It occurs to me that while I’m getting caught up in my book reviews, I haven’t given any plugs for the other types of media I’m into. So let me briefly say what I’ve been digging lately in TV, comics, and video games.<\/p>\n
TV<\/strong>: The shows that I like enough to stay up past the kids’ bedtime for are all on hiatus right now: Downton Abbey, Doctor Who, Orphan Black<\/em>. I also liked Vikings<\/em> and The Walking Dead<\/em>, or as I like to call it, “The Michonne and Darryl Show.”<\/p>\n Comics<\/strong>: Believe it or not, Hawkeye<\/em> is really excellent right now. I’m also reading Batgirl<\/em>, The Movement<\/em>, and Red Sonja<\/em>, because those are all Gail Simone titles currently. I follow B.P.R.D.<\/em> in the trades. I’ve heard Saga<\/em> is great and I keep meaning to check it out.<\/p>\n Games<\/strong>: I enjoyed the heck out of Shadowrun Returns<\/a><\/em>. Also, A Dark Room<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n I’m also still checking in every day with Animal Crossing: New Leaf<\/em>, but I have a habit of leaving my gal on a tropical island, getting distracted, and picking the game up again five hours later. As a result, she’s tanned to the darkest possible skin color, which reads less as “tan” and more as “south Asian or maybe mixed race.” It’s adorable<\/em>, don’t get me wrong, and I’ve had a great time getting her a purple-haired pixie cut and picking out cute little outfits that look great on her.<\/p>\n The thing that bothers me is, it’ll go away. When winter comes, her skin will pale-ify again, and there’s no option<\/em> for creating a nonwhite character in this game. I think that’s wrong. Animal Crossing<\/em> is a kind of non-game, a game where there are no specific goals, except to exist<\/em> in the most adorable manner possible. You are a cute little person in a cute little town and you do cute things in the company of cute animals and it’s all exceptionally soothing and nice. I find it very relaxing.<\/p>\n But I’m sad that my swashbuckling little brown girl isn’t going to stay brown. I’m sad that the whole game is based on a default pale skin color and doesn’t allow for a more inclusive spectrum. There’s something very…not cute about that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It occurs to me that while I’m getting caught up in my book reviews, I haven’t given any plugs for the other types of media I’m into. So let me briefly say what I’ve been digging lately in TV, comics, and video games. TV: The shows that I like enough to stay up past the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2702"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2709,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702\/revisions\/2709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}