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Picoreview: Deadpool & Wolverine

Picoreview: Deadpool & Wolverine – did EXACTLY what it said on the tin, which was EVERYTHING I WANTED

I generally try to keep my picoreviews spoiler-free, but I’m mentioning that specifically on this post because it’s still a relatively new movie and if you want to veer away entirely, you should, but I won’t be spoiling anything. (I may very well do another post next month with spoilers, but for now, no.)

I’m not a particular Deadpool movie fan, tbh. He’s too violent for me, even if it’s borderl...

Release Day: Lion on Loan

Positively delighted to bring you LION ON LOAN, the first of a new paranormal romance series set at a wildlife park in Ireland! :D

This is a series inspired by Fota Wildlife Park in Cork, Ireland, a location I really love and strongly recommend anyone visiting Cork go out to see. I was chatting with friends and thought, wouldn’t it be fun if a wildlife park also doubled as a shifter vacation spot/refuge? Next thing I knew, I had a bunch of titles and a plan, so what was I to do but write it? I h...

Picoreview: Furiosa

Picoreview: Furiosa: boring :(

I had heard enormously mixed reviews from friends, and…do you ever feel like sometimes other people have somehow seen a completely different movie or TV show than the one you’ve seen? I’ve taken to saying “I wish I’d seen the cut THEY saw,” which is how I feel about the positive reviews of Furiosa. I’m very glad people enjoyed it, I just don’t understand how. :)

Everyone in it was good. Chris Hemsworth’s fake nose was actively not good, but despite that, he was ver...

Glasgow Worldcon schedule!

Okay, this is where you will ABSOLUTELY FOR SURE find me over the weekend, because these are the things I am definitely scheduled for:

Beyond that:
I get in mid-afternoon on Thursday and have no sense of when I might actually get to the con. Hopefully by half five or so, but who knows. I believe I have dinner plans of one kind of another sorted out for Thursday already, so I’m gonna assume this will not be a super great day for just hanging out.

FRIDAY:
9am: minor ambitions to Stroll With The ...

citizenship!

In June, after a journey of 18.5 years by one count and 22 months by another, my husband got his Irish citizenship.

The ceremony was in Dublin, and we went down a day early to have a celebratory dinner and not risk missing the ceremony by counting on the trains on the day of. :)

It was actually VERY EMOTIONAL and we both cried all over everything, by which I mean, I sniffled gently while he wiped away a few manly tears, of course. The ceremony itself was really quite nice, and primarily featured...

physical therapy and stuff

A few weeks ago my husband, who is suffering from tendonitis in his achilles, went to have his feet scanned and better insoles found and stuff, and thought it was interesting enough that I should do the same. Especially because I have stupidly wide feet, although as it turns out, they’re apparently only wide, not STUPIDLY wide. That’s something, I guess? Except they remain too wide for most women’s shoes, so, y’know, oh well.

Anyway, so I went in and did this thing and it was in fact interesting...

alligators all the way down

I’ve been reading the A Girl and her Fed webcomic the past week or so, which has the usual effect of making me want to do a little webcomic of my own.

It in particular, though, has made me vaguely think perhaps I’m not, IDK, weird enough to pull off what I want to do. Like, ok. Girl. Fed. Cyborg conspiracies. Gotcha. I could probably get that far on my own.

Ghost of Benjamin Franklin? Look, I’m sorry, I wouldn’ta thought of that.

Hyper-sapient koala? NOPE. ‘Fraid not. Checking out of Weirdsville...

Recent Reads: The Freddy Pilkington-Soames Adventures

Recent Reads: The Freddy Pilkington-Soames Adventures, by Clara Benson – a pretty satisfying period-piece murder mystery series

I picked the first book up as a free book on Kobo, and it did its job: I have now read the entire series, and have another book by the same author in another series to start.

Our Hero, Freddy Pilkington-Soames, is not as half-witted as his name suggests he might be, but he’s not a serious young man, particularly in the first book in this series, A CASE OF BLACKMAIL IN B...

five things make a post

Thing One: I have this mild fascination with watching makeup reels and tiktoks. What I find particularly mind-blowing are the “side by side comparison of 2 makeup styles” ones in which they say things like “heavy makeup vs light makeup” and then on the ‘light makeup’ side of their face they put on more makeup than I have ever worn at once in my life.

I would genuinely love for somebody skilled at conturing makeup to do a full face on me once. It’d just be really interesting. But I absolutely can...

Picoreview: What Happens Later

Picoreview: What Happens Later – not what I was expecting.

editor’s note: I saw this last Decemberish, and while writing up another picoreview realized I hadn’t posted my picoreview of it here, so I’m doing that now, as if it was a new watch. :)

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I only heard about this a few days ago: on the surface, it appeared to be a Meg Ryan romcom with David Duchovny as the leading man, which, well: I figured it was either going to be quite wonderful or quite terrible.

It was neither, but more importan...