531 words written today and! more impressively! I actually watched a movie! this does not sound impressive unless you count the fact that actually sitting down and watching something is weirdly difficult for someone who spends like 80% of her computer (which is where I watch things). yeah it took me ten hours to watch a 1 hour 43 minute movie, what of it, it could have been six months, it's happened before. (World War Z, which I've heard is not a great adaptation but a pretty good zombie movie if you haven't read the book, which I haven't, because zombies aren't really my thing. not that I haven't read and watched my share of zombie fiction. ah, Newsflesh, if only you hadn't essentially been ruined for me by (a) the 2016 election and (b) all of 2020 and also (c) my irritation with the author (mostly for her other series but also I really hated Feedback to the extent that it fried the whole series for me). used to be a yearly reread. my feelings on the 28 [time unit] Later franchise is that I got weirdly into it last year and then have still never got around to seeing the new film, but also I find it depressing and very stressful. which is how I feel about most zombie stuff (I have read/seen others) and why it isn't really my thing. also the reason I still haven't seen Marvel Zombies, along with my general issues with MCU animation (many).)
Snippet from Down to the Flood chapter 8.
“The Capitol only got the Rosses out of District Two,” Steve said after a moment, putting the last plate in the dishwasher and deciding that he would leave the griddle in the sink to soak. “I know there were others, but they all ended up hanging from lampposts.” Thor turned back to him, his eyebrows shooting upwards. “The Rosses?” “Betty’s family,” Natasha said. “Steve says that they’re from District Two originally.” Thor scoffed. “Any others?” Steve shrugged. “The Rosses were the only ones who made it out of Two and the only ones who had a kid anywhere near my age – Alex Ross –” “General Ross’s father,” Natasha explained when Thor frowned. “The Minister of Defense.” “– is, was, only a couple years older than me. I think there was a girl from…Six, maybe, who was in school with Peggy’s little brother, but I never met her.” Steve bit his lip. “I know the Rosses tried to claim Betsy’s body, but the War Department wouldn’t release it because she’d gotten another serum – Betsy Ross was the other tribute from Two; she was Alex’s cousin. Schmidt made the Rosses, all of the Dirty Dozen, watch.”
