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* I've been enjoying the nice air quality so far this summer, but it just took a turn... No... I want a nice fall!

* It's happened a few years that' I've gone 'Yes, fall and spoopy season is best. I am going to go super extra hard on taking pictures' and then that doesn't happen because the air is bad or I am sick. IIRC last fall was actually very wet and I was loving it, but then I got sick. So, I was very happy to start seeing yard pumpkins and halloween decor with nice air and feelin' fine... but now I can see the haze. I hope it stops and we have a rainy, rainy fall.

* I haven't been having a battery drain problem with my camera recently. I don't know if it was a settings thing that I fixed or if the problem was related to me leaving on the superzoom lens and that causing a drain somehow... but either way it seems to be okay now? I still want to replace my camera, but it feels less urgent. Honestly, right now the problem is my tablet that I use for editing. I need to put some time into pulling files and doing some other stuff to see if I can salvage it. It's a Surface and those are notorious for not lasting at all, especially the ones from when when I bought it. I think mine is 6 years old which is like 3x the lifespan of that model. And yet I would like at least another 4 please and than you.

TNT's Will

AKA the deeply ahistorical drama about William Shakespeare where Jamie Campbell Bower plays a Christopher Marlowe who is often naked. (Since Christopher's nickname was Kit and 'take your kit off' is British slang for taking clothes off I was tempted to go for a very strained pun no one would get, so instead I am explaining the joke... which is worse)

The show starts off a hot mess and while Jamie playing a sexually active gay man who is often naked is definitely up my alley, honestly it's hard to enjoy because of the various ways the show is messed up. Outside of modern make up, hair dye, slang, songs, etc, Will gets to live in an Elizabethian England where there are no worries about casual sex with unmarried women, because STDs and pregnancy just don't enter into it... Kit is stuck in an Elizabethian England dealing with his casual sex being complicated by homophobia, the dominance of Christianity and the other realities of the day. Will and Kit are barely even in the same show. They are rarely in scenes together and Kit's story is a lot darker, far less ahistorical and has no musical dance numbers.

The show does start to course correct on this and a few other issues. One of the things that is hardest to deal with in early episodes is that you've got lead actors giving great performances but most of the other actors and extras can't even manage the dialogue. It feels like an elaborate prank is being played on the main actors.

( Because I dragged myself through this show I am going to babble about it for a bit, but I assume most people will want to skip this )

Now I can move on from this show and just enjoy it through tumblr gifs and text posts that completely and utterly misrepresent the show