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Hello, 2022!
I can't bring myself to list the results of year 2021.
I mean - we are fine, in good health, and so are our extended families.
getting US visas for them though, is way more complicated, which sucks.
we now have a bunny
kids are going to school, which is so much better. I am so not a homeschooling parent, and I've known it all my life, before I was ( Read more... ) -
December 2021
Time to use my New year icon, and wow. How come it's December already?
Everything is the same. I don't do anything, and I don't even have an excuse of kids at home. Time just flies away. It still leaves me tired and exhausted, but without any meaningful result.
I think a year ago I had more hopes for the world.
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the Moonlighting series
https://www.hallowedgroundmedia.org/hallowed-ground-storycast/moonlighting
I listened to this podcast, where Lani Diane Rich was talking about the Moonlighting series, and I was happy to discover that she had all the same frustrations about it as I did, but is so much better at talking about them.
I watched Moonlighting when it was airing in Russia ( Read more... ) -
on recent Marvel tv shows
I have enjoyed “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.” I loved seeing the world after The Blip and the problems it faces. It even added the necessary perspective to WandaVision - the people in West View are the people in this post-Blip world, faced with the same problems - lost and found families, people who grieved for five years only to have their ( Read more... ) -
Fandom as Alchemy
Sometimes fandom discourse reminds me of alchemy. There is a beautiful unifying theory, an idea of a perfect story existing in a perfect world, where characters come together in a perfect union and live in perfection, if we only uncover the symbolism and unlock the sacred mystery.
And there are a lot of deep and interesting meta, and commentaries ( Read more... ) -
Buffy Summers is 40
I am a bit in a weird non-writing head space right now, but I can't miss today.
Today Buffy Summers is 40!
Happy birthday, Buffy, please don't celebrate it! We love you.
SMG on instagram and FB has a lovely post about it, too. -
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I am so damn slow both in my reading and in my writing. I have no idea, whether it’s new, or old and noticeable… I mean, I have time, but focusing on a book or on writing takes so much energy, that even such a simple thing as a post here requires a lot of planning…
Anyway. The year is gone. It started badly, with a death of a close friend of my ( Read more... )
