shallowness

I spent the end of March posting a lot of recs at het_reccers before it came to an end. I may repost them at a more lesiurely pace at het_reccers, which asks for slightly different information). What I’ve learned: to stop being precious about the content of my recs, which may have been why my reccing at the comms dropped off - when I'm reccing here, I'm much more chilled because it's my space; it’s easier to post a few recs in a go than masses because of fiddly HTML; I liked a lot of het fic from Yuletide 2015.

Also, if anyone who, like me, liked Taraji P. Henson as Joss Carter in Person of Interest, saw the trailer for ‘Proud Mary’ and thought ‘Ooh’, profit from my experience: it’s dull. You're really better off watching a couple of PoI eps. Kudos to whoever made the trailer, but it makes the film look way better than it is.

Thirdly, I posted a ficlet yesterday: Not Quite a Gulp (Sherlock, U. Molly Hooper (Molly/Sherlock). 125 words. Set during ‘The Final Problem’). I wrote it the weekend before last, when the prompt 'magpie' made me think of the scenario, let it rest, got the idea for the title and posted it. I hope to post a few more ficlets over the coming days as a sort of spring cleaning because since finishing the reccing, I’ve been looking over what I thought were snippets, polishing them and writing new bits and bobs.

Fourthly, I intend to play TV catch up today so perhaps I’ll be posting about the results of that.

It's turned out to be a snow day, and my mind has turned to reccing because [Bad username or site: het_reccers @ LJ"] is winding up at the end of the month.

Here are some fanfiction, fanvid and fanart recs in the following fandoms: The Bourne Legacy, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Galaxy Quest, Harry Potter, Independence Day, The Lake House, Lord of the Rings, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Mr and Mrs Smith, Multifandom, Sherlock and Tam Lin (Pamela Dean.) ( Read more... )

Collateral - Episode 1

State of the nation drama from a proper playwright? ( Read more... )

Next of Kin

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No time to discuss TV news of note.

Maybe a Black Widow movie is inching closer into existence. I read this at The Guardian, squeaked, had to try to explain why…and it was a squeak, not squeeing.

As to the news, I want something more definite before I let myself squee, and I don’t think they need to wait to see how Captain Marvel does before getting this going. If it happens, it’ll be interesting to see if they’ll pull in other Avengers (Bruce or Clint?) and what size role they get – although ( spoilers for ) Homecoming and Ragnarok.

In the other (British) Avengers news, Shane ‘Iron Man 3’ Black and his writing partner are working on a reboot of The Avengers. My thoughts: don’t do what the movie did (although Fiennes was good casting, it was a mess). And underlying that, there's great wariness. I know extreme reboots have worked, but I think you need to understand the era in, well, England, to get it right, and the tone of The Avengers is easy to get wrong.

Next of Kin episode 1

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I’ve been writing very self-indulgent stuff of late, most of which is probably never going to get posted. I was planning to post an edited WIP meme, just to record that some of those fics had been started, to prove that I’d been writing more than I’d posted and perhaps in the hope of it encouraging me to continue to the point where I’d post one of them. I hope to post more than one of them eventually.

Anyway, what happened instead is that this week a few prompts got me writing ficlets:

All dessed up and nowhere to go Christmas-set original micro fiction. (308 words.) The POV and tone came to me when I saw the prompt and the ending as I wrote it. No, it’s not fanfic, but it feels apt at the close of the year Wonder Woman got her movie.

Then autumnia pointed me to the three sentence ficathon, which I’d missed out on, and two prompts made me think of Layla and Warren.

Call Me Sky High. Universal. Layla/Warren. (106 words.) Written for the prompt ‘Any, any, mouthful of names you used to breathe on me’.

Where Beauty Wears a Mask Sky High. Universal. Warren/Layla. (90 words.) Written for the prompt ‘Any, any, where beauty wears a mask’. Can be read as a companion piece to ‘Call Me’.

I hope to do my annual writing meme in the next couple of days.

On Tuesday I posted my first new fic of the year and the first one for six months: Extreme Action, a Sky High, Layla/Warren futurefic. It was first drafted in July 2015, which wasn’t a wonderful time for me. Having a title that would suit an early 90s action flick better than a fluffy tropefic appealed to me, apparently. Anyway, a couple of months ago, as I was doing looking through some drafts, I found that this one didn’t need much work – usually I have stalled before coming up with an ending. In the editing process, it passed the thousand word mark, et voila.

For completeness on Livejournal: this spring, I’ve also reposted the following fics at Dreamwidth and A03. ( Read more... )

On Thursday night, I fully intended to watch Brooklyn Nine-Nine, but I sat down to look at books online about twenty minutes before and when I checked the time next, it was six minutes past nine and, well, I'll catch up and write about it later.

Earlier in the week I did watch a whole episode of Suits (6.11) online, i.e. I went and looked for it because it airs at 10pm on a Sunday night, which is not a time I’m going to attempt to start to watch a show.

My previous association with Suits has been fragmentary, growing from a flurry of Harvey/Donna fics on my friends list or het_reccers. Oh yes, I'm so far down the fandom journey that I've read fic without consuming the canon properly - reading outlines or reviews, watching clips or vids will do to give me a grasp of things. Sometimes it turns into my watching the show/film properly. I did try to watch Suits, understood the concept (but the way it all revolved around Harvey and Mike, pretty though they are, didn't hook me and the lawyering didn't either. I grasped that Donna was awesome and enjoyed watching Gina Torres, but I don't think I watched a full episode. In the last one I saw, the music editor was really into the xx (which I understand) and Harvey was in a relationship with a single mother?

Anyway, a TV guide said something about ( spoilers for 6.11 )

In other news, Festivids went live more than several days ago and I have many new vids to watch.

Title: The Sketch
Fandom: Harry Potter
Rating: Mature
Characters/Pairing: Rolf Scamander/Luna Lovegood
Summary: Rolf is looking through the sketches his colleague Luna has been drawing and finds something very unprofessional.

Disclaimer: Not mine, don’t profit.
Author's Note: 917 words. Written for the comment-fic prompt. ‘Any, any, nude.’

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