What I did in December/January

And the lesson I learned from putting these links together is that if I want to keep up this particular tradition, I can’t skip months!

Musketeer Space Updates:

29: The Husband of Athos

30: In the Cellar of the Gilded Lily

31: Musketeers at War

The Seven Days of Joyeux – a festive prequel novella in 7 parts.

32: Chasing Spaceships

33: The Hotel Coquenard Deluxe Bathroom Experience

34: The New Aristocrats

35: Is it Love or Just Paris?

36: Sexting the Enemy

Robotech Rewatch Updates:

28: Love is a Weapon

29: Azonia is a Sex Kitten Now

30: Dating Tips for the Apocalypse

31: Christmas is Sadness and Snow

32: It’s the End But the Moment Has Been Prepared For

33: Team Hovertank!

34: Death by Ditzy Teenager

35: Field Promotion is for Girls

36: Ground Troops in Outer Space

Musketeer Media Monday:

Musketeers in Technicolor (1948)

I can’t take my eyes off the costumes. Why are there no Musketeer conventions? This film needs to be cosplayed the hell out of. Oh, the swashing and the buckling and the leaping and the footwork in floppy boots.

Musketeer on Mars (2008 & 2012)

What follows is a surreal and weirdly gentle tale that mashes up Flash Gordon and The Princess of Mars, with other retro sci-fi elements thrown in for good measure.

Uncanny Magazine: “Does Sex Make Science Fiction Soft?”

How much kissing and flirting can a story take before it doesn’t deserve to be called science fiction any more?

Yes, that was a trick question.

Cora Buhlert responds to my Uncanny article: Of Hard SF & Messy Emotions

The brand new Fangirl Happy Hour podcast discusses both of our articles – Episode 2, Tales of Love and Romance.

Issue #1 Reviews:

Thor #1 (2014)

Spider-Woman #1 (2014)

All-New Captain America #1 (2014)

Captain America & the Mighty Avengers #1 (2014)

S.H.I.E.L.D. #1 (2014)

The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #1 (2015)

Bitch Planet #1 (2014)

Secret Six #1

How to Read the Young Avengers:

So I embarked on a recent quest to go through the proper reading order of the Young Avengers, in preparation for reading the recent (and now-complete) Marvel Now relaunch of the series.

Galactic Suburbia:

Episode 112: 3 Dec 2014

In which we help you with your (possibly last minute) Christmas shopping with a ton of our favourite recommendations from the year, plus culture consumed.

Verity! Podcast:

Episode 63 – Tetchy Antagonistic Rascally Devious Intractable Spaceship

Episode 65 – I’m Dreaming of a Last Christmas

Episode 66 – Companions Who Never Were

Extra! In Defence of…

Two Minute Time Lord 368: The Last “Last Christmas” Panel (Time Dilation)

It’s still Christmas, darn it! And the Doctor Who series isn’t over yet! At least that’s what I’m trying to convince myself, by inviting National Public Radio’s Petra Mayer and Doctor Who: Verity!’s Tansy Rayner Roberts over to 2MTL to talk one last time about Last Christmas, Steven Moffat and Clara Oswald.

Servant of the Empire Reread on Tor.com:

Part 12

Part 13

Part 14

Part 15

Part 16

Part 17

Part 18

Part 19

Aqueduct Press: the Pleasures of Reading, Viewing & Listening

Every now and then, our family finds a show that the adults genuinely love as much as the children (two girls, 5 and nearly-10) and we watch the hell out of it until we can’t squeeze it dry any longer. Past examples of this have been Horrible Histories, Yonderland and Futurama. This year, it’s Phineas and Ferb.

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