Hey. What's up?
Jun. 21st, 2015 01:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
healingmirthAbout a month ago, Everquest launched a new progression server, which is basically a time machine back to 1999, but with maps and google and a tin of UI improvements (and 15 years of accumulated How to Everquest knowledge) and without losing your corpse in the Surefall tunnel because humans can't see in the dark, or in the Plane of Fear because you died so many times you no longer meet the minimum requirement to enter.
Anyway, so yeah. I've been doing that. Mostly.
Also watching a lot of tennis, because despite my brief fascination during the US Open, I have entirely missed the French Open and Wimbledon the past two years, so I'm trying to make up for it.
This summer is turning out to be another accumulation of random injuries that take way too long to heal, because old. I've done something to my left ankle that seems to match the symptoms of anterior ankle impingement, but whatever it is, it super hurts when I do the thing that hurts it, and then not at all between times. Last summer's dodgy hip hasn't made a reoccurrence, probably because I haven't been running. Thanks, ankle pain.
CA:TWS is on some movie channel this weekend, so now I've seen that twice. Despite half a million gifsets, I somehow hadn't remembered SebStan's expressions or, honestly, how Chris Evans was styled for the movie, and I've got to say, as much as I enjoy the Steve/Bucky MCU ship, my shallow preference is for Actual Sebastian Stan and Actual Chris Evans.
Will probably be sorting the Steve/Bucky tag by kudos/completed and trawling through that this afternoon.
I liked it! I've liked pretty much the whole series, and in this one, Our Heroes didn't blow as many things up.
But:
Like did they entirely write Hobbs's kid into the movie just so Hobbs could say "Daddy's gotta go to work"?
I felt like everything was fairly terrible until around when Kurt Russell (and shortly thereafter, the team) showed up, and then it was mostly pretty great, except for the Brian/Mia phone conversations. They've done that in at least one other movie, and it was terrible then, too. Maybe if there was someone else in the room with Mia for the second one. (The kid? Where was the kid at?) Maybe I need to watch something else with Jordana Brewster.
I read astolat's fic before I went to see the movie, but then post-movie I went to go check on the state of the AO3 tag - unsurprisingly quiet - but when I sorted by kudos, astolat's fic was already second. (first, now, since I typed that a month ago.) Again, unsurprising, given that the heyday of the fandom was pre-AO3, but wow.
Anyway, so yeah. I've been doing that. Mostly.
Also watching a lot of tennis, because despite my brief fascination during the US Open, I have entirely missed the French Open and Wimbledon the past two years, so I'm trying to make up for it.
This summer is turning out to be another accumulation of random injuries that take way too long to heal, because old. I've done something to my left ankle that seems to match the symptoms of anterior ankle impingement, but whatever it is, it super hurts when I do the thing that hurts it, and then not at all between times. Last summer's dodgy hip hasn't made a reoccurrence, probably because I haven't been running. Thanks, ankle pain.
CA:TWS is on some movie channel this weekend, so now I've seen that twice. Despite half a million gifsets, I somehow hadn't remembered SebStan's expressions or, honestly, how Chris Evans was styled for the movie, and I've got to say, as much as I enjoy the Steve/Bucky MCU ship, my shallow preference is for Actual Sebastian Stan and Actual Chris Evans.
Will probably be sorting the Steve/Bucky tag by kudos/completed and trawling through that this afternoon.
I liked it! I've liked pretty much the whole series, and in this one, Our Heroes didn't blow as many things up.
But:
Like did they entirely write Hobbs's kid into the movie just so Hobbs could say "Daddy's gotta go to work"?
I felt like everything was fairly terrible until around when Kurt Russell (and shortly thereafter, the team) showed up, and then it was mostly pretty great, except for the Brian/Mia phone conversations. They've done that in at least one other movie, and it was terrible then, too. Maybe if there was someone else in the room with Mia for the second one. (The kid? Where was the kid at?) Maybe I need to watch something else with Jordana Brewster.
I read astolat's fic before I went to see the movie, but then post-movie I went to go check on the state of the AO3 tag - unsurprisingly quiet - but when I sorted by kudos, astolat's fic was already second. (first, now, since I typed that a month ago.) Again, unsurprising, given that the heyday of the fandom was pre-AO3, but wow.
