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Morgan Sheppard (1030 KP) created a post

Jan 11, 2026  
January arrives heavy with reflection, that deep, aching pull towards something half-remembered, half-dreamed ❄️✨ and there is no better word for it than hiraeth.

Ellis Clarke has never felt at home anywhere, until a visit to Beddgelert awakens an overwhelming sense of belonging, woven with nostalgia, mystery, and the quiet presence of Luke Maddox—a Guardian of Wales and red Dragon who knows she is his other half, even if she does not yet know herself 🐉❤️.

As winter lingers and the year opens before us, Hiraeth explores destiny, lost responsibility, and the question January so often asks: Will you claim the truth of who you are, even if it changes everything? ✨📖

📚 Begin Ellis and Luke’s journey here 👉 https://books2read.com/Hiraeth2021

#JanuaryReads #Hiraeth #WelshMythology #DragonRomance #UrbanFantasy #WinterReading #ComingHome #FantasyRomance
      
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David McK (3816 KP) rated Hellboy II: The Golden Army (Hellboy 2) (2008) in Movies

Feb 15, 2026  
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (Hellboy 2) (2008)
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (Hellboy 2) (2008)
2008 | Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi
6
7.4 (22 Ratings)
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Ron Perlman's second - and last - outing as the titular Hellboy, this is more-or-less completely removed from the previous film with some of the events and characters from that film only mentioned in passing.

This time around, Hellboy and his comrades from the BPRD find themselves facing off against a ruthless prince (played by Luke Goss), who wishes to awaken the Golden Army of the title in order to destroy mankind.

This comes across as more 'fairy-tale'y than I remember the last film as being, perhaps because of the larger array of creatures here, and in the heavy-lifting of the exposition (which, I've only recently learned, Neil Gaiman was involved in) at the front.

It's also about the only film I can think of that ends near the Giants Causeway in Northern Ireland! (although the stereotypical Irish accent annoys)
  
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LeftSideCut (3776 KP) rated The Spine of Night (2021) in Movies

Mar 29, 2022  
The Spine of Night (2021)
The Spine of Night (2021)
2021 | Animation, Fantasy, Horror
7
7.0 (1 Ratings)
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I don't really know enough about rotoscoping or the much loved Heavy Metal and Fire and Ice to make any comparisons, but what I can stay is that I initially found the animation of The Spine of Night really quite jarring. The wonderful painted-like backgrounds felt at odds with the harsh character designs, a point that was further driven when the hyper violence kicked in. However, by the halfway point I was utterly hypnotised by what was unfolding.
The expressions and emotions of these characters come across quite realistic in an oddly surreal way, wrapped up in an epic fantasy narrative that spans centuries, performed by an impressive voice cast.
The Spine of Night surely isn't for everyone, but if you have even a passing interest in animation and don't mind gore, then you'll probably get a kick out of it.
  
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Rob Halford recommended Queen II by Queen in Music (curated)

 
Queen II by Queen
Queen II by Queen
1974 | Pop
(0 Ratings)
Album Favorite

"When I think about why I love Queen my head just fills with every single Queen song that I know by heart. It's just like a box of Quality Street. Everything is amazing. The reason that I've chosen the second album is because the song 'Ogre Battle' is on there, which is one of my favourite tracks. It's rare that you struggle to label a band. If you're a heavy metal band you're meant to look and sound like a heavy metal band but you can't really call Queen anything. They could be a pop band one day or the band that wrote 'Bicycle Race' the next and a full-blown metal band the next. In terms of the depth of the musical landscape that they covered, it was very similar to some extent to the Beatles. I mean 'Helter Skelter' was a pretty heavy track, and 'Yellow Submarine' really wasn't. I think Queen have a lot of similar ingredients. Everybody was writing the songs as well, so Freddie was writing differently to John Deacon, and then John was writing differently to Roger [Taylor, drummer]. They were all accepting each other though, and nobody was sat there saying that they couldn't do something because it didn't sound like Queen. If it was a good song they'd record it, and this album is nothing but good songs. It's a style that we've tried to adopt into Judas Priest. A good song is a good song at the end of the day, and there's no point in wasting time arguing about whether Priest are supposed to sound like the British Steel record or the Painkiller record or whatever. I felt such a sense of loss when Freddie died, but he fucking loved his life. He partied like a maniac. I've lost a lot of friends to AIDS and it's such a terrible thing to have to suffer through. Such a cruel condition to be taken by. From what I've seen and heard there's a horrible sense of loss in those early days. There was a lot of rejection and almost pariah-like status heaped upon you by people. And it's still around today, which is so sad and unfair. It's interesting though, because I don't know if Freddie would still have been doing what he did now. Would he still be going out on the road with Brian and Roger, who, by the way, I love? Especially Adam [Lambert]. But Freddie would have been 70-something I think, and I get a feeling that at some point, he would have just said, "I've had enough now darling." We lost him, but he left behind such an incredible legacy and canon of work. I listen to Queen almost every day still."

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