Lots of people have written lots of essays about why some shows work in a fannish sense while other, perfectly good ones fail to elicit the same kind of fic-producing response. I'm not sure what the reasons for that might be in a larger, more general sense--it is one of the Great Fandom Mysteries.

But lozenger8 made a list of her top five favourite ( Read more... )

First and foremost - I apologize for the lateness of my post. But uh, better late than never, eh? And I must admit that I failed to heed the 5 P's: Proper preperation presents poor performance. Forgive me, Ben ( Read more... )

Today's rec is courtesy of Vividcon, which is fast approaching and has me in the mood for vids!

Pavlov's Bell by butterfly

I love the mood created by this vid -- tentative, plaintive, but filled with so much hope. It's a vid inspired by lyrics but not driven by lyrics (my favorite kind of vid these days). Just allow yourself to get a sense of them--

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Let's talk about Ray Kowalski. Or better even, let's have a look at him first. A close look. I tell you what I like about RayK, and then you tell me what you like about him, okay?


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After ds_recs is over, what do you do ( Read more... )

ETA: Now with links to ALL recs ( Read more... )

Let's face it…we love the Rays.


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So, recently, in a conversation with brooklinegirl and strangecobwebs, I mentioned that I believe that I was supposed to be a Canadian. And a redhead, but that's another story all together. It's no surprise that with my love of all things Canadian, I ended up in the Due South fandom.

In light of that, and because I'm piggybacking off of minervacat's fantastic Chicago post from ( Read more... )

(look at me: i took five straight days off from work last weekend and totally lost track of date, time and THINGS I WAS SUPPOSED TO BE DOING. sorry about the day-lateness of this ( Read more... )

Hi, I'm Sage and I kind of have a thing about setting... I love the way a well-developed setting will contextualize a story and give characters depth beyond what's shown in the script. One of my few complaints about Due South is that, thanks to the show's frequently terrible lighting, it's sometimes really hard to SEE what's on the screen ( Read more... )