New Friday. New Favorites.

Halfway through the decade! What are your favorite films each year so far? 2020: Emma. 2021: Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings 2022: Catherine Called Birdy 2023: Barbie 2024: Tears for Fears Live (A Tipping Point Film) 2025: Sinners

Saw John Glover in a movie this week and it reminded me of my dream LOTR show

I ended 2025 with a terrible movie, but started 2026 with a great one. And since my first movie of 2025 was Damsel (2024), I'm tempted to make it a tradition to begin every year with Millie Bobby Brown.

What was the last movie or TV show you watched in 2025? Sadly, not a good one.

Wordless Wednesday:

Really happy to have seen this in the theater with a community of fans. I cried, everyone around me cried, and one young woman in the row behind us cried loudly and uncontrollably. We were all just feeling it and it was great.

Post your favorite first-watches of December

An order of Catholic nuns breaks new ground for the land-back movement by returning land to the Lac du Flambeau Band in Wisconsin.

There’s no such thing as ‘definitive’ when it comes to book illustrations, of course. But there is inevitably personal taste, and nothing comes close for me to Eric Fraser’s vision of Tolkien’s Middle Earth, as here, from the Folio Society’s edition of The Hobbit.

Happy Taye Diggs Day! (aka The World's Most Handsome Man Day)

Tonight’s Movie

Ocean Blue tour poster by galine_illustration www.instagram.com/galine_illus...

Today's Soundtrack is some favorite albums of 2025.

The vibes in ‘The Luminous Cattle’ by Emilia Cantor are just immaculate! It is the perfect mixture between gothic, whimsical and surreal! #art #beautifulbizarre #emiliacantor #newcontemporary #contemporaryartist #oilpainting #gothicart #darkart #surrealism #surrealart

MEMENTO MORI CLOCKS from Nosferatu 1922 and the British Library Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination exhibition 2014. Have a Gothtastic 2026 everyone!! #GothicYuletide

The Creatures Other Tale~ concept designs for @realgdt.bsky.social amazing FRANKENSTEIN! Early on while Guillermo & Mike Hill were creating the incredible design of the Creature, I did explorations on how the Creatures skin would damage & some early costumes with @katehawleycostume.bsky.social

Trying to figure out how to make this not my last movie of the year.

Heart-warming thread. That did not go how I thought it was going to go.

Ancient trackway or Holloway near Huckworthy yesterday. There’s a blog post about this path in the Holloway appreciation society. Its runs from Walkhampton church, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #photography #landscape #holloways

Happy John Denver Day!

The #1 movie on your birthday the year you turned 26 will be your 2026 vibe. Well, that's not good.

Sometimes we all need a unicorn to believe in. Sometimes we need a unicorn to believe in us. ~Claudia Bakker

Skip Williamson

"Which 2026 book release are you most excited about?" I'm bad about keeping up with new releases, but a new T Kingfisher book is always something to look forward to.

Teeth. Sink into the eerie, botanical layers of Jana Heidersdorf’s cover artwork for 'Under A Carnivore Sky' by Brianna Jett and published by Page Street. #beautifulbizarre #darkfantasy #botanicalart #fantasy #natureinspired #illustration #bookcover #art

Jonathan Wiltshire

Archer in the snow. Watercolour. Defending all creatures of good cheer and brotherhood from those who would destroy it. Happy New Year!

She comes down from Yellow Mountain. On a dark, flat land she rides. On a pony she named Today's Soundtrack with a whirlwind by her side.

SNOWY GRAVEYARD WALK Snow is falling faintly on all the living and the dead. Yorkshire UK #GothicYuletide

The Flower Fairies of Winter, The Christmas Tree Fairy, Cecily Mary Barker, 1928.

Well I guess that's one way to tell the Hound of the Baskervilles story.

I'm looking forward to imaginative, new Nancy Drew stuff. Not the slashers. I said "imaginative."

Y’all ever walk into a public restroom and immediately whisper “Jesus Christ”

I believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it.

Post a book you love from the 80s. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

"I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book." Happy Birthday, Patti Smith

Which four films are you most anticipating in January?

In Indigenous communities across the world, Christmas was a time to celebrate survival, healing and kindness.

Happy Sophie Ward Day! She was also in a couple of other favorites, Jane Eyre (2011) and The Moonstone (2016), but I couldn't find screencaps of her in those.😢

Got a cool new pirate ornament this year thanks to @jesstures.bsky.social!

This isn't diminishing my Jamie Campbell Bower crush.

What's everyone's favorite Avatar quote? Mine is: "The name is Avatar. James Avatar."

Friends, Blueskyers, Podcast Listeners… lend us your ears. 👂 We’ll give ’em back at the end of this episode, we swear. 🤞 Anyway, more cozy fun in the @afterlunch.bsky.social Lounge with @michaelmay.bsky.social, @paxholley.com, me and a special guest who just might be related to Pax!

Tonight’s Movie

I will give you a name and I shall call you Sting.

Well I have a crush on Jamie Campbell Bower now. Totally adding A Dark Song (2016) to my watchlist too.