I was going to post something happy but I thought I should acknowledge the death of Paul Darrow, announced yesterday, first. I can't even really put into words what Blake's 7 meant to me at one time. It sounds melodramatic but it is certainly true to say that without it I would be a different person and have lived a different life. Paul Darrow as ( Read more... )

I gather through fannish osmosis that the Spike Wars have broken out again and it occurred to me that they've now lasted longer than the Trojan War! Will there be a few skeletal figures clacking away at their keyboards, or the 22nd century equivalent, trying to beat the Hundred Years War I wonder ( Read more... )

I wonder sometimes how people take the fannish privileges (let alone the real world privileges) they have so for granted. I can remember when fanfic came in zines for which one had to (shock, horror) pay, and if it was an American zine and you were in the UK a zine would cost about the same amount as a hardback book (and sometimes more). For slash ( Read more... )

Apparently our wine is in Droitwich for reasons that I don't entirely understand, my nephew doesn't have a present yet (and nor do I), but I have achieved 6 ticks today on my Christmas To Do list (for anyone that watched Miranda last night I have a lot of sympathy with her mother *g*). As the light is already fading and I can't really see to clean ( Read more... )

It hasn't quite gone yet, but I still have the feeling that last time I looked we were in 2008!

Considering I'm not entirely sure where 2009 has gone my little review of the year is going to be rather short.

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Inspired by thefourthvine here (where there are spoilers for *everything*) the question is What is the big fannish event you wish you could have seen? (Seen the live reaction to, anyway.) But even more important, to help me in my fantasizing - what are the big fannish events you'll never forget? What were they like to live through?I'm...um...really quite old in ( Read more... )