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cimoreneRings of Power and House of the Dragon finished their seasons a couple of weeks ago, and now Interview with the Vampire has finished as well. waxjism has started watching a couple more things since then, including that Guillermo del Toro thing where he does his Hitchcock impression in the introductions, but she's had headphones on for them, nothing we wanted to watch together. I've tried to suggest we watch the new season of What We Do in the Shadows a few times, but she said she's not in the mood for comedy. Even though it's one of my favorite shows (I guess tied with BBC Ghosts and now IWTV, because Derry Girls ended), I don't really mind that because being spoiled for comedies doesn't bother me and... well... I guess I like the content, but I don't really like watching things, the process. It takes a lot of energy and attention, or something, so from the outside when I haven't started watching something it looks like a lot of work.
Also I'm not over Interview with the Vampire. I had such a fun time watching it and have been enjoying all the content on Tumblr and I watched almost all the interviews I could find about it on YouTube as well. (I have needed to watch some things because I'm trying to finish knitting a sweater. Mostly YouTube, though, because I don't want the commitment of a whole episode with a beginning and end. Or anything serious.)
Wax is rereading the whole Vampire Chronicles now - she was a fan as a teenager. (I was always aware of their existence - because they were genre, after all - but never tempted to read them, and so far I haven't felt a strong impulse to read them now either.) She used to have most of the books, but she got rid of the lot of them one of the times we were downsizing our book collection a decade ago - "I had broken up with Anne Rice!" she says. So she bought ebooks of the whole bunch of them in a bundle, and then we spent... all of last weekend I guess, or was it the weekend before last?... figuring out how to get the ebooks through Calibre and out the other side without DRM so they can be read on her phone. This involved ordering a new power adapter for her mom's Window's laptop, resetting the laptop to factory settings, and then installing Calibre and some other stuff. Also some Google support requests, because when you buy an ebook from Google Play Books sometimes it just randomly decides you've downloaded it too many times and you have to have one of their support staff manually reset it somehow. That happened to several of my ebooks too, but luckily I don't need to reread them yet. (The support requests take at least a week each to go through. Mine took two.)
Anyway, since then she's been bombarding me with quotes and trivia from the books as she's reading them. I'm continuing to read Stranger Things fiction pretty much daily (just not to rec it, because I haven't found anything that was even bookmarkable, let alone reccable, in over a month) and also Gladys Mitchell's classic golden age Mrs Bradley detective novels.
waxjism has started watching a couple more things since then, including that Guillermo del Toro thing where he does his Hitchcock impression in the introductions, but she's had headphones on for them, nothing we wanted to watch together. I've tried to suggest we watch the new season of What We Do in the Shadows a few times, but she said she's not in the mood for comedy. Even though it's one of my favorite shows (I guess tied with BBC Ghosts and now IWTV, because Derry Girls ended), I don't really mind that because being spoiled for comedies doesn't bother me and... well... I guess I like the content, but I don't really like watching things, the process. It takes a lot of energy and attention, or something, so from the outside when I haven't started watching something it looks like a lot of work. Also I'm not over Interview with the Vampire. I had such a fun time watching it and have been enjoying all the content on Tumblr and I watched almost all the interviews I could find about it on YouTube as well. (I have needed to watch some things because I'm trying to finish knitting a sweater. Mostly YouTube, though, because I don't want the commitment of a whole episode with a beginning and end. Or anything serious.)
Wax is rereading the whole Vampire Chronicles now - she was a fan as a teenager. (I was always aware of their existence - because they were genre, after all - but never tempted to read them, and so far I haven't felt a strong impulse to read them now either.) She used to have most of the books, but she got rid of the lot of them one of the times we were downsizing our book collection a decade ago - "I had broken up with Anne Rice!" she says. So she bought ebooks of the whole bunch of them in a bundle, and then we spent... all of last weekend I guess, or was it the weekend before last?... figuring out how to get the ebooks through Calibre and out the other side without DRM so they can be read on her phone. This involved ordering a new power adapter for her mom's Window's laptop, resetting the laptop to factory settings, and then installing Calibre and some other stuff. Also some Google support requests, because when you buy an ebook from Google Play Books sometimes it just randomly decides you've downloaded it too many times and you have to have one of their support staff manually reset it somehow. That happened to several of my ebooks too, but luckily I don't need to reread them yet. (The support requests take at least a week each to go through. Mine took two.)
Anyway, since then she's been bombarding me with quotes and trivia from the books as she's reading them. I'm continuing to read Stranger Things fiction pretty much daily (just not to rec it, because I haven't found anything that was even bookmarkable, let alone reccable, in over a month) and also Gladys Mitchell's classic golden age Mrs Bradley detective novels.
