Because it's that time of the year again

( a) The one in which you post the first sentence of the first story you posted each month this year: )

More rec posts to come, of course, as I feel I've only just started to scratch the surface of all the fictional goodness.

American Gods

Do zla boga: Czernobog and the Zoryas arrive in America. (Incidentally, the Slavic gods are doing rather well in this year's Yuletide.) Captures both the otherness and the, in lack of a better term, person- ( Read more... )

Name 10 characters without looking at the questions, then answer for them.

Characters:

1. Abigail Brand (first Astonishing X-Men, currently Marvelverse at large)
2. Jo Grant (Doctor Who)
3. Benjamin Linus (Lost)
4. David Fisher (Six Feet Under)
5. Kai Winn (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
6. Londo Mollari (Babylon 5)
7. Henry Hellrung (The Order ( Read more... )

I'm answering this from the ideal assumption I could resurrect some of these directly after they were cancelled, i.e. with the same writers/actors/producers available instead of bound by other commitments, aged or died.

1) Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Because it was, hands down, the best show in the last two years, smart, with ( Read more... )

01. If you'd like, comment to this entry saying 'ICONS!' and I will pick 6 of your icons.
02. Make an entry in your own journal and talk about the icons I picked!

astrogirl2 gave me the following:
( Icons, those icons... )

( Bad-Ass Women have some AXM and SCC spoilers and are more general in other fandoms )

Title: Proportionate Responses

Disclaimer: Characters and situations owned by Marvel.

Spoilers: for all of The Order and The Invincible Iron Man: The Five Nightmares.

Timeline: at the end of issue#6 of The Five Nightmares.

Characters: Henry Hellrung, Tony Stark.

Summary: Tony had this thing about gifts which maybe a part of you wanted, just ( Read more... )

Watchmen/X-Men:

Remember those hilarious Batman versus Iron Man "I'm a DC, I'm a Marvel" vids? Now someone genius has made one featuring Rorschach versus Wolverine, here. (Meanwhile, likeadeuce has kindly informed me what the Marvelverse book club (consisting of Jean Grey, Tony Stark, Steve Rogers, Henry Hellrung and Wolverine) really thinks about the ( Read more... )

I read The Order first issue by issue - thank you, likeadeuce! - but have now aquired the trade collections. Which you, gentle reader, should as well, especially since there are only two of them, and you can afford them; they tell a story with beginning and end, which manages to tie into the bigger Marvelverse but still stands on its own and is ( Read more... )

Firstly, if you're not all averse to reading comics: resolute on Matt Fraction's recently nominated The Order, and why you should read it. What she said. Especially if certain recent movies have induced you to check out the Marvelverse.

Secondly, speaking of good writing: Neil Gaiman interviews Terry Prattchet.

Thirdly, a link to a Battlestar Galactica ( Read more... )