Random Summary of Media/Life Stuffs
Jul. 7th, 2023 10:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
labingiI've found myself reluctant to post recently, probably a mix of tiredness and trying to minimize eye strain. (I just got Lasek, the immediate result of which is that I now don't have glasses that work properly.) I've also been reflecting on what this kind of online presence is for, what I'm doing here (or anywhere online). I don't have an answer, so in the spirit of not wholly disappearing, here's a summary of some stuff:
Quick Self-Plug: Blog Post on Degrowth in Spec Fic
My intro to degrowth for speculative fiction writers is up at WriteHive.
Severance
My partner and I just bulldozed through season 1 of Severance. It's a very good sci-fi workplace dystopia, certainly deeper than I comprehended on a first viewing. It's a bit sad that we do dystopia so well and not much else. But this show really diagnoses a lot of our problems and the importance of relationships in maintaining our humanity (and not basically being consigned to hell). Highly recommended.
Strange New Worlds, Season 2, up to ep. 4, no real spoilers
I enjoyed season 1 overall, though not as much as I'd hoped. Thus far, I'm enjoying it a bit more. I'm glad this show is episodic because if one episode falls flat for me, the next may be fantastic. I love the new engineer (Pelia?), and La'an continues to get the best episodes. I continue to find NuTrek Spock painful--and I don't mean "bad"; I mean emotionally painful for me, though I often enjoy his dialogue when he's a side character and not the focus of a plotline.
On Reading
I'm finding myself a little afraid of reading lately, partly because I don't currently have a pair of reading glasses that work well, so it's a chore. But deeper than that, I'm both in search of a new story to invest in and reluctant to devote the mental energy to one. I guess I'm looking for the "sure thing," and there isn't one for me. For years, I've been running at rate of falling in love with a written story maybe once every five years, which creates a vicious circle of sparse reading to avoid disappointment. This is "for fun" reading; I've done lots of degrowth master's reading, which is useful but not cathartic.
Reading reluctance and degrowth come together, however, in my enduring belief that we need a better advanced search tool for fiction, an idea I wrote about in library school 15 years ago, didn't get a good grade on, and still believe in. It's degrowthy because the tool I'm imagining would be low tech by current standards and crowdsourced, fitting with degrowth principles of decommercialization and autonomy. Might put out feelers about it.
Quick Self-Plug: Blog Post on Degrowth in Spec Fic
My intro to degrowth for speculative fiction writers is up at WriteHive.
Severance
My partner and I just bulldozed through season 1 of Severance. It's a very good sci-fi workplace dystopia, certainly deeper than I comprehended on a first viewing. It's a bit sad that we do dystopia so well and not much else. But this show really diagnoses a lot of our problems and the importance of relationships in maintaining our humanity (and not basically being consigned to hell). Highly recommended.
Strange New Worlds, Season 2, up to ep. 4, no real spoilers
I enjoyed season 1 overall, though not as much as I'd hoped. Thus far, I'm enjoying it a bit more. I'm glad this show is episodic because if one episode falls flat for me, the next may be fantastic. I love the new engineer (Pelia?), and La'an continues to get the best episodes. I continue to find NuTrek Spock painful--and I don't mean "bad"; I mean emotionally painful for me, though I often enjoy his dialogue when he's a side character and not the focus of a plotline.
On Reading
I'm finding myself a little afraid of reading lately, partly because I don't currently have a pair of reading glasses that work well, so it's a chore. But deeper than that, I'm both in search of a new story to invest in and reluctant to devote the mental energy to one. I guess I'm looking for the "sure thing," and there isn't one for me. For years, I've been running at rate of falling in love with a written story maybe once every five years, which creates a vicious circle of sparse reading to avoid disappointment. This is "for fun" reading; I've done lots of degrowth master's reading, which is useful but not cathartic.
Reading reluctance and degrowth come together, however, in my enduring belief that we need a better advanced search tool for fiction, an idea I wrote about in library school 15 years ago, didn't get a good grade on, and still believe in. It's degrowthy because the tool I'm imagining would be low tech by current standards and crowdsourced, fitting with degrowth principles of decommercialization and autonomy. Might put out feelers about it.
