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📺 I watched Good Omens and enjoyed it, but I don't have a lot to say about it. My biggest complaint is that it didn't come out 15-20 years ago, when I would have cared more.

💻 Dreamwidth made a code push that fixed the root cause of the display errors in my theme (yay!), so I had to undo the fix I made earlier. The top navigation strip now looks wrong, but I can always try to fix that later if I can't get used to it.

🎵 That game I keep going on about, Wandersong, is 40% off in the Steam Summer* Sale. If you want a game about people who are bad at emotions developing friendships, trying to save the world and (most importantly) singing, check it out. More information about the game is in my post here.

🍓 Celeste is also still on sale. I've now finished Chapter 4 (still no assist mode), with all collectibles, which took me 4 hours and 23 minutes, and 1293 deaths. Starting to wonder if maybe my whole life has been a lie and I'm not actually terrible at video games (perhaps I'm merely Not Good**). Alternative explanation: I'm just really stubborn.

🎮 On that note, if there are any story-driven games you would like to recommend I buy in the Steam sale, please let me know!


* It's not summer here, but whatever.
** I've watched competent gamers playing this game for the first time, and I am nowhere near that level.
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I'm back home! I haven't done one of these in a while, so here's a quick, probably inaccurate update on what I've been doing to conquer pop culture.

Books
Rogue Protocol - Martha Wells (Murderbot #3)
Exit Strategy - Martha Wells (Murderbot #4)

Audio (I only list narrative audio here)
The Adventure Zone: (K)Nights, 1-3
The Adventure Zone: Amnesty 8-12 (I'm not sure how much longer this has, but I think I'll wait a bit longer before listening to more)
The Adventure Zone: Dust
The Adventure Zone: Balance - All live shows through 1 November (Seattle, Halloween Special)
Lawful and Orderly - 1-2
The Strange Case of Starship Iris 1-4

If anyone has any narrative podcast recommendations, please send them my way!

Television
Guardian (镇魂) 1-4
Some random episodes of the classic Man from U.N.C.L.E.

Movies
Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)
Mary and the Witch's Flower (2017)

Live Events
Pittsburgh Penguins @ Toronto Maple Leafs, October 18 2018
Skate Canada International (Laval, QC) - Exhibition Gala

I also watched the entirety of Griffin McElroy's Pokemon Nuzlocke Run, despite never having played a Pokemon game. It was nice, chill plane viewing.
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Books
The Murderbot Diaries: Artificial Condition - Martha Wells

I really need to get back into the habit of reading books.

Audio
The Adventure Zone: Balance - the rest of it, including all the live and MaxFunDrive episodes (but not the bulk of the Suffering Game)
The Adventure Zone: Amnesty 1-5 - This was very cool, but I think I'll wait until the next arc is finished before continuing
The Adventure Zone: Elementary (AKA Four Sherlock Holmes and a Vampire [Who Is Also One of the Aforementioned Sherlock Holmes]) - this was Extremely Silly 😂

Television
Agatha Christie's Poirot 10x04-11x02 - I think I'm done with this - it was getting too dark and sordid for my tastes. I enjoyed much of the early seasons a lot though.
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries 2x01-2x07
Rosemary & Thyme 1-9

This sounds like a lot of TV, but it's been a while since I logged my TV watching.
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Books
Daughter of Mystery (Alpennia #1) - Heather Rose Jones

Television
Agatha Christie's Poirot 5x08-10x03
Miss Marple (v. BBC, Joan Hickson) - an assortment of episodes, not in chronological order
Rosemary & Thyme 2x14 - this was randomly on TV, and I want to seek out more episodes because it was extremely silly but very cute. As I said on Twitter, I ship it on principle.

Movies
Thor: Ragnorok

Audio
The Adventure Zone 18-51, 58-60 - I got partway into the 2nd chapter of The Suffering Game and cut for spoilers, fictional injury )


I'm out of the habit of reading again, it seems. I'm looking forward to the new Murderbot novella coming out soon, and I have the second Alpennia novel to read.

Incidentally, is there a nice collective noun for this type of post? Content Consumption log?
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🌤 I stopped checking Tumblr in December to avoid Star Wars spoilers, and I've honestly been so much happier without it that I think I'm going to stick to that for a while longer. So if you have a tag for original content that I could follow in my RSS reader, please let me know!

(Dreamwidth posts will continue to be crossposted to Tumblr.)

🌤 We bought ourselves a fun little toy as a Christmas present - a Silhouette Curio, which cuts paper/card/foam and draws with markers and engraves metal and so on. I'm planning to make greeting cards and possibly some shadowboxes. Stay tuned. (Should I make a form of some description so people can tell me their addresses so I can send birthday cards?)

🌤 There's a new Card Captor Sakura anime starting (which I credit for the sudden interest in the works from 2001 I have on my fanfiction.net /o\), but I'm not watching until I can get spoilers for the ending, because I know your ways, CLAMP! *shakes fist*

Books
The Stone Sky (Broken Earth #3) - N. K. Jemisin

Next: Daughter of Mystery (Alpennia #1) - Heather Rose Jones

Television
Agatha Christie's Poirot 5x03-5x07
Miss Marple* 1x01

Audio
The Adventure Zone 9-17


*The BBC one from the 80s, starring Joan Hickson
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Yes, it's only been a week. Don't expect this to last.

Books
Artemis - Andy Weir

Next
The Stone Sky (Broken Earth #3) - N. K. Jemisin

Television
Agatha Christie's Poirot 4x03-5x03

Audio ie. Podcasts
(I'm only including narrative podcasts in here.)
The Adventure Zone 1-8
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