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I actually watched this right when it came out, but I'm late to talking about it. I loved it! I think I said 'oh shit' at the end of every episode. MATT MURDOCK, YOU DISASTER OF A HUMAN BEING. Listen, this is a dark, serious show but it's also funny as hell and gives me a lot of feelings. Best parts:

YOU’RE MY BEST FRIEND, ASSHOLE. 0 to 60 in 2.5 seconds. Foggy: 'I’m so glad you’re alive!' Matt: [talks]. Foggy: 'You bastard.'
'Listen to me very carefully.' [dial tone]
Matt Murdock, on the ground, still punching people in the face
[breaks into her house after being dead] 'Hey, Karen.'
Deep bassoon music and discordant violins whenever Fisk is on screen
Matt's rope hands for which we're given extremely little explanation
OFFICE SUPPLIES BATTLE. (Bonus points for Matt asking about whether Foggy's okay first thing and then walking around with safety scissors sticking out of his chest)
CHURCH SUPPLIES BATTLE
WEDDING RECEPTION SUPPLIES BATTLE
NELSON & MURDOCK: ATTORNEYS AT LAW!!!!
NELSON, MURDOCK & PAGE!!!

In general, I'm really glad this season was so much better with the friendships. Matt admitting he handled things badly and he needs Foggy and Karen. Foggy and Karen trying to help him even though they are sometimes justifiably mad. Good. I would take this as a series ending since Nexflix seems to be cancelling a lot of Marvel stuff, but I would also love a season 4.

For some reason, I have never read anything by Ursula K Le Guin before which is clearly a gap in my sci-fi reading. I've got Wizard of Earthsea on hold a the library to catch me up. Anyway, I found this book pretty fascinating but it's hard to articulate the kind of melancholy, muted feeling it gave me.

SGA 1 - I'm like a day away from hitting post on this one because not finishing it is mental blocking me from working on anything else. I don't love it and it could use a beta if I knew how to go about that but it's one of those where I'm like I worked on this so I'm going to post it and maybe someone somewhere will enjoy it. Maybe I will even come back to it someday and enjoy it.

SGA 2 - I failed out of properly signing up for sga_secretsanta because I'm not good at matching and deadlines but I looked through the various requests and borrowed one of the ideas to just generally work on. I'm vastly enjoying this one and deciding if I should more abruptly end it, in which case it would be pretty much done, or lengthen it which would make it better but knowing me will take forever.

DCU - Tim Drake fic that I've been working on for literally like 8 years at this point. I will finish it through sheer willpower if nothing else. (Which reminds me I need to look for whether someone has written a Bruce Wayne as Green Lantern fic because that idea makes a lot of sense to me.) This has been relatively close to done for years but I keep going back and forth on whether it will be Jason/Tim or just Gen with Jason & Tim somewhat focus.

LotR - I am that person who will fill kink meme prompts 5 years late and this is more evidence of that. I finally figured out that what I need to do is change it from the original Fili/Legolas (which does make me a little sad because that was a primary focus of the prompt and there were literally no Fili/Legolas fics on AO3) to my best loved Gimli/Legolas.

Les Mis - Enjolras/Grantaire Les Mis Olympics AU that I was writing for the Rio Olympics but I now just hope to finish before the next (Tokyo?) Olympics. Still haven't watched this movie and know what I know about it primarily by fic osmosis.