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ღ - Me: I'm gonna get back to archiving my meta on this blog again!
Me, five minutes later: Orrrrrr you could do a personal post like you actually want to do.
(It's hard to motivate myself to post the meta here when it's so designed for tumblr + I don't think tumblr's going anywhere. I do want to! I will get back to it! Just let me establish some personal stuff on this journal for awhile.)
ღ - Podcast rec of the week: Cocaine and Rhinestones is absolutely fascinating to listen to, despite that I'm not really at all a fan of country music. You can tell the host really spent a lot of time with these stories and really did his best to find the truth as much as he could and understand what was really going on, but mostly it's just an excellent look at these people who are amazing and did amazing things, sometimes that are way, way over the line. Even if country music isn't your thing, I would suggest a listen (but give him a little time to really get into the groove of the show and be very wary of the Spade Cooley episode, that was a hard listen), it's totally engrossing. I especially enjoyed the episode about Loretta Lynn's The Pill and Bobbie Gentry's Ode to Billie Joe.
ღ - Speaking of podcasts, I get such schadenfreude every time someone drags Sword & Scale and its host. I can't stop listening--the production values are too polished that it's just too easy to listen to--but I can't say I've been willing to recommend it for a long time, just because I really disliked the way the host treated various mental illnesses and the way it overdramatizes everything, until it's basically a highly polished A Very Special Episode podcast. So, when I see others have the same feelings, ahhhh, I'm not alone!
ღ - I don't know if I'll get a full recs set for The Terror, because honestly The Devils Before Us by MasterOfAllImagination is absolutely everything I needed from fandom. Crozier/Fitzjames "return to England and begin the long journey home" and it's perfect, the subtle buildup and the work to try to reintegrate into London society and how well that goes/doesn't go sometimes, how they're not the people they started out as, how the fic really nails their characters and their relationship, especially Crozier's character (since its his pov). It's just really lovely and really satisfying, what else could I ask for than a fic that does the rest of the heavy lifting for their relationship?
ღ - I saw some Dick/Babs kissing on the latest episodes of Young Justice, which makes me tempted to catch up, but I haven't read/watched anything DC in years and I'm not sure the magic would still be there for me, but it does my heart good to know my OTP of OTPs is getting kissing scenes!
ღ - Please wish me luck in getting through this pile of fic recs I am attempting!
Me, five minutes later: Orrrrrr you could do a personal post like you actually want to do.
(It's hard to motivate myself to post the meta here when it's so designed for tumblr + I don't think tumblr's going anywhere. I do want to! I will get back to it! Just let me establish some personal stuff on this journal for awhile.)
ღ - Podcast rec of the week: Cocaine and Rhinestones is absolutely fascinating to listen to, despite that I'm not really at all a fan of country music. You can tell the host really spent a lot of time with these stories and really did his best to find the truth as much as he could and understand what was really going on, but mostly it's just an excellent look at these people who are amazing and did amazing things, sometimes that are way, way over the line. Even if country music isn't your thing, I would suggest a listen (but give him a little time to really get into the groove of the show and be very wary of the Spade Cooley episode, that was a hard listen), it's totally engrossing. I especially enjoyed the episode about Loretta Lynn's The Pill and Bobbie Gentry's Ode to Billie Joe.
ღ - Speaking of podcasts, I get such schadenfreude every time someone drags Sword & Scale and its host. I can't stop listening--the production values are too polished that it's just too easy to listen to--but I can't say I've been willing to recommend it for a long time, just because I really disliked the way the host treated various mental illnesses and the way it overdramatizes everything, until it's basically a highly polished A Very Special Episode podcast. So, when I see others have the same feelings, ahhhh, I'm not alone!
ღ - I don't know if I'll get a full recs set for The Terror, because honestly The Devils Before Us by MasterOfAllImagination is absolutely everything I needed from fandom. Crozier/Fitzjames "return to England and begin the long journey home" and it's perfect, the subtle buildup and the work to try to reintegrate into London society and how well that goes/doesn't go sometimes, how they're not the people they started out as, how the fic really nails their characters and their relationship, especially Crozier's character (since its his pov). It's just really lovely and really satisfying, what else could I ask for than a fic that does the rest of the heavy lifting for their relationship?
ღ - I saw some Dick/Babs kissing on the latest episodes of Young Justice, which makes me tempted to catch up, but I haven't read/watched anything DC in years and I'm not sure the magic would still be there for me, but it does my heart good to know my OTP of OTPs is getting kissing scenes!
ღ - Please wish me luck in getting through this pile of fic recs I am attempting!
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You mentioning the podcasts you've enjoyed reminded me that I recently listened to one that I think you'd really like, if you haven't tried it out yet. Dan Carlin's Hardcore History, Blueprint for Armageddon I is a long listen, just over 3 hours, but it's really really good. He talks through the road to war leading up to World War I in a somewhat rambling, but totally engrossing historical story format. In the second half in particular, he delves into some fascinating insights about how propaganda was utilized in that era, how it shaped so many important attitudes and decisions, and I couldn't help thinking of some Star Wars parallels that I'm sure you would be really into.
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You had me at Star Wars parallels + propaganda studying! As much as I like to learn things just to learn them, one way to shoot something to the top of my to-listen list is definitely to tell me it'll give some cool potential insight into Star Wars. THANK YOU FOR THE REC, I LOVE PODCAST RECS. ♥