So I finally persuaded a friend to watch YURI!!! ON ICE, and she is ded of cute. Also only through episode 5. "Rec me fanfic!" she says ( Read more... )

I am stepping away from Facebook and Tumblr because you cannot get away from the latest [expletive deleted] out of DC (and on Tumblr, people include screencaps and don't tag stuff, so even blacklists don't always work). I have hit the 'cannot cope' point - again. Here, everyone, have kitties. ( Very large pictures of my cats, and link to the sound of cats purring. )

So you know how I posted yesterday that we were going with some friends to see Hidden Figures?

OMG GO SEE IT.

( Cut for minor spoilers. )

*Saw MOANA this past weekend. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Soundtrack has been intermittently stuck in my head every since, but at least the songs have been taking turns ( Read more... )

FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM: enjoyed the Beasts themselves (no seriously, so pretty) and the possibly-Jewish Muggle character. Tumblr tells me that it supposedly took place mostly in Harlem, which I can't believe - does anyone know if we have anything besides Word Of Creator on that? But my emotional investment in HP canon is low, and ( Read more... )

Still staying off Tumblr and Facebook for at least another day. But it's maybe...it's not better. But the paralysis is starting to wear off.

( How the hell to explain this - storytime beneath the cut. )

Because right now, even the mourning and anger of fellow progressives is rubbing me raw.

(Not my fucking president.)

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...is that our internet has returned. Let us hope that it will stay returned.

Otherwise, well, we are still pillaging our local libraries. Should write up what all I've been reading, in the vain hope of remembering the ones I like. And my left shoulder is ( messed up somehow - details, such as they are, behind a cut for people who Don't Care. )

For most of the past year, we had internet via Comcast, and it was fairly stable. Then, not quite a month ago, we signed a three-year contract, and suddenly...( tl:dr; the internet goes down, stays down, ain't nobody happy except maybe Comcast. Grr. )

( I may perhaps have not realized exactly how big my wife's soft spot was for Cute Animal Sidekicks. )