Yuletide assignment: more generic than most I got - basically it amounts to "more of what canon does so well" (which I sympathize with, since I have fandoms where I want just that, too). I can work with that, since I love the canon in question (obviously) and it leaves me ample manvoeuvring room. But because there's no specific prompt, I'm ( Read more... )

Happy New Year, everyone! Here are my two Yuletide tales:

Like the Fellow Says (7425 words) by Selena
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Americans (TV 2013)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Philip Jennings & Charles Duluth
Characters: Philip Jennings, Charles Duluth, Elizabeth Jennings
Additional Tags: Unresolved ( Read more... )

Finally read this one. I was familiar with Sweetman's Vincent Van Gogh biography, which is good, and his take on Mary Renault didn't disappoint, either. Some of the biographical details were expected: most of all, the mother from hell (thanks, Clementine Challans, for providing your daughter with a life long complex about a) women, b) being a woman ( Read more... )

The Guardian lists memorable awful dinner parties in fiction and somehow misses out The Charioteer's example. Now as opposed to several friends of mine, I'm not that enamored with The Charioteer, but the party at Alec's and Sandy's is hands down one of Mary Renault's most memorable, best written set pieces and any such list that leaves it out is ( Read more... )

Today is Elementary day, and here is a good meta post about Joan Watson, complete with lovely illustrations. :

In other news, during the last months I've taken part in a discussion about Mary Renault's The Charioteer - our discussion posts by chapters are here - which on that occasion I had read for the first time. (My previous Renaults were all ( Read more... )

I just saw that I have not one but two as yet mysterious and veiled stories in my gift box, so someone wrote a treat for me. This makes me very happy and even more gleeful at the prospect of Yuletide, which is good, since reading the news this morning is more inclined to make one hoping for satire or filled with rage. Or both. Reality is such a tv ( Read more... )

Heroes having been cancelled has evoked grief from some of my flist and celebration from others. I said my personal goodbye to the show two seasons ago, and I never doubted I made the right decision, but I can't forgot how much I enjoyed watching it once upon a time, how I used to love the characters (well, Sylar excepted...), that it inspired me ( Read more... )