#felt like revisiting bbc

[moondal514]

Just Leave a Comment Fest 2023 Holiday Edition

Final overall comment total for @justleaveacommentfest: 76

Here’s a very multi-fandom fic rec list of a few of the fics I read (reread in some cases), loved, and commented on that were on theme for each day of the fest:

Day 1: first fandom

(BBC Merlin is not technically the 1st fandom I was ever a part of, or even the 1st fandom I ever read fic for, but I do consider it my 1st real fandom because it’s the 1st fandom I interacted with as intensely as I interact with my fandoms now and it’s also the 1st fandom I ever wrote and posted fic for)

Fandom: BBC Merlin

Prick Love for Pricking by horsecrazy/ @cbk1000

In which Arthur and Merlin hook up at a sex party.

I haven’t felt the urge to read Merlin fic in years, but then I stumbled across this fic, which is honestly one of the funniest things I’ve read in a hot minute, and now my love for Merthur has reawakened within me with vengeance

And Down the River's Dim Expanse by horsecrazy

In which Arthur is a water spirit who tries to drown Merlin. Merlin is not impressed.

Literally obsessed with this fic from the second I read the 1st paragraph

Day 2: bookmark day

Fandom: All For the Game

never said that i didn't need you by incogneat_oh/ @incogneat-oh

"Aaron, are you ready to go? The emergency room queue isn’t getting any shorter.”

Aaron feels a thrill of nervousness pull unpleasantly in his belly. He doesn’t want to spend the night in a brightly-lit, overcrowded emergency room and have strangers prodding at him. He glances back at Andrew, who looks as disinterested as ever. He’s slouched over, hands in his lap and unmoving, face expressionless. He’s facing forward, but his eyes are on Aaron.

And Aaron’s halfway out the door when he swivels. Blurts, “You’ll come with me?"

--

Aaron and Andrew spend an evening hanging out in the emergency department.

One of my personal fave twinyard-centric fics

Fandom: The Historian

among some talk of you and me by Hokuto

Reader, I pray that you will have the strength to walk with me a little longer.

I remember when I 1st found this fic I was so shocked cuz I had no idea anyone had even written fic for this book, but this is literally a perfect little epilogue because it has everything I loved from the book (scholarly nerdiness, libraries, and Dracula)

Day 3: old favorites

Fandom: BBC Sherlock

The World on His Wrist by bendingsignpost/ @bendingsignpost

First, he is shot in Afghanistan. Second, he wakes to a phone call in Chelmsford, Essex. Third is pain, fourth is normalcy, fifth is agony and sixth is confusion. By the eighth, he's lost track. (John-centric AU)

An exceedingly old favorite of mine, like literally one of the 1st fics I ever read on ao3, but I just learned today that I had apparently never commented on it previously, which made it perfectly on theme for this day of the fest

Fandom: Haikyuu!!

When the Stars Threw Down Their Spears by umisabaku/ @umisabaku

"It’s hard to understand the hierarchy when a school like Nekoma exists, putting them all together like they belong, but by the time Kenma enters high school he understands the difference. Kuroo is a black panther, rare and precious; a large predator stronger than most any other foe.

Kenma is a calico housecat. His coloring is uncommon, but he is not special."

Shapeshifter!AU. Kenma struggles with a culture and the rules of courtship.

When I was in high school and at the peak of my sports anime phase, this was one of my fave fics, and so I loved revisiting it all these years later

Day 4: fandom curiosities

Fandom: Mysterious Lotus Casebook

Three Autumns by rageprufrock/ @rageprufrock

If Li Lianhua had known this mess would be waiting for him, he wouldn't have bothered to crawl out of his own grave.

The most I know of this show is what I’ve seen through a few gifs on my tumblr dashboard, but this fic made me fall so hard for the characters it’s not even funny

Fandom: Interview With the Vampire

hell and you by quensty/ @keithal

With respect to Daniel’s life, pain in the ass is spelled A-R-M-A-N-D.

I have read one (1) book and watched one (1) episode of the show, so I barely have any idea who these characters are, but holy shit this dynamic compels me

Day 5: rec a fic

Fandom: Mo Dao Zu Shi

a made thing by animediac/ @jaywalkers

Because at the end of it all, Wei Wuxian walks away with his happy ending and the rest of them are left with nothing.

(or, what comes after everything has gone)

Fantastic post-canon fic by one of the few writers that can make Chengsang convincing to me

Fandom: Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System

Life is (not) a Hallmark Movie by mellicindi/ @mellicindi

Shen Yuan isn't lonely. He's just overseas in a new city, trying to muddle his way through a business degree, and dealing with the side effects of his stupid intestines trying to kill him. So, maybe he sometimes watches ASMR to cope with his too-quiet apartment. Maybe he has a little bit of a parasocial-relationship-thing going on with one particular cooking ASMR channel. It's 2016, who doesn't? The point is, he's content with his quiet life.

And then Shang Qinghua strong-arms him into watching one Hallmark Christmas movie, and it all goes to hell.

Or: Shen Yuan is a Hallmark movie protagonist, Luo Binghe is a Lifetime movie protagonist, and somehow they make it work.

I sadly missed the read-along this year, but this fic has been on my tbr since pretty much as soon as I started reading fic for this fandom, so I got to finally read it and it’s really fantastic

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As always, I’ll continue to comment on fics and show all you writers appreciation for your craft <3

#just leave a comment fest #fic rec #fic rec list #bbc merlin #aftg #the historian #bbc sherlock #hq #iwtv #mdzs #svsss #mlc

[invisibleicewands]

Michael Sheen Reveals How The Pandemic Shaped His New BBC Drama With Adam Curtis & James Graham, And Why It Shifted From Middle England To His South Wales Hometown

Michael Sheen, Adam Curtis and James Graham‘s BBC drama The Way has been gestating for almost a decade but, for Good Omens star Sheen, the wait has been a necessary one.

As the BBC prepares to launch the drama set in Sheen’s hometown of Port Talbot, he told Deadline the pandemic and other recent events played an important role in shaping the script and believability of the three-part series, which is one of the broadcaster’s most anticipated of the year, bringing together three of the nation’s supreme creative talents.

Starring Sheen, who is making his directorial debut, Luke Evans (The Hobbit), Callum Scott Howells (It’s a Sin) and a wealth of talented Welsh actors, The Way tells the story of an ordinary family caught up in an extraordinary chain of events that ripple out from their home town. Driven by celebrated documentary maker Curtis, the drama takes an experimental approach by imagining a civil uprising in a small industrial Welsh town. Fleeing unrest, the Driscolls are forced to escape the country they’ve always called home and the certainties of their old lives, but will they be overwhelmed by their memories of the past or lay their ghosts to rest and take the risk of an unknown future?

Sheen said the idea had always been to make a story about an “explosion of unrest” as “believable” as possible. Before the pandemic, the team initially dismissed ideas around making an entire population remain indoors, or placing a hard border around Wales.

“Lockdown gave the story a whole new lease of life,” he told Deadline. “When it ended we revisited the story and it allowed us to be bolder, particularly around ideas of conspiracies and Covid. We knew it was ‘of the moment’ and didn’t want something to feel dated, but we didn’t ever imagine it would be quite as timely as it has turned out to be.”

Producer Bethan Jones, who runs The Way co-producer Red Seam with Sheen, said commissioners in the early days were worried it would be “a bit too dystopian” and were querying: “Haven’t we seen [shows like] this before?” “But now the audience have experienced some of these things themselves and are watching with all the knowledge of what that means,” added Jones.

As the episodes develop, Sheen said that “paradoxically the absurd nature of it all starts to come to the fore.” He said he wanted his first directing experience and Red Seam’s debut commission (it is co-produced with Little Door) to act as a mini guide to living in the UK over the past decade.

“That is a reflection of trying to capture what it has felt like to be living in our culture over the last 10 years, where you are never sure if you’re living in a sitcom or horror film,” added the four-time BAFTA-nominated Frost/Nixon star, who attended The Way’s screening last night.

The industrial Welsh location plays a crucial part in setting the tone and symbolism behind The Way. It was initially forged with a middle-class English family in mind, Sheen revealed, before being shifted to his hometown of Port Talbot, an industrial town that has been in the news recently due to the much-criticized closure of part of the legacy Tata steelworks.

“We knew we needed it to take place somewhere with a history of unrest,” he said. “It needed to feel like there was unfinished business there. That led me to thinking about my hometown and the steelworks, and the past then became more important to us in the story.”

Sheen moved back to Port Talbot around the time The Way was first developing. He subsequently sold his houses, gave the proceeds to charity and declared himself a “not for profit actor.”

He said his town is “full of interesting contradictions.” “It has a beautiful area by the sea and then there is the heavy industry in the middle of it. It has an extraordinary mixture of things and using that in the telling of this story was exciting.”

Working with the community was integral to the show’s authenticity and Jones explained that numerous local extras were used in protest scenes around the town hall and steelworks. “It’s that thing of people being stuck in the past and finding a new way forward,” she added.

Four-time BAFTA-winning documentary-maker Curtis is cutting his scripted teeth with The Way and Sheen celebrated his influence both stylistically – including use of archive and CCTV footage – and on the development of the story.

“He has always been a fantastic provocateur and is good at thinking about where the power lies and what is under the surface” said Sheen. “And I wanted us to have a dream-like quality. By the end of our first chat I knew that even though [having Curtis involved] would make things more complicated, it was such an interesting possibility and I wanted him involved.”

Sherwood scribe Graham, meanwhile, who worked with Sheen on hit ITV drama Quiz, was the perfect choice to pen something “not typically dystopian and not overly serious.” “He brings a brilliant combination of big ‘state of the nation’ ideas with character, humor, warmth and the everyday,” added Sheen.

Together, the trio have forged something Sheen hopes will tap into the “strong British tradition” of filmmaking led by trailblazers such as Ken Loach, Alan Clarke and Jimmy McGovern, coming at a time when ITV’s post office drama has led to much excited chatter about the power of traditional broadcasting to deliver change.

“[The post office drama] took an issue that had been in the public eye for a long time but never really connected and made something fantastic out of it,” he said. “Long may that continue because it would be a terrible, terrible thing if we stopped making that stuff.”

#Michael Sheen #The Way #Interview

[lifblogs]

I certainly feel like on the TV front, like I’ve said before, we covered all bases. I think that the only thing that would make me go back would be if it were a movie. And it would have to be good. It’s not just doing it for the sake of doing it. It would have to be, you know, we’d have to sign off on like, what the script was, and all those things. Because I feel like one of the weird things certainly about working over here is there’s so much like, when you’re somebody successful, people just want more and more and more and more and more. Whereas, where I’m from, you know, leave them wanting more is the motto. And it was never such a sort of financially commercially based industry back in the UK.

Miranda, for example, we only ever did 20 episodes in total. And it’s still iconic, and it still has an afterlife that people revisit. But the reason we only did that many is because Miranda didn’t want to do anymore. And she didn’t want to write anymore because it took so much. But she wrote all the episodes of it. And she felt like she’d done it. And, you know, to beat it around the head and dilute it as a product just for the sake of making more and more and more and more. She didn’t want to do that, and I had so much respect for her for making that decision because the BBC were desperate for it.

— Tom Ellis on the Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum podcast when asked if he would ever return as Lucifer

I love this response because I think it’s the mindset any creator in this day and age should have in regards to all the reboots and specials and remakes. And I think in America in particular we really are seeing this company need for more, more, more. Streaming services, Hollywood, you name it, they keep asking their actors and writers and directors for more. A good ending is never enough, and as viewers we’re really just disappointed, I think. The industry does not care about the stories. It cares about the money, and what it can use its actors for.

#lucifer #tom ellis

[ilikereadingactually]

The Mimicking of Known Successes

The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older

i will happily admit that i had a long Sherlock Holmes phase precipitated by the BBC's Sherlock. that phase ended fairly abruptly when the Sherlock show and fandom simultaneously crashed and burned, or at least that's how it felt to me; i was so turned off by the whole thing that i didn't revisit ANY Holmesian books or media for years afterward, even though i liked quite a lot of it. i've dipped back in a bit since then (because it's hard to resist the charms of Enola Holmes), and am slowly remembering what i loved about the original stories.

this book has all of that charm and then some. honestly what could be more up my alley than wlw Holmes and Watson in a post-environmental-collapse-of-Earth future in space?? literally nothing, it's a perfect book for me. Malka Older really captures everything that makes the original Sherlock Holmes so delightful to me! the first person narrative, for one, which is pitch-perfectly Watsonian in vocabulary and tone, both nostalgic and totally readable. the excellent chemistry and dynamic between Mossa and Pleiti is also spot on, pleasantly messy and immediately fond and entirely satisfying. and the mystery! i loved that the mystery was driving the plot but that the emotional story was the more important arc, and i loved that i had a sense of how the pieces connected but didn't understand it all until Mossa put it together, which is just how a Holmesian story ought to feel.

a fantastic read, and a quick read too, and i'm DYING for the next one (already requested it on NetGalley even though it comes out pretty soon...)

the deets

how i read it: @digger1649 literally put the hardcover into my hands as i was picking up other books at the library and said "you should read this," and he was correct. thanks for all the absolute banger recommendations lately!!! this is one i will definitely buy for myself and recommend at work.

try this if you: are a Holmes fan of any stripe, dig a queer mystery, love sff that imagines what we'll do after running the Earth into the ground, or just delight in the interesting combo of old-fashioned gaslamp language/tone and a futuristic setting!

some bits i really liked: i just love them and also the references so much

Mossa waved that aside. "But you also know me, and how I work. Explaining it to someone else would take too long." I could not restrain a feeling of warmth as if that were praise or even affection and not merely a statement of fact. Believing in signs of affection from Mossa was a trap, because it led to expecting signs of affection.

---

"And you were saying about your specific project?" "Ah yes. I study the British Isles, in the mid-twentieth century. At the moment I'm working on a very useful book about rabbits and their adventures. There's a wealth of descriptions of the flora and fauna in a highly circumscribed, clearly-identified area."

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Mossa's expression was like the one she had worn in theoretical forestry class when the professor had offered successively more difficult elimination problems until Mossa, alone, had comprehended the final paradigm: as though I were as fascinating and satisfying to grasp as her most difficult questions. But then she shook her head. "Pleiti," she said, "I haven't changed."

---

Mossa responded simply with a Classical quotation: "'Why are men?'"

#books and reading #book reviews #book recs #booklr #bookblr #queer sff #the mimicking of known successes #malka older

[catabasis]

[BBC Ghosts s5 / no spoilers]

what a great season! plenty of funny and delightful moments, some unexpected moments as well, and very emotional too.

i'm happy with some of the very anticipated revelations, i think they handled them all pretty well, and despite the sense of finality that was looming over it, season five felt like a warm hug. it's another season where we get to spend some more time with these characters, learn about them and from them, and watch them grow. overall, a very enjoyable season that made me both laugh and cry, and that i'm very excited to revisit. and of course, i'm very much looking forward to the final Christmas special. the show is not quite over yet, but after it comes to an end, we'll always have these five seasons and specials to revisit, and Button House will always be a home to us all <3

#bbc ghosts #bbc ghosts spoilers #ghosts spoilers #i wish i could say more but i'm still a bit emotional and i don't want to get into spoilery details #but yeah i'm really happy with the season! #review #tim.txt

[cloudyspider]

Rereading/watching CT Story Mode Part 2. This time it's about Noel and Rachel's episodes.

Noel's story mode is both interesting and uninteresting upon revisiting it. Like it does a good job of getting her across somewhat as a somewhat ineffectual officer who has more going on with her than meets the eye. It brings to attention a few times, notably with her fight with Bang where after fighting her it felt like he was fighting with air, that makes it more apparent that she doesn't quite belong naturally in the world. Sets up that she's very good friends with Makoto and Tsubaki well. Has a good awful number of gag endings involving Litchi chasing her down to try to get her to wear cute clothes which I get but it makes me very appreciative of the later entries condensing things down to one gag ending. Feels less bloated this way. But there's not really much in terms of gaining new insight upon rereading when you've been through the whole series.

I say that at the same time though there is a scene with Noel talking about her being asked to join under Jin's squad that almost makes it sound like she was going to enter the Ikaruga Civil War but it's clearly more about the fact that Jin's squad was one of the one's that were on the frontline rather than her joining the frontline. As an aside that's less about her and more Hazama there seems to be foreshadowing that he and Terumi are separate entities even at this time when he's talking with Rachel Hazama acts confused upon seeing her before Terumi takes over at the end when she leaves to call her a "goddamn vampire." Of course Hazama could just be faking obliviousness. Also weird that he says he gonna have to report to headquarters after seeing Nu shish kabab Noel seeing how he's in reality at the top with Relius and how the timeline is soon to be terminated making it a pintless effort. Just odd.

Rachel's episode is a lot more different than what I remembered. She's a massive bitch to near everyone she meets and honestly kinda classless in behavior. Like her first fight is with Carl and it just has her straight beefing with him just because he was curious because she appeared out of nowhere because she teleported to the wrong place. It gets really bad with her treatment of Noel if she wins because she just takes Bolverk away from her if she wins and is just plain malicious to her. Makes me think that's because she's aware that Noel is the key to moving things forward while she can't so is acting out of petty jealousy in that regard. She's sort of nice with Ragna in the scenario she does beat him but is also derisively cold should he actually beat her. She's also more cordial with Kokonoe rather than the antagonism they have later on. Her interactions with Terumi here are different than how they're later on with her getting more riled up by Terumi rather than the other way around and treating him somewhat dismissively in regards to as a problem. Rather than pursue him when he does leave she just dismisses him as a non-problem for herself personally and when talking to Kokonoe she calls him "Kokonoe's old friend" which just seems really tactless especially when comparing her later on. She just comes across as largely a terrible person.

There's an odd bit in the beginning where there's focus on "the stars are moving" but I think that might've been a mistranslation referring to Takamagahara because that's what they'd refer to later in BBCS's CT Reconstruction. Or it could've been literal and astral bodies may've had a place in influencing the world in early BB lore before it got changed idk.

#blazblue #noel vermillion #rachel alucard #ramblings #Thought I'd have more to say here

[bisamwilson]

hey honey! <33 for the ask game: 4, 13, 42, 57 and 63!

hi darlin!!!!! thanks for the ask <3

(from this list)

4. Where do you find inspiration for new ideas?

from lots of places! books i've read, shows or movies i've watched, conversations with friends, real life things that have happened to me! song lyrics on occasion. the princess diaries au sequel i'm working on for example, in addition to being inspired by the princess diaries movies of course, is inspired by past lives (2023, dir. celine song)! and the fic where bucky grows old without sam was inspired by a man called ove, even if it doesn't line up entirely. the fic where sam takes bucky home for the birth of AJ after finding him in paris was inspired by that one tumblr post where the op's uncle showed up at their birth with a ONS in tow akjsfdads

13. what’s a common writing tip that you almost always follow?

i'm generally not afraid of the word "said," and also i try my very hardest to stay aware of what tense i'm using so i'm not switching up constantly. those are the things that take me out of a story pretty often, so i try to be vigilant about them

in non grammar tips, i tend to write in blitzes when i have the motivation. set a timer for twenty minutes, write like 600 or so words, take a break, do it again until my motivation's gone or my word count is steadily declining during my set time period

42. What’s the last fic you read? Do you recommend it?

the last fic i read was actually a bbc merlin canon divergence merthur fic called to the point of fear which is from a season 5 mordred's point of view! i enjoyed it! i liked having mordred as the pov character working through what he thinks are merlin's motivations

i also recently opened up a tab to reread don't stop believing (aos spirk fic) which i haven't read in YEARS but i do remember really liking back in the day (hence why i wanted to revisit it)

57. Do you prefer editing as you write, or waiting until it’s finished? 

theoretically i prefer waiting until it's finished but i am physically incapable of not rereading and editing whenever i find a mistake/something i dislike so it ends up being both. i do tend to give it a read over before i post anything, though (and, without fail, any time i reread my own fics later on i end up having to edit something small that i catch asjdfhkds)

63. Something you hate to see in smut.

(putting this under the cut since nsfw text)

in sambucky specifically, i hate seeing overly aggressive and/or super dominant!sam. usually those fics are just woobifying bucky and also they were EVERYWHERE when tfatws came out. felt like every other fic was just sam either taking care of bucky or bucky being very uwu while sam was hypersexual and aggressive, and now if i see anything looking like it mind trend in that general direction i skip right on past.

in general, i'm generally not a huge fan of reading the kind of dirty talk that's just constantly degrading a partner (i get why people are into it, but it's generally not my thing, though small bits of calling someone a slut or their slut/whore/etc is fine and i even write it on occasion, but even then i write it where it's said in a loving/adoring tone, rather than a "i'm purposefully degrading you" kind of way). also not huge into breeding kinks and if anything is tagged "watersports" i won't touch it with a ten foot pole. people can enjoy the kinks they enjoy, those just. aren't the kinks for me

#thanks for the ask doll!!! <3 #writer meme #writer game #ask game #ask meme #ask #livingincolorsagain #mak rants

[jakemorph]

now that the novelty has worn off i think i would have to describe my feelings on the doctor who 60th anniversary specials as dubious. the star beast was great, but imo the subsequent two episodes felt unfinished; the tight writing you can usually expect from such a small scale sci fi show just wasn't there - something that's hard not to blame on the new inflated budget - and now all of that's just been compounded by RTD having stated that there are no plans for david tennant to come back again. like at risk of sounding obtuse if there are no further plans for the character why did he come back? i've got no personal investment in the idea of further returns from tennant, i've always been on the record as having said that if there is a doctor who would benefit from having his story revisited it's eccleston, but the bigeneration twist only made sense to me as an avenue for further david tennant stories in the "whoniverse" the bbc have been hyping up for over a year now. revisiting david tennant as the doctor has no value in and of itself. david tennant was the doctor who would not go away! he was given more closure than any other character on the programme could ever have hoped to be given! bringing him back achieves the exact opposite of closure by opening a hole that, as is now on the record, there is no intention of filling.

optics were an obstacle to doctor who's RTD2 era from the beginning. the excitement of the announcement that a black actor would take over the role for the first ever time was understandable dampened by the immediately subsequent twist that the next doctor was actually going to be david tennant for a second time! and with retrospect, i'm actually not convinced the content of the 2023 episodes managed to assuage these concerns at all? i understand, of course, why it was decided that a new face like gatwa's probably wouldn't be enough to carry the show's 60th anniversary all on his own; but the show has always found a way to remedy this problem in the past, usually by way of starring a more established character alongside the doctor of the time. instead of this, RTD's 60th anniversary relegates gatwa to what essentially amounts to a special guest appearance in the latter half of one out of three episodes. again, it's clear why nostalgia wins out over a disruption of status quo, here, but then why does the bigeneration twist happen at all?

it almost feels like a surrender to the fandom's conservative old guard; "if you're scared that doctor who is changing, don't worry! your favourite old (white) doctor is still out there, and he even has his own exact copy of the tardis!". and that makes the whole 60th anniversary feel like a surrender. perhaps, you could argue, the reappearance of the 10th doctor's face is for donna noble's benefit - it just wouldn't be the same if catherine tate had returned alongside gatwa rather than tennant, would it(?). but the very same episode seemingly has no qualms with reuniting tennant and bonnie langford, who both play characters who have literally never once shared the screen together; nor with any of the other classic characters tennant has been played against over the course of his doctor who career. the appeal to nostalgia just seems to come completely at gatwa's doctor's expense. none of which is to even mention this is literally the SECOND TIME ON DOCTOR WHO!!!!!! that RTD has "brought closure" to one of his female characters by leaving them with a clone of david tennant!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE SECOND TIME!!!!!

[sherwoodknights]

In honour of My Gang To Me day, on this most illustrious Wednesday 26th of April, I thought I'd have a bit of fun and think about all the things that could have been. The season 4 we could have had, if you will.

(Only it'll hopefully be better because I no longer trust the bbc to do right by this show)

I'm not exactly creative enough to come up with a whole plotline on the spot here (although if you amazing outlaws can, I applaud you) but I'd like to at least give a couple of characters I'd love to see reappear in a 4th season, maybe one set a few years, or a decade on from the final episode, when Prince John has become king.

You know I had to do it to 'em, of course it's my boy- Luke Scarlett

Anyone who knows me and my love for minor characters was expecting this one. BUT I wholeheartedly stand by that bringing Luke back to Nottingham would be a good idea. He has the connection to Robin and the gang, but he's also enough of a minor presence in his two episodes on the show that his personality could be developed pretty much any way a writer would want (unless they massacre my sweet angel baby's characterisation. Then I will be laying down a gauntlet 😂).

Maybe he got restless in Scarborough, maybe he got tired of waiting for Will to come and find him (😬), maybe he just needed a trip down memory lane. All I know is that this lad has something of an eye for justice that might come in handy somewhere like Nottingham....

She's been misunderstood for too long, and consider this my formal apology for all the hatred my uneducated self had when I watched season 3 for the first time- Kate

When we first saw Kate, she was a young woman angry with the world (and the Sheriff, of course). But she was certainly a woman who could hold her own, and she wasn't afraid to stand up for people she cared about. Now, imagine a decade down the line. Call it a cliché, but maybe in those years, she's had Robin's child (I know, I know, but it's just an idea) and she'll do whatever it takes to protect her child. Or maybe we bring in the old faithful headcanon for real; Kate as the new Nightwatchman, honouring the spirit of Robin Hood by helping those who are suffering.

I think it would be nice to revisit her character as more of a solo act, especially since the writing of season 3 really let her down and didn't give her much chance to shine outside of her romance plotlines.

The most questionable of these characters for certain, but I felt like I had to give him a chance here- Archer

Archer always felt like a bit of a mixed bag for me. He had the flirty charm and charisma of early seasons Robin, combined with some Allan levels of con-man skill, but he was definitely a selfish guy, and maybe not the best choice to pass down the Robin Hood mantle to, despite the very weird character 180 in the final episode (lets just say, it's not a season 4 I'm sure I'd have enjoyed watching).

But an Archer who's had years to mature, to work on actively being a better man, could be an interesting addition to a series; a man constantly grappling the morals he seemingly grew up learning against the ones he saw in people like Robin and the outlaws. It could be that he's become disillusioned with the selfless lifestyle, until whatever event that kicks off the season ignites the little outlaw flame that's been hiding inside him.

Come on, you guys, it wouldn't be a Robin Hood season without them- the OG gang

You all knew this was coming, right? There's no way I would suggest a season 4 without these guys. While it would be bittersweet to be reminded of who we lost along the 3 season journey (*sniffles and wipes away a tear* no, I'm fine, don't worry about me, im doing okay I promise 🥲🥲🥲), it would be nice to at least see how our old friends have been doing. They could remain a regular presence in the season, or they could be relatively background to the action, doing what they can, but maybe not being quite so active in a fight.

It would be so lovely to see their reaction to Robin's spirit and influence reaching somewhere outside of the gang, being kept alive by people with a drive to make the world a better place. Also, imagine what a tearjerker it would be for all of us og viewers to see a gang reunion 14 years on....

An honourable mention to the best beta couple of the show, and no, I'm not talking about Much and that roast pork- Will and Djaq

A few years ago, the return of Will and Djaq would have been the ultimate dream, and who am I kidding, deep down it still kind of is. While a return in season 3 would have been something I would have gladly celebrated, I am now very much of the mind that a post-canon return would destroy me, heart, soul and all. I don't think I would be able to emotionally handle Djaq and Will learning that Allan died while they were gone (and Robin too, of course, but we all know that i am not above blatant favouritism when it comes to this show).

However, I am very much an angst enjoyer, so maybe this is a good time to invite the fandom to make me cry about this before I manage to do it to myself 😂

And the final honourable mention goes to all the RH ocs people have created over the years

I know that I am certainly not above the creation of shameless oc creation (I have at least 5 ocs that I have created for this show alone) and neither are many of my beloved mutuals- big shoutout to @chaoticbitheatrekid and @muchadoaboutcj for being some of the first people I talked ocs with in this fandom, and in general (love you both so much, happy Robin Hood day to both of you x)

So many of the ocs I've seen in this fandom are absolutely brilliantly written, creatively developed and irresistibly lovable, and since an official season 4 doesn't seem to be on the bbc cards anytime soon, consider this my official encouragement to go wild! Write your own season, use all the ocs you can imagine (or if you're anything like me, procrastinate indefinitely on the actual writing and just very vividly imagine your ideal season)

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So there we have it! It's certainly not an exhaustive list, but I felt like I had to do something special for my 3rd active My Gang To Me day considering how much I slacked off last year

Much love to everyone out there keeping the fandom alive, I wish you all a wonderful anniversary of the Locksley Four Rescue, and never forget:

WE ARE ROBIN HOOD!

#my gang to me 2023 #bbc robin hood

[breakfast-at-timothys]

Metro-Land is a slogan first coined by the Metropolitan Railway in about 1915, for promotional purposes; and later used as the title of a BBC documentary celebrating suburban life that grew up in the early 20th century around the Metropolitan Railway in the area north-east of London.

The documentary was made in 1973. It lasted some 50 minutes and featured a narration, partly in verse, by then Poet Laureate, Sir John Betjeman; his commentary, interwoven with black-and-white film shot from a Metropolitan Railway train in 1910.

Betjeman, whose sexuality can best be described as bisexual, was educated at Marlborough and later Magdalen College, Oxford. He had friendships with both W.H. Auden and Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas (of Oscar Wilde fame). Whilst at Oxford, he famously brought his teddy bear, Archibald Ormsby-Gore, up to Magdalen with him; the memory of which inspired his Oxford contemporary, Evelyn Waugh, to include Sebastian Flyte's teddy, Aloysius, in Brideshead Revisited.

For the serious devotees of tradition: the Harrow School Song is heard accompanying scenes filmed in the School, and scenes showing one of Harrow's stained-glass windows also appear, to the accompaniment of 'The Sunny Side of the Street'.

Always time for one more tradition: 'Tit Willow' is played during scenes showing Grim's Dyke at Harrow Weald: the place where W.S. Gilbert (of Gilbert and Sullivan fame), tragically drowned in a pond in 1911. 'Tit Willow', being a song from Mikado (by Gilbert and Sullivan). Its use in the documentary as an ironic reference to Gilbert's unfortunate misadventure is clear: ('He slapped at his chest, as he sat on that bough, Singing “Willow, tit-willow, tit-willow”, And a cold perspiration bespangled his brow, Oh, willow, tit-willow, tit-willow, He sobbed and he sighed, and a gurgle he gave, Then he plunged himself into the billowy wave).

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Metroland (Betjeman):

Harrow-on-the-Hill:

WHEN melancholy Autumn comes to Wembley And electric trains are lighted after tea The poplars near the Stadium are trembly With their tap and tap and whispering to me, Like the sound of little breakers Spreading out along the surf-line When the estuary’s filling With the sea.

Then Harrow-on-the-Hill’s a rocky island And Harrow churchyard full of sailors’ graves And the constant click and kissing of the trolley buses hissing Is the level to the Wealdstone turned to waves And the rumble of the railway Is the thunder of the rollers As they gather up for plunging Into caves.

There’s a storm cloud to the westward over Kenton, There’s a line of harbour lights at Perivale, Is it rounding rough Pentire in a flood of sunset fire The little fleet of trawlers under sail? Can those boats be only roof tops As they stream along the skyline In a race for port and Padstow With the gale?

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Baker Street Station Buffet:

Early Electric! With what radiant hope Men formed this many-branched electrolier, Twisted the flex around the iron rope And let the dazzling vacuum globes hang clear, And then with hearts the rich contrivance fill’d Of copper, beaten by the Bromsgrove Guild.

Early Electric! Sit you down and see, ‘Mid this fine woodwork and a smell of dinner, A stained-glass windmill and a pot of tea, And sepia views of leafy lanes in Pinner – Then visualize, far down the shining lines, Your parents’ homestead set in murmuring pines.

Smoothly from Harrow, passing Preston Road, They saw the last green fields and misty sky, At Neasden watched a workmen’s train unload, And, with the morning villas sliding by, They felt so sure on their electric trip That Youth and Progress were in partnership.

And all that day in murky London Wall The thought of Ruislip kept him warm inside; At Farringdon that lunch hour at a stall He bought a dozen plants of London Pride; While she, in arc-lit Oxford Street adrift, Soared through the sales by safe hydraulic lift.

Early Electric! Maybe even here They met that evening at six-fifteen Beneath the hearts of this electrolier And caught the first non-stop to Willesden Green, Then out and on, through rural Rayner’s Lane To autumn-scented Middlesex again.

Cancer has killed him. Heart is killing her. The trees are down. An Odeon flashes fire Where stood their villa by the murmuring fir When ”they would for their children’s good conspire.” Of their loves and hopes on hurrying feet Thou art the worn memorial, Baker Street

[schaffas]

ok thanks heres some post month thoughts

hades is really fun to replay! ive been playing on hell mode after having been used to a full god mode save, and learning not just to be passable but to be good at the game felt just as rewarding if not more rewarding than the first playthru. also getting to remember how good all the dialogue and voice acting is.

i also revisited red dwarf which is a quirky bbc space sitcom from idk way back when. i loved it as a child i love it now idk

also im back into league of legends and i don't like it however im thinking about moving my lolesports posting over here ? not necessarily onto this blog but ive been thinking about making a side blog for LPL and LCK content because. because. because. because . i used ro use twitter for it for the most part and thats still 100% the best way to keep up but i think itd be cool to see if i can collect any stragglers over here on tamblr

#txt

[pitynostars]

okay so development on the master/ doctor body switch thingy. i’m watching jay and stu’s (and gang) discussion on tpotd and they are discussing how the master using the doctor’s body is a way of violation of the doctor and their body and so to a further extent their image and identity, as well as this being traumatic to the doctor’s companions and friends. the doctor is officially ‘dead’ / body has been hijacked and can no longer return and so are powerless and cannot stop the master. i definitely understand this angle (although we obviously can’t officially confirm if this was chibnall’s intention). i feel like my issue with this and why it doesn’t exactly work/ come across well is because there isn’t enough time dedicated to this plot to fully flesh it out (as always with chibnall) and they probably should have dedicated the episode to this plot line alone. in this vain i feel like the regeneration episode clashes with the anniversary episode in what to prioritise, the choice between a fully developed fleshed out regen episode or an anniversary episode of fan service to commemorate the show etc etc (meaning to include various aspects such as the cybermen and daleks ultimately watering down the plot). i would also still point out that i don’t believe the master would want the doctor dead (without sufficient reason) and rather wants the doctor to suffer and therefore still needs the doctor alive. maybe the straight up body swap idea would have still achieved this perhaps idk

lmao literally halfway thru that vid myself as i saw this ask XD

re the master violating her body angle: i think i would have felt that worked better if we saw 13 struggling more with losing herself or something in the plane with her consciousness (past consciousnesses?) . i think dhawan and gill do a really good job of playing that angle though and i completely get it now i get that that WAS actually the master all along lol....

re the anniversary vs regen: but YES i totally agree chibnall had a tricky hand with juggling the regeneration and anniversary. equally i mean i think with 13 especially it could have been interesting to do a really intimate ep with the same idea - she's just got to learn about her past and find her feet with who she is and now she has to change again? her past selves could reassure her and guide her through it. yes we just had that with 1+12 in TUaT but i still think it could have been good. you can honour the show and its history without having to include the daleks imo.

equally like going back to the ROOTS roots and having a really historical focused ep could have been cool. OR maybe even revisiting the 1922 (when the BBC was founded) and having an ep about broadcast and the history of the BBC or whatever if you want to get really into the centenary angle. it would have been annoying imo but there's angles you could choose.

i do wonder if he wrote it as a 1 hr regeneration ep first then realised it fell in the centenary slot and added in an extra half hour of old doctors and companions, and the daleks felt quite tacked on too ? but thats pure speculation on my part XD

re: the master killing the dr like that idk i can sort of buy it in the idea of the "if i dont get to b the dr noone can" with the way tey've built up this master as so bitter towards her for all the timeless child stuff... but yeah god what i'd give for the au where we got a body swap ep here 😢

#replies tag #dw spoilers

[woahkana]

if you haven’t watched in my skin on bbc iplayer i highly recommend it because it’s filled with such light hearted moments blended with hard hitting very emotional scenes the way bethan had to juggle her very intense home life as well as her teenage life with romance etc; cam and beth never had the same type of chemistry that beth and poppy had their chemistry was so intense and it was revisited in series two poppy was jealous and clearly heartbroken that bethan was with cam but i felt like bethan still liked poppy even though she had moved on.

#poppy and bethan #in my skin bbc #bbc in my skin #poppy and bethan had a such intense chemistry #bethan gwyndalf #poppy cruickshank #poppy cruickshank and bethan gwyndalf #bethan and cam

[denimbex1986]

'It begins with a late-night knock on the door. An intoxicated Harry (Paul Mescal), half-empty whisky bottle in hand, is looking for companionship. “There’s vampires at my door” he sluggishly tells the flat’s tenant Adam (Andrew Scott), a struggling screenwriter who lives alone. The two neighbors seem to be the only residents of a new high-rise on the outskirts of London. Writer-director Andrew Haigh touches upon the lonesomeness often associated with growing up gay as he builds a story about second chances and “The Power of Love” as in the 1984 song by Frankie Goes to Hollywood which becomes the film’s mantra.

Based on the 1987 novel “Strangers” by Taichi Yamada, this is Haigh’s most personal film to date partly inspired by his childhood, from the house he grew up in (which is used in the film), to the music that became part of his youth.

When Harry comes knocking on Adam’s door, we hear the FGTH song in the film for the first time thanks to old footage of a live BBC performance. The “vampire” quote by Harry is a line in the song, which we’ll revisit one more time as Haigh brings closure to his heartbreaking drama.

The depth of Adam’s eyes is equally matched by Harry’s. One can immediately sense they are caring souls. Their initial encounter is fire, Adam however plays it cautiously knowing he may get burned, so he passes on the drink invitation. “How about I come in anyway? If not for a drink then for whatever else you might want” suggests Harry. Fire. “I don’t think that’s a good idea” comments Adam. In this case, caution overtakes loneliness. The performances by Mescal and Scott are pitch-perfect.

The strange encounter helps Adam get over his writing block. He hops a train to Sanderstead, the small village where he grew up, to visit his childhood home. As luck would have it, he runs into his Dad (Jamie Bell) in the park who invites Adam home. As his mum (Claire Foy) opens the door, she begins to smile, “Hi. Don’t just stand there. Get yourself inside.”

It’s the first of several visits home for Adam who last saw his parents when he was 12. “Look at you. You were just a boy and now you’re not “observes Mum. The word estranged doesn’t necessarily fit unless you emphasize “strange” in the spelling. It may strike you as odd that Mum and Dad look to be about the same age as their adult son. Later when Adam comes out to his Mum, she begins to worry about him contracting AIDS. It’s the kind of conversation that would have taken place in the 80s or 90s at the height of the epidemic, as Adam reassures her that he’s fine and that due to advancements in medicine people can live long and healthy lives with HIV.

Back in London, Adam reaches out to Harry about a raincheck on that drink and the two men begin having a relationship. The sex scenes are tender and essential to the narrative. Their conversations are funny and meaningful as they get to know each other. In one scene Harry admits, “I’ve always felt like a stranger in my own family” but it’s Adam’s revelation that brings the two men closer while the audience is forced to see Haigh’s film in a new light.

As Harry looks through a stack of old photos, he finds one of the family when Adam was just a kid. “This your mum and dad?” he asks. Adam answers, “Yeah. They died just before I was twelve.” It was a car crash. He was raised by his Gran. Suddenly the film’s haunting atmosphere takes on a new meaning.

Devasting at times but with so much love in the film, “Strangers” avoids sending viewers to a dark place. What would you do for a second chance with a lost loved one? The conversations you never had. The questions you never asked. Emotions are on overload as Adam and his parents sing along to The Pet Shop Boy’s “Always on My Mind” while decorating the Christmas tree. Then when Adam discusses being bullied as a kid for being gay, his Dad (crying) comments, “I’m sorry I never came into your room when you were crying.” Jamie Bell and Claire Foy are terrific.

Post-screening I began to think of not only the conversations I wish I would have had with loved ones but also hope that long after I’m gone my children will be surrounded by love, never lonely.

Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal are phenomenal. Their subtle and moving performances keep you engaged right up to the final frame, accompanied by the fitting Frankie Goes to Hollywood song “The Power of Love.”

Ironically, Andrew Haigh couldn’t secure the rights to “Hellraiser” for a scene that would have featured Adam watching Clive Barker’s iconic horror film, which has become a queer classic. Because, in the end, just like Pinhead, “All of Us Strangers” will tear your soul apart.

(4 stars)'

#Andrew Haigh #All of Us Strangers #Taichi Yamada #Strangers #Andrew Scott #Paul Mescal #Frankie Goes to Hollywood #The Power of Love #Jamie Bell #Claire Foy

[musicblogwales]

Tom Emlyn Announces New Album and shares Broken Mirror Video

Tom Emlyn shares brand new video for his terrific new ‘Broken Mirror’ single, taken from his freshly announced new album ‘Return Journey Revisited: Scaredycat Vol 15′ which will be released on the 5th of May.

Emlyn’s sincere and at times funereble approach remindes us just how flexible and diverse his writing abilities stretch, with flashes of Shane Macgowan and Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci evidently cutting through, Tom Emlyn sits in a bit of a unique musical spot with his guitar  and has certainly won the hearts of us here at Music Blog Wales. Swansea-born songwriter Tom Emlyn vividly depicts why he is one of the most prolific and inventive songwriters emerging songwriters in Wales, with his new album ‘Return Journey Revisited: Scaredycat Vol 15’ released on the 5th of May.  Recorded in 2018 and mastered by Charlie Francis (R.E.M., Pixies). A treasure trove of recordings dating back to 2016, 2017, and 2018, these songs offer a window into the sheer scope of Emlyn's songwriting talent, his captivating songs uniquely exploring the particularity and peculiarity of human experience. Featuring his gorgeous recent singles ‘Broken Mirror’ - a heartfelt and poetic ballad of lost love, watch the video here, and ‘Like a Cigarette’ inspired by his days busking outside a cafe in Frankfurt acting as a living and breathing earworm that charts his travels around Europe and Germany in 2017.  Plus forthcoming third single ‘It doesn’t bother me’.  Compared to Bob Dylan or Elliott Smith, Tom Emlyn’s sound, while rooted in garage rock, is tinged with psychedelia, folk, jazz, and blues overtones - including a recent adoption of the harmonica as a lead instrument. Tom explains “Abandoned work is a normal part of the music-making process, but I felt these songs deserved a second chance. I also wanted to release it as a (small) protest against certain smoke-and-mirrors aspects of the music industry. People will tell you to wait and wait, hold back all of your material for the "right time". I can't do that anymore; for me, a song is only new when it's just been written, although it can be remade in live performance. I find it quite agonising to sit on this material for so many years. I'll be thirty in 2023. That's why I want to get this sizeable backlog of unheard material out there, so I can move on to new things, and that's why this is the third album I've released in a year.” “There were many people involved in these tracks - different engineers, studios, producers, and musicians in Swansea and Cardiff. I think the album has a unified feel despite being a bunch of stuff that was recorded in various studios and spaces, before being rescued from the cutting-room floor. It's a bit of a lighter, ironic affair, full of magic realism and surreal images of the natural world, half-acoustic and half-electric, with an eclectic, eccentric, sprawling feel. Scraped from the bottom of a very deep barrel - but somehow holding together.” Tom Emlyn crafts honest, swirling evocative songs; tall tales, and dark jokes that cut straight to the bone. His current solo work maps an alternative Southwalian landscape, a hallucinated community drawn from psychogeography and local history. Written on foot and by bus, his observational, poetic lyrics and simple 60s-folk-influenced melodies explore what it means to belong to a place - the bitterness, the love and the humour. “The truth is, all of my music is one long song - constantly flowing from inner worlds and mysterious, unknown places.” He reveals “Songwriting is like a diary for me, and it's time to share Return Journey Revisited: Scaredycat Vol 1. with you. It might be a slightly imperfect document, but I think it's all the better for it.” In summer 2022, Tom released his debut solo album ‘News From Nowhere’, a bittersweet love letter to his hometown of Swansea, described by Adam Walton (BBC Radio Wales) as a record of "undoubted brilliance, eloquence and energy". It has been positively received, with airplay and support from Radio Wales, BBC Horizons, R.E.P.E.A.T. fanzine, God Is In The TV, and Joyzine, among others. Tom's second album ‘I've Seen You In Town’ followed hot on the heels of the first - a more mellow, acoustic affair which was also well received. He also released the ‘Scounger EP’ on Bandcamp this February.  He is currently promoting these records with intimately explosive solo and band performances across Wales and beyond, with a string of releases planned for 2023. Tour Dates 22nd April - The Moon Club, Cardiff 4th-6th May - Focus Wales, Wrexham 12th May - Dyddiau Du, Cardiff (solo to promote new album) 20th May - Second 45 record shop Llanelli (solo to promote new album) 27th May - in it together festival Margam 16th June - Cwrw, Camarthen 17th June - Cwrw (solo record shop in-store to promote new album) 17th June - Elysium, Swansea (to promote new album) 12th August - Brecon Jazz/Fringe festival 6th October - Hippos, Swansea https://tomemlyn.bandcamp.com/ https://twitter.com/tom_emlyn https://www.instagram.com/tomemlyn/                                                                              

#Tom Emlyn #New Album #Return Journey Revisited: Scaredycat Vol 15 #Broken Mirror Video #sound and vision pr

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favorite books 2022

hello !!!!! this year was the year i read 70 books which is crazy considering i work so much lmao

re-reads:

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, F DOSTOYEVSKY: one of my all time favs, i re read a lot of his books this year and i love them still. there’s something about the way he writes the psychological decline of man in such a way that you can still feel he wants them to be better than they are and is disappointed in their unchanging nature. THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV, F DOSTOYEVSKY: the first time i read this book was at 16. i sat waiting for the bus in -45 degress snowstorm when i started it, and my copy had stains of water damage in it. i donated it when we moved, but i recently treated myself to a brand new edition and i cant overstate how much i love this book. its so beautiful, and it always feels like you are listening in on a religious sermon of some kind, in the best way possible. WE HAVE ALWAYS LIVED IN THE CASTLE, S JACKSON: terrific book, i read so much fiction sometimes i am reminded of how often it is that they blend together for me. but shirley jackson is always such a delight. she writes in a way that is both inviting and terrible. this book is my favorite of hers, i think about merricat so often she feels like a real person to me. THE BELL JAR, S PLATH: i read this one on a plane again recently, another re-read. 2022 was the year of the re-reads, but i forgot how tender this novel is. from the first page to the last, the psychology of esther is such a fascinating subject especially with how shamelessly inspired by plaths life it is. ANOTHER COUNTRY, J BALDWIN: a staut all time favorite for me, this book knocks me out every time. its rapt, ever-changing and delusional sometimes, but it explores its own characters so tediously and specifically until you are forced to acknowledge them as people. when italo calvino wrote in the literature machine, “a classic is a book that has not finished saying what it meant to say,” he was talking about james baldwin. while other books age badly like spoiled milk, baldwins texts are as relevant and timely as when they were first published.

new-to-me books:

THE STARVING ARTIST, F KAFKA: kafka is one of those people, i think, that can write his grocery list and i would pour over it looking for its meaning. this is a collection of his finest stories, from the metamorphosis to judgement. i read this copy in swedish so im translating the stories from my language to english, sorry if that is confusing. it was fun to read but quite redunant as a longtime fan, my favorite story in this collection was “i straffkolonin” (?) which was a typical text by him. i also enjoyed the first story, “domen” which was about a man trying to live with his fiance alongside his critical uncle. i also enjoyed the story, “eldaren”, which felt like a prequel to the trial in some way. my favorite part was the translators introductions to the most vital texts, in that they commented on the different diary entries and how the stories were written. it was interesting in the way that kafkas translators often are very invested and nerdy about his work. this was way longer than i anticipated it being sorry, lol THE ODYSSEY, HOMER: the more i think about this book after i finish it the more i understand why people love it so much. i read the robert fagles translation and by the end of the story i had laughed, cried and felt alongside these characters written by someone that may or may not have lived such a long time ago. to quote t*d h*ghes it was “wonderfully readable”. VILE BODIES, E WAUGH: last year i read “brideshead revisited” and watched the limited run bbc show to go alongside it. evelyns writing of post-war britain and british society is such a delight to consume. i think that while most british ww1 era writers are quite a chore to get through, evelyns satire and humor makes it durable. A FAREWELL TO ARMS, E HEMINGWAY/ A MOVABLE FEAST: my mother told me that long ago she read “the old man and the sea” and loved it, so she bought me a copy of a movable feast to read. it was special just for that, but i genuinely really loved it. the descriptions of a mans mental health, the severity of his situation, his failmarriage, all complete with tender notes on pre-war and post-war Paris from the eyes of a young man at the beginning of his best years, is something special. It is therefore interesting to move directly to a farewell to arms, because it is clear that his drinking that was only the tip of a problem takes a centerstage. it made me deeply uncomfortable that his surroundings tended to favor his addiction and often encourage it but it was so engrossing at the same time. it also includes a lot of fitzgerald-esque sentences that feels like something ive seen on tumblr before, which is funny to me. “’if you are lucky enough to have lived in paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for paris is a moveable feast.”

#sam.txt #sorry it is so long and mostly classics. i get a lot of my books from the library or second hand