Nabbed from rionaleheart
TV questions: pick five TV shows you like (in no particular order) and answer the following questions. Don’t cheat!

1. Interview With The vampire
2. Wheel of Time
3. Sarah Connor Chronicles
4. Yellowjackets
5. The Mandalorian

( Me and by goldfish brain having to scroll up to see what fandom each number is for every single question. )

+ Random icon button gave me a Star Wars icon, so that's today's fic pick for #Rec-Cember!

Star Wars
when you lay me down you'll only bury bones by onespaceace (18,959 words)
AU where Mando couldn't save Grogu at the Seeing Stone (Chapter 14: The Tragedy). This grabbed me beginning to end, both the POVs and the character interactions were *chef's kiss*

Luke jerks awake with a gasp, and immediately gags.

Artoo whistles a question behind him, but he can't give a better answer than the groan behind his clenched teeth. He shuts his eyes and swallows hard a few times until he's sure he isn't about to throw up in his lap.

There isn't much recorded about Force visions anymore - at least, not anywhere that Luke has looked - but he knows that what he saw wasn't a dream. Not really. Shaking, he presses a hand to his throat, running his fingertips over the unmarked skin there, where he swears he can still feel the impossible heat of blaster fire. There's no way of knowing if what he saw has already come to pass, but there's a twisting deep in his gut that tells him they're too late. He can't tell if it's the Force reaching out to him, or simply his own fears, but the cry for help that echoed across the galaxy to him had jolted him from meditation hours ago. There is every chance the child is long gone; their Mandalorian defender long dead.

But Luke, for all his faults, has never learnt to quit while he's ahead. Until he reaches Tython, until he finds the child, there's still a hope that he can't quite abandon.

+ I very much need to stop mentally writing DW posts. Those drafts don't transfer, brain! As in: hi! Long time no see?

+ Once again a failboat about getting my health certificate so I could go back to work. Actually had to borrow some money from my dad. But the doctor seemed very optimistic that if i stuck to the plan I'd be ready for the next trip in February, and luckily I did some work when the boat was docked for repairs, so a bit of wages incoming there.

Meanwhile, I'm on a strict low carb diet and walking every day.

+ To help with structure and meal times I decided to visit my mom, and I'll mostly be here until after Christmas. it's very nice to be back in her cozy house! And my nephew loves going out hunting for Pokemons with me. Today I stuck my chilly hands down the back of his sweater for fun, and he refused to come close to me the rest of his visit. Then after leaving, he came back in just to give me the hug he didn't want to give my cold ass when he was leaving. Without prompting lol. So adorable.

+ There's a bunch of Christmas markets coming up starting this weekend, hopefully I'll have some pics to share.

+ I'm only playing three low-stakes games rn, Marvel Snap,Pokemon Go, and Disney Dreamlight Valley. A safe way to avoid emotional overwhelm :p I will say Snap has delighted me with yet another fantastic Sera alternate card art, and the new DLC for DLV has a super cozy bookish land added and a bunch of cute origami birds I'm chasing, new outfits make of book pages, book nooks scattered all over the place, etc. *burrows down in cozy*

+ Hmm not sure if I have it in me to try for #Rec-cember this year. But I rarely read fic and rec even rarer still. Boo me.

+ Enjoyed Agatha All Along, but there were some internal inconsistencies that kept me from falling into it fully (so so happy to see all the icons it's getting though, and that a queer witchy show got such strong ratings). Right now we've just started watching the Ronja Robbersdaughter series on Netflix. Only one episode in, but I like the cast and adore the setting. Mossy woods and creepy beings yay! Babylon 5 co-watch is plodding along, we saw 2x09 The Coming of Shadows yesterday. Seriously such a strong three episode streak that I've enjoyed tremendously.

+ Since I'm on my brother's infinite internet now, I dove right back into tumblr last night and gorged on fanart. The Interview With the Vampire fandom is eating good. I was going to continue, then remembered I haven't watched Arcane yet and got my butt out of there.

But lusting for more arts, today I make a BlueSky account: goodbyebird.bsky.social

It then immediately started showing internal server errors whoops I broke it

+ Um have some icons?




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* snowflake_challenge has started up again! There’s a lovely intro post where the mods have written about what the challenge means to them, and Challenge 1 is already up.


* I’ve bought so many Christmas ornaments on sale 😬 I am now snooping around for a new tree lol.

* Made a tiny post of leftover icons for 2022, though I may have missed some hah.




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* And a friending meme for the new year is happening!

Johnny English is on TV, and the villain - played by John Malkovich - is a dead ringer for Lestat in Interview With The Vampire. It's eerie. And terrible. And now stuck in my head.

Here, suffer with me.

I watched it and it was excellent. Great writing, setting, casting... quite bloody, but hey, it's vampires. Very onscreen queer vampires fyi.

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I will probably not engage much with fandom though, as book spoilers abound. My only knowledge so far have been from the two movies, I think I'd like to keep it that way. (already spoiled for one thing, very excited to see where it's going, but no more kthx)

Fun fact 1: excited lil me picked up one of the books from the library, and it was the very first book ever I just bounced off and gave up on.
Fun fact 2: my first username on LJ was Maharet83. Because I did very much like the idea of that vampire lady in the second (very crap) movie.

btw Posing in Bondage by Japanese Breakfast is totes my song for this show.

eta Twitter may crash and burn any second, so have some fanart recs:
Louis🩸 by ArtofNickRobles. Love the old-timey feel. What a handsome man, that Lois.

easy-peasy by EliseAwae. Great two-piece of Claudia in costume.

𝐿𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑎𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢, 𝐿𝑜𝑢𝑖𝑠. by tak_ch. Um, YES.

claudiaaaa by geedevotee. Mothereffing chess protege.

No thought, head empty, just them by SinctalkLoustat. Two very handsome fellas.

#IWTV by PatiCman. A couple of fashionistas.

Somebody made intw_amc for the show, and vc_media is an established community for the entire Vampire Chronicles fandom. I put some icons from ep 1 & 2 up at smallbatchicons.

Hmm all this does remind me of the one vampire book I read by Barbara Hambly, and how she handles them really pinged with me. I should get back to that!