It is so good. Gentle, warm, visually beautiful, so much heart, and very real.

(Link to the playlist is via a privacy-orientated alternative front end to YT. Or you can just search for it on YT if you prefer.)

just sharing 4:46 minutes of joy :)

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/1062613

Masha du Toit is celebrating the release of their books on 7 new platforms by making them free until 31st July (except on Amazon because Amazon has other ideas). Sci-fi and fantasy, LGBTQ.

Spread the word :)

To start with, Masha recommends "The Babylon Eye", "We Broke the Moon" (YA drama), or "Ray and the Cat Thing" (quite light).

Post on Mastodon: https://mefi.social/@Zumbador/110699839834664849

New to Lemmy, wasn't on Reddit so i don't know the etiquette or how multiple groups are commonly used.

I'd really like to let everyone know about something (temporarily free sci-fi & fantasy ebooks and their writer) but don't want to spam or break norms. Is one post per group acceptable, even if I post to several groups or is that frowned upon?

I made a post to promote the Kdrama community in ![email protected]. I'm giving up on figuring out the best way to link to it directly. It shouldn't be hard to find in that community. Let me know if you'd like anything edited in or out.

I put that it's a new Malaysian instance in the title too, as a way of putting that in front of more eyes too.

![email protected]

I really liked this one. Time travel combining historical and modern. Probably should re-watch it before talking too much about it. (That's 95% glitchy aging brain and 97% an excuse to re-watch it :D )

Not sure if there are many people looking in, but maybe we can get some conversation going....

I'm partial to kamancheh (Persian spiked fiddle), spiked and regular fiddles in general, nyckelharpa, and kudyapi (Philippine boat lute played with a hella groove). I'll add links to examples if anyone is interested.

"A little tune about all the good parties that, for some reason, always ends up in the kitchen." If you ever get a chance to hear these lads live, grab it. They're brilliant.

Lush Balkan Brass, one of my favourite albums. The whole disc is well worth close and repeated listening.

Another happy one to start the day. From Galicia this time. Alfonso Franco & Alfonso Merion on fiddles, Josiño Liz on bouzouki

I'm dragging myself through an "award-winning" "best-selling" "recommended" book I got from the library and wishing I hadn't. (Yes I know those phrases mean little and I can stop, though I'm nearing the end after hoping it would stop being so hopeless. Yes I can be naively optimistic ;) .) The characters and story are all stereotypes and clichés. It's not realistic or slice of life.
The Korean drama I'm watching is top rated on MyDramaList and is well done but it also tells a sad story every episode. I'm halfway through and I don't think it's that much better than some lower rated ones with more moments of happiness.
Anyway, this has me thinking about whether there's a general trend to regard books - stories of any kind really, including real life ones - as "better" if they upset us.

Was able to hear these lads live many years back, when they did a small warm-up tour with a very informal "figuring this out" kind of vibe. It was brilliant and so much fun.

The Nightride Set from Kan: Aidan O'Rourke, Brian Finnegan, Ian Stephenson and Jim Goodwin (go baldies ;)

Can be played in a standard pub session setting on typical session instruments, just bring a kazoo. Check.
Slice of life, common folk details in the lyrics. Check.
Music derives from someone's tradition. Check.
Imma calling Paolo Nutini's joyous Pencil Full of Lead as modern trad/folk, even in his original bluesy/jazzy instrumentation, and no one's going to convince me otherwise ;P

Happy to use this to kick off a discussion on what constitutes trad and folk but I'm not changing my mind regarding this gem :D :D :D

New to this and definitely addicted :) Going to treat myself to a subscription or two to help fill the dark hours next winter but for now mostly Chinese dramas as there are so many free to view. Just finished Queen In Hyun’s Man (Korean) and really loved it. Goal is to get at least one from every country on the MyDramaList website.

After years of watching tight, compact UK and European series which tell their stories in a handful of episodes, I’m enjoying how much more time Asian dramas give to detail and emotion. Plus it’s a whole new set of conventions and cliches I haven’t gotten tired of :)

Would love to find more fans.

#CDrama #KDrama #JDrama #ThaiDrama #AsianDrama

Fit like fae the NE of Scotland

Cracking set from one of my very favourite bands, Session A9. https://piped.adminforge.de/watch?v=lHACsg91aWc

(Fit like is a local greeting, which means What like?/How's it going. Fae is from. NE dialect uses f's for some w's.)