• [fannish movie night] Happiest Season -- the KStew f/f Christmas "romcom" on Hulu [we then watched the Totino's with Kristen Stewart - SNL as a palate cleanser]
  
• [fannish movie night] The Princess Switch: Switched Again
• [Bright Lights] Queering the Script -- a "fast-paced history of queer women’s representation on contemporary television," per the blurb
  
• Wonder Woman 1984 -- with Thom (omg it was SO BAD) and then at fannish movie night

• picturebooks:
  • 7 ~queer picturebooks -- some from a Publishers Weekly "Reading with Pride: LGBTQ Books 2020"
  • 6 disability picturebooks (3 of which had Asian protagonists)
  • 4 other Asian picturebooks (I was gonna count How to Solve a Problem as "other", since it's not about Asian-ness but about climbing, and then I remembered that Ashima Shiraishi is Japanese American 😂)
• finally finished Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by adrienne maree brown -- which I wish had been an article, rather than a full-on book

• Kinsey Scales Virtual Winter Extravaganza on FB Live [queer acapella] with Thom
• Christmas Revels with Thom and my mom

• Pacific Rim with Thom (who had never seen it) and queer coworker Emily (who is sufficiently obsessed with this movie to point out things like how Drift memories don't necessarily match how things actually happened and Raleigh ~submitting to Mako during The Fight and Sasha Kaidanovsky's body language -- so I thought of her when I got to this post in my trawl back through rhod chang's Tumblr; when *I* watched Pacific Rim the first time, the primary fannish osmosis I'd had was rhod's Tumblr, so ex-post I was gonna dig up some highlights to show Thom... but 233 pages is a lot, and after a while I decided I/we didn't care enough for it to be worth the time investment atm)

• When Brooklyn Was Queer by Hugh Ryan (Medford Library LGBTQ+ Book Group)
  
• The Ultimate Guide to Prostate Pleasure: Erotic Exploration for Men and Their Partners by Charlie Glickman & Aislinn Emirzian (no points for guessing who got to fuck her partner for the first time this month -- though we haven't actually used this book yet)
• The Gilda Stories by Jewelle L. Gómez (Feminist SFF Book Club -- the protagonist is a Black lesbian vampire, okay?)

• 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

• 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... )

• 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).

• 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

• more She-Ra with Thom (S3 [Seasons 2 and 3 are basically half-size seasons] & 4.01-4.03)

2 I had seen before:
• Ghostbusters (2016 -- jjtaylor asked, "original Ghostbusters or reboot Ghostbusters?" and elaineofshalott said, "Real Ghostbusters, not male Ghostbusters.")
• Mad Max: Fury Road
  
  and 3 I had not:
  
• HOMECOMING: A film by Beyoncé (~documentary about Beyoncé's 2018 Coachella Beychella performance)
  
• Spider-Man: Homecoming -- which I liked a lot less than I was led to believe I would
• Fast Five

• The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz (feminist sci-fi bookclub)

• Star Trek: Discovery, 1.01-1.04
• Star Trek: Picard, Season 1 (10 episodes)
  

• The Highwomen, self-titled album (from Thom's flirtation with country -- thanks, Dolly Parton's America --  though more credit to Cynthia and Jerilyn for reccing it to him once he was in that vein) -- "Crowded Table" is really nice
• Sugarland -- from Thom's flirtation with country (thanks, Dolly Parton's America)  They have a bunch of albums, so I just told Spotify to Play; it feels very poppy (which isn't a criticism).
  
• Counting Crows (August and Everything After and Recovering the Satellites and This Desert Life, because emo nostalgia? [I was singing "Round Here" to myself -- round here we talk just like lions, but we sacrifice like lambs -- and decided to revisit] though, wow, there are not actually a lot of songs on This Desert Life that I know/like)
• assorted ~queer music videos
• that same day: Fiona Apple's new album Fetch the Bolt Cutters -- I was like, "I remain not really a Fiona Apple person? like 'Criminal' is great, but..."  And then I got to "Relay" ("Evil is a relay sport"); that's great, and a bunch of the following songs are good ("Newspaper." "Ladies," "Heavy Balloon").
  
• assorted music after Bawdy Storytelling:
  • Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
  • SsingSsing: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert ["a South Korean band that fuses Korean folk music with genres including glam rock, disco, and psychedelic rock"]
  • DakhaBrakha: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert -- which I had maybe already listened to because Molly? ["DakhaBrakha is amazing. Their music video for their song Monakh is like...Ukrainian  Folk Rap."]
• Indigo Girls - Nomads Indians Saints (I had been singing part of "World Falls" -- all the beauty just keeps shaking me -- and so I Googled which album it's from, though in retrospect I probably know it from e.g. 1200 Curfews)
• "Six Feet Apart" (Original) - Heather Mae & Crys Matthews LIVE

  Six feet apart
  Won't stop us
  Don't need to hold you in my arms
  I still know you in the dark.
  Just 'cause I can't kiss you underneath the moonlight
  Doesn't mean you have to feel alone tonight
  Let’s get closer
  From six feet apart

• Alec Benjamin - Six Feet Apart [Official Lyric Video]

  Oh I, miss you most at
  Six feet apart when you're
  Right outside my window
  But can't ride inside my car
  And it hurts to know just how lovely you are
  And be too far away to hold but close enough to break my heart
  I miss your smile
  Feels like miles
  Six feet apart

• Monstress (vols. 1-2) written by Marjorie M. Liu & illustrated by Sana Takeda (Somerville sci-fi/fantasy book club)
• Resipiscence 2020: A Lenten Devotional for Dismantling White Supremacy eds. Vahisha Hasan & Nichola Torbett
• When Someone You Love Is Polyamorous: Understanding Poly People and Relationships by Elisabeth Sheff
• Autonomous by Analee Newitz (bi+ bookclub) [and sequel short story "Old Media"]

• Bawdy Storytelling's first live-stream (which, after a rocky start, was actually really good)
• HBS Got Talent -- though I did not actually watch it live.  [N.B. YouTube starts around 7:30]
  Summary from a coworker: "Basically if you go back and watch: look for Randy roasting everyone in the first half, the mean tweets, fac band, and ballet guy."  The opening monologue was good, too, though.
• 007: From Allston With Love | The HBS Show 2020 (which I also did not watch live)

• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | TEDxEuston | We Should All Be Feminists

• [ASP] Bright Half Life (lesbians)
  
• [ArtsEmerson] Detroit Red (Malcolm X in Boston)

• The Good Place 4.13 (series finale)

• Kesha's High Road (Thom said: "Kesha’s new album has a song called “Kinky” that is very explicitly about ethical non-monogamy. It’s not exactly about what I’d call polyamory. But it’s definitely about non-monogamy. And it’s explicitly about being ethical. It’s also about other forms of kink, but honestly, it’s 90% about fucking other people.")
  
• Della Mae's Headlight (because Thom)
• and a few songs (also because Thom, because honestly, who else talks about music and makes me care?)
  • from Fun Home -- "Changing My Major" and "Ring of Keys"
  • Delta Rae - "Only In America"
  • Dawes - "A Little Bit Of Everything" (“I think that love is so much easier than you realize. / If you can give yourself to someone, then you should.”)

• Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes (Medford LGBTQ book club -- because the author was probably queer, though it's not a particularly queer book per se; it's a novel about a young Black boy growing up in small-town Kansas in the early 1910s)
  
• Victor LaValle's DESTROYER written by Victor LaValle & illustrated by Dietrich Smith (The Root: "Victor LaValle masterfully reimagines Shelley’s Frankenstein for the modern era in his graphic novel Destroyer, a timely and powerful read that re-energizes the Gothic genre.")
• 10 picturebooks (8 about gender/trans/queer stuff)
• The Jane Austen Project by Kathleen A. Flynn (for feminist sci-fi bookclub, though it mostly felt like historical fiction, honestly)
• Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People by Mahzarin R. Banaji & Anthony G. Greenwald (which was published in 2013, and it shows)

• Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) with Thom
  
• a lot of ridiculous porn at my friends' annual party -- themes this year included walking & "All good sex partners come from the ocean" ( T&P )
• Tracers -- fannish movie night -- wow, this was not a good movie; and not just because of the compulsory heterosexuality (though yes, Nikki deserved so much better)

All hail Elizabeth Swann, Pirate King.

elipie said, "So #TGIFemslash needed a vid to I'm On A Boat for Club Femslash, and I discovered that the song was exactly the same length as my Pirates of the Caribbean/Elizabeth Swann vid, In The Bullpen... and it mashed up shockingly well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-nhujNZO5A"

This is the original ("The Bullpen" vid).

Though when I think fanvid for "The Bullpen" I always think of the Natasha vid which introduced me to that song.

• bits of Warehouse 13 my housemate was watching and then the full episode "Nevermore" (1.11) -- I've heard good things about this show (well, the first season at least), but it reminded me a lot of a procedural and I wasn't in love with it
• Jane the Virgin 3.02-3.08
• [going through My List on Netflix] Always a Witch 1.01 -- which unfortunately turned out to be not good [I think I added it to my list when the trailer came out but didn't hear about the problematics ... though even without that core Problem, it's just not very good]
• [also going through My List on Netflix] Dear White People 1.01-1.04 -- which is great, she says, very late to the party

• The Mummy (1999) -- fannish movie night
• Knives and Skin ("feminist teen noir") with unfinishedidea -- which was more Twin Peaks (she says, never having seen that show) than Jennifer's Body, to my disappointment
• Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker with Thom et al. -- which was technically a movie
• Hallmark Christmas movie Write Before Christmas with my SIL et al. -- which actually grew on me, though it has some stalker-dude elements that it did not in fact need, which unncessarily soured the core cute relationship for me

• the Otter Creek album Fiddle Preacher (because Thom posted a YouTube link to "Sometimes You Just Know")
• The Dead Cowboys self-titled album (because Thom posted "Listening to the new Dead Cowboys album. I’m going to be really disappointed if there isn’t a Deutero-Isaiah reference. Also, do I need a Songs By Bible Scholars playlist?")

• 6 picturebooks
  (I did some adult-book reading, I just didn't finish any of them in December)

• ART Moby-Dick (a musical by Dave Malloy and Rachel Chavkin) with Thom and reflectedeve [which was definitely a show]

Jane the Virgin Season 2 finale (yes, I know I'm so far behind)
• The Good Place 4.02-4.05 (we got ride of our tv package, so I haven't watched last night's episode yet)

• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (the annotated edition with an intro by GDT) (feminist sci-fi bookclub)
  
• Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi (trans. Jonathan Wright)
• Marvel trade paperbacks
  • Captain Marvel, Vol. 1: Re-Entry (Captain Marvel (2019) #1) written by Kelly Thompson 
  • Seannan McGuire's Spider-Gwen: Ghost-Spider vols. 1 & 2

• [ASP] King Lear
  
• broadcast of NTL A Midsummer Night's Dream with Gwendoline Christie -- AMAZING

• Logan Lucky (fannish movie night) a Coen Brothers-esque heist film
  
• Maleficent: Mistress of Evil -- definitely not as good as the first one

• finished Season 3 of One Day at a Time (3.11-3.13)
  
• the first 2 episodes of Slings and Arrows
  
• assorted tv while with the Florida fam ( Read more... )

• the MFA's Gender Bending Fashion exhibit again (3 more times, in fact -- with Thom G, my mom, and Holly)

• Cymbeline (Shakespeare on the Common)
  
• The Donkey Show (with assorted friends who had never been and wanted to go before it closed; I had been early in its run ten years ago)

• Elsie Eastman's EP Postcard

• We See a Different Frontier: A Postcolonial Speculative Fiction Anthology ed. Fabio Fernandes & Djibril al-Ayad
  
• The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang (graphic novel) -- so good
  
• Except When They Don't written by Laura Gehl and illustrated by Joshua Heinsz (picturebook) -- meh
  
• Hexarchate Stories by Yoon Ha Lee (anthology, set in the Machineries of Empire universe, lots of which is flash fiction, but it also includes the "Glass Cannon" novella sequel to Revenant Gun)
  
• The Winged Histories by Sofia Samatar (feminist sci-fi bookclub) and its companion novel, A Stranger in Olondria
  
• On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden (graphic novel)
  
• and read over a dozen picture books to M

serenadestrong

• Sarah Kay & Phil Kaye "An Origin Story"
  
• "Private Parts" by Sarah Kay
  
• 9 Sarah Kay Poems To Share With Someone Who Gives You The Feels -- which I was going to power through, but the first couple I really wanted to savor
  
  
  1. Sarah Kay & Phil Kaye "When Love Arrives"
     
  2. Sarah Kay - "The Type" ( Read more... )
  
  
• Sarah Kay TED2011 "If I should have a daughter..."
  
• (and on a YouTube recommendation) Phil Kaye at TEDxFoggyBottom "Poetry in maximum security prison"

• (most of) Julie Taymor's 2010 The Tempest starring Helen Mirren as Prospera -- which was Not Good (we fast-forwarded through most of the "comedic" scenes)
  
• Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (fannish movie night) which was actually really fun (including some of the DVD bonus features)

• Ask Me About Polyamory: The Best of Kimchi Cuddles by Tikva Wolf
  
• Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair by Danielle Sered -- which I would recommend to EVERYONE
  
• Trans Allyship Workbook: Building Skills to Support Trans People in Our Lives by Davey Shlasko
  
• the first trade (In Pursuit of Flight) in Kelly Sue DeConnick's 2012 Captain Marvel series
  
• White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
  
• Baba Yaga Laid an Egg by Dubravka Ugrešić [feminist sci-fi book club -- though except for a few moments of magical realism it turns out to not really be sci-fi or fantasy]
  
• 4 picturebooks

• Aladdin (the new Disney live-action)
  
• Men In Black: International ("men in black 3: the bisexualing" -la_dissonance / "Valkyrie and Kevin fight aliens" -Thom G)
  
• Aquaman (fannish movie night)

• [ASP] Pride and Prejudice by Kate Hamill (adapted from the novel by Jane Austen)

• Gregory Alan Isakov with the Colorado Symphony - Gregory Alan Isakov (cadenzamuse)
  
• a bunch of Jules' Spotify mixes (beachpls -- which I quite liked -- as well as the first 17 songs of the 56(!) song Spotify mix Chillin' on a Dirt Road, and Spark of Autumn)
  
• the Rafiki soundtrack
  
• Tegan and Sara - Heartthrob (2013) and This Business of Art (2000)