Pretty good eatings, and Buffy

I added a whole bunch of cheesly to the leftovers of yesterdays quorn mince and dolmio pasta sauce and pasta. Six slices cut up small, heat leftovers for 3 minutes then add cheesly then heat three more minutes and stir. Melty cheese redistributes pretty evenly through pasta sauce and quorn mince. And it all tastes much better. Which is the first time I can say that about anything I've done with cheesly, usually it requires melting to be edible at all, but this time it just tasted good. I shall have to do this more. Especially because using teh quorn mince and teh dolmio sauce means having very many meals of sort of bolognese. Many. All at once. So finding some way to make the leftovers taste better than the first day? Yaays.


Also watched more Buffy the Vampire Slayer, up to Doomed.

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I'm very much liking watching these, and when I get apparently sulky about their relationships and stuff it's in that way where you like watching the story but kind of want to talk to the characters before they do the thing again, only, well, it's repeats, they always do the thing again.

Only mostly though. Like, there's a lot of debate about the feminism of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and I'm finding myself dissatisfied around the edges this time because women don't get to be strong and competent and confident. Like, confidence equals fail, that seems to be a sign they're going wrong. Powerful, burdened and apologetic, while spending a lot of time wondering why their love lives don't work, that seems more the thing. And then the guys are... not awesome, yet they live that equation where save the day means getting the girl. Or, well, girl gets the girl too, same way, save the day first. Only this time through I'm like, yeah, but. Because there's probably lots of people saving lots of days, and possibly they should be, like, not a bully? Not a stalker? Not following you after you say no? Not demonstrating they care primarily through beating things up? Especially that last.

But then I don't know exactly what I would want, or what precisely I mean, and it's mostly feeling grumbly around the edges.


I shall continue to watch more happily though.

Moth and Spark

I'm on day 4 of trying to finish this dratted book. I didn't want to name it when I'd read less than 100 pages, but now I'm in sight of the ending, I'll name.

I sat down to write something long and thorough about all the ways I can't be having with this book, but it's actually still real short:

The female protagonist is Not Like Other Girls, and that's used instead of giving her positive qualities. They make her exceptional not by lifting her up but by putting all other women down.

Sod that.

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Dear writers: Feature a minimum of two female characters who have the knowledge and abilities and connections to potentially get things done, then show the protagonist is special by having her do things best. Not 'better than nothing' but 'best of a sharp field'.

Honestly, it's not complicated.