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lydamorehouse"Does that girl EVER shut up?"
"Who gives the nurse at a doctor's appointment a business card?"
"Do you think she's really an author, or... really, really STONED?"
"Cheerful as fuck, though. I should probably get some of whatever drugs she's on."
"Because, who has so much energy at eight am?"
"It must be caffeine."
"I'm totally going to look up this 'Tate Hallaway' person, because she's hilarious. Is monster erotica really a thing?"
"Can't be from around here, though. WAY. TOO. LOUD.."
#
Seriously, what is wrong with me?
I was in to see a dermatologist because, you know, my warranty expired at 48, and Shawn noticed a weird little growth on my cheek. (I TOLD you that my blogs would suddenly be all medical issues all the time!) Anyway, so there I was, and I might have had a little too much coffee and was already wound up because I rage quit watching Jessica Jones (more on that in a bit) and I dunno, the nurse was nice, okay? And, I just didn't feel up for the Minnesota call-and-response so t stopped trying to pretend like I knew when the hell anything happened with my body.
Her: "How long ago have you had the growth on your face?"
Me: "Who even knows? You'd think I'd notice a thing on my face. It's not like I don't look in the mirror every damn day, but I must have just dismissed it as 'weird thing that seems harmless.' I'm only here because my wife worries."
Her: ...
Her: "Um, okay..."
Me: "I've had coffee. Maybe too much."
Her: ... *smiles nervously* "Yeah, okay. I get that. So what do you do for a living?"
Me: *already reaching for business cards* "I have the most awesome job. You won't even *believe* how cool it is."
The nurse agrees that being published is, in point of fact, WICKED cool and goes on to confess that she LOVES to read and she's super-sad that she hasn't be able to read for pleasure because she's in the middle of school (she's going for her RN, I asked,) and, yes, paranormal romances are RIGHT up her alley and her husband LOVES science fiction and she WILL take that card, could I write down a few titles? She goes away and I get undressed and stuff. When the doctor comes in, I can tell the nurse was talking about me, because the doc smiles brightly at me and says, "I hear you're a famous author," to which I reply, "Yes, award-winning."
Because I f*cking have NO shame.
And, because this is a skin check, I'm basically saying all this COMPLETELY NAKED. I mean, yes, I have a sheet draped over me, but the doctor is checking out my boobs and butt, because that's her job, and all the while I'm yacking away about why I have a pseudonym (a lot of people don't understand the mechanics of why you would, and when I told the doctor that the romances are under a different name, she was very curious why that would be.)
I'm SURE I was the talk of the office after I left.
On the other hand, I may have sold a few more books.
Speaking of creative content, I'm watching Netflix's Jessica Jones. I just rage quit in the middle of episode 5. I may go back, but I'm having serious problems with this show. I will put the spoilers under a cut, but let me first say that "noir" and "dark" shouldn't mean humorless and unthinking. The epic fan fic I write has been categorized as dark because I tackle hard issues realistically. But that doesn't mean that my characters are inhuman to one another (at least not ALL THE TIME) or that there aren't moments of lightness and insight and kindness. Jessica Jones misses some opportunities for clever humor, IMHO, that could go a long way to making the characters sympathetic. As it stands, I don't like anyone on the show (with the exception of a hapless neighbor.) So the thing that made me rage quit is the treatment of lesbians on this show. A lot has been made about how feminist "Jessica Jones" is because Jessica spends a lot of time uplifting, supporting, and LITERALLY rescuing her female friend. Yes, that's lovely. About time, Marvel. HOWEVER, every single lesbian on the show is unlikeable and spends HER time destroying the lives of the women around her. There's a lesbian relationship in the background, a lawyer friend of Jessica's, her "Commissoner Gordon, if you will, the person who gets her cases to solve, is a married lesbian. She's played by Carrie Moss with a butch haircut and pinched lips. And she's an odious human being. Right away, we discover she's having an office affair with the cute, perky, blond secretary/legal assistant. The wife is a clueless doctor, who gets a few scenes that don't do much to make her seem attractive or likable. There's a whole TOTALLY GRATiTOUS sub-plot involving this threesome, which does NOTHING to advance the main plot. If it goes to characterization at all, the resulting theme is: lesbians are dicks. My first impression was that someone decided it would be clever to gender-swap the lawyer character, because there's nothing that the writers do to show they put any effort into thinking about how different lesbian relationships might be. It's completely, exactly like some dick-ish dude who got married due to some social pressure might act. Well.. there's the thing, kids. No lesbian EVER (at least at this point given that marriage was only made legal a few years ago) has ever been pressured into marrying anyone, ever.
So... there's them. And then, I just hit a scene, in a woman's prison.... that made me just turn off the streaming with a "OH FOR F..SAKE I QUIT" We get this plot important moment when we discover that one of Killgrave/Purple Man's victims is pregnant with his child and she paid for a beating in the hopes of miscarrying. Dark. But, I have no problem with that. Dark is as dark does. But the person hired to do this beating could not have been more of a lesbian stereotype. Again, I probably wouldn't really noticed except the writers chose to have her comment that Jessica better not break her fingers because, "There are ladies to service."
Right. That's when I turned off my Kindle
I have other issues. The treatment of the one character I actually like, in particular. At one point, Jessica is trying to figure out how to steal some high end drugs from a hospital for reasons of super villain and she tries to just sneak in and fails. Nice nod to reality. It's not that easy to steal drugs from a hospital. So, she's feeling stymied until another neighbor helps the hapless druggie get to his apartment and mutters something about how we're all a little racist, and THIS GIVES JESSICA AN IDEA. She takes hapless druggie, a black guy, with her to the hospital. She pushes him into a white woman, a nurse, and yells, 'OH MY GOD, HE JUST ATTACKED HER." A black guy. On a white woman. In the era of #BlackLivesMatter. Wow, Jessica, way to be sensitive to the fact that your so-called friend could ACTUALLY GET KILLED. Luckily, he's only arrested. Because, fuck that junkie anyway, he's an awesome tool for the white girl.
Oh, and then I'm supposed to buy that she gives enough of a shit about him to help him clean up once she finds out that he's been used by the super villain too.
Hey, Jessica, something you have IN COMMON with the biggest evil in all evil-dom.
Awesome. SO. Done..
"Who gives the nurse at a doctor's appointment a business card?"
"Do you think she's really an author, or... really, really STONED?"
"Cheerful as fuck, though. I should probably get some of whatever drugs she's on."
"Because, who has so much energy at eight am?"
"It must be caffeine."
"I'm totally going to look up this 'Tate Hallaway' person, because she's hilarious. Is monster erotica really a thing?"
"Can't be from around here, though. WAY. TOO. LOUD.."
#
Seriously, what is wrong with me?
I was in to see a dermatologist because, you know, my warranty expired at 48, and Shawn noticed a weird little growth on my cheek. (I TOLD you that my blogs would suddenly be all medical issues all the time!) Anyway, so there I was, and I might have had a little too much coffee and was already wound up because I rage quit watching Jessica Jones (more on that in a bit) and I dunno, the nurse was nice, okay? And, I just didn't feel up for the Minnesota call-and-response so t stopped trying to pretend like I knew when the hell anything happened with my body.
Her: "How long ago have you had the growth on your face?"
Me: "Who even knows? You'd think I'd notice a thing on my face. It's not like I don't look in the mirror every damn day, but I must have just dismissed it as 'weird thing that seems harmless.' I'm only here because my wife worries."
Her: ...
Her: "Um, okay..."
Me: "I've had coffee. Maybe too much."
Her: ... *smiles nervously* "Yeah, okay. I get that. So what do you do for a living?"
Me: *already reaching for business cards* "I have the most awesome job. You won't even *believe* how cool it is."
The nurse agrees that being published is, in point of fact, WICKED cool and goes on to confess that she LOVES to read and she's super-sad that she hasn't be able to read for pleasure because she's in the middle of school (she's going for her RN, I asked,) and, yes, paranormal romances are RIGHT up her alley and her husband LOVES science fiction and she WILL take that card, could I write down a few titles? She goes away and I get undressed and stuff. When the doctor comes in, I can tell the nurse was talking about me, because the doc smiles brightly at me and says, "I hear you're a famous author," to which I reply, "Yes, award-winning."
Because I f*cking have NO shame.
And, because this is a skin check, I'm basically saying all this COMPLETELY NAKED. I mean, yes, I have a sheet draped over me, but the doctor is checking out my boobs and butt, because that's her job, and all the while I'm yacking away about why I have a pseudonym (a lot of people don't understand the mechanics of why you would, and when I told the doctor that the romances are under a different name, she was very curious why that would be.)
I'm SURE I was the talk of the office after I left.
On the other hand, I may have sold a few more books.
Speaking of creative content, I'm watching Netflix's Jessica Jones. I just rage quit in the middle of episode 5. I may go back, but I'm having serious problems with this show. I will put the spoilers under a cut, but let me first say that "noir" and "dark" shouldn't mean humorless and unthinking. The epic fan fic I write has been categorized as dark because I tackle hard issues realistically. But that doesn't mean that my characters are inhuman to one another (at least not ALL THE TIME) or that there aren't moments of lightness and insight and kindness. Jessica Jones misses some opportunities for clever humor, IMHO, that could go a long way to making the characters sympathetic. As it stands, I don't like anyone on the show (with the exception of a hapless neighbor.) So the thing that made me rage quit is the treatment of lesbians on this show. A lot has been made about how feminist "Jessica Jones" is because Jessica spends a lot of time uplifting, supporting, and LITERALLY rescuing her female friend. Yes, that's lovely. About time, Marvel. HOWEVER, every single lesbian on the show is unlikeable and spends HER time destroying the lives of the women around her. There's a lesbian relationship in the background, a lawyer friend of Jessica's, her "Commissoner Gordon, if you will, the person who gets her cases to solve, is a married lesbian. She's played by Carrie Moss with a butch haircut and pinched lips. And she's an odious human being. Right away, we discover she's having an office affair with the cute, perky, blond secretary/legal assistant. The wife is a clueless doctor, who gets a few scenes that don't do much to make her seem attractive or likable. There's a whole TOTALLY GRATiTOUS sub-plot involving this threesome, which does NOTHING to advance the main plot. If it goes to characterization at all, the resulting theme is: lesbians are dicks. My first impression was that someone decided it would be clever to gender-swap the lawyer character, because there's nothing that the writers do to show they put any effort into thinking about how different lesbian relationships might be. It's completely, exactly like some dick-ish dude who got married due to some social pressure might act. Well.. there's the thing, kids. No lesbian EVER (at least at this point given that marriage was only made legal a few years ago) has ever been pressured into marrying anyone, ever.
So... there's them. And then, I just hit a scene, in a woman's prison.... that made me just turn off the streaming with a "OH FOR F..SAKE I QUIT" We get this plot important moment when we discover that one of Killgrave/Purple Man's victims is pregnant with his child and she paid for a beating in the hopes of miscarrying. Dark. But, I have no problem with that. Dark is as dark does. But the person hired to do this beating could not have been more of a lesbian stereotype. Again, I probably wouldn't really noticed except the writers chose to have her comment that Jessica better not break her fingers because, "There are ladies to service."
Right. That's when I turned off my Kindle
I have other issues. The treatment of the one character I actually like, in particular. At one point, Jessica is trying to figure out how to steal some high end drugs from a hospital for reasons of super villain and she tries to just sneak in and fails. Nice nod to reality. It's not that easy to steal drugs from a hospital. So, she's feeling stymied until another neighbor helps the hapless druggie get to his apartment and mutters something about how we're all a little racist, and THIS GIVES JESSICA AN IDEA. She takes hapless druggie, a black guy, with her to the hospital. She pushes him into a white woman, a nurse, and yells, 'OH MY GOD, HE JUST ATTACKED HER." A black guy. On a white woman. In the era of #BlackLivesMatter. Wow, Jessica, way to be sensitive to the fact that your so-called friend could ACTUALLY GET KILLED. Luckily, he's only arrested. Because, fuck that junkie anyway, he's an awesome tool for the white girl.
Oh, and then I'm supposed to buy that she gives enough of a shit about him to help him clean up once she finds out that he's been used by the super villain too.
Hey, Jessica, something you have IN COMMON with the biggest evil in all evil-dom.
Awesome. SO. Done..