'“Come to my flat for drinks tomorrow?” He forces a casualness to his voice that he does not feel. “I’ve got a bottle of Glenfiddich I’ve had since 1937 and it’s about time you left the bookshop for something other than pastries and feeding ducks.”'
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Friday 14 February 2020
Friday Fics Fix - Roses Are Good Omens
Thursday 13 February 2020
Comics Wrap-Up - While The Angels Sleep All of the Devils Are Awake
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It's Thursday! I hope you're looking forward to some comics-y goodness my nerdlets!
Friday 7 February 2020
Friday Fics Fix - A Dose of the Warm Fuzzies
'...“Because life is one big joke,” Klaus replies with a grin.
Diego shakes his head, feeling a headache start to form, and drops the interrogation.'
Friday 31 January 2020
Friday Fics Fix - Brother Mine
'One cab ride huddled in the back attempting not to vomit later, Sherlock is standing at the doors for New Scotland Yard trying desperately not to pass out.'
One of the many excellent things about fanfiction is that it can provide wish fulfilment for both the author and the reader.
(Not like that! Minds in the gutter ...Although, there is a bunch of fanfiction about that sort of wish fulfilment too!)
So things that you won't get to see in the TV series or film or whatever - or things that are just hinted at - you can find explored in their full glory in fanfiction.
Thursday 30 January 2020
Comics Wrap-Up - And I Do My Dance and Cancel Their Plans
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It's Thursday, you all rock socks, let's get some comics-y goodness!
Once again, everything is in the 'Other Stuff' category, which is all Loki's fault.
Friday 24 January 2020
Friday Fics Fix - Can Klaus Get A Boo?
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'...Miraculously, it held under his weight, and he shimmied down it with an ease that could have been described as elegance if his leather hot-pants weren’t squealing against the metal piping.'
Who would be climbing down a drainpipe in leather hot-pants?
Klaus Hargreeves, of course!
(This is the first time I'm reccing an Umbrella Academy fic in 2020 - I think I've shown a lot of restraint 😅)
Friday 17 January 2020
Friday Fics Fix - Undead, Not Unreasonable
'There is a key scraping the inside of the lock, and the door was swinging open, the monster standing inside of the doorway, blocking any other view. He is smiling, his horrible fangs fully shown, in the flickering candlelight of the room.'
The established king of vampires is, and always will be, Dracula.
Since 1897, it's been adapted time and again, becoming the fundamental core of vampire fiction and media.
Friday 20 December 2019
I Watched The Film First! *Gasps* - 5 Books That I Read Because I'd Seen The Adaptations
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...that voice doesn't know me at all.
I read a butt-tonne of books.
Like, I read at the 200-per-year kind of speed.
But I watch loads of film and TV adaps. before I read the book.
Thursday 28 November 2019
Comics Wrap-Up - Sometimes You Scare Me, But I Come Around To You
Friday 22 November 2019
Friday Fics Fix - No More False Starts
Sorry if you saw this post appear briefly yesterday. I hit the publish button instead of the 'save' 😅 - ok, let's resume our regular service:
'“How was deducing the relationship status of the entire jury relevant?”'
Well-written Johnlock!
Now that that has brought every M/M-loving Sherlockian's head up like a li'l meerkat, lemme tell you about this awesome well-written Johnlock I found!
(Fangirling notes:
Johnlock - John Watson and Sherlock Holmes (usually from BBC's Sherlock) having a romantic and/or sexual relationship.
Sherlockian - BBC Sherlock fan)
Thursday 21 November 2019
Comics Wrap-Up - But My Hand It Will Be Open, And I'll Try To Fix It
Thursdayyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!
And Thursday means comics and superheroes, dearest nerdlets! 😁
Thursday 14 November 2019
Comics Wrap-Up - There's A Moment In Time, And It's Stuck In My Mind
It's Thursday, I love superheroes and comics, and I hope you do too! (Cos I've got an awesome comics wrap-up for ya!) 😆
Friday 8 November 2019
Friday Fics Fix - Haunted
'Diego was still screaming but his voice was drowned and consumed, overtaken by the dead that hung around him, but Ben was screaming too...'
It's Umbrella Academy time!
...I think a lot of you will have guessed that I couldn't resist an Umbrella Academy fanfiction post for much longer (especially since I read a butt-tonne of Umbrella Academy fanfiction!)
Friday 1 November 2019
Friday Fics Fix - Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble
'"The handwriting on the first spells is far too legible to be Satan's," Aziraphale reasoned, reasonably, like a reasonable person who had just critiqued Satan's penmanship.'
Halloween may be over, but that doesn't mean we have to retreat from the gothicky side of life, dearest nerdlets!
And what I have for you this week is both gothicky and fun as all hell! (Pun unintended, but now I'm actually quite pleased with it.)
Thursday 24 October 2019
Friday 27 September 2019
Friday Fics Fix - Light and Dark
'There was a noise somewhere but he couldn't make it out. He tried to call for help but it wasn't words, just a distressed sound and more tears.'
I love Oliver Queen, aka The Green Arrow, and the show he's the lead of - which is handily named Arrow. 😅
(Also handily, this was the first in the CW's DC series, known collectively as 'Arrowverse')
Oliver's had something of a rough life.
I mean, the first 20-something years were pretty sweet - he was the priviliged trust fund party-boy with little regard for what substances he was sticking in his body, and the feelings of his romantic partners.
(I was gonna make a dodgy pun there, but thankfully resisted. If you can figure out what it would've been, then you've probably read as much fanftiction as I have! 😅)
Friday 13 September 2019
Friday Fics Fix - Nerds Are Secretly Vindictive Emos. Oh, and Merlin and Arthur Got Captured Again.
'“We’re not going to die here,” Arthur snapped. “Someone will come to rescue us.”'
Who wants a dash of angst?
Sometimes I feel like we nerds/fandom members, as a group, are too into angst.
But... meh. 😉
Sometimes you just want to to see your favourite characters tormented - and that's ok.
Thursday 12 September 2019
Comics Wrap-Up - I'm Not What You Think You See
Girl power, Queer power, and a butt-tonne of comics-y goodness! It's Thursday, and it's time for superheroes!
Friday 6 September 2019
Friday Fics Fix - Something Followed
'He can feel something else coming through, something uninvited.'
I love horror.
...You may or may not have noticed.
Generally speaking, the less-realistic and more fake-looking the horror is, the more I'm freaked out.
There are some notable exceptions (Pet Sematary *shudders*) but overall, the more realistic and convincing the horror is, the more I'm like: meh, it's a ghost.
Related Reading: Nerd Church - My Real-Life Ghost Stories