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If anyone's wondering how I've been lately, this has been posted outside my Japanese class all week:
I think that about sums it up.
In brighter news, I finished watching the Good Omens series! Unsurprisingly, I enjoyed it a ton. It has its weaknesses—mainly overly-literal adaptation of book scenes that relied heavily on narration/prose (the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse deserved so much better), and also Aziraphale not being enough of a dick—but overall it was a delight and I'm still smiling thinking about it.
As a version of the Good Omens story, I'd still recommend the book first; it's a much better-crafted story as a whole, whereas in the show the different plot threads are much more unbalanced in terms of screen time, depth, and pacing. But the show is a great experience in its own right, and brings a lot of cool original content and different angles on the story on top of being impossibly charming and heartfelt. I'd definitely recommend it to anyone interested.
More than anything, I'm just thrilled that everyone is suddenly talking about Good Omens everywhere I look. I never got around to looking into the fandom back when I first read the book, but now suddenly it's everywhere and it's fantastic. I have this constant flurry of activity plus like 30 years of fanwork and discussion to catch up on, and I couldn't be happier.
Five years late as usual, I've started listening to The Adventure Zone. Well okay, I started listening to it months ago, but stalled out because focusing on podcasts is absurdly difficult for me. Last week I finally discovered the magic charm that is folding laundry while listening, though, and now I'm zipping through.
I've just finished the second arc and can't wait to keep going—especially since I keep hearing the next arc is where it "gets good", which is impressive considering how much I adored this one. (If you ever want to understand my and my brother's sense of humor, possibly all you need to know is that I hit the line "Oh, that's not that weird, to have a train name. A name that you use only on trains," and immediately had to pause, rewind, and drag my brother into the room with no explanation to listen to the whole scene while I cracked up next to him.) I need more laundry already!
I think that about sums it up.
In brighter news, I finished watching the Good Omens series! Unsurprisingly, I enjoyed it a ton. It has its weaknesses—mainly overly-literal adaptation of book scenes that relied heavily on narration/prose (the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse deserved so much better), and also Aziraphale not being enough of a dick—but overall it was a delight and I'm still smiling thinking about it.
As a version of the Good Omens story, I'd still recommend the book first; it's a much better-crafted story as a whole, whereas in the show the different plot threads are much more unbalanced in terms of screen time, depth, and pacing. But the show is a great experience in its own right, and brings a lot of cool original content and different angles on the story on top of being impossibly charming and heartfelt. I'd definitely recommend it to anyone interested.
More than anything, I'm just thrilled that everyone is suddenly talking about Good Omens everywhere I look. I never got around to looking into the fandom back when I first read the book, but now suddenly it's everywhere and it's fantastic. I have this constant flurry of activity plus like 30 years of fanwork and discussion to catch up on, and I couldn't be happier.
Five years late as usual, I've started listening to The Adventure Zone. Well okay, I started listening to it months ago, but stalled out because focusing on podcasts is absurdly difficult for me. Last week I finally discovered the magic charm that is folding laundry while listening, though, and now I'm zipping through.
I've just finished the second arc and can't wait to keep going—especially since I keep hearing the next arc is where it "gets good", which is impressive considering how much I adored this one. (If you ever want to understand my and my brother's sense of humor, possibly all you need to know is that I hit the line "Oh, that's not that weird, to have a train name. A name that you use only on trains," and immediately had to pause, rewind, and drag my brother into the room with no explanation to listen to the whole scene while I cracked up next to him.) I need more laundry already!
