Bunnies, Gardens and Star Trek

[lydamorehouse]

It's been a long time since my last post, so I have a few things to report. First of all, y'all were absolutely right: the "Star Trek" re-boot rules. There was so much awesome and everyone's already seen it so, yeah. What you guys said. Only one very, very small moment of fangeekitude regret for me. Okay, I know that this is an alternate universe (which was deeply clever and totally worked for me), BUT the Kobashi Maru, didn't live up to its hype. I wanted the Old Universe Kirk to, yes, cheat in terms of re-programming the simulation, but also do one of those "I totally pulled this con act out of my ass and you were punked" kinds of things ala "The Corbornite Maneuver." I wanted a hint of the part of Captain James T. Kirk that is all about the hunches that we know and love. I found the whole "whatever. I'm just munching on an apple" attitude really annoying, and the only part of the young Kirk's characterization that seemed a bit off (and off-putting, for me.)

Another thing I've learned about myself the older I get is that the characters I used to find square and uninteresting totally turn me on now. Spock was hot. It blows my mind to think that I feel that way now, but put Spock up there with Captain America and Daredevil as a character I used to be vaguely uninteresting that now rocks my world. I'm so glad he got to say "fascinating" at least once too.

I wonder.... is Spock/Kirk getting its own relaunch? (Weirdly, I might actually read that.)

In gardening news, I put a lot of plants in over the weekend, including some herbs from Shady Acres. It was a lot of work, but the yard is very slowly starting to appear more "intentional" which is my constant goal given my tendency towards overgrown, weed-friendliness.

As we were coming back with some gardening supplies from Menards on Saturday, I saw a live baby bunny hopping through our underbrush. Seeing that made the whole sad day much less so.

Okay, got to go work. See you all soon.

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[winterophelia.livejournal.com]

Spock/Kirk is all the rage now, apparently. I can't tell if I'm excited or not...