Not a New Year's Resolution
Jan. 1st, 2021 07:40 pmThis year, I'm going to replace as much of my doomscrolling as possible with more meaningful entertainment. It's not a New Year's resolution because I always flunk out of those. I technically started last year and I'm not setting any formal Read #X Books or Listen to #Y Albums goals. Just ... more mindful content consumption as a general theme for 2021. I'm also going to try and be more actively social when I do come online. Mutuals, this is the year I comment on your posts now and then instead of just silently admiring you on my way down the page.
So yeah. Welcome to the first, irregularly scheduled edition of Things I Enjoyed With Purpose Instead of Lurking Obsessively on Social Media.
Fic
Music Box Dancer by![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
ambiguityisnoonesfriend (Star Wars Sequel Trilogy + Star Wars: The Rise of Kylo Ren, Rey & Voe (and Ben Solo)):
This is a fantastic fleshing-out of my favourite bit character from the Kylo Ren backstory comics, and just in general a really great canon-divergent AU where Ben never fell to the dark side and Rey was raised as a Palpatine. Despite the dramatic alignment flip, they're both still 100% their canon selves and the resulting dynamic is extremely satisfying.
Music
Across the Dark by Insomnium:
This was pitched to me with words like "soaring" and "majestic", which on my first listen it really did not live up to. My initial reaction was more like "this is perfectly adequate" and "sure, I'll leave it on in the background while I knead my pizza dough". Several days later I've run out of leftover pizza but upgraded the album to "FUCK yes, I love this, play it again". I can't explain why but it's just grown on me more and more with every listen.
Omega Arcane by Shade Empire:
I normally lose interest in symphonic stuff quite quickly, so I'll have to wait and see if this one has any longevity, but right now I love it. Dawnless Days has the same giddily, gratuitously evil vibe I enjoy about Anaal Nathrakh, but with more melody. Ash Statues is just straight-up beautiful.
So yeah. Welcome to the first, irregularly scheduled edition of Things I Enjoyed With Purpose Instead of Lurking Obsessively on Social Media.
Fic
Music Box Dancer by
ambiguityisnoonesfriend (Star Wars Sequel Trilogy + Star Wars: The Rise of Kylo Ren, Rey & Voe (and Ben Solo)):This is a fantastic fleshing-out of my favourite bit character from the Kylo Ren backstory comics, and just in general a really great canon-divergent AU where Ben never fell to the dark side and Rey was raised as a Palpatine. Despite the dramatic alignment flip, they're both still 100% their canon selves and the resulting dynamic is extremely satisfying.
Music
Across the Dark by Insomnium:
This was pitched to me with words like "soaring" and "majestic", which on my first listen it really did not live up to. My initial reaction was more like "this is perfectly adequate" and "sure, I'll leave it on in the background while I knead my pizza dough". Several days later I've run out of leftover pizza but upgraded the album to "FUCK yes, I love this, play it again". I can't explain why but it's just grown on me more and more with every listen.
Omega Arcane by Shade Empire:
I normally lose interest in symphonic stuff quite quickly, so I'll have to wait and see if this one has any longevity, but right now I love it. Dawnless Days has the same giddily, gratuitously evil vibe I enjoy about Anaal Nathrakh, but with more melody. Ash Statues is just straight-up beautiful.
