Midsommar thoughts

OK, so movie review time. I watched Ari Aster's (alleged) horror movie Midsommar yesterday, in which a bunch of American college students have a really bad time at a Swedish midsummer celebration, and as an actual Swede, I have to say...

( Cut for cultural appropriation and vague spoilers )

I now really want a Swedish film maker (say, Ali Abbasi who made the excellent Border) to make Thanksgiving: A horror movie in which European college students visit a friend's family in Wisconsin, are forced to observe a violent ritual in which so-called "football players" are torn limb from limb while fighting over a dead pig, and slowly realise that they will be the stuffing in a giant bird.

Ficlet: Give My Love To London (BtVS)

OK, so here's the first instalment of my buffyversebingo card, checking off the box "Tradition".

Title: Give My Love To London
Author: Beer Good (beer_good_foamy)
Fandom: Buffy, pre-series
Pairing: Giles/Ethan
Rating: PG13
Word count: ~600
Summary: The morning after Giles drops out of Watcher school and joins Ethan in London, he thinks about what he's escaping.

"Not my circus, not my monkey."
- Polish proverb

( Ethan stirs as Rupert untangles himself from the sheets and rummages through the clothes and junk on the floor for some cigarettes. )