Darn it all to heck

Damn. Damndiddy Damn damn damn. I don't need another WIP to follow. You know how it goes, you start reading, you invest, you wait a year for another entry or the whole thing dies. It's a reason I'm trying to write all of my multi-part stuff before publishing. And yet... I decided to read Book's Legacy by Jedi Buttercup over on LJ. It's a post Serenity movie Firefly fic with links to the Buffyverse. The first parts seem a little sparse and I'm not a fan of "ficlet series" - if you've got that much of a story to tell, tell it proper - but she's up to Chapter 5 now and is starting to write longer parts which have shape to them. She's captured Mal's voice for the narrative, and the dialogue for the others works well (although we've yet to see Inara). The breakfast scene in part 5 made me burst out laughing. Since good firefly fic is hard to find, I'm going to be following this WIP from now on.

tastes like...Mountain Dew (some recs)

Makd has done her big ole list of fic recs for Angel season 5. I am making some in-roads into the first post of it because, damn, that gal reads a lot of fic. Given this is just the best of the best, I shudder to imagine how much fic she actually reads in order to produce these lists. I've not even started working through the previous ones (and, obviously, my Spuffysense is tingling at what new treats might lurk in the Buffy season 7 recs). So, a handful of recs from the recs list...

• Summer Girl by Kath
  pre-Angel season 5. Wes and Angel character piece with lots of lovely detail and flashbacks to the pre-Angel season 2 summer. If that makes sense.


• Reclaimation by Jenny O
  "And one day, not an especially important day, Cordelia wakes up."
  Great Cordy AU piece. Heavy with the snark and making me laugh.

totally meh

The weather is still shitty, though I did a nice wholesome walk to the shops today, and the cat is still behind the sofa.

4,061 / 8,000 (50.7%)

still working

It's cold, windy and raining outside. The cat is huddled in its favourite hiding place behind the sofa due to overexcited idiots letting off fireworks a week before Guy Fawkes Night. there is nowt on telly that I want to watch and so...

3,826 / 8,000 (47.8%)

WIP, er, progress

Ignore the fact that "WIP progress" is a what'sit...because it actually means "Work in Progress progress". Isn't this a neat tool?

2,842 / 8,000 (35.5%)

This is from the zukutou website and shows the progress of Even Cowgirls Get the Blues.

Serenity in 2000 Words or Less

Serenity in 2000 words with BIG BIG spoilers, people.

JAYNE: Reavers!

REAVERS: GRAAAR!

EVERYBODY ELSE: Run away like little girls!

oh yeah, and the gorram fic

I got hold of all three issues of the Serenity comic yesterday, devoured them (not literally) and realised they didn't effect the fic I've been dawdling over since the other week. The whole thing is definitely called Even Cowgirls Get the Blues and I finished part 1 of it, provisionally titled The Best Little Whorehouse on the Rim, last night but I want to write the other three parts before I post it.

The Serenity comic does a very nice job of moving us from somewhere after Out of Gas through to somewhere before Serenity the movie. Joss always seems to get some of the finest comic book artists around - the run on Astounishing X-Men is beautiful - and this is no exception. Yet the whole thing reads like a bit of a continuity exercise: villains from the series return only to make way, in the final panels, to the Agent from the film. Badger - and who doesn't love Badger? - reappears and helpfully mentions the twins who replace him in the film. The reason Book has left is revealed. It presses all the fan buttons, in other words.

nearly there

I've applied the shiny new styles to the blog, and finished reformatting all the fiction. I've even got the RSS feeds for the links on the other stuff pages to look more or less right. There is still the following to solve:

• formatting of the blogroll


• formatting of other other lists in the left hand column of the blog


• that gorram bug with IE