Finally got my hands on eps 1-9 of Lost season 2 and the entire HBO Rome series. I'm anticipating a new year weekend spent on the couch and vegetating. Still waiting for Veronica Mars and Battlestar Galatica to debut in Singapore. The wait is just plain frustrating ( Read more... )

Happy New Year in advance to everyone ( Read more... )

*Sigh* It’s been an absolutely nerve-wreaking month. And I'm not just talking about the end-of-the-year workload which has acquired the mind-numbing consistency of treacle.

It’s been years since I last wrote a personal piece of creative writing. And foolishly I signed up for seasonal_spuffy. I swear I can’t write short fics despite the obvious lack of time. Two ( Read more... )

I'm at the point of my reading career in the spuffy fandom where good fics are harder and harder to come by. And as I go down the list of lesser-known writers, cringe-worthy moments that I used to find sporadically just occur more and more often until finally my jaw muscles start aching and I stop reading entirely ( Read more... )

Adding recs as I go along. Please refer to the first part for disclaimers. Part 1 can be found here:

My Spuffy Long-Fic Recs (Part 1)

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Some caveats to make sure you're on the same page as me:

1. Fantasy (aka human-only) AUs rub me the wrong way. Changing character identities and transplanting them into whole new worlds do not Buffy-and-Spike make, regardless of how good the writing is.

2. I'm a sucker for universal good characterisation, and that means every character. Character ( Read more... )