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beast_below) wrote2019-03-04 11:30 pm
beast_below) wrote2019-03-04 11:30 pm
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Stories Created & Consumed
Been working on something wholly self-indulgent for the last several months, and finally am beginning to feel like it's taking shape. I have a vague hope to get it mostly hammered out around December for Reasons™, but we'll see. Either way, I'm just glad to have something to show after such a long dry spell.
Also actually getting back into consuming media again, too! Which might sound silly, but has been a struggle for me for a long time. I struggle with just enjoying myself or feeling like I'm allowed to like things, but I've actually been doing pretty well all things considered.
I've been trying to become better-read across a wider range of science fiction and fantasy, both for some of the staple classics to understand the roots of the genre as well as later "must-reads." I'm in the middle of the Gormenghast series and the Hyperion Cantos, both which I am very much enjoying and may talk more about later. (I do think, however, that Mervyn Peake is definitely more my style and Gormenghast may have settled in as one of my favorite books.)
At the behest of the beloved, I actually binged a podcast, The Black Tapes, which I really do want to do something of a write-up for. I've been mulling over the narrative focus and lens of stories and why the ending fell so infamously flat. I think I might want to contrast it to something that I also recently binged, the 2008 anime Kaiba. (Which I heartily recommend to fans of the surreal. However, I also want warn anyone who has triggers regarding memory loss or implanting to maybe pass on it, unfortunately.)
Speaking of the beloved, he finally comes home this Friday, after a month away at training! Absolutely can't wait, it's been so hard without him.
Also actually getting back into consuming media again, too! Which might sound silly, but has been a struggle for me for a long time. I struggle with just enjoying myself or feeling like I'm allowed to like things, but I've actually been doing pretty well all things considered.
I've been trying to become better-read across a wider range of science fiction and fantasy, both for some of the staple classics to understand the roots of the genre as well as later "must-reads." I'm in the middle of the Gormenghast series and the Hyperion Cantos, both which I am very much enjoying and may talk more about later. (I do think, however, that Mervyn Peake is definitely more my style and Gormenghast may have settled in as one of my favorite books.)
At the behest of the beloved, I actually binged a podcast, The Black Tapes, which I really do want to do something of a write-up for. I've been mulling over the narrative focus and lens of stories and why the ending fell so infamously flat. I think I might want to contrast it to something that I also recently binged, the 2008 anime Kaiba. (Which I heartily recommend to fans of the surreal. However, I also want warn anyone who has triggers regarding memory loss or implanting to maybe pass on it, unfortunately.)
Speaking of the beloved, he finally comes home this Friday, after a month away at training! Absolutely can't wait, it's been so hard without him.