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1) icontalking is looking for people to ask questions of their icon making volunteers who stepped forward to talk about icon making and share tutorials as so far they don't have any 😟

In similar "let's chat about fanworks" is the launch of fan_writers which includes links to tutorials and meta about writing.

2) In shows I largely skipped through, Gotham season 5 finished in a place everyone might expect. I always found Gotham more interesting in ideas than execution. ( Read more... )

Did watch all of Hacks season 2 and felt rewarded for that. The last few episodes took it where the audience wanted to go and it felt really satisfying (perhaps one of the best uses of Goodbye Stranger in a finale). Also sadly true to life about women having to gamble on themselves when no one else will, as the Julia series is also revealing. Still only a few episodes in so perhaps more later on that one.

3) Also watched an episode of Otter Dynasty but wasn't keen on its first person voices and it just seemed rather repetitive. It was, however, revealing to me about what I enjoy about nature shows. ( Read more... )

In other animal related shows, I've been watching Dog House, a UK show about a dog adoption center. Am into S2 since who doesn't want to see a variety of dogs finding homes?

4) In Case Number 101 about why AI can in no way replace competent workers: Red Lobster. ( Read more... )

5) Watched episode 4.2 of Brokenwood Mysteries and had a pretty good idea of the murderer early on so the real Mystery was of the pixelated arrow. The victim died of an arrow to the forehead, yet bizarrely the arrow was sometimes pixelated and sometimes not and in some shots had been completely erased so that we were looking at a victim with no injury at all! This went on through the entire episode as we saw her in flashbacks. We could not figure out what the purpose of this was since the episode began with us watching her be shot with the arrow so if it was to spare the squeamish this would have been the part to cut!

1) I have not been keeping up with the challenges given other things going on, but this one grabbed me: What games do you play, if any? Are you a solo-gamer or do you view games as a social activity? ( Read more... )

2) I've been watching a bunch of things on Max, mostly biographies. I found the Jaws 50 year anniversary documentary interesting as, while I remember the film I've never seen it.

In bios I finished Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed which was a fair amount of surface stuff. ( Read more... )

3) In movies, saw Shazam fury of the gods which was pretty meh, as it just seemed rather predictable. Also watched Traitor which was a lot more interesting in terms of the undercover spy story. Then saw the Batman Lego movie which was 30 minutes too long (tedious final battle section) but was otherwise entertaining, particularly in all its pop culture references. ( Read more... )

4) In TV series, I ended up skipping through most of The New Pope just as I had The Young Pope. It just felt rather repetitive. Also watched The Investigation, a Danish production focused on the police activity finding evidence for the actual case of a murdered journalist aboard a submarine. ( Read more... )

5) Continuing to post trip photos to common_nature, the latest being our stay in Hood River