A selection of stories which caught my eye last night:

Der Erlkönig (the Goethe poem and the Schubert song): Our Father, which is another creepy, awesome ballad. Poetry fanfiction in both senses! It's fabulous, and should be comprehensible even if you don't know the original poem. (BTW, if you don't, but want to know, here is a rendition in ( Read more... )

Brushing up on the French Revolution can have some eerie present day chill effects, especially with things like the September Massacres pepared, in hindsight, by a long time of wild conspiracy theories being believed, increasing hysteria in the social media of the day and the utter dehumanisation of anyone not holding one's own views in the ( Read more... )

I forgot to mention this in my review of Medici: The Magnificent, but in his childhood flashbacks, Lorenzo de‘ Medici is played by Sam Taylor Buck, aka the same kid who plays the Antichrist in Good Omens. Given the thematic relevance of Contessina urging him to „do good, be good“ in said flashbacks while realpolitic and then a bloody conspiracy ( Read more... )

In terms of fannish catching up:

See You Yesterday: directed by Stefon Bristol, starring relative newcomers Eden Duncan-Smith and Dante Crichlow, both of whom I’ll keep an eye on, produced by Spike Lee: on Netflix, definitely worth watching. What little criticism I’ve seen of this universally praised movie deals with the perceived „shift in tone ( Read more... )

The tree is standing and decorated, the APs are in dire need to relax, the cats are eyeing the tree speculatively, last minute issues keep coming up: in short: I'm back in Bamberg for Christmas ( Read more... )

Good fannish news to look forward to in a busy life: there will be an adaption of Good Omens for tv, by Terry Jones, no less. The combinaton of Terry Prattchet, Neil Gaiman and an ex-Monty Python sounds almost too good to be true. Incidentally, while I love individual works by either writer better than this collaboration, Good Omens is definitely ( Read more... )