(Mostly) Friends Only

[lirazel]

Books/Writers:

+ Jane Austen: I do enjoy all her books, but mostly Emma

+ Leigh Bardugho: Six of Crows/Crooked Kingdom

+ Joanna Bourne: Spymaster series

+ Beth Brower: the Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion

+ Steve Brust and Emma Bull: Freedom and Necessity

+ Octavia Butler: Kindred

+ Brontes: Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Shirley, Villette, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

+ A.S. Byatt: Possession

+ Mike, Linda, and Louise Carey: The Steel Seraglio

+ Susanna Clarke: Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell and Piranesi

+ Wilkie Collins: The Woman in White

+ Pamela Dean: Tam Lin

+ Daphne DuMaurier: My Cousin Rachel and Rebecca

+ William Faulkner: Absalom, Absalom!, Sanctuary, The Sound and the Fury, The Unvanquished

+ Tana French: The Dublin Murder Squad series

+ Golden age mysteries of all kinds

+ Tracy/Teresa Grant: The Rannoch/Fraser novels

+ Barbara Hambly: Benjamin January books (!!!!) and James Asher books

+ Frances Hardinge: all her books

+ Rachel Hartman: Seraphina/Shadow Scale and Tess of the Road

+ Eva Ibbotson: A Company of Swans, The Morning Gift, A Song for Summer, Countess Below Stairs, The Star of Kazan

+ M.M. Kaye: The Shadow of the Moon

+ Ursula Le Guin: pretty much everything she ever wrote

+ Madeleine L'Engle: all her nonfiction, A Ring of Endless Light, The Other Side of the Sun

+ Joan Lindsay: Picnic at Hanging Rock

+ Maud Hart Lovelace: the Betsy/Tacy books and Emily of Deep Valley

+ Eloise Jarvis McGraw: Mara: Daughter of the Nile

+ Robin McKinley: Everything except Pegasus and Dragonhaven. I’m not really into those.

+ L.M. Montgomery: Everything. All of it.

+ Naomi Novik: Spinning Silver and Uprooted

+ Shelley Parker-Chan: She Who Became the Sun

+ Elizabeth Marie Pope: The Sherwood Ring and The Perilous Gard

+ Chaim Potok: Davita's Harp

+ Dorothy L. Sayers: the Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries

+ Elizabeth George Speare: The Witch of Blackbird Pond and The Bronze Bow

+ Mary Stewart: The Merlin trilogy, The Wicked Day, The Moon-Spinners

+ Rosemary Sutcliffe: Sword at Sunset

+ Josephine Tey: Miss Pym Disposes

+ Megan Whalen Turner: the Queen’s Thief books

+ Sarah Waters: The Little Stranger

+ Elizabeth Wein: Code Name Verity

 

Movies:

+ ‘30’s screwball comedies of any kind

+ 1776!

+ All About Eve

+ Almost Famous

+ Anastasia (1997)

+ The Bad and the Beautiful

+ Bright Star

+ Challengers

+ Conclave

+ Emma (2020)

+ The Fall (2006)

+ The Favourite

+ The Great Escape

+ It’s a Wonderful Life

+ Knives Out

+ The Lion in Winter

+ Little Women (1994)

+ The Man from UNCLE

+ The Manchurian Candidate

+ The Mummy/The Mummy Returns

+ Noir of any kind

+ Pride (2014)

+ The Secret Garden (1993)

+ the original Star Wars trilogy

+ Sunset Boulevard

+ The Thin Man movies

+ To Walk Invisible

+ The Vast of Night

+ West Side Story

 

Television and Miniseries:

+ Age of Youth

+ Andor

+ Anne of Green Gables

+ Being Human

+ Big Fat Quiz(zes)

+ Black Sails

+ Buffy the Vampire Slayer

+ City Hunter

+ Coffee Prince

+ Crash Landing on You

+ Designing Women

+ Emma (2009)

+ Endeavour

+ The Expanse

+ Flower Boy Next Door

+ Friday Night Lights

+ The Good Place

+ The Great British Bakeoff

+ The Guest

+ Happy Endings

+ Healer

+ The Hour

+ It's Okay to Not Be Okay

+ Jane Eyre (2006)

+ Killing Eve

+ Leverage

+ Mawang

+ Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries

+ The Musketeers

+ Mythic Quest

+ New Girl

+ North and South (2004)

+ Penny Dreadful (ish)

+ Picnic at Hanging Rock

+ Press Gang

+ Queen In-Hyun’s Man

+ The Queen's Gambit

+ Severance

+ Shut Up! Flower Boy Band

+ various Star Treks

+ The Umbrella Academy

+ The Untamed

+ Veronica Mars

+ We Are Lady Parts

+ The West Wing

+ White Christmas

+ The X-files

Podcasts:


+ BBC History Extra podcast

+ Decoder Ring

+ The Ezra Klein Show

+ Hyperfixed

+ In Bed with the Right

+ Know Your Enemy

+ Maintenance Phase

+ Mobituaries

+ Radiolab

+ Reply All

+ Rock That Doesn't Roll

+ Search Engine

+ Straight White American Jesus

+ Why Are Dads?/You Are Good

+ You Must Remember This

+ You're Wrong About

Kpop:

+ Brown Eyed Girls*

+ Chung Ha

+ CLC

+ Dreamcatcher*

+ exid

+ f(x)

+ Hyuna

+ Infinite*

+ IU

+ KARA

+ Loona

+ Lim Kim

+ miss A

+ 9Muses*

+ Oh My Girl

+ Orange Caramel

+ Red Velvet

+ Rocket Punch

+ Sistar

+ Spica*

+ Sunmi

+ Weki Meki

+ Wonder Girls

These days I lock most things, but there's a bunch of fanfic and fandom rants from years past that is unlocked.

Comment if you want to be added.

Note: if a post is public, it's fine to link to it elsewhere.

Comments

[goodbyebird]

Hey! Spotted you about dw and found you interesting. Also, you love icons :D

[lirazel]

Hi! I do love icons! And your icon for this particular comment! I'm glad you stopped by!

[catzen20]

Hi,
Just "found" you so I stopped by.

[lirazel]

Welcome! :D

[likeadeuce]

I'm over here from snickfic's friending meme, love your list of favorite things! I'd like to follow your blog if you're agreeable!

[lirazel]

Definitely! Nice to meet you!

[nyctanthes]

Here via the friend meme. I've read and enjoyed your comments on dolorosa12's journal. Would love to be added if that works for you. My fandom summary is HERE.

[lirazel]

Oh, excellent! Adding! :D

[quodthey]

hi! i've seen you around dw and you seem interesting. also like you have great taste in books :D

[lirazel]

Fun! I'm glad you stopped by!

[narie]

Hullo! We have a couple of friends in common so I thought I would add you!

[lirazel]

Great! I look forward to getting to know you!

[foreverdawning]

I'm also a fan of Being Human! And you have such nice icons.

[lirazel]

Aww, that makes me want to revisit the show! I haven't watched it in years but I still have such affection for it.

Thank you so much!

[gracchi]

Hello! Just dropping you a line to say this is Marta and not a strange rando from the internet. I CAVED AND MADE AN ACCOUNT. Like 20 minutes ago.

[lirazel]

Yesss! So glad you're here! The earth is healing!

[sores]

hi! found ur account while browsing the f(x) tag. we pretty much have the exact same taste in kpop groups and kdramas. i'd love to follow your blog!

[lirazel]

Cool! I don't post as much about kpop/kdramas these days (though they definitely make an appearance now and then) but you are more than welcome.

[lowhours]

hello!! my apologies for not commenting and introducing myself earlier, i think i probably subscribed to you from chestnutpods comments? I'm still relatively new to dw and in the process of acclimatising to the various social norms. my own dw is a very haphazard mix of things (kpop and fictalk, sports, etc) but I really enjoy book reviews and general deepdives/insights from people with similar and divergent interests*!

*"I'm interested in what other people find interesting" is maybe a weird way to phrase it but... i am!!

[lirazel]

No worries at all! Any friend of chestnut_pod's!

"I'm interested in what other people find interesting" is maybe a weird way to phrase it but... i am!!

That is not at all a weird way to phrase it--I am exactly the same way!

[sobsister]

Hi! This is Wyn (intellectual-carrot on tumblr and lord do i regret that username). I just subscribed to you :)

[lirazel]

Oh yay! I'm so glad you let me know so I can add you to all my filters! :D Nothing makes me happier than friends from elseweb hanging out here on DW!

[prettyarbitrary]

Hello! I'm following because you've always been so thoughtful and articulate when I've seen you here and there in comments, and I've been realizing lately how far I've gotten from my book-reading roots and my beloved book fandoms. There's some on here I recognize (The Queen's Thief! Mary Stewart!), and a lot I don't--and that seems like a good thing when I'm looking to broaden my horizons. :D

[lirazel]

Oh yay! I love new book friends! Welcome!

[sunshine304]

Hi there, I found you when searching for The Untamed on here, and I see some other favs we have in common!
I also love Jane Austen, though funnily enough I found "Emma" to be... not the most engaging read. XD This might have been because I was reading it on summer holiday while melting in 33°C, who knows. XD I've got a huge soft spot for "Persuasion".

Also, yes, "The Mummy" (classics!)! "Knives Out" (OMG so good!)! "The Man from UNCLE" (still sad that a sequel didn't happen and now likely never will, ugh)! "Pride" (interesting theatre experience with 5 people in the room, myself included... but we had a damn good time)! "North and South" (*happy sigh)! "The Good Place" (though I'm still missing seasons 3+4 because Germany is sloooow)!

Atm I mostly post about The Untamed, trying to revive my journal. Occasional movie reviews, some real life stuff, or other fandom stuff. :D

[lirazel]

Hi there! Welcome! It's nice to meet you and to hear what you're interested in! Adding you!

[adore]

Hello! We have k-pop, k-drama and a love of books in common, so I wanted to ask if I might add you (or not).

[lirazel]

Oh awesome! Adding! :D

[boyz2kai]

Hi! I read your Infinite fics (like Celestial Mechanics) on LiveJournal waaay back in the day and would love to read them again, so wanted to get added if that's okay!

[lirazel]

I can definitely add you, but for your convenience, all my kpop fic is here on AO3. That'll be much easier for you to navigate than the depths of this journal. :D

[boyz2kai]

Oh my gosh, thank you!! I had no idea you had a separate AO3 for kpop fic, thank you for linking it and please excuse me while I get lost in it! And I’d still be happy to be added :)

[lirazel]

You're so welcome! Happy reading! :D

[vriddy]

Hi! I enjoy your posts and always find them and your comments very thoughtful, and realised I never stopped to properly say hi! Would love to be added but no worries if not, thank you for the insightful posts and interesting conversations they generate :)

[lirazel]

Yay! New friend! I'm happy to add you!

[vriddy]

New friend \o/

[tetralogy]

Oh wow there's someone else on DW who loves BEG and Spica! Second gen forever :')

[lirazel]

Yesssss! Second gen is my forever love!!! I can't say that I talk about them much here, but the love burns deep in my heart!

[acidtrips]

found your journal browsing interests through poetry and we have a lot of the same tastes in books and movies, etc. and i think we would get along really well! you're welcome to snoop my blog and read things, i have a link to an about me page on my very top post if you wanna get to know me a little bit :)

[acidtrips]

hi there! i am commenting here just because i added you a while back, and my ADHD got the best of me and i never commented! i just added you because i think we would get along really well. you're welcome to snoop around my blog a bit and see if you'd like to be friends on here. if not, no worries at all! just let me know so i can do right by you and delete you off my friends list! wishing you all the happiness, love, and light no matter what ♥

[lirazel]

Hi there! I did see that you followed, but I was with family for about two weeks and was away from DW during that time. But now I am back and happy to be friends! I am glad you stopped by!

[acidtrips]

oh, no worries AT ALL! i just was doing a major friends cut, and so all the people i had commented and not heard anything from - i sent one more comment just in case they missed it to make sure before i made my decision. i am such a low maintenance friend to have on here. it's your personal blog and your space, so i do not keep expectations on how much someone should update or how much they should comment or how active they should be. i am just happy to be here! so thank you for adding me back, and i cannot wait to get to know one another more. you seem very sweet. ♥

[lirazel]

Yay for new friends! I'm usually pretty active here, but I definitely drop off during busy times, so it's nice not to have expectations! :D

[acidtrips]

that's the way it should be, i think. do you! it's your safe little piece of the world wide web. ♥

[dewladen]

Hi there! I found you through the Infinite tag! I love them but don't really talk about them much these days, but would you mind me subscribing? Let me know!

[lirazel]

Oh, of course! I don't talk about Infinite much over here (though I have been doing more of it on Tumblr where I'm queenofattolia), but you are welcome!

[umadoshi]

Hi! I just saw your name in comments over at dolorosa_12's, and having recently followed you on Mastodon, I thought I'd do so here as well. ^_^

[lirazel]

Yay! Hello!

[bluedreaming]

Hello! Came across you recently via Mastodon and recognized the name from one of chestnut_pod’s posts (and also from somewhere else I think but I’m not sure? I think maybe Infinite?) and then had a wonderful nostalgia trip reading your likes list (Coffee Prince! Shut Up Flower Boy Band!) so would like to follow if that’s okay.

[lirazel]

Hello! Any friend of chestnut_pod's is a friend of mine! And yes, that was me back in the Infinite days! Welcome welcome!

[alightbuthappypen]

Hello! For some reason I thought I already followed you on here...? 😁

[lirazel]

That happens to me often! I'm glad you're here now!