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There are still free spots on my January meme if you want to read me ramble about the topic of your choice.

Also, have two links:

Hush, Little Baby is a great new Sandman vid, capturing the eeriness mingled with the connections beautifully.

Also, this take on what 'Bigeneration' de facto means in the recent DW special is very sensible and sense ( Read more... )

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... )

Festivids has gone live, and as ever, I'm a fervent admirer of people able to create them. This year's early bunch of favourites:

Andor:

Nameless bodies, unrenemembered rooms : Cassian and Kino centric, intense and dynamic study of the prison arc.

Life during Wartime: Great ensemble vid.

The Expanse:

Solid Wonderful Chrisjen Avasarala/Bobbie ( Read more... )

Which is what davetheanalyzer wants to know. Wellllllll, as Fontane (who wrote some historical rpf and poetry, though mainly contemporary stories) would say, das ist ein weites Feld. Some of them were used to it within their life time and appear to have been very sang froid about it. Case in point: Catherine de' Medici, who is on the record of observing after a ( Read more... )

Thinking further on just when the Rembrandt look came into fashion for the majority of historical movies and tv shows, independent of setting - i.e. not just when we're talking WWI movies or stories set in a Benedictine monastery - just when did producers decide to abandon all colours? watervole might be on to something when saying a man in bright primary ( Read more... )

Watched the second season of Bridgerton, which was frothy fun. Of all the (gazillion) things to snap me out of its cheerfully anachronistic universe, though, was various characters going "ugth, but we can't, he's our cousin!" at the prospect of a fourth degree cousin as a potential match. (And no, they didn't grow up with him, none of them had met ( Read more... )

Sign-ups are open for the unsent-letters-exchange. The tag set is here. I found this to be a low key and stress free exchange last year, since the format - see title - makes it easy to write something plot free if you can't come up with one, so I'll probably join this year as well. Also, two of my tv fandoms of old - Babylon 5 and Alias - are options, as are my new ( Read more... )

1. Your main fandom of the year?

Still 18th Century history, Prussian-Austrian-Hannoverian-French edition, though I branched out to the Renaissance in the final quarter.

2. Your favorite film watched this year?

I don't think I have one. Oh, I watched a lot, both via Streaming and eventually three in the cinema. And I liked most of them (including ( Read more... )

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