shallowness

From Monday to today seems to have been swallowed up by a vortex. I’ve only had snatches online. Back on Sunday, I posted The Princess and the Dragons of Many Hues. PG. Original/Fairy Tale
Characters: A princess, her sisters, a king, a queen, a governess, servants, subjects, artists and a lover, and various dragons.
Summary: In a world where there are dragons of many hues, it took this princess to approach them.
(1,505 words.) Inspired by rather than a fill for the prompt: Fairy Tales, any, a dragon of a different colour.

( The writing thereof, film trailers and Pacific Rim feelings )

Later tonight, I’ll post my thoughts about the TV I’ve watched this week.

The fics:
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Thoughts:
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NCIS: LA 4.9 The Gold Standard

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I've also posted a couple of ficlets: ce matin, ce soir, hier soir The Musketeers (BBC), Teen, Aramis/Anne. Written for the prompt ‘The Musketeers (BBC), Aramis + any woman, Consent’; and An unexpected fit Fairy Tales (Cinderella), Universal. King, Queen, Cinderella, Prince. Cinderella/Prince. Written for the prompt ‘Fairy Tales, Cinderella/Prince, King & Queen POV - "This is the girl who fits the slipper!"’

I forgot to mention that both were prompts from comment_fic. They were both drafted in the week when the prompts appeared and subsequently edited. Form is important in both, the non-linear structure of the The Musketeers fic and the alternating POV in the Cinderella ficlet. The latter is set in a conglomeration of various versions of the fairy tale as opposed to one. I am thinking about posting the WIP meme, but I don't want to jinx the writing that is currently going on.

Fic and fanvid recs in the following fandoms: Alice (SyFy); Anthropomorfic; CSI/Lord of the Rings crossover; Fairy Tales; How to Steal a Million; Marvel Cinematic Universe; Multifandom; NCIS: LA; Once Upon a Time; Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides; Pitch Perfect; Push; Pushing Daisies; Tam Lin (book).

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If you enjoy any of these fanworks, please let their creators know in the hope that they're encouraged to produce more.

I went to see Beauty and the Beast (2016) with baggage - I saw the original movie at an impressionable age, adore it and used to have a Belle icon on my lj (I had an OUAT!Belle icon too, for that matter). It felt as though most of the rest of the audience hadn't been born when the first film came out, although I'm sure they grew up with it, or Emma Watson as Belle.

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Fics and fanvids in the following fandoms: Fire (The Seven Kingdoms trilogy); The Hunger Games; Inception; The Man from UNCLE (2015); Man of Steel; Marvel Cinematic Universe; Scorpion; The Secret Garden (1993 adaptation); Sherlock; Snow White and the Huntsman; Spy (2015); Stardust; Tin Man; True Grit; The Way, Way Back; and X-Men

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Oh dear, this was a stinker. ( spoilers )

I posted 10 fics to Archive of Our Own this year, all longer than drabbles. I had a flurry of writing X word ficlets and Three Sentence fics. That’s one more than last year! Most were ficlets, with two passing the thousand-word mark, both of which were gen. Things happened in my life this year that had a big bearing on my writing.

There was a huge flurry in April, partly because of Easter and partly because of what was going on in The Mentalist’s final season – I wrote more The Mentalist fic than any other fandom, and I’ve never written fic in the fandom before. A minority of these fics, less than I thought, were based on prompts.

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On Saturday night, I caught up with a B99 episode: 2.22 Det. Dave Majors
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I read Robin McKinley’s Rose Daughter, a retelling of Beauty and the Beast. It’s much, much better than her Beauty, another retelling of the fairy tale which it turns out was her first novel and, I’m glad, not the first book of hers that I read. I love the writing, the fantasy setting with its own rules of magic that the reader discovers alongside Beauty (whom I should have found more annoying than I did, considering her traits). I especially liked what McKinley did with Beauty’s older sisters. Recommended if you’re in a mood for a fairy tale retelling in a fantasy setting.

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Sorry for the old fic spam on Dreamwidth (and AO3) but it occurred to me on Thursday night that now was a good time to repost old fic. (That’s old fic that’s a decade old. Yikes.) Trying to work out what I was thinking in terms of formatting, titles and archiving a decade ago was a faff initially. I revised one and did a little more to another than correct typos. I was so prolific in 2005 and steeped in Dark Angel fandom, more so than I’ve ever been in the one fandom since as both a reader and writer, but since then I’ve been more multi-fannish and even then, alongside the DA fic, there were Harry Potter ficlets. Um, I may repost more fic over the next few days (but then again, I might not. I intended to post this yesterday.)

The starry dividers are a homage to the fact that I used them in fic in 2005, or at least the fic that were longer than vignettes.

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Fanvids in the following fandoms: The Addams Family movies; The Curse of the Golden Flower; Edge of Tomorrow; The Fall (2006); Gravity; LOTR (behind the scenes DVD extras) RPF; Lost in Translation; Maleficent; Only Lovers Left Alive; Ratatouille; Snow White and the Huntsman; Take Shelter and Twister

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