Yhlee wanted to know my favourite German song. Well, I had to divide the answer(s) by genre, and even then I had a hard time narrowing them down. However, here are the results:

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Several things accumulating during a busy week, mainly:

1.) Andor season 1 finale: ( Spoilery thoughts. )

In catching-up-with-the-Mouse-news:

She Hulk: Attorney at Law: enjoyable silly fun, for the most part. The fourth wall breaking female narrator is rapidly becoming such a cliché, though, that I really hope future productions will give it a rest. After Orphan Black, I'm sure all of this feels like a holiday for Tatiana Maslany, and it reminded me ( Read more... )

When luring
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Subtitle: Four Remarkable Sisters, the Crown of Bohemia, and the Enduring Legacy of Mary, Queen of Scots.

Still catching up with reviewing books I read weeks ago, because RL keeps being insanely busy:
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Die Eiserne Zeit/Age of Iron is a docudrama miniseries in six parts, mainly a German-French co production originally shown at ARTE and now also available at Amazon Prime, about the 30 Years War. It tackles the extremely difficult task of getting across an international war with a myriad of different parties involved which kept changing goals over ( Read more... )

Aka the one about the battle of the Teutoburg Forest. Overall: not an instant classic, but succeeds in what it sets out doing in an entertaining fashion.

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I had a (happily) exhausting week travelling through the Mark Brandenburg. Now, I've just put up four extensive photo posts complete with explanations at
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This was my official assignment. "Apollo/Admetus" was one of the pairings my recipient had asked for. Before, I had been aware of Admetus mainly through him being Alcestis' husband, though I had noticed he showed up in a couple of other myths as well, but I hadn't known, for example, that Ovid claims he and Apollo had been an item during Apollo's ( Read more... )

I continue to blame Cahn and Mildred and various debates. Also my thing for dysfunctional siblings and their messed up relationships.

Promises To Keep (3595 words) by Selena
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 18th Century CE RPF, 18th Century CE Frederician RPF
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Friedrich II von Preußen | ( Read more... )