What I've been watching!

30 days of Night - 2007 - starring Josh Hartnett and Melissa George

A vampire horror movie set in Barrow, Alaska, where there is a month of total darkness around the solstice. Perfect to watch in late December here -- the perfect Christmas movie! This was a fun story, extremely gory, and not too scary. Recommended to me by Sol-Se on twitter. This was filmed in New Zealand. I would have liked to see more indigenous Alaskan actors in it. Content notes: animal harm, blood, gore. I got this out from the library.

Kitten Rescuers - Netflix

A heartwarming show about the RSPCA (Royal society for the prevention of cruelty to animals) and people rescuing cats. There's a nice variety presented in the 8 episodes. They do that annoying thing where they tell you what is coming, then recap during the show, repeating information and clips, a la "Dateline NBC". I liked the presenter, Jo Brand, who is a fat woman of a certain age and has a great dry sense of humor. This show is fairly matter-of-fact and does discuss euthanasia. They show some surgeries also. There are some science segments and a bit about the wildcats of Scotland. Recommended. Additional content note: fat shaming of a cat.

Bouncing off of, or Noping out of, books/tv/movies

I've gotten better at knowing my own tastes, and deciding to stop reading or watching something that isn't working for me. Usually I can tell within the first few minutes if something is my jam, but I used to argue with myself and try to get myself to like things, or finish things. Sometimes I still try to argue myself into liking a fanfic-- Usually a something long, that starts out pretty good but then just goes on and on. Sometimes I think to myself, "I'm just not in the mood for this right now," which is no judgement on the media itself. Moods vary and there is nothing wrong with being the wrong mood for something.

For instance, I started watching "Into the Woods" and just kind of hated it. Maybe a different time I'll like it. No harm no foul. Back to the library with you.

I read the first couple of chapters of "Fire" by Kristin Cashore, which I've read before but don't remember. I just wasn't feeling it. "Fire" takes place technically in the same world as Graceling and Bitterblue, but it's a different magic system and a different kind of book.

Using the library a lot helps with this, since I'm not spending money on anything, and I enjoy going there. I've also been trying to return comics that I've borrowed from people, and donate books, so I'm not staring at books that I am not going to read anytime soon.