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This is where you can quickly find the fanfiction that I have posted here, by fandom, and then alphabetically according to title. This index is a work in progress!
( 10 Things I Hate About You (film) )
( The Addams Family )
( Agents of SHIELD )
( Alias )
( Arthurian legend )
( The Autobiography of Jane Eyre )
( Batverse (Batman Forever, The Dark Knight Rises, Gotham) )
( Buffy the Vampire Slayer )
( Crossovers )
( Dark Angel )
( Dawson's Creek )
( Downton Abbey )
( Enchanted )
( ER )
( Firefly-Serenity )
( Friends )
( Georgette Heyer )
( Ghosts (TV) )
( The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society )
( Harry Potter )
( Hart of Dixie )
( Into the Woods (2014) )
( Jake 2.0 )
( Jane Austen )
( Lawless )
( The Lizzie Bennet Diaries )
( The Lone Pine mysteries )
( Lousia M. Alcott )
( Marvel Cinematic Universe )
( Mary Poppins Returns )
( Men in Black 3 )
( The Mentalist )
( Monarch of the Glen )
( Mr Magorium's Wonder Emporium )
( The Musketeers )
( Nashville )
( NCIS: Los Angeles )
( The OC )
( Ondine )
( Person of Interest )
( Pitch Perfect movies )
( Poldark )
( Push )
( Revenge )
( RPF )
( Sanditon )
( The Scapegoat )
( Scorpion )
( Sherlock )
( Sky High )
( Smallville )
( Spy (2015) )
( St Trinian's (Any) )
( Star Trek: Deep Space Nine )
( Star Trek: Enterprise )
( Step Up 2 )
( Sue Thomas: F. B. Eye )
( Swallows and Amazons )
( Tangled )
( Tolkien (Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit) )
( Top of the Lake )
( Veronica Mars )
( Wicked Part 1 )
( Wire in the Blood )
( X-Men Movieverse )
Also, Fairy Tale fic can be found here and original fic can be found here, with a little duplication.
Sense and Sensibility (1971) 1/4
Jun. 6th, 2025 08:09 amThe Beeb are repeating a 1970s adaptation of Sense and Sensibility, and based on Part 1: Farewell to Norlan, it’s not really threatening the supremacy of the early 90s Ang Lee & Emma Thompson film. But, you know, there’s enough of Austen there to enjoy.
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Time for team pressure!
Jun. 5th, 2025 07:59 amKilljoys 1.7 - Kiss Kiss, Bye Bye
The strongest episode so far, with developments on all sorts of fronts as the three Killjoys worked on two of their personal issues. Granted, I felt that the show’s fast pace was a problem in a few scenes, refusing to let a scene breathe, especially some big emotional ones.
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The strongest episode so far, with developments on all sorts of fronts as the three Killjoys worked on two of their personal issues. Granted, I felt that the show’s fast pace was a problem in a few scenes, refusing to let a scene breathe, especially some big emotional ones.
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Movies watched in May
Jun. 1st, 2025 08:29 pmAs referred to here, I saw Thunderbolts* in the cinema. What I did not say was that a filling came out of my tooth while I was watching the trailers. Yes, I was eating a sweet at the time.
On streaming (on Prime): My Zoe. This came up in the science fiction section, so when it looked like a domestic drama (separated parents sharing custody of their daughter, Zoe, who then have to face something awful), I knew there would be more going on. There is, and I don’t want to spoil it. I’ll just say it’s intense, but judiciously handled (though I could quibble about some of the use of flashforwards and flashbacks.) The acting is seriously good from writer-director Julie Delpy, Richard Armitage, Daniel Bruhl, Gemma Arterton, Lindsay Duncan, and the kid is naturalistic. It’s dated 2021, so may not have had a UK cinema release.
She Said (on All4) is in the lineage of Spotlight (and yes, All The President’s Men), but, as the title suggests, from a female perspective. I thought the formal choices they made to foreground the survivors’ words, to show details of corridors or rooms, but nothing more, and not to show Weinstein’s face were effective, as was giving us enough details of the reporters’ personal lives to be invested in them and their investment. I don’t have strong feelings about the blending of some women playing themselves and others being represented by others. The wrongdoing revealed is horrifying and angering (and I was reminded at the top of Twohey and others reporting about Trump in this context and through the film of how NDAs are still a thing.)
I also rewatched Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning part 1 on the small screen. The action is still brilliant, but ( spoilers? )
This was in prep for Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning (am amused that they dropped the ‘Dead Reckoning Part 2’. Am also not convinced that it will be the final final instalment if someone offers Cruise another couple of mad stunts he thinks he could pull off.) The action remains worth seeing in the cinema: ( Spoilers? ) The connective tissue is weaker. There was less of the Entity, it was more about what humans would do now that we were living in the Entity’s world, and although Hunt’s plan was clear, it didn’t really stand up to too much thinking about it.
( Spoilers )
On streaming (on Prime): My Zoe. This came up in the science fiction section, so when it looked like a domestic drama (separated parents sharing custody of their daughter, Zoe, who then have to face something awful), I knew there would be more going on. There is, and I don’t want to spoil it. I’ll just say it’s intense, but judiciously handled (though I could quibble about some of the use of flashforwards and flashbacks.) The acting is seriously good from writer-director Julie Delpy, Richard Armitage, Daniel Bruhl, Gemma Arterton, Lindsay Duncan, and the kid is naturalistic. It’s dated 2021, so may not have had a UK cinema release.
She Said (on All4) is in the lineage of Spotlight (and yes, All The President’s Men), but, as the title suggests, from a female perspective. I thought the formal choices they made to foreground the survivors’ words, to show details of corridors or rooms, but nothing more, and not to show Weinstein’s face were effective, as was giving us enough details of the reporters’ personal lives to be invested in them and their investment. I don’t have strong feelings about the blending of some women playing themselves and others being represented by others. The wrongdoing revealed is horrifying and angering (and I was reminded at the top of Twohey and others reporting about Trump in this context and through the film of how NDAs are still a thing.)
I also rewatched Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning part 1 on the small screen. The action is still brilliant, but ( spoilers? )
This was in prep for Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning (am amused that they dropped the ‘Dead Reckoning Part 2’. Am also not convinced that it will be the final final instalment if someone offers Cruise another couple of mad stunts he thinks he could pull off.) The action remains worth seeing in the cinema: ( Spoilers? ) The connective tissue is weaker. There was less of the Entity, it was more about what humans would do now that we were living in the Entity’s world, and although Hunt’s plan was clear, it didn’t really stand up to too much thinking about it.
( Spoilers )
Adding period drama to the roster
May. 31st, 2025 09:31 amMiss Scarlet and the Duke - 2.1 Pandora’s Box
Back in 2019, I was able to watch the first series of this show, and now the second and third are on U (formerly UKTV/Drama.) I know about the casting and title change that are coming, and that’s definitely changed how I’m watching the show. But hey, our heroine is solving crimes anachronistically in the Victorian era. Also, our heroine is played by Kate Phillips, who was Jane Seymour in Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light, latterly. There’s no trace of her in her Eliza Scarlet.
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Back in 2019, I was able to watch the first series of this show, and now the second and third are on U (formerly UKTV/Drama.) I know about the casting and title change that are coming, and that’s definitely changed how I’m watching the show. But hey, our heroine is solving crimes anachronistically in the Victorian era. Also, our heroine is played by Kate Phillips, who was Jane Seymour in Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light, latterly. There’s no trace of her in her Eliza Scarlet.
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Past and future things
May. 25th, 2025 03:21 pmAs I haven’t been watching any TV that I’d post about (I will get around to it, and with the bank holiday, this week will be lighter), I reposted a fic yesterday!
Sweet (I could be your favorite girl), The O.C. PG. 368 words. Kaitlin/Spencer. Summary: Over the years, she’s been getting better and better at having things her own way. Fluff. Established relationship. Future fic. (First posted in April 2007.
I only lightly edited it, although I wanted to do something about the first two paragraphs and all the uses of ‘nibbling’, but it would have been too much. Wow, that was only a month after I last reposted a fic.
Apparently The Wheel of Time is cancelled (is it my fault for not getting around to watch the third season yet?) :( In possibly good news, I saw that pictures from Zootopia 2 were released. Admittedly, sequels don’t have a great record (especially of original properties), but I am excited about more adventures with Judy and Nick and exploring the world further. It will all come down to the script. While I get it that they won’t be developing the ship, and that's fine, that's what fic is for, I don’t want to see any love interests for either.
Sweet (I could be your favorite girl), The O.C. PG. 368 words. Kaitlin/Spencer. Summary: Over the years, she’s been getting better and better at having things her own way. Fluff. Established relationship. Future fic. (First posted in April 2007.
I only lightly edited it, although I wanted to do something about the first two paragraphs and all the uses of ‘nibbling’, but it would have been too much. Wow, that was only a month after I last reposted a fic.
Apparently The Wheel of Time is cancelled (is it my fault for not getting around to watch the third season yet?) :( In possibly good news, I saw that pictures from Zootopia 2 were released. Admittedly, sequels don’t have a great record (especially of original properties), but I am excited about more adventures with Judy and Nick and exploring the world further. It will all come down to the script. While I get it that they won’t be developing the ship, and that's fine, that's what fic is for, I don’t want to see any love interests for either.
Sweet (I could be your favorite girl) The O.C., PG, 368 words. First posted: April 2007. Pairing: Kaitlin/Spencer. Fluff. Established relationship. Future fic.
Spoilers: This is set during Valentine’s Day, several years after the events of ‘The Case of the Franks’ and only takes that ep into account.
Author’s note: I wrote this vignette because Kaitlin seemed so sad in that ep, and I remembered how she really liked Spencer. The title is taken from the Gwen Stefani song ‘Sweet Escape’.
Disclaimer: Not mine. Don’t profit from ‘em.
Summary: Over the years, she’s been getting better and better at having things her own way.
( Sweet (I could be your favorite girl): shallowness )
Spoilers: This is set during Valentine’s Day, several years after the events of ‘The Case of the Franks’ and only takes that ep into account.
Author’s note: I wrote this vignette because Kaitlin seemed so sad in that ep, and I remembered how she really liked Spencer. The title is taken from the Gwen Stefani song ‘Sweet Escape’.
Disclaimer: Not mine. Don’t profit from ‘em.
Summary: Over the years, she’s been getting better and better at having things her own way.
( Sweet (I could be your favorite girl): shallowness )
Code of Silence – episode 1
May. 21st, 2025 07:59 amSo far, an ingenious crime thriller – I don’t know what Deaf/deaf or hard of hearing people will make of it. Rose Ayling-Ellis plays the lead, as Alison, ( Read more... )
Belatedly, Eurovision 2025.
May. 19th, 2025 08:01 amAs with last year, and for the same Reasons, sadly, I watched all the songs in the Eurovision final this year and voted. Then I went to bed and found out who’d won in the morning. (I meant to post this yeserday.)
( caveat lector )
Have lost my extra icon space, or I'd have selected the Kylie one.
( caveat lector )
Have lost my extra icon space, or I'd have selected the Kylie one.
Thunderbolts*
May. 10th, 2025 01:20 pmI rewatched Black Widow in prep, and as Yelena and Alexei are funny and entertaining in it (and I followed who and what Taskmaster was better in this rewatch), it was probably worth it. ( Brief review. )
About fifteen people in my showing, with less than half leaving early, but the rest of us stayed until the post-credits scene. Among the trailers, Mission Impossible (which has been getting lots of free promo in the British news this week), Superman (i, did not realise that was coming out this summer, ii, unenthused about Krypto, iii, pretty leads, iv, willing to trust James Gunn up to a point) and Fantastic 4: First Steps (skipped the second iteration of F4. Going retro is going to make for comparisons with The Incredibles...but, fine, make the Silver Surfer female.) Am more enthused about Superman than Fantastic 4.
As for Thunderbolts*, overall, yes, it's an entertaining iteration of the scrappy team of powered people having done bad things learning to work together and maybe do good. It has the sense to know that Florence Pugh is the star, making Yelena Belova (who has the least powers) its heart and leader. Some of it is stuff we’ve seen before, deliberately so in some ways, but it’s better and more cohesive than Suicide Squad (backhand compliment though that is.) It has a nice line in being self-deprecating before the audience can be, and is consistently amusing, if not laugh out loud funny, while dealing with damaged, grieving people and continuing the touching relationship of a grown-up child assassin and her embarrassing adoptive dad hankering after glory days that never were first seen in Black Widow.
( tl;dr, spoilers, references to Trump )
About fifteen people in my showing, with less than half leaving early, but the rest of us stayed until the post-credits scene. Among the trailers, Mission Impossible (which has been getting lots of free promo in the British news this week), Superman (i, did not realise that was coming out this summer, ii, unenthused about Krypto, iii, pretty leads, iv, willing to trust James Gunn up to a point) and Fantastic 4: First Steps (skipped the second iteration of F4. Going retro is going to make for comparisons with The Incredibles...but, fine, make the Silver Surfer female.) Am more enthused about Superman than Fantastic 4.
As for Thunderbolts*, overall, yes, it's an entertaining iteration of the scrappy team of powered people having done bad things learning to work together and maybe do good. It has the sense to know that Florence Pugh is the star, making Yelena Belova (who has the least powers) its heart and leader. Some of it is stuff we’ve seen before, deliberately so in some ways, but it’s better and more cohesive than Suicide Squad (backhand compliment though that is.) It has a nice line in being self-deprecating before the audience can be, and is consistently amusing, if not laugh out loud funny, while dealing with damaged, grieving people and continuing the touching relationship of a grown-up child assassin and her embarrassing adoptive dad hankering after glory days that never were first seen in Black Widow.
( tl;dr, spoilers, references to Trump )
Fanvid and fanfiction recs in the following fandoms: Dredd, Mission Impossible movie series, Pacific Rim, Singin' in the Rain and Spinning Silver.
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Mainly movies watched in April ‘25
May. 1st, 2025 08:13 amYears and years ago, when I started a post containing links to all the fanfiction posted here, I dated it somewhere in the far future. That day is now today. I've had to tick the sticky box (because that was beyond me way back when in the early days of getting Dreamwidth) so that it remains the first thing you see.
To the movies!
On streaming: Free Color popped up, made in 2019, but I’d never heard of it before. It’s a sparse thriller that becomes a family drama set in the middle of climate breakdown, and its main character has superpowers. ( Read more... )
At the cinema: Mr. Burton, and I really enjoyed it. I only knew scattered facts about Richard Burton’s life (only finding out how he came to have his surname thanks to promo for this film) and haven’t seen much of his work. ( Read more... )
To the movies!
On streaming: Free Color popped up, made in 2019, but I’d never heard of it before. It’s a sparse thriller that becomes a family drama set in the middle of climate breakdown, and its main character has superpowers. ( Read more... )
At the cinema: Mr. Burton, and I really enjoyed it. I only knew scattered facts about Richard Burton’s life (only finding out how he came to have his surname thanks to promo for this film) and haven’t seen much of his work. ( Read more... )
Self-promotion and Étoile
Apr. 27th, 2025 04:12 pmI reposted a ficlet yesterday: That Cooper Family Christmas Feeling, The O.C. PG. 280 words. Kaitlin, gen. Summary: Alt!world Kaitlin’s Christmas Eve night. AU. Post 4.07. ‘The Christmukk-huh?’ (March 2007)
Very seasonal! (Or not.) Very niche, as it expands a bit on the alt world Ryan and Taylor visited. Lightly edited from the original version.
Étoile 1.1 The Swap
Me a few weeks ago: Why is YouTube promoting this trailer at me?
Me last week: OH, it’s an Amy Sherman-Palladino project about ballet (never did get to see Bunheads) on Prime.
Me after watching the trailer: Oh, I am so watching this.
This is me after watching the first episode.
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Very seasonal! (Or not.) Very niche, as it expands a bit on the alt world Ryan and Taylor visited. Lightly edited from the original version.
Étoile 1.1 The Swap
Me a few weeks ago: Why is YouTube promoting this trailer at me?
Me last week: OH, it’s an Amy Sherman-Palladino project about ballet (never did get to see Bunheads) on Prime.
Me after watching the trailer: Oh, I am so watching this.
This is me after watching the first episode.
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That Cooper Family Christmas Feeling, The O.C. PG. 280 words. First posted: March 2007
Summary: Alt!world Kaitlin’s Christmas Eve night. AU. Post 4.7. ‘The Christmukk-huh?’
Disclaimer: Not mine. Don’t profit from ‘em.
( That Cooper Family Christmas Feeling: shallowness )
Summary: Alt!world Kaitlin’s Christmas Eve night. AU. Post 4.7. ‘The Christmukk-huh?’
Disclaimer: Not mine. Don’t profit from ‘em.
( That Cooper Family Christmas Feeling: shallowness )
Fanfiction recs in the following fandoms: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spinning Silver and Veronica Mars.
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