I’m watching Man in the High Castle and you’re right – watching both right now is too much.

I love it, but yeah. I one cannot have ONLY repression and secret resistance stories in one’s life. Especially if we need to be resisting for real. Come to think of it, we also just saw Allegiance, and that was of a similar ilk (though the past, not the future). It’s important to be open to those stories, but not to the point that they affect your real mood and ability to cope. But I will probably try to watch HMT… if only to compare to the film. I wonder if they’ll skip the epilogue as well.

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The Handmaid’s Tale looks so…

I read The Handmaid’s Tale every two years and I’m glad it’s getting more attention via the series but I have no desire to watch the series. I don’t know why. Maybe because it’s hitting to close to what could be.

It was feeling a bit close to home during the election, which is why I tried to make all my cis white male friends read it so they could understand why I was freaking the hell out. They can understand potential threats intellectually, but to have a visceral response you need a story… either to have lived one or read one. They got it afterwards. And none of them want to read it again, so I completely understand not wanting to subject yourself to the arc when you feel like you’re on it and you already have learned the visceral reaction. Don’t know if I have the stomach for Handmaid’s Tale and Man in the High Castle at the same time, tbh…