shallowness

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I'm not sure I'll be posting episode by episode, but my viewing patterns have definitely changed. Some of that's down to Strictly returning and It Takes Two being on when I binge watched season 1, but I've also been reading 'The Ink Black Heart', which I've finished. I'll post that when I've worked out what I want to say about it.

On Sunday, I reposted With those lips (it'd be a waste) (Dark Angel. PG-13. Max, OC, Original Female Characters, Alec. Max/Alec. Words: 2,929. Summary: Girl talk. Flirtation. Realization. Response.)

I wrote this back when I was capable of writing fics above the 2,500 word mark, and it was first posted in May 2006. It was the next fic to be reposted (the old version is up on Livejournal, but this version can now also be found at AO3 and ff.net too. I went back to it that weekend my plans changed at the end of February. Apparently, I’d been editing it in September 2021, although when I read through it in February, that seemed to have involved introducing more punctuation errors. I think I set about editing more on this go around. My sense in doing so is that this fic says more about me then than I realised.

I’ve made a list of all my fics that are currently only available on my LJ or ff.net, so at least I know the scale of it. None of them are Dark Angel fics. I can’t promise to repost these fics any faster than I have done. I know I ought to try importing again (I don’t think I did back when I started on Dreamwidth) because there are reviews and meta that probably only exist there, but I haven’t minded editing old fics before reposting them, it’s just everything else that goes along with that and the time and energy for it. On the other hand, I’m not really writing fic now.

Well, I wrote a three-sentence fill. Original, OFC/OMC, fluff. Ice-cream melt But there isn’t a sff twist or anything to it.

Then I watched the BAFTAs ( Read more... )

And then, during the week, while watching The Ipcress File (I’ll get to that) I saw that Sanditon is coming back…to Britbox. Oh, ITV etc, that’s not enough to make me subscribe to it. I wonder if it was only after Bridgerton that they got the second series.

[Edited for typos 26/12/24.]

My contributions to the Three-Sentence Ficathon this month (I was several days, if not weeks, behind everyone else and I have yet to look at the second post).

For the prompt ‘Harry Potter (books, EWE), Draco/Luna, bittersweet’ 112 words. PG. ( as if we were other people )


For the prompt ‘harry potter, ginny weasley, size is no guarantee of power’ 80 words. Universal. ( The Little One )


For the prompt ‘10 Things I Hate About You, Kat Stratford (and optionally Patrick), any’ (Kat, Mandella, Kat/Patrick). 102 words. Universal. ( Options )


For the prompt ‘Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Kira + any, any’ 62 words,. Universal. ( Entreaty )



For the prompt ‘lotr, sigrid, queen!sigrid’. Triple fill. AU. 256 words. PG. Summary: Three ways Sigrid became queen. (  Hail, Sigrid Queen )

I’ve been reposting some ficlets to Dreamwidth and AO3 the last couple of days, one Dark Angel gen, baby’s first Sky High ficlets: two featuring Warren/Layla pining and one gen fic from Principal Power’s POV. I’ve still got a pile of fics to repost whenever I have the bandwidth. Trying to work out what I was thinking when it came to formatting and titles of documents in 2006 was a challenge..

Last night, I took advantage of the fact the BBC now has Battlestar Galactica on the iPlayer and I can watch that on my telly and watched the first part of the miniseries. I’m in – I thought I would be, but I was also curious, because I come at it having read some novelisations of the original series (don’t judge), not being able to see it when it first aired, but having picked up a lot by fannish osmosis.

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Since lockdown, I’ve made Saturday night movie night, and rewatched my The Hobbit and LOTR extended edition DVDs and now all my Batman movies (which don’t include the live action TV series, the animated stuff or Batfleck). The Lego Batman Movie capped it off very amusingly as it riffs off past iterations. I was going to list them in my preferred order. Indeed, the other week I was going to list some of what is wrong with Batman and Robin, (so much!) but Joel Schumacher recently passed away, so maybe now is not the time.

( Mainly about my emotional investment in the above. )

I meant to post yesterday, but sorting out stuff led to the figurative can of worms of needing to sort out another thing entirely. Oh well, I have two tidy piles of paper and I know what I’ll mostly be doing this afternoon. I also have to catch up on the Noughts + Crosses finale.

Brooklyn Nine-Nine 7.2 Captain Kim

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All4 tried to get me to watch The Jimmy Jab Games II (exciting), before I’d seen the next ep.

7.3 Pimmento

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Either/or Trope Meme Via muccamukk

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I reposted a fic on Sunday. Can’t tell yet if that’s a one-off or something I’ll do more regularly. It should be the latter as there are still plenty of ficlets of mine only available on Livejournal and ff.net.

Anyway, I have a TV show to discuss!

The Pale Horse 1/2 or is it Agatha Christie’s The Pale Horse?

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I posted two X-Men: Dark Phoenix ficlets over the weekend. One was ‘broken promise’ a Scott POV prompt fill responding to the events of the movie, and the other was ‘The Most Dangerous Player on the Tour’, a tennis AU take on the events of the movie. Jean being the player in question. This is what happens when I go to see X-Men Dark Phoenix on the closing weekend of the French Open. I’ve started many tennis AUs in my time, but never posted any before. I suspect no actual newspaper would publish anything like that, but it was fun translating characters and their mutations into the world of tennis.

I saw that people were doing a first lines meme just as I was about to post the above – dilemma! What do you do? I swept through my first lines of the last 10 fics on AO3. Some I liked more than others. I was chuffed that they were all from 2019.

Fine. I’ll do the last lines meme.

( As posted on AO3 )