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Mar. 9th, 2019 09:34 amHad an interesting twenty-four hours in which I a) learned that J's class had been shown a highly inappropriate movie, b) watched the movie and prepared notes, c) met with the principal about why this was such a fuck-up. Principal, luckily, agreed, or I would have had to escalate to the school board/the superintendent/god only knows what. (Movie was a pseudoscience "documentary" about how juice and vitamins cure cancer and doctors and medicines are all evil and toxic, complete with graphic images of tumors, implying that school shootings were because of psych med use, and various other garbage.)
In the middle of all that, I went to see Captain Marvel, because we had tickets, and it was a) extremely awesome and b) a much appreciated break from my otherwise mostly uninterrupted state of rage and confrontation anxiety. Definitely in the top tier of Marvel movies and highly recommended if you're into the superhero thing.
Also, random chance/the slow but inexorable progress of library queues had delivered to me, a few days before all of this, Courtney Milan's After the Wedding, which was basically exactly the book I wanted to have around to come home and get to finish after that meeting. This picks up one of the big dangling threads left at the end of Once Upon a Marquess and tells that story. I like what Milan is doing with this series so far and I liked this couple and their romance. This one strays a little bit further from my favorite Milan dynamic of "woman who is talented and passionate about a thing and dude who wants to support her", although I suppose as her casts get more diverse that does make sense? Like, first of all, obviously in a f/f or m/m couple there isn't a default assignment of those roles, and secondly I think as she writes more characters of color it's less clear-cut that the men always have privilege and social standing that the women don't. Maybe I would describe the new dynamic more like "each of these characters is facing some kind of oppression on one axis, but can use their relative privilege on another axis to support their partner"? (Is that so vague it could apply to any possible romance novel? I don't think it does, though.)
In the middle of all that, I went to see Captain Marvel, because we had tickets, and it was a) extremely awesome and b) a much appreciated break from my otherwise mostly uninterrupted state of rage and confrontation anxiety. Definitely in the top tier of Marvel movies and highly recommended if you're into the superhero thing.
Also, random chance/the slow but inexorable progress of library queues had delivered to me, a few days before all of this, Courtney Milan's After the Wedding, which was basically exactly the book I wanted to have around to come home and get to finish after that meeting. This picks up one of the big dangling threads left at the end of Once Upon a Marquess and tells that story. I like what Milan is doing with this series so far and I liked this couple and their romance. This one strays a little bit further from my favorite Milan dynamic of "woman who is talented and passionate about a thing and dude who wants to support her", although I suppose as her casts get more diverse that does make sense? Like, first of all, obviously in a f/f or m/m couple there isn't a default assignment of those roles, and secondly I think as she writes more characters of color it's less clear-cut that the men always have privilege and social standing that the women don't. Maybe I would describe the new dynamic more like "each of these characters is facing some kind of oppression on one axis, but can use their relative privilege on another axis to support their partner"? (Is that so vague it could apply to any possible romance novel? I don't think it does, though.)
