The seas will never run dry, my dear

[sovay]

It is astonishing to me how much energy I don't have these days. I had to visit a clinic for bloodwork yesterday and I was just useless for the rest of the day. I finished watching Turn: Washington's Spies (2014–17), which I have enjoyed and generally recommend even though the first season doesn't find its footing until the finale and the fourth season should really have been a fourth and fifth (it was surprisingly valuable for my formative experience of narrative TV to have been Babylon 5, is what I'm saying). I graduated from envying most of the cast their waistcoats to envying some people their actual coats. Quite unfairly, I then slept badly, had one of the worst nightmares I can remember in months, and woke with a jaw-wrenching headache. Today has mostly been work. Have some links.

1. I would love to see the rest of the series of orixás this combination of photography and drawing belongs to: Tauan Carmo and Tiago Sant'ana, "Oxum—A Rainha das águas doces."

2. I wouldn't mind knowing where this bog trail is located, either, but I love how the water lies over the boardwalk.

3. This is such a mythic poem with such matter-of-fact roots, which I enjoy: L. K., "Old Flame."

4. Because it is suddenly September and I have to make honeycakes soon, I feel everyone should appreciate this flowchart of the Jewish holidays. "Is there a horn?" "Tekiah!"

5. I love these photographs of ocean so much. They make me hungry. I went to the photographer's website and found the sailing expedition to Antarctica they came from. I would like that much of snow and sea and seals in my life. I would like to be able to travel again.

Comments

[sovay]

The time travel aspects get increasingly baroque and complicated, but do seem to ultimately avoid becoming nonsense. I say "seem to", because the accelerated final season leaves a lot just implied.

If the science fiction doesn't become silly and the grimness isn't to the point of grimdark, I might recommend it to my father. He just finished watching Better Than Us (2018) on Netflix and, beyond feeling that the finale went suddenly bigger than the story required or could convincingly pull off, really enjoyed it.

[alexxkay]

Such things are, to a degree, subjective. *I* thought the SF never got silly. (I'm sure Kestrell would disagree, but she thinks all time travel is a lie.) There certainly was a great deal of grimness along the way, but at the end of the show, there were survivors who were happy and had good reasons to think they might remain so.