Previous poll reviewIn
the Fourth walls poll, 68.2% of respondents said "the one-way glass that stops TPTB seeing fannish activity" is important to them; 65.9% said "the one that shields fandom from public/media attention", and 61.4% said "the wibbly-wobby physics-defying thing that means celebs and fans exist in separate universes that just happen to occupy the same space-time". About one in five respondents love ALL the walls.
In ticky-boxes, ballooooooooons and golden sparkles won 54.5% of the vote, coming second to hugs (77.3%), but the other tickies made pretty good showings too. Thank you for your votes! ♥
ReadingI finished Courtney Milan's
The Marquis Who Mustn't and enjoyed it very much. Such a kind, good-hearted series with a lovely sense of community and a spark of mischief. I'm looking forward to the next one.
Then I ploughed through one of my randomly selected library books,
The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman. I found this a delightful read and very moreish. It's voicey, with a distractable, occasionally omniscient 3rd POV scattered with pop culture references. I appreciated it's acceptance of introversion and valuing of alone time. Also, the main character has anxiety, and it didn't really try to fix her.
Andrew and I are still slowly listening to
Barrayar by Bujold, read by Grover Gardner.
KdramasJuuust enough has happened in
One Spring Night that I'm into it. I mean, it's still going around in circles, but I'm most of the way through episode 14, and I'm definitely going to finish. The story relies heavily on respectability, parental authority, and conservative attitudes for its conflict (the leading man is a single dad, OH NO!!), which took me a while to get my head around.
Other TVOur journey through Middle Earth continues. We're on the second disc of extras for The Two Towers, and the actors seem a bit punchy in their interviews, lol. Other than that, just
The Pitt. ♥ (My brother watched a few episodes of
The Pitt and said it doesn't have a plot, and I... don't know how to answer that. There are mini-storylines with the patients. The capital-P plot, maybe? such as it is? has kicked in at episode whatever-we're-up-to. I feel like it totally works without a driving plot arc, because there are character/relationship arcs, and rising tension/pacing, and theme. Maybe that's all you need?)
I'm amused that I have three streaming service subscriptions and we're spending so much time watching DVDs.
Audio entertainmentMore
Better Offline,
Tech Won't Save Us (the one about humanoid robots),
Writing Excuses,
Letters from an American,
Pod Save America,
Cross Party Lines,
Fansplaining.
Online lifeFrom you I have been absent in
the spring February, quite a lot. My reading page seems pretty quiet, and I'm still having trouble keeping up; open tabs proliferate (that's the middle line of a haiku).
Writing/making thingsI'm subsisting on alibi sentences. My creativity is sitting on a bench somewhere, staring blankly into the sky.
I keep failing to post the meta about adverbs in speech tags because it's so prescriptive, and who am I to say anything?
Life/health/mental state thingsI don't know what I'm doing with my life. The world (mostly as presented by the above podcasts) is freaking me out. Yesterday I made fifty chicken dumplings and talked to my brother in NY.
Good thingsDumplings. Creativity is a tide. Sunshine. Grapes. Library books. Black cat lying on the very edge of a sunbeam. Independent media and reporting.
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 28
How often do you check your spam folder?
View Answersdaily
2 (7.1%)
weekly
3 (10.7%)
maybe once a month?
7 (25.0%)
only when I'm looking for a specific thing
16 (57.1%)
never have I ever
1 (3.6%)
other
2 (7.1%)
ticky-box full of prescriptive writing advice
3 (10.7%)
ticky-box full of blanket cocoons and comfort food
17 (60.7%)
ticky-box full of putting clutter in boxes instead of sorting it
16 (57.1%)
ticky-box full of koalas in gum trees, chewing eucalyptus and judging us all
17 (60.7%)
ticky-box full of hugs
21 (75.0%)
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