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LES MISERABLES was just stunning. The cast were fabulous, and Anne Hathaway’s performance especially just blew me away. Absolutely stunning. Disclaimer: except Russell Crowe, who has a lovely voice, but it’s just not powerful enough for the role. I may be biased, because still adore Roger Allam’s Javert, and of course Philip Quast was famous for it. OOH look, here they are performing together, how have I not seen this before. Okay, oh wow, now I've just found this "international" version Must go investigate further...I can see I'm not going to be very productive this morning...


LEWIS - I thought about trying to rec Lewis fics, but instead I’m just going to rec the entire fandom (inspector_lewis) For such a tiny fandom, we are very active. And friendly and wank-free! I’ve never been involved in a single fandom for this long before because I run away from anything that might spoil my glee. There are 14 Yuletide fics this year, plus a Secret Santa exchange running (lewis_challenge), plus other new fics regularly appearing on AO3. Yay us!

I haven’t been able to throw myself into Yuletide as completely as I usually do, due mainly to time constraints, but also I think due to the fact that I keep getting distracted by Lewis fic I’ve even been poking at a few gen fics *gasp* Only because even most of the gen fics focus on the Lewis&Hathaway friendship, tbh.


( Just a few other Yuletide recs )

I'm currently wallowing in the joy of being passionate about several fandoms - it's that time of year when it's between semesters so I can WATCH ALL THE SHOWS.

Additionally, I am enjoying fandom currently in these ways:

- Sherlock fics that people rec, links to piccies/gifs my Sherlock fandom buddy send me.

- Anything Person of Interest but that's going to fade soon ‘cause I haven't got anyone else to show the show to, and nothing more to read. New eps in September, yay!! I have LithiumDoll’s 'Every Breath You Take' vid on a lot in the background because I love this version of the song (only watch it every now and then though, and by ‘every now and then’ I mean only a few times a day.

- Avengers – reading fic, stick to recs though now, watching the cartoons with Bunny.

- I've been relistening to Cabin Pressure at work, but am a bit afraid to read fic nowadays, it all seems so angtsy and dark. Not what I want from my fluffy fluff fluff fandom.

Lewis – Occasional new fic that turns up, rewatching my favourite three songvids a lot, thinking of fic ideas.

Stargate Universe - been watching the eps, only three to go. Second season is freakin’ awesome. Not much fic I want to read on AO3, am thinking of writing something myself depending on how the series ends.

- True Blood - VIDS! FIC! Current plan is to watch it all again from scratch (and by ‘all’ I mean all the scenes with Sookie, Eric and/or Bill so I can screencap ALL their interaction - finding the time is the challenge! Am resisting urge to take a couple of days leave to wallow. *facepalm*


Randomly, have a DUE SOUTH fic rec - I haven't read DS fic in YEARS, it makes me so happy that I can still get so much pleasure from this fandom - Real Boys , by Salieri, an AU described by the author as 'a riff on Philip K. Dick's dystopia'. Fraser/Kowalski.

( Random cute piccie of my Haven threesome actors )

Haven't had a driveby pretty pic of Ben for a while...


( Haven't had random links and pics for a while, so... )

AAHAHAHA so at a vid panel at Swancon it was claimed there are no good Sherlock vids.

( I BEG TO DISAGREE )

Today on the packed train, so I couldn't escape, standing next to me were two Young People. The girl had on her inside upper arm, tattooed very large, In gods hands *cries* The boy was talking in that very loud, precise, cadenced, showing-off way about Lost Girl and how it was about a woman who is a spirit who sucks out people's souls. SO MUCH WRONG IN SUCH A CONFINED SPACE. Heroically, I restrained my inner Sheldon, and I was extra glad I'd done so when the dude started talking about it being his day to see his Custodial Officer.


Aaannd back to Sherlock -

Everybody's seen this vid where House is Sherlock's dad, right? Cat's in the Cradle


I posted a faulty link to this the other day in my assorted Sherlock recs, in case any one did link on it, and was sad, here it is again, because I it is so freakin awesome - Stunning artwork - Sherlock/John kiss animation

Normally NOT a fan of vampire AU 'verses, but this is fantastic. John is a human slave, the vampires are the ruling class. There's a plot involving the HLF (the Human Liberation Front).

A Priori 'Verse by rubberbutton (26000 words)

“So, what can you tell me?” Lestrade asks. He's got his hands tucked into the pockets of his trench coat and he toes a charred bit of furniture.

John likes Lestrade. He's is the most laid-back vampire John has ever met, and he treats John like he hasn't even noticed he's human – which, despite what Sherlock may say about his detective skills, John is reasonably sure he has.

NB: there's quite a lot of typos in the final part, which boggles my mind. Has no-one mentioned it to the author, is the culture of 'only compliments' on comments become so widespread, or does the author not care. I've PM'd her anyway *shrug*

Also, in case there's anyone yet who hasn't heard, the new Sherlock episode is AWESOME. They have outdone themselves!!!!

( One cute visual joke from the episode, not plot-spoilery )

As usual, behind in uni due to submersion in fandom, this time obsession with Sherlock leading to insane amount of fic writing, plus heaps and heaps of good telly on atm!

Over a couple of months I wrote 30k of fic, more than twice what I usually write in a year! One Lewis fic for charity, and four Sherlock fics, 1 x Sherlock/John, 1 x Sherlock/Lestrade, 1 x John/Lestrade and 1 x Sherlock/John/Lestrade.

Am now taking a break from fandom to do assignments. *SIGH*

...except that Whitechapel has just started, I will have to priorise that. What? It's only three eps!

( my recent TV viewing, probably only of interest to me )

If you have been living in a cave and have somehow not yet discovered the sheer awesome that is the new Sherlock Holmes series, check it out on youtube here!

And look, a new BBC scifi series. The Deep I have high hopes!