incidents and accidents, hints and allegations

After this announcement, anyway.

I honestly don't know how much of an effect the reported move of LJ's servers fully to Russia actually has, given that LJ's owners have had access to all our data since the purchase lo these many years ago, but as there are reports of Russian-language accounts being deleted, it's probably the least I can do.

I will not delete existing public posts, since I hate breaking links, but I am deleting all my old locked posts there.

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And finally, music & musicals, webcomics, and games.

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And again I break alphabetical order to keep a great wodge of recs together.

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Look, it's not quite 1 a.m. yet! Go me. *falls over*

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More Yuletide recs! Let's start with movies & TV.

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And now things that are crossovers or draw from multiple versions of canon.

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Okay, now let's squeeze in the recs for which you don't need canon.

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See also: win me, win me, an ye will, discussed under books/Cho; and So Sick of That Same Old Love (3562 words) by Iphys, discussed under books/Virgil.

One more!

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More Yuletide recs! Let's start with movies & TV.

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And now things that are crossovers or draw from multiple versions of canon.

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Okay, now let's squeeze in the recs for which you don't need canon.

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See also: win me, win me, an ye will, discussed under books/Cho; and So Sick of That Same Old Love (3562 words) by Iphys, discussed under books/Virgil.

One more!

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I still have, uh, several dozen fics I meant to reread for possible recommendation (some of which, on looking at my list, almost certainly will be recommended, arrgh), but if these recs don't get done tonight they won't get done before this year's reveals. Still, 77 is a quite respectable number even if I didn't read as widely as I usually do!

As always, I dumped everything I might theoretically want to read into Evernote before reveals, so these were all read with "anonymous" still as the author. They are organized into multiple posts by type of source, with cut-tags and section headings, to reduce tl;dr. Also I have proofread this as carefully as I can but my eyes are literally crossing from fatigue, so apologies if I missed a coding error or typo.

Here are the books recs!

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Okay, two more posts. Let's go.

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Email read this morning indicates that work has blown up even more than it already had been, so, super quick. (Note to self: write down your thoughts about Moana sometime. Possibly also the Hamilton Mixtape.)

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If you're considering seeing the movie Arrival, and you HAVEN'T read the story it's based on (Ted Chiang's "Story of Your Life"), I would strongly recommend you keep it that way until after you've seen the movie. Because I've read the story and it definitely got in the way—I mean, I can't guarantee the movie would have attained cohesiveness if I hadn't, but it's getting very good reviews, so I think more likely, at least.

I'm glad it exists as an example of successful smaller-scale prestige SF, and I'm glad I saw it, but more to be up on the conversation than because it really worked for me.

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Ugh, I don't know, I thought it was blazing hot in the theater and Chad didn't, which is so exactly the reverse of our usual reactions that I may be having new and excitingly different symptoms in my cold, so I'm going to find some Tylenol and fall into bed. So this is far from useful but tomorrow is going to be ridiculously busy so I figured a few impressions now were better than nothing.

Oh, trailers, super-quick:

Allied: oh, look, Brad Pitt gets to angst over whether Marion Cotillard is secretly evil and whether he needs to kill her. Pass.

Nocturnal Animals: I have literally no idea what this is about.

Split: the trailer for M. Night Shyamalan's next movie is so stunningly offensive that I'm not linking to it or describing it.

Beauty and the Beast: why. Why does this exist.

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I misremembered the title of this as "Gem Hunt" and I couldn't for the life of me figure out what it referred to. For good reason.

Nb: this has some present-day resonances that may make it less than escapist viewing, though it is certainly not anywhere near as dark as this show can go.

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Also I have a cold and am exhausted. So, for what it's worth.

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Which my DVR hadn't picked up, so, be aware!

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