Five sf recs, mostly long satisfying stories with an emphasis on original/minor characters & worldbuilding....

( 5 recs in Hainish Cycle, Star Trek, Vorkosigan )

Little slices of lost canon, for when one's in the mood for more of, rather than more from, the source...

( 5 recs in Discworld, History Boys, Das Leben der Anderen, Much Ado About Nothing, Study in Emerald )

My 10th anniversary on livejournal falls today. It's been a difficult decade and I'm glad to have had friends here to share its pains, and occasional joys. I don't know where I'd be without you all.

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For my final set, a batch of magical stories, that incorporate magical elements and are also absolutely charming! Several of my favourites here.

( 6 recs in Chinese mythology, Discworld, Graveyard Book, How to Train Your Dragon, Smith of Wootton Major, Spirited Away, Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio )

I seem to have inadvertently created my hundredth article at fanlore, a deeply pitiful page about Treewishes, who turned up in my current stub sort and is a friend of several on my f'list, but about whom I turn out to know precisely naught.

Meanwhile back to my trudge through the stubs heap (currently on M). Between Stub September, which I ( Read more... )

My Yuletide 2011 recs set is my largest yet, and I've decided this year to divide it by theme. First up, 'Bending', which encompasses serious & not-so-serious looks at beings with complex gender/species identities.

Also, because of the size of the set, my top ten picks are starred (***)

( 5 recs in Fairy tales, Galaxy Quest, Georgette Heyer, Hainish Cycle, The Matrix... )

Espresso Recommendations is 9 today! Herewith some recs in some of my oldest fandoms... ( DS9, TNG, Reboot, Voyager )

A snippet of a coda to The Other Wind...

( 'With the right boat beneath your feet, who knows where you might sail.')

As far as I'm aware, this has the honour of being the 100th online piece of Earthsea fanfiction.

ETA: Gorgeous new icon by William de Morgan via leni_jess -- the full-sized even-more-gorgeous version is here.

Espresso Recommendations has just clicked 500 recommendations, across 90 fandoms. Hard to remember that it started back in October 2002 as a Tolkien recs site, with some twenty or so stories. I've owned the tavia.co.uk domain since December 2003, a particularly clever birthday present from Mr EA, who'd been cyberstalking the defunct company that ( Read more... )

I've just got my 2000th Geograph image, from a walk last September in the Berwyns that I'm only just getting around to sorting the photos from. It's almost exactly two years since my 1000th image, and I'm pleased that my 100th, 1000th & 2000th happen to cover Scotland, England & Wales ( Read more... )