culture consumed (July, 2020)

[hermionesviolin]

live theatre

• Hamilton (original Broadway cast recording, 2016, on Disney+)

I got on AO3 afterward and was reminded how much the fandom is "modern era high school AU: all the boys are fucking" -- which is really not what I'm interested in.

Of the 815 Alexander Hamilton/George Washington, there were 61 tagged "Daddy kink" ("call me 'son' one more time") and most of them didn't look like what I was looking for.

There were only 19 fics tagged Alexander/Angelica/Eliza.  (And when I went to check more stats a couple days later, there were 5915 Hamilton/Laurens vs. 374 Alexander/Angelica.)

books

• Another Country by James Baldwin [Bi+ Book Club]
  
• Lilith's Brood by Octavia Butler [Part 1/3, Dawn, for Newton SFF Book Club, but I'm a completionist who read the whole thing]
  
• Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett [finished reading it aloud to my beloved, who had never read it before -- and reading this to them has also gotten me back into reading Good Omens fanfic]

movies (fannish movie night)

• The Old Guard on Netflix (Charlize Theron is an immortal, there are women and queers, based on a Greg Rucka comic)
  
• Palm Springs -- of which musesfool said, "I also watched Palm Springs, which is a terribly generic title for the Andy Samberg Groundhog's Day rom com on Hulu. It's not laugh out loud funny, but it is a sweet and slightly dark meditation on loneliness and relationships and what connection with other people means."

tv

• more She-Ra and the Princesses of Power with Thom (finished S1 [1.08-1.13] and all 7 episodes of S2 -- so we're now caught up to where I was when I started watching with them and will now be experiencing it new along with them)