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For some recent, in recent days I got more spam on lj than I got otherwise in five years. Are we due for another breakdown?

Until then, have some links, both fanfiction and meta:

Prometheus:

Persephone . It's post-movie fic by legendary-in-several-fandoms Yahtzee, developing the complicated relationship between ( those characters alive by the end of the film )

Last night's House episode was fabulous and my favourite in a long, long time. Earlier this year they did a Wilson-centric one which was basically the show if Wilson were the main character, and that was okay. This time, it was Cuddy's turn, and it was fantastic. Why the difference? (Err, in my personal perception.) Because while Wilson (like House ( Read more... )

Pick your five all-time favourite pieces of fic, the ones which made you laugh or cry or kicked you in the guts, that became your personal canon, that inspired you to offer the author internets and first born sons, and tell us why you loved them. Any fandom, any pairing, any genre - the only requirement is they stood out from the crowd. Also, links ( Read more... )

Returning to Munich, I find the most delightful crossover posted. Yahtzee63 had the brilliant idea of tackling Gone With The Wind/Dr. Who AND PULLED IT OFF. I'm awed. I also think her take on Scarlett O'Hara is ever so much better and matching the original than any of the published sequels, prequels and whatnots. What's more, she doesn't prettify Scarlett's ( Read more... )

Rhett Butler's People, yet another Gone With The Wind prequel/sequel/spinoff/whatever you want to call it, manages to be worse than Alexander Ripley's Scarlett. I browsed through it yesterday and was stunned at the badness. Particular highlights include Melanie being pen pals with Rhett Butler's sister and entrusting her with her sufferings ( Read more... )

Sunday evening I was at the Corine, which is Germany's attempt to make handing out annual awards for books look glamorous. Was amused that while Kazuo Ishiguro was there (because he got an award for best book for Never Let Me Go), all the photographers predictably ignored this awesome writer in favour of, wait for it, not even Diana Gabaldon (who ( Read more... )

This is why I love my flist: commenting on my Elizabeth-Scarlett comparison, Yahtzee wrote Pirate!Scarlett O'Hara fanficIn other news, today shall be spent packing suitcases for my three-weeks-on-the-road-through-England trip. During which time I'll be stopping at Stratford-upon-Avon to see Patrick Stewart perform Shakespeare. If anything else ( Read more... )

One of the reasons why I'm glad the Multiverse stories are posted anonymously at first is that I find it intriguing what feedback one does and doesn't get without the name attached. (So far, some nice feedback for my main Multiverse story and the recipient of the pinch-hitting second one liked that one, which is a relief.) Conversely, I read ( Read more... )

I first read Gone With the Wind when I was nine, and saw the movie later that same year. I don't know how many times I watched it since then. Last week, I brought the special edition DVDs (four in all), and let me tell you, no matter how often one has seen this film on TV or in the cinema during one of the periodic reruns, the way they went digital ( Read more... )