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The new season of What We Do in the Shadows has started! Really excited; this is one of my favorite shows (tied with Derry Girls, now finished, slightly ahead of BBC Ghosts and Ted Lasso, which haven't released new series this year yet. Ahead of Severance and Moon Knight). We haven't got around to starting to watch it yet though, because we were finishing up rewatching all of Stranger Things and then we watched the new movie The Lost City with Sandra Bullock, Channing Tatum, and Daniel Radcliffe. Wax is also watching For All Mankind weekly (this show has SUCH shitty hair and mediocre costuming that I can't stand it, plus the political side of the plotting is plain stupid. But the space part is cool I guess) and also Roswell: New Mexico, which is straight up bad.

They released a trailer for the Netflix Sandman and a bunch of little clips and some interviews this week. I've been following the development with interest via Neil Gaiman on Tumblr, but now I'm getting really excited. I read the whole thing over a decade ago and didn't remember the details, but we only own the first volume so that's all I reread. You don't NEED to reread to follow it or anything - the adaptation is promised to be extremely faithful as well as fully comprehensible - but I do like to reread; I just can't decide if I should buy them digitally or go ahead and get the rest of the volumes, or the cheaper more-omnibused newer version that's like... I think... in 4 books instead of 10. Anyway, I wish Death had bolder eyeliner on, because I love the eyeliner like... possibly the most - not just Death's, but 'Egyptian'-style eyeliner in general, I just love it - but I can't really critique this choice as a flaw, because it's not like she's not wearing it either, it's just not like... drawn big and strong enough to see from across the room. TBH there are an infinity of looks that, in my view, could benefit from Egyptianesque eyeliner. Dying about Gwendoline Christie, Death and Dream's perfection, the fantastic settings in the clips so far, and anticipation of David Thewlis.

Went to my health checkup this morning and the nurse gave me a tetanus shot (my last one was like 20 years ago) and the first dose of the vaccine they give people who are worried about tick bites. Also my cholesterol is slightly high, which I wasn't anticipating, and our diet isn't very cholesterol-intense, so I'm taken aback and a bit stumped. Also there's no WAY I'm gonna stop eating butter on my toast in favor of margarine, although I didn't tell the nurse that. Like seriously. Come on now. I'm not a big fan of fried food, but I guess I can make some effort to avoid it. Or I could eat more fish? But like. I don't really like that MANY types of fish dishes. OTOH, I have eaten lemon breaded whitefish three days in a week perfectly happily before, so I guess it's fully possible.

I was born in southern Louisiana, but I have no memories of living there at all so sometimes the vagaries of swamp living as experienced by my parents and sister in Baton Rouge surprise me. Like yesterday my dad texted the family chat that there was a baby 18" alligator in the ditch by their house "again", freaking out his attendant, and they had to call the state fish & wildlife department because it turns out that Animal Control does not handle gators. My mom sent a picture and it is indeed adorable (but blurry). Obviously, too, not big enough to be dangerous, but that's not as silly as being afraid of spiders or dogs, so I have ceased to be surprised by what Dad's attendants will scream about. I didn't get an answer when I asked them "'Again'?!"

multi-fannish American queer cat & bunny owner in Finland