When Authors Hate a Character

 Guys, it has been A Week, and on Friday almost nothing went the way it was supposed to. I am happy that it’s done. There were good things this week, too, though–I finished Arcane, I’ve watched more Alphas, I started an audiobook (Lionboy: The Chase), and I slept longer than last week.

Also I’ve started a hefty book on Irish mythology. It’s a bit more academic than I was hoping.

I talk a lot about bad writing in certain works, and because of the above-mentioned mythology text book, I almost made this about Iron Druid Chronicles again (seriously, Hearne’s take on Irish mythology is baffling). But I did not! Though it’s still something Irish-related, so onto Skulduggery Pleasant we go!

Stop Putting Lin-Manuel Miranda in Everything

 Last weekend I finally started watching Arcane on Netflix, and it’s pretty good thus far! I really dig the animation style, too. I’ve also discovered that Alphas is on Roku and have started rewatching that. Fun fact: You know Mahershala Ali is in that series?

Currently, I am reading Skulduggery Pleasant: Mortal Coil, so if you’re on Facebook or Goodreads, expect that update to come soon.

Also! I kind of want to go see Blue Beetle; we’ll see if that happens this weekend.

Modernizing Wheel of Time

 I was psyched for Assassin’s Creed Free Weekend, but it turns out that most of the games on that list are free on PS4 only if you have PS Plus Extra. Which is fine, I have all of those games, but I was going to try out Black Flag or Ezio’s story on PS4. Whatever. Valhalla is still free for all this weekend right now.

I finished reading The Samurai yesterday. I’m still sorting out some feelings.

For this week, I struggled a bit with picking a subject, but while I was deciding I read a lot about pre-Christian European religions and mythologies. I settled on this because I saw the first three episodes of Amazon’s Wheel of Time on FreeVee (I don’t have Prime, so this was my first chance to see them).

…I wrote this and then realized that I could totally do a Note on Lin-Manuel Miranda.

Spectacle Over Story

 Oi. It’s been a week, but last weekend was pretty darn cool, so I guess it balances out, I guess? High hopes for this weekend, I guess. Maybe I get some writing done!

Some episodes of Wheel of Time are on FreeVee! Which you can watch for free! Just, with ads. I’m checking it out, and I might get a Saturday Note out of it. They said they would put all of the episodes, but right now there are only the first three and the season one finale.

This one was inspired by a video I saw about Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Don’t know how much that will come up in the essay!