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azurelunatic) wrote2020-05-12 10:00 am
azurelunatic) wrote2020-05-12 10:00 am
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A dreary sameness
It was hot over the weekend. That was draining. 85 here. 80 in Fairbanks.
Belovedest's siblings did a group video chat that included the parents. It was fun.
I'm procrastinating on a thing that I'm afraid I've screwed up a bit.
I finished reading Bonds of Brass. Fun, but evil empires are hard.
Whipped through The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet in a day. Competence, and I am here for it. It actually scratched the itch that I got after Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen.
It seems like I can't speak well of Angry Planet without dissing Red Queen. I'm still feeling cheated that we didn't get to see Cordelia shine in another crisis, in addition to handling all the potential crises well enough to avert them.
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet has a lot of things that could have boiled up into big crises if the characters had been less competent. But unlike some of the one-star puppies on Amazon, I don't feel cheated out of a good story, and I'm still trying to unpack just *why*.
So it's helping me to have a counterexample that tried to showcase competence but left me unsatisfied.
I appreciate so much that if there is an actual end-boss villain in The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet it is a reactionary culture that can't abide different opinions and reacts lethally to them, and the solution is to leave them the fuck isolated because that culture is incompatible and toxic. Which is literally the way the puppies are, turned up to 11.
Yesterday Belovedest did a smol art/design for work, and Alex and I consulted about colors and medium.
Days are blurring together again. At least we're stocked up on orange chicken.
Belovedest's siblings did a group video chat that included the parents. It was fun.
I'm procrastinating on a thing that I'm afraid I've screwed up a bit.
I finished reading Bonds of Brass. Fun, but evil empires are hard.
Whipped through The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet in a day. Competence, and I am here for it. It actually scratched the itch that I got after Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen.
It seems like I can't speak well of Angry Planet without dissing Red Queen. I'm still feeling cheated that we didn't get to see Cordelia shine in another crisis, in addition to handling all the potential crises well enough to avert them.
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet has a lot of things that could have boiled up into big crises if the characters had been less competent. But unlike some of the one-star puppies on Amazon, I don't feel cheated out of a good story, and I'm still trying to unpack just *why*.
So it's helping me to have a counterexample that tried to showcase competence but left me unsatisfied.
I appreciate so much that if there is an actual end-boss villain in The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet it is a reactionary culture that can't abide different opinions and reacts lethally to them, and the solution is to leave them the fuck isolated because that culture is incompatible and toxic. Which is literally the way the puppies are, turned up to 11.
Yesterday Belovedest did a smol art/design for work, and Alex and I consulted about colors and medium.
Days are blurring together again. At least we're stocked up on orange chicken.
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And yeah I really like Angry Planet for how it handles crises and for scratching my competence fetish. :)