Earlier this year I spent four days in Toronto and Niagara Falls. I'm only now getting around to posting some photographs. Don't ask ( Read more... )

Celebrities have Twitter accounts. Everybody knows this, but in recent days it's come to my attention that many people cannot handle this information. You probably don't think you're one of those people. Maybe you're not. But what if you are?

Read on to find out.

1. Retweet. Favourite. Reply. Abort.
There is absolutely no need to retweet, ( Read more... )

Many Britons have an aversion to subtitles. I've yet to decide whether this is because of foreign language films having a (unfounded) reputation in the UK for being 'poncy' or, more likely, because of sheer laziness. Regardless, Channel 4's purchase of the rights to air Les Revenants (The Returned, for non-French speakers), a subtitled drama, was ( Read more... )

I genuinely cannot remember the last time I was seriously psyched for the start of a new television series. Then, several months ago, I heard about The Following. Over time, my anticipation - and expectations - grew to such an extent that I was bound to be disappointed. But here's the thing: I wasn't ( Read more... )

Most of you are, or at least used to be, fans of The X-Files. And we all come across weird news stories from time to time that seem to be prime examples of the kinds of cases Mulder and Scully would investigate. So if you're short of ideas for a fic or just want to read about weird shit happening, I'd advise you to look under the cut.

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Title: Eight Things That Could Have Happened in Oregon
Fandom: The X-Files
Rating: PG-13
Setting/spoilers: AU through the Pilot, blink-and-you'll-miss-it reference to seasons eight and nine.
Word count: 1,262
Disclaimer: Chris Carter doesn't share his toys.
Summary: Eight ways in which events in the Pilot could have differed ( Read more... )

Title: Continuum
Fandom: The X-Files
Rating: PG-13
Spoilers: Runs through all nine seasons and IWTB.
Word count: 8,434
Disclaimer: Characters belong to Chris Carter. Lyrics belong to John Mayer. At least the ideas are mine.

Written for scullyseviltwin's song writing ficathon. Despite that, this is not songfic. Inspired by songs, yes. Centred around them, no. ( Read more... )

Fourth in an ongoing - it is still ongoing, I swear - series of vignettes detailing Hank and Karen's lives during her pregnancy.

Title: A Kind of Poetry
Fandom: Californication
Rating: PG
Pairing: Hank/Karen
Spoilers: Working off the montage of clips from the end of In Utero but they're only brief flashes; I'm making up the story behind them.
Word ( Read more... )

Title: A Tour of Muted Interests
Fandom: The X-Files
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Mulder/Scully established
Spoilers: Set post-The Truth and bleeds into IWTB. Other spoilers for Squeeze/Tooms, Detour, Emily, The Pine Bluff Variant, Dreamland, Arcadia, Je Souhaite, DeadAlive, William.
Word count: 3,166
Disclaimer: I take no responsibility for what happens ( Read more... )