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Arthur Conan Doyle. The White Company (e)
Rex Stout. Fer-de-Lance (e)
JRR Tolkien. The Hobbit (re-read)

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JRR Tolkien. The Fellowship of the Ring (e) (re-read)

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Terry Pratchett. The Shepherd's Crown
Rafael Sabatini. Scaramouche (e)
Jean Webster. Daddy-Long-Legs (e)
Andy Weir. The Martian (e) (re-read)

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(anthology). Batman Black and White, volume 2 (re-read)

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Caroline Stevermer. The Glass Magician (e)

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Rex Stout. Fer-de-Lance
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Mikhail Bulgakov, tr. Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky. The Master and Margarita
Peter O'Donnell. The Impossible Virgin (re-read)
Peter O'Donnell. A Taste for Death (re-read)
Terry Pratchett. Raising Steam (e) (re-read)

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(anthology). Batman Black and White, volume 2 (re-read)
Terry Pratchett. The Shepherd's Crown

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Caroline Stevermer. The Glass Magician
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Ben Aaronovitch. False Value (e)
Peter O'Donnell. I, Lucifer
Peter O'Donnell. The Night of Morningstar (re-read)
Tim Powers. Alternate Routes (e)
Tim Powers. Forced Perspectives (e)

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(anthology). Batman Black and White, volume 2 (re-read)
Terry Pratchett. Raising Steam (e) (re-read)

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Mikhail Bulgakov, tr. Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky. The Master and Margarita
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Aaron Allston. Iron Fist (e)
Aaron Allston. Solo Command (e)
Aaron Allston. Starfighters of Adumar (e)
Aaron Allston. Wraith Squadron (e)
Lois McMaster Bujold. Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (e) (re-read)
Lois McMaster Bujold. Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen (e) (re-read)
Lois McMaster Bujold. Komarr (e) (re-read)
Michael Stewart, Jerry Herman. Hello, Dolly!
Thornton Wilder. The Matchmaker
Timothy Zahn. Dark Force Rising (e) (re-read)
Timothy Zahn. Heir to the Empire (e) (re-read)
Timothy Zahn. The Last Command (e) (re-read)

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(anthology). Batman Black and White, volume 2 (re-read)
Terry Pratchett. Raising Steam (e) (re-read)

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Diane Redfield Massie. The Baby Beebee Bird

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Ben Aaronovitch. False Value
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Tina Jones. The Thing About Weddings
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Sharon Lee, Steve Miller. Scout's Progress (e) (re-read)
Tim Powers. Hide Me Among the Graves (e)
David Whitaker. Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks (audio book) (re-read)

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Grant Allen. An African Millionaire: Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay (e)
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Terry Pratchett. Snuff (e) (re-read)

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Sharon Lee, Steve Miller. Agent of Change
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Aliette de Bodard. The Tea Master and the Detective (e)
PC Hodgell. By Demons Possessed (e)

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Terry Pratchett. Snuff (e) (re-read)

Abandoned
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Tess Thomson. Paddy Hannan: A Claim to Fame

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Tim Powers. Hide Me Among the Graves
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Michael Gow. Away
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1. The Limitations of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is a video essay by Patrick Willems about the development of the MCU and why he isn't as excited when a new MCU movie comes out as he used to be, which has helped clarify my own feelings on the same subject.


2. Vote Compass is available again for the 2019 Australian federal election. The way it works is that you rate a series of statements about public policy issues currently in the public eye, then it shows you where the major parties stand on the same issues and which one your answers most closely match. This time out, four parties are included: the Coalition (right-conservative, the current party of government), Labor (left-progressive, the current party of opposition), the Greens (extreme left-progressive), and One Nation (extreme right-conservative). My overall result was about where I expected, as it usually is, but seeing the details was interesting.


3. Ben Aaronovitch's fantasy series Rivers of London is being developed as a TV adaptation, with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost as executive producers.


4. Humble Bundle is offering a More Board Games Bundle, with electronic versions of games including Ascension, Carcassonne, Gloom, Love Letter, Mysterium, Pandemic, Pathfinder Adventures, Scythe, Ticket to Ride: First Journey, and Twilight Struggle. The entire bundle is available for less than $20.

5. Humble Bundle is also offering a LEGO Games Bundle, including the LEGO Harry Potter series, the LEGO Batman series, the LEGO Movie Videogame, LEGO City Undercover, and LEGO Worlds, plus a discount voucher for the LEGO Movie 2 Videogame.
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[community profile] remixrevival has gone live, and there's some good stuff in there.

One of my cracky meme ficlets got picked and expanded into a full story with some great lines:

Pedaling a Mile in Someone Else's Shoes (The Extra Meaty Remix) (3302 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (1963), Doctor Who
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Sixth Doctor, Melanie Bush
Additional Tags: Bodyswap, Remix
Summary: The Sixth Doctor and Mel, swapping bodies and eating burgers.

(I have also heard from the person whose work I remixed that they were pleased with the result, which was an unspeakable relief.)

Of the works that had nothing to do with me at either end, here is one I particularly liked:

the pretty birds have flown (the bird in the hand remix) (4842 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Thor (Movies)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jane Foster/Thor, Brunnhilde | Valkyrie/Sif (Marvel)
Characters: Brunnhilde | Valkyrie (Marvel), Jane Foster, Sif (Marvel), Thor (Marvel)
Additional Tags: Post-Avengers: Infinity War Part 1 (Movie), Canon character deaths
Summary: “What’s an apocalypse?” Caroline asked, looking up from where she was sharing her pop-tart with the dog.

It's set in a slightly AU version of the Marvel Cinematic Universe during Infinity War -- 'ware spoilers, therefore, and assume the usual content warnings -- and as you might be able to tell from the tags has a focus on the female characters. My favourite sentence is the one about ballet, but it's all good.

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Bertolt Brecht, Eric Bentley (tr). The Caucasian Chalk Circle
John Buchan. The Courts of the Morning (e)
John Buchan. Greenmantle (e)
John Buchan. The Island of Sheep (e)
John Buchan. Mr Standfast (e)
John Buchan. The Thirty-Nine Steps (e) (re-read)
John Buchan. The Three Hostages (e)
Ben Muir, Jess Napthine, David Ash, Lee Cooper. How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse

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Diane Duane. The Book of Night with Moon (e) (re-read)
Terry Pratchett. Monstrous Regiment (e) (re-read)

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Jack Plotnick. New Thoughts for Actors (e)

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Stephen Curtis. Staging Ideas
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Bertolt Brecht, Eric Bentley (tr). The Good Woman of Setzuan
Terry Pratchett. The Wee Free Men (e) (re-read)

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CJ Dennis. Songs of a Sentimental Bloke
Terry Pratchett. Monstrous Regiment (e) (re-read)

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Nick Bland. The Very Noisy Bear
Chae Strathie, Sebastien Braun. Bedtime for Tiny Mouse

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Grant Morrison. Supergods
Jack Plotnick. New Thoughts for Actors (e)

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Bertolt Brecht, Eric Bentley (tr). The Caucasian Chalk Circle
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(memed from [personal profile] thisbluespirit, who claimed to have not written much this year)

List of completed fics:

An Equivocal Kinship
(G, 256 words. The Ship Who Sang x stealth crossover)
in New Year's Resolutions 2017

Time Out of Mind (Old and Young Together Remix)
(G, 1863 words. Star Wars, Rey & Luke)
in Star Wars Rolling Remix 2017

A Step Forward Into the Unknown
(G, 100 words. Marvel Cinematic Universe x Wonder Woman, Diana/Natasha)
in Multifandom Drabble Exchange 2017

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