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I've fallen rather behind with the Fannish Fifty thing due to a couple of months of being distracted preparing for conventions, so I might try catching up a little via shorter posts than my first ten.

For today's post, I'd like to recommend a movie. I'd call it the best zombie apocalypse musical I've ever seen, but that would be a little disingenious because it's also the only zombie apocalypse musical I think I've ever seen. The movie in question is Anna and the Apocalypse, which I tracked down on Amazon Prime Video after seeing the author Seanan McGuire recommend it on twitter.

It's predominantly set in a secondary school somewhere in Scotland (possibly near Glasgow?) although a bowling arcade also appears for some fun scenes. It's tough being a teenager approaching the end of secondary school, what with worrying about exams, having disagreements with parents and tryng to escape from the walking dead. It's genuinely funny in a number of places (I guarantee you won't forget the plan for escaping from the bowling alley) and the musical numbers are excellent. It's still tragic in that way that most zombie apocalypse movies are, but there aren't many movies that can make me laugh in the middle of an apocalypse, and I defy you not to find the opening musical number on day 2 and its backdrop hilarious and really well done.

I thought that for this week, I'd rec some comics I've liked in past years that I thought might appeal to people on my reading list here.

( Comic Recs )

For this Fannish Fifty entry, I'd like to rec my two favourite vids made by purplefringe.

( Recs Under The Cut )

For various reasons, during the lockdowns I got into the Lego Friends line of Lego, and now my house is... well, rather full of Lego. I've found myself watching Lego-themed streamers and vloggers on youtube quite a bit; I'll never have the space or money to put into building things like a large basement-sized Lego city, but I enjoy the streams. I thought I'd share a few of my favourites as part of my Fannish Fifty list.

( Lego Streamers )

And that reminds me that I really should ask goodbyebird to recommend me a Lego icon or three...

For this week's Fannish Fifty post, I thought I'd post up details of three of my favourite cooperative boardgames. That then led to a couple of days of thinking about what might make up my favourite cooperative boardgames, and that was hard so instead I'm just going to post about three cooperative boardgames I like without ranking them or even declaring which if any are my favourites, because I wouldn't want any of them to feel bad. Especially if they're not on the list...

( Boardgames! )

I don't buy all that many new games recently, partly because of Lego, but there were a number of other games I wanted to add to this list but will probably save for the future, like Pandemic (and Pandemic: Reign of Cthulhu), Zombicide, Aeon's End, Legends of Andor, Hanabi, Fuse, Yggdrasil, Mysterium, Forbidden Island, the Witches...)

After debating with myself for a while, I decided to try the Fannish Fifty posting challenge colls posted up. I have no idea what I'm going to post up, but I'll feel less guilty about paying for a paid account each year if I post more than once or twice this year.

So, for my first post... recs for Star Wars comics published by Dark Horse. One of my brothers gifted me a Marvel Unlimited subscription last year and the year before, and after going through and reading runs of comics I'd wanted to read for years, I decided I should try reading up on the Star Wars comics published over the years. I've been enjoing the swbookclub over the last couple of years, which was the final nudge I think I needed to actually dive into the comics.

I'm reading the comics in in-universe chronological order, using this as my reading guide: Dark Horse Star Wars comic reading order and I've reached the point where I'm reading comics set in the period immediately after the events of Star Wars: A New Hope.

For this post, I thought I'd rec some of the story runs I've particularly enjoyed. These are in the order I remember them or spot them in my goodreads history, so I apologise if it's a bit chaotic!

( Here Be Recs )