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Fic recs in the following fandoms: 10 Things I Hate About You, Harry Potter, Marvel Cinematic Universe and The Secret Garden/Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
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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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Update on reposting fic
Aug. 27th, 2023 09:07 amI have managed to repost more fic here and at AO3 over recent days, and to update the text on LJ and ff.net where necessary.
What agents do Jake 2.0, G. 228 words. Jake Foley. Vague spoilers for ‘The Ultimate Human Upgrade’. Summary: Jake's clearance was low, now it's high, really high. (June 2006)
How to hurt Mr Invulnerable Sky High, G. Will Stronghold, (Layla Williams/Warren Peace). Post-movie double drabble. Summary: Mr Invulnerable? Will Stronghold’s not that guy. (June 2006)
A flyer expects Sky High, PG-13. Josie Stronghold (Josie Stronghold/Steve Stronghold). Pre-movie, 1,576 words. Summary: She literally floated through her pregnancy. (July 2016.)
Parallax Firefly/Harry Potter, PG. Jayne, Luna, River. Spoilers up to 'Objects in Space' and for HBP. 432 words. Summary: Simply put, it is the apparent shift of an object against a background due to a change in observer position. [Wikipedia] (September 2006)
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What agents do Jake 2.0, G. 228 words. Jake Foley. Vague spoilers for ‘The Ultimate Human Upgrade’. Summary: Jake's clearance was low, now it's high, really high. (June 2006)
How to hurt Mr Invulnerable Sky High, G. Will Stronghold, (Layla Williams/Warren Peace). Post-movie double drabble. Summary: Mr Invulnerable? Will Stronghold’s not that guy. (June 2006)
A flyer expects Sky High, PG-13. Josie Stronghold (Josie Stronghold/Steve Stronghold). Pre-movie, 1,576 words. Summary: She literally floated through her pregnancy. (July 2016.)
Parallax Firefly/Harry Potter, PG. Jayne, Luna, River. Spoilers up to 'Objects in Space' and for HBP. 432 words. Summary: Simply put, it is the apparent shift of an object against a background due to a change in observer position. [Wikipedia] (September 2006)
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Parallax, Firefly/Harry Potter, PG, Jayne, Luna, River, 432 words. First posted: September 2006. Summary: Simply put, it is the apparent shift of an object against a background due to a change in observer position. [Wikipedia]
Notes: With thanks to lusmeitli for the beta. All idiocies and weirdness are mine, but the characters are not, and I make no profit from them. Spoilers up to 'Objects in Space' and for HBP. Inspired by Air’s ‘Kelly Watch The Stars’.
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Notes: With thanks to lusmeitli for the beta. All idiocies and weirdness are mine, but the characters are not, and I make no profit from them. Spoilers up to 'Objects in Space' and for HBP. Inspired by Air’s ‘Kelly Watch The Stars’.
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Return to Sanditon
Aug. 21st, 2023 04:05 pmI think this is currently just available on ITVX, and will be aired on ITV later.
3.01
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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.
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.
Fanfiction recs in the following fandoms (and one original fic rec): Heist Society, Uprooted, What Maisie Knew (2012) and Willow (the film).
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RoP: mutual aid
Jun. 3rd, 2023 02:32 pmWorth reading this blog post by Conrad Brunstrom, ‘The Irish Accents in “The Rings of Power”’ which analyses the discomfort I had about the above (spoilers for the first episode.)
The Rings of Power 1.3 ‘Adar’
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The Rings of Power 1.3 ‘Adar’
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Rings of Power
May. 20th, 2023 01:24 pmA while after everyone else, otherwise known as last Saturday night, as I’ve now got Amazon Prime, I sat down to watch The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. (Background, I’ve read The Silmarillion once, many, many years ago. I knew it was the most expensive TV show made, it got positive reviews, three of the lead actors were Welsh-speaking Welsh people (one of whom is Morfydd Clark, so she could probably concentrate on learning other skills rather than pronunciation) and I should treat it like expensive fanfiction.
1.1 A Shadow of the Past
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