I'm up to ep 7, so spoiler warning, if you aren't there yet. Also, warning for discussion of violence, rape and body-horror - seriously; this show could be really triggering, especially if you were vulnerable to dissociation.
I never saw the original Yul Brynner movie, so I don't know where this remake is similar or deviates. That's probably good, ( Read more... )

Oof - I really fell off the meme wagon there, due to a thundering stampede of fic and art deadlines, but I am almost through all of them, and have a brief window to cach up with a couple of meme posts before the final Losers exchange deadline in early January.


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I just wanted to link to an excellent Time magazine on-line article by Lev Grossman about fandom and fanfiction. He spent quite a bit of time reading fanfic and talking to fanfic writers, mostly in the Harry Potter fandom, and it's a nicely balanced piece. Good for educating baffled friends and family, I've found. I stole this from midnitemaraud_r - thanks, hon ( Read more... )

I had a fic blowout across Christmas, and since then I've been more on an art binge. Podfic for Podbang preceded the writing splurge. 
So I was thinking about how I react differently to them all. I get most caught up in the art, spending hours at the computer sometimes and not noticing while I obsessively work on some detailed piece. It seems to ( Read more... )