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08:34 pm
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My Fic Masterlist - Last Updated 27th September 2009
This list is a work in progress; I’ll be smartening it up as and when I get time. Most of my fic is set in the Life on Mars universe; nearly all of it is slash – that’s a male/male relationship. If that bothers you, don’t read any further.
Tags: chica_fic, doctorwho fic, fic, flashslash, gen, gene/sam, greenday, harrypotter, het, la_chica_de_ayer, lomfic, sam/gene, slash
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02:54 pm
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Mikey/Billie
I may have mentioned before that I love Mike Dirnt...
Tags: greenday
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09:24 am
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Busy Busy...
Well, it's been a stressful old week, with two major deadlines for today and one major excitement, also for today...
(1) Deadline for youngest son's secondary school applications today - he desperately wants to go the the same school as his older brothers, despite the fact that there are concerns about deteriorating behaviour there. I had a row with the Headmaster about it on Wednesday morning, right out in the corridor at the Open Morning OMG. I asked a polite question based on a couple of things I'd seen as I went round (the whole of Year Ten banned from the library at lunchtimes ufn????) and he went ballistic. Outright denial, seriously hostile. Youngest son still wants to go there even though he was stood right next to me during the argument! Application submitted and confirmed, now I just have to join the group of parents who are putting together a joint letter of concern about the bad behaviour. *sigh*
(2) Deadline for oldest son's Work Experience today. At our school we were given the impression that it's up to the parents to use their contacts (like I have any), and then the kids with total losers for parents will be found something by the council's work experience admin people. Turns out other counties have the kids researching local companies and writing to them cold, with a deadline some time in January ffs. Apparently the researching and writing is supposed to be part of the learning process. Duh. Application filled in, supporting cv typed up, one contact approached but not looking hopeful, application returned to school this morning.
(3) Green Day!!! Oh yeah, Green Day tickets went on sale at nine this morning for Wembley Stadium next June. I used TicketMaster last time, but this time the gig didn't even exist on the site until quarter to nine, so major worry time. Still, I GOT ME SOME TICKETS and I'm going to Wembley! I shall be even further away from the action this time - Mikey will just be a tiny speck in the distance boo hoo.
Tags: diary, edu-rant, greenday, ramblings
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11:13 pm
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Fic - The Only One, White Cortina, by DorsetGirl (Survival Series)
. Title: The Only One (Survival Series) Author: DorsetGirl Fandom: Life on Mars Disclaimer: I don’t own these characters or their universe. BBC/Kudos do. I’m not making any money out of this. Rating: White Cortina Pairings: Sam/Gene Word Count: 100 Summary: A brief look at Gene on Sam’s first night in hospital A/N: A fairly extreme case of Real Life has meant that I haven’t been around much this year apart from the drabble challenges. However, I’m still very much in the fandom, and still writing when I get time. If anyone remembers my Survival series, I haven’t forgotten it for a moment, and I have several stories for it almost finished. When RL lets up for a moment I hope to get those done and posted. In the meantime, this drabble was originally the opening paragraph to another story for the series, but Annie took that over and turned it into a Porntober wank!fic (which should be posted soon) so I thought I’d rescue this and post it separately. The scene takes place the same evening as Watching, after the events described in Out to Lunch Previously Posted: Not The Dark (by dakfinv) / Body & Soul / Nightmare / Another Day / Watching / Hope / In The Eye Of The Beholder / Breaking Through /Still With Us / On The Road to Freedom / Not Just a Cry For Help / Keep Taking the Tablets / Breaking Glass / Useless / Out to Lunch / Still Want You / Fighting to Survive / Into the Dark / Talk to Me
( The Only One )
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11:58 am
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Holiday!
Which just happens to be one of my favourite Green Day songs, but more to the point, we're about to set off (at last) for the second week of our Norfolk holiday.
And tonight I can get back to what I really feel like doing atm, which is dreaming about last night's concert, and Mike Dirnt in particular!!!!
♥ ♥
Tags: diary, greenday
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05:57 am
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I'll have the one on the right...
Seems like it's official then: I love Mike Dirnt.
Went to see Green Day last night, at the O2 in London, and loved every minute. But every time Mike came down the catwalk it drove me insane that I couldn't get down there to touch him. All through the show I was so frustrated that I was in the same space as Mike Dirnt and couldn't get any closer. Didn't quite expect that, to be honest. Well, I sort of did, but didn't think it would be so strong and persistent! Just wanted to get down there and hug the man. It was noticeable that all the people who got on stage obviously felt the same way! Everyone expects people to go and kiss Billie, but they were going for Mike too, lucky bastards.
I'd been quite worried that OH and I would stand out like sore thumbs as being so much older than everyone else, but that wasn't the case. Probably a good half of the audience was over 35. I got home about 1am last night, as two major routes towards my town were both closed and we had to go the very long way round. I'd intended to post straight away but was too totally knackered.
Anyway: the set list will be posted elsewhere, for them that cares (ETA: it's here at Green Day Community), but the whole show was fantastic. I'm scarcely awake yet, but I'm still buzzing from the feeling of being in such a great show. I'd been worried that we were too far back from the stage to really feel the atmosphere, and there was a certain amount of that. Also, having watched so much on YouTube it was like - OK, I'll have a close-up now please. But the moment they came on, most of the audience stood up, and then Billie started pointing to all sections of the audience in turn commanding - no other word for it - that everyone stand up. I had a brilliant view; I was right by a stairway so there was no-one immediately in front of me and I could see perfectly over the heads of everyone.
I'm going on holiday today so I haven't got time to faff about with uploading pics, in fact I haven't even had time to watch them yet. The O2 apparently has a strict no-camera policy, but we weren't asked when we went in, and people were openly filming all the way through. Looking down into the pit there was just this sea of little white rectangles from everyone's camera screens.
I know this is pretty incoherent but that's pretty much how I feel atm. My biggest impression was that despite all the screaming and hand-waving and singing along as loud as I could, what was missing was that I wanted to get down there and simply thank every member of the band personally for such a brilliant show, for just being so totally awesome.
Tags: diary, greenday
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10:40 am
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Who knew that reading "A Classic" could be interesting?
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Not me, that’s for sure. I’ve been reading Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë over the past week or so, along with the members of ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) booklickers, started by the lovely ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) candesgirl. It’s A Classic. Which for many people is an automatic turnoff. ( Cut for length and spoilers )
Tags: book_club, ramblings
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11:50 am
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Here we go, here we go, here we go...
Off on hols at last (Norfolk Broads, yay!)
If I get back in time, I'll see some of you next week for the play and the TRA meetup.
♥ ♥
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01:22 pm
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This Brings a Whole New Meaning to Drawing in Sand
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If you haven't already watched this, do so now! This is the winner of "Ukraine's Got Talent" and I've never seen anything like it. (Links courtesy of wonderful Ian Wylie.)
Warning - you'll need tissues. Safe for work unless emotion isn't allowed where you are.
Read this first
Then watch this
Tags: ramblings
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02:31 pm
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A little help, please? Amer!pick needed
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I have a short fic in which a character has "more front than the Cerne fucking Giant", and as he's American (Californian) I'd really like a suitable local version.
Any ideas? Or isn't this a phrase that's used in the US? (The common version here is "more front than Blackpool", but the overt display of the Giant is relevant to the story).
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10:32 pm
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Drabble - Sunset
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A small scene-setter for No Regrets
( Sunset )
Tags: fic, gene/sam, lomfic, relationship, sam/gene, slash
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01:01 am
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LOMFic - A Bit of a Girl - Blue Cortina
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Title: A Bit of a Girl
Author: DorsetGirl
Fandom: Life on Mars
Rating: Blue Cortina for a little language
Word Count: 630 approx
Pairing: Sam, Gene (pre-slash)
Summary: Being a successful man in 2006 doesn’t guarantee results in 1973
A/N: Just about the only good thing to come out of completely losing my hard disk recently was rootling around the backup disks and realising how much nearly-finished fic I had lying about waiting for tidying up. This one spoke to me so I thought I’d try to get it done and posted. A bit different from my usual, perhaps; I hope you like it.
( A Bit of a Girl )
Tags: fic, gene/sam, sam/gene, slash
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11:30 pm
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LOMFic - Past Imperfect, White Cortina
Title: Past Imperfect
Author: DorsetGirl
Fandom: Life on Mars
Rating: White Cortina
Word Count: 1,380 approx
Pairing: Gene/Sam, Past Gene/OMC
Summary: Gene unexpectedly meets an ex
( Past Imperfect )
Tags: fic, fluff, gene/sam, lomfic, relationship, sam/gene, slash
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08:48 am
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Summary: This is probably the best film-of-the-book I have ever seen.
Most films-of-the-book - indeed most films, in my limited experience - are total crap. The action is ramped up at the expense of plot and characterisation, and a Hollywood shmaltzy ending is crowbarred in regardless of whether it makes sense. The Harry Potter films, for me, are proof that it doesn’t have to be like that.
It would be nice if Hollywood would note that a strong author with - presumably - an unprecedented degree of editorial control, and a screenwriter who totally gets the book, can produce a very good film indeed.
I’ve read some pretty poor reviews of this film, and I can see why some people wouldn’t have enjoyed it - the Independent sent some idiot who doesn’t even like Harry Potter as far as I can see, and spent half the review moaning about the lack of sex. In the film, that is, although perhaps he was suffering personally too. But I think anyone who loves the book - and I do find it difficult to understand why anyone who wants to see the films wouldn’t have read the books - would find little to complain about here.
( cut for length and Spoilers )
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All in all, I liked the film a lot. I hardly ever go to the cinema because even the films I desperately want to see generally turn out to be disappointing. I am totally a book person, not a film person. But this one absolutely worked for me. I can’t think of a film-of-the-book that has ever been better than the book; I don’t think - for me at least - that’s even possible, but this one left me with one overall impression.
Simply put, this film IS Jo’s book, on the screen.
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Tags: diary, harrypotter, ramblings
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07:43 pm
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La Chica de Ayer Fic - Princesa
Title: Princesa (English-language fic) Author: DorsetGirl Fandom: La Chica de Ayer (Spanish Life on Mars) Disclaimer: I don’t own these characters or their universe. BBC/Kudos/Antena3 do. I’m not making any money out of this. Rating: Cortina Blanca Word Count: 270 approx Summary: Now Quin really does want to kiss Samuel A/N: Necesitaba fic. Aquí es. I never intended to write LCDA fic - apart from anything else, I do tend to think it ought to be written in Spanish! But Quin owns my soul, and he wanted this written. Thanks toclonesgirl for checking it made sense. ( Princesa )
Tags: chica_fic, fic, la_chica_de_ayer, quin/samuel, slash
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10:32 am
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LOM Drabble - Sunshine
Just a quick drive-by posting while I’m round at the library. For some reason I'm only getting the html option, so please excuse any poor formatting.
100 words excluding the two song quotes.
( Sunshine )
Tags: fic, gene/sam, lomfic, relationship, sam/gene, slash
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07:35 am
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LOMFic - Samarkand
Title: Samarkand Author: DorsetGirl Fandom: Life on Mars Disclaimer: I don’t own these characters or their universe. BBC/Kudos do. I’m not making any money out of this. Rating: White Cortina Pairing: Sam/Gene Word Count: Summary: The morning after A/N: I haven’t had much time for anything except RL for the past few weeks, and that is going to be the case for a while yet, but this suddenly wrote itself for me last night. So I’m just taking ten minutes for myself to get it typed up and posted; I hope you like it. I will be back soon, I hope, as I have lots more stories waiting to be finished and tidied up, including several for Survival. Oh - as ever, Gene was in charge and he came out with something very strange, which I offer freely to anyone who wants to raise the bunny. I blame draycevixen - you’ll see why. ( Samarkand )
Tags: fic, gene/sam, lomfic, relationship, sam/gene, slash
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08:06 pm
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La Chica de Ayer - Final Episode Commentary
Capitulo 8
Last episode ever, and I’m sad already. First chance on the computer all day, it’s 9:35pm, and in contrast to last week, it doesn’t look as if the ep is up yet. I suppose it makes more sense to wait until after it’s finished airing in Spain, which I suppose will be 22:20 BST. So, I finally found the ep at 22:15, but I had to go via Antena3videos and search for it. And it’s taking forever to buffer! WHYWHYWHY. Right: summary - I enjoyed this episode, and was very anxious to see how it all turned out. I don’t do clever analysis, and I don’t understand most of what was said. So this is about my visual impressions, and my little excitements about understanding a few words. Oh, and the awesome that is Inspector Jefe Joaquin Gallardo - that man is gorgeous. With lots of love to clonesgirl, my fellow-traveller on this short and slightly bitter-sweet journey, and many thanks to may_potter and lynx_moon at lcda. ( Cut for Spoilers and Squee )
I have thoroughly enjoyed this show, even without understanding most of what was said. I have quite fallen in love with Quin, and I really got to like Samuel, too. In some ways I even like him more than UK Sam. It’s a great pity Antena3 didn’t give this show a fair chance in a timeslot it could have won, because some of the series two stories would have been awesome with Gallardo y Samuel. I loved this show, and I will miss it very much.
Tags: commentary, la_chica_de_ayer, ramblings
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01:30 pm
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“La chica de ayer” no tendrá segunda temporada
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I am so sad about this news; I'm actually crying here. I love this show so much; far more than I ever expected to. I am really, really disappointed. That is all.
Tags: diary, la_chica_de_ayer
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10:38 pm
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Ashes to Ashes 2.08 - Some Undigested Thoughts - Spoilers Ahead!
Just some early thoughts - I can't get on TRA atm, the server was overloaded by the time I got there, ten seconds after the ep ended.
( Ashes 2.08 - contains spoilers )
Tags: a2a, commentary, ramblings
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