Galaxy Quest:

Episode Thirty-Three:The Dark Reflection by Lizardbeth - pitch perfect Gwen DeMarco fic set during the filming of the original series.

Homicide: Life on the Streets/Law and Order: SVU crossover:

An Act of Retreat by TrivialPursuit - perfect Munch fic. Angry and bitter and cynical and hopelessly himself the way he is. Also, a pretty killer last two lines.

Star Trek:

Veritas by Penknife - very believable Garak fic

I thought I might as well use my suddenly expanded free time for something useful, like catching up on recs. And yes, I am aware some of these date back to 2009, I have lots of catching up to do.

Due South:

Anticipation by arrow. Perfect Diefenbaker fic. I love his food-centric view of the world and slight houndly sneakiness and the way he conceptualises human things.

Celebration by blissfire. Which reads like one of the wackier episodes with bonus Ray(K)/Frasier. And Turnbull at his most Turnbulliest.

Harry Potter:

25 Stories Penknife Never Wrote About The Marauders by Penknife. 25 un-fics which capture the characters really well, 22 and 23 are particularly heartbreaking.

The Perfect Match by lady_mahadevi. Wonderful idiot quidditch-boys-in-love fic! I love this so much. It sounds so much like boys talking about football in our world and yes!

I Dream of Genie:

My Master's Secret Mission by hradzka. Speaking of something that reads like a missing episode. Everyone is perfectly in character from Jeannie on down. Also marvellous.

Both via other people.

Via selenak

the boy who blocked his own shot (12263 words) by primavera
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: X-Men: First Class (2011), X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Hank McCoy/Charles Xavier, Hank McCoy/Raven | Mystique, Erik Lehnsherr/Charles Xavier
Characters: Hank McCoy, Charles Xavier, Raven | Mystique, Erik Lehnsherr, Sean Cassidy, Alex Summers
Additional Tags: Angst, Unrequited Love, Minor Character Death, Self-Esteem Issues, Self Confidence Issues, Self-Acceptance
Summary:

He doesn't look so terribly different from all the other boys. It's simply a stroke of dumb, genetic luck that he's asked to join Mensa when he's eleven years old.

Which is all the Hank fics I have wanted. All of them. (The end is a bit too easy for my tastes but that aside.)

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Via musesfool

Revisionist History by Hitlikehammers.

Which is perfect post-film Guardians of the Galaxy fic centring on Peter Quill's grandfather and did I mention it is perfect and makes me squee and cry, just a little, in the good way. Also Treeeeeee and Drax being adorable.

Not sure if it's my favourite ever, but it's definitely one I like a lot:

Boots (2010 words) by JaneTurenne
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who & Related Fandoms, Doctor Who (2005), Doctor Who (1963)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: implied Doctor/Master
Characters: The Master (Simm), Jo Grant
Additional Tags: Jo's Boots, Women Being Awesome
Summary: In the earliest days of the Year That Never Was, Jo Grant pays a visit to the Valiant.

( Other Days )

Day 23 - Song you'd have played at your wedding.

I plan on never getting married. I think several of you have had to put up with my rant on how it's an outdated institution that I see no purpose in (not a judgement call on you if you have chosen to get married or are getting married, I am cool with other people getting married, it's just not for me).

So yeah, no. And much though I'm tempted to go with either 'Oops I Did It Again' or 'There She Goes Again' for an answer, I shall be temporarily sensible. You see, when my Mum was getting married, she wanted Amazing Grace. And she was promised by the organist that it would be played. The organist was a dirty rotten liar, and instead my Mum got the Wedding March, which she loathes with a powerful fury. Therefore, on behalf of my Mum, I bring you Amazing Grace.



She's getting it for her funeral instead. She is very persistant on the topic ;)

( The other days )

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Recs, pages 51-60

Beauty and the Beast, Belle, Her Heaven, G by rise_your_dead Belle and books, after her marriage. I love this rather a lot.

Harry Potter, Alice Longbottom, Blow Me Bluebell Bubbles, G by chaletian Alice in St. Mungos.

Watchmen, Silhouette, Despite, R by yeomanrand Warning: contains a lot of violence. The author warns for it being dark, but I don't think it is because, yes, all of this is happening because of Silhouette being a lesbian and a Minuteman, and yet Silhouette doesn't regret either of those things and she goes out swinging.

Day 20 - A Song You Listen To When You're Angry

So not safe for work!



Somewhat fitting, since I'm more than mildly murderous right now, but that's a locked post for the future. One of my housemates really doesn't like Slipknot, he thinks they're dangerous and incite violence and bad feelings. I don't think he gets them, that glorious sense that someone understands and is letting it all out on your behalf. It makes me feel much better, and less aggressive, which is normally a very good thing.

( The other days )

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LadyFest '10 recs, part 3 (pages 21-30)

Star Trek: XI, Janice Rand, Blurred, PG by medie The thing I like most about this fic is how the author takes a role that's never explained on the show and makes it something vital.

Star Trek: XI, Janice Rand, Right Back Where We Started From, PG by chaletian This one has a great sense of the sort of claustrophobia you'd end up getting on a starship, no matter how big it was.

And, of course, these two fics highlight one of my favourite things about this ficathon, exactly how differently two people can use the same prompt.

Part 1, pages 1-10

Glee; rachel; carry on, carry on; pg by cynthia_arrow This is all the good bits of Glee in one without any of the bad bits.

Babylon 5; Delenn; At the Door; pg by indiana_j This gets both her and the Minbaris very well.

glee; brittany/santana; what friends are for; PG-13 by sotto_voice Santana and Brittany being adorably bitchy together.

Glee, Santana, sometimes the american dream is written in spanglish, G by littledust A lovely fic about languages and what they mean to people, and yet totally in character for Santana.

BtVS - Buffy - American Girls - G by impertinance Cheerleaders who aren't in Glee, I knew they existed. More seriously, this is pitch-perfect first season Buffy, and what she is outside being a slayer and what she's lost.

But first a quick fic rec:

Koschei by nostalgia_lj - http://nostalgia-lj.livejournal.com/1982076.html which is a Doctor and Donna friendship fic (well I read it as friendship) wherein Donna asks some very pertinant questions, and there's the most wonderfully plausible and I'm totally taking as personal fanon Doctor/Master backstory. Short and gloriously bittersweet.

Um. Yeah. I had a good weekend. So I come bearing glee.

1) Yes, Twig was right, the Comicon 'Wolverine:Origins' trailer was indeed so much better. Even more awesome was the version I saw had the audience sound still on and it was cool hearing them oohing and ahhing when I did.

2) Compare the Meerkats.com http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=M0mXUC0cUPg

Just watch it. Best advert in a long time.

3) Sugababes - No Can Do video. While the song isn't brilliant I think at least one person on my flist will like it. Two words - human furniture - http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=5RJ7bMY6BQY

Hunky, male, human furniture

4) Fic recommendation - Moving In by ukcalico - http://ukcalico.livejournal.com/284266.html

Torchwood, Jack/Ianto fic. Very heavily NC-17. Contains spoilers for Cyberwoman and Fragments. And it probably helps to have seen both of those episodes to appreciate this fic. You definitely need to have seen Cyberwoman. ( Because it is awesome )

Didn't see much of RAW, only about twenty minutes, due to silly girls who'd rather watch Sex and the City. Not that I wasn't tempted for once but even my crush on Mikhael Barishnikov has its limits.

Anyway my main RAW thoughts are:

HBK getting angry at Orton would be believable if the height difference didn't make me giggle. Really, Shawn, if you're that much smaller, looking them in the chest does not make them scared.

Shut up HHH. (and could the muse one do the same.) And that pedigree looked nasty.

I would like to state for the record that I don't care how it happens, it can be the flukiest, screwiest, most whack job way of winning ever, I just want Benoit to win at WM. Someone in the writing/booking/ideas department is doing something right if I'm feeling this hyper about it already. Plus Benoit being fantastic helps too.

In a similar vein, Eddie winning would be cool too. It's not going to happen, but it would be cool.

From flashback - Bad Kane, bad. No breaking of the Trish. But yay for Jericho.

And that was all I saw.

However, due to Sex and the City foolishness (or stupidly shutting at 11.30 foolishness) I'll probably miss Benoit v Flair next week. So not fair. Edit: I'll also probably miss the Ric/Randy love in. Bah!

Other than that I saw the first about 30-40 minutes of Chicago and want to know what the fuss is about. Yes, it's good, but it's not Best Picture material. No goosebumps have been brought about.

That's probably because of the complete lack of sympathetic characters other than Amos Hart and the Russian woman (who by the way I'm presuming is doomed) Okay, so fine, they're murderers and other riff raff so they shouldn't be sympathetic but it did lead me to just wanting Roxy dead. Because she was so wishy-washy. Velma at least had spirit.

The best character so far has to be the detective. Much hearting of the detective.

However some questions were left

1) Why is Richard Gere singing with an English accent?
2) Why does the director insist on shooting his female cast in the least flattering light possible? Or at least their legs. And crotches. Sam, very male, very fond of the female form Sam, was complaining.

3) Why did what's his face that Roxie shot put his underwear back on to go the toilet? I'm presuming it was because of a male nudity problem but surely there had to be some other way around it.

Catherine Zeta Jones and Queen Latifah own me, but you knew that already. Most of the women in the Cell Block Tango also own me, particularly Squish, the one whose husband ran on to her knife ten times.

And on that note, how much was that scene influenced by Jailhouse Rock. And it was also nice to know what the words were about having spent ages thinking about it watching Bourne and Kraatz's routine to the tune.

(Ice skating note - I haven't seen the Europeans but how the fuck did Joubert win the men's? France produces all these male skaters who do these wonderfully intricate and interesting to watch with tonnes of artistry and one jumping machine, and the jumping machine wins. Any bitterness due to being a fan of the guy in second place has nothing to do with it, because Yagudin beat Plushenko all the time and I'd still admit he was the better skater.)

One thing I did like about the film was the way the musical numbers were played out in Roxie's head.

On an RL note, I'm going to a fencing competition on Sunday. It involves getting up at 6.45. Wish me luck.
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Fencing - ended up getting up at 6.30 instead. Breakfast was museli bars and water. Museli bars tasted like cardboard but they did grow on me.

Had lots of fun. Won the bronze in the womens event. Admittedly there were only three women but ;) Reeda, the other girl from the club that went, won the silver. We were both totally outclassed by the winner so no complaints. Chris the club captain won the overall competition. So all is whee. Love fencing. My back doesn't but what does my back know.

And I've got a cold now but that was a mixture of the early rising, the lack of food, the stupidly high temperature inside the fencing gear - I'd love to know how James manages in his goalie gear, the cold outside and that there's been something going round anyway.
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Monday, back aches something chronic. Walking hurts, sitting up straight hurts. Buses are an agony.

Sound on my laptop has completely gone. I do wish it wouldn't do that.

Just read Mynx's Evolution fic. If you haven't already, go read it. It's good. Although it did set me pondering on how you can see a pairing completely differently from the same starting point. But difference is always good otherwise you end up with 515 different variations on Matt and Jeff loved each other very much but this was fucked up because they were brothers and therefore Jeff killed himself. Not that there's anything much wrong with that either.

Read another chapter of FOTR last night. Man is Gandalf ever the exposition dude. But it fits for he is supposed to be wise and knowledgable. I have no problem with someone being exposition if they are naturally a source of information. So far film Gandalf seems to be very like book Gandalf.
Book Frodo is a little different, I'm not entirely sure how but in someway he gives off a different vibe. As does Book Sam. So far he's burst into tears twice. Save me from over-emotional hobbits.
And Aragorn got a mention.

Then there's all these bits of dialogue that happen in the film. That's one of the good things about the way it was adapted, PJ didn't stick directly to it but when something was good he used it somewhere were it would fit. Like the speech about Bilbo's pity. It wouldn't have fit in at the beginning of the film where it is in the books (and where it works very well) but it did fit in perfectly in Moria.

There's something so right about the ring downscaling its evil to suit the bearer. And of Gollum becoming a sneak when he first found it. There something very unsettling about his downfall too, very understandable, Smeagol's story is indeed a very sad one.

Some how I'm thinking none of the Dwarf ringbearers became ringwraiths because you never hear any of the Nazgul complain about not being made for cross country running. And much with the anti-Dwarf elvish propaganda I notice. Bah! Although I do find it interesting that in some way none of the Elvish rings have been tainted, although they could become so if Sauron ever gets the ring back. I wonder how that works. I'm hoping the reason turns up somewhere in the LOTR trilogy.

It also annoys me quite how uppity the Elves are, just sailing off without a care what happens to anyone else. I do like the idea of the Dwarves being a source of information though.
And the description of the evil of Sauron - "He does not need you - he has many more useful servants - but he won't forget you again. Hobbits as miserable slaves would please him more than Hobbits free and happy." It works. Nothing about him being horrific evil or vicious or unspeakable but that horrid air of nastiness that says all those things without needing too.

First mention of hope by Gandalf about Gollum.
And hee, Frodo saying that the Gandalf saying there are other forces than evil at work, and that he and Bilbo were supposed to get the ring, was not an encouraging thought. I have to say I wouldn't find it encouraging either.