My brain lately:
I miss my dog
What if I don’t really miss my dog and that’s just an excuse? Continue reading “i miss my dog”
Category: Blog
Deadpool 2 and Birds of Prey
Okay, so I knew Deadpool 2 would be sexist and fridge-stuffy. And if my brain were less foggy, I’d have remembered that Ryan Reynolds would spend at best 5% of the movie being pretty instead of masked. So that’s all on me and my choice to watch it… Continue reading “Deadpool 2 and Birds of Prey”
Canine Games
My Sheltie’s favorite game was “we all have toys & we’re all running around.”
This makes sense to me.
My mop dog’s favorite game is “I’m trying to chew on your face without letting you chewing on mine.” Continue reading “Canine Games”
Goodbye Trudy
Losing two dogs in two months is a lot. They were five years apart in age. Life has no guarantees.
Trudy’s last day was today… she was sixteen, and yes, she is the dog who inspired Trudith in the Otters In Space trilogy. I could never have written Trudith without her. She was a friend, part of my family, and also an inspiration — one of my muses. Continue reading “Goodbye Trudy”
Time-Period Accurate Historical Fiction
I saw some men complaining about a piece of historical fiction by a woman having too much sexism, even though it was time period accurate. This bugged me. I think I’ve finally figured out why.
History is full of sexism… Continue reading “Time-Period Accurate Historical Fiction”
How to Simulate a Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster
When I first watched Farscape, I was checking out DVDs from the Seattle Public Library. You’d wait ages to make it to the top of the hold list, and then you’d get to check out a whole season… for one week. Continue reading “How to Simulate a Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster”
Who Gets to Be Centered and Why
I’ve never seen The Goonies before & I guess the reveal of an abandoned pirate ship in a cave would be more impressive if I hadn’t played the Deadmines a ton in World of Warcraft… but I’m still mostly baffled by how this movie seems to be so fondly remembered.
We need more art centering women — LOTS MORE — for so many reasons, but one of them is men need more practice imagining the world through women’s eyes. Continue reading “Who Gets to Be Centered and Why”
Restarting Farscape
Time to watch Farscape from the beginning!
I’d forgotten how much my upcoming Entangled Universe trilogy was influenced by Farscape… one human surrounded by colorful aliens, living spaceship who bonds with a pilot… yeah. I loved this show. Continue reading “Restarting Farscape”
The End of BoJack
I started rewatching BoJack Horseman when my dog died. I’ve now finished rewatching BoJack Horseman… somehow this has not resurrected my dog.
On my first time watching the end of BoJack Horseman, I kind of wished BoJack had actually died, and the final episode had been only about the other characters, especially Diane and Princess Carolyn. Continue reading “The End of BoJack”
The Air in the Valley of the Wind
We’ve been rewatching Studio Ghibli movies this week, because the seven-year-old doesn’t remember them. Tonight’s movie is Nausicaa, and it’s upsettingly thematically appropriate…
We also cannot breathe the air without masks right now. Continue reading “The Air in the Valley of the Wind”