Posts made by Solstice

@testament

This is fair. If an artstyle doesn't jive, it's hard to get past. Gravity Falls come to mind, for me!

@testament said in Good TV:

I was never much into the She-Ra remake on Netflix(The Voltron was better, fight me)

Voltron had moments. Moments that it mostly squandered, and ended with a splat.

ANYHOW.

That was still a fun trailer, really took me back! My brother had a lot of those toys so I inherited them by proxy when he outgrew them. I watched drips and drabs of the show, but it was pretty samey in tone (I mean, all cartoons were at the time, really), so I'm interested to see if this iteration will shake anything up or just be 'More, but with a higher budget.'

@coin said in Good TV:

the fucking socko bit is amazing and brutal

My personal favorite was White Woman's Instagram.

And of course, Welcome to the Internet, which as the YouTube comments aptly state, is like a villain's song, when the villain knows it's already won.

Could I interest you in everything, all of the time? A little bit of everything all of the time?

Bo Burnham's Inside absolutely demolished me. Gloomy comedy with a healthy dose of all the shit we've been feeling in quarantine. Hit me really hard, as I have a lot of the same issues he's coping with. Well worth the watch, but don't expect it to be light or always particularly fun. (Trigger warning for depression, anxiety, suicidal musings.)

It's quite fucking great, though.

Available on Netflix.

@duntada

This back to normal shit is happening too fast.

I can't just flip a switch and suddenly be okay in a sea of coworkers, vaccinated or no. My brain has immediately gone into fight or flight, and even though I am only working one day per week on site at the moment, it's enough to stress me out for much of the week.

Then, of course, is the news that that's changing from 1 to 3 in the near future, despite being assured it wouldn't ever be more than 2 going forward.

Fuck the technologically illiterate CEOs that make these choices about how and where I can best do my job, and thanks for all the scrambling that's only left me more scattered and overeager to get Xanax into my bloodstream so my body stops feeling like my chest is caving in.

Sure love that. Keeps me closer to 'the mission.'

@ominous said in Good Anime:

Paranoia Agent

I'm pissed about this one for one reason and one reason alone:

Literally the only thing stopping me is that I can never find where it's streaming. Right now it's available for purchase on Prime for 1.99 per episode, but meh for pay-for-play TV in 202X when I'm subbed to so many services already.

I've heard such good things about this one, consistently, that I'd love to sit down and watch it when it gets a friendlier distribution source.

I need my Satoshi Kon, people.

Well, now I'm thinking about those.

I'll take the former. Shit happens. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@macha said in RL Anger:

I've lost 30 pounds since December, possibly more at this point, and yet I'm still mad at myself.

I know you're angry right now, but that's impressive as hell. Good job, seriously.

@cobalt

Most importantly: Congrats!

Just please say it has a better tub

Blech, that's... no. I would feel ashamed to leave a rental property in that condition, nevermind to show one in that condition.

I am also apartment hunting.

Add in a currently existing lease's move-out notice policy of 90 days, and you enter a completely new level of hell.

Ugh.

@testament

This. This is a good and healthy example of compromise. Gold star.

@narson said in Crafting Thread Part ?:

Really happy with @Crawfish's great take on Preston.

Floofy cat gang!

This is hardly news, but if you're getting Moderna 2, just make sure you're okay to be incapacitated for awhile. I kinda ignored that, and now I'm sitting here with a fever and chills and baring my fangs at god.

My brother is married. His wife's alright, but her mother is possibly the worst human being I have ever met. Let's call her Hannah.

The first time I met her, I was pulled out of a lunch break in order to just 'pop out to meet her real quick' while at work. Just my brother's spouse and her mother. We made some small talk because I had nothing in common with her menthol-smelling boomerness, but it was nothing outside the pale for meeting someone for the first time under frazzled circumstances. I excused myself to return to work because I knew I was running behind on a task, and I hear her say to my brother's wife, "Oh, well you know the LastNameHeres. They're all a bit slow. It must run in the family." She and my brother's wife laughed.

My brother is on the spectrum. I'm not, but that isn't really the issue, here. At the time, I pretended not to hear and just fumed about it because I was in a shitty retail job and needed to keep working to not get fired so I could get my 7 bucks an hour while murdering my body. Luckily, this woman never turns up anywhere. No family functions, no gatherings, so I just let it slide off of my back. Today, my mom called to set up our first 'post-covid' family gathering, and off-handedly mentioned that she'd be inviting Hannah.

It has to have been over ten years since that first exchange, but the stars aligned and a wire just snapped and I was sick of keeping it to myself. So I shared the story with my mom.

...

"Oh. Well, you can sit at opposite ends of the table." My mom suggested.

Flabbergasted, I repeated, "Mom. The very first time I met her, she called Brothersname slow and implied the same about me."

"Well... you know, you don't have to take that in." My mother said, blindsided and trying to placate.

"No, I know," I snapped, "But I'm anxious and depressed and it takes real fucking effort for me to get out of the house, and I'm not doing it for someone who called us slow."

"That doesn't mean you have to take it to heart." My mom suggested.

I hung up.

I feel like the worst person ever right now because my mom has been pinning a lot of hope on this idyllic picnic where we all get together and things are normal, but I'm not breaking bread with that woman voluntarily. If that's the sort of things she says in public, with me in fucking earshot, then I'm quite certain she's probably using slurs in private. I don't need her ugliness in my life.

...So yeah. Angry. Had to vent it somewhere, because I'm not great at sticking up for myself all the time. Go fuck yourself, Hannah.

Edit: Thankfully, my mom called me back, and pivoted to a plan that didn't involve Hannah. Yay.

Odd Taxi just keeps getting better and better. I was lukewarm on the first episode and let it pile up a bit, but goodness am I glad I kept going. The character writing is just incredible, and the subject matter is mature without diving into the deep end of edge.

I didn't expect the show about the walrus taxi driver to be the one that put me on the edge of my seat more than any recent thrillers I've watched. It's so grounded in the reality of the world that it crafts that the stakes feel so damn high when even the littlest wrench gets thrown in, and its scathing but empathetic ode to the self-destructive nature of a gambling addiction was a complete masterpiece.

[Currently airing on Crunchyroll.]

@greenflashlight

GAH. I wonder if the trick I used to get the Japanese Audio Track is gone too, now...

I watched it once in English and absolutely loved it. Then on a whim I fired up an episode in Japanese to see how the voice acting was.

Oops, I rewatched the whole thing in Japanese. And the lead voice actresses absolutely nail the poignant bits in Season 5.