X-Men fic seems to take me a terribly long time to write - the last one dragged out for at least a year, and there's another that's been stuck for at least three. But I have finally worked my way to the end of this one, just in time for the anniversary of the UK opening of X-Men: Days of Future Past, from which it's drawn. In the meantime, there ( Read more... )

March is always a frustrating month, because I think that, having reached my deadline, I'll have lots of spare time, but in practice I'm running round in circles trying to catch up with all the things I haven't been doing. So I got almost to the end of the month without writing any of the half-dozen short pieces of fic I had in mind ( Read more... )

This is for fengirl88, and was inspired by rewatching the film A Single Man.

There was obvious potential for crossovers between A Single Man and X-Men: First Class, as both feature Nicholas Hoult, who plays Kenny in ASM and Hank in XMFC, and both are primarily set in 1962, the year of the Cuban Missile Crisis. And fengirl88 introduced George, the eponymous ( Read more... )

A very happy birthday to ginbitch! And also, of course, to Peter Tatchell ( Read more... )

Since fengirl88 herded me into a cinema to watch X-Men: First Class at the weekend (which is primarily down to ginbitch doing the same to her a month earlier), the shamelessly romantic and ultimately angsty love of Charles and Erik has somehow fused in my mind with Roy Redmond's cover of Good Day Sunshine to produce the image of the pair mooching round France on ( Read more... )

It was suggested to me that I should put up a masterlist of my online fic. And today happens to be quite an appropriate day, as it's seven years since I started my LiveJournal, and LJ claims that this is my 1,000th entry, though I'm a bit suspicious about that as I seem to remember its counter is a bit dodgy. Anyway, I have made approximately one ( Read more... )