2005-12-06

melannen: A dreamsheep w/the mathnet logo and slogan: "The names are made up, but the problems are real." (mathnet)
2005-12-06 09:15 pm

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It has been a long time since I have binged on a new fandom, the way I was doing every few months or so for a while; the last one was DC comics. (I think that this is partly because I've run out of fandoms that are to my taste and that have enough fic for a good binge - I *have* started in on YW, aSoUE, Aubrey/Maturin, and Barrayar, and a couple manga, in the meantime, but none of them really have enough fic to hold me for more than a few evenings, not like the weeks-long benders when I was getting into HP and HL and SG and PotC and those.) Anyway, I sense that another one may be coming on. All the signs are there: searching madly for recs pages, reading all the fic I can get my hands on, having it jump into my dreams. And it's all [livejournal.com profile] stellar_dust's fault, because she keeps talking about how good Bones is, so now I've watched a couple episodes, and it seems to come on right before House, and I was mildly curious, and [livejournal.com profile] crack_van has just started House recs, and yeah, that was all it took. I think I'm sunk.

House, and TNG, and Bones, and other stuff too. )
melannen: Commander Valentine of Alpha Squad Seven, a red-haired female Nick Fury in space, smoking contemplatively (novel)
2005-12-06 11:02 pm

Sad girl in snow

I also read The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe the other day, which was ehhh in all the ways I remember it being. People on the flist have been posting a lot of Narnia meta-links in the run-up to the last movie, and I greatly fear that I will have to re-read the whole series in order to write about the things that are wrong with Narnia that do not have to do with ham-handed Christian allegory that misses the point entirely, or post-feminists feeling guilty about sex. Pity me, who may have to struggle all the way through to the Last Battle just so I can write the rest of this story:

The Perils of Susan )

Yes, it's a silly crossover. Did you expect anything else? Upstairs in the typewriter is the beginning of the story where the Professor becomes the guardian of three unfortunate orphans, who find a weird wardrobe and travel through it, because what Narnia *really* needs is a good case of the Baudelaires.

(bwahahaha.)