Top Ten Tuesday: Favourite Movies or TV Shows

Today is Top Ten Tuesday, a meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish!  Every week they post a new top ten list and everyone can join in and share their own picks. If you'd like to take part, hop on over to the blog and sign up with the linky. If you don't have a blog, feel free to post your answers in the comments.

This week's topic is: Favourite Movies or TV Shows. As I have way too many favourites, I've had to split them into several different categories to make it a bit easier.

M is for Mermaids and Mermen #atozchallenge

[Painting by John William Waterhouse,
public domain image]

Today I'm continuing with the Blogging from A-Z Challenge hosted by Arlee Bird and his team of awesome bloggers. My theme is: Elements and features of speculative fiction and entertainment. So throughout April I will be blogging about characters, objects and themes that appear in sci-fi, fantasy and dystopian series. Today's post is all about Mermaids and Mermen.

Mermaids are legendary creatures with the torso of a human and the tail of a fish. They appear in the folklore of many cultures worldwide. They are sometimes depicted as perilous creatures associated with floods, storms, shipwrecks and drownings. However, they can also be benevolent creatures in some tales. They are associated with the Sirens from Greek mythology and have been a popular subject of art and literature in recent centuries, since Hans Christian Anderson wrote the fairy tale 'The Little Mermaid' in 1836.

K is for Kraken #atozchallenge

[An illustration from the original 1870 edition of Twenty
Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, by Jules Verne.
Public domain image]

Today I'm continuing with the Blogging from A-Z Challenge hosted by Arlee Bird and his team of awesome bloggers. My theme is: Elements and features of speculative fiction and entertainment. So throughout April I will be blogging about characters, objects and themes that appear in sci-fi, fantasy and dystopian series. Today's post is all about Krakens.

Krakens are gigantic legendary sea monsters said to dwell off the coasts of Norway and Greenland. The word kraken comes from the Norwegian 'krake', which means an unhealthy animal or something twisted. The early descriptions of krakens were of crab-like creatures, but more recently they are usually portrayed as octopus or squid-like creatures with huge tentacles and a beak-like mouth.

I is for Immortality #atozchallenge

['Stock-Immortal', modelled by Mahafsoun,
photographed by Mirza Fatick]

Today I'm continuing with the Blogging from A-Z Challenge hosted by Arlee Bird and his team of awesome bloggers. My theme is: Elements and features of speculative fiction and entertainment. So throughout April I will be blogging about characters, objects and themes that appear in sci-fi, fantasy and dystopian series. Today's post is all about Immortality.


Immortality means endless life or endurance. It has always been a common theme in literature as it explores humanity's deep-seated fears and comprehension of its own mortality. It frequently occurs in fantasy and sci-fi fiction, as it is often the aim of the villain or dark forces to gain eternal life, and the role of the protagonist to stop them from achieving it.