On Scathach

It is my brother and sister-in-law’s anniversary! I must wear the socks.

My computer had a complete nervous breakdown on Thursday, which was quite infuriating and I want to fight someone at Microsoft. However! It seems to be (mostly) behaving right now. 

I don’t know if I’ll have a Note for next week, as I will be out of town. I’ll try, though.

Hopefully, I’ll get to see “Dune: Part 2 - Dune Harder” this weekend. Either way, I got to see The Play That Goes Wrong this week, and that was quite a bit of fun.

Now let’s talk about Irish mythology!

The Netflix Adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender

We are past the halfway point for Lent!

Now that I’ve completed season one of the Netflix Avatar, I can finish their live-action take on One Piece, try out Shogun on Hulu, and see what elseI can check out to watch. And it seems like they’re taking Community off of Netflix on April 1st.

Let’s talk about Avatar, and about adapting into live-action. I’ve touched on this sort of thing before, but it’s been a while, so it’s all fair game. That’s how it works, right?

Here be spoilers. But, like, just watch the original series instead, okay? If you haven’t already.

The MCU and Magic

 I almost read a different book than the ones I ended up reading this week; however, I felt a bit iffy in the first twenty pages, so I looked up the synopsis. I realize you’re not supposed to do that, and I feel like whipping myself or something, but looking at the summary, I was like, “...no, we’re not doing that.” I had to scramble to find something more cheerful to read. I ended up picking something completely random.

I’ve been in a dour mood. I don’t know exactly what prompted it; I just know reading about someone going through physical, emotional, and spiritual torture is not something I needed this week.

[On top of everything else, it turned out that my computer needed to update as I started writing this Note.]

Random question: have you guys ever used OneNote?

Santino D'Antonio is an Idiot

Last weekend was fantastic! However, my TV decided to die for no discernible reason, so I might be a bit behind on watching things. That, and also giving up PS4 for Lent, means I’m not playing anything, but in the game news sphere we found out recently that Pentiment will be on Playstation and PC, and that the original Battlefront and Battlefront II were getting remasters coming out! Hooray!

Currently, I am reading The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin, and enjoying it more than I expected.

This Note takes some inspiration, in spirit at least, from this ACOUP post (which I think I’ve linked to here before). Next week, I think we’re going to try talking about magic in the MCU.

Anyway, let’s talk about John Wick.

Marvel's Loki

 I apologize if this one’s late, or horribly done; I’m a little busy this weekend, so I don’t know that I’ll get this done on time.

My TV appears to have crapped out. That’s… disappointing.

I am re-reading Reaper Man and having quite a good time with it! I also took out Loki: Agent of Asgard from the library, which prompted this essay in my head.

"Dinotopia" for Dragons?

YEAR OF THE DRAGON, BABY!!!

This week had Waitangi Day, that Most Awesomest of Days. It’s been a good week, then, though perhaps I ate too much.

I am caught up on Delicious in Dungeon, I finished The Brothers Sun, and I maybe I’m starting the Netflix adaptation One Piece? And I’m re-reading The Mirror of Merlin by T.A. Barron, thinking again of that annotation site I want to make at some point. Hopefully later this year?

Anyhow, this week I read Dragon Slippers and I also saw How to Train Your Dragon recently, so this might be affecting my thinking.

On Fantastic Religious Weirdness

Hoo boy, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League game is out, and, uh, looks like it’s a doozy. They really did it. They really thought a great way to spend your money/time was to develop a looter-shooter at the tail end of that bandwagon, in which you kill beloved superheroes turned into homicidal villains by the Plot, including one who was the main character of the previous four games over the last decade and voiced by a beloved, recently deceased actor. That’s certainly… A Choice.

In good news, though, I read Act of Oblivion this week, which was astoundingly good. Go check it out if you can.

I thought about this Note after a Friday Fun Fact.