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Seven Dials
Feb. 16th, 2026 08:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lea_hazelI first tried watching Seven Dials a while ago, with my mother, but she got bored and quit partway through. I was intrigued, and I usually enjoy Agatha Christie adaptations, so I watched all three episodes today, back to back.
It has the bones of a rather fun and intriguing story with three potentially clever and compelling characters. But unfortunately, it is not that story. Instead, it's a bit plodding, misses many of its swings when it comes to emotional beats, and has overwritten dialogue of the kind that makes allegedly clever characters appear rather foolish. Helena Bonham Carter in particular was disgracefully wasted.
Although I wanted to like it, I found the whole thing to be rather a waste of time.
It has the bones of a rather fun and intriguing story with three potentially clever and compelling characters. But unfortunately, it is not that story. Instead, it's a bit plodding, misses many of its swings when it comes to emotional beats, and has overwritten dialogue of the kind that makes allegedly clever characters appear rather foolish. Helena Bonham Carter in particular was disgracefully wasted.
Although I wanted to like it, I found the whole thing to be rather a waste of time.
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Feb. 15th, 2026 08:37 amlea_hazelWindows 11 is so phenomenally shitty that they managed to ruin Notepad, arguably The single most useful basic all-purpose program. You could just open any text file in it. You could use it to edit properties files, configuration files, XML, HTML. You could write entire Java programs in it if you were enterprising. It was quick, lightweight, and had all the features it could possibly need, which was almost none.
W11 "Notepad" is a bloated monster that takes several seconds to load a file less than 1KB. I uninstalled it. For the first time in my life, I uninstalled Notepad.
This fucking timeline, man.
W11 "Notepad" is a bloated monster that takes several seconds to load a file less than 1KB. I uninstalled it. For the first time in my life, I uninstalled Notepad.
This fucking timeline, man.
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Feb. 13th, 2026 09:26 amlea_hazelOvernight, I got yet another notification for one of those scammy bot comments on AO3, shilling some bullshit "art" service, or something like that. I had one just like it, about a week ago, and I reported it for violating terms. However, by the time I got around to reporting this one (it came in while I was asleep), it was gone. Although the account is still active. I guess someone else beat me to the punch, since, as I mentioned, the bots tend to sweep through tons of fics randomly.
And it's a registered user, so it's not even as though locking my fics for logged in users would help. I hate this timeline.
And it's a registered user, so it's not even as though locking my fics for logged in users would help. I hate this timeline.
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Feb. 10th, 2026 05:33 pmlea_hazelThis article about color symbolism in Kpop Demon Hunters is pretty interesting, apropos of nothing.
