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cornerofmadness (cornerofmadness) wrote2025-06-19 12:39 am
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Write Every Day Day 19
I have the feeling some of you can relate.
Realized that
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getyourwordsout Yahtzee challenge ends almost a full week before I thought it did so I need to get a move on. Got about 1390 words today. At least I know all the scenes in this one. Time is what I need more of.Let me know what day youβre reporting in for. If I've missed you on the tally let me know. Feel free to jump in at any time.
Day eighteen -
china_shop, ysilme, sylvanwitch, cornerofmadness, badly_knitted, goddess47, cmk418, trobadora, luzula, nafs, brithistorian, luzula, chanter1944, yasaman, the_siobhan,( other days )
lala (operasteers) wrote2025-06-18 11:16 pm
operasteers) wrote2025-06-18 11:16 pm
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you might find the file if you swim deep enough
Recently, I’ve been re-watching and re-reading snippets of Reborn! And 1) god I will forever love this series;;; are there frustrating things to it? For Sure but god I think now that I’m older I definitely have another perspective to the horror that encompasses the ten year later arc and—
I will save that for another journal, but god, Tsuna u r my wife? Yes make no mistake but 2) in this nostalgia, I’ve gone and tried to find some old amvs that I remember watching and about 80% percent of them seem to no longer exist/have been removed, or have restricted access/were privatized
WHICH IS HELL…. It’s like the goats I swear I saw when driving to my sister’s place the other day… I’ve never been able to see them again but I fucking KNOW lala KNOWS the goats were there… same with these amvs…. I Know they Exist
Luckily, turns out that some of the ones I had been thinking of, I actually saved on my usb! Thank u past me… the realest one… of course, that brings me to my biggest concern
Where to save these back-ups?
Cause initially, I thought, “guwell fuck, if the services that I use to track my media get deleted one day or get copyright happy a la youtube, maybe it’ll just be smarter to save those lists/items on my laptop” but sadly that is naive thought, a lesson I learned the hard way when I went into my photos, thinking that I was gonna find the fanart that I had saved for my own personal viewing
Only to discover that I had apparently deleted it when trying to clean up my files orz
Like sure, there’s google photos and the like (though I’m trying to personally degooglfy my life as much as possible) but it’s def something I wanna search for, esp in the case of personal files like my fanfics
On that note, I am curious about the current ecosystem of amvs, like I think I remember them being called more along the lines of fancams now? Unless that was more just when it’s ur fave chara, but like, I remember initially, if an amv on youtube had a copyright strike against it, the audio would just become muted—some cases it would become a privatized video, but the later seems to be the norm now, and most of the youtube I’ve seen now tends to be more along the lines of… really eye piercing clickbaity trends or “official” channels (fuck u vevo I miss the days lyric videos with colored font dominated the scene)
Maybe they still are out there and I’m just not searching as pro actively as I did when I was younger, or maybe the community of video editors has transferred to other platforms (though I plan to never use it, I know tiktok tends to be p popular with short form edits?)
I will save that for another journal, but god, Tsuna u r my wife? Yes make no mistake but 2) in this nostalgia, I’ve gone and tried to find some old amvs that I remember watching and about 80% percent of them seem to no longer exist/have been removed, or have restricted access/were privatized
WHICH IS HELL…. It’s like the goats I swear I saw when driving to my sister’s place the other day… I’ve never been able to see them again but I fucking KNOW lala KNOWS the goats were there… same with these amvs…. I Know they Exist
Luckily, turns out that some of the ones I had been thinking of, I actually saved on my usb! Thank u past me… the realest one… of course, that brings me to my biggest concern
Where to save these back-ups?
Cause initially, I thought, “guwell fuck, if the services that I use to track my media get deleted one day or get copyright happy a la youtube, maybe it’ll just be smarter to save those lists/items on my laptop” but sadly that is naive thought, a lesson I learned the hard way when I went into my photos, thinking that I was gonna find the fanart that I had saved for my own personal viewing
Only to discover that I had apparently deleted it when trying to clean up my files orz
Like sure, there’s google photos and the like (though I’m trying to personally degooglfy my life as much as possible) but it’s def something I wanna search for, esp in the case of personal files like my fanfics
On that note, I am curious about the current ecosystem of amvs, like I think I remember them being called more along the lines of fancams now? Unless that was more just when it’s ur fave chara, but like, I remember initially, if an amv on youtube had a copyright strike against it, the audio would just become muted—some cases it would become a privatized video, but the later seems to be the norm now, and most of the youtube I’ve seen now tends to be more along the lines of… really eye piercing clickbaity trends or “official” channels (fuck u vevo I miss the days lyric videos with colored font dominated the scene)
Maybe they still are out there and I’m just not searching as pro actively as I did when I was younger, or maybe the community of video editors has transferred to other platforms (though I plan to never use it, I know tiktok tends to be p popular with short form edits?)
cornerofmadness (cornerofmadness) wrote2025-06-18 09:35 pm
cornerofmadness) wrote2025-06-18 09:35 pm
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Fawns sighted
we have one set of twins and one singlet so far. They're about the size of golden retrievers all covered in spots. The rabbits are unimpressed by all this.
Someone explain how we're going from unseasonably cool to nearly 100 for the next several days? Also it can stop raining any time. The flooding is getting severe around here.
In fact it was a good thing we DIDN'T go to Wheeling yesterday because no news station we looked at mentioned Wheeling is flooded out and at least a half dozen people are dead.
I've been crap about sharing LGBT reads this month. Here have mine These Haunted Hills
What I Just Finished Reading:
A Spell to Wake the Dead - a YA horror arc I liked it but the stuff with the cops was more unbelievable than the magic. Still it was enjoyable
What I am Currently Reading:
Anima rising - a good reads Frankenstein retelling giveaway win but also real person fanfic of Klimt and others and so far if I have to hear about these characters snatches one more time I'm going to cry
Dark Entry - a short suspense/horror novel I got last year, so far not bad.
What I Plan to Read Next: Something for the popsugar challenge probably or one of the books I won from Goodreads
Someone explain how we're going from unseasonably cool to nearly 100 for the next several days? Also it can stop raining any time. The flooding is getting severe around here.
In fact it was a good thing we DIDN'T go to Wheeling yesterday because no news station we looked at mentioned Wheeling is flooded out and at least a half dozen people are dead.
I've been crap about sharing LGBT reads this month. Here have mine These Haunted Hills
What I Just Finished Reading:
A Spell to Wake the Dead - a YA horror arc I liked it but the stuff with the cops was more unbelievable than the magic. Still it was enjoyable
What I am Currently Reading:
Anima rising - a good reads Frankenstein retelling giveaway win but also real person fanfic of Klimt and others and so far if I have to hear about these characters snatches one more time I'm going to cry
Dark Entry - a short suspense/horror novel I got last year, so far not bad.
What I Plan to Read Next: Something for the popsugar challenge probably or one of the books I won from Goodreads
pauraque (pauraque) wrote2025-06-18 08:12 pm
pauraque) wrote2025-06-18 08:12 pmThe Autobiography of an Androgyne by Jennie June (1918)
"There are thousands of physical females who feel themselves to be men and have the mental traits of men, and there are thousands of physical males who feel themselves to be women and have the mental traits of a woman. Should any blame be attached to such individuals when they conduct themselves according to their psychical [i.e. mental] sex?"This is a pseudonymous autobiography by an American writer sometimes known as Jennie June, and sometimes as Earl Lind, Raphael Werther, or Ralph Werther (none of which were legal names). It describes June's experiences as an AMAB person who felt like a woman, had relationships with men, and eventually had a gender-affirming orchiectomy. The book advocates for kindness towards queer and gender-nonconforming people (or at least the sorts June approved of) and the repeal of sodomy laws. It was published under the imprint of the New York Medico-Legal Journal and its sale was restricted to "members of the learned professions" as June had been unable to find a publisher who would market it to a general readership, so it's framed as a sort of self-narrated medical case study.
I haven't read a lot of queer books of this era and I probably won't make a habit of it, but this was an interesting look at what people were thinking and experiencing not all that long before modern Western conceptions of trans identity and gender transition started to take shape.
I'm going to use he/him pronouns for June because that's how he referred to himself in his writing.
( Cut for length and content (hate crimes, sexual abuse and assault, suicide, period-typical social attitudes) )
The Autobiography of an Androgyne is in the public domain, so you can read it on Project Gutenberg or on the Internet Archive if you like.
juushika (juushika) wrote2025-06-18 03:45 pm
juushika) wrote2025-06-18 03:45 pmBook Review: Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell Jr.
Title: Who Goes There?
Author: John W. Campbell Jr.
Published: Wildside Press, 2022 (1938)
Rating: 3 of 5
Page Count: 40
Total Page Count: 537,090
Text Number: 1967
Read Because: these boys are cold but it's fiction now (pop culture depictions of the Antarctic came up in "Placing Women in the Antarctic Literary Landscape" by Elizabeth Leane), ebook borrowed from the Multnomah County Library
Review: This make the adaptation look like a masterwork, scaling back the technobabble, landing on iconic images, preserving the important thrust of the plot. But I still enjoyed this! Campbell's prose is delightfully overwritten, for better ("No thing made by intelligent beings can tangle with the dead immensity of a planetβs natural forces and survive.") and worse (the flamethrower scene); dialog is no exception. And yet, the premise endures, and the bombast suits the Antarctic, the social tensions, the terror of the unknown, of contagion. Unique to the original story is that until threatened with harm, the thing passes as, it entirely is whatever it's shaped itself to be; scarier than the uncanny is the total conviction of a man the moment before he turns out to be a monster. Let Golden Age SF try too hard, okay? It's more fun than obnoxious.
Author: John W. Campbell Jr.
Published: Wildside Press, 2022 (1938)
Rating: 3 of 5
Page Count: 40
Total Page Count: 537,090
Text Number: 1967
Read Because: these boys are cold but it's fiction now (pop culture depictions of the Antarctic came up in "Placing Women in the Antarctic Literary Landscape" by Elizabeth Leane), ebook borrowed from the Multnomah County Library
Review: This make the adaptation look like a masterwork, scaling back the technobabble, landing on iconic images, preserving the important thrust of the plot. But I still enjoyed this! Campbell's prose is delightfully overwritten, for better ("No thing made by intelligent beings can tangle with the dead immensity of a planetβs natural forces and survive.") and worse (the flamethrower scene); dialog is no exception. And yet, the premise endures, and the bombast suits the Antarctic, the social tensions, the terror of the unknown, of contagion. Unique to the original story is that until threatened with harm, the thing passes as, it entirely is whatever it's shaped itself to be; scarier than the uncanny is the total conviction of a man the moment before he turns out to be a monster. Let Golden Age SF try too hard, okay? It's more fun than obnoxious.
shadaras (shadaras) wrote2025-06-18 03:09 pm
shadaras) wrote2025-06-18 03:09 pmEntry tags:
(no subject)
two notes on music (despite talking about spotify, links are for youtube for easier accessibility)
1.
a few weeks ago, at work, I was letting spotify play me some "things the algorithm thinks you'd like" playlist or other, and my brain caught on one in a way that, for once, made me go "oh I should actually hit the like button on this" (I am SO BAD at doing that) (in this case it helped that I was Waiting For The Elevator). so I did. and then, a minute later, I was like. "wait. what was the name of that again." and looked at it properly, because it'd pinged in recognition but it took that minute for me to understand why. and. I am a parody of myself.
2.
in the completely other direction of music spotify will play for me, this (recent) cover of Madonna's 'Frozen' came on today and I was just like "wow okay this sure tosses me back to being a young teenager" about immediately recognising it.
1.
a few weeks ago, at work, I was letting spotify play me some "things the algorithm thinks you'd like" playlist or other, and my brain caught on one in a way that, for once, made me go "oh I should actually hit the like button on this" (I am SO BAD at doing that) (in this case it helped that I was Waiting For The Elevator). so I did. and then, a minute later, I was like. "wait. what was the name of that again." and looked at it properly, because it'd pinged in recognition but it took that minute for me to understand why. and. I am a parody of myself.
2.
in the completely other direction of music spotify will play for me, this (recent) cover of Madonna's 'Frozen' came on today and I was just like "wow okay this sure tosses me back to being a young teenager" about immediately recognising it.
james_davis_nicoll (james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-06-18 02:25 pm
james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-06-18 02:25 pmEntry tags:
Bundle of Horror: Raven
Raven: A Gothic Horror RPG β the core rulebook, scenarios, & GM Screen in both English and Spanish versions!
Bundle of Horror: Raven
james_davis_nicoll (james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-06-18 10:16 am
james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-06-18 10:16 amEntry tags:
Counting the Days: Five SFF Approaches to Calendars
So many different ways of measuring history and the passage of time...
Counting the Days: Five SFF Approaches to Calendars
james_davis_nicoll (james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-06-18 09:04 am
james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-06-18 09:04 amEntry tags:
Magus of the Library, volume 8 by Mitsu Izumi
For what purpose has someone summoned a ten-story-tall mountain spirit to Aftzaak, City of Books?
Magus of the Library, volume 8 by Mitsu Izumi
minoanmiss (minoanmiss) wrote in agonyaunt2025-06-18 08:49 am
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Dear Prudence: My Ex Is Warning All My Dates About Me
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cornerofmadness (cornerofmadness) wrote2025-06-18 12:44 am
cornerofmadness) wrote2025-06-18 12:44 am
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Write Every Day Day 18
I started the last of my
getyourwordsout Yahtzee stories for about 385 words.Let me know what day youβre reporting in for. If I've missed you on the tally let me know. Feel free to jump in at any time.
Day seventeen -
sylvanwitch, cornerofmadness, badly_knitted, goddess47, shadaras, cmk418, trobadora, luzula, nafs, sanguinity, carenejeans, china_shop, yasaman, brithistorian, luzula, chanter1944, ysilme, ( other days )
Travis (torachan) wrote2025-06-17 09:01 pm
torachan) wrote2025-06-17 09:01 pmEntry tags:
Daily Happiness
1. The curfew was fully lifted downtown.
2. Long meeting day ended a couple hours earlier than scheduled. (So rare.)
3. Jasper is the cutest* and he knows it.
*All cats are the cutest.
2. Long meeting day ended a couple hours earlier than scheduled. (So rare.)
3. Jasper is the cutest* and he knows it.
*All cats are the cutest.
cornerofmadness (cornerofmadness) wrote2025-06-17 09:51 pm
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Birthday called on account of rain
Everything I wanted to do was either rained out or closed INCLUDING the freaking mall. No lie, after giving up on anything I wanted to do I settled for going to a restaurant I wanted to for years (for lunch) I decided to just hit TJ Maxx/Homegoods and turns out they're remodeling and that whole part of the strip mall was closed. You have to be kidding. (and I didn't check the first restaurant I wanted to try and it is only open for dinner. head desk)
I did get some yummy food and coffee at Shouf's and later for dinner I had deep fried pickles and spicy peach wings (those were yummy too) My birthday pie was the same premade bake it yourself pie we've had many times but this fruits of the woods pie must have had the oldest hardest rhubarb in it, so a disappointing end to a disappointing day.
I hopethoughtsbykat, my birthday twin has a good one too.
I did get a cool set of horror comics from Betty, looking forward to reading that. And there are things on the way from other friends.
My kibbeh
My Lebanese coffee
I almost forgot fannish 50's women of fandom (and I accidentally skipped The Owl House) So let's do Prodigal Son
One of the best things about this crime drama was the sheer amount of strong, competent women. I couldn't pick between Dani Powell and Dr. Edrisa Tanaka. Both are capable, intelligent women. Edrisa is my favorite by a thin margin with one major exception.
In reality if I am anyone on this show, it's Edrisa. She's intelligent, talky, sex positive, into threesomes and bondage and cuddle parties and has my original dream job. I loved her. She was funny. She was caring and fiercely protective of her friends.
So the issue with her, the overly flirty nonsense that crossed the boarder into harassment multiple times (and coupled with the fact it's also a negative Asian stereotype, though when the character was conceived she was Irish based on the name change) Even when it was obvious others on the team were uncomfortable with it, she didn't stop (it did lessen somewhat as the season went on) And she is never confronted about it (or sent to HR) That was disappointing.
Dani was much easier for me to write. (I couldn't capture Edrisa's comedy well). Another smart character, tough and also kind going from not enemies to lovers with Malcolm but annoyed to best friends. I wish we had gotten more of her back story. She had some much potential. She didn't require the men to help her but when they had her back she didn't act like she thought it was patriarchal bullshit, just a partner helping another partner. About the only time I was truly annoyed with her was when she tried to interfere with Gil getting together with Jessica (her reasoning was not based entirely in fact) It was meant as her protecting a father figure but it fell short.
I'm still very bitter about this show's early cancellation. I think my injury played into it. I was in the hospital watching Pson, watching Fox bragging it was the #1 show on TV for weeks and then at midterm they suddenly stopped promoting it and a few weeks later it was gone taking the cast by complete shock. I miss these women.
Speaking of women in fandom, this is mostly fromspikedluv. Yesterday used_songs brought it to my attention that There is a Jessica Fletcher action figure Had to share that
I did get some yummy food and coffee at Shouf's and later for dinner I had deep fried pickles and spicy peach wings (those were yummy too) My birthday pie was the same premade bake it yourself pie we've had many times but this fruits of the woods pie must have had the oldest hardest rhubarb in it, so a disappointing end to a disappointing day.
I hope
thoughtsbykat, my birthday twin has a good one too.I did get a cool set of horror comics from Betty, looking forward to reading that. And there are things on the way from other friends.
My kibbeh
My Lebanese coffee
I almost forgot fannish 50's women of fandom (and I accidentally skipped The Owl House) So let's do Prodigal Son
One of the best things about this crime drama was the sheer amount of strong, competent women. I couldn't pick between Dani Powell and Dr. Edrisa Tanaka. Both are capable, intelligent women. Edrisa is my favorite by a thin margin with one major exception.
In reality if I am anyone on this show, it's Edrisa. She's intelligent, talky, sex positive, into threesomes and bondage and cuddle parties and has my original dream job. I loved her. She was funny. She was caring and fiercely protective of her friends.
So the issue with her, the overly flirty nonsense that crossed the boarder into harassment multiple times (and coupled with the fact it's also a negative Asian stereotype, though when the character was conceived she was Irish based on the name change) Even when it was obvious others on the team were uncomfortable with it, she didn't stop (it did lessen somewhat as the season went on) And she is never confronted about it (or sent to HR) That was disappointing.
Dani was much easier for me to write. (I couldn't capture Edrisa's comedy well). Another smart character, tough and also kind going from not enemies to lovers with Malcolm but annoyed to best friends. I wish we had gotten more of her back story. She had some much potential. She didn't require the men to help her but when they had her back she didn't act like she thought it was patriarchal bullshit, just a partner helping another partner. About the only time I was truly annoyed with her was when she tried to interfere with Gil getting together with Jessica (her reasoning was not based entirely in fact) It was meant as her protecting a father figure but it fell short.
I'm still very bitter about this show's early cancellation. I think my injury played into it. I was in the hospital watching Pson, watching Fox bragging it was the #1 show on TV for weeks and then at midterm they suddenly stopped promoting it and a few weeks later it was gone taking the cast by complete shock. I miss these women.
Speaking of women in fandom, this is mostly from
spikedluv. Yesterday used_songs brought it to my attention that There is a Jessica Fletcher action figure Had to share that
hannah (hannah) wrote2025-06-17 10:18 pm
hannah) wrote2025-06-17 10:18 pm
Strategies.
Of late, I've tried to derive some entertainment value of sitting and waiting for people to stop talking so I don't interrupt them because that's about the only way to get through it with any composure. There's people I've met who can go for long minutes without giving me any indications they want me to talk. I'm tempted to see if raising my hand does anything, or getting up and moving.
I know I could theoretically interrupt them, but every person who has this trait would have to be yelled at for them to hear me talking. Though now I'm also tempted to try to just start talking in a normal volume, ignoring everything they're saying, just to see that reaction.
I know I could theoretically interrupt them, but every person who has this trait would have to be yelled at for them to hear me talking. Though now I'm also tempted to try to just start talking in a normal volume, ignoring everything they're saying, just to see that reaction.
Volkameria (volkameria) wrote2025-06-17 07:25 pm
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Bit of a Bloggin' Break
Taking a break from online activities given how nuts everything currently is. Imagine me hanging up one of those "Out to Lunch, Back Soon!" signs on this blog.
Hope you all find the good in each day and have ample opportunities to find rest!
Hope you all find the good in each day and have ample opportunities to find rest!
Travis (torachan) wrote2025-06-17 06:15 pm
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2025 Disneyland Trip #41 (6/16/25)
Last night was just a quick after-work trip while waiting to pick up Carla at the airport, so I didn't do a whole lot but I did have a nice dinner!
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ππ‘π‘ππ. (splatstick) wrote in icons2025-06-17 05:53 pm
splatstick) wrote in icons2025-06-17 05:53 pmwill poulter in gotg v3
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juushika (juushika) wrote2025-06-17 02:02 pm
juushika) wrote2025-06-17 02:02 pmBook Review: To the South Polar Regions by Louis Bernacchi
Title: To the South Polar Regions: Expedition of 1898β1900
Author: Louis Bernacchi
Published: Hurst and Blackett, 1901
Rating: 3.5 of 5
Page Count: 380
Total Page Count: 537,050
Text Number: 1966
Read Because: these boys are just so cold, borrowed from Open Library
Review: Bernacchi is one of the better writers in my travelog readings: funny, with a dark bent, managing evocative and informative depiction both of the sweeping grandeur of Antarctica and the gripes of close-quarters and rough living. But readers picking this up because Bernacchi "was critical of aspects of Borchgrevink's leadership" (as per Wikipedia) may be disappointed by his understated criticism. Bernacchi is subdued, bordering on passive aggressive: he's frank about the conditions at Camp Adare, but Borchgrevink is notable largely for his absence, rarely mentioned, a quiet dismissal noticeable particularly when Bernacchi contradicts Borchgrevink's version of events. The Southern Cross expedition is largely forgotten, for reasons both unfair and actually quite fair. The sequence of events is a lot of nerd talk (admirable, but not especially engaging) and frustrated, failed excursions; this is a skippable, slipshod cold mess of an expedition, not especially distinctive or memorably tragic, vaguely embarrassing, despite Bernacchi's honesty. Predictably, I still enjoyed it, especially when the accounts are contrasted.
Author: Louis Bernacchi
Published: Hurst and Blackett, 1901
Rating: 3.5 of 5
Page Count: 380
Total Page Count: 537,050
Text Number: 1966
Read Because: these boys are just so cold, borrowed from Open Library
Review: Bernacchi is one of the better writers in my travelog readings: funny, with a dark bent, managing evocative and informative depiction both of the sweeping grandeur of Antarctica and the gripes of close-quarters and rough living. But readers picking this up because Bernacchi "was critical of aspects of Borchgrevink's leadership" (as per Wikipedia) may be disappointed by his understated criticism. Bernacchi is subdued, bordering on passive aggressive: he's frank about the conditions at Camp Adare, but Borchgrevink is notable largely for his absence, rarely mentioned, a quiet dismissal noticeable particularly when Bernacchi contradicts Borchgrevink's version of events. The Southern Cross expedition is largely forgotten, for reasons both unfair and actually quite fair. The sequence of events is a lot of nerd talk (admirable, but not especially engaging) and frustrated, failed excursions; this is a skippable, slipshod cold mess of an expedition, not especially distinctive or memorably tragic, vaguely embarrassing, despite Bernacchi's honesty. Predictably, I still enjoyed it, especially when the accounts are contrasted.