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In spirit golden
May. 2nd, 2022 02:01 pmToday is a public holiday in the UK, and I'm relaxing at home, after starting the day with a glorious 1km swim in the pool, with the sun streaming through the huge windows and dancing on the water. It's been a weekend of lovely things.
I finished one book: The Midnight Bargain by CL Polk. ( Some thoughts and reactions )
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Matthias and I watched two films over the weekend: Nightmare Alley (a stylish noir film set in 1940s America in which a con man gets conned, and indeed cons himself; it's told with Guillermo del Toro's characteristic sympathy for monsters, although I would have preferred pretty much anyone other than Bradley Cooper in the main role, as I really don't rate him as an actor), and The Worst Person in the World (a Norwegian film of a very specific contemporary fiction subgenre: the existential difficulties of being a directionless middle-class person living in a city and navigating one's romantic life; think things like the fiction of Nick Hornby, although in this case the protagonist is a thirty-year-old Norwegian woman and the humour is more muted).
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I don't write fic in megafandoms, or even in mildly popular fandoms — basically all my fic is for Yuletide-eligible fandoms-of-one. For this reason, it's always delightful to me when I get a flurry of kudos on all the fic I've written in individual fandoms — such as the notifications I got this week that two separate people had left kudos for all my Sunshine (McKinley) fic. I always want to befriend those people, because they clearly engage with fic in a similar way to me: read a book, feel intense fannish feelings about the book, and then go and read every single work in the tiny handful of fic that exists in that specific book's fandom. It's delightful!
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I'm trying to figure out what I want to do for the remaining few hours before Matthias gets home. I'm not in the mood to start another book, I've stalled on TV watching, and I have no intention of using a day of annual leave to do housework. I'll probably end up doing some yoga, although at the moment the prospect of leaving my wing chair is not very appealling!
I finished one book: The Midnight Bargain by CL Polk. ( Some thoughts and reactions )
Matthias and I watched two films over the weekend: Nightmare Alley (a stylish noir film set in 1940s America in which a con man gets conned, and indeed cons himself; it's told with Guillermo del Toro's characteristic sympathy for monsters, although I would have preferred pretty much anyone other than Bradley Cooper in the main role, as I really don't rate him as an actor), and The Worst Person in the World (a Norwegian film of a very specific contemporary fiction subgenre: the existential difficulties of being a directionless middle-class person living in a city and navigating one's romantic life; think things like the fiction of Nick Hornby, although in this case the protagonist is a thirty-year-old Norwegian woman and the humour is more muted).
I don't write fic in megafandoms, or even in mildly popular fandoms — basically all my fic is for Yuletide-eligible fandoms-of-one. For this reason, it's always delightful to me when I get a flurry of kudos on all the fic I've written in individual fandoms — such as the notifications I got this week that two separate people had left kudos for all my Sunshine (McKinley) fic. I always want to befriend those people, because they clearly engage with fic in a similar way to me: read a book, feel intense fannish feelings about the book, and then go and read every single work in the tiny handful of fic that exists in that specific book's fandom. It's delightful!
I'm trying to figure out what I want to do for the remaining few hours before Matthias gets home. I'm not in the mood to start another book, I've stalled on TV watching, and I have no intention of using a day of annual leave to do housework. I'll probably end up doing some yoga, although at the moment the prospect of leaving my wing chair is not very appealling!