TRAVERSING Z

Visuals

evangelion

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Cautiously pleased that I’ll be able to rewatch Evangelion on Netflix. I’ve been meaning to for a while, I’m curious to see how its influence on me has played out (I first saw it sometime in the late 90s, I think? When it aired on PBS in San Francisco) … But please, please can we not redo it, or extend it, or revise it, or live-action it, or anything else? The series was so good, both as a story and an artwork, a kind of commentary on its own creation, which is also one way of looking at the story’s themes. It’s interesting times we live in where we can access more content than ever, we live in a perpetual tidal wave of story, yet we keep reaching again and again for a few old familiars. Watch new things. Read new things.

… and tell me where I can finish Ergo Proxy now that it got snatched from Crunchyroll. 😉

babylon berlin

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Rich historical setting, multiple narratives, debauchery and decadence, AND two musical numbers bracketing a whole spectrum of sexuality and class? Yes, please. I’m only on episode 7. Don’t give it away.

(Seriously, though, it’s a bit of synchronicity to come across this as I plot out the revised book . How do the various character arcs develop? Where do the episodes seem to drag, where does it feel like we skipped something important, or lingered too long in a scene? I am taking notes, BB. When I’m not getting carried away with your gorgeousness, that is.)

(Leviathan is still coming. This is distracting me from pre-launch jitters is all.)

 

changes

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I walked out of my day job on Tuesday, for Reasons. Still reeling from the shock of it, the anger and the hurt; still trying to work through the ramifications of it all. Thank **** for freelance gigs. 2017, we’re done now.

Still, I can’t stop thinking about women with antlers. Also spiders. But mostly women with antlers. Probably because of this:

I have about this much (holds up forefinger and thumb) interest in seeing Thor: Ragnarok. But I may go just for her. Or maybe I’ll just write something that includes antlered women fighting …

Better news soon, including updates on World Fantasy. (Yes, I’m still going! Job crises be damned!)