Author: Magpie
Fandom: X-Men movieverse
Pairing: Charles/Erik
Rating: PG
Words: 5,700
Author's Notes:
This is an introspective piece set five years after X2. It introduces a well known element of comicsverse canon. The title is taken from the following quote by Ernie Pyle: "War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit ( Read more... )

After a shamefully long time, I have updated Polarity (Professor X/Magneto archive) with ten new stories, all of which I enjoyed a lot, otherwise I wouldn't have asked for archival permission. So if you haven't read them already, go and do so now and don't forget to send the authors feedback.

There are new (to the archive) stories from: Bagheera-san, Girlfromsouth, Ion_bond, Lonelywalker, Musamea, Penknife ( Read more... )

This news of jab to strongly protect against cervical cancer is wonderful. I'm not a fan of too many inoculations, especially because of the heavy metals involved in most vaccines, but this is certainly one I'd want my daughter to have ( Read more... )

I know I haven't posted for well over two weeks, and I'm working on that, honest guv. But in the meantime, I have to share this for any who haven't already seen:

Xena and Gabrielle within our solar system. What will this mean for astrology? Something exciting, surely. ;)

As a small diversion on a depressing weekend afternoon, here's that 'caps from favourite films' meme. Identify or guess the film they come from ( Read more... )

It seems that the latest rumour of Kate Bush's return has actually got substance. I await with eagerness, but also a certain amount of nerves.

Now everyone's very excited by the kissing cowboys film, and so they should be. I do think they should also be excited by this however. Neil 'I like cross-dressers' Jordan writes and directs this film about ( Read more... )

This is the sequel to Grabbing Hands. Together, these stories start off a potentially ongoing project I'm calling School of the Tiger. I've made it a web page complete with pretty banner, which I won't mess up your friends page with by copying here. So go look. :p Yay, banner ( Read more... )

As usual, I missed my LJ birthday. As of the 20th, I've been on LJ three years.

On piedmargaret then mogigraphia, I've made a total of
849 posts - yup, not even made it to 1000 in three years - and 9043 comments. I've received 13659 comments.

This is a second plea for betas for my sequel to Grabbing Hands. I know it's 8-9000 words, but my stuff doesn't take that long ( Read more... )

Um, is there any someone/s out there who read and enjoyed Grabbing Hands who'd be prepared to read/beta the sequel and help me perfect it? I've been sitting on it for days now as I'm not happy with it, but I'm not getting any happier, and I think it needs someone with more perspective than me to give advice. It's about 8000 words.

For those who were interested and in case you haven't already seen, the piano man turns out to have been a sort of hoax, although the story printed by the Mirror (one of our crappy tabloids) is jumbled to the point of nonsensicalI'm sorry, not even the most musically deaf person can't tell the difference between a virtuoso performance and just ' ( Read more... )