which_chick | Recent entertainments

Televisions, which I have watched:

Bridgerton, Season 2. Kinda liked it. Didn't miss the sex stuff, of which there was a lot less than Season 1, because menopause has relegated the entirety of sex stuff to kind of silly and uncomfortable to watch which is annoying AF and also makes me feel old. :( The further I go down this road, though, the more I feel that estrogen is either a hell of a drug or a really shitty and abusive houseguest who stays for like, thirty-five or forty years being a royal pain in the ass, demanding everything operate to suit THEIR idiotic schedule and totally wrecking your house who then departs in a massive and drawn-out fit of pique. But after all that time living with the abusive houseguest, you'd gotten kind of used to their dumb-ass schedule and insane demands and you kinda miss them after they're gone even though they were total jerks the whole time you lived with them. Might could be both. Anyway, the people are pretty and I do still like plotty goodness and period-correct backs-of-gowns. I rather wish our hero rode better. It is SUPER distracting when they green screen the riding-at-speed bits and I have views about this dating from Elizabeth Taylor in National Velvet where they did not even get the horse color right.

Our Flag Means Death. It's pirates. It's ... bad pirates, by which I mean pirates who are bad at BEING pirates, though there are also bad pirates who are evil-ish. It is also objectively sort of bad, uneven in tone and not entirely sure what or when it wants to be, adrift in time period. It is charmingly delightful and a great deal of fun anyway. And I do like our Blackbeard Waititi, who rocks a black leather outfit. There are boats. There are swashes and buckling and yeah. It's fun and does not take itself too seriously. I'm about six episodes in.

Big Mouth, seasons 2-5. Still like this. Still think it's funny. I am assuredly not the target audience, but I was the target audience at one point and it... yeah, sometimes it hits the nail on the head.

Books! I read them! You could too, maybe!

Gilded Cage & Tarnished City (Vic James) are two of what looks like a trilogy, dystopian thing but kind of interesting worldbuilding. I'm kind of interested in seeing where things go for book three which I did not immediately find and which may not be out yet. Who knows. I libraried these books.

I also read a metric shitton of KU books but none memorable enough to merit a mention.

Outdoors Activity! Nicer weather beckons, so go outside possibly?

I've been barberrying as per usual but also this year I stole about twelve plants of dutchman's breeches (a spring ephemeral wildflower native to my area, grows from little bulblets or corms or something, kinda like violets) from a very well-breechified hillside near a childhood friend's home (there were thousands of them on site) and plonked my ill-gotten plants in a likely location at my house because I have north-facing, well-drained wooded hillsides with ample and thick leaf litter almost identical to the location I stole them from. I suppose I'll see how they do in a year or so. (And then they immediately got six inches of late-April snow on them, so ... dunno how that will affect transplanting.) Maybe they will be OK. Or maybe they have some habitat requirement that I do not as yet understand and they'll die and I will have to do more research. It's the sort of slow-motion story that passes for entertainment in my part of the world.

I didn't get as much horse time this week as I'd hoped due to the SIX INCHES OF SNOW falling mid-day on Monday and not melting until Wednesday. I took an easy spin on Wednesday (ground still quite muddy, didn't want to tear up the hayfield) and we'll see how things look after work and lesson today.