Stats: December 2025
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scifirenegadeFilms Watched
Books being read (for leisure)
Books on hold
Arts
Words Written
Total: 492 words
- Vendémiaire (1919)
- The Phantom Fiend (1932)
- L'engrenage (1919)
- Wicked: For Good (2025)
- I Lived With You (1933)
- Belle (2021)
Books being read (for leisure)
- Anno Dracula by Kim Newman
- The Speed of Sound by Scott Eyman
Books on hold
- Terrarium by João Barreiros and Luís Filipe Silva
Arts
- 3 finished pieces (Erich Keith of Tempête sur l'Asie, Karl von Marwitz, Otto Becker)
- No dumb doodles :(
Words Written
- Barbara's Great Wine Search: 0 words, ugh
- Pre-canon AadA fic: 163 words (total 762 words), ugh
- Else & Paul bonding moment: 129 words (total 782 words) - pretty much finished!
- Miscellaneous short fics: two fics (total 200 words)
Total: 492 words
Public Domain Bingo Card 2026
Jan. 1st, 2026 09:37 amscifirenegadeI had to. It's tradition.
My rule is that I only create fanworks for this card for public domain properties (doesn't feel right, this word, we'll workshop that later).
Edited with some info, so I can know at a glance if it's a song or a book. And snark, because the bingo generator spat me out Just Imagine XD
Surprise appearances from Lon Channey and Marlene Dietrich, and subsequently, Hollaender.
My rule is that I only create fanworks for this card for public domain properties (doesn't feel right, this word, we'll workshop that later).
Edited with some info, so I can know at a glance if it's a song or a book. And snark, because the bingo generator spat me out Just Imagine XD
Surprise appearances from Lon Channey and Marlene Dietrich, and subsequently, Hollaender.
| The Documents in the Case (book) | Someday I'll Find You (music) | Seas Beneath (movie) |
| Love for Sale (song) | Grumpy (movie by Cukor) | Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen (music) |
| Falling in Love Again (Can't Help It) (music from The Blue Angel) | The Unholy Three (1930 movie) | Just Imagine (my movie nemesis) |
Reading, Listening, Watching
Dec. 31st, 2025 04:08 pmpurplecatReading: Still the Doctor Who Reader, but supplementing with various Yuletide recs, and what I assume are Primeval Denial secret santa offerings. So far Dog Hamlets (Lord Peter Wimsey casefic. I had to think a bit to understand what the evidence was showing, but understood in the end - I think) and On Solstice Night (a spooky folklore take on the the "stuck in a bothy" trope, for a Primeval character and, because this is Primeval fandom, a shared OC).
Listening: Having exhausted all the podfic advent calendars, I'm listing to the Missing Episodes Podcast which I'd been hearing people mention for years but never really picked up. It is well done and if I catch up with them, I'll be interested in their take on the current nebulous swirling rumours.
Watching: When Marmalade Sparrow is here we end up watching a lot of Taskmaster, which she introduced us to. I think we're currently somewhere around 2018.
Listening: Having exhausted all the podfic advent calendars, I'm listing to the Missing Episodes Podcast which I'd been hearing people mention for years but never really picked up. It is well done and if I catch up with them, I'll be interested in their take on the current nebulous swirling rumours.
Watching: When Marmalade Sparrow is here we end up watching a lot of Taskmaster, which she introduced us to. I think we're currently somewhere around 2018.
Die Asta
Dec. 30th, 2025 02:30 pmscifirenegadeBringing you this, a "documentary"/"interview" with Asta Nielsen in 1968! Everything is in quotes because it's very clear with all those multiple cameras it's staged. But it was nice seeing her hanging out at her catholic-chique home (with her gay boytoy? I think that's her gay boytoy), reminiscing about how awesome she was. No fake humility, she knows she's awesome and loves listening to compliments.
I dunno, it's just nice that we got reports of people who worked on film way back in the silent days. We have interview footage of Alice Guy, pioneer woman filmmaker! Pretty sure there's a radio interview with Musidora somewhere (wouldn't be able to experience it, blah French)!
I dunno, it's just nice that we got reports of people who worked on film way back in the silent days. We have interview footage of Alice Guy, pioneer woman filmmaker! Pretty sure there's a radio interview with Musidora somewhere (wouldn't be able to experience it, blah French)!
LEGO Orrery
Dec. 29th, 2025 03:53 pmpurplecat
You can't actually see it, I realise all of a sudden, but there is a tiny moon that circles around the Earth which is obscured, in this view, by the Earth itself.
In Other News
Dec. 29th, 2025 10:22 amscifirenegadeTo calm down my boiling blood, I'm watching Dr. Mabuse (der spieler) (the first part). It's been literal ages and boy, is this HD copy contrasted to hell and back. Sometimes I can barely tell people's facial features!
Which leads us to Bad Film Restoration, which is exactly what it says. TLDR, less is more. Don't go crazy on the cloning and noise reduction tool.
Conrad Veidt, ein magier der Leinwand disappeared from YouTube after many years of it being up. The channel was terminated. It was full of German movie documentaries you can't find anywhere else. Copyright is, indeed, against art preservation.
The documentary is on the Internet Archive for anyone's viewing pleasure. No subs though.
Which leads us to Bad Film Restoration, which is exactly what it says. TLDR, less is more. Don't go crazy on the cloning and noise reduction tool.
Conrad Veidt, ein magier der Leinwand disappeared from YouTube after many years of it being up. The channel was terminated. It was full of German movie documentaries you can't find anywhere else. Copyright is, indeed, against art preservation.
The documentary is on the Internet Archive for anyone's viewing pleasure. No subs though.
Fanfic: Three Drabbles
Dec. 25th, 2025 04:16 pmscifirenegadeTitle: Pretense
Rating: General
Fandom: The Last Performance
Pairing(s) / Character(s): Julie Fergeron, Erik the Great
Warnings: n/a
Spoilers: n/a
Note: Forfic_prompt, prompt was "any, any, "pretend I'm someone you like"".
On AO3
On Squidge
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Title: my heart still brims with hope
Rating: General
Fandom: Anders als die Andern (1919)
Pairing(s) / Character(s): Kurt Sivers/Paul Körner
Warnings: n/a
Spoilers: n/a
Note: For![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
comment_fic, prompt was "Any, any, an AU where everything is happy and nice".
The title comes from The Tales of Ise.
AU where everyone lives and is happy yay!
On AO3
On Squidge
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Title: A Minor Mistake
Rating: General
Fandom: Anders als die Andern (1919)/Orlacs Hände (1924)
Pairing(s) / Character(s): Paul Orlac, original characters, mentioned Paul Körner and Yvonne Orlac
Warnings: n/a
Spoilers: n/a
Note: Forcomment_fic, prompt was "author's choice, any two characters with the same name, there's been a (minor? major?) mix-up".
Silly crack crossover.
On AO3
On Squidge
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Rating: General
Fandom: The Last Performance
Pairing(s) / Character(s): Julie Fergeron, Erik the Great
Warnings: n/a
Spoilers: n/a
Note: For
fic_prompt, prompt was "any, any, "pretend I'm someone you like"".On AO3
On Squidge
( Read more... )
Title: my heart still brims with hope
Rating: General
Fandom: Anders als die Andern (1919)
Pairing(s) / Character(s): Kurt Sivers/Paul Körner
Warnings: n/a
Spoilers: n/a
Note: For
comment_fic, prompt was "Any, any, an AU where everything is happy and nice".The title comes from The Tales of Ise.
AU where everyone lives and is happy yay!
On AO3
On Squidge
( Read more... )
Title: A Minor Mistake
Rating: General
Fandom: Anders als die Andern (1919)/Orlacs Hände (1924)
Pairing(s) / Character(s): Paul Orlac, original characters, mentioned Paul Körner and Yvonne Orlac
Warnings: n/a
Spoilers: n/a
Note: For
comment_fic, prompt was "author's choice, any two characters with the same name, there's been a (minor? major?) mix-up".Silly crack crossover.
On AO3
On Squidge
( Read more... )
Tis The Season...
Dec. 24th, 2025 08:48 pmjjporJust breaking my by-now habitual radio silence to extend the best wishes of the season to anyone reading this. Merry (insert midwinter holiday of your choosing) to you and yours. I know it has been a rough year for a lot of people, but here's hoping you get at least a couple of days of rest and respite, if not now then soon. <3
( Not Particularly Festive Fannish Ramblings Follow )
( Not Particularly Festive Fannish Ramblings Follow )
Reading, Listening, Watching
Dec. 24th, 2025 05:51 pmpurplecatReading: Adventures Across Space and Time: A Doctor Who Reader - I love the idea of this book - a collection of academic writing about Doctor Who that can stand as a starting point for scholars, but I knew when I bought it that I would find it quite hard going because I'm not a humanities scholar and I find their idiom somewhat hard-going.
Listening: The Radio Free Skaro and, this year, the Starship Alexandria Advent calendars. I am, as I always am, somewhat behind. But at least this year I'm up to day 18...
Watching: We watched The War Between the Land and the Sea and it was... fine? I don't quite feel it justified its existence. The ending was unsatisfactory - our heroes got to be in love, but everything else looks like a complete garbarge fire. It was very good in places, fine in others, kind of dull sometimes and events often felt like they were happening in order to get to the next plot beat rather than because they made internal sense. If it hadn't been Doctor Who adjacent, we wouldn't have watched.
Listening: The Radio Free Skaro and, this year, the Starship Alexandria Advent calendars. I am, as I always am, somewhat behind. But at least this year I'm up to day 18...
Watching: We watched The War Between the Land and the Sea and it was... fine? I don't quite feel it justified its existence. The ending was unsatisfactory - our heroes got to be in love, but everything else looks like a complete garbarge fire. It was very good in places, fine in others, kind of dull sometimes and events often felt like they were happening in order to get to the next plot beat rather than because they made internal sense. If it hadn't been Doctor Who adjacent, we wouldn't have watched.