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9.9

uhm

lotr_deathmatch. deathmatch of the lotr bnfs. just passing on the link.

guinevere33 points out that wax and i are in the same bracket. oh, WOE!

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FBI Issues Alert Against Almanac Carriers is actually a headline at yahoo news.

funny old world, innit?

dom/billy rec

by anatsuno, an au for slashababy. thirty-seven.

i need to remember to add the last recs to my recs page tomorrow.

yuletide stories whose authors haven't yet been revealed, to rec when they are:

good omens - coda, rated r. cumulative effort, rated pg. long crowley pov, quirky, leaning toward the cute.

hp, harry/neville: if you're breathing. rated pg.

ds, frannie/welsh futurefic: an officer and a gentleman, pg, romance without excessive fluff.

potc, j/w: i forget the title. no, really. but it was good. rather a classic romance. will pov.

movie: northanger abbey

i have so much to read that i can hardly keep up with it! the slashababy stuff to go through entirely; the library of moria for legolas/gimli and merry/pippin; a bunch of star wars links i saved months ago.

watched northanger abbey last night. it was adorable and a very good adaptation of one of my favorite austens, although it sadly lost many of henry tilney's best lines. he's my favorite austen hero just because he's so silly and witty. unfortunately mom fell asleep through most of the beginning. the casting was excellent. the costumes were charming, and there was this scene in the BATHS themselves at bath which thrilled my regency-loving heart to its core--to have a visual at last, you know. it was bizarre, too. everyone was bathing in what looked like brown linen gowns. oh, that scene wasn't really in the book, i don't think. and i do think they made isabella and john thorpe somewhat more sinister than they were, but they were going for the gothic air. it's quite an achievement considering how much northanger abbey, as a novel about novels, depends on its omniscient narrator. it was obviously an eighties movie--the low tech of the credits just sort of drawn onto the film in white. and the soundtrack, which reminded me of the soundtrack to labyrinth rather (no bowie, alas--it was all instrumental, except for that choral music that sounds like moaning. it was very gothic.)

revised version of 'flood' -- billy/orli, nc-17

now posted at my website.

flood.

beta fishin'

can anyone beta a longish piece of extremely smutty girlslash for me? it's pop rps, but you don't necessarily need to know about pink or christina aguilera to handle it.

sherlock holmes: the empty house. 21 caps.

the first episode from the return of sherlock holmes, 'the empty house' comes nearest 'the final problem' of all in plot tension, action, excitement, and holmes/watson text. emotions run high. it's fairly fast-paced and exciting, rather mysterious--it has much in common with 'the final problem,' but it lacks that final burst of genius that elevated tfp beyond good to great. where tfp starts with a bang, teh starts with an activeish scene that's interesting, but not so very breathless.

it definitely, however, showcases edward hardwicke--the replacement watson--to great advantage. ( Read more... )

in many ways this ep reads in reverse of tfp. ( starting at the beginning of the ep and moving to the end. )

high points: lestrade saying holmes 'even got the better of me a time or two.' holmes's first line as himself. watson: 'surely i am as trustworthy as your brother'; holmes: 'but of COURSE, watson. it is merely that you have a kinder heart' (phrasing approximate). handshots of the airgun being loaded. holmes detailing the life story of the second most dangerous man in london, incl. a totally wack metaphor about a tree.
low points: the pompous judge watson goes before to testify about the murder of ronald adair, who kisses col. moran's ass impressively: funny but the scene's too long.

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