Sick, but not sick of media

[bironic]

Bleh

Somewhere in the past week, despite a lot of hand washing, I picked up a cold, woe. I hate being sick. I'm not one of those magical people who can say, "Oh, I have a bit of a cold," and go about their normal days while occasionally dabbing their noses with a handkerchief. I work my way through boxes of tissues and ache all over and sleep at odd times and am generally pathetic.

Anyway, so I've been home for a couple of days listening to standup comedy specials and Festivids song candidates (yesterday) and watching the latest season of the Great British Baking Show (today) and being appreciative of Past Me, who put together a pantry box for times such as this—Jello, canned soup, Gatorade, crackers—and froze two quarts of homemade chicken soup. A+ prep, would recommend.

Festivids

I… may have a workable idea for my assignment? There's a significant downside to it, but I will try a thing to compensate. We'll see how it goes. I think I would enjoy working on it, at least. Time is flying by, and most of December is committed to travel; I can't be too picky. Still hunting for alternatives in the meantime.

Movie

Woman Walks Ahead (2018) makes a good antidote to Hostiles, as far as movies that take a white POV about encountering unexpected complexity when meeting a Native war chief and his family on the Great Plains in the late 1800s. It's a mystery to me why it only received a 53% critics' rating on Rotten Tomatoes while Hostiles got 71%. I mean, it's got issues, but comparatively... Maybe because it's about a woman (and by a woman) instead of a man and his angst?

I'm too full of cold viruses to review its strengths and weaknesses*, but all I wanted to say is that I enjoyed watching Michael Greyeyes in a lead role after adoring his smile in the Fear the Walking Dead clip I chose of him for the closing sequence of "The Greatest" (gif) and reading a bit of his scholarly work on theater and choreography. Then the internet revealed that in addition to other things I'd known about, he'd played sexy Dr. Stone in the PBS Navajo Mysteries with Adam Beach! So I had vidded him before without realizing it. I always forget that 'ship wasn't canonical. :)

*Maybe we can talk another time about conflicting feelings when the film revels in the female gaze yet the gaze is white and the "object" of it Native, or how I believe they flubbed what was very nearly a beautiful ending, or the relationship of the screenplay to the history it was inspired by, which I've only just started to explore with articles like this one in the Daily Mirror. At least it suggests the romance wasn't pasted on.

Comments

[jjhunter]

I too am sick (or getting far enough long in the process of Becoming Sick to have a growing congestion migraine, ugh).

*offers fistbump of 'ow' solidarity*

[minoanmiss]

Feel better, both of you!

[jjhunter]

Thank you! *sneezes*

[minoanmiss]

Maybe we can talk another time about conflicting feelings when the film revels in the female gaze yet the gaze is white and the "object" of it Native,

*nod*

Here is a response, for when you're feeling up to it:

There are repeating patterns in the world. Just as there is a male gaze that gets privileged, there is also a White gaze that gets privileged, and so on. This sounds like a good example of the latter, how the seeming power-structure-upening of the female gaze actually is a confirmation of the primacy of the White gaze. Or maybe it's both at once.



--- as for right now, keep on feeling better! If you need homemade soup I will come over and make it! Just let me know.

[timespirt]

Sorry your sick hon. Hope you feel better soon.

"HUGS"

[sheafrotherdon]

If you want to talk about any of the things in that last paragraph sometime, I'm your person! ♥