Miscellany
You know, I think tomorrow I'll be ready to start working again, but the extent of my brain just Going Down this week has been really something. In retrospect it's kind of amazing how blitzed I was mentally by the end of last week; I remember one day where it took me something like half the day to write a mailing list email. Note to my future self: take breaks before it gets that bad! Your brain is not a machine, and even machines need to cool down sometimes! Anyway, I am very fortunate to have a job where I can take a week off when I really need it, and I really needed it.
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muccamukk, a post at selenak's on why MCU's Secret Invasion miniseries was so bad: Secret Invasion, or: How Not To Do a Spy Or Any Other Miniseries. I watched the first couple episodes of this back in June, because I love spy stuff and I love Nick Fury, but it was just awful - draggy, slow-paced, and egregiously stupid on nearly every level. The MCU doesn't do politics very well most of the time anyway, and espionage really needs to lean into politics, so that was probably never going to work out well, but even apart from that it was terrible! Nothing made sense, they squandered every opportunity for cool spy stuff and for shapeshifter identity porn, it was just bad. (Also, every spoiler I have picked up since I stopped watching makes it sound like things did not improve even slightly.)
And I found this link at Tor.com really interesting: What Do We Want From the Bookish Internet?, talking about the demise of Twitter and where to go from here. It was an interesting read in part because it doesn't jibe with my experience of being an author at all (but clearly everyone has a different experience). In particular, the article bemoans the loss of blogs, as I sit here typing about it on a blog, and talks about how authors need to find something new to market their books without Twitter, when I have never marketed my books on Twitter and I'm doing just fine; the phenomenon of authors-on-Twitter as this big thing pretty much passed me by entirely, as Booktok is continuing to do now. Maybe I'll jump on whatever the next big thing is, maybe I won't, but I'm entirely confident there'll be a next big thing. I think it always feels terrible to lose whatever your Big Thing was, though, as a lot of authors are losing Twitter now.
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muccamukk, a post at selenak's on why MCU's Secret Invasion miniseries was so bad: Secret Invasion, or: How Not To Do a Spy Or Any Other Miniseries. I watched the first couple episodes of this back in June, because I love spy stuff and I love Nick Fury, but it was just awful - draggy, slow-paced, and egregiously stupid on nearly every level. The MCU doesn't do politics very well most of the time anyway, and espionage really needs to lean into politics, so that was probably never going to work out well, but even apart from that it was terrible! Nothing made sense, they squandered every opportunity for cool spy stuff and for shapeshifter identity porn, it was just bad. (Also, every spoiler I have picked up since I stopped watching makes it sound like things did not improve even slightly.)And I found this link at Tor.com really interesting: What Do We Want From the Bookish Internet?, talking about the demise of Twitter and where to go from here. It was an interesting read in part because it doesn't jibe with my experience of being an author at all (but clearly everyone has a different experience). In particular, the article bemoans the loss of blogs, as I sit here typing about it on a blog, and talks about how authors need to find something new to market their books without Twitter, when I have never marketed my books on Twitter and I'm doing just fine; the phenomenon of authors-on-Twitter as this big thing pretty much passed me by entirely, as Booktok is continuing to do now. Maybe I'll jump on whatever the next big thing is, maybe I won't, but I'm entirely confident there'll be a next big thing. I think it always feels terrible to lose whatever your Big Thing was, though, as a lot of authors are losing Twitter now.