My fic writer this year, Ione, went above and beyond and wrote me a fantastic 20k Rat Patrol fic! I was very impressed. (And ill-advisedly stayed up to 4:30 to finish reading it after the collection opened later than advertised, oops ( Read more... )

So, what was I doing fandom-wise all last year? Well, mostly reading Marvel comics. I now seem to have moved on from following one or two characters on a casual basis to attempting to consume the entire history of the Marvel-verse. (Yes, I know this is not really technically feasible. And yet, here I still am.) I'm pretty sure I crossed some ( Read more... )

So, after two weeks of reading it in the bookshop, I blew £15 I totally couldn't spare on a collection of Mini Marvels comics. But I refuse to regret it, for Chris Giarrusso's art is adorable and hilarious. So! Icons.

( 28 Mini Marvels icons )

So, lately, I seem to be having a major resurgence of interest in the Marvel comicverse. Since I am broke like a broken thing, this mostly takes the shape of picking through the very, very random selection of trades available in my local library, then filling the gaps via intermittent train trips to the town half an hour away that has the Awesome ( Read more... )