korafox

Masking has been lovely in that the last time I was sick was January 2020...but the streak comes to an end as I am laid up with a sinus infection.  (Testing negative so far, anyways, and it does just feel like the standard head cold.)  I am not resilient when sick though so I am tucked away on the recliner feeling pitiful for myself.

So I was looking for a thing to watch on Kanopy to keep me company and guess what.  They have Farscape!  I have never seen it before and no time like the present.  After four episodes I am enjoying it so far.  Favorite things:

1) Zhaan  <3.  They are so gorgeous and mysterious and sensible unlike everyone else on the ship.  (I haven't actually caught their pronouns--I mean, in a show from 1999 I'm sure eventually someone is going to call them she/her but Zhaan just seems to have an "ahaha, gender?  how quaint that you worry about that" sort of vibe.)

2) The little floor robots with the wiggly lamp eyes.  So adorable

3) Really all of the puppets, prosthetics, and makeup.  A+ work and delightful. 

Thing that most annoys me:  Crichton continuing to make pop/Earth culture references that he knows no one else is going to understand.  Stop being petulant and purposefully making communication difficult, dude.  If you're gonna complain that the other members of the ship do fighting first instead of negotiation, it would probably help your case if they had any idea what you're saying half the time.

So yes, PSA, if this is a thing you want to (re)watch, it is on the streaming service Kanopy.  I get access through my local public library and you might have a similar situation.

If I had to sum up the past couple days, it would be "blaaarg".  I've come down with some sort of sick that is all in my chest, and I'm desperately trying not to lose my voice.  I had to apologize to some people on the phone for being all croaky today.  It is really quite unpleasant, and I do not handle being sick graciously.  "Whinging" is a symptom that seems to always accompany it.  : P

Otherwise, I read this really good TED talk today (yes, read, I tend to be able to follow better by reading the transcript instead of watching the video).  This is something that all creative people should think about, no matter whose story they decide they are telling.  I think personally my art owes a lot to my experiences as socialized-female and cis-female-bodied.  It's not to say that people whose experiences don't mirror mine couldn't find meaning there, but much of what I do is in coming to grips with myself. 

But I think it's likely that no one can put into their art universal truths of the human experience, because such a thing does not exist.  Even the one big thing that everyone experiences--death--is not something that everyone approaches the same way.  So we shouldn't say of anything that this is "the" story--it is only "a" story.