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Random meme, and months-old recs
Yes, I know, this is lame. One stale meme and links to old recs. But considering I haven't visited my own journal for weeks, it's better than nothing, right?

I did the movie meme in an idle moment, even though fandom at large used it up and tossed it away two months ago. I am forever belated, and my brain drags its good intentions around for ridiculous lengths of time before finally letting go.

Rules: Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen movies you've seen that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than fifteen minutes.



1. Children of Paradise (saw this at age 16 – rocked my world)
2. Steamboat Bill, Jr. & The General (my Buster Keaton crush)
3. Pandora's Box & Diary of a Lost Girl (my Louise Brooks crush)
4. Any number of Akira Kurosawa films, but first and foremost Seven Samurai
5. Any number of Ingmar Bergman films, but let's say Persona
6. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (my Gene Wilder crush. No, I am not ashamed)
7. Celine and Julie Go Boating
8. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (filmed RSC stage version) (my crush on practically everybody and everything – oh, theatre!)
9. The Apu Trilogy, but especially Pather Panchali
10. Lord of the Rings trilogy, regardless of its problems (my Elijah Wood crush)
11. La Strada & Nights of Cabiria (my Giulietta Masina crush)
12. Sense and Sensibility (my Emma Thompson crush)
13. Richard III (my Richard the Third crush)
14. Onibaba (true confession: I had to look this one up, because all I could remember was the English translation of the title: Demon Woman)
15. Couldn't decide between The Ice Storm and Withnail & I (my bittersweet yes-it's-fucked-up-and-they-leave-you-in-the-end romantic anti-romantic streak)

Well, that was less than cathartic. ;) And yes, I realize that I could probably come up with an entirely different list on an entirely different day in an entirely different mood. But once is enough.

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I keep postponing links to the recs I made during my respective driving/flying months at crack_van and crack_broom. Since I like to have a convenient record and tally of favorite fics and my thoughts on them, I'm going to use this as a bookmark post. These are several months old, but if there's anything here you've never read before, I urge you to give it a chance. And if the spirit moves you, leave the writers some love in the form of feedback.

Crack Van HP recs. Snape-centric but not particularly Snarryish.

Fallen Far from the Tree by joanwilder

We Should Have Loved More and Feared Less by maelipstick

The Soul Adores by maeglinyedi

Slow Convergence by Iteration by dracofiend

Mustard Seed by rinsbane (excerpt NSFW) (you need to have Rinsbane friend you to have access to her HP fics)

Match Point (Unforgiven) by snegurochka_lee

Jigsaw Pieces by florahart

All the Dreaded Cards Foretell by lilith_morgana

Silver and Green: A Quarter by alena_hu

Playing for Keeps by vissy

The Courtship of Benjamin Jink by atdelphi

Hard Bargain & A Valediction Forbidding Mourning by magnetic_pole

Also, two vid recs, one Snape-centric and one not:

High School Never Ends by Samus McAslan

Beautiful Struggle by nightchik

Well, that got long. Perhaps it would be wise to save the Crack_Broom recs for a follow-up post.