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Yuletide!
Yuletide has gone live, and I'm very much looking forward to all the stories waiting. My gift was just what I wanted: messy, complex siblings relationships, via a look at Elizabeth Seymour, from that other ambituos family in Tudor England. I love it!
The Other Seymour Girl (2724 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
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Pics of Comfort and Joy
Merry Christmas to all who celebrate it, and may your holidays be peaceful and full of joy and warmth to everyone! While my annual pic spam will feature the usual Bamberg suspects, I shall open with the amazing AIKO nativity scene I found in Salzburg. You'll find out why. (And what AIKO stands for.)
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Salzburg Views
I had a really busy month, but there was one day I spent in Salzburg, which is easily reachable by train from Munich, where I live, and I had the most magnificent weather. And that city does look like a baroque cake. Which is why you get a Salzburg pic spam before my nativity pic spam during the holidays.
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Bad Wilkie Collins and Robert Graves fanfic
A few things which didn't do it for me:
James Wilson: The Dark Clue. A decades old novel which got translated into German only now, hence my coming across is accidentally. I did like the premise; it's the execution that sucks. The idea: Marian Halcombe and Walter Hartright from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins start investigating the life of ( Read more... ) -
Return of the January Meme
Pick a date below and give me a topic, and I'll ramble on. I'm good at talking. It can be anything from fandom-related (specific characters, actors, storylines, episodes, why the world should give the Julian-Claudians a rest and make a Flavius Josephus/Josef Ben Matthias centric show set in the Flavian era instead, which Byzantine Empress needs her ( Read more... ) -
Happy birthday, Judi Dench!
It's Judi Dench's 90th birthday today, I'm told, and I'm so glad she's still with us. The first time I noticed her awesomeness was when I watched a video recording of Trevor Nunn's RSC production of Macbeth, with her and Ian McKellen in the leads. To this day, they are the ultimate Macbeths to me. In practically any other production I've seen, ( Read more... ) -
Le temps de Cathedrales... (et revolutions)
So....Notre Dame reopened, Assad and his regime toppled in Syria: that was some weekend. As to the former, I did watch most of the ceremony (and tried avert my eyes whenever the orange felon appeared), and wow, but looking at the cathedral now does feel a bit like time travel with the white(ish) sandstone and the colours of the paintings without ( Read more... ) -
Firebrand (Film review)
Firebrand was available on a streaming service I have, so I could watch the movie I missed in the theatres, the first one focused on Katherine Parr. (Despite the gazillion of Tudor media products out there already.) Overall: two thirds of the movie are very good. The rest felt to me like it was veering into counterfactiual melodrama in a way that's ( Read more... ) -
The Diplomat (Season 2)
I watched and enjoyed the second season of The Diplomat (the review for the first season is here, which I wasn't sure I would, given that back in the day when we all thought it couldn't come worse than the Bush administration (insert hollow laughter here), I found myself unable to marathan The West Wing and had to wait for the Obama era to watch it ( Read more... ) -
Multiverse irritations
Living in the darkest timeline continues to a horrorshow, so, to fannish things ( Read more... )