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Jul. 13th, 2025 08:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethToday I relistened to The Doomsday Quatrain, a 7th Doctor audio, because I was feeling too something to sit and read. But then I was feeling too fiddly to sit and listen so I started playing Wrath of the Righteous again, because there's an Achievement I skipped on Core and I'll have to replay past defending Defenders Heart to have another go at it. But then the audio finished and I didn't start another one and I got stuck playing Wrath on a difficulty I do not find fun replaying the bit I have done So Many Times so I was actually bored. And then it was morning.
Somewhere in there I formed the impression that The Doomsday Quatrain doesn't have much going on except The Twist, and that the elements of the story do not support each other, so it's kind of three things in a sack. Okay, the racism and violence parts from the two sets of aliens fit together. I just never did see why the guy on the cover was in it. Maybe I missed the good bits by replaying the game. But mostly I was not fascinated.
I'm also rereading the Murderbot series. It's action with an unusual and surprising protagonist with a lot of the usual signifiers of Hero who actively refuses a lot of the other parts. It gets blown up a lot, thinks it is bad at its job, and considers its fighting style to be Throw Self At Other SecUnits and see which one is repairable after. It keeps saying it would rather watch media but doing complicated corporate espionage and client retrieval. It's about asserting personhood in societies where slavery is normalised and the well meaning neighbours are often clueless. There's a lot going on there. Good to read. Shall go see if I read more this morning.
Somewhere in there I formed the impression that The Doomsday Quatrain doesn't have much going on except The Twist, and that the elements of the story do not support each other, so it's kind of three things in a sack. Okay, the racism and violence parts from the two sets of aliens fit together. I just never did see why the guy on the cover was in it. Maybe I missed the good bits by replaying the game. But mostly I was not fascinated.
I'm also rereading the Murderbot series. It's action with an unusual and surprising protagonist with a lot of the usual signifiers of Hero who actively refuses a lot of the other parts. It gets blown up a lot, thinks it is bad at its job, and considers its fighting style to be Throw Self At Other SecUnits and see which one is repairable after. It keeps saying it would rather watch media but doing complicated corporate espionage and client retrieval. It's about asserting personhood in societies where slavery is normalised and the well meaning neighbours are often clueless. There's a lot going on there. Good to read. Shall go see if I read more this morning.