This was a FANTASTIC miniseries. And I was wondering if anyone else is a fan? Have you ever seen fanfiction on it? It has a lot of potential ( Read more... )

I posted before on this Original Showbands I Entry  (feel free to go back and see what I said and comment, i said different things)
And I'm still looking for fans, or people willing to talk about it. Unfortunately, most people seem to either have not heard of it, or be very 'meh' about it. The truth is, I feel like I *should* be meh about it, but ( Read more... )

I made a post about these movies on my LJ and longlongwaytogo suggested that I come over here and mention them. So here I am. ;)

(It's not as obscure as many other series mentioned here, I'm sure, but it's something that deserves a lot more fans.)

The Donald Strachey Mysteries are a series of movies based off of the novels by Richard Stevenson. The series ( Read more... )

I am a huge fan of fairy tales. No, not the Disney-fied ones, the older, creepier ones, where happy endings are few and far between and bad things happen to bad people. As such, I am -also- a fan of assorted fairy tale retellings. So I figured I'd tell you about a couple of them, especially as one of them has the next book in the series coming out ( Read more... )

Hi, I'm Emma, and my friend and I were having a discussion a little while ago about miniseries we'd seen on television and I remembered this one that I couldn't remember the name of. It was about a girl who travels out of New York City into another world with her father, and they meet a dog who is really the Prince, and they set out to take down ( Read more... )

Hello! I'm a new member, and I'm juuust wondering if anyone happens to have heard of a few of my all-time favourite books...

1. Feeling Sorry For Celia by Jaclyn Moriatry. I'd love to be able to describe it fully, but.... it's a charming, witty, incisive and throughly readable YA novel that has not got the respect it deserves.

2. The Broken Sky ( Read more... )

So, I really want to write fanfictions for Showbands. Which I've talked about before here, but at that stage I'd only seen Showbands I. It has some really great potential for fic, gen, het, and slash. (which would be canon in this I think)

Showbands II is about Denise (the young singer) trying to win A Song for Ireland, and having problems with ( Read more... )

Some years ago, I came across a rather interesting new detective comic. Ruse, a title from the now-extinct Crossgen, told the tale of Simon Archer, a Sherlock Holmes-like detective living in a steampunkish world, and Emma, his partner (or assistant, depending on who you asked). There was snark, there was mysterious magical subplot, there was ( Read more... )

I knew I'd forgotten to tell you guys something! I've been trying to space my recommendations out, because it must be getting a bit boring!
But, last week, in Australia, Sunday, 8.30 (After Robin Hood!) there was part 1 of a two part show called Showbands. We decided to watch it because it was advertised as 'if you liked Blackpool, you'll like ( Read more... )

I thought that I'd pick one of the shows that I like to talk about. And since I'm watching a clip of it right now on Youtube, I thought that I'd start with Blackpool.

This thread may (probably will) contain spoilers, though I will not reveal how it ends. But if you are the sort who sit on tenterhooks while watching this sort of show, like I was, ( Read more... )