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Title: The Fox and the Star
Fandom: The X-Files
Rating: G
Pairing: Mulder/Scully
Spoilers: Set post-IWTB, pre-Revival. I have deliberately been avoiding Revival spoilers, so if anything is accurate it's pure coincidence.
Word count: 662
Disclaimer: The characters aren't mine; the book mentioned isn't mine. I have nothing.
Summary: Mulder reads ( Read more... )

Title: Dawn Chorus
Fandom: The X-Files
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Mulder/Scully
Spoilers: Nothing explicit, but set post-IWTB, pre-Revival.
Word count: 2,304
Disclaimer: I'm not writing the new episodes, nor do I personally know anyone who is. I'm available, though, Chris...
Summary: Scully sees Mulder in a suit again for the first time in years.

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There are a few shows from the US's autumn (or should I say 'fall'?) lineup that are slowly making their way to the UK, and I'll give maybe half a dozen of them a try: Gotham, The Strain (I watched the pilot and was less than impressed, so I might ditch it), Intruders, The Knick, Madam Secretary if a UK channel invests in it. But the one that I'm ( Read more... )

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He is an arrogant genius with brilliant powers of deduction and a willingness to break the law if he feels it morally justifiable. He is easily bored, enjoys music, and isn't ( Read more... )

Hadley Freeman, a Guardian journalist, has written an article about how no celebrities would talk to her at the BAFTA afterparty on Sunday night ( Read more... )

Arsenal striker Olivier Giroud today admitted to cheating on his wife after a photograph of him in his underwear, accompanied by a kiss-and-tell story, appeared in the newspapers. The football player took to Twitter to confess and to apologise, and the reaction was... well, shocking ( Read more... )

Note: minor spoilers throughout. What I'd consider to be the only major spoiler is under a cut.

Chris Carter has a pilot called The After currently available to view via Amazon. The summary reads thusly: 'Eight strangers are thrown together by mysterious forces and must help each other survive in a violent world that defies explanation.' Which ( Read more... )

Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan was on TV tonight and as I write this it's currently trending on Twitter. Scrolling through the comments has left me a little... confused? annoyed? I'm not quite sure. 'Unsettled' perhaps covers it best ( Read more... )

The final episode of The Tunnel airs in the UK next week. For those who haven't heard of it - and I doubt many will have; it doesn't seem to have had a lot of media focus and I don't know anybody else who has watched it - it revolves around British and French police having to work together after a body is found in the Eurotunnel, right at the ( Read more... )