Vid squee!

temve and meletor_et_al have collaborated and made a really beautiful Ducard-pov Batman Begins vid to Queen's "Save Me".

And as an insane bonus, there is an 'outtakes' vid meletor_et_al did, set to They Might Be Giants' version of "Istanbul, Not Constantinople".

Really. Go look. Enjoy. Squee.

Historical AUs -- fun and so full of crack

So, for Thanksgiving, I went to twistedchick's house, brought along apple tarts that I made myself, and some DVDs. We watched Pirates of the Carribbean, which I had never seen, and Batman Begins, which she had never seen, and waited for the turkey to be done.

Before I went home, she gave me herbed vinegar -- because I'm the only one she knows who comes close to cooking with vinegar as much as she does -- and her husband lent me 1632 and 1633 by Eric Flint, which I spent the rest of the night ripping through.

These are set of Alternate History novels, and they are delightfully cracktastic. I credit temve and the_little_owl, and their bunnies about fusing Star Wars with that era of history for the fact that I was even interested in stories set during the time period, which I really don't know that much about.

( Take one West Virgina coal-mining town, circa 2000, and transport to lower Thuringia during the middle of the Thirty Years War )

For anyone who is interested, both books and the first short story anthology Grantsville Gazette vol. 1 are available for free from the Baen Free Library -- the publisher has put several SF/Fantasy books online in free and readable formats, which sure as heck should be encouraged.