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A hastily-composed 2019 fannish year-end meme:

Your main fandom this year?
Just based on the number of posts with those tags, I'll say Star Wars and The Expanse.

Your favorite film watched this year?
Not a stellar year for movies (from what I actually bothered to see), to be honest. The live-action Aladdin was fun and pretty; also, I had a good ( Read more... )

Because
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Current roommate and I finished season one (all that's available so far) of The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance. ( not very spoilery, but I'm going to refer to the original film )

Jumanji: The Next Level was a fun film! While I think a few choices are less plausible or heart-warming than the movie wants me to believe, it was still thematically consistent with the characters and their life experiences. Also, I never knew I needed to see Awkwafina (young Asian-American actress) to act like an old man from New Jersey, but it ( Read more... )

First, before I forget (again): thanks to everyone who submitted a comment on the 'make me talk' meme for January. You can still post ideas there, on anon even.
Cranky opinion: 95% of so-called secular Christmas music from the last forty years is terrible.I'm part of a small dinner group that meets up about once a week at a different restaurant. ( Read more... )

Getting closer to the end of the semester, and I AM SO TIRED. Particularly tired of grading papers, but also just generally tired.

Anyway. Aside from the problems of having one character named Jennifer and another character named Jessica (why?! they're too similar and I get confused!), I enjoyed the romance novel Beard Science by Penny Reid. Too ( Read more... )

The reddit user who posts what are widely perceived as the most plausible leaks for the plot to Star Wars IX had an update yesterday from a different source. These leaks do mostly line up with what he's reported before, but they have an "in the worst possible way" spin to them. Cue lots of meltdowns online ( Read more... )

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My viewing of kids' movies always takes a hop upward when there's vacation time with relatives. Two days after I saw Frozen 2 with my niece, we watched Big Hero Six. I enjoyed it, even while I was dreading the event that would spark the first really big change... because kids' movies have this affinity for death as a thematic element. And yup, I ( Read more... )