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Jun. 23rd, 2021 05:11 pmI have just about finished Warleggan, which is just as well since the library wants it back tomorrow. This is the one where ( cut for spoilers, and also sexual violence )
Overall I think I like the TV show better than the books I've read, but both of them are really melodramatic and contrived. In a good way! But the show has George's A+ conflicted pining for Ross.
We finished watching Domina. It remained really delightful, although I wonder whether someone who didn't know all about the Primus trial would have enjoyed it quite as much as I did. (I have to admit that Primus' fate in this makes much more sense than his historical fate.) I am really really enjoying their Tiberius and Drusus, and also Tiberius' relationship with both Livia and Antigone; I love how everyone admits that Tiberius is brilliant, but that there's something inexpressibly creepy about him (and of course this eventually comes to the surface in a disturbing but predictable scene.) I also really like that I was never entirely sure what, if anything, Livia feels for Gaius.
It was spectacular to look at and I really really hope they make a second series. It's sort of doing "How did Livia become the Livia of I, Claudius," except just to the left of that.
In other news, I have signed up for![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
crossworks, and am wondering whether I should sign up for auexchange too. It would mean two stories at once, plus the next round of multifandomdrabble. But I am just about at the end of my teaching and marking responsibilities, and having a lot of fanfic to write sometimes actually encourages me to get my own work done. So I don't know.
Overall I think I like the TV show better than the books I've read, but both of them are really melodramatic and contrived. In a good way! But the show has George's A+ conflicted pining for Ross.
We finished watching Domina. It remained really delightful, although I wonder whether someone who didn't know all about the Primus trial would have enjoyed it quite as much as I did. (I have to admit that Primus' fate in this makes much more sense than his historical fate.) I am really really enjoying their Tiberius and Drusus, and also Tiberius' relationship with both Livia and Antigone; I love how everyone admits that Tiberius is brilliant, but that there's something inexpressibly creepy about him (and of course this eventually comes to the surface in a disturbing but predictable scene.) I also really like that I was never entirely sure what, if anything, Livia feels for Gaius.
It was spectacular to look at and I really really hope they make a second series. It's sort of doing "How did Livia become the Livia of I, Claudius," except just to the left of that.
In other news, I have signed up for
crossworks, and am wondering whether I should sign up for auexchange too. It would mean two stories at once, plus the next round of multifandomdrabble. But I am just about at the end of my teaching and marking responsibilities, and having a lot of fanfic to write sometimes actually encourages me to get my own work done. So I don't know.
