The Other Day, I Re-jigged A Spreadsheet.

I'm personally convinced that Lift is going to convert everyone to the Church Of A Big Dinner.

Now thinking about the plot of sa6 (presumably, they get stormlight back as the main *big win* moment- this is the Stormlight Archives after all)

ANYWAY thinking about that and the implications of Kaladin Stormblessed disappearing when stormlight does and returning when it does. Like Herald of Second Chances and "here's your second chance with stormlight. Here's your second chance at being Radiant". Or something.

the whole "sao just awakens the 'i can fix her'-instinct in people"- thing is so fucking funny to me because literally not even the author is immune

reki kawahara really looked at his own novels and said "i can fix her" and that's why the sao progressive novels exist now

something about this story just does that to people, it's great!

DOCTOR WHO (2023 - ) I Joy to the World

I mentioned this to my dad and he's been ranting for ten minutes about how it wasn't accurate to the books, mostly because Derek Jacobi can't speak Welsh or pronounce the place names.

I thought today - the TV show I'd really like to see is one about a medieval monastery.

You could have all kinds of characters: the pious guy who joined because he wanted to serve God, the son born out of wedlock sent there to cover up his parents' shame, the geek who wanted to study Latin but couldn't afford to go into university, the former knight sick of violence and afraid for his soul... Plus monasteries were centres of pilgrimage and places where criminals could take refuge, so we can have a lot of characters who crop up for a few episodes and leave.

Some plotlines I thought of:

Our relics aren't bringing in the pilgrims the way they used to - what do we do?

A women fleeing an abusive marriage has taken shelter in the monastery - how will the brothers respond to having a women in their midst?

One of the monks wants to leave - will the abbot accept or not?

A murderer has taken refuge in the abbey, and the abbot decides to try and save his soul - what will happen?

People are coming to the monastery for food during the famine, but the monastery is itself short of food - how will this be dealt with?

War has broken out between two local lords, and the monks attempt to broker a treaty - will it work?

I've already mentioned some reasons why I think this setting would lend itself to television, but I'd also love to make it for two other reasons:

Get people to understand how weird medieval religion could get, but also that, within its own frame of reference, it was a reasonable and consistent belief system.

Show people that the Middle Ages consisted of more than just muddy people stabbing each other and burning scientists at the stake.

et tu, boopte?

i still can't get over the fact that Warframe had a bunch of continuity problems and timeline plotholes and they fixed all of them by just. decanonizing linear time

it's always a good day to complain about English speakers

The Original Evil Dead DVD had two commentary tracks, one for cast and one for the director. The Cast commentary had a few digs at what they imagined the director would be talking about "right now, he's going to be talking about that car. It's in the film for one shot, but it's his actual car and he loves it, even though it broke down twice in this scene". And they were right, he was.

Sturgeon's law: 90% of everything is shit. The way to get good media is to make another nine bad ones. Just make the bad stuff! Even if you never learn, you'll make someone else say "I can do better" and that's great. Honestly: I am an adequate mini painter. I routinely enter, and lose, painting competitions, because I don't want someone with real talent to look in the cabinet and see nothing they can't surpass.

"Why does Gen Z suck shit at horror?" every generation sucks shit at horror. In the 2000's they were sucking shit at found footage, in the 80's they were sucking shit at slasher flicks, in the 60's -- Jesus, in the 60's they sucked so much shit someone went and made a whole TV show where a bunch of guys watched horror movies from the 60's and made fun of how much shit they suck.

"Reply All" is an excellent name for a battleship.

the head of the catgirl space empire’s war fleet is wordlessly chainsmoking as she finally reads over the list of ship names she sorta ignored when she signed off on the approval. like, for instance, the catgirl space empire eschaton-class superheavy warship Slutty Dads Ahoy. Then there’s Catgirl Space Empress RPF. Lox Bagel, Please. Kill Yourself. Ship Namer’s Local 2323 is On Strike. she’s gonna start drinking before she finishes the list