GI Joe:Retaliation

The reason I put the trailer stuff in a separate post is that this is going to get long, out of all proportion with the importance of the film, the quality of the film and all reason.

That being said, it's not as bad as the critics would have you believe.

( Although I have divided it into the cool stuff with Storm Shadow and everything else )

It's exactly what it says on the tin. If you don't like mindless action films, then this isn't for you.

Question, Talking About A Meme, Starting Another Meme

( The question is spoilery for Dark Knight Rises )

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The last two questions of the Shakespeare meme will have to wait, because I'm still making my way through the sonnets. It has meant I've read Venus and Adonis and the Rape of Lucrece. I liked the latter more, possibly because I always feel mildly awkward wanting to tell the Goddess of love that "he's just not into you".

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While finishing that off, I shall start the 30 days of fan-fiction meme. The version I'm using was pinched from angstbunny

Day 1 - How did you first get into writing fanfic, and what was the first fandom you wrote for? What do you think it was about that fandom that pulled you in?

I blame Blake's 7.

When it was being reshown on BBC2, I wanted to know more. At the time, the first google hit was http://www.hermit.org/blakes7/

On the website were some episode reviews. I think it was the reviews of Time Squad (that's definitely the first place I ever saw the word shipper - http://www.hermit.org/blakes7/Episodes/Reviews/timesquad.html). Possibly because Blake's 7 is an older fandom, there was already a distinct fan fiction presence and some either actually on the site, and definitely a link to them. So off I followed because I had to have more.

From there, having got the bug, I wandered over the fanfiction.net. And being bored, I had a quick click through to the wrestling section (this was many years ago) and the first fic I found was either by Bliss or Christine Ortega. Which was a stroke of luck because they wrote good fic.

I suspect the first fandom I ever wrote for was wrestling. Undoubtedly Kane fic. Because he was and is my favourite because he is wonderful.

I think the possibility is what drew me in. Canon can only do so many things, due to time and content constraints. Freed of those, fan fiction writers can do more.

( Other Days )