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My media this week (3-9 Jul 2022)

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

🥰 The Way I Feel For You (Becassine) - 77K, Stucky, omegaverse fake-dating - reread, forever fave, has every yummy thing I love about these tropes

😊 Cards On The Table (Agatha Christie, author; Hugh Fraser, narrator) - would genuinely love to know if the line in ABC Murders sparked this or if AC already had it planned and slipped that line in as a clever easter egg; love this one for bringing so many of her 'slueuths' together, just like I loved it when HP worked with Mr. Satterthwaite

😊 The Company You Keep (orbingarrow) - post-WS canon divergent, background stucky but really very Bruce focused, really enjoyed these characterizations and seeing Bruce front & center

🥰 Paradise Lost & Found (Jennifer Knightley) - delightful contemp romance set in a tropical wedding resort with a jilted groom & a rebound fling that (obvs) develops feelings.

🥰 To Say Nothing of the Dog: Or How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump at Last (Oxford Time Travel #2) (Connie Willis, author; Stephen Crossley, narrator) - it's been 20 yrs since I read this; a mash up of the vibes of Victorian comic literature, '30s golden age detective fiction and PG Wodehouse into a delightful time travel adventure romp. It does feel a little dated in some of the characterizations, but sadly kotowing to the narcissistic, abusive, imperious, unreasonable, reality-denying billionaire on the off chance she might donate some money and everyone pretending her behavior is 'whimsical' and 'hilarious' and not absolutely toxic feels unfortunately super fucking contemporary (but shout out to naming her Lady Shrapnell - absolute *chef's kiss* to that Wilde allusion)

🥰 Read, White & Blue (JJK) - 99K, shrunkyclunks - canon divergent newly defrosted Steve and librarian Bucky; loved it!

💖💖 +69K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

two more in the fantastic Differently Okay Local Idiots series by One-EyedBossman (desert000rose) & SecretFandomStories, which has no-powers vets Steve & Bucky figuring out how their jagged edges fit together in a D/s relationship: Part 6: Charlie Foxtrot (16K) and Part 7: De Oppresso Liber (12K)

put out this fire (burning in my soul) (liloau, thatsmysecret) - MCU: Stucky, 19K - reunited childhood friends with firefighter Steve, a cat up a tree and a DELIGHTFUL Winnifred Barnes (the audio prompt for this was fucking hilarious and the fic absolutely did it justice)

Lesson One: La Petite Mort (AidaRonan) - OFMD: BlackBonnet, 3K - after an offscreen reunion & reconciliation, Stede and Ed come together

Take Your Time Coming Home (odetteandodile) - MCU: Stucky, 13K - reread, love this prewar 'hot rack' flatshare sorta epistolary romance

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

Olivia Colman reads a letter responding to an unsolicited penis photograph

Benedict Cumberbatch reads Nick Cave's letter about grief

Armistead Maupin reads a letter to his 16-year-old self

Shirley Manson reads a powerful feminist letter to her niece

Legends of Tomorrow - s6, e14-15

Our Flag Means Death - s1, e6-7

Murder In Provence - s1, e1

Bringing Up Baby

The Brokenwood Mysteries - s8, e1-2

What's Up, Doc?

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

Sidedoor - Get Off My Lawn

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

Classic Tropical Hits

Evening In Havana

Presenting MCR

The Hits: '70s

#sunday reading recap #bookgeekgrrl's reading habits #bookgeekgrrl's soundtracks #on vacation this week but also i went visiting and so i did not accomplish as much reading as i had hoped #fanfic ftw #letters live #bringing up baby is still amazing #100% made me want to rewatch What's Up Doc? again #so we did #my parents and i were *delighted* to see new brokenwood mysteries though!#sidedoor podcast #another thing i loved in that connie willis novel #was a reasonable in universe explanation for the protags to sometimes be a little slow on the uptake #just to make the shenanigans multiply #fan makers are a *gift*

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