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Showing posts with label TV shows. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TV shows. Show all posts
Thursday 14 March 2019
Friday 8 March 2019
Friday Fics Fix - Girls' World
'"Maybe it’s not—," Ava started. A cone of flame whirled through the air. "Okay, maybe it is Mick."'
On International Women's Day, I think it's only appropriate to feature a fic about two of my favourite Queer female characters!
(I realise the link is maybe a little tenuous. But I don't actually care. I'm going with it 😎)
Thursday 7 March 2019
Comics Wrap-Up - From the Fading Light I Fly
I don't know whether there's just a lot of superhero/comics stuff this week, or if I've just rambled on more than usual... maybe both! 😎
Thursday 21 February 2019
Comics Wrap-Up - I'll Be The Ghost Inside Your Head When We Are Through
This is one of those weeks which remind me why I love comics!
(It's possible there was drama, in fact there probably was - but dude I didn't notice it! 😘)
Comics and superheroes are there for you when sh** gets tough, showing you it's ok to be different, it's ok to act a li'l weird, it's ok to be yourself and defy expectations! 😊
(It's also ok to have fun!)
Friday 8 February 2019
Friday Fics Fix - What If?
'He was strangely touched that Sherlock had remembered his fondness for meringue.'
'...wait, wait, wait! Cee, are you saying you're recommending something you don't even like?'
Why? Because even though I'm not sure I like it, I am sure that it's interesting.
Tuesday 29 January 2019
2018 Fanfiction Reading Challenge Final Update + 2019 Fanfiction Reading Challenge Sign-Up
Fanfiction time! XD
In no way has this post been thrown together in the odd moments that my hectic life grants me *shifty glances.*
OK, so maybe it has... just don't tell anyone! 😎
I was originally trying to get this post all done and dusted in December, but my December was... not good. So here we are!
Friday 25 January 2019
Friday Fics Fix - True Love, In Honour of Santes Dwynwen
(Warning: this post discusses the story of St Dwynwen, which includes rape/sexual assault)
'Arthur’s mouth has always been Merlin’s weakness, hasn’t it.'
Dydd Gwyl Santes Dwynwen Hapus/Happy St Dwynwen's Day!
Dwynwen is the Welsh patron saint of lovers, her name has a variety of meanings (as most 'wen' or 'wyn' names do,) but the most common translations are 'white wave' or 'to steal purity/fairness.'
Which kind of fits in with the less happy aspects of her story.
Friday 18 January 2019
Friday Fics Fix - He's a Phantom!
'Most of the lesson was spent in silence, with the usual crash outside followed by Danny's hand shooting up and asking to go to the bathroom; reappearing later on when the ghost fight was over, claiming to have gotten stuck under some debris from the fight.'
I miss Danny Phantom.
I really hope that at least some of you have heard of, and/or watched this cartoon, because if not it's just an injustice!
(Also, it ended over a decade ago and I feel very old now.)
And a shout-out is due to the awesome Carrie @ Cat on the Bookshelf, who got me in a Danny Phantom mood!
Sunday 13 January 2019
Nerd Church - Media Overload: Quality, Quantity, and Diversity
There is more media and entertainment in our world today than ever before.
Even putting to one side the numerous web-pages and status updates that are published every single second, the rate at which new books, films, TV shows, songs, etc. are being created and published is immense.
Friday 16 November 2018
Friday Fics Fix - Please Take Care of the Random British Man
'Lestrade looked on, bewildered, as Sherlock began to help himself to the soup.
“You think your life rates lower than a case in John’s eyes?”'
If this post doesn't make sense, it's because I'm tired, have a headache, and my country is slowly falling to pieces.
No, I'm not American. I'm actually British. We have problems too. 👍
(Brexit sh**. Help us.)
Thursday 1 November 2018
Comics Wrap-Up - Teeth Ground Sharp and Eyes Glowing Red
Friday 28 September 2018
Friday Fics Fix - I Need Oliver Queen
'"...John, Curtis, Dinah, and Rene. All of them. They have issues and they blame it on you. Maybe because it's easy to."
Oliver looked up at her quickly, "Why is it easy?"
"Probably because you already blame yourself for everything," Felicity said, smiling sadly.'
I'm in an Oliver Queen kind of a mood! 💘
The new series trailer (which I featured in yesterday's comics wrap-up,) has got me in the mood for some Arrow!
Friday 31 August 2018
Friday Fics Fix - Perspectives
Thursday 23 August 2018
Comics Wrap-Up - I'll Always Be Waiting In the Back Room
Another week of 'Other Stuff' - though hopefully uber-interesting 'Other Stuff' - once again, blame Loki!
Via Giphy |
Friday 10 August 2018
Friday Fics Fix - Whose Shield Are You?
'“Ruby was dangerous and it got complicated and that is just the way it was.” Exploded Fitz, trying so desperately to keep calm but feeling his control slipping away. “So I’m sorry if it doesn’t fit with-” Fitz took a breath as his voice thickened and broke, begging for tears not to fall out of frustration, “whatever narrative that you’ve built for yourself.”'
One of the biggest plusses of Marvel's Agents of SHIELD, for me at least, is Leopold Fitz.
Played to a point nearing perfection by Iain De Caestecker, Agent Fitz has gone through pretty much any sh** that this series has to throw at him.
And this series has had a large supply of sh** to throw at him.
Friday 3 August 2018
Friday Fics Fix - Da Vinci, Like Never Before
'"What did they do to you?" he whispered. "What have you done to yourself?" he added without thinking. Words tumbling out of his mouth like the thoughts that used to tangle in his mind. "What did I do?"'
This week's fic is for a TV show I absolutely adore, and which was cut short too soon after just 3 series.
Da Vinci's Demons is a highly underrated show.
It's basically like Game of Thrones with real historical people, but keeping the weird-a** paranormal/fantasy elements.
So it's kind of like an alternate version of history, with a young bad-boy Leonardo Da Vinci.
Friday 20 July 2018
Friday Fics Fix - Westeros-by-Sea
'“I, er, can I try some?” Theon finally asks some twenty minutes after they come in, interrupting their chatter.
“Sure. There’s the changing room, knock yourself out.”
Theon disappears inside it with a stack of things.
“Well,” Mance says, his tone of voice suddenly dropping lower, “whatever happened to him sure as hell wasn’t a walk in the park.”'
I loooove it when fanfics experiment dammit! XD
And when I randomly find fanfiction that puts Game of Thrones characters in the modern-day, AND in my beloved Wales?!
Friday 15 June 2018
Friday Fics Fix - Coming Out Aro
'This was the perfect opportunity to come out. These were the people who deserved to know, if anyone did... But what if? Part of him whispered. What if they don’t accept you? What if everything goes wrong?'
Friday 1 June 2018
Friday Fics Fix - Johnlock Blogging
'(Don’t worry, if you were, which you weren’t. He’s fine; some poor kid found him in a ditch, pretending to be a dead body in the name of science.)'
You can't be a blogger without being at least a little bit obsessed with blogging.
You can deny it if you like, but it's true.
We all have a serious fascination with the slightly weird processes which combine to make this thoroughly modern medium. (...and that was a weird sentence! *shrugs*)
Friday 4 May 2018
Friday Fics Fix - The Sense of Things
I found a fic which has synaesthesia in it dammit!!!!
For those of you who don't know, synaesthesia is: a) a melding or running together of two senses, and b) something that I have.
For those of you who don't know, synaesthesia is: a) a melding or running together of two senses, and b) something that I have.
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