I'm going to try to post more regularly this year. I need to convince myself that long missives are not necessary (generally the kind of posts I start, then got bogged down with), but I could post SOMETHING.

Let's start with Yuletide.

This year, I received:

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15) Do I Sound Gay?--Documentary about a gay man trying to figure out 1) does he, in fact, sound gay and 2) does it matter? Interesting for the different reasons some gay people "sound gay," as well as what that means.

16) Risen--Movie about the Tribune (Joseph Fiennes) who is assigned by Pilate (Peter Firth) to find out how the followers of Jesus ( Read more... )

So, season finale of Vikings--and thank goodness I know it's already renewed for next season, even without the whole Bjorn-Bear promo--so I've got a few things to say.

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I have so many thoughts about Daredevil and Age of Ultron, and I'm leaving in a week for Ireland and GB.

Except, instead, I'm going to talk about Vikings.

( Cut for spoilers through 3.9 Breaking Point )

Whoa. Just...whoa.

( Cut for lots and lots of spoilers for Vikings 3x6 Born Again )

The only real problem with watching Vikings before I go to work on Friday is that I then spend the entire workday trying not to think about Vikings. This is not entirely successful.

( Cut for comments on Vikings 3x5 The Usurper )

I need to make a post about Escapade and all the discussion I had--Vikings! PoI! Marvel! Sherlock Holmes!--but that is not this post.

This post, I want to talk about last night's Vikings. ( Cut for comments on 3.5, Scarred )

This weekend's new-movie-to-me was Apartment 143. Basic premise: single dad and two kids still dealing with the death of mom call in some paranormal investigators after dealing with increasingly violent incidents. On the plus side, while being a found-footage horror film, it had a very J-horror feel to it (though not, unusually, a remake of any ( Read more... )

Oh, Vikings, I have missed you. And thanks: now I want to go back and finish the Ragnar/Athelstan post-season 2 PWP that has all the sex my OT3 Yuletide story from a year ago didn't. :-)

( Cut for comments on Mercenary )

ETA: I just posted this and realized this may be the most violent collection of links ever. Not apologizing, just amused that it was totally unintentional.

Firstly, that Fury Road trailer I mentioned yesterday. I've seen reactions from some friends so far that are either "TOO VIOLENT, DO NOT WANT!" or "This. Is. AWESOME ( Read more... )