Links time!
*fanfare of trumpets*
It’s Wednesday and I think the cold temps are making me a little delirious. I’ve lost count of the many layers I’m wearing. I just know I can’t zip up my peacoat and I feel like a marshmallow person.
Hope you’re all having a fantastic week!
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Frolic has a Romance Rarities Bingo! I think some of the categories are pretty interesting and I’ll be cross-posting it to our Goodreads group.
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Spotify has playlists for your pets and their personalities. Do they have one for asshole cats?
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Catch up on the suspicious “restructuring” news from Dreamspinner Press.
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Sarah: Registration for the Researching the Romance Conference at Bowling Green State University is now open. I’ll be presenting (yay!) along with many other people who will be examining romance fiction and its community from all different angles. Alyssa Cole is the featured guest, and if you’re interested, I hope you’ll sign up!
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I found this quiz for seeing which democratic candidate matches your own policy ideas is pretty interesting. Of course, it vastly oversimplifies things, but it was still fun to play around with.
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Did you see a Penny Dreadful spinoff series is in the works? Natalie Dormer has been cast!
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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!
I don’t know if those are actually rarities. Contemp hero with chest hair? That’s easy. COVER of a contemp with chest hair, now that’s a rarity.
Thanks so much for the link to the eye-opening WP quiz. It was so informative to have each candidates’ answers on 20 key issues clearly laid out, and the quiz helped me to think through my own position on those issues and the candidates. Brilliant.
I’m amazed Dreamspinner is still alive.
I used to do translation work for Dreamspinner a few years back and man, I am glad I got out when I did.
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I usually really enjoy the special list type things Spotify comes up with, but after trying a few times, I feel like they really just phoned this one in. I expected that it would have a lot of recent listens tossed in there and it did, that’s fine but a very safe choice. They had a couple totally off-the wall songs that were things they’re currently promoting everywhere, then they dropped one song with cat (or dog) in the title in there. And that was it. Even putting in extremes of pet personalities on the relaxed/energetic scale didn’t get any noticeable difference in the pace of the music, and I really expected at least that much to work better.
They obviously went back to October with the listening stats, because every list they gave me had one song from a Halloween list, and one from a Christmas list. I’m pretty open minded, but no, Spotify, I don’t want to hear Monster Mash and Rocking Around the Christmas Tree right now, we’re almost up on Valentine’s Day. Really cute idea, but results were disappointing.
I have so much rage about Penny Dreadful and think this spinoff sounds terrible. Vanessa Ives (Eva Green) was one of the best women characters I’ve ever seen on TV and they totally ruined her storyline.
Grump grump grump.
Absolutely loved Penny Dreadful – awesome cast, I even liked Josh Hartnett. Also Eva Green, queen of everything. I didn’t like how they ended things at all, it all seemed very rushed and I didn’t like what they did with Vanessa at all, but I’ll give the new series a go. Natalie Dormer is always good and trailers don’t always reflect the final product.