Also...

This year, I had considerable writerly angst about my Multiverse story (will get into details regarding the reason once the author reveal has taken place), being fairly convinced the recipient would not like it, but so and behold, she did, so very relieved am I, as the story means quite a lot to me.

This clearly is the week of sci-fi and ficathons. More recs, mono-universal this time:

Babylon 5:
No Choice at All is a Londo story (spoilers for all five seasons), and does him justice.

Dr. Who:
The Meaning of Forgiveness takes on the Doctor and the Master during the Year That Wasn't, capturing the complexity of the relationship, and the voices of the characters, beautifully.

Lastly, with the spoilers for Heroes now getting more detailed, I decided to stop reading them. I didn't mind some general stuff and teasing tidbits, but generally speaking, I prefer not to know too much, so, this is where I go cold turkey.

Nathan Petrelli, Revisited

In order to keep my new resolve to remain spoiler-free for the next season of Heroes from now on, what better distraction than to write more meta about the last one? This time about the person who turned out to be my favourite character. When I met londonkds in London the other week, who had at that point watched until and including episode 5, he assumed this would be Mr. Bennet, and you know, given that Mr. Bennet is in a way a perfect amalgam of two earlier favourites of mine from another show, Arvin Sloane and Jack Bristow (especially in the early episodes), it’s easy to see why. But while I do like our Horn Rimmed Glasses man a lot, this isn’t the case. Nor is it Hiro (though Hiro is a firm second favourite – I mean, it’s virtually impossible not to love Hiro, though I assume that like the Yeti, non-Hiro-lovers do exist – somewhere; at any rate, Hiro, like Vir on Babylon 5, is adorable from the get-go, and gets even more so as his story continues), or Claire (Claire, like Sydney Bristow, is a character I like a lot and really enjoyed writing about but never feel compelled to seek out stories about because I feel that the show mostly gives me what I want regarding her), or Peter Petrelli (somewhere between Hiro and Claire in my fannish affection), or Angela Petrelli (in her case simply because I don’t know enough about her yet in order to judge whether she could be my Livia/Kai Winn/Laura Roslin on Heroes; Angela backstory is my prime demand for season 2). No, as of one complete season – because sometimes these things do change – my favourite character is Nathan Petrelli.

( As for the reasons… )