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More fanfiction recs for the following fandoms: Man of Steel, Marvel Cinematic Universe/The West Wing, The Memoirs of Lady Trent, The Night Manager and an original fic rec.

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Sorry for not posting, I got distracted by the Olympics! But here, have some fanfiction recs from the following fandoms: Gilmore Girls, The Lord of the Rings, The Rings of Power, Spinning Silver and The Vast of Night.

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Fanfiction and fanvid recs in the following fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Rings of Power, The Sherwood Ring, Spinning Silver and Twister.

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Fanfic and fanvid recs in the following fandoms: Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Moulin Rouge!, Sliding Doors and The Wheel Of Time (TV).

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On the bright side, I wrote more fic than last year! I wrote a Hart of Dixie ficlet, a Harry Potter three-sentence fic and posted a one-shot for Sanditon in March. (It makes for a total of 2,694 words.)

On the Table, Hart of Dixie, AnnaBeth/Lavon, post 2.13 ‘Lovesick Blues'. Summary: After AnnaBeth, er, went into Lavon’s place. Teen, 290 words.
Read it here on DW
or at AO3

we rise together. Harry Potter, Luna, Ginny, Neville, set during ‘Deathly Hallows’). Written for the threesentenceficathon prompt ‘any, any OT3, thinking, feeling, doing’. 120 words.
Read it here on DW
or at AO3

Cub, Sanditon, Leonora Colbourne, Mrs Wheatley, Alexander Colbourne, Augusta Markham. Set before season 2, assume season 2 spoilers. Summary: How Leonora came to have short hair. Universal, 2,284 words.
Read it here on DW
or at AO3.

( About that. Not long. Skipped the questions again. )

Last recs post of the year: fanfiction and fanvids in the following fandoms: The Cutting Edge, Holiday (1938), The Lord of the Rings, Scorpion, Star Trek: Enterprise, The Thin Man, Veronica Mars and The Wheel of Time (TV). None of them are from this year's Yuletide, although some may be from past Yuletides.

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Fanfiction recs in the following fandoms: Cairo Time, The Graceling Realm series, The Lord of the Rings/The Silmarillion, The Martian, and original fic.

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Fanfiction recs in the following fandoms: Dredd, Legally Blonde (BtVS fusion), Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Sanditon, The Star of Kazan and Star Trek: The Next Generation/Harry Potter

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I reposted a ficlet over the weekend. Home (Smallville) G. Whitney Fordman (background Whitney/Lana, Clark/Lana). 250 words. Summary: Whitney never got to find out who sent him the copy of The Torch.

I’m on holiday and realised I should try to repost some fic here and at AO3 (past experience tells me I might run out of steam before I run out of fic to repost. I’ve been trying to do this since I joined Dreamwidth.) This ficlet is from the time when I was posting way more fic (June 2006), but it’s only been available on my LJ and ff.net. I probably said on the former that, because I was shipping Chloe/Whitney then, in my mind, it was Chloe who sent Whitney the copy of The Torch, but there’s no canonical justification for that, and it would have been a nice gesture for anyone from Smallville to do so.

In other news, Sanditon series 3 will be on ITVX this week! Despite its ridiculousness, there’s no denying I’m invested.

Over the past few weeks, I watched In The Heights (on Amazon Prime), and I enjoyed its energy and dancing a lot, but…there wasn’t really a standout song, and it was probably too long with too much crammed into it. Did it need the framing device AND the timestamp? ( spoiler? )

I loved Everything, Everywhere All At Once. It's a multiverse movie about a Chinese-American mother with a grown daughter and caring for her father living a disappointing life! And, obviously, MICHELLE YEOH stars in it. (I bet everyone doing a fight scene in this film practiced very hard.) I was so impressed by how clear its throughlines were (Ke Huy Quan did a particularly fine job) and delighted by how odd it was ( examples ) It’s surely one of the oddest Oscar-bothering movies ever.

I also watched Dune, and while it is a movie best seen on a big screen, I couldn’t when it was out, and that’s that. I enjoyed it a lot and hope to see part 2 (in the cinema). The production values were immaculate and it did a fairly good job of keeping the plot strands clear given that visions played such a big part. I've always avoided 'Dune' in the past because of a gut reaction to the concept of sand worms. ( spoiler? ) I simultaneously liked how Villeneuve handles communication and thought there were some mumbly bits. If I watch it again, I’m putting on the subtitles (and delighting in the fact that that’s an option for me.)

And then I went and checked and, yeah, Rebecca Ferguson isn't old enough to biologically be Timothee Chalamet's mother. Oscar Isaac is barely old enough to biologically be Timothee Chalamet's father, and even if Chalamet was playing younger than his age and blah de blah far future ageing technologies for the Great Houses, that's just typical Hollywood.

I’ve also just read and really enjoyed ‘From Darkness Into Light’, the follow-up to The Memoirs of Lady Trent. I loved that it wrestled with the implications of the big reveal in ‘In The Sanctuary of Wings’ for the generation after. Audrey was a chip off the old block (i.e. Grandmama Isabella. I could have done with more of her mother.) I enjoyed the narrative device of telling the story via various media – especially the translations (and the footnotes/commentary). Having been slightly disappointed by ‘In The Sanctuary of Wings’ (not the big reveal, but the scaffolding around it, I suppose), I loved how this follow-up expanded the world.

Fic recs in the following fandoms: Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Harry Potter, Jupiter Ascending, Original fic and Veronica Mars.

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