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Recs 3/?

2026-05-05T16:26:15Z

Fic recs in the following fandoms: Arrival, Belle (2013), Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries, The Mentalist and Original works.

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Four more fills for 3SF 2026

2026-05-03T14:03:02Z

More ficlets: all original fiction. Anything over 100 words long will also be posted at AO3.

Your best fantasy. Original fic, OCs. 88 words. Universal. Written for the prompt ‘Any, any, your best fantasy’ at the Three Sentence Ficathon 2026.

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first, last, only. Original fic, OFC/OMC. 111 words. Universal. Written for the prompt ‘any, any, when you hold me, it holds me together / and you kiss me in a way that's gonna screw me up forever’ at the Three Sentence Ficathon 2026.

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The Pact. Original fic, OFC/OMC. 161 words. PG. Written for the prompt ‘Any, any, five kisses.’ at the Three Sentence Ficathon 2026. Double fill.

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Objecting. Original fic, OCs. PG. 102 words. Written for the prompt ‘Any, any, objecting at a wedding’ at the Three Sentence Ficathon 2026.

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Movies seen in April

2026-05-01T16:52:09Z

On streaming: How To Lose A Popularity Contest is a really good high-concept high school romcom with a loose literary connection ( Read more... )

In the cinema: I went to see You, Me and Tuscany, and it about lived up/down to expectations. (Look, it’s tough, here I am with the time and space to go to the cinema and it’s still mainly horror and kids’ films that are on.) ( Read more... )

I don’t think my takeout from the The Devil Wears Prada 2 trailer was meant to be, ‘Yes, but have you checked Miranda Priestly out for early-onset dementia?’ But it was. But I did take advantage of the fact that The Devil Wears Prada was being streamed by Four to rewatch it. ( Read more... ) So, yes, I plan to go see the sequel, even though I think this habit of releasing sequels 15 years and more later is beyond ridiculous.

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Mountaineering and planning your future

2026-04-29T07:22:52Z

The Other Bennet Sister

Chapter 9

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Chapter 10

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Spy stuff and family stuff

2026-04-24T18:15:57Z

Butterfly - 1.5 Seoul

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Lakes – imagined and real

2026-04-22T07:08:56Z

The Other Bennet Sister double-bill

(Sorry, I’ve realised my brain has been stuck on calling it ‘The Other Bennet Girl’, which is wrong.)

Chapter 7

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Chapter 8

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Further fills at the Three Sentence Ficathon

2026-04-19T13:27:18Z

Ficlets: all original fiction, probably all rated universal. Anything over 100 words will also be posted at AO3. (Yeah, still filling prompts.)

Drifting away. Original fic, OCs, 131 words. Written for the prompt ‘Any, any, drifting away’ at the Three Sentence Ficathon 2026.

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Impossible, Original fic, OC. Second person POV. 74 words. Written for the prompt ‘Any, Any, Delicious aromas wafting from the kitchen, which is impossible because you live alone.’

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Silvery moonlight, Original fic, OC, 56 words. Written for the prompt ‘Any, Any, Silvery moonlight.’ at the Three Sentence Ficathon 2026.

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Avoidance and chasing

2026-04-17T07:23:11Z

Miss Scarlet and the Duke - 3.5 – The Heir

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@Pemberley

2026-04-16T07:00:34Z

The Other Bennet Sister - 1.6/Chapter 6

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Bonnets and a London ball

2026-04-12T14:29:34Z

The Other Bennet Sister

1.4/Chapter 4

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1.5/Chapter 5

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Fic: Another three fills for the Three Sentence Ficathon 2026

2026-04-11T16:11:37Z

Ficlets: all original fiction, probably a PG rating, if that. Anything over 100 words will also be posted at AO3. (This was meant to be my last post, but I've filled a few more prompts.)

Sorceress’s Apprentice, Original fic, OCs, 79 words. Written for the prompt ‘any, any, sorceress's apprentice’ at the Three Sentence Ficathon 2026.

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Where the trees breathe and the water remembers, Original fic, OC, 116 words. Written for the prompt ‘any, any, where the trees breathe and the water remembers’ at the Three Sentence Ficathon 2026.

Trigger warning: passing reference to the Covid-19 pandemic.

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More than a reflection, Original fic, OCs, 84 words. Written for the prompt ‘Any, any, I’m more than a reflection on you’ [sic] at the Three Sentence Ficathon 2026.

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Meet the in-laws!

2026-04-10T19:57:08Z

Butterfly - 1.4 Pohang

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Acting up

2026-04-04T08:05:27Z

Miss Scarlet and the Duke - 3.4 Bloodline

I got access to U on my TV set! Which makes it easier to watch last thing before going to bed.

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The Other Bennet Sister, episodes 1-3

2026-04-02T07:16:46Z

I succumbed to this. Succumbed? Well, I was a bit of a hold-out, I haven’t read the book it’s based on. I have a somewhat less than straightforward relationship with Austen derivative works, and I say that as someone who’s written fanfic. I might be prejudiced, but I did think the best lines in the first two episodes were lifted from Austen. I also think you’ll get maximum enjoyment from this if you are familiar with P&P and Austen’s oeuvre.

But eh, every episode is half an hour long, and as I found with Cardiac Arrest, a darker comedy drama, that’s refreshing, and makes it easy for episodes to slip down. What follows was watched in one sitting, more or less, which counts as bingeing for me.

1.1

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1.2 and 1.3

I’m grouping these two episodes together, because I can’t remember what happened when.

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Making Mary the endearingly awkward heroine (Ella Bruccoleri’s face shows all the feelings) is working, and the meta is interesting, even if it sometimes rubs against the purist in me. The purist that would probably be fine with modern day AUs. And yes, there’s a part of me that worries that being a purist about Austen makes me a Mary.

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Movies seen in March

2026-04-01T07:43:33Z

It was only one movie, and that was Project Hail Mary. The trailers felt very much like a presentation of the 12A blockbusters Hollywood has for us this year. I’m glad that I first saw the Dune Part Three one in the cinema, featuring ( Read more... ) It was followed by another Zendaya flick, sorry, the latest Spider-Man movie, ( spoilers for trailer ) and then I remembered that I haven’t seen the last Spidey film and was reminded of my distanced relationship with most Avengers movies these days.

As for Project Hail Mary, although I felt I’d been stalked by promo clips for it going in, that wasn’t a problem when I watched it. The reductionist take is it’s Gravity meets The Martian only even goofier. Well, it is directed by Lord and Miller, after all. It’s entertaining, in a word. Gosling has the chops and charm to carry it. It looked fab, I chuckled, I was engaged, but no more. ( some general spoilers )

I have time over the next week and a half to go to the cinema, but it looks as though the choices are mainly kids films and horror. (I’ve seen the trailer for The Drama, yet another Zendaya film, and based on that, I don’t think I want to watch the whole thing to find out what her character was meant to have done.)

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Fic: Three more fills for 3 Sentence Ficathon 2026

2026-03-29T13:50:07Z

Ficlets: all original fiction, the first two are probably rated universal, and the third probably PG. Anything over 100 words will also be posted at AO3.

Say twenty-six, twenty-seven years later, Original fic, OCs, 76 words. Future fic. Second person POV. Written for the prompt ‘Any, Any, six-seven’ at the Three Sentence Ficathon 2026.

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Key change, Original fic, OC, 71 words. Written for the prompt ‘Any, any, life is a song’ at the Three Sentence Ficathon 2026.

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Indictment, Original fic, OCs. 111 words. Written for the prompt ‘My songs know what you did in the dark’ at the Three Sentence Ficathon 2026.

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Blended family bonding time!!

2026-03-25T07:59:17Z

Butterfly - 1.3 Busan

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In other news, I was saddened to learn that Nicholas Brendon had passed away (so soon after James Van Der Beek, who became famous around the same time, a time when I was becoming an adult along with the characters that they played, and after Michelle Trachtenberg also passed.)

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Finale time

2026-03-19T07:47:59Z

The Night Manager - 2.6

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Fic: Three fills for Three Sentence Ficathon 2026

2026-03-15T14:55:12Z

Ficlets: one DCU, one original fiction and one Hart of Dixie. Anything over 100 words will also be posted at AO3 and, where suitable, ff.net.

Trip the Dark Fantastic, DCU, Catwoman/Batman, 97 words. Written for the prompt ‘Any, any, It's you and me forever dancing in the dark’ at the Three Sentence Ficathon 2026.

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Reunion, Original fic, OFC/OMC, 136 words, (second person POV), teen? Written for the prompt 'Any, any, meet me in the afterglow’ at the Three Sentence Ficathon 2026.

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Like mother, like son, Hart of Dixie, Zoe/Wade ER, 74 words, (future fic, kidfic). Written for the prompt ‘Any, Any, Bandaging a wound’ at the Three Sentence Ficathon 2026.

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(It's just a coincidence that I'm posting the last one today.)

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Mdlle Scarlet en France

2026-03-14T08:51:02Z

Miss Scarlet and the Duke - 3.3 Hotel St Marc

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The father and daughter spy show

2026-03-09T07:44:31Z

Butterfly - 1.2 Daegu

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daddy issues (and HR issues)

2026-03-05T07:54:46Z

The Night Manager - 2.5

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Miss Scarlet and the past

2026-03-03T08:05:15Z

Miss Scarlet and the Duke - 3.2 Arabella

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Movies seen in February

2026-03-01T08:11:35Z

At the cinema, it was just Crime 101. You could point out that it stars Thor, a Hulk, a Catwoman and a Joker, which tells you something about movies these days. You could also fairly say that it’s very much after Heat (detective hunts a high-end thief in LA), but ( (spoiler? General, positive impressions) )

I watched Memento for the first time on TV last night. ( Impressions, not spoilers )

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Recs 2/?

2026-02-28T13:44:48Z

Fanvid and fanfiction recs in the following fandoms: Everything, Everywhere All At Once, Farscape, Harry Potter, Marvel Cinematic Universe and Twisters.

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