Title: Echoes (also on AO3)
Fandoms, Characters: Sapphire & Steel - Sapphire, Steel; Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Maria Absalom (plus certain cameos)
Word Count: About 2800
Summary: Sapphire and Steel investigate curious happenings in a ruinous house.
Notes: Of the two fandoms, this fic is almost certainly more accessible from the direction of ( Read more... )

Title: Not Seeing
Fandom, Characters: Doctor Who episode `Robots of Death'; D84/Poul (ish)
Rating: PG
Word Count: About 1500
Summary: In the beginning, Poul could not imagine that his assignment to the sand miner was anything other than a Bad Idea, all the way around. Gradually, however, he discovers that at least part of the ordeal is not as ( Read more... )

I do not know what is up with my present supply of Subtext Goggles (TM). I think they have become sentient and have either begun playing dice, or else devised a very complex sorting algorithm to determine which pair will apply itself to my vision at any given time (or maybe fandom ( Read more... )

Most of a year ago, I watched the most insane production of King Lear . . . well, maybe second most insane after Nahum Tate's rewrite (which I have yet to read myself). It's a made-for-TV movie from 1953 with Orson Welles (Citizen Kane, Chimes at Midnight, etc.) as Lear. [At the time in question, I started writing this up, but evidently got ( Read more... )

It's nice to know that my petty dabblings in other people's sandboxes can have such profound effects upon others. Why, just today, I learn that my Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell / `Doubtful Guest' crossover offers profound insight into, I believe, the diagnosis and treatment of depression. I confess, I am a little uncertain about exactly what ( Read more... )

Title: Observations of Disparate Fairies
Prompt: The doubtful guest walks into a bar ballroom and meets... Emma Wintertowne!
Fandoms: `The Doubtful Guest' (Edward Gorey) and Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Word count: about 1700
Rating: G
Warnings: spoilers through chapter 26 of JS&MN
Notes and Summary: Written for intoabar. One evening, an unusual visitor ( Read more... )

I have realized, a week late, that I entirely forgot to mark my Cassius' birthday/deathday.* This feels dreadfully careless and inconsiderate of me. Howbeit, I don't think I really have anything better to do than wish Caius Cassius Longinus a belated 2052nd deathday, and 2090-something-eth birthday, which I hereby do. Happy ones, I suppose, if he ( Read more... )

Right. So. I've just watched the first six episodes of season two. And yeah, that means I got to the episode Philippi. Actually Cicero's death was marginally more moving than Cassius' and Brutus', but still . . . I mean that whole episodeI'll be in a little tragic lump in my room wishing for a copy of Appian to add to my sorrow ( Read more... )

One of the first comments I remember hearing about the series Rome was the professor of my Art and Archaeology of Ancient Rome class complaining that the wall paintings were grossly anachronistic. (I recall he also took exception to the pronunciation of the name Pompey ( Read more... )

A 1927 silent film by Fritz Lang, who later gave us M, which has Peter Lorre and will make you run for cover when you hear `In the Hall of the Mountain King'; Metropolis will do the same for Dies Irae, and possibly even the Marseillaise (or at least a slightly twisted version of it).* I say `will do' because, of course, you should totally watch it ( Read more... )