The writing is was a horror with some decent scares and suspense, I jumped a few times... But it was funny, there's comedy here I love. The ensemble was entertaining and it made me care about a lot of them.
Alisha Weir!
I already knew she was amazing from Matilda but damn this young human is a STAR! Phenomenal performance.
Heartstopper is truly the best... I've been really beating myself up this year about my lack of reading, I've really been struggling the stick to it, maybe a hundred pages compared to the average of like 10 books a month for the past couple of years.
Until a couple days ago, I decided to reread the Heartstopper series and ate through the first few in an evening (it always gets me, Nick and Charlie are the best, their kiss is and then the morning after gets me in the feelings).
Well it got me out of the reading ruck and since then I've almost finished Greenwild: The World Behind the Door by Pari Thompson and it feels so good... Reading is so good! I'm happy.
Hii! My school has this whiteboard high up on the wall that people (mostly the teachers) sometimes write jokes or something on. Today, after coming out of a particularly hard exam, saw this;
It really cheered me up. It even made some of my friends giggle a bit. Im now on a mission to find out who wrote it. If its a student, I will most definetly try to befriend them, and if its a teacher, they will gain my respect forever.
I remembered the story of Terry Pratchet being knighted as him getting himself a sword, I somehow forgot the best part, that he MADE that sword, so much cooler... Terry Pratchet is and forever will be an absolute legend.
Today (18.2.2024) it's been 15 years since Sir Terry has been knighed! :)
Fun fact: He made his own sword from a meteorite ore :) <3
Here's the video version of my discussion of the leaked emails that prove the Hugo Awards removed finalists (me, RF Kuang, Paul Weimer, Neil Gaiman & Ep 6 of Sandman) for political reasons, despite us having the required votes. Because too many of you are making assumptions without bothering to read the full exposé.
There's a lot of nuance in this case that I hope people can acknowledge. No, it is not "sinophobic" to criticize the Chinese government's severe censorship policies when anyone who's spent more than ten minutes on the Chinese internet knows how bad it is, and there IS evidence of pressure in this case. There's nothing to accomplish by pretending like it's not a thing. You're not furthering the world proletarian revolution by speaking over the lived experiences of Chinese comrades and denying factually shitty aspects of your favorite AES.
Yes, the Western and presumably white members of the Hugo admin team DID circle back to racism by trying so hard to appease the Chinese government that they preemptively censored Chinese diaspora ~ to be safe ~ on extremely flimsy reasons without even reading our books. And of course, confusing Nepal for Tibet.
There REALLY needs to be a book equivalent to "previously on"... At the start of subsequent novels in a series, just have a small summary of what happened previously to remind us, that would be great...
I fail to understand how anyone who's read the Percy Jackson books could possibly like this movie, yet alone call it "great" or "iconic". Absolutely baffling.