shallowness

Fanfiction recs in the following fandoms: Community, Firefly, Into the Woods, Jane Eyre and Little Women.

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Two recs posts in one month! Fanfiction recs from the following fandoms: The Blue Castle, Community, Inception and Marvel Cinematic Universe, and an original fic rec!

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There’s no getting around it, this Christmas is different, but some of the treats I’d planned for myself yesterday came off.

And there were TV Christmas specials.

Ghosts: The Ghost of Christmas (watched on Christmas Eve)

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Strictly Christmas special (watched on Christmas Day)

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I capped off the night by watching the Community season 3 Christmas episode, and laughed at and enjoyed all the songs, although Baby Boomer Santa is probably my favourite. And then, because I have a new Blu-Ray player since the last time I watched season 3, I watched the episode where Annie and Abed have a fight in the Dreamatorium, and this time it did not skip at all, so that was happy-making. Also Abed-as-Troy’s speech about not getting Inception made me laugh the most. <3 Community.

I’ve been watching the first disc of the show on DVD, and ( what follows is an overview, not an episode-by-episode thing )

I posted a ficlet yesterday: I Like The Way You Move, MCU, Thor/Jane you suck at dancing but you’re doing it in the middle of a bookstore to the crappy music on the radio and I think it’s pretty damn cute au.

I started drafting a fill (the prompt is the summary) last autumn when I saw it, and it sat there for months. I really went at it this month and came up with a title and a way of ending it. This was done entirely on the laptop. I’m not happy about the probable lack of Thor/Jane in Thor: Ragnarok, hence the fluff - inasmuch as I need an excuse to write fluff. Some feelings about bookshops may have crept in also.

Marvel thing no. 2 is Spider-Man Homecoming. Look, I wasn’t excited about this film; I was planning on going and seeing it, yes, but not in any desperate hurry to do so, because I was around for the two previous cinematic iterations, and while I intellectually get why Marvel were so excited to get their biggest superhero into the MCU (which the title encompasses. although it’s not an aggressively meta film by a comic book superhero movie in 2017 standards), I am getting older and more grumpily distant from Peter Parker and the preteen boys who probably love Spidey the most.

But, this weekend, the other option was Dunkirk, which I do want to see, but it’s an intense war movie. So I chose the lighter fare, aware that this has had decent reviews. And as it also has MCU developments and I wanted to give it a thumbs up, here’s my review.

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As for the end credits scene – ( mild spoilers ) Otherwise, ( major spoilers )

I just saw that I posted the equivalent recs post on Christmas Eve eve last year. Lots of ficlets this time around.

( Fics and fanvids in the following fandoms: The Bourne Legacy; Brooklyn Nine-Nine; Community; Edge of Tomorrow; The Good Wife; Harry Potter; The Hobbit (movieverse); Humans; Inception; Marvel Cinematic Universe (Thor, Agents of SHIELD, Iron Man); and Nashville )

Hmm, only one of those is remotely seasonal.

I'm in no mood to watch Revenge tonight, so I give you this adapted and melded meme.

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I finally watched everything on my Community season 3 DVD. As proof that I watched all the Community season 3 DVD commentaries – they led me to this vid JERLEY 4EVA! by thanatos101b (a Jeff/Shirley fanvid to the official Community shipper song). Granted, my laughing tailed off in the middle, but it’s worth sticking with to the very end.

(By the way, I hope to post a fanfic and fanvid recpost soon).

My favourite episodes were ( spoilers )

Still working my way gradually through Community season 3. Still sticking to three things* about each episode. Spoilers up to 'Contemporary Impressionists' (is that 3.11?) 3.08 to 3.11 was a pretty good run, I thought.

( I'll take that )

*not really

I was complaining about my problems when watching season 2 of Community on DVD in the last post, but I worked out it was the disc that was the problem, which in the grand scheme of things is not as big a problem as if it were the player. So I had to give up on rewatching the end of 'Conspiracy Theories and Interior Design' and much of any of 'Abed's Unstoppbable Christmas'. Woe.

But then, in my very truncated rewatch, I watched 'Intermediate Documentary Making' - mainly because I've been watching so much Arrested Development, and then the fake flashback episode. Pretty much like last time, I was wheezing with laughter by the time we got to ( spoiler ) and of course, that's the episode where The Catchphrase appeared. And then there was the paint-ball double bill, which makes this the morning after what turned out to be a fun night once I gave up on trying to will a certain DVD to play without a hitch this time.