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io9_feedThe final battle begins December 31—but first, we have praise and a few nitpicks to pass along to Netflix and the Duffer Brothers.
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io9_feedWhile China has been ahead of the game when it comes to government-backed digital currencies, adoption has been slow.
bbcnewsamerica_feedCamila Mendoza Olmos, 19, was last seen leaving her house on Christmas Eve morning.
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yuletideMore recs at my journal, including:
Possibly in Michigan
The Secret History
The Raven Tower
Impromptu/19th Century RPF
The Dispossessed
The Long Walk -Stephen King
Waking the Moon
Rope
Possibly in Michigan
The Secret History
The Raven Tower
Impromptu/19th Century RPF
The Dispossessed
The Long Walk -Stephen King
Waking the Moon
Rope
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rionaleonhartLast year, I posted a reflection on my favourite characters of 2024. It was a lot of fun, so I thought I'd do the same thing again!
As with 2024, I'm going to take a quick look at the preexisting favourites who've particularly occupied my mind this year, and then I'm going to comb through my 'first impressions' tag and give my favourite character from each canon I first posted about in 2025. (If no favourite character comes to mind, I'll skip the canon.) I might also cover a couple of canons I've tried out this year but haven't yet posted about.
( My favourite characters of 2025. )
Dexter is a surprising omission here! I watched a lot of that show earlier in the year, but I just don't have an answer to the 'who's your favourite character?' question. I like Deb, but not passionately enough to say with confidence that she's my favourite; I find Dexter interesting, but I can't say for certain whether I like him. I tend to be a very character-focused fan, so it's always a little surprising to me when I get into something without latching strongly on to any of the characters.
As with 2024, I'm going to take a quick look at the preexisting favourites who've particularly occupied my mind this year, and then I'm going to comb through my 'first impressions' tag and give my favourite character from each canon I first posted about in 2025. (If no favourite character comes to mind, I'll skip the canon.) I might also cover a couple of canons I've tried out this year but haven't yet posted about.
( My favourite characters of 2025. )
Dexter is a surprising omission here! I watched a lot of that show earlier in the year, but I just don't have an answer to the 'who's your favourite character?' question. I like Deb, but not passionately enough to say with confidence that she's my favourite; I find Dexter interesting, but I can't say for certain whether I like him. I tend to be a very character-focused fan, so it's always a little surprising to me when I get into something without latching strongly on to any of the characters.
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elaynaI'm normally not one for the villain, I don't need to know the tragic backstory that drove someone to be bad, give me the hero.
But then... there's Hans Gruber, truly one of the great villains in modern cinema. He's intelligent, organized, focused, educated, with the ability to both dissemble and be vicious. He knows what he wants, to be filthy rich, and he has planned brilliantly to achieve his ambition. (If it wasn't for that meddling cop!)
I didn't see Die Hard in the theater. I hadn't yet realized my love for action movies and Bruce Willis was some guy on a TV show I didn't watch. But I heard such good reviews, I watched it... IDK when or where, but before the sequel came out two years later. Maybe rented the DVD from Blockbuster?
Alan Rickman walked onto the screen and owned every scene, I loved him, and I loved that movie.
I recently showed it to my sister and a nephew, and I was amused by his reactions. "Oh, he uses his real voice for Snape." Um, yep. Rickman has a great voice, silkiest as its most menacing. And "Is that his real hair? Then Snape's hair must be dyed." Hmm. Yeah, actually Snape's hair must be a wig, men usually can't grow their hair that long multiple times for one role over several years.
So yeah. Alan Rickman as Hans Gruber is my fave movie villain, someone I love to watch be bad and get his comeuppance.
But then... there's Hans Gruber, truly one of the great villains in modern cinema. He's intelligent, organized, focused, educated, with the ability to both dissemble and be vicious. He knows what he wants, to be filthy rich, and he has planned brilliantly to achieve his ambition. (If it wasn't for that meddling cop!)
I didn't see Die Hard in the theater. I hadn't yet realized my love for action movies and Bruce Willis was some guy on a TV show I didn't watch. But I heard such good reviews, I watched it... IDK when or where, but before the sequel came out two years later. Maybe rented the DVD from Blockbuster?
Alan Rickman walked onto the screen and owned every scene, I loved him, and I loved that movie.
I recently showed it to my sister and a nephew, and I was amused by his reactions. "Oh, he uses his real voice for Snape." Um, yep. Rickman has a great voice, silkiest as its most menacing. And "Is that his real hair? Then Snape's hair must be dyed." Hmm. Yeah, actually Snape's hair must be a wig, men usually can't grow their hair that long multiple times for one role over several years.
So yeah. Alan Rickman as Hans Gruber is my fave movie villain, someone I love to watch be bad and get his comeuppance.
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mrs_redboots posting in yuletideIf you go to my journal you will find recs for stories in the following fandoms:
Puck of Pook's Hill/Callendar Series
Sussex Set
Swallows and Amazons (two stories)
Cadfael Chronicles
Chalet School
The Secret Garden
and Dragonriders of Pern
There may yet be more to come....
Puck of Pook's Hill/Callendar Series
Sussex Set
Swallows and Amazons (two stories)
Cadfael Chronicles
Chalet School
The Secret Garden
and Dragonriders of Pern
There may yet be more to come....
Fic and Fanart Recs: KR Fourze, Kingohger, KR 1971, KR OOO, Blazar KR Zeztz
Monday, December 29th, 2025 12:45 pmio9_feedWith three 'Ninja Gaiden' games, 'Ghost of Yotei,' and 'Shinobi,' ninjas returned to the gaming forefront in a big way.
io9_feedAs 'Stranger Things' bids farewell this week, don't expect Vecna to bring the Red Wedding to Hawkins.
ysabetwordsmith posting in goals_on_dwHappy Snowflake Season to all! As we prepare to kick off the 2026 snowflake_challenge, please feel free to promote this event within your own circles. You are welcome to use any of these new banners for that. The community page also has icons.
This event may appeal to those with goals about blogging, reading, writing, arts and crafts, networking, making friends, having fun, and so on.
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snowflake_challenge, please feel free to promote this event within your own circles. You are welcome to use any of these new banners for that. The community page also has icons. This event may appeal to those with goals about blogging, reading, writing, arts and crafts, networking, making friends, having fun, and so on.
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badly_knitted posting in drabble_zoneTitle: Moving On
Fandom: The Fantastic Journey
Author:
badly_knittedCharacters: Jonathan, Varian, Travellers.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 482: On The Road Again.
Setting: Turnabout.
Summary: Leaving Coriel behind, Varian is deep in his own thoughts.
Disclaimer: I don’t own The Fantastic Journey, or the characters. They belong to their creators.
A/N: Triple drabble.
Moving On
io9_feedA bomb cyclone could dump 1 to 2 feet of snow on the upper Great Lakes, per the National Weather Service.
killabeez posting in hlh_shortcutsMetaphorically Speaking by Anonymous for brightknightie
Category: Gen
Characters: Richie Ryan, Angie Burke
Summary: While enroute to start a new life, a roadside breakdown changes Richie’s plans.
Orogenesis by Anonymous forkillabeez
Category: Gen, M/M
Characters: Duncan MacLeod, Methos
Relationships: Duncan MacLeod/Methos, Duncan MacLeod & Methos
Summary: Orogenesis — A series of geological processes caused when two tectonic plates repeatedly collide, resulting in the formation of mountain ranges. Sometimes you find peace in a pile of rocks.
brightknightie Category: Gen
Characters: Richie Ryan, Angie Burke
Summary: While enroute to start a new life, a roadside breakdown changes Richie’s plans.
Orogenesis by Anonymous for
killabeez Category: Gen, M/M
Characters: Duncan MacLeod, Methos
Relationships: Duncan MacLeod/Methos, Duncan MacLeod & Methos
Summary: Orogenesis — A series of geological processes caused when two tectonic plates repeatedly collide, resulting in the formation of mountain ranges. Sometimes you find peace in a pile of rocks.
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The incredible World War II saga of the German-Jewish commandos who fought in Britain’s most secretive special-forces unit—but whose story has gone untold until now
June 1942. The shadow of the Third Reich has fallen across the European continent. In desperation, Winston Churchill and his chief of staff form an unusual a new commando unit made up of Jewish refugees who have escaped to Britain. The resulting volunteers are a motley group of intellectuals, artists, and athletes, most from Germany and Austria. Many have been interned as enemy aliens, and have lost their families, their homes—their whole worlds. They will stop at nothing to defeat the Nazis. Trained in counterintelligence and advanced combat, this top secret unit becomes known as X Troop. Some simply call them a suicide squad.
Drawing on extensive original research, including interviews with the last surviving members, Leah Garrett follows this unique band of brothers from Germany to England and back again, with stops at British internment camps, the beaches of Normandy, the battlefields of Italy and Holland, and the hellscape of Terezin concentration camp—the scene of one of the most dramatic, untold rescues of the war. For the first time, X Troop tells the astonishing story of these secret shock troops and their devastating blows against the Nazis.
Given how much print and film has been given to the Holocaust, I’m surprised that I’d never heard of this unit. Because it’s a story that truly should be known. Boys, and they were boys when their journeys began, give up their identities in order to fight against the Nazi regime. Most do not know what has happened to the families they left behind, but they are willing to do just about anything in order to help bring down the people who destroyed their world.
Many would die, But many of those who survived would never go back to who they had been. Oddly enough, it would mostly be those who emigrated to the US who would take back their original names, become Jewish again. But many would become thoroughly British.
For the first time I could actually follow the battles, these men coming alive as they made their way from Normandy beach and across Europe. Theirs is truly an amazing story.
( Mount TBR 2025 Book Links 1-55 )
56. Quick Fixes: Tales of Repairman Jack by F. Paul Wilson
57. Followed Home (Exalls Attacks, Book 1) by Andre Gonzalez
58. The Recipe Box by Viola Shipman
59. One Day All This Will Be Yours by Adrian Tchaikovsky
60. Zoo Story: Life in the Garden of Captives by Thomas French
61. A Rip in Heaven by Jeanine Cummins
62. X Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos of World War II by Leah Garrett
spikedluvI did a load of laundry (bed sheets, so also stripped and re-made the bed), hand-washed dishes, vacuumed the bedroom rug (I used to think the old vacuum did okay on the bedroom rug, but it was even doing poorly there because the new vacuum just glides over it and I don’t have to go over a spot more than once to suck up the dog hair; such a treat!), cut up chicken for the dogs' meals, and changed kitty litter (thankfully I’m done with the crap litter and back to the usual). I turned the last little bit of chuck roast into soup.
I finished Boyfriend Material and read some fanfic. I watched the Bills game. NGL, getting that two-point conversion would’ve been exciting as heck, but I wish they’d gone for the safe (safer) play. It’s no fun watching your team lose. *pouts*
Today I tried the Cinnamon Plum tea. It was pretty good, and not too cinnamon-y. But I also didn’t let it steep as long (as I did with the Cinnamon Orange) for the first cup, which might have helped.
Bad news: I felt myself starting to get stuffy today. I hope that whatever I catch from Pip is mild.
Temps started out at 1.8(F) (BRR!) and reached 32 (according to Pip; I missed it). There was actually a little bit of sun in the morning, but it didn’t last, sadly. Freezing rain started during the evening and we're supposed to get more overnight. (Spoiler alert: we did get more overnight. o_O)
Mom Update:
Mom sounded good when I spoke to her. I can’t wait until I can see her again. I want to see for myself that she’s looking as good as she’s sounding. My brother visited her in the morning and Sister A in the afternoon, so she did have some company, which is good.
I finished Boyfriend Material and read some fanfic. I watched the Bills game. NGL, getting that two-point conversion would’ve been exciting as heck, but I wish they’d gone for the safe (safer) play. It’s no fun watching your team lose. *pouts*
Today I tried the Cinnamon Plum tea. It was pretty good, and not too cinnamon-y. But I also didn’t let it steep as long (as I did with the Cinnamon Orange) for the first cup, which might have helped.
Bad news: I felt myself starting to get stuffy today. I hope that whatever I catch from Pip is mild.
Temps started out at 1.8(F) (BRR!) and reached 32 (according to Pip; I missed it). There was actually a little bit of sun in the morning, but it didn’t last, sadly. Freezing rain started during the evening and we're supposed to get more overnight. (Spoiler alert: we did get more overnight. o_O)
Mom Update:
Mom sounded good when I spoke to her. I can’t wait until I can see her again. I want to see for myself that she’s looking as good as she’s sounding. My brother visited her in the morning and Sister A in the afternoon, so she did have some company, which is good.
io9_feedWildlife officials in the U.S. and Canada report cases of chronic wasting diseases where it hasn't been detected before.