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Knives Out

Thu, 02 Jan 2020 20:00:17 GMT

Knives Out opened here, so I could finally watch it after seeing others squee all over the place. And it was indeed a lot of fun. The actors seemed to enjoy themselves as well.

This was the first time in ages that I saw something that wasn't a superhero or SFF movie in the cinema. I don't even remember what the last one was.

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listening to The Magnus Archives

Mon, 04 Nov 2019 15:08:42 GMT

After coming across squeeing in rydra_wong's journal about The Magnus Archives, I spent most of my time the last couple of days catching up with that podcast. The individual episodes are only about twenty minutes each, but well, as of now, at the end of season four of a planned five, there are 160 of it, so that adds up.

Fortunately I can do things like eating or cooking while listening to podcasts, and the 31st has recently been made a holiday again (not for Halloween, but as Reformation Day), so it was only moderately life disrupting, but the podcast is kind of ridiculously compelling.

If you haven't heard of the podcast, there's a framing conceit of an archive collecting testimonies of various horrible and creepy things that happen to people, but the short stories you hear interconnect at certain points so that you discover more of the underlying mythology and background history, and the archive staff also become protagonists in the events that you see unfold in the framework bits.

Horror normally is not my genre of choice at all, because I *like* happy endings, and those aren't really a genre feature of horror, especially not in the cosmic horror kind. Also I get really attached to main characters, and that is ill advised too.

And yet, here I am ( spoilery for the season four finale )

And now I have to wait until *April* for season five.

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Captain Marvel

Sat, 09 Mar 2019 14:36:52 GMT

I've watched Captain Marvel last night, and I had a really good time. And the theater was completely sold out too.

( cut for spoilers )

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Spider-Man: Homecoming

Fri, 14 Jul 2017 23:05:25 GMT

I watched Spider-Man: Homecoming this afternoon, and it was a lot of fun.

( cut for spoilers )

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Age of Ultron

Thu, 23 Apr 2015 23:15:47 GMT

I enjoyed it a lot.

( spoilers )

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Daredevil squee

Wed, 15 Apr 2015 13:36:37 GMT

I've now finished watching all thirteen episodes and I really enjoyed it. I think it adapted the comics very well and is true to them.

Admittedly it is probably not the right series if you dislike grimdark and violence, but then that is true for much of the Daredevil comics ever since there *were* modern grimdark superhero comics. After all it was Frank Miller who shaped much of the modern Daredevil, and in reverse he started his career with that title (or at least it's the first he's become really known for) and developed his style there. I actually like Miller's work on Daredevil (unlike his works from Sin City onwards at least), but well, this still was pretty much what started superheroes going grimdark in the first place, as Miller's run progressed.

However I actually like that noir take on superheroes unless it goes truly overboard and becomes the kind of grimdark that is just a parody of itself without realizing it. And the Netflix series is IMO quite far away from that point.

For one thing at least to me the characters were still likable. I loved how they handled Matt and Foggy's relationship, and enjoyed the flashbacks to their college time that we got to see. I appreciated that ( spoilers )

I also liked Karen Page and her dynamic with both Foggy and Matt. I liked the symmetry that all three of them did not just work together, but each also followed things up on their own. Obviously Matt as vigilante but also ( spoilers )

I also thought their take on Wilson Fisk was done really well, that balance that he first comes across as a sort of "white collar" criminal who doesn't need to get his own hands dirty, but in fact erupts into hands-on violence and killing rages, and is even strong enough to fight Daredevil directly. I also liked how they adapted Vanessa to be more open-eyed.

I thought the James Wesley character as Fisk's right hand man was a great addition, though that is partly because his interactions with Fisk pinged my service kink *hard*. ( spoilers )

I also liked most of the minor tie backs to the comics that I caught, though I probably missed many. ( spoilers )

As for hints of larger events to come ( spoilers )

Unlike some other comments I've seen, I don't have much trouble to fit this with the rest of the MCU, i.e. the issue that the Avengers existing in the same New York where ( spoilers )

Anyway, I had a lot of fun watching.

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check out the Secret Mutant story I got!

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 01:51:37 GMT

One of my prompts asked for an XMFC take on Erik's and Magda's backstory. The story I was gifted takes elements from the comics and merges them into XMFC. As you can guess from the subject matter, it is not a fluffy story (and you should heed the warning for graphic violence), but it ends at a somewhat hopeful point in the string of tragedies in Erik's life.

So go and read: Geheimnisträger (12476 words, Erik/Magda) by Anonymous

(and despite the German word as title, it has no gratuitous German dialog to trip over <3!)

Unrelated, I let my extra icon package on LJ expire, because I've bee using it much less often, so like with IJ you might miss some of my icons from now on if you follow my LJ-crossposts rather than the DW posts.

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art, all for me!

Sun, 16 Dec 2012 17:09:19 GMT

Though you should take a look too at the great XMFC art roga drew for me for yuletart. It's for my XMFC prompt to show Erik using his powers to build something.

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a secret_mutant fic, all for me!

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 19:43:13 GMT

I got a Steampunk AU story that included so many of my favorite things: atmospheric descriptions and hints of background story and worldbuilding, both Erik and Charles using their powers, with Erik being all competent while stealing a dirigible, plus Charles/Erik sex that works for my mindcontrol kink. (And the unfortunate typo in "canon" in the header is not indicative at all of the spelling competence of story, so do not let that deter you.)

So go read: The Case of the Missing Dirigible, or a Romance of Chance Meetings

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it seems that flailing is my default expression for Suits dialog

Fri, 02 Sep 2011 21:02:48 GMT

( spoiler for 1x11 )

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I'm just into the opening of this week's Suits ep...

Fri, 26 Aug 2011 10:19:29 GMT

Seriously, the D/s fic practically writes itself...( spoilers for the most recent episode )

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Look what I got!

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 06:43:36 GMT

goss drew me a picture of SuperGrover for my drawble request, and it turned out absolutely awesome, with SuperGrover as part of a Green Lantern like Corps.

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a yuletart gift, all for me!

Wed, 08 Dec 2010 20:06:35 GMT

Well, you can take a look too, I guess. :D

And you should, because I got very cool, gen Merlin art, that suggest a story of magical fighting in the future.

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Yuletart sign-ups!

Mon, 20 Sep 2010 09:11:17 GMT

I just signed up for yuletart, and you should sign up too if you like drawing fanart.

Though took me something like two hours to edit my detailed request info so that it fit into the tiny 4300 character LJ comment, because I'd be happy to receive something in ten fandoms, so that comment length gave barely room to mention my favorite characters.

Anyway, it's an awesome art exchange. This will be the fourth time I'm participating and it has been running more smoothly every year. And I wouldn't want to miss it, even though I will just have to hope for the best wrt to the somewhat unpredictable family-related hazards to my schedule.

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I got my Yuletart gift!

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:58:38 GMT

The yuletart gift for me was just posted, and it is a very cute Spock/Uhura piece with a tribble. So check it out.

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insta-rec: Break by Yahtzee

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:59:44 GMT

yahtzee63 just posted the last part of her awesome ST:AOS story Break (Spock/Uhura, ca. 26,000 words), which tells the story of Spock and Uhura's relationship from their first meeting to the end of the movie. You probably have all already read this or bookmarked it for reading anyway, but if not you really should.

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Star Trek movie

Sat, 09 May 2009 11:09:20 GMT

I went to see the new Star Trek movie last night: ( mostly squee )

So is there any fannish infrastructure for the rebooted Star Trek universe yet? Communities, newsletters, that kind of thing?

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