shallowness

As I haven’t been watching any TV that I’d post about (I will get around to it, and with the bank holiday, this week will be lighter), I reposted a fic yesterday!

Sweet (I could be your favorite girl), The O.C. PG. 368 words. Kaitlin/Spencer. Summary: Over the years, she’s been getting better and better at having things her own way. Fluff. Established relationship. Future fic. (First posted in April 2007.

I only lightly edited it, although I wanted to do something about the first two paragraphs and all the uses of ‘nibbling’, but it would have been too much. Wow, that was only a month after I last reposted a fic.

Apparently The Wheel of Time is cancelled (is it my fault for not getting around to watch the third season yet?) :( In possibly good news, I saw that pictures from Zootopia 2 were released. Admittedly, sequels don’t have a great record (especially of original properties), but I am excited about more adventures with Judy and Nick and exploring the world further. It will all come down to the script. While I get it that they won’t be developing the ship, and that's fine, that's what fic is for, I don’t want to see any love interests for either.

I reposted a ficlet yesterday: That Cooper Family Christmas Feeling, The O.C. PG. 280 words. Kaitlin, gen. Summary: Alt!world Kaitlin’s Christmas Eve night. AU. Post 4.07. ‘The Christmukk-huh?’ (March 2007)

Very seasonal! (Or not.) Very niche, as it expands a bit on the alt world Ryan and Taylor visited. Lightly edited from the original version.

Étoile 1.1 The Swap

Me a few weeks ago: Why is YouTube promoting this trailer at me?

Me last week: OH, it’s an Amy Sherman-Palladino project about ballet (never did get to see Bunheads) on Prime.

Me after watching the trailer: Oh, I am so watching this.

This is me after watching the first episode.

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Over the past few weeks, I’ve posted nine threesentence fills in four batches, all rated Universal or PG at most. ( Links and a little bit of meta. )

There’s no point in doing the fic writing meme separately. The only fanfiction that I posted last year can be found here. ( About that. )

My version of the fandom meme

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Monday was a bank holiday, so I reposted a fic: Career Day, Sky High, G. Magenta, Layla, Warren, Larry, Zach. Canon pairings, Warren/Layla implied. Magenta’s POV. 2,348 words. Summary: ‘Plan for a Super Tomorrow…Today!’ Magenta-style. (February 2007)

I added a clause for clarification and deleted a couple of spaces. In the notes from 2007, I had written, ‘This is another case of a ficlet becoming something longer.’ Now I’m boggling at the ‘another case’. As it’s over 2,000 words, I’m delighted this will bump up my word count average on AO3. Rereading it, I was pretty happy with it, as I think I used Magenta’s POV effectively, although I suppose my notes don’t reflect how important Magenta and Layla’s friendship is to the fic, but I was able to add a tag for that at AO3.

Also, I watched Fallout 1.1 The End

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I hope everyone had a merry Christmas and all that. (Mine has been unfortunately sleep deprived.)

It occurred to me I had the time and space during the build-up to Christmas to get back to reposting fic (I’m not writing any new fanfiction), so I reposted a couple here and on AO3.

Je me souviens, every single thing, The O.C., PG, Taylor/Ryan implied. Coda to 4.04 ‘The Metamorphosis’. 169 words. Summary: I remember every single thing. (February 2007).

Do Atwoods dream of French dictionaries? The O.C., PG. Ryan, Kirsten. Past Ryan/Marissa, Ryan/Taylor implied. 380 words. Missing scene for 4.04 ‘The Metamorphosis’. Summary: Ryan had a weird dream. Coffee and Kirsten don’t really help. (February 2007)

I don’t have much to say about them. Looking back, I think they’re slight, but they show how taken I was by Taylor/Ryan in season 4 of The OC. (I had an absolute HTML-related nightmare updating the masterlist after ‘Je me souviens’.)

Strictly Christmas Special

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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 watched The Masked Singer last night, and was totally surprised by the reveal (so it’s one out of three), but I have a guess I’m sure of and am noting it for posterity. ( Spoiler/Guess )

Before that, after all I’d said about how I hadn’t written anything postable for months, I wrote and posted
On the Table. Hart of Dixie. Teen. AnnaBeth Nass/Lavon Hayes. Post 2.13 ‘Lovesick Blues’. 290 words. Summary: After AnnaBeth, er, went into Lavon’s place.

Yes, it’s a ficlet, for a minor pairing for a show that aired a decade ago that I’m only watching now. But it was my authentic response to the set-up and how it had played out. I wrote it after my first draft of my reaction post. I waited to watch the next episode (I’ll post about it eventually) to check that I hadn’t got jossed and added one word (I edited others but not because of having seen the next ep). I’m just chuffed to have written and posted something this year, even if it wasn’t what I was meant to be working on and has missed its audience by several years.

I posted fic! Finally! (I haven’t posted any new fic since May 2021, and nothing of comparable length since January 2021.)

The name on his lips. DW/AO3. Sanditon. Spoilers for ep 2.1. Sidney Parker/Charlotte Heywood, Sidney Parker/Eliza Campion, OFC. Second person POV. 673 words. Universal. Summary: A servant is not paid to notice everything, but of course you do.

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Sanditon 2.2

I watched the opening episode on catch-up and almost watched this one live, but it was easier to watch it a few minutes before it aired on ITVHub than switching to ‘Watch Live.’ My intention was to try to stick to watching it weekly around the time it airs, but I think I’ll have problems with that tonight.

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[Edited for typos 29/1/25.]

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The (even more selected than usual) questions:

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