So many days spent on the floor overcome by all the feelings…
LIST OF NEWSWORTHY
Learning to Drive
Full disclosure, I was never into the actual act of driving despite being very into the concept of it. So when my dad offered me driving lessons in 2015, I couldn’t really handle them, would stress out a lot and stopped them. In 2016 however, I decided to take the plunge and now I love it. I guess a lot of it was me not being confident in my ability to be able to drive that it took this long to just be like ‘Fuck it, I can do this’ and went ahead and did it.
All the Recs
Recommending things and reading/watching recommended things is so much fun so let me list all the instances. First off, I still can’t believe that Ellis watched a sci-fi movie AKA Pacific Rim and loved it (despite her yelling at me about the aliens in it which was fun). I then made her buy Sleeping Giants very easily so here’s hoping she reads it sometime in 2017. I finally finished The Legend of Korra on the recommendation of Ellis and Yuri!!! On ICE on the recommendation of Crini and so had a very emotional month all around.
Bookstagram Challenge and Me
I participated in the #allthebooksof2016 bookstagram challenge on a whim and never have I ever had to look at my list of reads so often before which is why I kind of got sick of it and decided to skip doing the end of year book survey, ha. It was fun, though I wish I had read more so that I could have included more books to feature. There’s always next year, right.
TV WATCH
I only watched a couple of episodes of most of these shows so yeah, even I was surprised about the list being so long again, at first.
- Arrow – So I only watched the crossover episode which was terrible and I mainly put this update here to laugh at it again.
- This Is Us – I just love this show a lot.
- Brooklyn Nine-Nine – I haven’t caught up yet but really, I cannot recommend this show enough.
- New Girl – Aww man, they really do go all out in some episodes which is why I can’t stop watching.
- Younger – HOLY, THE SEASON FINALE.
- Fresh Off the Boat – I just love their Christmas episodes so much. Also, Evan is the coolest kid ever. Respect.
- DC’s Legends of Tomorrow – Uh? Oh yeah, the crossover episode was probably the best one yet. I’m still upset at the return of Captain Cold that he doesn’t deserve so haven’t watched the midseason finale episode yet.
- The Big Bang Theory – Raj and Stuart really took the cake for their performances in the last episode that aired.
- Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. – Poor certain character.
- Westworld – Oh, so I finished this in about a day which is very unusual for me, but I just couldn’t stop watching because there was so much suspense. I liked it a lot, a lot.
- Empire – Uh…
- The Royals – MY SHIP. I have only watched the premiere of season 3 as yet and I’m just so happy that the ship is so great even if the show itself is so trashy and ridiculous.
- The Legend of Korra – I finished! In 2016! Who’d have thought?! It was a long, arduous journey seeing Korra grow so much. ALL THE FEELINGS. I loved the female villains a lot.
- The Flash – The Christmas episode was so great. I’m still not over it or a happy af Wally West.
- The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air – I’m only 4 episodes in yet but this show is all kinds of amazing.
- Yuri!!! On ICE – (Haha so much fun to type that). THIS ANIME. Sorry, what’s coherency again?
- Skam – Only a couple of episodes in because time. However, I’m so excited to watch the hell out of this show!
- Haikyuu!! – Only watched the series pilot yet and it’s a new experience in that I’ve never watched a team-based sports anything.
LIST OF READS
Finally managed to read 8 books AKA my usual monthly average.
- Surgeon X #3 by Sara Kenney, John Watkiss
- The Piper’s Son by Melina Marchetta (reread)
- Allies by S.J. Kincaid
- Josie & the Pussycats #3 by Marguerite Bennett, Cameron DeOrdio, Audrey Mok
- Motor Crush #1 by Brenden Fletcher, Cameron Stewart, Babs Tarr
- Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
- The Diabolic by S.J. Kincaid
- The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
- Sweetheart by Chelsea Cain
- A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
- Hedgehugs and the Hattiepillar by Steve Wilson, Lucy Tapper
- The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling, Jim Kay (reread)
LIST OF BOOK ACQUISITIONS
Even more sales and deals and me trying to handle them.
- Faith Vol. 1: Hollywood & Vine by Jody Houser, Francis Portela, Marguerite Sauvage
- 1602: Witch Hunter Angela by Marguerite Bennett, Kieron Gillen, Stephanie Hans
- DC Comics: Bombshells Vol. 1: Enlisted by Marguerite Bennett, Marguerite Sauvage
- Necrotech by K.C. Alexander
- Josie & the Pussycats #3 by Marguerite Bennett, Cameron DeOrdio, Audrey Mok
- Motor Crush #1 by Brenden Fletcher, Cameron Stewart, Babs Tarr
- The Stars Are Legion by Kameron Hurley
- The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee
- Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee
- The Long Game by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
- The Start of Me and You by Emery Lord
- A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
- My Best Friend’s Exorcism by Grady Hendrix
- A Torch Against the Night by Sabaa Tahir
- The Last One by Alexandria Oliva
- The Governess Affair by Courtney Milan
- Surgeon X #4 by Sara Kenney, John Watkiss
- Immortal Iron Fist Vol. 1: The Last Iron Fist Story by Ed Brubaker, Matt Fraction, David Aja
PLAYLIST
Not a lot of songs but a lot of listening to the playlist on repeat. I also made a very upbeat, very shippy Yuri!!! On ICE playlist that was pretty much all I listened to during the last 10 days or so of December.
I’m so proud of you for driving! I had a feeling you’d love it, once you started. Freeeedom. And blasting music. \o/
(Also proud of you for the bookstagram challenge, because HOW?)
Less than 2 weeks until I can finally catch up on B99! Woohoo.
*whispers* I tried to watch Yuri on Ice, but…I couldn’t make it though the first episode. /o\ There was too much excitement. And the long ice skating scene was…long. I really WANT to love it and be obsessed about it like everyone else. Should I give it another try? (Also, I kept forgetting that it had subtitles and would multitask like I usually do. It didn’t go well. xD)
I haven’t had a chance to blast music yet but man, would I love to haha. I’m glad I learned in 2016 because it was about damn time.
(LOL I have no idea! I did put in a reminder and sometimes I would’ve posted before the reminder had a chance to remind me )
Yayyy! Two episodes of Brooklyn Nine-Nine aired this week for some reason so there’s several episodes for you guys to catch up on (and me as soon as I feel like doing so LOL).
Haha the good news is that the first episode of Yuri!!! On ICE is the most exciting and there seems to be too much going on what with the subtitles appearing on the top and bottom of the screen so I was also taken aback at the beginning. I’d say that you should definitely give it another try because the representation of anxiety and sexuality is worth it alone. If figure skating is not your thing then those scenes might stay too long for you, but then there are monologues in almost all of the performances so you could possibly focus on those instead. =P
Haha, at least one good thing came out of 2016. (But seriously, blast that music. You won’t regret it.)
Okay, I might just do that. I’ve heard that about anxiety and sexuality in the show, I just have to get into the story. Ice skating actually used to be my favorite Olympic sport to watch, but I don’t know, something about cartoon characters ice skating wasn’t quite working for me. I’ll let you know if I try again. 😉
I’m slowly easing my family into allowing me to do so haha.
That’s so weird since I also used to watch a lot of ice skating and liked the ice skating of anime characters more. That could be because of the lack of glitter and makeup and gender fluidity but to me, they just really look so much better than real people haha. Yes, let me know if you do!
Clearly I need to take some attitude lessons from you Sana, because I freaked out and 100% couldn’t handle driving when my mum tried to teach me. Now I’m 23 and I don’t even have a learner’s permit. It’s really quite embarrassing.
Like Maraia, I often find anime a little bit over the top in terms of excitable characters, but I’ve been watching Yuri on Ice and it’s a ton of fun! Also super queer, which I am allllll about. I’ve heard rumblings that my ship might actually be a real thing so that’s extra exciting!
I’m very curious to hear your thoughts on Faith Vol. 1 because I’m DYING to read it. Fat heroine of colour in a comic book? HELL YES. Your reaction to ACOMAF will also be interesting, since I found it incredibly over the top and kinda problematic (although nowhere near as bad as ACOTAR, imo) yet still enjoyed it??? I don’t even know.
Haha would it make you feel better to know that I’m 26 and just learned driving? It should. =P Oh man, the number of times I’d hit break and the car would lurch forward and stop and it didn’t help that my dad tends to go, ‘Slow, slow, slow’ on repeat so I’d take that as a sign to just keep pressing the break pedal until it couldn’t be pressed further.
I’m brand new to anime and yeah, it was the same for me in the beginning but I got used to it rather quickly. Yes, I just love how queer it is and the gender fluidity is so great. Eeeeee what’s your ship?!
Yes, I’m so excited to get started on Faith!
So I’m only going to be reading ACOMAF (also need to read ACOTAR) for the laughs and to just criticize and hate-read it which I have rarely done before so I’m kind of looking forward to doing that? Haha. Let’s see if I enjoy it (which please, nooo LOL).
“so many days spend on the floor” 24/7 basically LOL
GAH, love those pictures from your road trip so much! ALSO YAY TO DRIVING!!!
VICTURI 5ever
SO GLAD YOU LIKED THIS AND ALSO WESTWORLD
(did you watch some more of Haikyuu because I started rewatching LOL)
also now realizing that I forgot to add the rest of Chelsea Cain’s books to my 2017 TBR. Gotta reard those and the rest of Chaos Walking (how??? have we still not) ASAP
Oh boy, gotta listen to that YOI playlist. I started my own but have only 2 songs on it for now.
I wish I had taken more photos but too busy listening to music. XD
Dude, Westworld was just so asdfghjkl especially the reveal about the man in black, Bernard and I loved badass Dolores and so many feelings about Maeve. So looking forward to SW (whatever it ends up standing for).
(Oh not yet! I haven’t been in the mood to watch anything lately which weird but sooon!)
Aaahhh, so many books to read this year with 2016’s TBR spilling over into 2017, no big. WE CAN DO THIS.
My YOI playlist is very unlike the playlists I make so you might even like the songs on it all that much haha.
The black man reveal was just JFHSDJFSDFSD, but apparently there were people who already called it after one of the first few episodes. Gotta rewatch because I didn’t even realize there are different time lines LOL
Let’s hope the new anime addiction doesn’t get in the way of all the reading we gotta do haha
Okay, gonna check it out tomorrow. Now I’m curious.
I was so lost during the first few episodes and my theory was that it’s just the same thing made to happen over and over (like in the movie Edge of Tomorrow) instead of completely different timelines.
Haha I really hope not!