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We had a fair number of ❄️ December seasonal recs ❄️ in our submissions from past years (we often get more than we can use), so I was hoping to run those this year. Unfortunately, they are *very* Christmas heavy.

So! If you've got secular wintry recs! Hanukkah recs! NYE recs! Etc etc. We'd love them:

nothing to see here, move along

this is so specific and correct

YouTube video by FeistVEVO Feist - My Moon My Man

losing my mind a little that jacob tierney says feist's "my moon, my man" is his shane/ilya song, and he's just SO CORRECT FOR THIS youtu.be/ltYq-jalYm0

#DecRecs Day 10: look, far be it from me to encourage further use of the gram, but the algorithm has finally swung in my favor and I’m getting what I really want which is my recommendation: all the excellent behind-the-scenes reels from Nutcracker productions around the country

not to mention those quads

breath control baybeeeee

I was about to say!! Biathlon!!!

Here it is! The magical medical school book I've been talking about for years! 🫀✨💀📙

BODIES OF MAGIC will be taking your pulse & injecting itself into your veins in September next year.

fond war flashbacks to my first full-time museum job, where I was responsible for writing a sign and taping it to the inside of the welcome center staffed by volunteers: “do not EVER accept an in-kind object/collections donation from the public. please direct inquiries to registrar at [link].”

finally some good fucking food

… pun intended 😏

S C R E A M

#DecRecs Day 9: Emily Dickinson’s completed works, but this one in particular (hbd, Emily!)

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52197/...

Oh my goodness, I am so, so sorry.

those sure are some words

Feeling inspired this year to write my dream Christmas crossover fic, in which the Nutcracker decapitates the Elf on the Shelf

gotta learn to maximize those ASSets, tim

Dick Grayson and Shane Hollander are both prodigious child talents. Unfortunately, Dick’s childhood job required him to develop maximum charisma and the ability to put on a show, and Shane’s early earmarking by hockey scouts conditioned him to erase any hint of personality when in public.

full-on phrenology *and* unethical consent practices wheweeeeee

For Research

Yeah, I also think that non-USian television productions lend themselves to more subtle acting choices these days, due to demands from US streaming production companies to cater to audiences that want everything explained and/or able to be watched with divided attention.

YouTube video by Julian Benoit Little Women ~ Soundtrack

#DecRecs Day 8: inspired by @twigofwillow.bsky.social , please enjoy one of my favorite albums to listen to November-February: Little Women (1994)

youtu.be/jTiodOvX1YY?...

yeah like if anything the bland “hockey robot” media personality is *underperformed* in HR, which is necessary bc 1) a romance which is 2) a tv show with a condensed timeline over six episodes. The context of the sport especially 10+ years ago is essential.

The soundtrack is perfect for autumn/winter, too!

All right, Booksky: it's my 2025 Books of the Year post! Get your book recs here.

Featuring lashings of romance and SFFH, a fair bit of murder, and some extremely specific history nerding, like you weren't expecting that.

Photo of Ben Affleck, a middle aged white man wearing jeans and a sweater, standing outside a door with a cigarette in his hand. His eyes are closed, and he is wearing an expression of exhausted aggravation and despair.

oh i am afraid to look lol but i can imagine the trash folks are regurgitating for the nth time

YouTube video by Andrew Barbin La Marseillaise Casablanca

#DecRecs Day 7: if you’ve never seen Casablanca, do yourself a favor and watch it.

youtu.be/cOeFhSzoTuc?...