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Three shows
Jun. 10th, 2025 09:26 am1. My mother gifted me the complete Penny Dreadful on DVD. Judging by trailers, I will definitely not be watching this while I'm eating, but it looks very promising. Please chime in with opinions if you've seen it!
2. More of The Raven and the writers clearly decided Nick was not going to fit the Duncan mode after all, as his appreciation of culture clearly died with Claudia and in the two following episodes he's a total dick. He's rude and belittling, heavy-handed, oafish, angry, uncouth and occasionally drunk. He breaks down Amanda's door and then doesn't even hold his gun properly on entrance (I laughed, and I don't think I was supposed to). His bangs keep getting in his eyes. He bitches and moans and is stubborn as a mule and won't listen to reason. He's been catapulted into a world whose rules no longer make sense and he is Not Happy about it. He's hysterical to watch. I want popcorn.
Then there's episode four, where the writing steps up and Nick's interactions with Amanda become less eyebrow-raising and more human. Plus: Amanda showing off her emotional perceptiveness. Minus: Amanda not winning her swordfight on screen. I wanted to know what New Age Abacus Man's last words were.
3. Just watched the 2015 Doctor Who Christmas special 'The Husbands of River Song.' I got choked up three times, and the final scene... I don't do happy-sad crying (or at least I never used to, but who knows now). The only episode which has ever wrung such a response from me was 'The Prom' on Buffy. 'Husbands' attains the same rank. Quite striking, as it goes from screwball comedy to an acknowledgement that happy endings do not last but are still profound experiences. River treasured the memory of their night on Darillium and the Doctor doesn't try to take that away from her, honoring her final moments and (even without memory of Clara) her refusal to have her memories removed. Everything ends, and he's able to deal with that in a healthy manner for... Possibly the first time in NuWho?
I needed this episode.
2. More of The Raven and the writers clearly decided Nick was not going to fit the Duncan mode after all, as his appreciation of culture clearly died with Claudia and in the two following episodes he's a total dick. He's rude and belittling, heavy-handed, oafish, angry, uncouth and occasionally drunk. He breaks down Amanda's door and then doesn't even hold his gun properly on entrance (I laughed, and I don't think I was supposed to). His bangs keep getting in his eyes. He bitches and moans and is stubborn as a mule and won't listen to reason. He's been catapulted into a world whose rules no longer make sense and he is Not Happy about it. He's hysterical to watch. I want popcorn.
Then there's episode four, where the writing steps up and Nick's interactions with Amanda become less eyebrow-raising and more human. Plus: Amanda showing off her emotional perceptiveness. Minus: Amanda not winning her swordfight on screen. I wanted to know what New Age Abacus Man's last words were.
3. Just watched the 2015 Doctor Who Christmas special 'The Husbands of River Song.' I got choked up three times, and the final scene... I don't do happy-sad crying (or at least I never used to, but who knows now). The only episode which has ever wrung such a response from me was 'The Prom' on Buffy. 'Husbands' attains the same rank. Quite striking, as it goes from screwball comedy to an acknowledgement that happy endings do not last but are still profound experiences. River treasured the memory of their night on Darillium and the Doctor doesn't try to take that away from her, honoring her final moments and (even without memory of Clara) her refusal to have her memories removed. Everything ends, and he's able to deal with that in a healthy manner for... Possibly the first time in NuWho?
I needed this episode.
Recent Reading
Jun. 8th, 2025 09:37 pmI figure whenever I reach five books read, I'll make a post to keep track of them. These will be old books, mostly obscure as hell, so I doubt anyone on my list would ever care but click for spoilers and snark. ( Read more... )
My sum total knowledge of this show going in:
1. It's the much-maligned Amanda spinoff, with an imdb rating of 5.2 (I don't think I've ever seen a show get less than 6.0 over there, so ouch).
2. It was a disaster behind the scenes and the two leads hated each other's guts.
3. The other lead is an angry cop called Nick with 90s action man stubble. He's pre-Immortal.
4. Lucy is a fan favorite.
5. There's also a priest somewhere in the mix.
6. A lot of the salty reviews seem to blame the show for not being season five of Highlander and for not being about Methos. However, I don't expect it to be the former and am alone in thinking a Methos spinoff would only have succeeded in diluting the character's intrigue, so...
7. The cop emphasis was also present in the first season of the parent show, which many people dismiss but which I always found really charming, so seriously, how bad could it be?
It took a couple of tries to get into this episode, mostly due to external factors. I have watched the parent show my entire life, so it's strange and at this point emotional to see new footage of Amanda. Second attempt turned into a live blog of sorts, which I'll just leave as first impressions.
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1. It's the much-maligned Amanda spinoff, with an imdb rating of 5.2 (I don't think I've ever seen a show get less than 6.0 over there, so ouch).
2. It was a disaster behind the scenes and the two leads hated each other's guts.
3. The other lead is an angry cop called Nick with 90s action man stubble. He's pre-Immortal.
4. Lucy is a fan favorite.
5. There's also a priest somewhere in the mix.
6. A lot of the salty reviews seem to blame the show for not being season five of Highlander and for not being about Methos. However, I don't expect it to be the former and am alone in thinking a Methos spinoff would only have succeeded in diluting the character's intrigue, so...
7. The cop emphasis was also present in the first season of the parent show, which many people dismiss but which I always found really charming, so seriously, how bad could it be?
It took a couple of tries to get into this episode, mostly due to external factors. I have watched the parent show my entire life, so it's strange and at this point emotional to see new footage of Amanda. Second attempt turned into a live blog of sorts, which I'll just leave as first impressions.
( Read more... )
To do list, for reference...
Two more episodes of Doctor Who to finish out series 9. I'm gonna pace myself through that.
Meanwhile, breaking that up with a rewatch of Teen Wolf, 3B. I'm pretty much writing this installment in order, so I watch an episode, sketch it out, and then move forward. While keeping an eye out for dropped plot threads and vanishing characters.
Four scenes of Sidelined, chapter two, are waiting to get finished. It'll be a lot shorter than the first chapter. Gotta cobble that together when the motivation hits.
There was a copy of Highlander: The Raven on YouTube, and I was planning to get to it next, but it appears to have been taken down since. This is a shame, as I am seeking a reentry point to the distracting cheer of fannish conversation (here or on Discord). Sigh. I will have to strategize.
Two more episodes of Doctor Who to finish out series 9. I'm gonna pace myself through that.
Meanwhile, breaking that up with a rewatch of Teen Wolf, 3B. I'm pretty much writing this installment in order, so I watch an episode, sketch it out, and then move forward. While keeping an eye out for dropped plot threads and vanishing characters.
Four scenes of Sidelined, chapter two, are waiting to get finished. It'll be a lot shorter than the first chapter. Gotta cobble that together when the motivation hits.
There was a copy of Highlander: The Raven on YouTube, and I was planning to get to it next, but it appears to have been taken down since. This is a shame, as I am seeking a reentry point to the distracting cheer of fannish conversation (here or on Discord). Sigh. I will have to strategize.
How it is now
May. 13th, 2025 08:33 pmI was gonna hide this post entirely. Then I decided I'll just hide it with a cut tag, since it's about my emotional state, as regards tv, and that way it can be skipped as needed. ( Read more... )
The Outsiders
May. 10th, 2025 11:55 amOne time we were having dinner with David's daughter and somehow The Outsiders came up in conversation. I had never read it. "Stay gold, Ponyboy," she said, and moved on to another topic. The phrase stuck with me.
Well, I've read it now. As the plot took shape, I began to strongly suspect the quote would turn out to be the ( spoilery ) moment of the book, and I guessed it exactly right.
I think the biggest shock in the book was when it turned out Ponyboy and Sodapop were named that on their birth certificates. I hope they went on to form a proto-punk garage band with Two-Bit. Ponyboy could write the songs.
I'm trying to post here more often, just keeping my spirits up.
Well, I've read it now. As the plot took shape, I began to strongly suspect the quote would turn out to be the ( spoilery ) moment of the book, and I guessed it exactly right.
I think the biggest shock in the book was when it turned out Ponyboy and Sodapop were named that on their birth certificates. I hope they went on to form a proto-punk garage band with Two-Bit. Ponyboy could write the songs.
I'm trying to post here more often, just keeping my spirits up.
2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke
May. 4th, 2025 06:45 amI have read very little sci-fi, and been most entertained by H.G. Wells among my efforts, so this was very much a wild card of a book - especially since a lot of classic sci-fi writers got tarred with a brush of having very poor prose styles and bland characters, being all about the ideas. But (aside from his slight over-fondness for the word "ebon") I had no problem with Clarke's prose. I'm the last person to find space imagery at all gripping, and he did an excellent job throughout at keeping my interest and conveying emotion.
A lot happens in a slim 200 pages, as the story switches frequently from one mood and point of focus to another. There's the primeval section, the mystery on the moon with all its ramifications, the clockwork grind of space exploration, the novel briefly veering into a horror story featuring a murderous AI, and the transcendent final sequence. Clarke conveys the sheer scale of time, distance and objects very well. Being able to convey abstract concepts is a writing skill, just as much as deep character exploration. Clarke also has a good sense of dramatic timing.
There's also a stargate, which I found childishly amusing. Actually, between that phrase and the concept of beings which ascend from the requirement of physical bodies and become pure consciousness, I am wondering if I just found a prime inspiration for Stargate worldbuilding?
I never saw Kubrick's film. David referenced it every now and then, which made reading this book extremely bittersweet, as I would have shared delightful conversations a few months ago. But that's true about everything, so I just keep going.
A lot happens in a slim 200 pages, as the story switches frequently from one mood and point of focus to another. There's the primeval section, the mystery on the moon with all its ramifications, the clockwork grind of space exploration, the novel briefly veering into a horror story featuring a murderous AI, and the transcendent final sequence. Clarke conveys the sheer scale of time, distance and objects very well. Being able to convey abstract concepts is a writing skill, just as much as deep character exploration. Clarke also has a good sense of dramatic timing.
There's also a stargate, which I found childishly amusing. Actually, between that phrase and the concept of beings which ascend from the requirement of physical bodies and become pure consciousness, I am wondering if I just found a prime inspiration for Stargate worldbuilding?
I never saw Kubrick's film. David referenced it every now and then, which made reading this book extremely bittersweet, as I would have shared delightful conversations a few months ago. But that's true about everything, so I just keep going.
Friday Five
May. 3rd, 2025 10:32 amOn Saturday, discovered through network, originating from ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
thefridayfive
1. What is your all time favorite book?
I must concede defeat and go with Vivian Vande Velde's Companions of the Night (1995), which I read countless times as a teenager, and which I revisited a year ago and to my astonishment it still held up as a thriller, as an exploration of vampire lore, as a YA novel skirting the edge of paranormal romance, and as a character study of a teenage girl thrown into insane circumstances. It's still my highest standard for a believably dangerous vampire love interest and I read the book in two sittings because it remained highly compelling after all these years.
2. What is your all time favorite movie?
The Third Man (1949) has continued to beat all comers and has never gone down in my estimation across multiple watches. It's basically a perfect film to me. The feel-good variation on this movie-making perfection would be Casablanca (1942), but The Third Man nudges it because of the score.
3. What are you reading right now?
Arthur C. Clarke. 2001: A Space Odyssey. About thirty pages from the end, though! I will likely make a post about it.
4. What is your favorite show on TV?
My usual comfort show for many years has been the combined twelve seasons of Buffy and Angel. Bad things would happen and that's where David and I would go, curling up and watching it until we could recite swathes of dialogue. Other shows where I have lost count of the number of times I've seen them have been The Wire and Highlander, and my chief source of writing inspiration has been Jeremiah, but the Buffyverse was the only show where we got to the end and instantly started over.
5. What is the last movie you saw in the theater?
That would be Baby Driver, seen when David and I were visiting some of his family in Boston. I had to look it up to remember when it was (2017). It was a surprisingly good time, and it featured a music score I really appreciated, including Queen's 'Brighton Rock.'
Then whatever the hell that was about Kevin Spacey broke, and was followed by a whole bunch of other information about certain Hollywood people, and it leeched all the fun right out of the experience.
Still, the core memory is of a really nice evening.
thefridayfive1. What is your all time favorite book?
I must concede defeat and go with Vivian Vande Velde's Companions of the Night (1995), which I read countless times as a teenager, and which I revisited a year ago and to my astonishment it still held up as a thriller, as an exploration of vampire lore, as a YA novel skirting the edge of paranormal romance, and as a character study of a teenage girl thrown into insane circumstances. It's still my highest standard for a believably dangerous vampire love interest and I read the book in two sittings because it remained highly compelling after all these years.
2. What is your all time favorite movie?
The Third Man (1949) has continued to beat all comers and has never gone down in my estimation across multiple watches. It's basically a perfect film to me. The feel-good variation on this movie-making perfection would be Casablanca (1942), but The Third Man nudges it because of the score.
3. What are you reading right now?
Arthur C. Clarke. 2001: A Space Odyssey. About thirty pages from the end, though! I will likely make a post about it.
4. What is your favorite show on TV?
My usual comfort show for many years has been the combined twelve seasons of Buffy and Angel. Bad things would happen and that's where David and I would go, curling up and watching it until we could recite swathes of dialogue. Other shows where I have lost count of the number of times I've seen them have been The Wire and Highlander, and my chief source of writing inspiration has been Jeremiah, but the Buffyverse was the only show where we got to the end and instantly started over.
5. What is the last movie you saw in the theater?
That would be Baby Driver, seen when David and I were visiting some of his family in Boston. I had to look it up to remember when it was (2017). It was a surprisingly good time, and it featured a music score I really appreciated, including Queen's 'Brighton Rock.'
Then whatever the hell that was about Kevin Spacey broke, and was followed by a whole bunch of other information about certain Hollywood people, and it leeched all the fun right out of the experience.
Still, the core memory is of a really nice evening.
Completed TW fic
May. 2nd, 2025 03:56 pmIt's a rainy day. I finished In Abeyance this morning, which owing to circumstances, is the hardest thing I have ever had to write, but now it is behind me, and I think it accomplished what I wanted it to.
It's also the longest thing I've written, at 34,754 words. Because of course.
It's also the longest thing I've written, at 34,754 words. Because of course.
Writing progress
Apr. 26th, 2025 02:05 pmHaven't had much heart for writing since my last post on the topic, but there are now five scenes left to finish on In Abeyance.
1.Requires some quick canon review and is a really short scene.
2.Is a headache setting up various nuanced character arcs going forward and trying to crowbar some logic into freaking Teen Wolf.
3.Requires significant dialogue among the five people in the scene, including a sincere apology from Derek Hale, and again has to justify a bunch of weird decisions that the show "justified" with a jump cut.
4.Is a villain monologue. Preceded by a bunch of action, so canon review for this will require me to hit pause every two seconds to note which werewolf is getting thrown in what direction. Lydia rarely has to witness action scenes, thankfully.
5.Is the big creepy crescendo and was mostly done in December. Needs a few connecting paragraphs.
Home stretch...
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Recent stuff
Apr. 23rd, 2025 07:11 amViewing: The original 1940 film Gaslight has been uploaded to YouTube so I watched that this week. It would have been better with a more subtle and charismatic actor playing the husband, because he was too villainous even when he was supposed to be persuasive. However, the core concept was very frightening to watch, and lent the film greater suspense than I expected.
Meanwhile, it took until Series Eight, which has a weak reputation, for me to get the version of Doctor Who I always secretly wanted, with the towering toxicity of a Doctor/companion dynamic on overdrive. Twelve and Clara are insane about each other, and every second is riveting. I am eager to see how it all shakes out and am enjoying Capaldi's Doctor so much. The Doctor being older just works so well for me. It's like the story has finally clicked for me. This is also the first time in watching where I have felt really keen to go back and check out the classic run to get all the lore that feeds into this.
Cooking: I have a lot of random ingredients in my pantry, so as I reorganized everything I have decided to select one item at a time and figure out what to use it in. So one randomly regifted cup of red rice got made into Cajun red rice. Honestly, I see no meaningful difference between red and brown rice, so that part was a little whatever, but the dish was tasty.
Reading: I was in an antique shop this week which had old paperbacks for 50 cents each, and I scooped up a few. I'm extremely done with literary fiction for the moment, as every damn one published seems to require a downer ending to prove its worthiness or something. So I grabbed two pulpy romantic suspense (also called gothic) novels, one Inspector Finch mystery (which is apparently gothic-adjacent), one historical novel by Daphne Du Maurier (The Glass-Blowers) and two works of science fiction (2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke and Dragonsdawn by Anne McCaffrey).
I read Dragonflight when I was about fourteen, and was so impressed by the time travel portion that I forgave it all else. I also never read another Pern novel because I didn't want to spoil the effect with subpar sequels (I was very nervous about sequels growing up, which I think carried forward into my enjoyment of cancelled TV - you can't screw up the ending if there isn't one). I have no idea if it would hold up.
But at least I have a stack of books which might qualify as escapist in some way or another.
Meanwhile, it took until Series Eight, which has a weak reputation, for me to get the version of Doctor Who I always secretly wanted, with the towering toxicity of a Doctor/companion dynamic on overdrive. Twelve and Clara are insane about each other, and every second is riveting. I am eager to see how it all shakes out and am enjoying Capaldi's Doctor so much. The Doctor being older just works so well for me. It's like the story has finally clicked for me. This is also the first time in watching where I have felt really keen to go back and check out the classic run to get all the lore that feeds into this.
Cooking: I have a lot of random ingredients in my pantry, so as I reorganized everything I have decided to select one item at a time and figure out what to use it in. So one randomly regifted cup of red rice got made into Cajun red rice. Honestly, I see no meaningful difference between red and brown rice, so that part was a little whatever, but the dish was tasty.
Reading: I was in an antique shop this week which had old paperbacks for 50 cents each, and I scooped up a few. I'm extremely done with literary fiction for the moment, as every damn one published seems to require a downer ending to prove its worthiness or something. So I grabbed two pulpy romantic suspense (also called gothic) novels, one Inspector Finch mystery (which is apparently gothic-adjacent), one historical novel by Daphne Du Maurier (The Glass-Blowers) and two works of science fiction (2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke and Dragonsdawn by Anne McCaffrey).
I read Dragonflight when I was about fourteen, and was so impressed by the time travel portion that I forgave it all else. I also never read another Pern novel because I didn't want to spoil the effect with subpar sequels (I was very nervous about sequels growing up, which I think carried forward into my enjoyment of cancelled TV - you can't screw up the ending if there isn't one). I have no idea if it would hold up.
But at least I have a stack of books which might qualify as escapist in some way or another.
Forward Motion
Apr. 17th, 2025 11:11 amJust to keep my motivation somewhat high, writing wise:
The last chapter of In Abeyance had eight scenes left to finish this morning. It is now down to seven.*
The next chapter of Sidelined feels overlong, so I think I will split it at a logical point I found. If so, that only has six scenes left to do.
*Edit: Down to six! Thank you, cheerleaders!
The last chapter of In Abeyance had eight scenes left to finish this morning. It is now down to seven.*
The next chapter of Sidelined feels overlong, so I think I will split it at a logical point I found. If so, that only has six scenes left to do.
*Edit: Down to six! Thank you, cheerleaders!
Some thoughts on Ultraviolet (1998)
Apr. 10th, 2025 11:00 amAnother YouTube upload I discovered, and since it was only six episodes long, I gave it a try. After all, it has Stringer Bell and Jane Bennett hunting vampires. There was no way I didn't want to see that. And Susannah Harker was a revelation as Angie, who is so reserved and yet so destroyed, with the darkest backstory of anyone in the show. Having only seen her playing sweet Jane, it was so fascinating to watch.
Idris Elba as Vaughan was also great, but less surprising to me. There was also Philip Quast as the sardonic, scary as hell priest leading the team, who started out fairly background but whose role expanded at the end.
The first episode is somewhat dry, as it prefers to focus on Everyman Copper Michael (played by Jack Davenport, who I guess is famous from a bunch of stuff I've never seen), newly initiated into the vampire hunting life when his best friend Jack is turned. Between the show's avoidance of actual vampire discussion (the word is never used in any episode) and the requirement of setting up Michael's ordinary life before it all goes to hell, it's mostly just getting the pieces in position, but as of the second episode it turns into an extremely dark, gripping procedural with 90s conspiracy overtones.
It's also an unusual take on vampire warfare because the vampires rarely get their hands dirty, preferring to manipulate humans to do their work for them. They are organized and scientifically-minded, trying to preserve their increasingly self-destructive food supply. Meanwhile, their food supply objects to losing their status as the dominant predator of the world. It's a very cold premise, that keeps borrowing 90s headlines to lend a sense of realism to proceedings. There are definitely victims of the vampires, but they don't kill to feed, so the war is a vicious, silent struggle for dominance while regular people wander clueless, occasionally used as pawns or guinea pigs. Meanwhile, Michael looks on in horror, unsure if he's completely buying in or not, and toying with the hope of getting fired.
The writing throughout is quite subtle, and it rarely spells things out for the audience, which I appreciated a lot. Further thoughts under a cut. ( Read more... )
Idris Elba as Vaughan was also great, but less surprising to me. There was also Philip Quast as the sardonic, scary as hell priest leading the team, who started out fairly background but whose role expanded at the end.
The first episode is somewhat dry, as it prefers to focus on Everyman Copper Michael (played by Jack Davenport, who I guess is famous from a bunch of stuff I've never seen), newly initiated into the vampire hunting life when his best friend Jack is turned. Between the show's avoidance of actual vampire discussion (the word is never used in any episode) and the requirement of setting up Michael's ordinary life before it all goes to hell, it's mostly just getting the pieces in position, but as of the second episode it turns into an extremely dark, gripping procedural with 90s conspiracy overtones.
It's also an unusual take on vampire warfare because the vampires rarely get their hands dirty, preferring to manipulate humans to do their work for them. They are organized and scientifically-minded, trying to preserve their increasingly self-destructive food supply. Meanwhile, their food supply objects to losing their status as the dominant predator of the world. It's a very cold premise, that keeps borrowing 90s headlines to lend a sense of realism to proceedings. There are definitely victims of the vampires, but they don't kill to feed, so the war is a vicious, silent struggle for dominance while regular people wander clueless, occasionally used as pawns or guinea pigs. Meanwhile, Michael looks on in horror, unsure if he's completely buying in or not, and toying with the hope of getting fired.
The writing throughout is quite subtle, and it rarely spells things out for the audience, which I appreciated a lot. Further thoughts under a cut. ( Read more... )
Thoughts and Observations on The Prisoner
Mar. 30th, 2025 09:49 pmSo I have finished The Prisoner and it is indeed the granddaddy of all cult TV shows. It is exceptionally weird, and at once extremely 1967 and incredibly ahead of the curve. Patrick McGoohan set out to break the rules of rational television in seventeen episodes, paving the way for all your favorite weird cult sci fi/fantasy shows, and I don't think it's overstating it to say that. Consequently, I would warmly recommend this show to anyone who loves freakish TV for its own sake.
Also, the unusually long title sequence actually forms a pretty awesome clue as to what not to expect.
Number Two: "We want information."
Number Six: "You won't get it."
Further thoughts under a cut. ( Read more... )
Also, the unusually long title sequence actually forms a pretty awesome clue as to what not to expect.
Number Two: "We want information."
Number Six: "You won't get it."
Further thoughts under a cut. ( Read more... )
The Prisoner as metaphor
Mar. 26th, 2025 03:55 pmI am two episodes away from finishing The Prisoner. The grandaddy of all weird cult TV shows. I should really have watched it years ago, and it's oddly comforting to me currently. I had to get away from shows I was currently watching when David passed,* and this, with its hero stripped from an understandable existence with no means of getting back to it no matter what he tries, has really worked for me.
This is obviously not the usual metaphoric lense for this particular show, but I'll take it.
I'll have more practical thoughts on the show as a whole soon.
*Obviously not forever, just really needing a break before I try to carry on.
This is obviously not the usual metaphoric lense for this particular show, but I'll take it.
I'll have more practical thoughts on the show as a whole soon.
*Obviously not forever, just really needing a break before I try to carry on.
Fic in Progress
Mar. 21st, 2025 01:18 pmBecause I really need two multi-chapter stories being posted at once. It's another Jeremiah AU sprouting from the first season finale. It's also the tropiest thing I have yet attempted, and would not stop growing during the past couple years toying with it. So at least the first chapter is now done.
Sidelined
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Archive Warning: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Category: F/F
Fandom: Jeremiah (TV)
Relationship: Theo Coleridge/Erin
Characters: Theo Coleridge, Erin
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, On the Run, Female Friendship, Women Being Awesome, concussion, temporary memory loss, Hurt/Comfort, Huddling For Warmth
I have no ETA on the second chapter. It is... fairly well-planned, at least. Wish me luck.
Sidelined
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Archive Warning: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Category: F/F
Fandom: Jeremiah (TV)
Relationship: Theo Coleridge/Erin
Characters: Theo Coleridge, Erin
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, On the Run, Female Friendship, Women Being Awesome, concussion, temporary memory loss, Hurt/Comfort, Huddling For Warmth
I have no ETA on the second chapter. It is... fairly well-planned, at least. Wish me luck.
Tagging is hard
Mar. 6th, 2025 03:06 pmTrauma bonding. This refers to yet another subset of abuse dynamics, wherein trauma is used to create a bond with the abuser.
Not, as I thought, two or more traumatized people bonding over their horrific experiences.
There goes another of my tags...
Not, as I thought, two or more traumatized people bonding over their horrific experiences.
There goes another of my tags...
Film: The Last Musketeer
Mar. 6th, 2025 12:56 pmMy mother used to be very keen on keeping physical media. Less so these days, as she lives in a smaller space. Consequently, she handed over her boxes of DVDs to my discretion, and since I only have slightly more space, they are stacked out of the way and I can only go through them one at a time. It is a hodgepodge of her particular interests:
BBC and other British productions. Some comedy collections (Fawlty Towers, Python, Jeeves and Wooster), lots of Acorn Media.
Anything set in particularly northern climates (Iceland, Scotland, Scandinavia and so on). Crime thrillers, romance, survival, fantasy - any genre if there's potential snow on the ground.
Foreign films, which I suspect will mostly be from Europe or the middle and far east.
Horror. Hammer Films, grindhouse, American Werewolf in London, The Thing.
Costume dramas. Might be some Merchant Ivory. Adaptations of classic literature.
A small selection of classic Hollywood. I glimpsed All About Eve and a Joan Crawford film.
A random assemblage of sci fi TV shows. First season of The X-Files and Carnivale. Season 3 & 4 of Lexx. Dead Like Me (which she tried to get me to watch years ago and I bounced off it hard). Kolchak. Odyssey 5.
So this will keep me occupied in some of my endless evenings. Giving it a try, I began with The Last Musketeer, a Scottish Television movie starring Robson Green (who I spent the entire film thinking of as discount Jason Isaacs, but he's a big deal for fans of Wire in the Blood and gave an enjoyable performance). He's a wannabe Olympic fencer with anger management problems and a criminal "past." He starts the film as a rat bastard, runs away from a gun deal gone bad and hides out at a Scottish girls' school as the new fencing teacher, where he proceeds to bond with an equally angry student (who gets a crush on him) and have an unprofessional affair with the headmistress (to allay audience fears about the former point). He learns more than his students and becomes a better man, facing up to his past and all that.
I'm not sure the plot is particularly realistic, although it was made in 2000 so maybe hiring a man in an educational position with zero background checks and not throwing him out when he confesses to having been in prison was less eyebrow-raising at the time.
Maybe it was my mood, but I found it very agreeable regardless. It's got fencing (in slow-mo so you have a hope of seeing anything), it's got a knife fight, it's got overly-intense age gap interactions and it pretends to be a crime story but is actually a nice character study as Rat Bastard grows as a person. It has Philip Hinchcliffe as executive producer and I might be the only person in three states who has a copy, so I am content to keep it.
BBC and other British productions. Some comedy collections (Fawlty Towers, Python, Jeeves and Wooster), lots of Acorn Media.
Anything set in particularly northern climates (Iceland, Scotland, Scandinavia and so on). Crime thrillers, romance, survival, fantasy - any genre if there's potential snow on the ground.
Foreign films, which I suspect will mostly be from Europe or the middle and far east.
Horror. Hammer Films, grindhouse, American Werewolf in London, The Thing.
Costume dramas. Might be some Merchant Ivory. Adaptations of classic literature.
A small selection of classic Hollywood. I glimpsed All About Eve and a Joan Crawford film.
A random assemblage of sci fi TV shows. First season of The X-Files and Carnivale. Season 3 & 4 of Lexx. Dead Like Me (which she tried to get me to watch years ago and I bounced off it hard). Kolchak. Odyssey 5.
So this will keep me occupied in some of my endless evenings. Giving it a try, I began with The Last Musketeer, a Scottish Television movie starring Robson Green (who I spent the entire film thinking of as discount Jason Isaacs, but he's a big deal for fans of Wire in the Blood and gave an enjoyable performance). He's a wannabe Olympic fencer with anger management problems and a criminal "past." He starts the film as a rat bastard, runs away from a gun deal gone bad and hides out at a Scottish girls' school as the new fencing teacher, where he proceeds to bond with an equally angry student (who gets a crush on him) and have an unprofessional affair with the headmistress (to allay audience fears about the former point). He learns more than his students and becomes a better man, facing up to his past and all that.
I'm not sure the plot is particularly realistic, although it was made in 2000 so maybe hiring a man in an educational position with zero background checks and not throwing him out when he confesses to having been in prison was less eyebrow-raising at the time.
Maybe it was my mood, but I found it very agreeable regardless. It's got fencing (in slow-mo so you have a hope of seeing anything), it's got a knife fight, it's got overly-intense age gap interactions and it pretends to be a crime story but is actually a nice character study as Rat Bastard grows as a person. It has Philip Hinchcliffe as executive producer and I might be the only person in three states who has a copy, so I am content to keep it.
Life update
Mar. 2nd, 2025 03:26 pmFor those who may be concerned I thought it might be time to make another post on the topic.
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