Still Nameless Feature: There's Probably Hope Somewhere

[helloladies]

At the end of every week, we gather at Lady Business HQ to share media thoughts and chat about the recent happenings in our tiny spheres of human experience. Feel free to join in, but note our comment policy if you're new! :D

As always, puns are welcome.

This week was so terrible that there are no words for it. Have a blanket fort.



We've discussed names like Chaturday, Business Casual, The Water Trough, and Ponies Express. Clearly we can use some help and would appreciate your suggestions (feel free to vote in the comments, too)!

Poll #17563 Potential Feature Names

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[renay]

Because the world is awful, I kept putting fluffy things into my face.

- High School Debut
- Skip Beat (okay Susan, I have finished this volume and now I have NO ACCESS to any more so I'll NEVER LEARN HOW IT ENDS and if Kyoko gets her REVENGE. also, that kid is terrifying.)
- Zootopia (I want so much Judy/Nick fic)
- Hours of Avengers Academy (I failed to defeat The Lizard and I am Tired of octobots)

I was reading a few books about race from the academic library but after the events of this week I just...can't right now...so I'm taking those back for now this weekend in exchange for some science/history: Black Hole: How an Idea Abandoned by Newtonians, Hated by Einstein, and Gambled On by Hawking Became Loved.

That gif is the greatest of all time

[owlmoose]

I dare you to find me a better one.

Media consumption this week consisted mostly of Seveneves, which I'm now about three-quarters through. It's good! But definitely a Neal Stephenson book, for good and for ill.

I also finished up the most recent season of Orphan Black, with the thing that happened, and the other thing, and all those things too. (She said, vaguely, so as not to spoil anyone bc I know not everyone is caught up.) Much as I love the show, I'm glad next season is the last, because it feels like it's building to a conclusion. Once it's done, I'll probably watch it all from the beginning again, just to see how it all holds together.

is that a gif challenge?!

[renay]

I watched the first season of Orphan Black in a weekend and then the first two episodes of season two and then...stopped? I'm not sure what happened, if it was the show or if it was me or if it was Life. I'm also happy about the announced ending because I'm way more likely to catch up on it now that I know we won't be here for another 900 years.

(I swear I'm gonna be 76 before they air the last season of Supernatural. I can't watch it actively, because it's a garbage fire, so I'm waiting until that last episode AIRS and it's DONE FOR GOOD.)

COME AT ME BRO

[owlmoose]

I much prefer my serialized TV shows to have a beginning, a middle, and an end rather than to meander on forever. I understand that the creators did not have a specific plan from the start, making a lot of it up as they went along, but this most recent season feels more tightly plotted, as if they picked a direction and decided to stick with it.

[kaytaylorrea]

Because everything is terrible, I've been rereading Laura Florand's Amour et Chocolat series. These are romance novels about Parisian chocolatiers and ohmygod. The language is as decadent as the descriptions of all the food. The characters are incredibly nuanced and the relationship development, while often fast, is believable because all of the couples have crazy chemistry. Also, the love scenes are really, really hot.



Unsurprisingly, I've also been eating a lot of chocolate.

[dira]

I'm gonna say the state of everything is the reason I watched all of series 3 (2012) of the Great British Bake Off this week and also fell down the attention-well of playing Avengers Academy constantly on my phone.

But I also started reading The Dazzle of Day by Molly Gloss and The Calcutta Chromosome by Amitav Ghosh, which are both pretty fantastic so far.

[dira]

I JUST started playing AvAc this week (because I got sucked in by the lure of Bucky... when people started posting screencaps after the end of the Civil War event. TIMING. I HAS IT.) so I am waiting right now for Van Dyne's Outfits to finish building so I can start the Spider-Man Event. Which I can see is going to go REALLY well for me?

[transcendancing]

It's been such a hard week - I have been cushioned from a lot of it because my prac in the maternity ward kind of lends itself to being another world almost. And it's still an intense one especially emotionally. So no heavy content at all, fluff. I'm starting 'Gilmore Girls' for the first time and am enjoying it a lot. I'm also playing a lot of 'Star Chef' on my phone because it's cute :P

Not much else. Today was really relaxing and lovely, my first day of a break between prac and classes returning and oh I need this break. I need to recover in a huge way. So today I slept in, my lovely partner made me coffee, it was a totally relaxing day. I cooked easy dinner that was easy like cheating but was tasty. I watched more 'Gilmore Girls', I played my silly app game, and I watched both 'Speed Racer' and 'Van Wilder: Party Liaison' both of which I love, but totally appreciate that both are definitely not without issues (especially the latter movie, it's a guilty pleasure, although I now think Reynolds was so much funnier in 'Deadpool'. Anyway, both were lighthearted and about making the world a better place in their own way which worked for me today.

[goodbyebird]

I failed to defeat Lizard as well, but was far more miffed to lose out on Black Cat's kitty. I WANT ALL KITTEHS :< Bright side, after grinding for Mary Jane this week I can just sit back and relax, cause I'm not interested in either of those villain douches walking around my campus no thanks.

Just today I received the first two Spider-Gwen TPBs so looking forward to knowing what all the hype is all about. Plus both Thor TPBs so far so I can catch up there.

[justira]

I am having an anxiety day! So that's not good.

I've finished Game Change from last week, which ended on the nice note of Obama and Hillary Clinton making peace and her becoming Secretary of State. It opened with the rather bitter primaries between them, so it was a nice full circle. I'm now on to the sequel, Double Down. I've gotten through Part I, which was about Obama's presidency and the runup to the election season; now the book is backtracking in Part II to the start of the Republican primaries and the hot, hot mess the field was that year. I didn't really pay close attention to the Republican primaries that year, so I'm learning a lot about what a shitshow that all was. So many names in the ring, so many flameouts. I also picked up Big Girls Don't Cry today, which is about the women of the 2008 election. That's probably going to be my last elections book for a while, as I've fair glutted myself on election stuff. I think I'm taking out the stress of the 2016 election by delving into elections of the past to remind myself that it does all turn out okay in the end, even if getting there is super stressful.

On the fiction side of things, I've ostensibly started Cryoburn, but really I just cracked it and put a bookmark in. Nothing to report so far.

Also continuing with the watching of Adventure Time. We finished the Flame Princess arc, which did not end very well for Finn but he deserved it, and have started... the Earl of Lemongrab arc. It was a drunken decision and I may regret it.

Re: That gif is the greatest of all time

[justira]

Talk to me about Seveneves! You're far enough in to have thoughts besides "wow that's a lot of science". How did it handle gender? Sexuality? How was the Neil deGrasse Tyson stand-in? Tell me things!

I've seen the first two episodes of Orphan Black like three times in an effort to watch the series from the beginning, and I keep not going further. It's not that I don't like it — I do — it's just that it's... intense? It takes a lot of brains and emotional energy to watch for me, so I have to be in the right mood. Same reason I have yet to finish Jessica Jones.

Re: is that a gif challenge?!

[justira]

Supernatural has officially gone on my "I have to be drunk to watch this so I can heckle shamelessly" list. They're never gonna do anything I want with the show. And while I'm curious to see what Cas is up to these days (sorry Dean and Sam), I'm not curious enough to inflict the in-progress series on myself again.

[renay]

I got Bucky (barely) during the event but of course didn't have time to level him up to unlock more actions so he just wanders around campus. :( I hope they release him in the storyline later this year after this summer event so I can USE him.

The Spider-Man event has been cool so far; WAY less stressful than the Civil War and Guardians of the Galaxy event. Then again, I am so tired of events and just want them to add more regular story. XD

[renay]

Yeah, I knew going in I wanted Black Cat and Mary Jane and didn't care about the villains. I have Madame Hydra wandering around my campus and it annoys me. :| I DON'T ACTUALLY WANT VILLAINS, TINYCO.

I need to try some Spider-verse but it's SO intimidating because there's just so much of it. ;___;

[renay]

Remember in S8 when we had Hopes??? Ah, so young and innocent and naive...

[renay]

I don't know why I'm surprised there's a romance novel series about chocolate. How perfect. I LOVE THE GREAT THINGS HUMANS CREATE.

[goodbyebird]

Yep that's usually what gets in my way too. But Spider-Gwen and Silk have about three TPBs out now, making it a great place to start :D Both very well received too!

[goodbyebird]

Oh btw, just watched Kung Fu Panda 3 and would highly recommend it for a fluffy good time. And I say that as someone who didn't get quite that much out of the first two.

Re: That gif is the greatest of all time

[owlmoose]

I'm actually further along than I thought, possibly I was expecting the balance of story pre- and post-time skip to be quite different. So I'm closeish to done, about 150 pages to go.

I come into this book with baggage, because Stephenson has had issues with gender in past books -- his women tend to be absent, entirely defined by their relationships with men, or suffer from Heinlein Syndrome (beautiful, brilliant, accomplished, and no depth whatsoever). I detected a whiff of Heinlein Sydrome at first, but it evened out later, especially as more characters were introduced, so overall I think he's done fairly well. I like that the women tend to have strong voices and different types of relationships with each other.

I enjoyed Doob as an expy of Neil DeGrasse Tyson, obvious as it was. :) I'm still trying to decide if Sean Probst was also supposed to be someone specific. I see many similarities to Ilon Musk, but I don't think of him as paranoid about security.

I'm also still trying to decide if the book is pessimistic or optimistic about human nature, and whether I agree with what it's trying to say either way.

Re. Orphan Black: it is definitely an intense show, not always easy to watch. Worth it, in my opinion, but I can understand wanting to be in the mood for it.

[justira]

Calcutta Chromosome sounds interesting! I think I will get it from the library.

[readingtheend.com]

Chaturdaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay! (That is my vote. I couldn't figure out how to vote properly.)

Re: That gif is the greatest of all time

[calissa]

Can't argue on the gif.

Good work on Seveneves. I'm still working up to it.

[calissa]

Skip Beat is the best.

[calissa]

Ooo... I rather like that.

[calissa]

Argh, this week. It was a rare week off for me but I feel worse than when I started. It has been emotional and full of miscommunication. All the dreadful news had me put down The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin because I just can't right now. I picked up Jordan L. Hawk's Threshold instead for some historical fantasy m/m romance.