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Goodreads sent out the link to their Year in Review today and, man, looking at that image grid is just a reminder that I read a lot of trash this year. Not to get judgmental at myself. But that's a lot of trash. Fun trash! Trash I enjoyed! (Mostly.) But trash reading. It's like. Comic book, Doctor Who book, Scholastic book aimed at ten-year-olds from the 90s, repeat. With the rare bit of nonfiction or actual literature thrown in to mix it up.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I also wanted to post to promote two new media releases that I am currently obsessing over: Taylor Swift's album Evermore and the Cartoon Saloon movie Wolfwalkers.

Evermore probably doesn't actually need me to promote it as it's getting plenty of promotion and buzz, but I'm wildly in love with it; it's like a short story anthology in music form. Particular song highlights for me are champagne problems (she would've made such a lovely bride, what a shame she's fucked in the head), tis the damn season, tolerate it, no body no crime, cowboy like me, and closure.

Wolfwalkers, on the other hand, is the newest film from the same little indie Irish studio that produced some of my other favorite animated films The Secret of Kells, Song of the Sea, and The Breadwinner; I've been looking forward to it since the concept trailer was released back in 2015, and it does not disappoint. It's about a young English girl who moves to Ireland with her father in 1650 to hunt wolves and discovers the truth about the local myths of 'wolfwalkers' - shapeshifters who are humans by day and wolves by night - when she befriends a local girl. It's utterly gorgeous (like all of their projects) with a fantastic story and incredible characters. It's available through Apple TV and select theatres.

How's everybody doing??
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I started my new job today, and I also got five (five!!!) gifts for Yuletide, and they are all brilliant, I can't pick a favorite, I am reccing them all to you right now you should read all of them.

In the main collection:

Karma, Karma
Honey, I rose up from the dead. I do it all the time.
A Look What You Made Me Do fic, in which multiple versions of Taylor Swift team up to steal a statue. With backstabbing. And revenge plots. And a body-stealing, murderous zombie you can't help but root for. And some fantastically sneak-up-on-you creepy worldbuilding.

harder, in the nick of time
“Who am I?” I asked. “Where am I? What’s going on?”

“Genetically, you’re a clone of an individual named Taylor Swift,” she said. “Vocationally, you are, essentially, a spy. As for what’s going on–”

“We’re on a mission,” someone else said, “or we’re about to be. Gear up.”

Another Look What You Made Me Do fic taking things in a completely different direction. A memory-wiped clone of Taylor Swift discovers that she's been created to act as a diversion in spy missions and struggles with her identity, her relationship with her fellow clones, and her place in the world. Also features my new OTP Becky/Rory which I will now ship forever.


In the Madness collection:

A Bedtime Story
The things in the wall have quite a bit to say for themselves. It doesn't mean you'd be wise to listen.
A Sit Down By The Fire fic that is deliciously, wonderfully creepy, with language made to do things that would make Shane MacGowan proud. The things' opinion of humanity isn't flattering at all, and it rings more than a little true -- beware what the things are whispering to you.

Those who Help us Most to Grow
Fizz goes back to The Greenroom for some advice.
A Julie's Greenroom fic, in which Fizz, all grown up, returns to the Greenroom to seek Miss Julie's help and runs into Peri there as well. Utterly charming, as sweet and optimistic as the source material; this is what Fizz's future must and does look like.

Orientation
Etta Perrault meets a coworker.
A The Bridge fic, short and perfect; Etta's first encounter with Bob Specimen 10, as a new recruit. Also features a brief and exactly in-character cameo from Roger. I hope the podcast never goes into much detail about this part of the backstory, because this is my new headcanon.
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This is kind of late, given that reveals happened yesterday, but I was originally intending to read through the whole main archive before posting. Given that I am so far only through the Is in the fandom list, if I waited to get through the whole archive this would get posted just in time for next Yuletide.

So instead I'm just going to say that you should check out Opportunity, the absolutely lovely Within The Wires Hester/Oleta fic I received -- it's mainly a character study of Oleta post-Institute, and it's eerie and sweet and wonderful and everything I could've asked for.

You should also check out St. Cedd's Most Wanted, a Madness treat I received for the Dirk Gently series, concerning Dirk Gently, Richard MacDuff, and their university days; it's adorable and perfectly in-character.

(Also, I wrote three fics: It's Only The End Of The World, for Constantine (TV) and set during the apocalpyse; Kissing Don't Last (Cooking Do), for Monstrous Regiment and concerning Shufti (and her feelings for Polly); and Life Doesn't Discriminate (Between Sinners And Saints), for The X-Files: Deviations comic, about Samantha Mulder's life in the wake of her brother's abduction. So, you know, those exist.)

It was an excellent Yuletide and I still have more than half of the main archive and virtually all of the Madness archive to read through!
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I just finished reading Crosstalk, and now I'm sitting here having slightly confused thoughts about how much Connie Willis is able to bypass all of my hangups about certain tropes and appeal directly to my id anyway.

mildly spoilery thoughts )

Consider this a formal if slightly incoherent recommendation, if you're interested in book recommendations.
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YOU GUYS IT SNOWED.

Like legit snow, like four inches, not like usual North Carolina ~snow. I know four inches is not objectively a lot, but this is coastal North Carolina.

My mom was supposed to fly up to New York today to visit the older sister for a week but her flight was postponed 'til tomorrow because of the snow.

So yeah.


Er, in other news...

- I am doubtful about the validity of the LOST 'leaked first four minutes of 5x01'. Mostly based on the fact that virtually none of it is new footage.

- I have unexpectedly scored a $15 iTunes gift card. I have so far spent ~$5 of it (I got Raul Esparza singing O Holy Night and I am attempting to rent The Great Muppet Caper because I am a geek but it's having some difficulty downloading). Any recommendations on what to spend the remaining $10 on?

- [livejournal.com profile] bwaydaily's general consensus on Corbin Bleu appears to be that he's surprisingly good as Usnavi. I am so curious about his performance, negl.

- There is webcomic wank at fandom_wank, omg. It's hilarious. But someone in the comments linked to Darths & Droids and I spent last night archive-binging. Tragic, really. I'm now caught up and subscribed to the RSS feed. Are there any other webcomics I should be reading but am not? Because I should really just get all the archive-binging out of the way at once.

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