"The power. The passion. The danger."

[selenak]

Casting news (in one case older news for most people, I'm sure) that made me realise my priorities and double standards:

a) Bradley James is in the fourth season of Homeland. Sorry, Bradley James, I loved your Arthur Pendragon in Merlin, but there were a lot of reasons why I quit watching Homeland in early s3, among them loss of quality and questionable ideology, and I'm not going back.

b) Lucy Lawless is the the second season of Agents of SHIELD. Now this is a show I haven't watched so far; my flist/circle had about two third naysays, one third (all the more enthusiastic) yaysayers about it, there were so many other interesting shows to watch, and also I'm so fond of the MCU I didn't want to risk dampening the emotion by disgruntlement should I dislike AoS. However, Lucy Lawless in the Marvelverse? Must have! (Unless she's only in one episode, I should acertain that first.) (If you recognize where the quote titling this post comes from, you might feel similarly.)

Meanwhile, further news both on the Lewis & Tolkien and the solo Tolkien biopics in planning demonstrate someone's (be the publicity people, the reporters, or, heaven forfend, the scriptwriters) lack of actual knowledge re: Tolkien and Lewis, as is entertainingly pointed out here.

Penny Dreadful:

We have a Penny Dreadful vid! And a good one, covering the ensemble and the relationships between same - with one unfortunate exception. Which, sadly for me though not for the vidder and the vid, happens to be the relationship I'm most interested in. There is a complete lack of Malcolm in the vid (and hence also no Vanessa and Malcolm). Which reminds me that last week when someone at last posted Penny Dreadful icons, I was delighted...until I saw there were no Malcolm and no Vanessa and Malcolm icons. Alas. Anyway, back to the original point, which was: a shiny vid about a lovely twisted Victorian Gothic show:


A Shot for the Pain (11 words) by Franzeska
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Penny Dreadful (TV)
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Additional Tags: Fanvids, ConStrict 2014


X-Men: Days of Future Past:

Missing scene type of fanfic covering how old Erik and old Charles reunited, which is just what I need when the angst elsewhere gets too much:

Rescue Me (2492 words) by Unforgotten
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Erik Lehnsherr/Charles Xavier
Characters: Erik Lehnsherr, Charles Xavier
Additional Tags: Pre-Movie(s), jailbreak, Reunions
Summary:

Against all hope, Charles and Erik reunite at the beginning of the Sentinel War.

And lastly, not completely unrelated to the beginning of this post, something only funny if a) you know German, b) have a vague idea about what the Bavarian dialect sounds like, and c) are familiar with a certain 1990s fantasy show made in New Zealand: Xena auf Bayrisch.

Comments

[wee_warrior]

There seem to be some more people on tumblr, but that's it. We definitely need a secret handshake or something.

[selenak]

Simple: we mutter "chicanery" at each other!

[wee_warrior]

A fantastic idea!

[d_generate_girl]

There's also the crossover - I keep forgetting you and notomys on Tumblr are the same person, so I *think* there are more fans than there are, and I keep getting disappointed!

[wee_warrior]

Hm, true. I know you're voodoochild over there (same on tvtropes, yes? I'm mostly hollygoolightly over there, in case you were wondering who has been adding stuff to the PD character pages), but I don't know if lonelywalker is one of our fellow tumblr Malcolm enthusiasts. (I don't know so many, since I'm mostly navigating the Victor fans, who tend to fall into "'fix' the finale with fanfiction," "well, that's just Victor" and "OMG, FRANKENSTEIN in all it's shapes and forms." That can be trying, but at least there are more of them?)

[d_generate_girl]

Yes, I'm "shes-a-voodoo-child" on Tumblr, and "voodoochild" on TVtropes (oh good! I'm so odd about show pages, because there have been fandoms that have edit wars going on and I don't want that for Penny).

Ahhhh, Victorfen. I feel they and the Dorian fans and the Caiban fans seem to be the most combative. I try not to get into too much drama or fighting on the internet.

[wee_warrior]

(Absolutely. I'm usually trying to be reasonable and keeping things humorous and light. So far, the PD page is quite nice, I've been on others that are a lot more volatile.)

I'm honestly not paying attention to that. I'm very generous with blocking, I'm ignoring anyone who is a Caliban fan, because I don't see the point in fighting with them and gladly leave them to their own devices, and since I don't ship, most things concerning Dorian go over my head, anyway(I guess it helps that I'm concentrating on the family dynamics mostly - and while I suspect Dorian's tour through the main cast will have him end up with Victor eventually, I don't see that having romantic potential, and mostly look forward to it because of the effects it will have on Victor, and Vanessa and Ethan once it comes out.).