Happy Hump Day! It’s Wednesday again and that means more links to share with you all. We’re halfway through the month of October and the end of the year is slowly creeping upon us. For me, it’s pretty much all downhill after this month! Are you excited for the upcoming holiday season?
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HBO Go and HBO now offers Miss Sherlock, a Japanese retelling of the Sherlock and Watson pairing. Both characters are played by women! Have you seen the adaptation yet? How is it?
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Heard of Patreon? Well McSweeney’s has come up with Matreon: The Patreon Platform for Emotional Labor:
Dear Guy Who Can’t Read The Room:
Hello and thank you for attempting to engage in an unsolicited conversation with me! In order to ensure our interaction is productive and enriching for both parties, I invite you to join my Matreon. For just a few dollars a month, you can continue to approach me with whatever the hell is on your mind regardless of context or appropriateness, and I will continue to do the emotional labor required to respond without calling you a privileged, myopic dipshit.
It’s so painfully true and funny.
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Artist Kate Beaton has archived her Hark! A Vagrant comic site and dedicated it to her late sister. Last week, people on Twitter were recommending their favorite strips from the comic.
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Author Rosanna Leo is over at Frolic.Media, discussing her love of Gothic romance and giving out some recommendations:
One of the reasons I adore this sub-genre of romance is the fact it usually reaches a satisfying conclusion. In most cases, the mystery is solved, the villains are exposed and the “demons” are exorcised. At the end, the reader breathes a sigh of relief as the protagonists declare their love. All the things that frightened us at the start of the novel don’t seem all that frightening anymore.
Have you read any of Leo’s recommended books?
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Like Halloween, but don’t want to get too spooky? I love this music video for Twice’s “TT.”
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Don’t forget to share what super cool things you’ve seen, read, or listened to this week! And if you have anything you think we’d like to post on a future Wednesday Links, send it my way!
Hark! A Vagrant is so very special and important to me. I’m happy that KB is moving on to projects that are more fulfilling for her. I will give my small, fat, and mighty pony plushie an extra big squeeze tonight.
Powerful video from the BBC today: https://twitter.com/twitter/statuses/1004658640899407872
Did you guys see that CHRISTMAS PRINCE is getting a sequel this year? https://ew.com/tv/2018/10/17/netflix-christmas-tv-movies-2018/
@EC – LOVED that video. Thanks for sharing. I was tearing up into my tea.
I clicked the link, really excited for “Miss Sherlock” because I didn’t like Elementary, I didn’t like Sherry Thomas’s books, and I am so ready for girl Holmes.
Until all the graphic murder in the trailer. Could have done without that. Lots of triggers if you’re sensitive to that sort of thing.
Also, looks like they’re following in the BBC tradition of Sherlock Holmes = asshole that is oblivious to people’s suffering.
Found on the Dork Tower twitter feed, the Doubleclicks made this very fun list of “Music for Nerds by Women and Nonbinary Folks” https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhxOQhbENeynFQpaiuP2C_iPk86oCivoG I’m still going through them, but I think fans of TBBT will appreciate “The Rebuttal of Schrodinger’s Cat” and anyone with a heavy feline will like “Meownir.”
Thank you EC, that was the best thing I’ve seen this week.
@Jo: If you’re looking for more Sherlock retellings, I’ve heard good things about A Study in Charlotte by Brittany Cavallaro (YA) and A Study in Honor by Claire O’Dell.
I’ve also been enjoying The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter by Theodora Goss on audio. Sherlock and Watson are important secondary characters.
I will miss Hark! A Vagrant, but I’m happy for Kate Beaton and so grateful to her for bringing so much happiness to my life. My favorite is the Nemesis series of comics:
http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=327
Love.
Miss Sherlock is wonderful! But yes, a little graphic at times since they really do a good job exploring Wato’s (aka Wato-san aka Watson) PTSD. I really enjoyed how the arc of the series played out. “Sherlock” does come across as a jerk for a while, but ultimately her journey is about opening up to people and learning to be kind since it’s not that this is just how she is (like the BBC Sherlock), this is how she is because of some trauma. I won’t say it’s beyond criticism, but I thought it was a worthy effort and I hope there is more!
McSweeney’s is right on with this
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This is a fun video for the Harry Potter fans (I´m not really one, and I still enjoyed it): .