State of my own stories: assignment: recipient hasn't commented yet, but nearly everyone else vocal in the tiny online fandom has, so I'm pleased as punch. Treat: recipient loves it, but not many other people seem to have read it so far. We'll see. Consider the invitation to guess and get a drabble on the subject of your choice if guessing ( Read more... )

Mad Max: Fury Road:

...is rapidly gaining fanfiction, and a considerable part of it imagines the backstories of the "wives". I was impressed by this version:

Hope In A Handful Of Dust (3515 words) by FayJay
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Mad Max: Fury Road
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Mention of Toast/OFC. This isn't ( Read more... )

Because the fannish mind sometimes does quirky things and makes you ponder something years later: back when Being Human finished, I had problems with the ending which the additional scene on the dvds largely resolved. To spare you the trouble of looking up the original review, ( my spoilery problem and why the additional scene mostly fixed it )

Disclaimer: It's been some years since my last rewatch. Pray forgive any wrongly remembered plot parts and/or misquotes.

( Thoughts spoilery for the first three seasons of BEING HUMAN ensue. )

The AV Club has posted their list of ten vampire centric tv series episodes; as they put it, they might not be the 10 best episodes, but they’re the 10 episodes that’ll help you understand what the show’s all about-without having to watch the whole thingNaturally, I found myself arguing with some of the choices for series I'm familiar with. Not in ( Read more... )

Part of the Yuletide experience is also the fretting about one's own stories. I was fretting A LOT until literally an hour ago when I got the lovely feedback from my main recipient which assured me she liked my Yuletide story. (Given she's someone I highly respect in another fandom than the one we were matched, I was mightily relieved.) With that ( Read more... )

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In cheerier "actors and the social media" news, the West Wing actors just invented the Walk and Tweet. :)

(Incidentally, the first time I tried to watch The West Wing, the Bush years had just started and I couldn't continue because the gap between reality and fiction was just too big. Then years later I marathoned it at the close of the Bush age ( Read more... )

Coming to the end of a rewatch leaves one, well, me, missing the characters anew. Luckily, there are these little additional scenes with them on YouTube. Like this on, with Alex making her Unfinished Business list:

Click to view

Some creative soul, not me, should write either the Alex/Robert Downey Junior RPF or the more respectable "Alex and Tom make Hal ( Read more... )

The fourth season is the last one that was included in the Being Human box I bought when I visited London during the Easter holidays, so you won't get an s5 rewatch from me (also, it was too recent). But there will be fanfic recs!

( The season which pulls a Spooks and Doctor Who )