Some Information About Penguins
Hey, y'all. This is the first newsletter, whoa! Please bear with me while I figure this shit out. The title of this thing, btw, comes from this.
This is me:
In case you are a visual thinker, and want to imagine these words as if they are coming from my mouth. Why would you want to do that? I don't know, man, I'm not you.
In 1944, a little girl was sent a book about penguins by a book club, along with a comment card. The girl read the book, then responded on the card "this book gives me more information about penguins than I care to have." Along with being the most perfect piece of literary criticism, it is the tag I use on tumblr to indicate that a post contains an awful lot of me in it. Well, that's what you can expect from this newsletter. All penguins, all the time. Hold onto your butts, and here we go.
Notable Breakfast
(You thought I was kidding about the breakfast thing, right? I was not.)
Apple sauce, fresh-from-the-oven (and blessedly not made by me) banana bread with cream cheese, Trader Joe's Sweet Apple Chicken Sausage, and a hot cross bun made by a friend. I largely subsist on oatmeal, but there wasn't enough milk so I cobbled this together and dang. It was a satisfying combination of items.
Dog Thing
This doof.
Mixed Media
Last week I was feeling sad, so I put on Stargate: Atlantis, which is a pretty full-proof cure for sad. Anyway, one episode led to eight, and now I'm sort of all in on it again.
Here is my secret shame: if a genie appeared before me and told me I could bring back one cancelled show and it would pick up right where it left off and none of the actors would have aged or anything--I wouldn't pick Firefly, or Pushing Daisies, or Justice League Unlimited. I would pick Stargate: Atlantis. Every single time.
It's got the heart and humor and found-familyness of Stargate SG-1, the first Stargate series, with the added twist of a sort of island-of-misfit-toys trope. Like, you've got dozens of nerds living in an alien spaceship the size of a city, excitedly turning shit on when they don't even know what the thing does, and a bunch of bewildered, exasperated military types constantly cleaning up after them. In the first episode, they start an intergalactic war by accident. I love it. Also, everything looks like this:
SPACE DECO.
Sadly, SGA is no longer on Netflix, and I only own seasons 2 and 4 on DVD, so it's been a disjointed viewing. Hey, did you know that the entire series is on blu-ray now? On a completely unrelated note, did you know that my 30th birthday is in June?
Also: I listened to Dan Deacon's America a whole bunch (here are the last 4 movements), lost my everloving mind about a china collection from the 80s, and played Marrying Mr. Darcy, a very fun card game which all fans of Pride & Prejudice should try. Personally, I married Colonel Fitzwilliam.
I Read Comics for a Living
Copperhead #6 is out this week, the first issue since the first trade came out, and I was so excited about it, and it completely lived up to my expectations. Copperhead is a space western, my favourite comic genre after regular western, and you should read it. In this issue, Clara does some badass space western-y action, then gets hit on by a sweet, blue (literally blue) schoolteacher, and Deputy Boo is revealed to be gay, all things I am all about.
Also good:
Spider-Woman #6, which is basically Spider-Woman #2, we're mostly pretending the first 4 issues never happened. Marvel is knocking it out of the park with their single-character books, and this is one I love. Jess is determined to make it on her own without the Avengers, (sort-of) trying and (mostly) failing to be a P.I. It feels like it's coming out of the School of Hawkguy, which is a very good school.
Teen Dog #8 The last Teen Dog! I'm not ready yet, I'm not ready to say goodbye. Teen Dog is about a rad dog who is a teen living in a universe that feels a little bit like a really great AU of a mediocre MTV show (ahem). It's got cute gags and surprisingly deep moments, and Jake Lawrence's art is SO GREAT. Don't wait for the trade because it will take Boom 100 years to make and only be half the series. :( In the meantime, hang out in his text adventure tag.
Miles Morales #12 THE LAST MILES MORALES. It's incredible to me how many spider-folk books I love now, because Peter Parker remains the most boring character in the world to me. But Miles is the guy who started me down this path of spider-love. Spoiler alert: we'll see more of Miles on the other side of Secret Wars, but this was the last hurrah of Miles in the Ultimate Universe, which is a place I've come to love.
Anxiety Pyjamas
(wasn't kidding about that, either)
Topshop Animal Print Pyjama Set
Fics I Shouted About
Hale's Moving Castle by ecarian Teen Wolf, Sterek, Howl's Moving Castle AU. Really great fusion of both book & movie universes. I've read it, like, twice.
Untitled Thing About Hot Music Teachers by martinisms Teen Wolf, Sterek, human AU. CUTE AS HECK.
Lastly
Congrats, you made it to the end of the newsletter! This will probably not be this long every time, since I doubt I'll feel compelled to spill my love of Stargate: Atlantis repeatedly (but honestly, who knows). Send me feedback, if you'd like!
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