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Yes, I've only just got round to finishing them ;)

38 Questions Under The Cut )


My Year In Fic

Fics

A Man Who Trusts (1/1, TNA gen fic) - https://redfiona99.dreamwidth.org/1379443.html

The New York Incident (1/1, Marvelverse gen) - https://redfiona99.dreamwidth.org/1361675.html

Now I Turn Unto My Calling (1/1, Marvelverse Gen) - https://redfiona99.dreamwidth.org/1365639.html

Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent (1/1, AEW wrestling gen fic) - https://redfiona99.dreamwidth.org/1372366.html

Out of the Ice (1/1, Captain America Gen) - https://redfiona99.dreamwidth.org/1373734.html

Whiskey, Hotel, Echo, November (1/1, Torchwood and Captain America Crossover) - https://redfiona99.dreamwidth.org/1375889.html (Sequel to 'And yet they say you should never meet your heroes' - https://archiveofourown.org/works/34127452)

And a whole bundle of 3 Sentence fics - https://redfiona99.dreamwidth.org/1366982.html

6 fics, at least two of which are expansions from the 30 AUs meme (https://redfiona99.dreamwidth.org/1333150.html). Not as much as I might want but justifiable I feel.

Meme under the cut )
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There's a reason L says the motto for my blog should be "I never drop projects, I just don't update them for a while". This one used to be yearly and then stuff happened, so I'm taking the chance to update it now.

This is a list of all the locations where films I have mentioned up to August 2020 (yes, I know).

Looking only at real locations, the US and UK lead the way.

Giant pie chart under the cut )

It's a lot less clear cut when I include fictional locations.

Another giant pie chart )

There's still an disturbing overwhelming, more than 80% of them are set there, English slant to the films set in the UK. It does possible suggest something about film funding in the UK, and where Hollywood sets films when they're set in the UK.

Third and last giant pie chart )

When I have time to learn how to do nice map plots, I think this will be my dataset.
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Apparently the early December 2024 nonsense really did scramble my brain and I missed doing this:

January - My top 10 films of 2023
February - Plotters vs Pantsers
March - Saints Ahoy - Visualisations from game 2 and the season to date Oh did that ever end up falling behind because of RL bad things
April - I am still not dead
May - I didn't post anything, see also RL bad things
June - Saints Ahoy - Visualisations from game 7 and the season to date
July - Euro 2024 Network Diagram - Quarterfinals
August - Back from Chicago
September - Saints Ahoy - Visualisations up to game 11
October - New Laptop
November - Fandom data viz
December - Fandom data viz

I am blaming slowness of everything on RL bad things.
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Duolingo:
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Reddit:
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(Yes, it's a den of sin and iniquity, but parts of it are nice)

Spotify:

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Due to *stuff*, I didn't listen to as much music as usual. But it was very much the year of Nick Cave.

Tumblr:
Was a repost of "30 Days of Star Trek - Day 3 - Favorite Starship" - https://redfiona99.dreamwidth.org/1379137.html possibly because I bothered to tag it

Wordpress:
The explanation of my top 10 films of 2023 - https://fulltimesportsfan.wordpress.com/2024/01/08/my-top-10-films-of-2023-now-with-an-explanation

The link to the Andalusian tourism board's page for Grazalema - https://www.andalucia.com/province/cadiz/grazalema/home.htm
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My "not first released in 2024" option is Galaxy Quest, which I saw at the Electric, about two weeks before it closed. Which was a real shock! The owner was perpetually threatening to close it but hadn't ever (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clm7nnyx2d5o). It just means I really need to get myself more organised to actually get back to going to the Mockingbird (https://mockingbirdcinema.com/MockingbirdCinema.dll/Home) when I get the chance.

For films released this year, I am applying my usual 4 criteria:

a – did the film do what it set out to do?
b – did it use its resources to its best ability? A £250,000 film is not going to have as good explosions as a £25,000,000 film, or it shouldn’t, and if it does, there’s something wrong with the £25,000,000 film. Basically, it's a technical merit score.
c – Intellectual satisfaction – does the film’s plot pull some really stupid move at the last moment? Does the plot rely on characters being more stupid than they are?
d – Does this work as a whole? Did it work for me? I am aware that this is the most subjective of subjective criteria!

I saw 13 films this year, 12 in the cinema and one on a plane, because the cinema-to-plane turnaround time is ridiculous nowadays. The bottom 3, which didn't make the top 10, can all be missed quite happily.

Of the 10 here, I can find something to recommend in everything down to 9, while I'd say the top 4 are actively good and Kalki 2898 AD is intriguing but that might be my lack of knowledge.

1 - Monkey Man - If we could give Dev Patel all the money he wants to make any film he wants, I would be so grateful. This was marvellous. Fills my need for arthouse violence exactly.

2 - Kneecap - I am going to caveat this one. How do you feel about about swearing, drink and drugs? If any of the above are not your thing, please skip. The politics is also ... intriguing (let's be honest, they go with 'Band banned by the UK gov' for a reason). (The politics is a whole section of the full review, a long section.)

On the other hand, other than 'oh heck, Fassbender is old enough to be playing parents', this was good. Openly, 'our story as told by a drunk', in the best sense, and DJ Provai can act (the other two, not so much but not worse than many pro-actors).

3 - The Beekeeper - Kurt Wimmer is a member of the Garth Marenghi school of writing, where subtext is for cowards. His style really works for me. The Beekeeper is a very straightforward story of good guys, bad guys, necessary bad guys and a lot of violence. They fill this out by casting a bunch of British actors in random roles (and have Josh Hutcherson being the sleaziest sleaze ever).

Catnip for me.

4 - The Count of Monte Cristo - It needed to be a mini-series. But I enjoyed what there was. Pierre Niney was excellent, I did not expect to fall for Andrea Calcavetti quite that hard and loved how they did Dantes acting as the Count.

5 - Kalki 2898 AD - The full story of how I ended up watching this will wait until the write up. Safe to say it was longer than expected, and could have done with some judicious cutting. On the other hand it felt very fresh, although how much of that is me not knowing the Mahabharata, I do not know. (It is a gap I am planning on fixing eventually)

I do find it interesting that 4 out of my top 5 are not English as their main language. Monkey Man and Kneecap (and the Count, to an extent) are also good at the way people who use more than language use their languages and flow between them.

6 - Furiosa - It wasn't as good as Fury Road (but that's a very high bar), and it did make Furiosa far too nice and cut-out how she was supporting Immortan Joe. But the images were still awesome and it does interesting things with revenge.

7 - Dune 2 - I am the problem with this. I acknowledge this. But there are three scenes I demand in any adaptation of this part of the book, and it whiffs all of them. I grant there's reasons for one of them - can I recommend SelenaK's review here - https://selenak.dreamwidth.org/1573791.html? - but I still want those scenes.

8 - Argylle - It has problems. For spoilery reasons, Bryce Dallas Howard is mildly miscast, but she's not miscast for the more important part. I would have re-edited several of the scenes that ran too long. But it's pleasingly silly, and does some fun things.

9 - The Fall Guy - This is probably better than Argylle, I just do not vibe with Ryan Gosling. The parts that are David Leitch's love letter to stunt guys, and any part that features Winston Duke, are absolute love, mind you.

10 - Venom 3

Everything above 10 has some redeeming feature. Films 10-13 have almost none of these. Venom 3 comes the top of them because while it is a pointless sequel (like film 11), I enjoyed it more than 11. Unlike film 12, I didn't consider that it might have been written by AI, because AI would be more evenly-toned. Unlike film 13, it didn't make me drunkenly rant at L, because it's just so wrong.

Also, it did have Venom Horse and Mrs Chen.

And Venom Penguin!
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My usual end of the year list of the top 10 films. Explanations coming in a week.

1 - Monkey Man
2 - Kneecap
3 - The Beekeeper
4 - The Count of Monte Cristo
5 - Kalki 2898 AD
6 - Furiosa
7 - Dune 2
8 - Argylle
9 - The Fall Guy
10 - Venom 3
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TW: Brief mention of COVID in the summary section at the bottom. I have labelled it summary so it's avoidable.

Alexander the Great RPF: )

Blade Runner )

Buffy: )

Doctor Who: )

Marvelverse: )

Miscellaneous: )

Wrestling: )

And a few bits and pieces of late fest fics.

Summary:

Added to the never going to be finished pile: 7 (3 of which hurt because what there is is gold, they just don't go anywhere. One of these is likely to rise like the phoenix at some point)
Unstuck: 1

I've been doing a yearly post about this for goodness knows how long, and removing ones that haven't moved in at least 4 years for 11 years (or thereabouts).

I think this is the year with the most fics sent to the "never going to be finished" folder. I was trying to figure out why, and then I realised, oh yeah, 4 years ago was COVID.

And that's odd because I was one of the people least affected, I kept on working, yes from home but pretty much doing the same job, I wasn't furloughed, I didn't catch it and me and mine weren't harmed.

And yet it still seems to have done something because there are so many fics from back then where I've just lost all ability to carry them on because I can't remember where they were going. It's most odd.
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1) Was 2023 a good year for you?

It was interesting. I think we'll go with interesting.

2) What was your favourite moment of the year?

Toss up between "mug from the Merseyside", "third at the Lancaster Summer", "called up for AACC", "fireworks at Disney" and some of the moments from the Hadrian's Wall walk.

3) What was your least favourite moment of the year?

Various RL bad news and some people misbehaving which I'm supposed to fix but getting no support in the fixing.

4) Where were you when 2023 began?

Bradford

5) Who were you with?

The mothership

6) Where will you be when 2023 ends? / Where were you when 2023 ended?
7) Who will you be with when 2023 ends? / Who were you with when 2023 ended?

Also Bradford, also the mothership.

8) Did you keep your new years resolution of 2023?

I was mostly on track until I broke my leg.

9) Do you have a new years resolution for 2023?

Tidy flat (yes, I know I say that every year, but this year, I have a plan). Get a better handle on my finances. Once I'm allowed to, try to fence at least once a week and gym at least twice.

10) Did you fall in love in 2023?

No.

11) If yes, with who?
12) If yes, do they know?
13) Do you regret it?
14) Did you breakup with anyone in 2023?

No.

15) Did you make any new friends in 2023?

I think some of the fencers count, and I've gotten closer with some of my fencing acquaintances.

16) Who are your favourite new friends?

C. C is pretty damn cool. As are other C and S.

17) What was your favourite month of 2022?

As per usual, I'm six-weeking this to cover the the second week of June to the end of July.

18) Did you travel outside of the US UK in 2023?

Yes, to Germany and the US with work.

19) How many different states did you travel to in 2023?

"Just" California

20) Did you lose anybody close to you in 2023?

Thankfully no.

21) Did you miss anybody in the past year?

Many people, mostly the old uni lot.

22) What was your favourite movie that you saw in 2023?

Blue. It completely blew me away. It is one of the greatest things I've ever seen.

23) What was your favourite song from 2023?

2023 passed me by musically, so resorting to wiki articles ... actually I still don't recognise anything except Flowers by Miley Cyrus.

24) What was your favourite record from 2023?

See previous.

25) How many concerts did you see in 2023?

None. That is also on the list, if only to cheer yet another D up.

26) Did you have a favourite concert in 2023?

N/A

27) What was your favourite book of 2023?

I have been terrible and mostly reading old mystery novels on Project Gutenberg.

28) Did you drink a lot of alcohol in 2023?

No, by choice, not just forbidden by leg.

29) Did you do a lot of drugs in 2023?

No.

30) How many people did you sleep with in 2023?

0

31) Did you do anything you are ashamed of this year?

I have been good this year. Mostly.

32) What was the worst lie someone told you in 2023?

"Yes, we will take it to the Friday meeting." Ladies and gentlemen, they did not, and it's now putting multiple projects 6 months behind.

33) Did you treat somebody badly in 2023?

Not deliberately, if I did. But I will try to be nicer.

34) Did somebody treat you badly in 2023?

No. People have been lovely, especially since the break.

35) How much money did you spend in 2023?

About the expected, with a few extra expenses due to the leg, and post-break yoghurt consumption. A yoghurt habit is more expensive than expected.

36) What was your proudest moment of 2023?

That work bigwig said, there is a problem, send [real name redacted], she can be trusted. Was it a nervous week of work, yes, but did it make me feel good, also yes.

37) If you could go back in time to any moment of 2023 and change something, what would it be?

Probably stepped to the right, not the left, at a certain point on Hadrian's Wall ;)

38) What are your plans for 2024?

Heal up in time for me to really kick on fencing season 2024-2025, which will also be my first year of veterans. Prizes for being old, here I come.


My Year In Fic

Fics

Adrift in the Wreckage (PG-12-15 rated Twelfth Night Antonio/Sebastian fic) - https://redfiona99.dreamwidth.org/1345949.html

And Hailing From The Andromeda Galaxy (G-rated AEW gen) - https://redfiona99.dreamwidth.org/1334815.html

Fireflies in New York (G-rated Doctor Who gen fic) - https://redfiona99.dreamwidth.org/1354974.html

She Walks In Colours Everywhere (PG-rated Inception gen fic) - https://redfiona99.dreamwidth.org/1359184.html

The Night Raven (PG-rated Marvelverse gen fic) - https://redfiona99.dreamwidth.org/1335511.html

Today When (G-rated Adam West Batman Bruce/Dick fic) - https://redfiona99.dreamwidth.org/1341764.html

We are not love's young dream (PG-rated TNA Bully Ray Dudley/Brooke Hogan fic) - https://redfiona99.dreamwidth.org/1337635.html

7 fics rather than the 12 I aim for (and almost never reach). You'd think being stuck at home for 4 months would have helped, but let me assure you, you use a lot of time sulking ;)

Questions below the cut )
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In 2023, I watched 12 new films in the cinema. I was on track for more, but then I broke my leg. A determination to watch Napoleon was on of the things that helped get me out of the house.

The very best film I saw last year was Blue, which I saw with [personal profile] ioplokon as part of the Horrorshow exhibition (https://www.somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/the-horror-show) [fuller review of the show eventually].

If we agree that art is trying to convey experience through a medium, Blue is exceptional. It's undoubtedly one of the greatest works of art I've seen in any medium.

The chance to see things like that, so utterly better than any of this year's films (most year's films), is why I have a separate category for films not released in that year.

I was also lucky enough to see Dr. Strangelove and Grand Budapest Hotel at the Electric Cinema (https://www.electricbirmingham.com/)

For films released this year, I am applying my usual 4 criteria:

a – did the film do what it set out to do?
b – did it use its resources to its best ability? A £250,000 film is not going to have as good explosions as a £25,000,000 film, or it shouldn’t, and if it does, there’s something wrong with the £25,000,000 film. Basically, it's a technical merit score.
c – Intellectual satisfaction – does the film’s plot pull some really stupid move at the last moment? Does the plot rely on characters being more stupid than they are?
d – Does this work as a whole? Did it work for me? I am aware that this is the most subjective of subjective criteria!


1 - Polite Society

This gets both style and ridiculousness points, and extra bonus points for Eunice Huthart (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunice_Huthart) [every girl my age wanted to be Eunice Huthart when we grew up] and introducing me to Nimra Bucha.

It also get a bonus for not being based on a pre-existing media property.

2 - Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning

If you'd told me that Mission Impossible 7 would be one of the freshest films I'd see all year I would have laughed at you. It is still a series of action set pieces barely held together with a plot and the lead villain is miscast, and everything I loved about Elsa Faust's fight choreography in Fallout (https://fulltimesportsfan.wordpress.com/2019/04/06/mission-impossible-fallout-is-solid-but-the-fight-scenes-are-exceptional/) this one got wrong.

On the otherhand Vanessa Kirby, Rebecca Ferguson, Henry Cserny and Shea Whigham's Briggs. I am so easily pleased.

3 - Across the Spiderverse
It's not Across the Spiderverse's fault it's not as good as Into the Spiderverse. Unfortunately, some of it did feel like filler when they realised that they'd made one and a half films and they needed to turn it into two.

I also really don't like cliffhangers.

4 - Guardians 3

Was it "a bit much"? Yes. Does James Gunn need someone to shout "no" at him? Yes.

On the other hand, did I go in knowing that? Yes. Did various bits of it, not least of all Teefs, break me in the way James Gunn always breaks me? Yes.

It was horrific, in a way this sort of film often isn't, but probably should be. It also had the best explanation of why I skew Marvel rather than DC - "everyone deserves a second chance."

5 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

Could I have done without the romance? Yes. Other than that, it was pleasing Turtle-y nonsense.

6 - Antman and the Wasp: Quantumania

To return to the cake metaphor I first used for the first of the Fantastic 4 films, bad superhero films are like bad cake. Yeah, it's bad, but it's still cake. And this was only mediocre cake, not actively bad cake. I didn't like what they did with MODOK, and it was too obviously setting up Wave 4 rather than being its own film (see also my problems with Stephen Strange 1 and 2) and there wasn't enough of team minor criminal, but it was bland not bad.

7 - Indiana Jones 5

I know what they were trying to do, it just didn't work for me. Sallah steals the film entirely.

8 - Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Amongst Thieves

I am the problem with this one.

My first exposure to D&D was Neverwinter Nights so I totally squeaked when they moved around Neverwinter, and when I play that I almost always play a lady barbarian so Holga, entirely my speed, ditto Doric.

On the other hand, it was just too ironical for my tastes. I find irony fine seasoning but a poor main course.

9 - John Wick 4

The problems with John Wick 4 were accidentally caused by John Wick 3. That was a series of excellent set pieces barely held together by some excellent acting. In this one, the thread holding the action set pieces didn't work, because John spent 3 desperately trying to find the Elder, only for spoiler to happen at the start of this.

Okay, given spoiler, ragnarok is coming for the High Table. I could get behind that.

Only then they don't do that either.

The plot made no sense!!!

10 - Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan/Three Musketeers: Milady

If this ranking was just based on the acting, the set design and the lighting, these films would be in second.

The directing would have moved them down anyway (directors, we have steady cam, use it).

And then we hit the screenplay. May the good Lord grant me the self-confidence of someone who adapts one of the most popular books in the world, one which has been consistently popular since its release, and then changes every single bit of the plot.

By the end of the second film, it wasn't even suggested by Dumas anymore.

Also, given they changed everything, one of the revelations in part 2 means someone's actions in part 1 make no sense, and it's just urgh!

I can happily recommend everything down to 3, would say 4-8 depend on people's likes and dislikes, and several of them have been moved around in this ranking every time I sat down to update it, and 9 and 10 had serious flaws.
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As usual, this top 10 is just the new films this year (which does somewhat give away that I will be talking a lot about at least one not-new film in the expanded post with my reasonings).

I have moved everything from 6-11 of these round every time I've written this list so some of them might change again.

The film that didn't make the top 10 is Napoleon, which was every bit as bad as you have been told, but was visually better than most of the other films.

I can only truly recommend the top 2 films (don't get me wrong, I loved Across the Spiderverse, but I do not approve of cliffhangers). I enjoyed everything down to 6, and and am willing to admit the virtues of everything down to 8.

1 - Polite Society
2 - Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning
3 - Across the Spiderverse
4 - Guardians 3
5 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
6 - Antman and the Wasp: Quantumania
7 - Indiana Jones 5
8 - Dungeons and Dragons
9 - John Wick 4
10 - Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan/Three Musketeers: Milady
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January - My year in Tumblr
February - Film Review - Blinded by the Light
March - Fic - We Are Not Love's Young Dream (1/1, TNA Wrestling)
April - Links
May - Formula 1 - Azerbaijan Grand Prix 2023
June - The Euro Change Game
July - Link (in the singular)
August - Women's World Cup 2023 - Last 16 Network Diagram
September - Hadrian's Wall
October - Important addendum to the last post - toe bruising gone
November - The road to explicableness - A closer look at England after their seventh World Cup game
December - Andalusia 2019 - Part 1 - Ronda

That I'm posting stuff from 2019 might tell you how behind I am. Fewer link posts than expected, but that's also possibly because I'm behind on those too.
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Alexander the Great RPF sort of: )

Blade Runner: )

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: )

Doctor Who: )

Harry Potter: )

Holmesiana )

Inception: )

Marvelverse: )

Miscellaneous: )

Torchwood: )

Wrestling: )

X-Men: )

That's 1 fic moved into the "Never Going To Be Finished" folder, and 4 that have come unstuck, one of them unstuck enough, hopefully, to be finished soon.
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Yes, the fact that I'm only posting these in March 2023 does reflect how busy I have been.

My 2022 in 38 Questions )

My Year In Fic

Fics

No one likes to hear I told you so - https://archiveofourown.org/works/39926601 Entirely selfish Mission: Impossible 2 fic.

Running Till The Road Runs Out - https://archiveofourown.org/works/36749140 The much muttered about canon-welding Wolverine: Origins into the original trilogy Gambit fic.

A Suitable Husband - https://archiveofourown.org/works/42493275 Last of the Summer Wine lgbtfest fic

Take the treasured dreams, but leave me what I've found - https://archiveofourown.org/works/37415680 the Jamie Noble + Mickey James gen fic with background Jamie/Layla and sinister Regal

What He'd Never Thought To Want - https://archiveofourown.org/works/41668761 Tsubasa KuroFai identity porn, or "every Tsubasa writer writes a furisode fic"

Yet Here We Are - https://archiveofourown.org/works/36252073 Irene Adler-centric Sherlock sort of gen fic

6 fics rather than the 12 I was aiming for, it was all going so well and then the second half of the year happened. I feel the same is likely to happen in 2023.

12 Questions Underneath )
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You'll notice this top 10 is lacking one film. That's because I didn't see 10 new releases in 2022. The cinema had two things working against it in summer, excellent weather and the Commonwealth Games, and then the end of November/start of December when I would normally have caught up, I was taken out by the cold that knocked me sideways for 3 weeks (yes, it was just a cold, no, I have no explanation).

This means I've not seen Black Panther 2 yet, which I aim to remedy shortly. I doubt we're going to have excellent weather two years in a row, so hopefully 2023 will see me watching more films in the cinema.

I am applying my usual 4 criteria:

a – did the film do what it set out to do?
b – did it use its resources to its best ability? A £250,000 film is not going to have as good explosions as a £25,000,000 film, or it shouldn’t, and if it does, there’s something wrong with the £25,000,000 film. Basically, it's a technical merit score.
c – Intellectual satisfaction – does the film’s plot pull some really stupid move at the last moment? Does the plot rely on characters being more stupid than they are?
d – Does this work as a whole? Did it work for me? I am aware that this is the most subjective of subjective criteria!

1 - Cyrano

I cried for three quarters of this film. I am not sure I can recommend it more than that (matters were not helped by me knowing what happens next).

Sure, I have opinions on some of the changes and the marketing, but it's a joy.

(Also, I will never forgive awards ceremonies for not giving Wherever I Fall something - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHo3w5ORcdY)

2 - Parallel Mothers

The thing I like about Almodovar is he writes woman who are real in all the best, jagged ways. I have no idea what they'll do next.

I know some people find him a little too much but this is one of his good ones.

3 - Bad Guys

This is an absolute joyous delight of a film.

I love Snake the most, of course I do, and this deeply stupid joke https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_inDxb7wQ-Q got the second biggest belly laugh of the year out me.

I'm cheating slightly, because I saw this on an aeroplane, but despite a 24 hour delay to the flight, it still made me smile so much. The lady who sat next to me would also like to add her vote.

That's how good it is - it makes jetlagged strangers talk to each other.

4 - Bullet Train

D wanted to see a stupid film to keep him amused for a couple of hours. This filled that gap.

Is it good? I don't know. But it is enjoyable.

The Boomslang's character card got the biggest belly laugh of the year.

5 - Everything Everywhere All At Once

This one is actually probably me being the problem. Like, I love the idea of it, and the execution of it (and the rock universe), but mindless positivity annoys me as much as mindless negativity.

6 - Dr Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

Skipping all my spoilery comments, this was a fun film, even if it's yet another example of Strange being used as the springboard for other people's films rather than getting one of his own. (I still want Strange vs Mordo. I am never getting Strange vs Mordo. I refuse to accept this.)

7 - Spiderman: No Way Home

I am the problem with this. Nine tenths of this is solid, it's just the remaining tenth annoys me to beyond reason. And yes, it's to do with the not-quite-avunculicide.

8 - Thor: Love and Thunder

I appreciate Taika Waititi's attempt to do a Brechtian superhero film. Even if it didn't work, I appreciate the attempt. I am also deeply amused that, the things I didn't like about Thor: Ragnarok, that I got told I was being a spoilsport about, are the things everyone else who loved Ragnarok hated about Love and Thunder.

Also - killer bunny!

9 - Uncharted

This was just bad. At some point, Hollywood will have to realise that a tragic backstory does not equal characterisation.

It's a film that features a battle between airborne pirate ships and it's still the worst film I saw in the cinema last year by some way, that is how bad it is.
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Normally I start with just a top x list before posting the explanations a week later because I'm running out of the door to home for Christmas. Due to everything, this is a list only for the time being because I am rushing back from Christmas.

I am reasonably sure that when I write the full version, none of the numbers will change. I recommend everything down to 3. 4 and 5 require you to be in the mood. 6 is passable (actually enjoyed it more than Everything Everywhere All At Once but it's also a much easier film to watch). 7, I am probably the problem. 8, I know what they were going for, they missed. 9 is just appalling (except one bit).

1 - Cyrano
2 - Parallel Mothers
3 - Bad Guys
4 - Bullet Train
5 - Everything Everywhere All At Once
6 - Dr Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
7 - Spiderman: No Way Home
8 - Thor: Love and Thunder
9 - Uncharted
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Homebrew figure again.

Giant image under the cut )

The tweet with the most impressions is about Ferrari. Ferrari fans, we're hopeless, but we are hopeless together.

4 of the remaining 9 are replies to other people's posts.

1 is a quote tweet about the Tour de France team reveals - it is a very fun reveal from Trek Segafredo.

With regard to the remaining 4, 2 are plain tweets (with hashtags) and 2 are tweets with links.
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Or the data viz/sports/film blog (https://fulltimesportsfan.wordpress.com/).

Top 3 posts:

1 - (By a long way) - Six Nation 2021 – Visualisation of who was on the pitch when the teams scored – Introduction - https://fulltimesportsfan.wordpress.com/2022/01/29/six-nation-2021-visualisation-of-was-on-the-pitch-when-the-teams-scored-introduction/

2 - (Joint)
a - One of the Six Nations round ups, the one for Wales - https://fulltimesportsfan.wordpress.com/2022/02/26/6-nations-2021-data-visualisation-project-wales/ This may be explained by several of my twitter-list being Welsh.

b - Sword-fighting Films – The Three Musketeers - https://fulltimesportsfan.wordpress.com/2022/09/28/sword-fighting-films-the-three-musketeers/ The next one is likely to be either the Count of Monte Cristo or the Prisoner of Zenda

3 - Formula 1 – Did the fastest lap points make any difference in 2021? - https://fulltimesportsfan.wordpress.com/2022/03/19/formula-1-did-the-fastest-lap-points-make-any-difference-in-2021/

Luckily, there will be a 2022 update. I haven't checked but I think the answer is no ... again.
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Tumblr seems to have stopped randomly blocking posts as porn so no "poor tumblr pornbot" updates (I am less annoyed by the wave of spambots than I was by blockbot ...)

For the second year in a row, my most reblogged post was a music video, this time, it was Eurythmics "Who's That Girl"

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Yes, I know it's cesspit etc but my parts are quite friendly.

Also, their yearly round up comes with this:
Large image under the cut )

I stick to the Star Wars and tech support bits, which probably helps.

My greatest hit - https://www.reddit.com/r/swtor/comments/vjv48s/this_kind_of_infighting_is_why_the_republic_keep

Because some of the SWTOR glitches lead only to joy.
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Inspired by [personal profile] nwhyte's round up.

Starting with Spotify.

Image of my Spotify round-up )

I can explain Rammstein - I was re-listening to them in advance of the gig. The rest is mostly inexplicable.

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