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Reading: Still going through The Stadium; I might drop it, or at least put it on hold for a bit. The subject matter, while interesting, just isn't holding my attention. Yuru Camp is lovely, though, and I'm already on Volume 6! I haven't felt the desire to read many of my physical books nor fanfic nor e-books, and have mostly been on a manga streak.

Listening: Still working my way through Live No Lies; I've found the book is a lot better if I listen to a chapter each week and think through it. I finished The House of My Mother, which was deeply harrowing and so frustrating. I found it difficult both to listen to the extent of the abuse Shari and her siblings went through, as well as how she excused the institutions that made the abuse possible (including the abuse she suffered from her male mentor figure). It was a complicated memoir told in simple language, and I've found it interesting to compare it to Jinger Duggar's memoir as a thought exercise. I'm thinking of moving on to More Perfect, a NPR podcast digging into landmark Supreme Court cases and explaining the legal thought process behind them.

Playing: I've continued playing Schedule 1 exclusively - finally figured out how to make meth! - and it's been so fun. I'm eager to see what else this guy adds to the game, because the recent update with purchasing random accessories and artwork makes me so happy.

Watching: A few more episodes of Weiss Kreuz - Yoji still best boy, I think I'm going to have to download this series for watching it locally. Hubby has been watching Tulsa King Season 2, and catching a few episodes every now and then has been quite funny. Recently, we've been on a kick of watching older movies. So this week, we've seen:

Gold Diggers of 1933 (8/10): a phenomenal musical about a group of struggling showgirls contracting with a shady playwright and an all too altruistic music producer to make a musical that encompasses the spirit of the Great Depression. I'm not a musical person, but I adored the songs and routines in this, as well as the social commentary - I won't say much, but the last song about how the vets of WW1 were left behind was so well done in imagery, symbolism, and visual panache. Also, it's simply hilarious, with a shocking amount of femdom and findom jokes for a 30s movie?? Please watch it.

Soylent Green (5/10): We watched this for the meme and how it impacted culture, but the movie itself... eh. It could have been done a lot better - the plot was very thin, and the aesthetics, while top notch, were paper thin. One could make the argument it's meant to be extreme, but if that was the case it felt like it was too coy in other areas of showing how depraved the society was. Regardless, it was an interesting watch, but not one I'd do again.

This weekend I'm hoping to watch either In This Corner of the World (a 2016 animated film about a young Japanese woman making ends meet after WW2 ended) or Double Indemnity (A 1940s movie about a wife who teams up with an insurance agent to kill her husband).

Writing: I've been kicking around a cute idea about Jeltsje and Rodney crashing on an ice planet and him, in a hypothermic and feverish state, realizing he actually loves Jeltsje as she's staring at the auroras the planet has and inviting him to check them out with her - but outside of aesthetics, I haven't really figured out the what or how or why. I've also been thinking about my other major OC/Canon ship but nothing new for them.