Alias links and a Dr. Who meme

[selenak]

One of the beauties of a ficathon after one has finished one's own story: sit back, relax, and await the goodies written by others. In the recent Alias one, I got Subterranean Homesick Blues, which is about Jack Bristow's first undercover mission and was written by yahtzee63, which makes it a given it's good, with her young Jack being completely plausible. (Oh, and the justification for the afro look is inspired!)

Able Seamen by kangeiko gives us Jack 'n Arvin very early on, as young and carefree as those two were ever going to get, and makes me long once more for a First Generation Spies series. Which we'll never get. Ah, well, there is fanfiction.

In other news, I was in Ingolstadt and in a place named Nastätten which turned out to be somehwere near the Loreley (i.e. St. Goarshausen), which was somewhat draining, though in a pleasant way. (The scenery is among the most beautiful we have in Germany.) Still, I felt like relaxing and so took myself to Bad Wiessee for the weekend.

Also, am happy to hear this:

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Comments

[ibmiller.livejournal.com]

Very interesting links - thanks for sharing them.

I found your site through your guide to Spike fans (someone linked it in a comment), and noticed you also like Alias. I was wondering if you could recommend any good essays/meta on the show.

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, the best essay on Alias I've read, by rozk, isn't in print yet, and she wrote it for print, so it's not online,either.

operation_alias has some meta,including an essay about Arvin Sloane (http://community.livejournal.com/operation_alias/71072.html) by me, as well as a listing of my favourite Sloane scenes (http://community.livejournal.com/operation_alias/75411.html). I also wrote reviews of all the seasons of Alias which should be findable under the Alias tag (http://selenak.livejournal.com/tag/alias), but perhaps the most of interest are the post on the
season four arc and finale (http://selenak.livejournal.com/162730.html) and by contrast the season 5 finale (http://selenak.livejournal.com/221702.html).

If you want something light hearted (written between said seasons, btw), in the ways of meta, there are Parenting Lessons (http://selenak.livejournal.com/167802.html).

[ibmiller.livejournal.com]

Thanks! All of these are wonderful - especially Parenting lessons. And I've read some of RozK's essays in print on Buffy - they're very nice.

[selenak.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. And here's hoping Roz' Alias essay will appear in print soon, because it's really worth reading.