Living in the darkest timeline continues to a horrorshow, so, to fannish things ( Read more... )

( Agatha All Along 1.04 )

( Rings of Power 2.07 )

Rings of Power 2.05 and 2.06: In which things go really bad for dwarves and (some) Numenorians, but really well for Sauron.

( Spoilers really want to surpass Feanor )

In which a previously unfilmed LotR character makes his screen debut, and lives get saved in practically every storyline.

( Not all those who wander are lost )

In which the show is back and continues to please me. No doubt this is partly because it's been decades since I read the books, and while I liked them, I was never passionate about them. (Meanwhile: behold my childhood love for Michael Ende's The Never-Ending Story and the corresponding grrr-arggh feeling towards the movie (the first one, I never ( Read more... )

I'm currently watching season 2 of Carnival Row - for non-watchers, a fantasy series set in a vaguely Victorian/Edwardian AU with fairies and other mythological beings as refugees/minorities in fantasy!America (or Fantasy!Britain), and incidentally, I do love how the wings of the fairies really feel like an expressive part of their bodies -, and in ( Read more... )

lilacsigil asked me this. Well, the case that immediately comes to mind is Star Trek (TOS specifically), which I frst saw as a child and teenager dubbed into German on German afternoon tv. It wasn't until I was in my 20s that I saw the episodes in the English original. Among other things, this means I still instinctively associate the characters with their ( Read more... )

Fairy Tales:

The tale you tell: this is a crossover with Into the Woods, and a fantastic take on the Baker's wife and her backstory. To say more would spoil a great twist.

There were several lovely takes on the Six Swans fairy tale, and these two are my favourites:

roses and sentiments, drowning in the sea of clouds: Character study of the ( Read more... )

And thus, the season is complete. Incidentally, does anyone know who sings that musical version of the Ring poem over the final credits, and who composed the melody?

( 'Spoilers have enjoyed this season thoroughly )