culture consumed (December, 2021)

movies -- continuing through the Matrix Franchise with Thom

• The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions -- which both came out in 2003, but which I hadn't realized were basically one two-part movie (even though the first one is 2hrs18min and the second one is 2hrs9min )
• the first 3 shorts in The Animatrix (2003) -- which we were not into, but we will maybe watch the rest of them in the hope that they get better?
  
• The Matrix Resurrections (2021) which is 2hrs 28min, jfc -- but we actually enjoyed it (way more than the middle sequels)

books

• Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger -- delightful!  YA, though feels maybe more like MG to me.  Lipan Apache contemporary fantasy.  Casually asexual MC.
• 14 picturebooks (2 of which were indie press and not on GR, and I chose to not manually add them because they were not very good and now I don't feel obliged to write something up about them)
• Let's Talk About Love by Claire Kann -- YA with a Black asexual biromantic female protagonist
• Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir by Bishakh Kumar Som -- a Bengali American trans woman; I was pretty meh on it
• [feminist sci-fi book club] The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal

tv

• Disney+ Hawkeye mini-series (6 episodes) -- Thom kind of wanted to show me episode 5 (boxed mac+cheese is delicious!), so we watched all 5 episodes via GroupWatch the Saturday after it aired, and then watched episode 6 together the day it came out