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End of Year Meme
1. Your main fandom of the year?
Still 18th Century history, Prussian-Austrian-Hannoverian-French edition, with the occasional ancient history interlude.
2. Your favorite film watched this year?
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Yuletide Recs (II)
My Yuletide recipient has commented, phew. This was a new-to-me person, so unlike the last few years, I had no idea what their reaction would be, and they wrote lovely, detailed feedback. Hooray! Have a few more recs:
A Dangerous Man: Lawrence after Arabia:
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Yuletide Recs (I)
A first few Yuletide recs:
Agatha All Along:
Smart and Powerful: in which Jen encounters Agatha for the first time in the early 20th century. Banter, UST and foiled murderous intentions ensue.
Dune:
Adam's Rib: in which Irulan attempts to interview Paul for her histories between Dune and Dune Messiah. (It works for the Villeneuve movies ( Read more... ) -
Doctor Who Christmas Special: Joy to the World
Featuring the return of Stephen Moffat as a scriptwriter for DW, and okay, as Christmas specials go. (My own take on the various Christmas specials from various New Who eras: I love only two - The Runaway Bride and The Husbands of River Song respectively, i.e one RTD and one Moffat effort, but like most of them (in varying degrees). I think there ( Read more... ) -
Star Wars: Skeleton Crew 1.04 and 1.05:
Continues to be excellent, might shape up to be my favourite SW series after The Clone Wars if it keeps this up. As with The Clone Wars, the fact its targeted primarily at children works to its benefit, not detriment, I suspect (i.e. it is a tv show with an overreaching story, sure, but it is also episodic, using the tv format, not a movie broken ( Read more... ) -
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... )