THE STREAM OF CONCIOUSNESS
What am I consuming the week beginning 06/10/2025?
I've been thinking a whole lot about how we talk about sexuality and how we portray it in media. Mainly because Taylor Swift's new album is unexpectedly horny. I'm also newly obsessed with reading how real people talk about their real experiences especially when they don't identify as 'writer's' so anthologies are the obsession of the week.
This one is excellent and candid and beautiful.
This is the 'Read Receipts' Book of the week so you will soon know exactly how much emotional damage this causes me.
Set myself this as required reading because context is key.
This just seemed fun, I am a massive fan of adult animation but nothing has hit the same since my last 'Final Space' rewatch.
Bi-annual Gossip Girl rewatch is beginning, skipping the pilot as I don't know how anyone can invest in any of the storylines with that as the base.
Gossip Girl rankings are definitely incoming mainly so I can put my friends out of their misery and put my thoughts elsewhere.
I love Mae Martin and I love the unsettling nature of fiction that seems a little too close to home.
I watched this entire thing in one go while I attempted to make cupcakes (don't ask more). I was gripped from minute one. The characters are all deeply flawed but likeable in a very human way.
My main enjoyment came from Mae Martin's character Alex being an openly acknowledged trans person without a trans central storyline. He is never misgendered, he and his partner have a pregnancy that is never explained in a horrible medically invasive, non-narrative necessary side plot.
With all the horrible alt-right of 2025, a (mostly) happy, settled & sexually confident trans-character. All while being set in 2003 makes me happy.
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I watched this on a whim after falling down a rabbit hole on TikTok about ScarJo & Chris Evan's relationship in the MCU and it felt easier to watch this than to throw myself into watching the marvel films in order in a week when I intend to get other things done.
I thought it was very pleasantly fine, it's very much romcom season for me and you can sell me on almost anything set in NY.
I am very glad that at almost all times the main storyline is completely separate from the romance of it all. I am also glad that the end scene helps you to remember that the mother is not the antagonist- wealth, society and the patriarchy are (as always).
I am determined to get this off my to be watched this week.
Cascadia may be my very favourite game of all time. The art is beautiful, the game is incredibly solid, and it has enough variations to be played repeatedly.
I am currently venturing into the solo mode and it is so satisfying. I've also just started playing with the advanced rules and working through the suggested variations.
Call me hyper-fixated but everyone I have forced this upon has enjoyed it.
