shallowness

This month, I've posted a few fics, mainly ficlets:

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It's an appropriate day to do some shipposting, right?

Selina Kyle/Bruce Wayne AKA Catwoman/Batman (most iterations of Batman, but most recently Gotham).

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Phew. If I do more shipposting, it's likely to be less extensive.

This is inspired by the 'What were you into 10 years ago?' meme/question. Ten years ago, I wasn't on Dreamwidth yet, but I posted the following at Livejournal.

Candlelight, Sky High, G. Layla/Warren (established relationship). 300 words. Written (self-indulgently) for 2009’s Epiphany wishkiss ficathon. Summary: Layla helps Warren close up at The Paper Lantern. First posted: 18 January 2009.

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The fics

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The (selected) questions:

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B99 5.7 Two Turkeys

E4 has stopped showing the episodes in double bills for now, which was discombobulating to find out. ( Read more... )

At the start of the week, before I went away (to be sleep deprived in a place where I had no internet access), I posted the following:

This is Not for You. Good Wives. PG. Josephine March, Professor Bhaer. 244 words. Modern day AU. Inspired by the prompt 'writing a book' at comment_fic. Summary: Jo March meets a critic at a literary festival.

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Amaze The Mentalist. Universal. Teresa Lisbon/Patrick Jane. 398 words. Written for the prompt ‘Any, any female, she never usually wears dresses, so when she does, the effect is amazing’ at comment_fic.

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Atonement Gotham. Teen. Selina Kyle, Alfred Pennyworth, Bruce Wayne. 183 words. Summary: The first time she goes to the Batcave.
Author's Note: Written as futurefic during season 2. Might be jossed (as I haven’t seen beyond season 2.

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There are more ficlets that I intend to post once I get back into the swing of things.

I haven't been posting or around much because my Freeview box played up (I thought it was my remote, but no), which means I'm still catching up on TV. Furthermore, I fell down a figurative rabbit hole (drawerfic) and I'm not sure I'm out yet. And the warnings for this show made it not the sort of show you want to be eating along to. But anyway, there has been snow in my neck of the woods, and I got around to watching this.

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The one advantage of not having caught up with it until now is that I have less time to wait for part 2. And then after that...

I've just checked. We have a title, but no publication date for book 4.

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Normally, I don’t feel the need to address that this is a fannish space, it just is, and I rarely comment on non-fannish stuff. But the news was horrible (and I have a real grown-up problem to contend with at some point, but that feels like privileged whining.) So I went back and forth on whether to even mention it last night and posted nothing. Below, then, fannish stuff, as per usual.

I posted some fanfic at the end of last week. the moon’s daughter (Gotham, Selina/Bruce futurefic, PG). Although other iterations of Catwoman informed the fic, I wanted the backstory Gotham offers for this fic. Why have they stopped airing Gotham in the UK, by the way? I didn’t know if the two different halves melded together until I found what I think is a nice bridge for them. I was too lazy/precious to make it a triple drabble.

I also wrote Tri ci bach (BtVS, Anya/Giles, post s6, PG) which I admit is self-indulgent and a bit revealing. In both cases, it has been lovely to get feedback.

Both fics were written when I should have been working on the ending of a much longer fic. Ahem.

I was toying with dropping Electric Dreams, but then I realised Tuppence Middleton was in The Commuter, so I stuck with it, and I’m glad I did. ( Read more... )

As for the Strictly results...

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I saw ITT, though, and ( Read more... ) I am trying to withstand the excited build-up to Movie Night, but then again, I should probably just embrace it. If there is no nod to La La Land, I don’t know my Strictly.

At the start of the week, it was twenty years since ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’ was first published. After an initial ‘eek’ at that, even though I was fine with realising OK Computer is twenty years old also, it’s been interesting to read about how people have grown up with the series, and with it being such a phenomenon it doesn’t feel overblown to say that or to think about it’s influence in shaping social attitudes. There was the issue of the series getting a generation to read. There are people who read the series for whom it wasn’t a gateway drug to other books, for example, although I hope it got more people into reading more widely than would otherwise have happened, and it’s certainly a factor in the explosion of geek culture and the rise of the fantastic.

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I am behind on B99 as someone called me while I was watching it last week and I never got caught up and so didn't watch the latest episode last night. I could have got caught up instead of watching NCIS:LA...however, I saw the last two episodes of season 2, 'Imposters' and 'Familia'.

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And I have seen Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar's Revenge, and when I have time, I will type up a full response, but it was much like the other sequels to the brilliant Curse of the Black Pearl, entertaining in fits, not as good as the original and best, although trading on goodwill for it. I didn't stay to see if there was a scene after the credits, but I'll probably buy it on DVD, because I'm a completist and it did nothing to put me right off the franchise a la Jason Bourne and The Huntsman Winter's War.

The trailers for the coming blockbusters made me feel like it'll be slim pickings this summer. I'll be looking to the counter-programming.