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Saturday, October 17th, 2026 06:59 pm
My niece asked for some (audio)book recommendations because she is trying to switch to not doomscrolling on her phone before bed, which meant the books also need to not be too terribly dark or sad, so I was like, "you should read Discworld," and she made some skeptical response, and I was like, "no no, don't start at the first book! You won't like it. Start with Wyrd Sisters." And I explained how there were several separate series within the larger series, and this was a good place to start. She was like, "okay, aunt victoria, I'll try it out," and the next morning, she texted me with, "You didn't say it was funny! I'm enjoying it." so that worked out. And also I reread it so it was a win all around. I don't know if she'll stick with it, but I hope so!
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Did you know that Vienna Teng has a spreadsheet with links to videos of all the songs she's performed in her "Live@Home" concerts and she made it public (until November 1)? I did not until this morning, but I'm enjoying poking around and listening. It's linked here on her patreon.
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With the Stop and Shop website down all week and all online orders cancelled, I turned to Instacart for my groceries yesterday, and it was fine except...somehow, I did not get the eggs I ordered. They were just left out of the delivery though I was charged for them. I unfortunately didn't realize it until much later, and it sent me into a little tizzy, because I had baking plans for this weekend that involved a lot of eggs. Twenty-two eggs to be exact, and I only had 20 in the fridge, hence the inclusion of more in my grocery order. I thought about doing another order - I can always cobble together the bare minimum of stuff to buy, even if it ends up costing more - but then this morning, I was like, I don't need to make 2 different kinds of Swiss meringue buttercream. I can make one batch for the orange cranberry cupcakes, and then do brown sugar/cinnamon cream cheese frosting for the brown sugar cupcakes, and that pivot made everything work out just fine.
I made the orange buttercream this afternoon, and tomorrow I will bake the orange cranberry cupcakes, the brown sugar cupcakes, and a new-to-me recipe for apple cider cupcakes. Then on Monday, I'll make the cream cheese frosting, put it all together, and schlep it to the office on Tuesday. I figured I'd lean into some fall flavors this time around. We'll see how it goes.
For dinner tonight, I made bacon onion flatbreads from a Milk Street recipe (paywalled, so included below the cut) and they are delicious and I have another one that I will have tomorrow night for dinner. The only thing I really did differently was I used one of those garlic and herb cheese spreads instead of crème fraîche. (I ordered the 8 oz package of Alouette and got the 5 oz package of Boursin so it wasn't quite enough to cover both flatbreads, but it was still delicious.)
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Did you know that Vienna Teng has a spreadsheet with links to videos of all the songs she's performed in her "Live@Home" concerts and she made it public (until November 1)? I did not until this morning, but I'm enjoying poking around and listening. It's linked here on her patreon.
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With the Stop and Shop website down all week and all online orders cancelled, I turned to Instacart for my groceries yesterday, and it was fine except...somehow, I did not get the eggs I ordered. They were just left out of the delivery though I was charged for them. I unfortunately didn't realize it until much later, and it sent me into a little tizzy, because I had baking plans for this weekend that involved a lot of eggs. Twenty-two eggs to be exact, and I only had 20 in the fridge, hence the inclusion of more in my grocery order. I thought about doing another order - I can always cobble together the bare minimum of stuff to buy, even if it ends up costing more - but then this morning, I was like, I don't need to make 2 different kinds of Swiss meringue buttercream. I can make one batch for the orange cranberry cupcakes, and then do brown sugar/cinnamon cream cheese frosting for the brown sugar cupcakes, and that pivot made everything work out just fine.
I made the orange buttercream this afternoon, and tomorrow I will bake the orange cranberry cupcakes, the brown sugar cupcakes, and a new-to-me recipe for apple cider cupcakes. Then on Monday, I'll make the cream cheese frosting, put it all together, and schlep it to the office on Tuesday. I figured I'd lean into some fall flavors this time around. We'll see how it goes.
For dinner tonight, I made bacon onion flatbreads from a Milk Street recipe (paywalled, so included below the cut) and they are delicious and I have another one that I will have tomorrow night for dinner. The only thing I really did differently was I used one of those garlic and herb cheese spreads instead of crème fraîche. (I ordered the 8 oz package of Alouette and got the 5 oz package of Boursin so it wasn't quite enough to cover both flatbreads, but it was still delicious.)
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Thursday, October 15th, 2026 06:33 pm
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Disney/anime/misc cartoons: Cinderella, Frozen, Alice In Wonderland, The Aristocats, Sleeping Beauty, Kiki's Delivery Service, Sailor Moon, Your Name, Daria
Movies: Return to Oz, Alice Through the Looking Glass, Hamnet, Catherine Called Birdy, Army of Darkness, Firebird, My Policeman, Velvet Goldmine, The History of Sound, All Of Us Strangers, Elsinore, Benjamin, Hamlet (Andrew Scott)
TV:Loki, Vikings, Sherlock
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Wednesday, October 14th, 2026 08:20 pm
This is it. I have caught up with the entire backlog. Except the Oasis doc. Damn it.
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Night of the Comet (1984). Two teen sisters in LA navigate a strange, empty new world after a passing comet obliterates almost the entire population of the earth.
Going in, I had no idea what this was except that it was an 80s horror movie starring female characters. I was quite surprised that the titular night of the comet only takes up maybe the first ten minutes of the movie, and I was also surprised the night ended with a mass extinction event! Did not expect this random movie to go that hard!
What this actually is about is the aftermath as sisters Reggie and Sam look for signs of life, go shopping, fight off scary assholes and zombies (two separate groups), and join forces with a nice truck driver named Hector. Also there are some surviving scientists trying to invent a serum to reverse the lingering effects of the comet.
I really enjoyed having no idea where this was going at any point. I liked Hector a lot, and the fact that he’s Hispanic feels, idk, notable as a lead in a movie like this? There’s also a whole conversation between the sisters explicitly about whether he’s gay, which again feels kind of wild in a movie this old, although that may be my ignorance talking. I loved the sisters’ secret backstory of being raised by a marine father who gave them snobby opinions about automatic rifles. Apparently the younger sister was inspiration for Buffy Summers, so I have to love this movie for that alone. And I felt like it really stuck the landing emotionally and tonally.
Overall, definitely a time! I'm not mad I had it!
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Never After Dark (2026). A young woman who lives in her car and travels as a medium helping dead spirits to move on, with only the spirit of her dead sister for company, comes up against a new and more powerful spirit haunting an isolated hotel.
This is a Japanese-language movie by American director Dave Boyle, and it's my favorite ghost story movie that I have seen in quite a long time. Airi’s blasé approach to dealing with the dead is refreshing and also tragic, because it’s clear how isolated she is. “I’m more comfortable with the dead than the living,” she says at one point. “I never know what the living want.” Her relationship with her dead sister is the heart of the film, and the burden of guilt Airi bears over that death reminds me a bit of the arc of Adam Scott’s character in Hokum, except this feels so much more real and less manufactured to me. I found the ending really effective.
This movie also has fantastic vibes and great atmosphere. It's a very autumnal-feeling movie, great for Halloween season. The isolated one-time hotel turned house is an incredible set piece, especially the haunted upper hallway. If your favorite thing about Damon McCarthy’s movie Oddity was the house, then this movie is for you! I also enjoyed the partial genre switch partway through from strictly a supernatural haunting story to one incorporating other horror elements.
I will say this has a lot of teeth horror. I definitely was covering my eyes in the theater for a few moments. Even the sounds were a bit much.
In conclusion, I loved this. One of my favorite horror movies of the year, and I gave it a 4.5 on Letterboxd. If this sounds like your jam at all, definitely check it out—in the theater, if you can, although I think it’s probably almost gone.
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Fresh Meat (2026). An anthology film produced by the creators of the YouTube horror channel Dead Meat, featuring 13 short films and a wraparound segment written and directed by Dead Meat founder James A. Janisse.
I watched trailers/promos for the 30 finalists earlier this fall and voted on my favorites, so I was very excited to see this in the theater and find out what got through! The segments are a bit hit and miss, like all anthology films, but I think the segments are shorter than in V/H/S, for example, so there are more of them and you get wider variety. There are 1.5 animated segments, for example, and the one that’s half-animated is also in Japanese, which is neat!
I would say there were not any that worked absolutely 100% for me. However, my top favorites were:
• Psychopomp, about a guy at a carnivale offering "ten minutes of adrenaline" on a bus called the Demon Bus. Great makeup, I liked the conceit, and the lead actress was great. This is the one I voted for as my favorite.
• What's in the Bag, a faux TV segment about a woman showing what's in her bag. LOVED the actress and the conceit, it looked great, but I really needed a few lines to explain wtf happens in the second half.
• Jinx, about a married couple who finish each other's sentences and then find they're more connected than ever. Frankly did more with the theme in five mins than Together last year did in an hour and a half, and the ending really elevated the whole thing.
The wraparound segment stars James as a butcher whose daughter feeds meat to the freezer in the back, which shows her stories (the shorts) in exchange. I'm not sure I'm persuaded by James as an actor, but maybe I'm just too used to looking at his face. The short LOOKS great, though: great set design, great lighting, everything looked so delightfully grimy. Really good atmosphere. And the child actor is fantastic.
This showed one night only, so not on the level of Markiplier and Iron Lung earlier this year, but it made $288k in 564 theaters with no marketing budget, so hey, not bad! And if you're in Canada, I think it's showing tomorrow instead, so you still have a chance to check it out.
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Night of the Comet (1984). Two teen sisters in LA navigate a strange, empty new world after a passing comet obliterates almost the entire population of the earth.
Going in, I had no idea what this was except that it was an 80s horror movie starring female characters. I was quite surprised that the titular night of the comet only takes up maybe the first ten minutes of the movie, and I was also surprised the night ended with a mass extinction event! Did not expect this random movie to go that hard!
What this actually is about is the aftermath as sisters Reggie and Sam look for signs of life, go shopping, fight off scary assholes and zombies (two separate groups), and join forces with a nice truck driver named Hector. Also there are some surviving scientists trying to invent a serum to reverse the lingering effects of the comet.
I really enjoyed having no idea where this was going at any point. I liked Hector a lot, and the fact that he’s Hispanic feels, idk, notable as a lead in a movie like this? There’s also a whole conversation between the sisters explicitly about whether he’s gay, which again feels kind of wild in a movie this old, although that may be my ignorance talking. I loved the sisters’ secret backstory of being raised by a marine father who gave them snobby opinions about automatic rifles. Apparently the younger sister was inspiration for Buffy Summers, so I have to love this movie for that alone. And I felt like it really stuck the landing emotionally and tonally.
Overall, definitely a time! I'm not mad I had it!
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Never After Dark (2026). A young woman who lives in her car and travels as a medium helping dead spirits to move on, with only the spirit of her dead sister for company, comes up against a new and more powerful spirit haunting an isolated hotel.
This is a Japanese-language movie by American director Dave Boyle, and it's my favorite ghost story movie that I have seen in quite a long time. Airi’s blasé approach to dealing with the dead is refreshing and also tragic, because it’s clear how isolated she is. “I’m more comfortable with the dead than the living,” she says at one point. “I never know what the living want.” Her relationship with her dead sister is the heart of the film, and the burden of guilt Airi bears over that death reminds me a bit of the arc of Adam Scott’s character in Hokum, except this feels so much more real and less manufactured to me. I found the ending really effective.
This movie also has fantastic vibes and great atmosphere. It's a very autumnal-feeling movie, great for Halloween season. The isolated one-time hotel turned house is an incredible set piece, especially the haunted upper hallway. If your favorite thing about Damon McCarthy’s movie Oddity was the house, then this movie is for you! I also enjoyed the partial genre switch partway through from strictly a supernatural haunting story to one incorporating other horror elements.
I will say this has a lot of teeth horror. I definitely was covering my eyes in the theater for a few moments. Even the sounds were a bit much.
In conclusion, I loved this. One of my favorite horror movies of the year, and I gave it a 4.5 on Letterboxd. If this sounds like your jam at all, definitely check it out—in the theater, if you can, although I think it’s probably almost gone.
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Fresh Meat (2026). An anthology film produced by the creators of the YouTube horror channel Dead Meat, featuring 13 short films and a wraparound segment written and directed by Dead Meat founder James A. Janisse.
I watched trailers/promos for the 30 finalists earlier this fall and voted on my favorites, so I was very excited to see this in the theater and find out what got through! The segments are a bit hit and miss, like all anthology films, but I think the segments are shorter than in V/H/S, for example, so there are more of them and you get wider variety. There are 1.5 animated segments, for example, and the one that’s half-animated is also in Japanese, which is neat!
I would say there were not any that worked absolutely 100% for me. However, my top favorites were:
• Psychopomp, about a guy at a carnivale offering "ten minutes of adrenaline" on a bus called the Demon Bus. Great makeup, I liked the conceit, and the lead actress was great. This is the one I voted for as my favorite.
• What's in the Bag, a faux TV segment about a woman showing what's in her bag. LOVED the actress and the conceit, it looked great, but I really needed a few lines to explain wtf happens in the second half.
• Jinx, about a married couple who finish each other's sentences and then find they're more connected than ever. Frankly did more with the theme in five mins than Together last year did in an hour and a half, and the ending really elevated the whole thing.
The wraparound segment stars James as a butcher whose daughter feeds meat to the freezer in the back, which shows her stories (the shorts) in exchange. I'm not sure I'm persuaded by James as an actor, but maybe I'm just too used to looking at his face. The short LOOKS great, though: great set design, great lighting, everything looked so delightfully grimy. Really good atmosphere. And the child actor is fantastic.
This showed one night only, so not on the level of Markiplier and Iron Lung earlier this year, but it made $288k in 564 theaters with no marketing budget, so hey, not bad! And if you're in Canada, I think it's showing tomorrow instead, so you still have a chance to check it out.
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Tuesday, October 13th, 2026 06:45 pm
Primetime (2026). Robert Pattinson stars as Chris Hansen, one-time host of NBC show To Catch a Predator, which catfished potential child predators.
Apparently Hansen was a bit of a meme on the late-00s internet, but I missed that entirely and had no idea who he was when the trailers for this started coming out. Even the name of the show was only distantly familiar. And based on that movie summary, I was not expecting to bother with it. Child predators: not a fun movie topic! I was eventually persuaded by reviews and one of the later trailers, which suggested that this was going to be Pattinson at his unhinged best.
Friends, if what you want is Pattinson being a slimy weirdo, this is absolutely the movie for you. He is the worst in the best way, and this is easily my favorite role of his since at least The Lighthouse, or maybe at all. This movie is also not all that interested in straightforward narration of facts and in particular is not interested in seriously exploring child sexual assault. This is a character study not even of Chris Hansen but an impressionistic exaggeration(?) of him. According to director Lance Oppenheim, the portrayal was mostly inspired by an unhinged Cameo video Hansen did. (Oppenheim also co-directed the new Elizabeth Holmes documentary that comes out this weekend, which if anything looks even more unhinged than Primetime.)
The movie follows Hansen through the brief interval between when his show got promoted to a slot opposite LOST and when a botched sting orchestrated by the show resulted in a district attorney committing suicide. Hansen's foil is sweet naive wannabe actor Dan (Skyler Gisondo, recently Jimmy Olson in last year's Superman movie), who's hired as a "decoy" pretending to be a minor in order to lure targets into the house where all the cameras are. I think Dan is supposed to be 23 playing a kid as young as 14, depending on the situation, and meanwhile the RL actor is 30, which is just one more thing about the movie that feels offkilter. Hansen, who generally has the people skills and empathy of a rock, intermittently sets himself to re-convince Dan of the heroic work he's doing in a way that makes it feel like he's talking to himself. Their interplay is one of the best parts of the movie. I also really enjoyed Hansen's producer, played by Merritt Wever, who has her moments of frustration but ultimately concludes that she's as happy chasing scandal and sensationalism as he is.
I would say this movie overall is not quite as wild as it could have been, given some of the hype I heard. It's still overally pretty conventional, so don't expect anything truly experimental. In any case, I had a good time.
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The Incomer (2026). Domnhall Gleason stars as Daniel, an employee of the Scottish Council sent to a remote island in the Hebrides to inform the island's two adult sibling inhabitants that they're being evicted.
This is a comedy that derives its humor mostly from the three mains, who are all misfits in their own ways. The siblings have grown up with a family mythology instilled in them by their father, so they have a vicious fear of mainlanders and are convinced that a member of other generation must sacrifice themself to the sea to allow the family to continue to live there. Maybe it's even true, since the sister has frequent conversations with a humanoid fish creature who hangs out in a lagoon. Meanwhile, Daniel is a regular introverted nerd who loves fantasy stuff and is too shy to talk to anyone at the office. After he convinces the siblings to not tie him up anymore and let him sleep in the house, they cautiously become friends, only for things to be complicated when the Council sends various people to come rescue him.
I would say in general it's a fairly warmhearted movie. Daniel's efforts to convince the siblings to leave become progressively more genuine as the movie progresses, and the ending is good. I laughed at parts of it. I really liked Gayle Rankin as the sister and would absolutely watch her in more things. I also enjoyed the whole movie as an exercise in interpreting Scottish accents. There was only maybe one segment where I lost the conversational thread entirely, so I was proud of myself.
On the other hand, I really did not enjoy some of the broader humor. The brother is portrayed as an idiot manchild who variously sexually harasses Daniel, tries to strangle him for reasons, and tries to "give himself to the sea" as his father did before him. All this is just more awkward given that he is gay! The second mainlander to show up is also just too silly to be fun.
In conclusion, results: mixed.
Apparently Hansen was a bit of a meme on the late-00s internet, but I missed that entirely and had no idea who he was when the trailers for this started coming out. Even the name of the show was only distantly familiar. And based on that movie summary, I was not expecting to bother with it. Child predators: not a fun movie topic! I was eventually persuaded by reviews and one of the later trailers, which suggested that this was going to be Pattinson at his unhinged best.
Friends, if what you want is Pattinson being a slimy weirdo, this is absolutely the movie for you. He is the worst in the best way, and this is easily my favorite role of his since at least The Lighthouse, or maybe at all. This movie is also not all that interested in straightforward narration of facts and in particular is not interested in seriously exploring child sexual assault. This is a character study not even of Chris Hansen but an impressionistic exaggeration(?) of him. According to director Lance Oppenheim, the portrayal was mostly inspired by an unhinged Cameo video Hansen did. (Oppenheim also co-directed the new Elizabeth Holmes documentary that comes out this weekend, which if anything looks even more unhinged than Primetime.)
The movie follows Hansen through the brief interval between when his show got promoted to a slot opposite LOST and when a botched sting orchestrated by the show resulted in a district attorney committing suicide. Hansen's foil is sweet naive wannabe actor Dan (Skyler Gisondo, recently Jimmy Olson in last year's Superman movie), who's hired as a "decoy" pretending to be a minor in order to lure targets into the house where all the cameras are. I think Dan is supposed to be 23 playing a kid as young as 14, depending on the situation, and meanwhile the RL actor is 30, which is just one more thing about the movie that feels offkilter. Hansen, who generally has the people skills and empathy of a rock, intermittently sets himself to re-convince Dan of the heroic work he's doing in a way that makes it feel like he's talking to himself. Their interplay is one of the best parts of the movie. I also really enjoyed Hansen's producer, played by Merritt Wever, who has her moments of frustration but ultimately concludes that she's as happy chasing scandal and sensationalism as he is.
I would say this movie overall is not quite as wild as it could have been, given some of the hype I heard. It's still overally pretty conventional, so don't expect anything truly experimental. In any case, I had a good time.
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The Incomer (2026). Domnhall Gleason stars as Daniel, an employee of the Scottish Council sent to a remote island in the Hebrides to inform the island's two adult sibling inhabitants that they're being evicted.
This is a comedy that derives its humor mostly from the three mains, who are all misfits in their own ways. The siblings have grown up with a family mythology instilled in them by their father, so they have a vicious fear of mainlanders and are convinced that a member of other generation must sacrifice themself to the sea to allow the family to continue to live there. Maybe it's even true, since the sister has frequent conversations with a humanoid fish creature who hangs out in a lagoon. Meanwhile, Daniel is a regular introverted nerd who loves fantasy stuff and is too shy to talk to anyone at the office. After he convinces the siblings to not tie him up anymore and let him sleep in the house, they cautiously become friends, only for things to be complicated when the Council sends various people to come rescue him.
I would say in general it's a fairly warmhearted movie. Daniel's efforts to convince the siblings to leave become progressively more genuine as the movie progresses, and the ending is good. I laughed at parts of it. I really liked Gayle Rankin as the sister and would absolutely watch her in more things. I also enjoyed the whole movie as an exercise in interpreting Scottish accents. There was only maybe one segment where I lost the conversational thread entirely, so I was proud of myself.
On the other hand, I really did not enjoy some of the broader humor. The brother is portrayed as an idiot manchild who variously sexually harasses Daniel, tries to strangle him for reasons, and tries to "give himself to the sea" as his father did before him. All this is just more awkward given that he is gay! The second mainlander to show up is also just too silly to be fun.
In conclusion, results: mixed.
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Tuesday, October 13th, 2026 06:15 pm
[Spoilers through S3 and for Wool]
I keep thinking about Juliette Nichols and Lukas Kyle and what I'd like to see in S4, the final season of Silo. The show has gone for a pretty different plot to develop their relationship than the books, while still keeping the potential for a romantic relationship alive, and as a result I find myself wanting some specific resolution in S4.
First off, I feel like I'm in the very specific boat (perhaps a dinghy) of not actually wanting them to come together - yet. I was not disappointed with S3's choices for them - in fact, I was absolutely kicking my feet and giggling over their every interaction this season. It feels like a natural progression for them, given where they ended things and the fact that Juliette was navigating forced memory loss while Lukas was evading Silo 1's directive to kill him by hiding in the mines. There isn't a lot of space for both the central narrative and their romance, but there were crumbs and I will take the crumbs! I was pleased with their public interactions (plotting a successful rebellion with the squad) and charmed by their private interactions (coded radio conversations are the new epistolary pining). I'm also willing to be emotionally manipulated by the show when it spends time on them (I saw Lukas carry Juliette out of the mines, you saw it, we all saw it - and I respect that "Lukas from IT" works out enough to easily lift "Juliette, chief engineer and professional beefcake"). If anything, I would like a bit more of these interactions and I'm a little sad that we didn't get more scenes between them before Lukas and Patrick went off to Silo 17. However, the short-form seasons are what they are and I understand why the writers kept the plot moving forward this season, especially with the split timelines.
But, given their S3 development, what I really want for Lukas and Juliette before they go any further down the road they're heading down is some acknowledgement between them in-show of what happened at the end of S1. It is deeply relevant to their history and stalled relationship that after their meet-cute and subsequent cafeteria astronomy dates, Juliette went to Lukas for help and he turned her down. he actually refused to help her and used the excuse that he needed to take care of his mother - who we then learn does not rely on him at all and is really surprised when he admits this to her. I think it's good and important that Lukas and his mother had their S2 conversations in which Lukas acknowledges how he used her as an excuse to not help a woman he cares about, and I think Lukas and Juliette need to have a version of that conversation one-on-one before anything more serious.
( It's a lot bigger than expected )
I keep thinking about Juliette Nichols and Lukas Kyle and what I'd like to see in S4, the final season of Silo. The show has gone for a pretty different plot to develop their relationship than the books, while still keeping the potential for a romantic relationship alive, and as a result I find myself wanting some specific resolution in S4.
First off, I feel like I'm in the very specific boat (perhaps a dinghy) of not actually wanting them to come together - yet. I was not disappointed with S3's choices for them - in fact, I was absolutely kicking my feet and giggling over their every interaction this season. It feels like a natural progression for them, given where they ended things and the fact that Juliette was navigating forced memory loss while Lukas was evading Silo 1's directive to kill him by hiding in the mines. There isn't a lot of space for both the central narrative and their romance, but there were crumbs and I will take the crumbs! I was pleased with their public interactions (plotting a successful rebellion with the squad) and charmed by their private interactions (coded radio conversations are the new epistolary pining). I'm also willing to be emotionally manipulated by the show when it spends time on them (I saw Lukas carry Juliette out of the mines, you saw it, we all saw it - and I respect that "Lukas from IT" works out enough to easily lift "Juliette, chief engineer and professional beefcake"). If anything, I would like a bit more of these interactions and I'm a little sad that we didn't get more scenes between them before Lukas and Patrick went off to Silo 17. However, the short-form seasons are what they are and I understand why the writers kept the plot moving forward this season, especially with the split timelines.
But, given their S3 development, what I really want for Lukas and Juliette before they go any further down the road they're heading down is some acknowledgement between them in-show of what happened at the end of S1. It is deeply relevant to their history and stalled relationship that after their meet-cute and subsequent cafeteria astronomy dates, Juliette went to Lukas for help and he turned her down. he actually refused to help her and used the excuse that he needed to take care of his mother - who we then learn does not rely on him at all and is really surprised when he admits this to her. I think it's good and important that Lukas and his mother had their S2 conversations in which Lukas acknowledges how he used her as an excuse to not help a woman he cares about, and I think Lukas and Juliette need to have a version of that conversation one-on-one before anything more serious.
( It's a lot bigger than expected )
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Tuesday, October 13th, 2026 07:50 pm
I love it when my whole plan for my workday gets upended because the big boss wants something done 2 days sooner than I planned to do it. *rolls eyes* I had to copy 95% of my to-do list over to tomorrow with no guarantee it won't get punted again. I don't understand what creates this false sense of urgency (it's scheduling meetings for 2027, which is unfortunately a lengthy process because we have to give our board members time to respond with their availability and they do not always do so in a timely fashion despite repeated nudges), as we were already doing it way earlier than we have in the past.
Anyway, in more fun news, I got a text a few minutes ago about Baby Miss L dumping a whole container of Parmesan into her pastina, because she likes CHEESE in her dinner.
I meant to mention this over the weekend, but I finally watched the most recent Spider-Man movie and I really liked it. I had been spoiled, unfortunately, but I don't think it mattered much. I mean, I am generally in the bag for Spider-Man anyway, but I thought it was really well done for the most part.
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I'm sure I'm forgetting things, but Lafreniere just scored on a breakaway, so I'm gonna wrap it up here.
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Anyway, in more fun news, I got a text a few minutes ago about Baby Miss L dumping a whole container of Parmesan into her pastina, because she likes CHEESE in her dinner.
I meant to mention this over the weekend, but I finally watched the most recent Spider-Man movie and I really liked it. I had been spoiled, unfortunately, but I don't think it mattered much. I mean, I am generally in the bag for Spider-Man anyway, but I thought it was really well done for the most part.
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I'm sure I'm forgetting things, but Lafreniere just scored on a breakaway, so I'm gonna wrap it up here.
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Monday, October 12th, 2026 08:45 pm
I made the granola bars again today, with this set of ingredients:
- olive oil in place of melted butter
- honey in place of maple syrup, with 2 tbsp of applesauce in place of the 2 tbsp of liquid sweetener
- scant 1/2 cup of brown sugar (it was definitely quite a bit less than 1/2 cup)
- almond butter
- 1/4 cup toasted sesame seeds
- the other combined add-ins totaling ~11.2 oz were: pistachios, chopped dates, chopped apricots
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp allspice
- 1/2 tsp almond extract
- 1 tbsp vanilla
They held together better this time when I cut them. I think I also baked them 3-5 minutes longer than last time (I did 33 minutes, I think). They taste good, much less sweet, with a nice hit of sweetness when you hit a bit of date or apricot, but I think also maybe I should lean into the saltiness of the pistachios (I bought them roasted and salted) next time and sprinkle some flaky salt on top? And maybe do cardamom instead of allspice? I've also been thinking about subbing in some mashed banana for liquid sweetener, because like applesauce, I think you can do it close to 1:1. Oh, and orange zest. I think some orange zest would be lovely.
And then, because I forgot to get bread even though I bought deli roast beef for lunch this week, I made a loaf of Japanese milk bread, which turned out lovely (pic) but the new package of yeast I opened is like super powerful. The dough practically doubled in about 35 minutes (it's supposed to take 90 minutes to 2 hours) and popped the lid off my bowl. Anyway, I hope it lasts long enough to make 3 days of sandwiches.
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- olive oil in place of melted butter
- honey in place of maple syrup, with 2 tbsp of applesauce in place of the 2 tbsp of liquid sweetener
- scant 1/2 cup of brown sugar (it was definitely quite a bit less than 1/2 cup)
- almond butter
- 1/4 cup toasted sesame seeds
- the other combined add-ins totaling ~11.2 oz were: pistachios, chopped dates, chopped apricots
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp allspice
- 1/2 tsp almond extract
- 1 tbsp vanilla
They held together better this time when I cut them. I think I also baked them 3-5 minutes longer than last time (I did 33 minutes, I think). They taste good, much less sweet, with a nice hit of sweetness when you hit a bit of date or apricot, but I think also maybe I should lean into the saltiness of the pistachios (I bought them roasted and salted) next time and sprinkle some flaky salt on top? And maybe do cardamom instead of allspice? I've also been thinking about subbing in some mashed banana for liquid sweetener, because like applesauce, I think you can do it close to 1:1. Oh, and orange zest. I think some orange zest would be lovely.
And then, because I forgot to get bread even though I bought deli roast beef for lunch this week, I made a loaf of Japanese milk bread, which turned out lovely (pic) but the new package of yeast I opened is like super powerful. The dough practically doubled in about 35 minutes (it's supposed to take 90 minutes to 2 hours) and popped the lid off my bowl. Anyway, I hope it lasts long enough to make 3 days of sandwiches.
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