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It feels like 80% of Lemmy can find themselves in this photo...
In spite of being entirely willing to murder the Tollan in his early appearances (which likely would've gotten Dan Jackson killed in the crossfire, leaving Lya to pull a different kinda slap to Mayborne's weak little "I'm in charge!...but also just following orders!" wrists), Harry had some pretty decent character growth, all selfishness considered, lol
Though he definitely didn't deserve to have his guangos and eat them, too, he did get his ass handed to him in numerous ways, quite a few times, at the very least.
Oh, heck yeah, glad for more! - I've enjoyed this one, so far. The first episode of good ol' weird spooky and gore hooked us. It'll be interesting to see where they go with all the ridiculous nonsense laid out. Enjoying the casting, too, and a neat setting. Maybe a little derivative, but not to its detriment, yet - nice to watch, and not take too seriously.
Not that anyone isn't allowed to not enjoy Stargate, but maybe this will help:
I'm an embarrassingly hardcore sci-fi fan, and it even took me a little to get into SG-1 and beyond (SG Universe is a separate...argument lol) and I'd seen occasional SG episodes as it was airing, and was even living on Cheyenne mountain at that time, so there was a fun "connection", but it didn't click with me, it was just confusing and silly and I was all about Star Trek and book learnin'.
However, it wasn't until the beginning of the pandemic that I sat down with it, with a very open mind, and later pulled it up as a re-watch when I worked through my comfort re-runs of everything else.
Upon a second watch through, and learning about it via companion trivia reading with the episodes, I fell for it, pretty hard.
Now, I work with some official ST stuff, and I'm frankly disheartened and bored by a lot of it. But I've never gotten that with Stargate. It's my constant companion, and my spouse and I find more and more to love and laugh about and enjoy with each episode our dumb asses will watch over and over again.
It's, uh, rough in the very beginning. It got so much better once they switched to Sci-Fi Channel, which is amusing really, and it just got better and better. It's full of callbacks and continuity, referenced goofs, and chemistry that is unparalleled. SG: Atlantis is a fun journey, too, with a great cast, but it took a much larger ensemble to amass anything near the connection that the central 4 have in SG-1. Even when their roll of greatness slowed a bit, in the ending seasons, which like ST:DS9, has a disturbingly timely enemy, they took the stars of Farscape, and Ben Browder slid right in to playing Ben Browder in every role, and Claudia Black 180°s to something bizarrely hilarious when compared to her usual stoicism as Aeryn Sun (I'm 1,000% convinced anyone that is strongly against their casting hasn't seen Farscape, or doesn't understand campy humor, at all, haha).
The last above being said, enjoying, or learning to enjoy campy humor is pivotal for enjoying and understanding Stargate, I feel, anyhow. I probably didn't connect with it when it was airing because I preferred deep and dark, I was just getting into reading Frank Herbert, and my depression was kicking my ass. I couldn't have even understood its levity, at the time, let alone cared for it. Too silly, how dare they! But now? Especially knowing it was made...then? It's just phenomenal.
Like most recommendations for a TNG era Star Trek series, "Keep watching! It gets good in Season 3!" but really, it all has good, (minus that eerily same misogynistic episode like Code of Honor, ALSO written by Katherine Powers), but I promise you, it's worth it.
"Anyway, I'm sorry, but that just happens to be how I feel about it!"
Those two interchangeable pairs of eyebrows with faces that 'starred' in Valerian and the City of A Thousand Planets. It could have been incredible with the source material and all that went into it getting made, but nope, not with those two. Wrong kinda movie for both of their...styles?
Dan-O's seasoning, particularly the Crunchy. It was worth ordering it on their website after trying the smaller bottles, plus good discounts, and their customer service was wonderfully sweet and human when an order got lost in the mail. It's maybe a little sage heavy for some, and their different varieties aren't big variations on the original flavor, but I love it with basically everything. Crunchy goes very quickly in this house. And a separate grocery love, cookie butter Nutpods creamer. Mixing the two is not recommended.
I have a lot of weird food habits thanks to years of eating disorders and just generally being a fucking weirdo, but lately I enjoy mixing a couple tablespoons of raw coconut flour with just enough sugar-free Torani s'mores flavored syrup to give it a cookie dough texture, and a bit of salt. It's like a bowl of sugar cookie dough my delusional need to stay too-thin doesn't feel terrible about, and since the artificial sugar and citric acid isn't a great reaction with my meds, I only have it from time to time. 100% do(n't) recommend!
Nice! I was in a similar place with having to juggle other conditions and medication changes to be able to take stimulants, which exacerbated the hell out of everything, but damned if it didn't need to be done for my health, anyway, haha. I hope the beta blockers help!
If you need ask that question, I'm not sure I could offer an answer that may be satisfactory, or relatable to your own experiences (because it most definitely differs)! Though, I know it can come with its own cons for some, it's fantastic that were able to receive a childhood diagnosis, and don't feel similarly to adults who grew up with their ADHD symptoms being dismissed to the point that we regularly question our own validity. I have my own [insert sob story here] reasons for why I doubt myself, but no, I don't doubt my diagnosis.
Whatever hurdles you still have, dear Stamets, I hope you're able to keep working towards getting meds. Some fiction-worthy circumstances made my own undertaking SUCK, and it took other extreme health trials for me to even tackle the whole process properly in the first place, cause all that stuff made me a pro with "just one more day of this shit, and I can die tomorrow, right?", but so far it's been utterly worthwhile. We can all cry, together!
Yeah, I recently got meds at 33 (hooray!), insane improvement, and morning brain is still like "But do you really have the severe ADHD you definitely have, or is it all just a big fucking lie you made up to excuse your weaknesses, you weak bitch? Maybe you just need 6-28 cups of coffee and 12 hours of guilty scrolling to low-volume TV to start your day, hmmmm?"
Then I finally take my damn pill, everything shuts the hell up, and I realize how completely chill I am, and capable of laundry.
Think I'll print this out to go on the fridge, (with a calendar event set every few weeks to move its placement, before object permanence turns it to invisible scenery).
Yes. I suggest Asimov's recommended reading order, from I, Robot through Foundation and Earth, including the Empire trilogy. Keep in mind some were written decades apart, regardless of series chronology, so the tone may shift due to the era written and Asimov's growth as a writer, which can be jarring for a couple pages (primarily getting to the Empire novels, but still great little stories, and I enjoyed the continued lore).
As an avid reader, particularly sci-fi, it's my very favorite series, from start to finish, and I'd recommend it to anyone - personally, Foundation itself might be my least liked of the group, though that may be for it being a collection of stories put together from the magazines, I found it mildly disjointed, (and I have a tendency to confuse certain character names in that one, haha), but I appreciated it more when my spouse listened to them all on audiobook (PS. Scott Brick is a wonderful Asimov narrator).
Regardless of which, and how you may read them, I hope you enjoy them!
Don't know if they're available in the UK, but I really enjoy NutPods, especially the stevia sweetened variety, but the unsweetened flavors, and plain, as well. That's coconut/almond. I shake it strongly especially when new, and try not to add it to extremely hot beverages, but I've never had any separation, except once or twice when a carton was on its last legs of freshness.
I sometimes do a splash of that, and unsweetened Silk almond milk in strong tea or coffee (to take the edge off, but not add too much richness), and unsweetened almond milk alone will do it for me in weaker tea, but the NutPods of any flavor is a nice treat for most things, and you can control any sweetness.
I would like to subscribe to Skeleton Facts.
"I'm sorry, Monsieur Toast, the job posting was for an experienced host."
I'd buy that for a dollar! Seriously...can I...can I buy it?