Very busy days again, but that's why the brief fics from the "Trick or Treat" exchange make for perfect readings:

Black Widow:

Several highly enjoyable takes set in the flashback to Natasha's and Yelena's childhood era, and quite different from each other:

The Monsters in the Dark

Happy Hauntings

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell:

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How other famous fictional detectives would have solved the murder of Laura Palmer All versions are witty, but the Philip Marlowe and the Phryne Fisher one cracked me up especially. Though I note with disapproval that wihile Poirot is represented, Miss Marple is not. Clearly, the Log Lady would have told her everything she needed to know on the ( Read more... )

Just a first bunch, I still have so much more to read.

Breaking Bad:

These lifeless things: Skyler post show, looking back, trying to find a forward, with an emphasis on the Skyler and Marie relationship: as devastatingly intense as the show itself.

Dune: (Or rather, the tv version)

In the first days: Irulan and the twins. I've always had a ( Read more... )

Alas, I won't be able to watch The Good Wife or Manhattan for another week (don't spoil me!), but I can get a hold of the Sleepy Hollow season opener; watch this space. Meanwhile, the weather is splendid, meaning the Aged Parents & self spend most of this week outdoors, and thus there isn't much internet for me. But there is some ( Read more... )

It's not paranoia if they're really after you. Let's see:

1.) Final scene from Blink, season 3 of current Doctor Who. You know, the one with all those statues. I should add that it doesn't work that way anymore after all the subsequent overexposure of the Angels, but back then? I never felt the same way around statues of any kind again. :)

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I'll go for characters, and it's a trickier question than it appears to be at first glance. Because sometimes the unhappy ending is the RIGHT ending, no matter how much your love for the character makes you hurt for it. Prime example: Londo Mollari, who is my favourite tv character of all time. But a happy, or even happier ending for Londo would ( Read more... )

You know, sometimes I wonder whether the worst thing that can happen to a morally ambiguous character is to be adopted by much of fandom as a woobie. Sure, it means there's a lot of fanfic and meta out there, but the whitewashing out of everything that made the character ambiguos to begin with is beyond belief, not to mention that it more often ( Read more... )

Poor Peter Parker. It seems to be his fate to be retconned in any universe. I actually have no passionate feelings about the Spider-man movies, though I'm mildly fond of them, and yes, the reboot approach did the Batman movies a world of good, but all this talk about "dark" and "gritty" is off-putting in this particular context. Because if there's ( Read more... )

Blood Ties

Liberation: plotty, UST and other -tensions soaked story around Mike, Henry and Vicki, solving a case in the aftermath of the Father Mendoza incident. Mmmmm.

Dollhouse

For Those Rebellious: futurefic, in which Priya-Sierra and Tony-Victor are trying to figure out who they are after the Dollhouse.

It starts somewhere: Topher ( Read more... )