If the city of London were an artwork, I bet it would be a true Jackson Pollock. A huge, breathtaking canvass, filling space, filling time. Bustling with the energy captured, of one million paint sprays. Throwing the full force of motion, of colour, right into your face ( Read more... )

As the end of the year is fast approaching and I've seen several people taking the opportunity to post self-reflexive entries on their writing: What do you do with the stories that never quite made it? I am not speaking about the unfinished ones, but rather the ones that you finished but chose to hold back for one reason or other ( Read more... )

To shovel two brief, but intriguing PotC character vignettes from one corner of my f-list to the other:

Covenant by fabu. A touching portrait of Weatherby Swann meeting his baby daughter for the very first time. Clearly one those rare universal stories that work regardless whether one knows the sequels. And if you think you can stomach a little AWE ( Read more... )

When amazing stories inspire slightly expressionist fanart of questionable quality...

( Portrait of Captain Andrew Thomas Gillette )

To help AWE newcomers find their way into the Pirates of the Caribbean fandom, fabu is currently compiling an addendum to her original starter set of Potc fanfic recs, and is therefore specifically looking for "suggestions of stories that will be accessible to new folks who aren't necessarily familiar with fanon or other fandom specific information ( Read more... )

So I went to see AWE yesterday, together with Cavendish at the Lichtburg Essen.

( Just a few personal musings and obsevations regarding the movie. Spoilerfree for the most part )

And the tender, delicate saga of blossoming friendship between Governor and young naval officer continues... (Again wrapped in ultra-short prose, and this time also including the Governor's daughter *g*)

( PotC Drabble: Parents )

To salute the astounding PotC drabbles sprouting all over my flist at the moment, here is a first one from me *g*

Prompt: Water
Characters: Weatherby Swann, James Norrington
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100

Lots of thanks to the kind folks at rough_magic who helped me to spot un-english phrasings :-)

( Water )

Fandom: Pirates of the Caribbean
Title: Season of Grief
Characters: Will Turner, Weatherby Swann
Summary: Just a short piece about Will and Swann dealing with the aftermath of the Dauntless catastrophe
Rating: PG
Author's Note: To the amazing fabu, who fed this story a carrot when it was just a wee little plotbunny and later pointed out the finished ( Read more... )

Selenak wrote an interesting essay called The Insignificant Other, in which she analyzes the role and frequent abuse of the romantic rival as a plot device "solely inserted to heighten the angst between the movie's/show's leading couple, and inevitably [ending] up either revealed as evil or dismissed as unworthy ( Read more... )