somniloquence

As always happens after I do the 31 flavors meme recs, I crashed into not posting again. It was easy because I also had work that came in, and I've been trying to work on the next chapter of the fic no one's reading, Reverie, which is now out for beta, at least, so we'll see when I can slap it up. Two months is a long time between chapter updates, and I feel horrendously guilty.

We've also been busy having Big Snow here--last weekend we had over a foot in some places, which is unusual for Seattle, and it was over multiple days. Took quite a while for it to go away, as well--I still have a bunch in my yard because of the huge high drifts we got the first night when it was very windy, and most of it falls in shaded places where I don't really get much sun in winter. I can't stop obsessively watching news of the disaster in Texas, especially scenes like that FedEx truck slamming into the multiple-car pileup. What a nightmare, and I'm really hoping my friends in Texas and nearby parts are doing all right.

This weekend, I'm doing virtual Escapade. I will be co-modding a panel on Steve/Bucky fandom on Saturday with przed, so I hope if there are still any Cap fans left out there, you'll join us. Registration for new members cuts off tonight, so if you think you'd like to attend a virtual fan-run con--one of the few remaining!--you should sign up! It's a lot of fun, and while I'm monumentally depressed not to be able to get down to LA for some sunshine in February, which I have always loved, at least I'll be able to "see" a few people this weekend I only get to see there. I miss cons so much.

I'm still trying to catch up on entertainment things, but am kind of lapping along way behind everyone, since I have trouble watching anything more than background TV when I have work. I'm watching the show Resident Alien on SyFy: it's cute, if not particularly original, and makes good use of Alan Tudyk's ability to be sinisterly creepy and funny at the same time, and mostly it's nice to have a show that I can watch week to week now that The Expanse is done for the year. (As much as I appreciate The Expanse's move to Prime so Chrisjen's swearing doesn't get bleeped out, the even-shorter seasons are frustrating. I wanted more of the Amos and Peaches show, and for Drummer to see Naomi, and just...there was a lot left out in the open, I felt, and I love the show so goddamn much.)

I'm watching WandaVision thanks to a friend, and it's okay. I'm mostly enjoying the Monica, Darcy, and Jimmy Woo show, to be honest, and since I have no idea who half the characters are that everyone's talking about like the kids or Agnes, it's easier to just ride along. A lot of the modern sitcoms they were doing were a mystery to me, as I never watched stuff like Full House or whatever, and I thought doing a mashup of I Love Lucy and the Dick Van Dyke show was a weird conceit but I will admit their Bewitched was spot-on, though it looks like there's a Modern Family coming up, which I am at least familiar with unlike the '80s and '90s. I really hope the three characters get a spinoff, because that I would watch like hell.

I have a lot of trepidation about Falcon and the Winter Soldier, which I don't think anyone will care to hear about because it seems like everyone is really excited, so I will spare you.

The show I've fallen in love with, though, is The Repair Shop. For a long time I had it on my watch list, and then when I finally had time, the first two seasons were gone and they only have the third on Netflix. I can't find any other resource for it, and I would honestly rather not go out to the torrent sites, but I guess if needs must... I just love it! It hits my competence buttons, like ALL of them, and it is totally nice and interesting and educational and there are no huge stakes and it's just peaceful and soothing and everyone cares so much about what they do. There are some snippets from shows on YouTube, but they often cut off the repair and only show people bringing their items in, or they focus on four minutes of a repair and you don't see the end result. It's infuriating that Netflix took the rest of it away and doesn't seem to be bringing any more of it in. (If you know of how I can get more of the many series they have done, please let me know! I'm desperate!)