Looking through my old notebooks, I have stumbled across a bizarre snippet of a Real Hustle/Final Fantasy XII crossover. The Real Hustle, for those unaware, is a BBC Three series that demonstrates various scams, refunding the victims afterwards, and gives advice on how to avoid them; here is an example. The figures who actually perform the scams ( Read more... )

So. Derren Brown's How to Take Down a Casino...oh, Derren. That must be tremendously embarrassing. I suppose that's the risk of doing stunts live ( Read more... )

There is a Female Characters Drabble-a-thon going on at the moment! If you're like me and feel that you don't write about female characters nearly often enough, here's your chance to redress the balance. (Sadly, there are almost no videogame prompts.)

Also, a rather fun meme. Stolen from eva_kasumi:

- Arrange the characters in your icons in alphabetical ( Read more... )

I become pathetically excited when an episode of The Real Hustle contains an entire five words of banter, honestly. "Carburettor's gone." "What's that?" "I don't know." THOSE TWO SECONDS EVERY THREE EPISODES ARE WHAT I WATCH THE PROGRAMME FOR, GUYS. Also please do not talk about cars, hustlers, or I will eventually cross you over with Top Gear and ( Read more... )

A HUSTLE ALMOST WENT HORRIBLY WRONG. I have wanted to see one of them go a bit awry ever since I started watching The Real Hustle, so I was really rather thrilled by this. Although I have to admit that I was genuinely worried that the mark might actually drag Alex off the motorbike and horribly injure him or something ( Read more... )

I have a vague idea for a Torchwood/Silent Hill/Top Gear/Doctor Who/The Real Hustle/Sherlock Holmes/Life on Mars/Stargate SG-1/Final Fantasy XII crossover formulating in the back of my mind. This is almost certainly draegonhawke's fault. And there's every chance that more fandoms may come into it, as the TARDIS and the Stargate are involved. I am obviously ( Read more... )

I am absolutely delighted to discover that there is, in fact, a small audience out there for The Real Hustle fanfiction. Does this mean that any of you might be persuaded to write it? It would make me very happy indeed if you did.

While we wait for lots and lots of glorious Real Hustle fanfiction to spring up (SHUT UP, I'M NOT DELUDED), it is ( Read more... )

Episode Five, Series Four of The Real Hustle has just aired, and it has to be one of my favourites. There's more interaction between the hustlers than usual (I really, really hope that this carries on; they don't show them talking to each other nearly enough), and some terribly adorable Alex/Jess, and I couldn't help laughing when the voiceover ( Read more... )

Now that two of my friends are writing (at least) six-way crossovers, I feel terribly disappointed in myself. I love and adore crossovers, but I don't think I've ever written a full-length one that incorporated more than two fandoms. That's shameful. It really is ( Read more... )

Today, my father came into the room and proudly handed me a printout listing all the different dimensions he's seen attributed to Harry Potter's penis in fanfiction. I just thought you should know.

Anyway! thebaconfat did this meme a couple of weeks ago and said she wanted everyone else to do it, and I've just about managed to work up the courage to go ( Read more... )