Fics and fanvids in the following fandoms: Fire (The Seven Kingdoms trilogy); The Hunger Games; Inception; The Man from UNCLE (2015); Man of Steel; Marvel Cinematic Universe; Scorpion; The Secret Garden (1993 adaptation); Sherlock; Snow White and the Huntsman; Spy (2015); Stardust; Tin Man; True Grit; The Way, Way Back; and X-Men

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I read that it was Rowling's lawyers (or one of them) who let slip that she was Robert Galbraith. I'm sure that those few who went and bought the book and enjoyed it are feeling smug. Despite having endured The Casual Vacancy more than enjoyed it, I daresay I will read the book at some point.

For now I'm currently reading and loving The Night ( Read more... )

( Reccing vids, fics and fanart in the following fandoms: Angel; Avengers movieverse (all fic read before seeing Avengers Assemble); Downton Abbey; Once upon a Time; Push; Tangled; Tin Man; Wall-E; Whip It; Willow and Ugly Betty )

From fandoms starting with "T" onwards. ( Tin Man (2 fics); Ugly Betty (fics in 1 'verse); A Walk to Remember (1 vid); Whip It (1 vid) and one multifandom vid. )

( Fic, fanvids and fanart in the following fandoms: Firefly; Harry Potter; Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman; Much Ado About Nothing (1993 film adaptation); The Mentalist and Tin Man )

Ha! It's only three months and a half since I last did this, which means I've read a lot of fic and this is what I thought was really good. Fanfic, fanart and a fanvid ( in the following fandoms: Arrested Development; The Blue Castle; BTVS; Chuck; Fairy Tales; Harry Potter; Heroes; Indiana Jones; Mr Magorium's Wonder Emporium; Numb3rs; Push; Tin Man and a multifandom rec )

Inspired by previous fannish celebrations/ feminist claiming of Valentine's Day, here's a link of cool stuff featuring female characters from various fandoms I've come across over the last two years. If all had been well, this would have been posted this time last year, and if all had been optimal, it would contain links featuring characters with ( Read more... )

I've been trying to find the chance to do this for a while - it's over a year since I last did a recs post for fics and fanart, and so it turns out that these are the best of what I came across in 2008. I wasn't online much at the beginning of the year, and so I stuck to other people's recs for reading material, so you might have seen some of these ( Read more... )

I went to see Easy Virtue (is it too reductive to say Gosford Park meets A Knight's Tale?)

These were the trailers. ( The Bride Wars, Flawless, Australia, Yes Man, The Secret Life of Bees )

A bunch of miscellaneous links - some of these are old and some of them will be redundant if I don't post this now.

( Friday Night Lights resources; Greg Grunberg interview; Neverwhere icons; funny, snarky take on rom-coms; articles on the lack of women-led comic-book movies and how we read online; analysis of the Tina Fey-Searah Palin phenomenon; a Toby Ziegler essay (hee, the juxtaposition!); Tin Man specific writing advice and resources; The Dark Knight spoof vid )