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mistressofmuses) wrote2022-03-08 07:08 pm
mistressofmuses) wrote2022-03-08 07:08 pm
Third time's the charm...
At least for getting Alex this damn tattoo, lol.
He was supposed to get it on Sunday, and while the roads seemed okay, the artist asked to postpone it. We settled on yesterday.
And then yesterday, as we were grabbing coffee before heading to the shop, the artist texted Alex and said that his car had been stolen and that he had to postpone again.
So we rescheduled for today, and hooray! It actually happened!
"And by a torch of faith I set myself on fire."
It's a line from Into the Unknown by Apop. His very favoritest band.
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After that, we went to see The Batman, because I checked the available seats for the earliest remaining show, and it was a shockingly empty theater. (The later showings were already each at least half full.)
As much as superhero movies don't always appeal to me, I really enjoyed it! I thought it was very well-cast, and the directing/cinematography/music were all fantastic. I thought it did a really good job leaning into the menace inherent in the Batman figure, were such a person to actually be out there... while also having him feel less like a superhero in a lot of ways, as he has missteps and takes hits. It also dealt with the dark noir tone pretty well, striking the right amount of it for me.
(Weirdly one of the things it reminded me of was... Bioshock? I guess just the dark slightly art-deco aesthetic, mixed with the large-scale corruption that just gets worse and worse the deeper you go...)
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Yesterday I finished draft 2 of chapter 3 of my current WIP, which puts me at one day ahead of where I'd hoped to be. Better than behind!
-
Thinking about trying to import my old LJ. I mean, me and plenty of other old or ex-LJ users. While some of the reports of "OMG RUSSIA IS TAKING EVERYTHING OFF THE INTERNET" are certainly exaggerated, it also wouldn't surprise me to have something happen to accounts on there, or for the site to go down in some fashion.
I haven't used LJ in a very long time. I think that before I poked my head back in here in 2018(?) I'd been crossposting (so... 2012-2013ish), but the space on DW had just started to feel friendlier. The changes to LJ bothered me the way they bothered a lot of people. Even pretty far past "strikethrough", it felt hard to trust the site wouldn't do something like that again. And then with Russian ownership, there was a sort of codified homophobia that was hard to ignore. (Not from the userbase, but in site policy and attitude.) Plus the ads. Ugh, the ads.
I'm sure it's an astronomical wait at this point to do the import through DW, but I might see if I can at least get into the queue.
I think I'll probably just import it here. I'd thought about making a new account just to have it serve as an archive and nothing else, but... well, might as well keep it all together. As embarrassing as my high school and early college angst are to me now, lmao.
He was supposed to get it on Sunday, and while the roads seemed okay, the artist asked to postpone it. We settled on yesterday.
And then yesterday, as we were grabbing coffee before heading to the shop, the artist texted Alex and said that his car had been stolen and that he had to postpone again.
So we rescheduled for today, and hooray! It actually happened!
"And by a torch of faith I set myself on fire."
It's a line from Into the Unknown by Apop. His very favoritest band.
-
After that, we went to see The Batman, because I checked the available seats for the earliest remaining show, and it was a shockingly empty theater. (The later showings were already each at least half full.)
As much as superhero movies don't always appeal to me, I really enjoyed it! I thought it was very well-cast, and the directing/cinematography/music were all fantastic. I thought it did a really good job leaning into the menace inherent in the Batman figure, were such a person to actually be out there... while also having him feel less like a superhero in a lot of ways, as he has missteps and takes hits. It also dealt with the dark noir tone pretty well, striking the right amount of it for me.
(Weirdly one of the things it reminded me of was... Bioshock? I guess just the dark slightly art-deco aesthetic, mixed with the large-scale corruption that just gets worse and worse the deeper you go...)
-
Yesterday I finished draft 2 of chapter 3 of my current WIP, which puts me at one day ahead of where I'd hoped to be. Better than behind!
-
Thinking about trying to import my old LJ. I mean, me and plenty of other old or ex-LJ users. While some of the reports of "OMG RUSSIA IS TAKING EVERYTHING OFF THE INTERNET" are certainly exaggerated, it also wouldn't surprise me to have something happen to accounts on there, or for the site to go down in some fashion.
I haven't used LJ in a very long time. I think that before I poked my head back in here in 2018(?) I'd been crossposting (so... 2012-2013ish), but the space on DW had just started to feel friendlier. The changes to LJ bothered me the way they bothered a lot of people. Even pretty far past "strikethrough", it felt hard to trust the site wouldn't do something like that again. And then with Russian ownership, there was a sort of codified homophobia that was hard to ignore. (Not from the userbase, but in site policy and attitude.) Plus the ads. Ugh, the ads.
I'm sure it's an astronomical wait at this point to do the import through DW, but I might see if I can at least get into the queue.
I think I'll probably just import it here. I'd thought about making a new account just to have it serve as an archive and nothing else, but... well, might as well keep it all together. As embarrassing as my high school and early college angst are to me now, lmao.