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kiki_engOkay. So I need to do an actual Inception rec set because it has kind of eaten my brain. (For now there's a general rec set with a fic rec.)
This Inception kink meme thread is why I love fandom; it is amazing. I got about halfway through the fills and then just pretty much broke down from awesome for a while. It was kind of hard to breathe under the weight of all this awesome, I tell you.
I love kink memes for their incredible enthusiasm. I love the comments in kink memes. There is so much capslocky and keyboard smash and general excitement. There are people making friends in this thread and geeking at each other and there is so much joy and fannishness in it. There is cover art for one of the anon stories; it is essentially a love note to the anon's anon awesomeness. Seriously.
I watched Sherlock in hopes that it'd give me another fandom and pairing to read, but, you know, it hasn't gone down like that. I watched the first episode, went, Fuck, yes, that was good for me, basked, metaed sexuality at/withreadbystarlight, powered through the next two episodes, and the end result has been... a playlist of songs to grind to and a desire to read the original stuff, not fanfic. So. That failed. I do not particularly mind, though. [It was shiny. (There are undeniably some issues, especially with the second episode, though.)]
Also in the realm of things that are shiny is this - it's the official music video for Le bien qui fait mal from Mozart l'Opera Rock, so, yeah, there is an entire musical of this and I'm kind of ridiculously intrigued. I've been trawling youtube for clips from it and it looks amazing. (Mozart! Rock! Period-inspired costumes! Leather! Shiny things! Vocals!)
In kind of the same vein, as it is indeed interesting music is We Are The Robot Pirates. It's geeky and fantastic. I've kind of got a ridiculous affection for what I think of as "Hawking voice" and this has that. It's also got a really endearing combination of geek and pirate humour. It reminds me a bit of a Doctor Who episode that Douglas Adams wrote.
SolarBeat is something I'd put into the same sort of box as We Are The Robot Pirates, but it is more elegant. The Solar System! Made musical! It's a neat concept, something like an abstract modern update of a street organ or a music box.
The Tiger Beatdown Review of Titanic is hysterical and awesome. It's a really fun read. There's a really nice discussion of the villain of the piece that fills me with glee before the romance aspect of the story gets tackled, which is also, yes, glee-inducing.
There's some kind of interesting How I Met Your Mother meta from NPR on Ted Mosby. It's a nice piece. I think it's sometimes easy to forget that Ted's the narrator of the show, or easy to forget what that means. There's some nice examination of that in here.
Michael Buble Being Stalked By A Velociraptor is an utterly amazing tumblr. There are ridiculous publicity photos, screen shots, concert photos and so on made more awesome with photoshopping from a wide range of ability - it's kind of like a twisted and awesome version of Where's Waldo at times.
There's a neat duet with Charlotte Gainsbourg and Neil Hannon from Taratata, which is a really excellent French music show. There's a good chunk of material hosted at their website; there are some really fantastic performances.
(So, indeed, recs - my miscellany folder has been growing for a while. One day there will be a coherently organised recs post again.)
This Inception kink meme thread is why I love fandom; it is amazing. I got about halfway through the fills and then just pretty much broke down from awesome for a while. It was kind of hard to breathe under the weight of all this awesome, I tell you.
I love kink memes for their incredible enthusiasm. I love the comments in kink memes. There is so much capslocky and keyboard smash and general excitement. There are people making friends in this thread and geeking at each other and there is so much joy and fannishness in it. There is cover art for one of the anon stories; it is essentially a love note to the anon's anon awesomeness. Seriously.
I watched Sherlock in hopes that it'd give me another fandom and pairing to read, but, you know, it hasn't gone down like that. I watched the first episode, went, Fuck, yes, that was good for me, basked, metaed sexuality at/with
readbystarlight, powered through the next two episodes, and the end result has been... a playlist of songs to grind to and a desire to read the original stuff, not fanfic. So. That failed. I do not particularly mind, though. [It was shiny. (There are undeniably some issues, especially with the second episode, though.)]Also in the realm of things that are shiny is this - it's the official music video for Le bien qui fait mal from Mozart l'Opera Rock, so, yeah, there is an entire musical of this and I'm kind of ridiculously intrigued. I've been trawling youtube for clips from it and it looks amazing. (Mozart! Rock! Period-inspired costumes! Leather! Shiny things! Vocals!)
In kind of the same vein, as it is indeed interesting music is We Are The Robot Pirates. It's geeky and fantastic. I've kind of got a ridiculous affection for what I think of as "Hawking voice" and this has that. It's also got a really endearing combination of geek and pirate humour. It reminds me a bit of a Doctor Who episode that Douglas Adams wrote.
SolarBeat is something I'd put into the same sort of box as We Are The Robot Pirates, but it is more elegant. The Solar System! Made musical! It's a neat concept, something like an abstract modern update of a street organ or a music box.
The Tiger Beatdown Review of Titanic is hysterical and awesome. It's a really fun read. There's a really nice discussion of the villain of the piece that fills me with glee before the romance aspect of the story gets tackled, which is also, yes, glee-inducing.
There's some kind of interesting How I Met Your Mother meta from NPR on Ted Mosby. It's a nice piece. I think it's sometimes easy to forget that Ted's the narrator of the show, or easy to forget what that means. There's some nice examination of that in here.
Michael Buble Being Stalked By A Velociraptor is an utterly amazing tumblr. There are ridiculous publicity photos, screen shots, concert photos and so on made more awesome with photoshopping from a wide range of ability - it's kind of like a twisted and awesome version of Where's Waldo at times.
There's a neat duet with Charlotte Gainsbourg and Neil Hannon from Taratata, which is a really excellent French music show. There's a good chunk of material hosted at their website; there are some really fantastic performances.
(So, indeed, recs - my miscellany folder has been growing for a while. One day there will be a coherently organised recs post again.)
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Date: 2010-12-01 07:46 pm (UTC)I think the DVD comes out this Friday in France; I'm really looking forward to being able to get my hands on a high-quality copy eventually. I haven't watched all of it yet, so that will be exciting. (So exciting, it is ridiculous.)