This post is inspired by a conversation I had with a friend the other day who's just getting into Sherlock fandom. I wanted to make him a reclist, so I asked him what sorts of fics he might be interested in. He said he didn't ship Sherlock/John and didn't want to read any fics in which they had sex or were implied to have sex. After probing a ( Read more... )

The only episode of television that ever made me cry more than this was Torchwood Children of Earth Day Four. (Day Five was just so heartbreaking I couldn't even cry anymore.)

But now that I've gathered my emotions, here are some thoughts on "The Reichenbach Fall".

( Spoilers ahoy )

The Doctor, Rose, and Jack were together for five episodes back in 2005. I started watching Doctor Who in 2008. Now it's 2011. Six years and five seasons have passed since they graced our television screens, yet I ship them more than ever. The comm devoted to my OT3,

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I spent a lot of time this weekend browsing Delicious for bookmarked meta on gender and sexuality. I encountered a meta by
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In her review of the fifth episode of Torchwood: Miracle Day,
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I got the idea for this little project from the Buffyverse Dialogue Database, which has lists of AKAs for its characters. These are lists of names used to describe the character, categorized by who used the name. I thought this would be an interesting exercise with respect to Jack, since all the names we know him by are aliases. He uses names as a ( Read more... )

( Reflections on love and tragedy )

I saw Avatar in 3D last night with two of my friends. Short story: a very pretty shitshow.

( Long story: under the cut. Spoilers ahead. )