Digital Drawing Class Is Going Pretty Good I'd Say.

Hey, an animation that actually kinda looks like him? Huzzah!

Steven? Steven, my boy!

Watching Say Yes to the Dress with my grandmother right now and it's so nerve-wracking because they have a amab non binary bride as the main bride they're following.

So far she hasn't said anything too terrible though. Obviously she doesn't understand they/them pronouns, but really her main concern is what they're going to do with their hair if they get a dress. They have it cut really short, and she doesn't think there will be a good way to stylize it to match a wedding dress.

Her homophobia is outwayed by her belief that a bride should be in full glam on their wedding day.

On it boss 🫡

Btw If you've bought The Beekeeper's Picnic on Steam and enjoyed it, then leaving a review would be absolutely awesome and help more people to find the game!

Thank you so much to everyone who has left a review already!

Why is it that everything I want to watch is either on a streaming service I don't have or I have to rent it?

A good, very popular show? Pay for it.

A bad show that only had one season? Fuck you buddy.

A movie made in 1931? The latest releases? Take your wallet and shove it up your ass.

There's, like, five big production companies. Why is everything divided up into 100 streaming services?

New favorite thing:

Trying to convince my boyfriend that All Creatures Great and Small is a wacky show about psychopaths as they try to blend into society.

So yeah, I thought it would be a good idea to start Succession after it had ended and I just got through season 1. I have a few questions and a few observations.

Questions:

How much did that brain hemorrhage really affect Logan's personality? At the beginning of episode one we get to see how he interacts with people, but it wasn't enough time for me to get a good enough read on his personality before the brain bleed. I get that he's always been ruthless, but how much of that was turned up to 11? Through snippets of shared childhood memories, it seems that he's always kinda been this way. But has he?

What is up with Tom? He seems to really love Shiv, but when he's interacting with any other member of the family it seems like more than him just wanting to be accepted. It seems like he's trying to worm his way into the family and, by extention, the company. I get the aggression/relationship with Greg. He found someone in the family lower on the pecking order than he is. But is he a good guy? He wanted to release those documents to the public, but was that his good person conscious or was it just him thinking about what would be good for the company?

Lastly, what's going on with Roman's character? For the most part he's a very weasely person, going with the flow to see what can benefit him at any given time. But what's that about him being sent to military school as a child because he was the weakest of the siblings? Him asking that girl to marry him and her calling him out asking if he thinks that's how he can get people to stay? Him cowering behind stuff when his fathers mad, resulting in him backing out on Kendall? I don't know if I particularly like him, but he's definitely intriguing.

Maybe I'm just not very media literate, but I know complex characters when I see one and omg. I guess give me a Preschool show because my emotions can't handle it.

And as for observations, the only thing I have to say is that the acting is amazing, especially with Jeremy Strong and Kieran Culkin. Like I said, the way they sometimes cower when Logan's being extra dominant is soooo good.

Wish me luck going in to season 2!

BIGOT DOWN!!!!!!

You can't have Sylvester Mccoy guest star in something and have him not play the spoons. I seriously believe he won't allow it.

Yeah that's going to be Sherlock Holmes related for sure. Poor Watson.

This links to a wheel with nearly a hundred fic tropes for plots, settings, and more. Spin it twice.

This could also work with art inspiration, but the buttons only allow for so many characters on them. And please do ramble in the tags! I'm going to have no idea what most of you are talking about, and it's going to be great.

This post said it would like to spark some critical discussion and that opinions are welcome. While my last English teacher would agree that I'm awful at critical discussions, I would like to share my opinions if that is alright. I get everyone feels differently about things, and I'm not trying to start anything.

I can definitely see where you are coming from when you say that this season didn't have as much momentum. There was no REAL world ending stakes like the last season. This seasons story was more about solving a mystery and exploring personal relationships among all of the characters.

There isn't a lot I can say about Nina and Maggie. I agree that they weren't really fleshed out characters. They were more like little side projects for Crowley an Aziraphale to use to deflect their own feelings. However, they might be fleshed out more if we ever get a season 3. Or they might not.

I also don't feel like their story is suppose to show the power of love. They aren't fully together in the end. I think their story was more meant as love endures or is always present. It's not always the right time for true love.

And since this season is all about love, I don't really see a problem for Beelzubub and Gabriel. They fell for each other, and it was the right time for them to be together. It's meant to be sweet and show what Crowley and Aziraphale can have when the time is right.

As for the soap opera thing, well, to each their own. I totally get it, but I personally love a little 💫drama💫. Makes the reconciling all the more touching. I'm not familiar with many soap operas, but as long as a secret twin and comas don't come into season 3, I'll take as many emotional scenes as they want to spoon feed me.

I'm not smart enough to say anything about the themes you want to see more of, so moving on from that part please and thank you.

Lastly, I would like to say that I think I might have preferred this season to the last one. I feel like a heretic for saying that since reading the original Good Omens is what introduced me to both Gaiman and Pratchett writings. However, this story (until the very end at least) was cozy. It was meant to be comfortable and enjoyable. What's better than love? Than finding at least one person who can be on your side and take away the loneliness? And, it was original. It transformed something preexisting in a way a simple adaptation, no matter how great the source material was, could do on it's own.

Good Omens 2 Criticism

Real talk: I’m glad this sequel exists, but let’s not pretend it’s as good as the first series/season.

Hoping to spark some critical discussion - opinions welcome!

The plot itself lacked momentum. Sometimes the Gabriel plot line, which ostensibly is the MAIN plot, felt like a distraction to the getting Nina/Maggie together plot, which really is a side quest.

The Nina and Maggie characters are shallow, and their whole thing was unconvincing. Before the first ep, there’s no evidence to suggest that the two had ever even talked! How in the world am I supposed to believe that within the course of days these two are supposed to wind up together?

Gabriel…. So the idea of an amnesiac Gabriel is intriguing, but the resolution felt rushed and out of left field. That Beelzebub and he are…. in love(??), after just a few one-on-one meetings, strains belief. I don’t see it. I’m not a shipper, I watched the first season and they barely interacted. So we need an infodump/retcon in order to make it even remotely plausible.

Overall the season felt smaller, the stakes were lower, the themes less grand and less cohesive. If the first season was about trusting humanity with their own future (BIG IDEA), season 2 is about… getting two randos to fall in love, which is supposed to show the power of love?? Ierno that’s kinda thin to me.

Aziraphale and Crowley. These are the two I’m actually invested in. I ship them, like everyone else. I am sad about the ending, like everyone else. And I do think the scenes between them (both in the minisodes in the past, and in the present day) are the best parts of the series.

But I don’t want to reduce their love affair to a soap opera. There are some big concepts in the original Good Omens. Stuff like free will vs design, good vs evil, whether good is possible no matter the circumstance, whether one can find/create meaning in a world without meaning.

I want to see those themes played out in Aziraphale and Crowley. I want those discussions about dolphins and eternity and God. The Job episode delivered some of that, and it’s my favorite because of it. But overall I don’t think this season cared too much about big ideas.

And that’s sad to me. That may be fanservice and enjoyable for what it is but it’s not good.