Month in Review: April 2022
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elenotharStill a busy month, work and life-wise, so most of the sections will be pretty bare.
TV and movies
Unusually many things to say here, since I did two long-haul flights and watched 4.5 movies during those.
The flight out was an overnight one (ish), so I was tired and just wanted easy fare, which resulted in Encanto (enjoyable) and The Etenerals (typical Marvel fantasy nonsense - I wouldn't say it was a good film, per say, but it was pretty diverting).
I had some more braincells to spare on the flight back, so I watched The Wandering Earth, which is a Chinese scifi film based on a Liu Cixin novel that surprised me with actual budget and a lot of interesting language use, and Hunt for the Wilderpeople, which now has the honour of being the Taika Waititi film I've enjoyed the most - it was both serious and funny, and not so much of the parody/over the top humour that usually doesn't gel for me in his stuff. The .5 movie was a Donnie Yen one called Iceman: The Time Traveller - the bit I saw was entertaining enough (and I am always a sucker for time travel stories), but I was starting to feel and the Cantonese was doing my head in, so I didn't watch the entire thing.
I barely watched any TV, just continued the watchalongs I'm already doing (Nirvana in Fire, Detective L, Guardian, Lost Tomb Reboot, most only sporadically) and bounced off my attempt to join the Joy of Life watchalong, though that was partly due to the timing on Sunday evenings.
Books
Also quiet, since I was doing a lot of academic reading. I read The Outside by Ada Hoffmann, kindly provided bytinny. Fascinating worldbuilding, but probably not something I'll read again. And the first Chrestomanci book by Diana Wynne Jones (Charmed Life), which wasn't particularly to my tastes - I just found all the characters too annoying. Then again, I'm also rather past the intended age range...
Fandom activities
Even quieter. I published one short fic
Nameday (Guardian, 2.8k, Zhao Yunlan investigating the matter of Shen Wei's birthday)
and otherwise mostly worked on my 520 exchange fic.
TV and movies
Unusually many things to say here, since I did two long-haul flights and watched 4.5 movies during those.
The flight out was an overnight one (ish), so I was tired and just wanted easy fare, which resulted in Encanto (enjoyable) and The Etenerals (typical Marvel fantasy nonsense - I wouldn't say it was a good film, per say, but it was pretty diverting).
I had some more braincells to spare on the flight back, so I watched The Wandering Earth, which is a Chinese scifi film based on a Liu Cixin novel that surprised me with actual budget and a lot of interesting language use, and Hunt for the Wilderpeople, which now has the honour of being the Taika Waititi film I've enjoyed the most - it was both serious and funny, and not so much of the parody/over the top humour that usually doesn't gel for me in his stuff. The .5 movie was a Donnie Yen one called Iceman: The Time Traveller - the bit I saw was entertaining enough (and I am always a sucker for time travel stories), but I was starting to feel and the Cantonese was doing my head in, so I didn't watch the entire thing.
I barely watched any TV, just continued the watchalongs I'm already doing (Nirvana in Fire, Detective L, Guardian, Lost Tomb Reboot, most only sporadically) and bounced off my attempt to join the Joy of Life watchalong, though that was partly due to the timing on Sunday evenings.
Books
Also quiet, since I was doing a lot of academic reading. I read The Outside by Ada Hoffmann, kindly provided by
tinny. Fascinating worldbuilding, but probably not something I'll read again. And the first Chrestomanci book by Diana Wynne Jones (Charmed Life), which wasn't particularly to my tastes - I just found all the characters too annoying. Then again, I'm also rather past the intended age range...Fandom activities
Even quieter. I published one short fic
Nameday (Guardian, 2.8k, Zhao Yunlan investigating the matter of Shen Wei's birthday)
and otherwise mostly worked on my 520 exchange fic.
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Date: 2022-05-09 03:20 pm (UTC)Yes! Both Encanto and The Wandering Earth had a lot of lovely language stuff going on (predictably, my favourite parts). And Hunt for the Wilderpeople was enjoyable because New Zealand accents.