Little Update
Dec. 24th, 2025 08:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
merydianHi! I finished the fall semester out so I've had a bit more time to catch up on some TV, especialyyyy since I have been quite sick so I can't really do much else.
I also have been making more tweaks to my website - I changed the url name, redid the whole design, and made a shrine page for Brigid O'Reilly from Cloak & Dagger that I'm very proud of so far.
Anyway, here are the shows I've been checking out recently.
Pluribus - Angry Middle Aged Romantasy Author Lesbian Vs. Alien-Originated Hivemind of All Other Humans on Earth: The TV Show. I really love how creative this is and that it focuses on a lesbian character. I don't love how moral-obsessed the fandom is because all conversations seem to stop at labeling parties as "evil" and never exploring the philosophical questions beyond that or considering the fun of non-human perspectives or just allowing themselves to like problematic characters, but that's not surprising. I block more people than I leave unblocked which has been helpful. But even though I don't really vibe with most people over there, I have had a fun time with the show itself. It makes me feel every emotion possible all at once. I'm so devastated it's on hiatus now after such a short season episodes-wise ;-;
Silo - Yayyyy another Apple TV Sci-Fi banger! Post-apocalyptic bunker life full of lies on every level! Autistic-coded engineer woman driving the plot forward! Middle aged lesbians!! So many women and mysteries for people in every position to unravel!!!! I also really loved some of the guys, which is a bit abnormal for me, lol, but Bernard, Solo, Billings, Peter... mannnnnn they got me thinking about them hard. I even liked a lot of the canon M/F ships more than I expected. My favorite character overall is definitely Camille. I am just rotating her in my head SO hard, oh my god. She is so easy to underestimate but she's the most strategic, badass, capable person in the Silo so it's no wonder it ended as it did. I also need her and Juliette to go toxic yuri next season.
Anyway, I really hate reading and I know the books aren't entirely similar to the show, but I may need to check out the books because I really adore this world and I want to cherrypick details for fanfic and still live in the story a bit while waiting for season 3.
Spartacus: House of Ashur - I LOVED the original Spartacus show so of course I'm trapped in hell for it again. I have complicated feelings about Ashur but he is entertaining as ever to watch. I love the introduction of a black female gladiator, Ivana getting another sapphic character in love with her straight best friend a la Shannara, Claudia Black as a delightfully horrible noble woman, and just getting to revisit this world again. It still has the same weird charm as the old show with kinda corny but lovable transitions and effects, and of course the never-ending obscenities lol. I miss Lucretia but it was nice seeing her again at the start for a minute. I also typically don't find it easy to get attached to male characters but the original show really had me invested in Everyone and this one is starting to have the same effect. Like, M/M is not my thing but I'm still soooo curious about what's going on with Korris/Opiter. Idk if this is an easy show to watch for people unfamiliar with the original - a lot is very fanservicey to that crowd, and I don't even know if original fans KNOW about it because the marketing has been abysmal. BUT I am the target audience and I am having fun.
I also need to get back into the Fallout show. Maybe it'll slightly fill the void Silo has left in my heart. Other than that, I started Serial Experiments Lain and I still need to watch more Cleopatra 2525.
As for games, I haven't really played anything new. I wanted to try Class of 09, but... learning more about the creator really recolored the vibes of the game in a light that is far too uncomfortable for me to play through, and I don't really want to give him my money. Idk what allegations are true or not, but the game is basically you playing as an asshole teenage girl fucking up the lives of all the guys who are flirting with you/treating you like a sex object. It should have a lot to say considering how every line is as offensive as it can possibly be! But I was under the impression that when it was advertised as using the creator's own experiences... that the creator had been a teenage girl in 2009... not a guy who seems to project a little too hard onto the incel nerd guy NPC... Idk, I'm just glad it seems like a ton of autistic teen lesbians have transformed the fandom into something totally different than what the person behind it intended to a point where the creator made DLC that was intentionally bad just to piss off that crowd. What a time we live in.
I reallyyyyy hope I can start feeling better before next semester x_x I have so much I want/need to do before then. At the same time, I am really just hoping I can make it through the holidays unscathed. This is always a very hard time of year for me so I want it to be over quick, just... not at the expense of more school coming up too quick. We'll see, I guess. I am really just glad I've managed to immerse myself back into some fiction because that really is the main thing that keeps me sane.
I also have been making more tweaks to my website - I changed the url name, redid the whole design, and made a shrine page for Brigid O'Reilly from Cloak & Dagger that I'm very proud of so far.
Anyway, here are the shows I've been checking out recently.
Pluribus - Angry Middle Aged Romantasy Author Lesbian Vs. Alien-Originated Hivemind of All Other Humans on Earth: The TV Show. I really love how creative this is and that it focuses on a lesbian character. I don't love how moral-obsessed the fandom is because all conversations seem to stop at labeling parties as "evil" and never exploring the philosophical questions beyond that or considering the fun of non-human perspectives or just allowing themselves to like problematic characters, but that's not surprising. I block more people than I leave unblocked which has been helpful. But even though I don't really vibe with most people over there, I have had a fun time with the show itself. It makes me feel every emotion possible all at once. I'm so devastated it's on hiatus now after such a short season episodes-wise ;-;
Silo - Yayyyy another Apple TV Sci-Fi banger! Post-apocalyptic bunker life full of lies on every level! Autistic-coded engineer woman driving the plot forward! Middle aged lesbians!! So many women and mysteries for people in every position to unravel!!!! I also really loved some of the guys, which is a bit abnormal for me, lol, but Bernard, Solo, Billings, Peter... mannnnnn they got me thinking about them hard. I even liked a lot of the canon M/F ships more than I expected. My favorite character overall is definitely Camille. I am just rotating her in my head SO hard, oh my god. She is so easy to underestimate but she's the most strategic, badass, capable person in the Silo so it's no wonder it ended as it did. I also need her and Juliette to go toxic yuri next season.
Anyway, I really hate reading and I know the books aren't entirely similar to the show, but I may need to check out the books because I really adore this world and I want to cherrypick details for fanfic and still live in the story a bit while waiting for season 3.
Spartacus: House of Ashur - I LOVED the original Spartacus show so of course I'm trapped in hell for it again. I have complicated feelings about Ashur but he is entertaining as ever to watch. I love the introduction of a black female gladiator, Ivana getting another sapphic character in love with her straight best friend a la Shannara, Claudia Black as a delightfully horrible noble woman, and just getting to revisit this world again. It still has the same weird charm as the old show with kinda corny but lovable transitions and effects, and of course the never-ending obscenities lol. I miss Lucretia but it was nice seeing her again at the start for a minute. I also typically don't find it easy to get attached to male characters but the original show really had me invested in Everyone and this one is starting to have the same effect. Like, M/M is not my thing but I'm still soooo curious about what's going on with Korris/Opiter. Idk if this is an easy show to watch for people unfamiliar with the original - a lot is very fanservicey to that crowd, and I don't even know if original fans KNOW about it because the marketing has been abysmal. BUT I am the target audience and I am having fun.
I also need to get back into the Fallout show. Maybe it'll slightly fill the void Silo has left in my heart. Other than that, I started Serial Experiments Lain and I still need to watch more Cleopatra 2525.
As for games, I haven't really played anything new. I wanted to try Class of 09, but... learning more about the creator really recolored the vibes of the game in a light that is far too uncomfortable for me to play through, and I don't really want to give him my money. Idk what allegations are true or not, but the game is basically you playing as an asshole teenage girl fucking up the lives of all the guys who are flirting with you/treating you like a sex object. It should have a lot to say considering how every line is as offensive as it can possibly be! But I was under the impression that when it was advertised as using the creator's own experiences... that the creator had been a teenage girl in 2009... not a guy who seems to project a little too hard onto the incel nerd guy NPC... Idk, I'm just glad it seems like a ton of autistic teen lesbians have transformed the fandom into something totally different than what the person behind it intended to a point where the creator made DLC that was intentionally bad just to piss off that crowd. What a time we live in.
I reallyyyyy hope I can start feeling better before next semester x_x I have so much I want/need to do before then. At the same time, I am really just hoping I can make it through the holidays unscathed. This is always a very hard time of year for me so I want it to be over quick, just... not at the expense of more school coming up too quick. We'll see, I guess. I am really just glad I've managed to immerse myself back into some fiction because that really is the main thing that keeps me sane.
