hermionesviolin | Sep. 1st, 2020

books

A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine (NESFA book club)
picturebooks:
- Antiracist Baby written by Ibram X. Kendi & illustrated by Ashley Lukashevsky -- which is really aimed at adults more than babies, despite being a board book (why has this become a Thing?)
- Be Amazing: A History of Pride written by Desmond Is Amazing & illustrated by Dylan Glynn [My friend Missy said, "I liked the artwork a lot and appreciated the history. But I really wish they hadn't deadnamed Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera. There's not really a reason for that."]
- 2 mediocre Sylvia+Marsha picturebooks I'd helped crowdfund: March With Marsha written by Katie Hall and illustrated by Veronica V. Jones, and Sylvia and Marsha Start a Revolution! written by Joy Ellison & illustrated by Tesh Silver

movies (fannish movie night)

How To Train Your Dragon
Jupiter Ascending (thedeadparrot said, "A charming potato is a wolf/dog/alien thing and Sean Bean is bees." but lbr, serenadestrong is way more on my wavelength: "I am so pumped. Puppy play Channing Tatum wingfic here I come.")

Telling my “sometimes you're like a 19-year old girl” partner about this film got me down a delightful Tumblr rabbit hole [I think this is the post I was thinking of when I ran a search -- though I hadn't seen the last addition previously. Other good posts include “Is this how straight dudes feel at the movies all the time????”, "Fuck suspension of disbelief we’re going to have fun.", and "My movie holy trinity: The Fifth Element; Pacific Rim; Jupiter Ascending".]

Also, I appreciate that this fandom shares my kinks. I went on AO3, and just sorted by Kudos, I got: ( Read more... )

music

Someone in newbie Slack mentioning Post Malone's "Circles" (disturbing music video) led me to their song "Sunflower" (such a good music video) which led me to the Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse soundtrack.
Carrie Newcomer's The Gathering of Spirits, because I was telling Thom about "You Can Do This Hard Thing" (from The Beautiful Not Yet, 2016), which I'm meh on on (unfortunate, given that I love the sentiment), which I followed up with saying I love "Holy as a Day is Spent" & "I Heard An Owl", but I wasn't sure I love any of her other songs, which led to me looking them up, and those two are both off the same album, as is the titular "The Gathering of Spirits" (with Alison Krauss). Listening to The Gathering of Spirits album again reminded me that I do like Carrie Newcomer more than I remembered. And "Little Earthquakes" actually caught my attention, and I like it (tho lbr, Tori Amos owns that song title).
Also, when I was Googling trying to remember the title of the song that is "Holy as a Day is Spent," I found https://www.carrienewcomer.com/store/kindred-spirits-a-collection, which got me interested to listen to that (Kindred Spirits: A Collection, 2012).

theatre

NYT's "Finish the Fight" -- a virtual play
In this world premiere, Leah Lewis (“The Half of It,” “Nancy Drew”) plays Mabel Ping-Hua Lee, a Chinese suffragist; Q’orianka Kilcher (“The Alienist”) portrays Zitkála-Šá, a Yankton Sioux writer, artist, educator and activist; Chelsea Rendon (“Shameless,” “Vida”) plays Jovita Idár, a journalist and activist who fought on behalf of Mexican-Americans and women; and Zora Howard (“Premature”) plays Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, an abolitionist who helped to establish the National Association of Colored Women and was the first African-American to have a short story published in the United States. The Broadway actress Harriett D. Foy will play Mary McLeod Bethune, the influential activist for women’s rights and civil rights.
-NYT

burning like matchsticks in the face of the darkness