The third of four instalments walking through my fandom history! Apparently my accumulation of fandoms really sped up in my early twenties; I picked up all six of these fandoms within two years.

Waterloo Road

I wasn't introduced to this by a friend or family member, and I didn't see talk of it online and decide to check it out. I got into ( Read more... )

Back in 2010, I attempted a self-imposed challenge: alphabet ficsnippets ( A to M, M to Z). The idea was that the first snippet concerned one character whose name began with A and one whose name began with B, the second a B and a C, the third a C and a D and so on. As I had so much fun with them, I thought I'd attempt another type of alphabet ( Read more... )

Waterloo Road is back on television with episode 7.21, and you know what time that makes it? IT'S RIONA RAMBLES ABOUT HILARIOUSLY TERRIBLE DRAMA VERY FEW OF YOU WATCH TIME.

(Note that by 'hilariously terrible' I am not trying to claim that my enjoyment of Waterloo Road is ironic. I cannot deny that my love of Waterloo Road is absolutely sincere ( Read more... )

In the comments to my entry on Rogue/Logan, some people referred to the pairing as canonically unrequited. I was genuinely confused before I realised that 'LOGAN WANTS ROGUE JUST AS MUCH AS OR POSSIBLY MORE THAN ROGUE WANTS HIM; HE'S JUST BETTER AT HIDING IT' was how the films were filtered in my head rather than actually canonically stated ( Read more... )

In case anyone who might be interested missed it on account of my terrible timing: I posted an X-Men: First Class fic whilst Livejournal was being difficult! No common sense. It is about Raven and Erik and Charles and their relationships with each other. It is also, inevitably, about Pokémon.

Over the weekend, I stayed with mogamus_ii! She had the first ( Read more... )

I'm sure nobody saw this one coming.

Title: Magnet Rise
Fandom: X-Men: First Class/Pokémon
Rating: PG-13
Wordcount: 5,600
Summary: In a world of Pokémon, X-Men: First Class would have been a very different film, or at least a film with more Pokémon in it.
Notes: With thanks to th_esaurus for inspiration, encouragement and reassurance, and with apologies to ( Read more... )

I'm visiting my family at the moment, and so it's time for more tales of family adventures!

(Scene: around the dinner table. Dad is talking about what he would do if he won £166 million on the lottery: give each of his children ten per cent, put ten per cent in a trust fund for his wife to set up charitable initiatives, try to spend ten per cent ( Read more... )

Something that particularly struck me in my rewatching of X-Men: First Class was one of the conversations between Charles and Raven. Charles says, 'Don't make me read your mind'; Raven says, 'You promised me you would never do that ( Read more... )

X-Men: First Class Fic Ideas That Seem Good Until You Think About Them For More Than Three Seconds: all the mutants somehow have their powers temporarily reversed ( Read more... )

Here are some things I have seen whilst walking through Brighton ( Read more... )