Of films, fanfic recs and tv show anniversaries

Pan's Labyrinth only arrived in our cinemas two weeks ago, and as I was skiing, I didn't have the opportunity to watch it until now. It was as beautiful and moving as people promised it would be. A couple of observations regarding the setting, though:

( Spoilery Ones )

In other news, one of the joys of having been mostly offline for a week: lots of new good fanfiction to discover.

BSG: Show An Affirming Flame - a fantastic Athena character exploration. Being me, I love the paragraph about her interaction with Six best, but the entire story is gorgeous.

Marvel comics: The Past is Gone. I'm so predictable. Tell me about old friends who had a bitter fallout because of politics and became enemies, and I'm there. Hence my becoming interested in recent months in two characters about whom I didn't know much more than they existed before; Steve Rogers, aka Captain America, and Tony Stark, aka Iron Man. This story is set before the entire Civl War business and is just wonderful to read, hurt/comfort at its best.

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Lastly: today it's been exactly a decade since the first episode of Buffy The Vampire Slayer was broadcast. I don't have a new story or new meta to offer, but I'd like to link an old post, since it was about my very favourite BTVS episode, Restless - an episode which also happens to center on the four original Scoobies introduced to us in Welcome to the Hellmouth, Buffy, Willow, Xander and Giles:


Restless Revisited