 8-10 by Haruko Kumota I finished this! I don’t have a lot to add to what I’ve said about this before. Basically this great story about intergenerational relationships and being an artist. It had a very satisfying ending. (Content note: death, grief)
