A Thing I’ve Watched 02/24: Pokémon Concierge

The short, both in episodes and lenght-per-episode, stop-motion series about the adventures and shenanigans of Haru and her Psyduck on the Pokémon Resort-island.
It’s very cute, and fun to watch.

A Thing I’ve Watched 01/24: Scott Pilgrim Takes Off

It’s… a Scott Pilgrim AU, in which the events of the movie did not quite come to pass. For reasons. Which would be spoilers.

It is A Ride, and it’s got some awesome fights, and the movie-cast is doing the voices, and for the most part I loved it.

A Thing I’ve Read 02/24: Take Us to a Better Place: Stories, published by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

A short story collection I came across because it holds one vaguely Murderbot-adjunct one by Martha Wells. All the stories are supposed to be health-related, mental/physical/community/…, and it’s your usual mixed bag of a collection. However, imo none of them was actively bad, even when they didn’t track for me.

Also, it’s free – just download one and see for yourself.

A Thing I’ve Read 01/24: System Collapse (Murderbot VII) by Martha Wells

In which our beloved SecUnit has not only to deal with wannabe corporate overlords trying to enslave a full planet, but also the pesky side effects of having human neural tissue fully capable of developing mental health issues.

I would not recommend this as an entry point (start at the beginning), but if you liked the other stories… why are you still here?

Something something 2023, I think?

I really didn't do a lot of media this year, but go and read Legends&Lattes, by Travis Baldree, and We Won't Be Here Tomorrow, and other stories, by Margaret Killjoy, and Bea Wolf, by Zach Weinersmith and Boulet.
Watch the Spiderverse movies.
Play Horizon: Forbidden West and Baldur's Gate III and Dave the Diver.

Have a good night tonight, and don't blow off any limbs. Don't blow up anything, ideally.

2022. That was A Year for sure. (Can I have a do-over?)

Go about and read Radikale Zärtlichkeit by Şeyda Kurt, for it is important; and A Prayer For The Crown Shy by Becky Chambers, for it is warm and fuzzy; and Saga by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples, for it does not stop hitting you in the face; and the Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells for one of the best protagonists.

Watch Severance, for it is both utterly weird and utterly disturbing; and Everything Everywhere All At Once, for it is A Lot; and Ted Lasso, for it is warm and fuzzy and says some very important things; and all of Knives Out, for it is great.

If you listen to Podcasts, listen to Bad Women, for it tells important stories; and Maintenance Phase, to yell at your podcatcher about a lot of health-and-wellness-topics; and How To Fuck Up An Airport, to yell at your podcatcher about BER; and Articles of Interest, to learn about the history of clothing and styles.

Be good. Do good. And please, please talk more with each other.

This day of the year, is it?

Go read things by Becky Chambers; and This Is How You Lose The Time War; and Harrow the Ninth, but only if you read and enjoyed Gideon.

Watch Dune (2021) on the biggest screen you can; and Ted Lasso under your most comfortable blanket; and Avatar: The Last Airbender in general.

Also peel off some Nazi-stickers in your neighbourhood if you can do so safely.

Stay healthy and sane, somehow. I miss most of you ♥

End-of-year words:
Go read Jasper Fforde's Road to High Saffron, and Isabel Allende's Daughter of Fortune, and Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam-trilogy.

Go watch Wag the Dog and Thank you for Smoking, as both are disturbingly relevant still, and Pride, because it is Very Good.

All the shit that went down this year is not the fault of 2020 but the culmination of systemic problems that have been smouldering for a long time, and things will not get long-term better unless we adress these.

Have a good one, and have a terrible multi-level pun spanning 23 years of fandoms. Cheers.

This is scraped of facebook, and presented mostly without comment (and translation).
I also have a distinct lack of memories over quite a lot of those.

Geht hin und lest Gideon the Ninth, und To Be Taught, If Fortunate, und Monstrous Regiment.

This is scraped of facebook, and presented mostly without comment (and translation).
I also have a distinct lack of memories over quite a lot of those.

Obligatorischer Jahresendpost, bevor Admiral von Schneider und die übrigen Honoratioren hier einfallen.
Persönlich war's eigentlich ganz okay, die globale Gesamtsituation war definitiv nicht okay.

Empfehlungen, Fiction: Revenger (Reynolds), Record of a Spaceborn Few (Chambers).
Empfehlungen, Nonfiction: Legion versus Phalanx (Cole), Dirty Old London (Jackson).
Empfehlungen, Film: The Death of Stalin (shut up with your conterrevolutionary talk of "from 2017").

Nun gehet hin und tut Dinge. 2019 wird nicht von alleine besser.