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First up, go watch the new Doctor Who mini-episode. GO AND BE HAPPY.

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I leave fandom for THREE DAYS and TV tropes removes fanfic recs from the site. D:

I use those recs! Not for Torchwood, although I think I buzzed the Torchwood page once and laughed at how half the recs were Sam. But for the fandoms I liked but wasn't really a part of (Animorphs, Digiomon, etc.) that I wanted to swing by ever once in a while for kicks. Sometimes I'm in the mood for some childhood crack, ok?

And TV tropes and I didn't always agree on the definition of good fic, but older fandoms aren't normally on AO3 and I am not digging through ff.net for a pick-me-up. NO.

NOT OK, TV TROPES. STOP LETTING GOOGLE SHOVE YOU AROUND.

(I would like it if the recs were archived somewhere. For posterity at least.)

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Here are the reasons I'm going to be in favor of Elementary, even though the odds of me watching it are low. (I'm sorta meh on Sherlock Holmes these days, really.)

1 - I am HEAVILY in favor of recasting male character as women for remakes. I can think of one good example of that being done, and a dozen examples where it probably wasn't even considered. (I maintain that any of the main cast of the Start Trek XI could have been recast as a woman. Sure, internet, lambast me all you want.)

2. The symmetry of Johnny Lee Miller (who played opposite Benedict Cumberbatch in Danny Bole's Frankenstein last year, in which they swapped the roles of Frankenstein and Frankenstein's Monster every other night) playing another modern Sherlock Holmes cracks me up. Also, I've seen Miller stark naked and one day I will stop giggling like a twelve-year-old when I type that, but it is not this day!

3. It's not just any woman playing Watson, it is Lucy Liu. ♥ The only thing more awesome than recasting characters as women would be recasting them as POC.

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The new Great Gatsby trailer is out. This is, in no way, shape or form, my Great Gatsby. But it is quite clearly Baz Luhrmann's Great Gatsby, and I look forward to it.

Just letting all you Torchwood fans know that Lisa Fest is now LIVE!

nancybrown is hosting on LJ here and I'm hosting on Dreamwidth here.

I'm off to sleep, but everyone in Europe is free to start playing around when they wake up and us Americans can all join in later. :)

Dear Internet,

ALL I WANT IS A BUNCH OF STORIES ABOUT COULSON BEING AWESOME AND POSSIBLY ALSO ADORABLE. GEEKING OVER CAP OR KICKING BUTT OR MAYBE JUST EATING A CHEESECAKE. WITH PEPPER POTS. MAYBE.

THANK YOU.

(Because this is the worst week and for some reason everyone want to write Clint/Coulson fic and that is totally fine but I want gen. Possibly fluffy gen. WITH BUNNIES. COULSON WITH BUNNIES WOULD DO NICELY.)

ETA: HAVE YOU SEEN THIS INTERNET?

Just wishing everyone a Happy Mother's day! As cultural/commercial* holidays go, I really like this one. I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU DO IT, MOMS.

Oh, and reminding people about Lisa!Fest in one week. Fic! Recs! Meta! Picspams! All Lisa, all day. May 20.

(*Wikipedia gave me that designation. And after reading the article, I find the whole history mildly hilarious. I had absolutely no idea there were actual traditions associated with Mother's Day! Every year we attempted breakfast in bed until we gave it up as hopeless.)

Saw the Avengers with a bunch of friends last night. And we were the loudest row in the theater. Not (mostly) in a talking-during-the-film sort of way, but we laughed a lot. And clapped a few times. I did do a lot of happy hand gestures what with the flailing and the OH SNAP moments.

( Spoilers! )

Aaaand, now that I've seen it I have 20 posts on my flist to go back and dig up.

Today begins the one month Women of Torchwod Fest! Woooo!

I've left all sorts of S1-S2 prompts all over the tw_classic comment post and S3-S4 and Doctor Who-related prompts over at the sister thread at the tw_femficfest.

And now I'm here to SQUEE because I have TWO FILLS. TWOOOOO.

First, bookwormsarah responded to "That time when Alice moves as far from Cardiff as she could get and there were damn aliens there too." IT IS HILARIOUS AND AWESOME. ♥ ALICE.

And then nancybrown filled "Tosh and Gwen go shopping. For anything." And it is ALSO hilarious with bonus doilies!

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MARK YOUR CALENDARS FANGIRLS AND BOYS. Because on May 20, nancybrown and I want all of your Lisa recs, meta, picspams and fic! One day this month for Lisa love!



Get ready for Lisa!Fest!

Thank you to iceshade who make our fantastic banner.

Watching Akira today in class. I forgot about Tetsuo's tiny girlfriend. *wibbles for Kaori*

Man, no one does awful dystopic future like Akira. Or really horrifying hallucinations.

(My profesor has spent far too little time teaching us about Tezuka. Miyazaki is super-important, yes, but Tezuka.)

Oh, and while I'm spending some time drifting around the Harry Potter fandom, I would like to take this opportunity to rec my two all time favorite Harry Potter fics.

Both by the same author, despite the fact that I found them in completely different ways at completely different times.

First is Hermione: A History by Nope. It is in many ways a mystery, set post-series, starring Hermione and the people around her. My favorite element is probably the fact that each voice comes across as completely different and unique, while remaining totally in character. Also, it's a solid epistolary fic, and those aren't common.

The second is Last Writes by Nope and I found it during one of my Regulus phases. This is a fic about Sirius after he falls through the veil, and it's fantastic and amazing and I can't say anything else without giving too much away. Just read it. Trust me on this one.

(My favorite part of traipsing through other fandoms is recognizing people from different places. It's nice when I'm pretty confident in the quality of an HP fic becuase I've read their DW stuff, say. :D)

(The most hilarious part is when I end up on old fandom wank and stumble across people I know from elsewhere. Or stuff that I was actually aware of at the time.)

(The crazy part is when I realize I was on the very, very edge of a wank fest way back in the LotR days. I need to stop mucking around in fandom history, but it's fascinating.)

So, I finally posted all of my 30_hath ficlets to AO3 yesterday while LJ was down. (DON'T READ THEM. THEY ARE NOT GOOD. Well, fine, I like the Founder fics, but the rest are mildly horrifying to re-read.)

And then I started browsing around the Harry Potter AO3 tags, and I completely forgot how much Remus/Sirius DOMINATES all Marauder-era fic.

I am CRAVING fic about The Prank Incident (you know, where Sirius uses Remus to almost kill Snape and James saves all their arses) but instead I'm finding a lot of Sirius/Remus shorts and some very good Lily fics.

I'll even settle for some Secret Keeper fics about how they heck they could have suspected Remus as the mole. They dynamic of Remus's position in the Marauders is complicated, and I have all sorts of feelings about it, and I just want fic! And R/S tends to ignore a lot of the balancing act.

I don't mind reading Sirius/Remus, even if it isn't my 'ship, ok? I found this fic which is a great story about Sirius following Remus to find out if he's the traitor and ends up as an AU.

Hey, flist, I know many of you aren't necessarily Harry Potter fans, but have you got any recs? Any rating, any pairings, I just want something about The Prank. Or pre-Halloween before the Potters were killed. Or even a post-PoA fic about Remus confronting Sirius for suspecting him.

*pokes the internet*

So, DC decided to cancel the trade collection of Legion Lost

AAAAAAAARGH.

Being a Legion fan is hard freaking work, is all I'm saying. Especially because I'm not willing to go bin-diving. I don't have the patience, I'm not organized enough for it, and I have already posted elsewhere about how MUCH BETTER trades are for readers than individual floppies.

*apply head to desk*

So I've seen this meme go around and while ever single person I've seen has done it differently, and not all my fic is even on AO3*, I check my stats like everyone else, so I figured I'd join the bandwagon my own way!

1. Some Things Never Change. Some Do. (Torchwood) with 292 hits! I'm going to assume it's the summary implying heavy Ianto/Jack, because this is a Miracle Day influenced fic!

2. Don't Tell Me Not to Fly (DC Comics, Lian Harper) with actually really happily surprising 254 hits!

3. Privately Owned (Torchwood) kicking off my COE-influenced fic with 178 hits!

3. It's About Torchwood. And a Baby (Torchwood, duh.) my other sappy Jack/Ianto fic also with 178 hits!

5. Sometimes Jack Does Things By the Book (Torchwood) with 172 hits and I have no idea why! Mostly Naked Jack is my only theory, but it's for cultural explanation, not sex!

6. Notable Figures (Torchwood) is Rhiannon's first appearance with 167 hits!

7. I Can Hear Them (Star Trek XI) is my not-at-all-kinky response to a kink meme prompt with 162 hits!

8. License! (DC Comics, Batman) is my only fic with Dick being adorable and bouncy with Bruce and Alfred and has 152 hits!

9. Something Like Closure (Torchwood) rounds out my COE fic with 140 hits!

9. Evening (Torchwood) is another prompted Jack/Ianto fic with another 140 hits!

( A cut to hide some of my random ponderings )

Eve Myles and Kai Owen are both signed up for Dragon*Con

Weeeee! This is at least attempting to make up for missing the last Hub and the upcoming Greatest Show in the Galaxy which will have THE WHOLE CAST, but Dragon*Con has Patrick Stewart and James Marsters and Tim Sale, so that's something

Plus, if I get Todd McCaffrey to sign a Pern book, I will be the Best Niece Ever.

Eve! And Kai! *twirls happily*

(I still kinda want Gareth to come, but dude is doing a ton of cons this summer and Gemma HAS A BABY DUE. Stay home, man.)

I've mentioned before how Merlin doesn't work for me, but I haven't spoken about how my current third roommate, K, is a big fan. I didn't know until last week, but K's been working steadily through the third season in the last few days, and we get to hear all about it.

Well, apparently K's on the big showdown between Uther and Morgana and is all flaily, and I ended up being all "but is she really evil or was she forced to that position because of Uther's policies on magic?" and then K said that Arthur should (AND I QUOTE) "grow a pair" and confront his father once he finds out about Merlin's magic. (My fuzzy memory tells me this won't be an issue, but I'm not spoiling.)

ANYWAY, I was only able to follow the fan babbling and actually engage in a conversation thanks to you, fandom corner of the internet. THANK YOU FANDOM OSMOSIS.

(I've been spouting Monty Python quotes as I watch over across the room. Hee.)

ETA: We all clapped for the round table, and then gave jazz hands for the "legend moment." This show is so much more fun with other people, maybe that would have done it.

Well, in one of those click-through-the-internet moments, (a friend mentioned this post and then I saw this thread and five minutes of googling later...)

S.E. HINTON WRITES SUPERNATURAL FANFICTION.

It's official. She's my hero.

Plus, I found her twitter! And she's chatting away with Rob Lowe and C. Thomas Howell and I'm going to have to sit in a corner because I. Am. Having. A. Moment.

(For the curious - when I was fifteen I wanted to write original fiction and I thought fanfiction was a good practice/transition. And now in my early twenties, I'm quite happy where I am, thank you, and I'm frankly not all that invested in being an author, for a few reasons. So my reaction to this is mostly "whatevs." That said, I was devastated when I heard Robin Hobb was anti-fanfiction, and I had that same awful feeling when I read Ursuala K. LeGuin's opinion. I can understand Rowling's opinion, even though I gently disagree. I think fandom is really a part of a work becoming a cultural artifact, and fanfiction is just as tied up in there and legitimate as scholarly essays, conventions and chatting with your friends.)

(All that said, I hope Hinton never seen my Outsiders fic. It's the most emo thing I have ever written and one of the reasons I haven't transferred all of my ff.net fic to AO3. *hides*)

(PPS. John Barrowman is also a S.E. Hinton fan. This all ties into my as yet unposted ~feelings~ about his book, Anything Goes, but my Meet John Barrowman fantasy now involves us bonding over Ponyboy or possibly Sodapop. ♥)

Title: When Jack Remembers the Future
Fandom: Torchwood
Wordcount: 100
Rating: G
Pairing(s): Jack/Ianto
Summary: Jack wasn't supposed to be stuck here, not now, not after the turn of the millennium.

( Sometimes it hits Jack )

Ok. Here it is. I HATE IT WHEN LJ TRACKS MY IP ADDRESS WHEN I COMMENT.

I understand that there are a lot of ways to figure out where I live, but IP tracking just give me a creepy-crawly feeling. It can get really, really specific, guys. And I'm anonymous online. I'm not comfortable handing out my location to total strangers, which most of you still are. I've met fandom people, and I'd love to meet all of you, but how about I don't give you my address until then?

There have been dozens of times in the past month that I've not commented on posts - on meta, on fic, on general stuff - because the comments were set to track my location.

I understand doing it for anonymous comments, and I understand doing it in communities or on journals where there has been extreme wank/trolling.

But otherwise, I'm logged in, I'm not a sock. I dislike the automatic distrust I'm given when my IP is tracked.

Commenting on fic tends to be my one big exception. I'll comment on fics even when my IP is logged, because comments mean the world to me and I want to give that appreciation to other people. But sometimes I can't even bring myself to do it for comments. And more than that, I hate having my IP tracked in communities. Who knows who the mod will be in a month?

I don't want to be the crazy person constantly PMing mods to ask them if they can turn it off, I'd rather just not comment and not participate. But guys? LJ is set to automatically log IPs now. Don't just let LJ's default settings dictate how you run your own space.

Ugh. The whole thing just leaves a bitter taste in my mouth. Maybe I'll start PMing my comments on fics instead.

First, you all know that challenges are one of the things that can get people involved in fandom communities (it seems that everyone who was anyone participated in the Writer In A Drawer back in the day) and I just want to remind you all that redisourcolor is still going strong despite a slightly outdated FAQ, and the atmosphere is casual and encouraging.

Plus, voting is open until Wednesday on the latest round, and I'm actually really proud of this one, so GO VOTE!

(You absolutely do not have to vote for me. I really liked the fics this round and I'm just having a fun time knowing 18 people are still around and voting in these things! And four of them like me! *HUGS*)

**UNRELATED BREAKING NEWS**

( Possible maybe spoilers for the next seasons of White Collar and Doctor Who )

I informally challenged myself to post a fic a week back when I managed to finish From the 82nd Summer of Love and so far it's been working! (Look at all the fics! Weee!)

Sure, they've all been uselessly short*, but I'm posting something, ok? It's partly because superstitiously I think that if I just. keep. posting. this fandom won't die and partially as a distraction from my thesis work. (Are you sick of hearing about it? I'm sick of working on it.)

But I realized that I'm not posting any Jack/Ianto. And as most of my stories (except challenges) that I've been working on have been old ideas that I'm fixing up and finishing, I checked my WIP folder. And...wow, for a shipper I have very little in the way Jack/Ianto stories. I've got a few Lisa/Ianto and some stories with Jack and Ianto ineracting, but nothing really shippy. (Unless you count my enormous and unfinished BigBang which had Ianto, for reasons explained in the fic, kick Jack out of his personal life for a bit. No, he doesn't shack up with another dude. I'm tired of that trope.)

So I wrote a completely new drabble for this week! ... And it is NOT HAPPY AT ALL. I mean, it has Jack/Ianto but apparently my fear of writing girly fluff has made it impossible for me to write them even remotely happy? O.o

It will be posted in the next few days, probably, as editing drabbles is an exercise in patience and also I've noticed that posting on a weekend is a good way to guarantee no one sees it.

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*I'm sitting on a longer fic that I will give a last look-through as a reward for finishing the ginormous project-that-shall-not-be-named. Long for me is, of course, over 5,000 words. :/

(I think if I changed all of my summaries to "IANTO'S NOT DEAD IN THIS ONE" I might get more readers. Which will be hilarious when they click on my gen pieces in which Ianto fails to appear.)

Title: Only My Dreams Will Wander These Desolate Moors
Author: eldarwannabe
Fandom: Torchwod
Rating: G
Beta: analineblue did a quick beta for me because she is wonderful!
Characters: Toshiko, Toshiko's Mother
Notes: This just...happened. Yay!
Prompt: Written for the Red is Our Color Challenge #27, using the theme of travel and lots of Beowulf quotes. And the word helpful.
Summary: Tosh spent her holidays with family, now she's coming home.

( The sea-weary ones... )