shallowness

I meant to post this earlier, but I've been busy with family stuff and wanted to prioritise posting about The West Wing. Last week, I got an e-mail from Dreamwidth saying,

'Your account has been randomly selected to receive someone's payment through our
sponsor-a-free-user program.'

So, I've got a paid account for a year. (I never got one here because IIRC there was an issue with PayPal and the last time I looked it seemed very complicated for me to pay from the UK, so I lived with 15 icons.) This means more icons - so I've also been distracted by uploading old ones I used here and at LJ - and maybe polls.

Just a coupe of recs to round off the year.

Speed

Chocolate Cake and Cucumbers: Missy (Jack/Annie drabble)

Context is everything for this curtainfic.

Ugly Betty

Sunshine and Seawater: yahtzee63 (Betty/Daniel ficlet)

Totally unseasonal, but it’s got the same warmth of heart and sympathy for the show as ths writer’s fics always have.

As you can see, I haven’t got round to reading anything from Yuletide yet.

If you enjoy any of these fanworks or others that I’ve recced (see tags below), please encourage their creators by letting them know. Also thank you to everyone who recs regularly, from which I often find fics to read and vids to watch etc, even if it can take me years to get round to doing so.

I rewatched all the fanvids I recced this year yesterday (and edited all the typos in those posts) and they all stood up to it. I wanted to point to one again, Dream by Gwyn, about fannish love, really, because since I first watched it, we lost Chadwick Boseman, so every time he appeared as T’Chaila/Black Panther, it caught at me. I suspect that this is a vid that will give you something different every time you watch it.

Yesterday, I committed three sentence fic at comment_fic

Any, any/any, love, filled with Dawson's Creek, Pacey/Joey

Any, any/any, do you dream of me, filled with Dawson's Creek, Pacey/Joey

I fell down a Dawson's Creek rabbit hole on YouTube this week, you see.

I also recieved a funny Molly Hooper fill: the third wish from thesmallhobbit.

I know everyone is linking to interesting Wonder Woman stuff, but if you haven't seen it, here's a list of heart-warming ways young children have responded to Wonder Woman via Digial Spy.

I meant to post this when reviewing Salazar's revenge, but here's an excellent idol_reflection essay on (Captain) Jack Sparrow, based on the first three Pirates movies – worth reading the comments for a look at Jack as a trickster: Captain Jack Sparrow - A Legend in His Own Mind by The Stowaway.

And via musesfool The Chrisening of Hollywood from Vanity Fair - an amusing take on the Four Chrises phenomenon here.

Getting my 'fannish year' meme out of the way - adapted from my usual and others I've seen around.

( spoilers for British TV shows )

Very nice notification e-mails in my inbox this week!

tigriswolf wrote the following two commentfics for my prompts

For the prompt Harry Potter, Neville Longbottom/Luna Lovegood, 'accidental garden manpain' this clever ficlet

For the prompt
a proposal from a third party’s point of view this charming Luna/Draco (yes, I know!)

If I had a time turner there'd also be a post about TV, but I don't, so expect a lot of posting at some later date.

The other night, there was comment-ficcing. The theme was six word fics. The two things are not unrelated.

I wrote

DCU, Steve/Darcy, movie night

Man of Steel/Superman, Clark/Lois, Fly Me to the Moon, (x4)

Push, Cassie Holmes (x5)

I prompted
Any, any, tennis and got
Veronica Mars, Veronica/Logan (x4) by leni_ba

and Star Trek Deep Space Nine, Kira Nerys, passion which was filled by daria 234.

(And A Movie?)

What unexpectedly good news about Community.

So, after I finish watching my season 4 Arrested Development DVDs, I'm definitely watching season 3 of Community.

Den of Geek has been so on point/relevant to my interests recently.

I know I've posted a lot of links to it before, but recently there's been In praise of Lord of the Rings' DVD extras, which, among other things, neatly gets at why I was so pleased to see Richard Taylor on An Unexpected Journey's appendices.

Furthermore, I agreed with Why the discussion of 12 Years a Slave needs to refocus, which I suppose is more directed at chattering entertainment media circles than film fans, but is a reminder that when I left the cinema after seeing that film I was overwhelmed and it's the film and what it depicts that's the point, not just awards, and that will be recognised for years.

There's also been its underappreciated films series (although I appreciated 2006's Stranger than Fiction plenty and I do not know how I could appreciate Sky High more. SARKY VOICE IN MY HEAD: Make costumes and re-enact it? COMMON SENSE:Not a good idea given the stunts) which has mainly pointed to Asian films that I barely knew existed.


I watched Brooklyn Nine-Nine again last night and was chuckling throughout, but don't have more to say about it. Next week, it'll slip to 'catch-up' or maybe '+1' territory, though, because THE GOOD WIFE IS BACK.