#that sense8 fic knocked my socks off

[bookgeekgrrl]

My media this week (28 Aug-3 Sep 2022)

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

🥰 Batnesia (Qui) - SuperBat, 60K - Bruce gets amnesia, forgets he's Batman, thinks Clark is his boyfriend, all the BatKids go along with it, hilarious but emotional shenanigans ensue + bonus Clark having to pretend to be Batman

🥰👂‍ Dead Man's Folly (Hercule Poirot #35) (Agatha Christie, author; David Suchet, narrator) - look I just love any of the books with AC's self-insert, Ariadne Oliver [but ngl DS' narration is not my fave!]

😍 Fallout (Whisper91) - Kingsman: Merlin/Harry/Eggsy, 164K - really excellent D/s universe, excellent Roxy & Eggsy BFFs, really good OCs as well

😊👂‍ The Clocks (Hercule Poirot #39) (Agatha Christie, author; Hugh Fraser, narrator) - I personally respect the balance AC tried to find as HP was aging so most of the leg work is done by newer, younger characters and the problem-solving is up to HP; still one of the weaker plots tho

😍👂‍ A Gentleman Never Keeps Score (Seducing the Sedgwicks #2) (Cat Sebastian, author; Joel Leslie, narrator) - takes a lot of courage to write a traumatized, touch-averse capital-R-Romance protagonist and a lot of skill to do it well and CS excels. Shout out to her solid research on historically accurate glass dildos!

💖💖 +249K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

something better than before (napricot) - Sense8: technically Lito/Hernando/Daniela but it's not a romance-focused story, 7.9K - amazing fic about Lito giving birth to a new senstate cluster: great character voices, Lito is exactly the kind of parent you'd expect (bless), Hernando & Daniela are along for the ride, the OCs from the new cluster are fully realized even in so few words. Absolutely perfect fic.

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

Death On The Nile (1978) - incredible costumes. all around excellent performances but special shout out to Angela Lansbury playing an alcoholic erotica writer, Bette Davis & Maggie Smith as vicious lesbians and, honestly, Mia Farrow was the perfect Jackie.

Harley Quinn - s3, e8 - love to showcase how fucked up in the head Bruce Wayne is! and now there's zombies.

What We Do In The Shadows - s4, e9 - what the actual fuck, Nandor?!

Evil Under The Sun (1982) - more incredible costumes. more excellent performances, esp Diana Rigg and Maggie Smith being absolute cats at one another.

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

Shedunnit Book Club - The Challenge Of Dorothy L. Sayers

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Pigeon Towers of Iran

Song Exploder - Madonna "Hung Up"

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Discovery Hut

Twenty Thousand Hertz+ - TikTalk

99% Invisible #504- Bleep!

One Year - 1986: The Ultimate Field Trip - definite undercurrent of dread listening to this one bc everyone knows how that field trip turned out

Vibe Check - The Girls Are Cashing Checks

99% Invisible #505 - First Errand

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - The Lost Boys of Robber’s Cave

Hit Parade - Still Billy Joel to Me

One Year - 1986: The Mystery of Al Capone’s Vaults

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

Finally Enough Love: 50 Number Ones [Madonna]

Presenting Charli XCX

The Go-Go's Radio • Upbeat

Closer to the Edge: Classic Prog

Presenting Rush

Pop Radio • Workout

Presenting Hall & Oates

Interpreting the Masters, Volume 2: (A Tribute to Van Halen) [the bird and the bee]