On Grief in Fiction

 Alright it’s the weekend! I will be off of Tumblr so my last movie review on the blog will be Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, a movie which is still on my mind after a week. Which is not something I thought I’d be saying about a Shrek spin-off but here we are.

I’m getting kind of annoyed because my PS4 will sometimes, of its own accord, decides to uninstall games. It means I have to go back and reinstall them--which, with games as big as Assassin's Creed: Valhalla or Horizon Forbidden West, sometimes takes quite a while!

Not thrilled with what The Flash did with one of its characters for this season...

On the Afterlife in Fantasy

 I need to do a review of RRR for the movie review blog, but I don’t even know how to begin talking about the film. Because it’s nuts. In a delightful way, but absolutely nuts.

Still working on Horizon Forbidden West and it’s going great. Not sure how to approach the topic of upgrades and picking new equipment up–my instinct is to do that, but also I don’t want to keep using money and resources on things that might get replaced.

And I hate robot kangaroos. Why do they need bombs?!

Also! Public Service Announcement: there’s a GoFundMe for a friend whose daughter has cancer, and I’d appreciate if you took a look and passed it along if you can.

On Discworld & Opening

 This has been a bit of a strange week, but not a bad one. I’m apprehensive for the future though. But on Monday is that most wonderful of holidays, Waitangi Day! I’m sort of excited for that.

I had an idea for talking about grief in fiction–about how it’s better when characters don’t forget when their friends have died. This was inspired by me sitting and watching a butt ton of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood recently. But given that Waitangi Day’s coming up I didn’t want this to be a sad notes this weekend.

So Discworld and worldbuilding it is, as I recently started my re-read of that series. I don’t care that apparently Stephen King hates the term ‘worldbuilding’!

On Mark Antony and Writing About History You Don’t Understand

 I am not feeling so hot as I type this; hopefully by the time you read this I’ll be feeling much better with some adequate bedrest, but at the moment I’m probably sitting in bed under the blankets with a hoodie and a beanie.

But in other news, I decided to start a Discworld read-through, and so I’ve started The Colour of Magic and I’ll probably get through it today.

I think I have talked about this before, but I don’t know that I’ve done so in a Saturday Note. If so, I apologize.

Folklore & Fairy Tale in Historical Settings

 I am very much enjoying watching Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, and getting plenty of surprises! I am getting quite caught up in it. On the book side of things I am currently reading Galileo Goes to Jail, which is NOT a novel about historical scientists playing Monopoly but a collection of essays by historians dispelling myths about the relationship between science and religion.

Also! I’m playing Horizon Forbidden West and while I’m not far, it’s still fantastic.

This is on my mind from watching Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio and reading the Winternight Trilogy.

On Easter Eggs & Secrets

I read and finished this week The Letter for the King by Tonky and I thought it was pretty good! More memorable than the Netflix adaptation of it (not that it was bad, but not particularly memorable), and a good book for kids about knights and stuff.

Currently I am watching too many shows. I am a bit close to finishing Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist, I think? I’m giving up on Oddballs because it’s not actually funny. Still working on Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood and Leverage, though.

It was considered to do a Note on political discourse in fiction, but I’m pretty sure I’ve done that one. A lot of it would have been me ragging on the CW Supergirl though, if you’re curious.

On Info Dumps

First Saturday Note of 2023!

I have started Horizon Forbidden West and so far it’s great! The game is probably very difficult to get into if you haven’t played the first game, but I remember it fondly so it’s a nice little reunion-type thing.

I waffled a bit on the topic of this one because I had an idea about doing the “homage episodes” for television, but I decided against it because the only negative example I could think of (for what NOT to do) was one episode of Royal Pains that’s a shout-out to The Hangover, and I barely remember it. 

So not that.