luny

It turns out that the secret to having a genuinely good day in a pandemic - like, a day in which I spent most of it actively enjoying myself - is the soundtrack to Six the Musical. They're just SO CATCHY.

(if I had to sum myself up as a human being in one scene it would be me c. 3pm today, sitting on my bed, eating cheesecake as I listen to Six on repeat and cry over Eleanor Roosevelt - it was a great day)

tl;dr I'm very bored, does anyone have youtube or fic recommendations? I really don't need to know the fandom for fics, I just don't want sads right now. And re youtube I don't care, I just am running out of BA Test Kitchen videos and honestly don't know what else to do with my day. I

This is going to be a lot of stream of consciousness garbage because I honestly have no idea how I'm doing right now. Like, am I real? Is time passing? Can I just sleep until the shelter in place order is lifted? Am I a mess or do I just need to eat a granola bar?

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In the course of 24 hours we went from “we’re monitoring the situation” to complete social distancing. The Trader Joe’s is out of frozen Indian food - that’s a sure sign of the apocalypse if I’ve ever heard one.

I’ve got plenty of food stocked up if I do have to quarantine and we’re nowhere near Italy levels yet, so like. Rationally I know these are (very important) preventative measures, but wow zero work is getting done in the office today, it’s just constant anxiety and handwashing. It feels like the last day of the semester - my coworkers have been saying HAGS all day, which is a throwback if I ever heard one. Except the virus also means potential recession means we’re working to avoid that so it’s also busy as hell and everyone’s stressed on that dimension too.

My sister is flying home since her college got shut down, and I’m really glad she’s going to be with my parents to make sure they don’t have to interact with the public at all. But it’s making me feel like I should be home, even though that makes absolutely zero sense. My parents would be glad to have me, but my sister should get the good bed and I shouldn’t be in airports right now. But I’m in bunker mentality, and the thought of my family being 3000 miles away sucks.

This is all just to say that I was handling this fine and I will adapt but today is stressful as hell. The one plus side? I have had zero (0) energy to care at all about the election so hallelujah for that!

I’m so late to this party, but I’m finally getting around to actually watching 13, and she’s SO GREAT. I watched a couple episodes when she first started, but s11e5 just objectively destroyed me. It’s everything anyone could want in a Doctor Who episode - cheesy alien villain (that’s just following its nature), Greys Anatomy level of using medical patients for our characters to project onto, repairing a broken sibling relationship, and a strong sense of “the universe is terrifying and we might all die, but there is always hope if we have the courage to imagine it”. Plus, earthen men being freaked out by mpreg (and therefore leaving the badass women to save the day). It was objectively ridiculous and I should not be this emotional over it but GUYS she’s a doctor of many things but mostly of hope THESE WRITERS GET IT. I genuinely feel like I’m 16 and discovering this show for the first time again, I’m so glad they got back on track.

I didn’t *really* need to watch another show right now (see: the ridiculous pile of Untamed fic I’m still working through - there’s just so much good content!!!) but I guess they own my whole soul now!!! It’s fine

If you like books with:

• logic;
• easy-to-follow storylines;
• characters who only have one name; and/or
• plots that validate your nostalgia

The Starless Sea is not for you.

If, on the other hand, you like books with:

• stories within stories within stories, whether those stories are myths or books or video games or sculptures;
• characters who are lovely in their own right but are also metaphors;
• ancient places that we cannot return to; and/or
• achingly lovely love stories and equally meaningful friendships

please for the love of god read this book so I have someone to scream about it with.

I was introduced to Erin Morgenstern when a friend in high school turned to me and said, "my mom gave me this book but it's really weird, I think you'd like it." And I did, though it turns out Night Circus makes infinitely more sense when a) you are older than 15 and b) you've read it before. I suspect Starless Sea is similar; I desperately want to reread it but it was due back at the library today, whoops (SO SORRY to the person who has the next hold).

It's also a story that is SCREAMING for fic - like, first of all the whole thing is about the meta-narativity and interconnectedness of stories, and second it hits you over the head with the fact that the ending is the beginning of so much more for these characters and this world. But ao3 just confirmed my suspicions - there are all of 2 fics :( there's even an m/m ship with CRAZY chemistry and potential, what more do fic authors want?

I kinda want to live in this book forever, kinda want to cry, kinda want to scream about this for hours on end, but I need to go to this birthday party now and pretend to be a normal person who wasn't just brought to the brink of tears by a happy ending (because it does have a happy ending, and that's not even a spoiler - it is a fairytale, after all, and you can absolutely trust this author).

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Unrelated to literally anything but I just remembered that some people legitimately feel sexual attraction and no offense but that’s HILARIOUS. I hope you’re all having fun but also. Like. What?

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11/10 highly recommend joining an organization just before their union finalizes their first contract. Like - I’m getting a pay raise and extra vacation days having only formally been here two weeks. It’s FANTASTIC, and I’m so thankful to the many many people who put in so much effort over the last few years to get the union recognized and the contract negotiated. (and management gets a gold star for cooperating)

Anyway, unions are great, support them!

God, I’m such a sucker for loyalty, for characters who are clearly destroying themselves to help someone who takes them for granted (because of course your big brother is going to take care of you even after you tried to strangle him - you were distraught over your parents’ death, he understands). Anyway, Wei Wuxian is hitting every single one of my buttons, and I’m actually really loving how the show captures the sibling relationships - he and Jiang Cheng were so believable as super close siblings, which makes watching them implode is all the worse.i have no idea how they’re going to end up but it feels 60/40 they become mortal enemies/they reconcile at this point so....

Related: Wen Qing is the only character this entire time who looked at Wei Wuxian and asked “what about you?” instead of putting more demands on him, and like. If I hadn’t already decided to adore her that would have done it.

Unrelated: there have been too many dead bodies recently. It’s been a while since I watched anything that had a war in it, and I’m remembering all the reasons why.

EDIT: I just got to the flashbacks (within the big flashback) and a) they were all ADORABLE when they were tiny and b) Jiang Cheng has never done a moment of emotional labor in his life, has he.

Disclaimer: everyone has their own headcanons etc etc but WHY would you assume Jo March is a lesbian. I grant you that that is 100000x more likely than her being straight or bi or pan or otherwise even slightly interested in men but. There’s also zero evidence she’s ever attracted to women? Like there’s a quote from....someone involved in the movie about how all the foundational relationships in her life are with women that I saw cited as evidence. But. She’s related to all the women in question?

Anyway Jo is 1000% aroace and you can’t convince me otherwise. Her whole “I don’t want romance or marriage or anything other than to live happily ever after with my family and best friends” is SUCH an aro mood. (As is her “But I’m so lonely”, but that’s a different post)

Brought to you by the thousandth post I would have reblogged on tumblr except it assumes Jo must be a lesbian because that’s the only way women aren’t attracted to men, right? I know they don’t mean anything by it but ugh.

I ended up chatting with my roommate for way longer than I think I ever have tonight, which was good but also a lil exhausting because socialization. And work today was soooo much running around. But my day is ending with me curled up in bed eating chocolate chips and rereading NBT so. What could possibly be better?