how is it already almost October?
Sep. 20th, 2020 10:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lunabee341. Rest in peace, Ruth Bader Ginsburg. You were a voice for true justice, and your light will be missed in this time of darkness. So few of us get to have the kind of legacy you will have; most of us will only be remembered by a handful of people for a handful of things--small kindnesses and minor cruelties alike. Thank you for giving us an example to look up to of a life lived large in the service of others.
When the breaking news of her death interrupted Jeopardy, Josh and I reached out and clutched hands silently because this is the world we live in; I have to admit that I was relieved that the news was the death of an important person rather than the announcement of a declaration of war or massive loss of life or something similar.
2. She-Ra! Y'all, I am enjoying this kids' cartoon just as much or more than anything else I have watched in the last ten years. LOL
The force squad bonding episode was amazing. I love the three of them banding together and realizing that they are a family--even Kyle!--and that Catra doesn't care about any of them.
The episode focused on Scorpia is probably my favorite episode so far. I loved getting to know a little more about her backstory, and I love that she finally realizes that Catra doesn't care about her or anyone else. I love that she protects Emily, and I love that she's going to rescue Entrapta. The quiet determination in her voice when she tells Catra that she's a bad friend just slices to the bone, and Catra feels it, too. I suspect that the black garnet is ready to work some magic for Scorpia, and I am so ready to see what her power is.
I really like all the doubling and paralleling of characters throughout the series. Hordac is in the same position as Catra with Horde Prime, and I suspect he's going to be rejected as soundly as she always is by everyone.
Glimmer is killing me. I get every single one of her frustrations, and I see her pain so clearly, and she's just going about everything the wrong way. I'm going to be disappointed if she and Beau and Adora don't reconcile soon.
3. Lovecraft County was amazing last week.
I love so many things about this episode. I love all the fucking around with identity. I love all the meta commentary on race and what it means to be white and black and the way power operates in a racialized society.
I love that Christina is William!!!!!!!!! Okay, I get that she's a bad guy or at least an amoral character, but I am rooting for her hard. She's stronger and more powerful than her daddy and his whole cabal; she is a whiz at magic, and I want her to succeed! Granted, I don't know what it is she wants to succeed at, and it's probably horrible, but I admire her moxie!
I really want Ruby to be attracted to Christina, too, and I want all kinds of fucked up sex in a variety of bodies from the two of them.
Re: William, I don't know when she began to masquerade as him. That little smile on William's face when George is being king of the bylaws makes me believe that every time we've seen William he's really been Christina. If so, mad props to her because keeping that secret from her dad would be super hard. I wondered if maybe she started masquerading as him after the collapse of the house in which he died. I mean, the woman Ruby turns into is the horrible woman with the dogs from the town in the second episode, and she looks dead to me when she gets konked on the head. I suspect that what is in the basement is the bodies of William and that lady to make the potion from.
But Christina does say something about the evil police captain having hurt (shot?) William, so maybe that's what happened to him.
I'm glad that Atticus is being nicer to Letty and not taking her for granted.
I love the scene where Montrose accepts himself and his feelings for Sammy. That was really powerful and beautiful and makes me very afraid that something terrible is about to happen to them both.
The show has strung out this thing with Atticus and his girlfriend from Korea for long enough, and I hope we get some forward momentum on that soon.
The one thing I did not like at all is Ruby raping the store manager with the shoe. I am all for her getting revenge and that horrible man getting his comeuppance, but I do not like rape as a punishment for the bad guys, and I also do not like the thesis that what Ruby wants to do with unmitigated power is commit sexual assault. I have already given on Walking Dead, thank you very much.
Hope tonight's episode is about Diana and Hippolyta.
4. It has been fall temperatures, and I have been sitting on my back porch and reading and writing in my journal and watching the birds; it has been so peaceful and wonderful and everything I ever wanted from being a grownup and living in my own house.
5. I got a postcard fromoracne and a Halloween card from misbegotten. Both have pride of place on the bulletin board.
6. For the past few weeks, my wind down before bedtime reading has been stationery blogs, and so I have gotten super hyped up about my paper/pen stash.
I have a Lamy fountain pen that a friend gave me several years ago. I used up all the ink cartridges and then just kinda forgot about it. I'm not sure exactly which Lamy it is; it looks like the Lamy Al-Star in purple, but I'm not sure. I can't find the box; it could be in my office, or it could be a casualty of the move. My friend M filled up a Lamy cartridge for me and told me how to clean it, and I have been getting so much joy out of writing with it. It writes so smoothly and makes my handwriting look amazing. I think it's probably a medium nib; it's definitely not fine. The finer the tip of a writing instrument, the worse my handwriting. I really prefer .7 and 1 in thickness. M had also given me a Smiggle fountain pen years ago, and I cleaned it up and put an aqua ink cartridge in it, and I'm having fun writing with it, too. The Smiggle is a cheap, disposable pen, and the writing experience is commensurate with that. It skips sometimes and is kind of scratchy and sometimes the ink doesn't want to get flowing. But it's still fun to write with. I also have a Pilot Parallel that M gave me, and it's a huge calligraphy nib that is so fun to write with. It lays down a lot of ink, though, so it has to be used on really thick paper.
I made a Jetpens order of Lamy ink and had to buy some notebooks, too, naturally. I've been wanting to try all this fountain pen friendly paper I've been reading about at night. I got a Rhodia, a Clairefontaine, a Midori, and a Kokuyo notebook. I made a mistake with the Rhodia and accidentally got a pocket notebook rather than the A5 I meant to get, but that's okay. The Clairefontaine is glue bound and I think it will be a little harder to write in as a consequence, especially as I get towards the center of the notebook. All these notebooks take fountain pen ink beautifully with no feathering, no bleed through and very little show throw. They are so much fun to write with.
I already had a Midori MD notebook, and the Midori I just bought is the purple one from their collection where all the covers are bonbon colored. LOL The fountain pens write well on the Midori paper, but it's my least favorite of the ones I have for fountain pens. I will say that not even the Pilot Parallel bleeds through on the Midori paper which is astonishing to me.
I had some Black 'n Red notebooks that M gave me, and they might be my favorites to write on with the Lamy. That paper barely shows through anything.
I was really surprised how well some of my random notebooks hold up to fountain pen use. I keep a notebook on the table to make lists in and take notes about the TV shows I watch and etc. It's always a notebook I don't care much about because I tear stuff out of it. Right now it's a notebook mom gave me with Bible verse on it, and it handles the fountain pen ink with zero bleed through and very little show through. I also have a notebookexecutrix gave me that I've been trying to do daily writing in, and it handles the ink well with minimal show and bleed through (although it does bleed through just a tiny bit from place to place).
When the breaking news of her death interrupted Jeopardy, Josh and I reached out and clutched hands silently because this is the world we live in; I have to admit that I was relieved that the news was the death of an important person rather than the announcement of a declaration of war or massive loss of life or something similar.
2. She-Ra! Y'all, I am enjoying this kids' cartoon just as much or more than anything else I have watched in the last ten years. LOL
The force squad bonding episode was amazing. I love the three of them banding together and realizing that they are a family--even Kyle!--and that Catra doesn't care about any of them.
The episode focused on Scorpia is probably my favorite episode so far. I loved getting to know a little more about her backstory, and I love that she finally realizes that Catra doesn't care about her or anyone else. I love that she protects Emily, and I love that she's going to rescue Entrapta. The quiet determination in her voice when she tells Catra that she's a bad friend just slices to the bone, and Catra feels it, too. I suspect that the black garnet is ready to work some magic for Scorpia, and I am so ready to see what her power is.
I really like all the doubling and paralleling of characters throughout the series. Hordac is in the same position as Catra with Horde Prime, and I suspect he's going to be rejected as soundly as she always is by everyone.
Glimmer is killing me. I get every single one of her frustrations, and I see her pain so clearly, and she's just going about everything the wrong way. I'm going to be disappointed if she and Beau and Adora don't reconcile soon.
3. Lovecraft County was amazing last week.
I love so many things about this episode. I love all the fucking around with identity. I love all the meta commentary on race and what it means to be white and black and the way power operates in a racialized society.
I love that Christina is William!!!!!!!!! Okay, I get that she's a bad guy or at least an amoral character, but I am rooting for her hard. She's stronger and more powerful than her daddy and his whole cabal; she is a whiz at magic, and I want her to succeed! Granted, I don't know what it is she wants to succeed at, and it's probably horrible, but I admire her moxie!
I really want Ruby to be attracted to Christina, too, and I want all kinds of fucked up sex in a variety of bodies from the two of them.
Re: William, I don't know when she began to masquerade as him. That little smile on William's face when George is being king of the bylaws makes me believe that every time we've seen William he's really been Christina. If so, mad props to her because keeping that secret from her dad would be super hard. I wondered if maybe she started masquerading as him after the collapse of the house in which he died. I mean, the woman Ruby turns into is the horrible woman with the dogs from the town in the second episode, and she looks dead to me when she gets konked on the head. I suspect that what is in the basement is the bodies of William and that lady to make the potion from.
But Christina does say something about the evil police captain having hurt (shot?) William, so maybe that's what happened to him.
I'm glad that Atticus is being nicer to Letty and not taking her for granted.
I love the scene where Montrose accepts himself and his feelings for Sammy. That was really powerful and beautiful and makes me very afraid that something terrible is about to happen to them both.
The show has strung out this thing with Atticus and his girlfriend from Korea for long enough, and I hope we get some forward momentum on that soon.
The one thing I did not like at all is Ruby raping the store manager with the shoe. I am all for her getting revenge and that horrible man getting his comeuppance, but I do not like rape as a punishment for the bad guys, and I also do not like the thesis that what Ruby wants to do with unmitigated power is commit sexual assault. I have already given on Walking Dead, thank you very much.
Hope tonight's episode is about Diana and Hippolyta.
4. It has been fall temperatures, and I have been sitting on my back porch and reading and writing in my journal and watching the birds; it has been so peaceful and wonderful and everything I ever wanted from being a grownup and living in my own house.
5. I got a postcard from
oracne and a Halloween card from misbegotten. Both have pride of place on the bulletin board.6. For the past few weeks, my wind down before bedtime reading has been stationery blogs, and so I have gotten super hyped up about my paper/pen stash.
I have a Lamy fountain pen that a friend gave me several years ago. I used up all the ink cartridges and then just kinda forgot about it. I'm not sure exactly which Lamy it is; it looks like the Lamy Al-Star in purple, but I'm not sure. I can't find the box; it could be in my office, or it could be a casualty of the move. My friend M filled up a Lamy cartridge for me and told me how to clean it, and I have been getting so much joy out of writing with it. It writes so smoothly and makes my handwriting look amazing. I think it's probably a medium nib; it's definitely not fine. The finer the tip of a writing instrument, the worse my handwriting. I really prefer .7 and 1 in thickness. M had also given me a Smiggle fountain pen years ago, and I cleaned it up and put an aqua ink cartridge in it, and I'm having fun writing with it, too. The Smiggle is a cheap, disposable pen, and the writing experience is commensurate with that. It skips sometimes and is kind of scratchy and sometimes the ink doesn't want to get flowing. But it's still fun to write with. I also have a Pilot Parallel that M gave me, and it's a huge calligraphy nib that is so fun to write with. It lays down a lot of ink, though, so it has to be used on really thick paper.
I made a Jetpens order of Lamy ink and had to buy some notebooks, too, naturally. I've been wanting to try all this fountain pen friendly paper I've been reading about at night. I got a Rhodia, a Clairefontaine, a Midori, and a Kokuyo notebook. I made a mistake with the Rhodia and accidentally got a pocket notebook rather than the A5 I meant to get, but that's okay. The Clairefontaine is glue bound and I think it will be a little harder to write in as a consequence, especially as I get towards the center of the notebook. All these notebooks take fountain pen ink beautifully with no feathering, no bleed through and very little show throw. They are so much fun to write with.
I already had a Midori MD notebook, and the Midori I just bought is the purple one from their collection where all the covers are bonbon colored. LOL The fountain pens write well on the Midori paper, but it's my least favorite of the ones I have for fountain pens. I will say that not even the Pilot Parallel bleeds through on the Midori paper which is astonishing to me.
I had some Black 'n Red notebooks that M gave me, and they might be my favorites to write on with the Lamy. That paper barely shows through anything.
I was really surprised how well some of my random notebooks hold up to fountain pen use. I keep a notebook on the table to make lists in and take notes about the TV shows I watch and etc. It's always a notebook I don't care much about because I tear stuff out of it. Right now it's a notebook mom gave me with Bible verse on it, and it handles the fountain pen ink with zero bleed through and very little show through. I also have a notebook
executrix gave me that I've been trying to do daily writing in, and it handles the ink well with minimal show and bleed through (although it does bleed through just a tiny bit from place to place).
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Date: 2020-09-20 03:19 pm (UTC)Sitting and relaxing on your own porch, with lovely weather, bird-song, and nothing much to do is *delightful*. :D
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Date: 2020-09-21 09:29 pm (UTC)It is so delightful. I am becoming a true bird watching fan. I don't see well enough to identify a lot of them, but that's fine. They're still fun to watch.
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Date: 2020-09-20 05:05 pm (UTC)I'm glad you're enjoying cooler temps! It's been a little bit ~too cool for me - 35 degree mornings and a hard frost the other day - as I was hoping for some middle ground between summer and winter, but it seems like we don't have a middle ground anymore, just hot or cold. Good thing climate change isn't real. (sarcasm alert)
I hope you're having a lovely weekend.
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Date: 2020-09-21 09:30 pm (UTC)It's not been anywhere near that cool here. I'm not ready for almost freezing either. LOL
I'm just happy for a cool breeze.
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Date: 2020-09-20 05:43 pm (UTC)I love reading about good pens and paper, but I'm terrible at using them (though I do use a Rhodia grid book for my pseudo-bujo).
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Date: 2020-09-21 09:31 pm (UTC)The next step is a table and chairs so I can truly work out there and we can eat out there.
I tried so hard to bujo, but it ended up not being for me. I am a list gal at heart. I want to make a list, scratch it out, and then throw that piece of paper away. Tossing the sheet is an integral part of my method. LOL
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Date: 2020-09-20 06:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-09-21 09:32 pm (UTC)Let me know what you see in your gazebo when you do sit in it!
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Date: 2020-09-21 11:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-09-22 12:07 pm (UTC)We have foxes in GA, and I have seen foxes maybe two or three times since we've moved here. I haven't seen any since we moved to this neighborhood, though. It might be too swampy for them. I think they need dry ground to make a den or whatever.
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Date: 2020-09-22 05:51 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2020-09-22 11:13 pm (UTC)Then again they're also murder mysterties, bewteen and during the fox hunting. LOL. Sister Jane is sort of like Mrs. Fletcher. Always having people dying around her and she has to solve the mystery.
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Date: 2020-09-22 11:31 pm (UTC)The woman I wrote my dissertation about, Ouida, was super against fox hunting, and she would be happy to know about this change.
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Date: 2020-09-22 11:37 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2020-09-21 03:45 pm (UTC)I haven't had a fountain pen in years but have recently been thinking about getting one again as my handwriting has got really scruffy due to years of keyboarding and I'd really like to brush it up again.
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Date: 2020-09-21 11:36 pm (UTC)My handwriting has gotten atrocious and the fountain pen has really helped with that. I think it looks genuinely good when I write with it. LOL