This may not be amusing to anybody but me, but... I often enjoy putting my entire (rather large) music collection on random shuffle on my iPod while I'm doing housework. I also occasionally like playing a little fannish game, where I'll pick a character, and then see if I can relate the next random song to that character somehow. (This comes ( Read more... )

There seem to be several people in my fannish circles who have also fallen for Once Upon a Time very recently, and rather hard, which really does somehow make me feel better about my own sudden, unexpected fannish obsession. (Not that sudden fannish obsessions should really be unexpected for me by now, I admit, but they do often seem to come from ( Read more... )

We have Yuletide! I repeat, we have Yuletide! And I got the most wonderful piece of cracktastic wonderfulness ever: "Submitted For Your Approval". Because I asked for The Twilight Zone. And I asked for the Muppets. And I got both, in what may be the most gloriously insane crossover in the history of fandom. Seriously, guys, you have to read

Someone wrote the most awesomely hilarious Black Books zombie fic for my prompt at zombi_fic_ation. Heeee!

I've been having a lovely time dipping in and out of the Yuletide stories. Here's a few I thought were particularly good:

"With One Eye Open" (Aliens): The third movie be damned, this is much more like what should have happened to Ripley, Newt, Bishop and Hicks. In fact, as far as I'm concerned, it's something much more like this that did happen ( Read more... )

Despite my notorious sluttiness for ficathons, I haven't done the Apocalyptothon in recent years, mostly due to the fact that I feel competent to write almost none of the approved fandoms. But it always seems to produce some good stories, and this time I have got to recommend this Burn Notice fic. Don't worry; it's hilarious rather than angsty, ( Read more... )

Merry Christmas to all that are Christmasly inclined!

At the moment, I am cooking turkey and waiting for Doctor Who to finish downloading. I've also been wandering rather haphazardly around Yuletide, and I come bearing a few recs:

We Three Robots: Futurama. Bender bets the Robot Devil that he can get Leela to fall in love with him. Truly ( Read more... )

You guys! You guys! I got the awesomest, most perfectly crafted, punch-in-the-gut-angsty, couldn't-push-my-buttons-better-if-it-tried Pretender fic for Yuletide! Eeeeeeeeeee! *does the happy flail* *dashes back to leave squeeful comment ( Read more... )

I requested fic to read when I got home, and, lo, it was delivered! Man, I really ought to do that more often! And lovely, lovely fic it is, too: "In My Unique Position", a series of linked drabbles by nancybrown, featuring Jenny from Doctor Who and Alice from Torchwood. (Warning: contains "Children of Earth" spoilers, in case there are folks for whom ( Read more... )

Speaking of remixes (which I was, briefly, in the previous post), the Doctor Who batch of remixthedrabble remixes just went up, and I am very happy with this 100-word remix of my story "And Change Their State".

This also seems like an excellent time to mention, for those who haven't seen it yet, that bagheera_san wrote a terrific story, "Birth, in Progress", for the Data & ( Read more... )