Here's the latest installment of my Star Trek original series watch-through.  The fight choreography on this show is proving to be an endless source of hilarity to me.  I mean, look at this:


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There's a meme that's been going around (I picked it up from isiscaughey, but I know I've seen it elsewhere) where the idea is that you post 10 fanfics that have stayed with you for whatever reason. I thought that sounded like a fun excuse to link y'all to some fics I love, so here goes ( Read more... )

I haven't enjoyed an episode of Doctor Who this much in a long while ( Read more... )

If you're looking to add some more active LJ fandom folk to your friends list, there's a lively friending meme going on over at the_redjay's journal.


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We have a new Doctor!  A new start!  Alas, it seems like my disconnect from recent Doctor Who was due to showrunner more than actor playing the Doctor, and that hasn't changed.  Still, this was an okay episode with some things I very much enjoyed in this episode in addition to the things that I disliked.

The Good-Peter Capaldi as the Doctor.  He ( Read more... )

While I wait for the new episode of Doctor Who to be legally available in my area, I'm going to talk about a different decades-old institution of SF television:  Star Trek.  I've been continuing my Star Trek TOS watch through, but I've been seriously negligent about posting episode reactions like I said I would.  So here is a post about LOTS of ( Read more... )

What are you currently reading?
I just yesterday finished The Silvered by Tanya Huff and haven't yet picked up a new book, so I'll talk about that book for this question.  I enjoyed The Silvered.  It's a high fantasy with werewolves, mages, and a bit of steampunk flavor.  Unlike many werewolf stories, these werewolves are not only open about their ( Read more... )

I'm looking forward to going home to Atlanta later this month to see my family and go to DragonCon.  I have done less about cosplaying than I meant to, but we'll see what can be done in the last few weeks, and I have no problems with either sticking to old costumes or spending day out of costume.  So in the midst of my overall excitement about the ( Read more... )

Sorry for not posting much lately.  I have a lot of stuff I could potentially be talking about, but instead of any substantive entry, I'm doing a meme I grabbed from honorh and wendymr.

Pick 12 characters from any fandoms and list them before you read the questions that follow.Here's my character list ( Read more... )

I've been very much enjoying participating in the new-ish comm tumblr_refuge, which was founded by people trying to have a fandom space of respectful community and substantive communication, which tend to be lacking in tumblr.  Mostly it's been Sherlock-focused, because the Sherlock fandom on tumblr has apparently been pretty toxic lately (not much on my dash, ( Read more... )