Thoughts on Lucifer Seasons 5b & 6

I'm only covering one and a half seasons because that was what I watched most recently, and it's been a while since I watched the other ones. Spoilers, as usual. I enjoyed them quite a lot. Tom Ellis was great as Lucifer, as usual, and whole becoming God plot was pretty fun as well. I …

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Thoughts on Transformers Earthspark

I enjoyed the show more than I thought I would, but I think it still ended up more childish than I would like. Spoilers, as usual. Things I liked: Megatron being a twin rotor aircraft. Not much I can say apart from the fact that I think Animated Megatron had the best alt-mode out of …

Thoughts on A Bunch of Sandman Comics

This post contains spoilers for the TV show, the original run of The Sandman, The Sandman: The Dream Hunters, The Sandman: Overture, and The Sandman: Endless Nights. Or it may not. I'm including all of them here just in case. I enjoyed it, but that's to be expected from Neil Gaiman. In my mind, the …

Notes on Tangut phonology

First of all, a disclaimer: I am definitely not an expert. An interested layman, at best. But that said, here are some thoughts I had while reading Gong Xun's (GX's) Uvulars and uvularization in Tangut phonology (2020) and Nasal Preinitials in Tangut Phonology (2021). I'll say outright that GX's reïnterpretation of Gong Hwang-cherng's (henceforth GHC's) …

Short Thoughts on Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows

I realized that writing something long form just makes me want to stop writing so here's something short instead. Overall, it was fine. It was a decent story and a decent adventure, and a decent attempt at merging the Sherlock Holmes and Cthulu mythos universes. However, I think the tropes and the speech and the …

The FDA’s vaccine delay: What was the death toll?

A while ago, economist Garett Jones has suggested that the vaccine delay cost 100 thousand US lives. Here's the Atlantic kind-of-sort-of disagreeing. Who is right? I don't know. But in its article, the Atlantic brought up what I saw are 3 main points. From strongest to weakest, I would order them like so: 1. The …

Thoughts on Shugo Chara

I decided to watch this for a couple reasons: I had its theme song stuck in my head a few months ago, in a particularly nostalgic week. I've watched a few episodes when I was in primary school (I think it was during 放學ICU), and I liked it. It's one in a long line of …

Thoughts on Arcane Season 1

Spoiler warning. This is one of the best shows I've watched. I'd say it's nearly perfect. However, there seems to be no intention of following established lore, which is perfectly fine, in my opinion. The visuals are stunningly pretty thanks to Fortiche, and basically every shot can be used as a computer background. One example …

Thoughts on Arcane Act 1

So Arcane released this weekend and I decided to expand this pseudo-book-review series to something other than books. Spoilers to follow, of course. It was fantastic. The visuals were pretty, the music was epic, and the story was good. The producers said they poured a lot of time and effort and money into this and …

Thoughts on finishing The Arithmancer

I just finished The Arithmancer (EDIT here: https://archiveofourown.org/series/993900) and I thought I should resume the habit of writing some thoughts down after I finish reading something. Spoilers, as usual. I'm including all 3 books in this not-review, The Arithmancer, Lady Archimedes, and Annals of Arithmancy, since they're a series. I thought it was great. Better …