Fairy Tales:

The tale you tell: this is a crossover with Into the Woods, and a fantastic take on the Baker's wife and her backstory. To say more would spoil a great twist.

There were several lovely takes on the Six Swans fairy tale, and these two are my favourites:

roses and sentiments, drowning in the sea of clouds: Character study of the ( Read more... )

And thus, it ends. This last season is, I believe, based on three, not two of Cornwell's novels, and found a good stopping point for its adaption of them. This was a show of which I didn't expect much when I marathoned its first season years ago, and which I ended up liking so much that I've been watching and enjoying all its seasons once they were ( Read more... )

Yuletide Madness has gone live as well, and as it turns out, I got a treat there together with my two fellow Frederician Salonnières
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Dear Creator,

thank you so much for writing this story for me. We clearly share at least some interests, and I'm thrilled to find out what you'll come up with.

( General DNWs and preferences )

Back to the Future

(whenever i want you) all i have to do: Lorraine in the original timeline. Sensitively written and not a little heartbreaking.

Galaxy Quest

Alexander versus Fandom: this, by contrast, is hilarious. And I remember all those different stages of fannish communication methods!

The Godfather

5 Times Someone in the Family Saved Fredo ( Read more... )

Dear Creator,

thank you so much for writing this story for me. We clearly share at least some interests, and I'm thrilled to find out what you'll come up with.

DNW:

- bashing of canon pairings or characters in general. By which I don't mean the characters have to like each and everyone - a great number of those I've nominated can be described as ( Read more... )

Netflix put up the fourth season, which I find I like better than the third one, despite it by necessity lacking what used to be a key dynamic of the show.

( Destiny is all )

Dear Yuletide Writer,

thank you so much for creating a story for me! I hope you'll enjoy the experience and appreciate the work you're doing - writing a story in a tiny fandom we share is absolutely lovely, and I'm guaranteed to be pleased by your gift, so don't fret. My prompts are just that, prompts, not absolutes; if you have an idea that doesn't ( Read more... )

Which isn't the same as a list of personal favourite episodes - slightly different category - , and of course limited to media I actually watched, so if your own pick for "great episode of 2018" isn't in it, it might be simply for this reason. Also, there's no particular order of quality among the episodes themselves.

The other days

Star Trek ( Read more... )

The contested legacy of Atticus Finch is a smart article about not just fictional Atticus but Harper Lee's rl father, and the very different ideological uses To Kill a Mockingbird was and is put to. (Am both appalled and amused in a sick way to learn Republicans referred to the Kavenaugh hearing as "our Atticus Finch moment".) I would say Go Set A ( Read more... )