Looked at the dramas I've got going on... and started a new one instead. Chose Ghost Doctor because it has Kim Beom in it, and the man is a damn puppy... and thought about the other character, huh, he looks familiar, is it the guy with the ears from My Demon?
...It's Rain. 😱😱 I forgot he's an actor as well as a singer, and he looks so different...
Although the problem with medical dramas these days is if I look away from the screen when someone's speaking, I have to remind myself, sometimes aloud, "they said DOCTOR not CHAIR."
Ahh, I'm enjoying this show so much! I hope it doesn't go off the rails later on.
(I've hurt my wrist so no gardening for me other than putting in a small trellis for climbing border plants and planting some wildflower seeds in the front garden.)
Ugh, here we go again. Look, if you subtitle something set in another country, PLEASE don't try to localise it. Not only do you alienate everyone who doesn't live in the country you're oh-so-helpfully localising it for (like... 99% of the world) but when it's visibly contradicted, you just look foolish.
#WritersCoffeeClub 24: When older novels use outdated or racist language, should they be edited for the modern world or left alone and viewed in context?
They should be left, with a warning added at the front so readers can be aware.
Before we start trying to sanitise the past to make it fit our modern sensibilities, maybe we should be doing something about the people who use racial, antisemitic and homophobic slurs now, most of whom will never have read the books people keep trying to edit.
How far do we take sanitising things, anyway? What about Piers Anthony's underaged nudity fetish? Shakespeare's sex jokes? I mean, they teach Shakespeare to 12-year-olds; won't somebody think of the children! The recent audiobooks I've been listening to have a couple of people use homophobic slurs towards one of the MCs; the author is a gay man, but maybe these should be sanitised too?
Or maybe people could just... not read old books to their kids? Engage in a little critical thinking?
@pelielios The idea that anyone's actually reading my books just makes me nervous, so if people download it and then don't read it, and thus can't be disappointed, then that's fine by me. 😅
I write for me too, and it seems that most people don't like what I do...
#WordWeavers 18: Do you write primarily in the same genre you read as a child?
Kind of...? We had a LOT of books when I was a child, and I was never told I couldn't read anything, so I've read crime and romance, various fantasy and sci fi novels, history books (mostly about the Tudors), horror, one random book about the Inquisition, encyclopaedias, had a crack at Chaucer untranslated; I even used to read the dictionary. Never saw the point of the Jackie Collins one, though I tried. Ironic.
@WanderingInDigitalWorlds You'd be surprised at how effective just cheap unheated propagators can be, or even just a lemonade bottle over a plant pot on a windowsill if you want to start growing things!
This is my baby cucumber, which unexpectedly grew (it was an experiment) and suddenly needed a home. That big leaf is a recent development. 😂
@WanderingInDigitalWorlds That sounds a pretty good price! (They vary here, but can easily get out of hand...) It's a good investment though, because it's much nicer to eat your own food, and you know what's gone into it. 😁
My window gets the morning sun, but it's not very warm in here so I'm quite surprised things are doing well. 😅
Started watching Black Knight: The Man Who Guards Me and it's a bit... weird. It's so determined to start mysteriously that I keep getting lost.
I was also paranoid when it suggested it to me and I realised it starred Kim Rae-won, who I've just seen on The First Responders. So far, so Netflix, right? Except TFR is on Disney+... But once I started watching it, I realised it's because it also stars Shin Se-kyeong, who was in The Girl Who Sees Scents, thus the recommendation.
Oh my gods. I'm only just starting episode 4. This show feels like it's taking foreeeeever.
I still want her to give up on all these guys and go off with the tailor lady. Tailor lady has a lot to make up for, apparently, and MFC is oblivious (because past lives?).
@WanderingInDigitalWorlds Haha, I think the sticks thing was more gradual, but now she'll grab any stick she finds outside and if she gets to the front door with it, then she gets a treat (hence no recycling!). I'm always lucky if she gets distracted, puts it down and forgets about it...
She steals hats too, and a barely-worn neckwarmer from winter. 😂 I think she's trying to build a spare me.